Rebel News Podcast - After Infowars purge, list of next targets includes two former Rebels — which means us, too

00:00:00.000 Tonight, after silencing Alex Jones and Infowars, the leftist mob is moving on to the next conservatives to censor.

00:00:07.300 It's August 8th, and you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:00:15.540 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:00:19.340 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:00:23.060 You come here once a year with a sign, and you feel morally superior.

00:00:26.040 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:00:36.740 Alex Jones and Infowars, you can love them, or you can hate them, or a bit of both.

00:00:42.020 They've published more than 10,000 videos, and YouTube just deleted them all.

00:00:48.280 Why all of them?

00:00:50.100 Not all of them were controversial, let alone possibly breaking some YouTube rule.

00:00:56.040 Let alone possibly breaking some law.

00:00:59.200 That's what's so odd here to me.

00:01:01.580 It's that old Roman concept of damnatio memoriae, where Roman emperors would declare someone to be unpersoned.

00:01:09.160 Do you see that painting there?

00:01:11.200 Any public memory of someone was obliterated, scraped off a painting, a sculpture destroyed.

00:01:18.120 We know about some of those cases, because there were some records that weren't destroyed.

00:01:22.320 But we'll never know if it was successful in a particular case, would we?

00:01:26.080 Because if all traces of someone were evaporated, an entire emperor perhaps,

00:01:31.560 if it was just obliterated, well, by definition, we wouldn't even know about it.

00:01:35.580 Joseph Stalin did the same thing. 0.60

00:01:37.940 That's my point.

00:01:38.660 And I'm not here to defend any particular Roman emperor or someone who got on the wrong side of Stalin.

00:01:44.100 I'm not even here to defend Alex Jones.

00:01:45.780 Let us just reflect on how odd it is to want to cancel out every trace of another human being altogether.

00:01:55.840 I mean, when we prosecute someone in court, for example, we're suing them for an action they did, for activity.

00:02:03.040 It's not the very human being himself we want to obliterate.

00:02:07.260 It's what they did.

00:02:08.100 I mean, sometimes it's what they thought.

00:02:09.880 A criminal court prosecutes an illegal act that was motivated by a guilty mind.

00:02:14.320 But we don't prosecute someone just for being someone, just for existing.

00:02:19.600 And even when we meted out the death penalty, it was not because we wanted to obliterate there ever having been that person.

00:02:25.900 It's just, that's the biggest penalty we could imagine.

00:02:28.080 And it's the only sure way to avoid a repeat of whatever horrendous crime was done.

00:02:32.540 But usually a death penalty was the opposite of secret, right?

00:02:36.360 It was publicized.

00:02:37.400 There were witnesses.

00:02:38.180 It was a lesson to be told about what someone did wrong and not to do it.

00:02:41.780 We don't just make someone disappear and all of their works disappear and all traces of them disappear.

00:02:48.720 And that's what they've done to Alex Jones by vaporizing more than 10,000 videos by him, most of which would be innocuous.

00:02:55.840 And then there's Facebook and all his other social media.

00:02:58.860 I learned yesterday that Alex Jones was kicked off of LinkedIn.

00:03:04.820 Do you know what LinkedIn is?

00:03:07.420 It's like the Facebook of business connections.

00:03:10.380 Here's my LinkedIn page.

00:03:12.640 It's just sort of like a resume.

00:03:14.640 It's a website where people post their resumes and look for work and talk to other people in their business.

00:03:19.420 It's like a networking for business people.

00:03:21.800 I mean, some people do post essays and you can share news stories on it, really.

00:03:26.320 But it's not really a media political website, as the name suggests.

00:03:30.180 It's a business links networking site.

00:03:34.120 I don't even really know how to use it.

00:03:35.400 I don't think Alex Jones did either.

00:03:36.900 Why did they delete Alex Jones' LinkedIn account?

00:03:40.800 How could they possibly argue that he violated their terms of service for his resume or what?

00:03:49.280 I don't know.

00:03:49.800 Again, this is not a correction for an improper action or even an intemperate word.

00:03:54.940 This is a depersoning and un-personing.

00:03:58.280 This is making him a persona non grata, making him an outlaw.

00:04:02.200 It's medieval.

00:04:03.180 When we hear the word outlaw today, we think of a bad guy in a cowboy movie.

00:04:06.480 Outlaw actually used to have a specific legal meaning.

00:04:08.740 If someone was deemed to be an outlaw, that means they were outside of the law, outside

00:04:14.680 of the law's protection and processes, you could kill an outlaw with impunity.

00:04:19.900 They were compared to a wolf.

00:04:22.180 In fact, the wolf was a symbol of an outlaw, and anyone can kill a wolf. 0.62

00:04:26.760 They're a menace to society. 0.99

00:04:28.020 This kind of brutality, kill the wolf, kill the outlaw, that goes back even earlier. 1.00

00:04:32.080 The Latin phrase, it tells you how old this is, homo sacer, the cursed man. 1.00

00:04:37.200 You can kill a cursed man on sight. 0.99

00:04:39.660 That's how it was. 0.98

00:04:40.740 But even these barbaric, dehumanizing sentences were sentences, as in they happened after some

00:04:47.420 sort of hearing or tribunal.

00:04:49.020 They didn't just happen out of nothing, declaring someone a cursed man or an outlaw.

00:04:54.900 What was Alex Jones' trial and hearing and sentence?

00:04:58.120 Who were his accusers?

00:04:59.280 Who was the decider?

00:05:00.940 What were the particulars of his offense?

00:05:02.600 At least in the Star Chamber, you were told what you were accused of doing wrong, and

00:05:06.840 at least you'd have a chance to speak back to the judge.

00:05:09.400 You actually were required to have a lawyer in the Star Chamber.

00:05:12.140 You may have heard about the infamous Star Chamber in the United Kingdom.

00:05:15.800 It was a political court.

00:05:17.220 It was called the Star Chamber because of the stars painted on the roof.

00:05:20.720 This is a drawing.

00:05:21.940 The Star Chamber was set up originally to deal with politically difficult cases that a regular

00:05:26.080 court might be afraid of tackling, taking on a politically connected person. 0.99

00:05:31.400 It prosecuted political crimes like treason and sedition.

00:05:35.140 But over the years, over the centuries, the Star Chamber itself became colonized by political

00:05:41.200 intrigues, and it soon became a tool for political extremism and vendettas itself.

00:05:46.920 There were cases where it would summon an entire jury.

00:05:50.400 Get this, where the jurors themselves would be put on trial for not giving the right verdict

00:05:55.460 in a legal case.

00:05:56.660 That's what the Star Chamber turned into.

00:05:58.520 But why was Alex Jones kicked off of LinkedIn?

00:06:03.700 Because they're making him anathematized.

00:06:06.440 That's the Christian way of saying he's a non-person, an outlaw.

00:06:10.900 Why?

00:06:12.740 Because sometimes he's wrong?

00:06:14.680 Because sometimes he's rude?

00:06:16.900 Surely that can't be it.

00:06:18.160 We're all sometimes wrong and sometimes rude.

00:06:19.860 It's obviously his politics.

00:06:22.360 He's conservative, but I wouldn't even really call him conservative.

00:06:24.900 I'd say he's a universal skeptic.

00:06:27.640 Doubting everything, challenging everything, provoking and poking everything, maybe too

00:06:31.200 many things.

00:06:32.420 But surely that is a healthy thing in a democracy, to have a gadfly, who will by definition get

00:06:38.000 some things wrong and be more enthusiastic than he is careful.

00:06:41.200 Is that enough to deperson a man?

00:06:43.820 Of course not.

00:06:44.500 It's not any particular action that he's taken or a thing that he's said.

00:06:47.680 We know that. 0.96

00:06:48.500 We know that, for example, Louis Farrakhan, the racist head of the Nation of Islam, a black 0.99

00:06:53.700 supremacist anti-Semitic group, he still enjoys all his social media privileges. 0.68

00:06:59.460 But you see, he's on the left.

00:07:01.280 So that's okay.

00:07:02.060 That's him with Barack Obama.

00:07:03.860 On Monday, we showed you a few dozen of Sarah Jiang's racist, sexist tweets.

00:07:10.680 Again, she's on the left, so it's all cool.

00:07:12.600 She was hired by the New York Times.

00:07:14.040 I haven't watched everything Alex Jones has said, but he surely is not as odious as Louis

00:07:19.100 Farrakhan or Sarah Jiang.

00:07:20.360 But he's banned.

00:07:21.560 His whole body of work is banned.

00:07:23.700 Not just banned.

00:07:24.640 Erased.

00:07:26.020 But it's not over.

00:07:26.880 Look at this.

00:07:27.180 This is from the left liberal website called Vox.

00:07:30.960 You've probably heard of it.

00:07:31.700 Vox is pretty mainstream as website media go.

00:07:35.080 It's actually partly owned by NBC, which poured in $200 million into Vox.

00:07:40.600 Tens of millions more from venture capitalists.

00:07:43.040 So it's mainstream left-wing crud.

00:07:45.340 400 staff throughout the whole company.

00:07:46.800 It's a pretty big company.

00:07:48.860 And where does Vox stand on free speech?

00:07:51.680 Why, they're against it.

00:07:52.880 For conservatives, that is, look at this.

00:07:56.020 The very next day after Alex Jones was depersoned, was made an outlaw, a castaway.

00:08:01.800 It's not just Alex Jones.

00:08:03.840 YouTube's most extreme creators are pushing the platform into a tough debate and censorship

00:08:08.320 and free speech on the internet.

00:08:11.540 It's a bit of a grammatical problem with that tweet.

00:08:13.600 Okay, so they have a handy list of people that they think are extreme.

00:08:20.040 And it won't surprise you to learn that two rebel alumni are on their list, including Lauren

00:08:27.320 Southern and Gavin McInnes, both of whom have moved on from us, but their rebel work

00:08:31.960 is cited as proof of their extremism.

00:08:34.640 You can see our logo there.

00:08:36.020 Now, we're conservative and we're a bit dissident.

00:08:38.420 Not much compared to Alex Jones.

00:08:40.500 I'd say we're one or two standard deviations more centrist than him.

00:08:44.160 I mean, being a conservative in Canada is really like being a moderate Democrat in the

00:08:47.820 U.S., don't you think?

00:08:48.520 But we're on the official enemies list now, I guess.

00:08:51.200 Take a look.

00:08:52.120 Search YouTube for videos about immigration and eventually you'll find this.

00:08:56.940 Mass immigration is not the rainbows and unicorns that our politicians portrayed as.

00:09:02.000 It is, in fact, a tragedy.

00:09:04.500 Search for videos about Islam and you'll find stuff like this. 0.98

00:09:07.700 By its very nature, Islam is an intolerant, radical, extremist belief system. 1.00

00:09:14.080 Search for feminism and yeah. 1.00

00:09:16.700 News flash, everybody hates feminism. 1.00

00:09:19.980 These videos are all products of what New York Times Magazine calls the YouTube right.

00:09:24.620 A growing collection of right-wing vloggers, media operations, conspiracy theorists, and

00:09:29.180 activists who built sizable followings on YouTube.

00:09:32.060 They warn about mass immigration, decry political correctness, and mock out-of-control social

00:09:36.980 justice warriors.

00:09:37.940 Why am I on camera for this?

00:09:39.480 So there's some honesty there.

00:09:41.140 There really isn't any extremism they're mad at.

00:09:43.780 They're just mad at anyone right-wing, including a black Republican woman who disagrees with 0.92

00:09:51.100 feminism. 1.00

00:09:51.660 That's our friend Candace Owens.

00:09:53.220 Imagine calling her extremist because she dares to be a Republican. 0.93

00:09:57.900 Do you think Vox would call someone extreme if they criticized Christianity the same way

00:10:05.160 Paul Joseph Watson criticized Islam?

00:10:08.320 No, of course not.

00:10:09.240 I mean, if you type the word Christianity into the Vox.com search engine, as I did, you will

00:10:13.980 find literally 300 anti-Christian articles.

00:10:17.140 None of them as entertaining as Paul Joseph Watson, but all as hostile to Christianity as he is to

00:10:22.660 Islam, and opposing open borders immigration, I'm sorry, that is not an extreme position.

00:10:28.580 I've shown you before a poll commissioned by Justin Trudeau's liberal government in Canada

00:10:32.480 that shows only 8% of Canadians believe we need more immigration, but he gave us more

00:10:39.560 immigration.

00:10:40.200 I'm sorry, it's the 8% that's the extreme fringe by definition, not the 92% who think we

00:10:46.520 have enough or too many immigrants already. 0.99

00:10:49.020 This is just setting the narrative, though.

00:10:50.840 No one with right-wing opinions can be allowed in the public square, which these days is online.

00:10:59.260 Surprisingly, a voice of sanity in all this came from Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of

00:11:03.900 the very left-wing activist censorious social media company called Twitter, that just happens

00:11:09.780 to have a major shareholder in Prince Al-Walid of Saudi Arabia.

00:11:13.800 They love censorship.

00:11:14.960 They love censoring anti-Islam commentary.

00:11:17.100 But here's what Jack Dorsey said to the baying mob.

00:11:20.400 Take a look at this.

00:11:21.020 He said, we didn't suspend Alex Jones or InfoWars yesterday.

00:11:24.540 We know that's hard for many, but the reason is simple.

00:11:26.900 He hasn't violated our rules.

00:11:28.660 We'll enforce if he does, and we'll continue to promote a healthy conversational environment

00:11:33.900 by ensuring tweets aren't artificially amplified.

00:11:36.340 Yeah, exactly.

00:11:38.680 What rules did Alex Jones violate?

00:11:41.540 I mean, sure, he's being unpersoned, but that's just the mob.

00:11:43.720 Did he say or do anything wrong other than being right-wing?

00:11:48.480 Here's more from Jack.

00:11:49.480 He said, if we succumb and simply react to outside pressure, rather than straightforward

00:11:54.060 principles we enforce and evolve impartially, regardless of political viewpoints, we become

00:11:58.760 a service that's constructed by our personal views that can swing in any direction.

00:12:02.600 That's not us.

00:12:04.700 Well, look, I'm glad to hear him talk about principles.

00:12:07.940 I think, I don't think he's being fully candid.

00:12:10.340 They routinely censor conservatives to Twitter.

00:12:12.380 They ban Tommy Robinson, for example.

00:12:14.340 They routinely shadow ban conservatives, as in they make it impossible for people to find

00:12:18.720 their accounts.

00:12:19.560 So he's preening a bit falsely, but let him.

00:12:22.460 He alone is standing up to the mob in this case.

00:12:25.300 But here's the key.

00:12:26.520 Here's his third tweet.

00:12:27.220 He said, accounts like Jones's can often sensationalize issues and spread unsubstantiated rumors.

00:12:34.020 So it's critical journalists document, validate, and refute such information directly so people

00:12:39.100 can form their own opinions.

00:12:40.440 This is what serves the public conversation best.

00:12:43.580 Exactly.

00:12:44.320 I mean, one man's rumor is another man's theory is another man's explanation for things.

00:12:50.220 An unsubstantiated rumor today might become substantiated tomorrow.

00:12:54.820 A conspiracy theory might yet to be proved a real conspiracy fact.

00:12:59.800 I mean, doubting, challenging, being a dissident, being a disturber, isn't that healthy in a

00:13:04.780 democracy?

00:13:05.260 Think of any example of government lies that was eventually revealed, but that first was

00:13:10.440 bought by the mainstream media stenographer.

00:13:13.340 It was only dissenters that challenged it.

00:13:15.400 The most obvious example to me right off the top of my head is the Hillary Clinton lie about

00:13:19.260 Benghazi.

00:13:20.000 Remember that?

00:13:20.420 She said that the consulate in Benghazi was attacked by a mob of people who were mad about

00:13:26.740 a YouTube video from some filmmaker in California.

00:13:30.120 That's what she said.

00:13:31.600 When in fact it was an Al-Qaeda attack on the consulate there on the anniversary of 9-11.

00:13:35.900 She lied.

00:13:37.600 Then the New York Times and all the fancy people bought the lie, but Alex Jones didn't, and

00:13:42.140 neither did other conspiracy theorists.

00:13:43.900 I'm not saying he's always right.

00:13:45.060 But whether or not he's right or wrong, it's not for a handful of social media executives

00:13:49.600 to decide.

00:13:50.420 It's for us, the people to decide, all of us for ourselves, but not according to the

00:13:55.700 fancy people, to the well-funded, well-heeled mobs like at Vox.

00:14:01.440 They're making up their lists, their hit list.

00:14:04.800 I can guarantee you that we're on it here at The Rebel if our alumni and our friends are

00:14:09.440 on it already.

00:14:10.100 We will keep fighting, you know we will, and if one day you simply stop seeing us, well

00:14:16.420 just know that it won't be because we've decided not to say anything anymore, it's because like

00:14:21.440 Alex Jones, we will have been depersoned.

00:14:26.660 Stay with us for more.

00:14:40.100 Welcome back.

00:14:45.320 Well, what a surprising diplomatic spat.

00:14:49.080 Justin Trudeau versus the new king of Saudi Arabia.

00:14:53.360 You know, there's a lot of foreign affairs files that are burning dumpster fires under Justin

00:15:00.260 Trudeau.

00:15:00.840 Obviously, the most important one being our bilateral relationship with the United States,

00:15:05.220 including NAFTA.

00:15:06.000 Other relationships, like with the world's largest democracy, India.

00:15:09.920 But now, there's a serious diplomatic row with the Saudis.

00:15:14.120 And who better to talk to than our friend Manny Montenegrino, the president of ThinkSharp,

00:15:19.220 who joins us now via Skype.

00:15:20.680 Manny, great to see you again.

00:15:22.560 Good to see you, Ezra.

00:15:23.580 Thank you.

00:15:24.120 You know, I just go down the list of countries that we have had spats with.

00:15:27.880 I tell you, Justin Trudeau certainly put himself forward as someone who would have Canada come

00:15:33.520 back to the world stage, unlike the humiliations of the Stephen Harper era.

00:15:38.800 Stephen Harper is the one who was the cool professional.

00:15:42.400 Trudeau is mucking up everything left and right.

00:15:45.520 Well, it seems so.

00:15:46.420 I mean, this diplomatic war with Saudi Arabia, I simply can't get my head around.

00:15:53.420 And I've been looking at the news reports and you don't get the facts.

00:15:59.400 So, when you're confused about something, Ezra, at least start with the facts.

00:16:03.840 Try to understand the facts.

00:16:05.540 And somewhere you might find some logical conclusion or logical understanding.

00:16:10.360 I don't know if your viewers know, but neither of the two, Raif Bawadi or his sister, Samara Bawadi,

00:16:18.920 are Canadian citizens or share a dual citizenship.

00:16:23.240 They're not even Canadian. 0.94

00:16:25.280 And they are being processed under the laws of Saudi Arabia.

00:16:29.540 And I don't know why Canada has any interests in two individuals that are going through a

00:16:36.220 legal process in a foreign jurisdiction that is no way similar to Canada's foreign judicial system.

00:16:43.500 So, I start there and I wonder why are we involved in this in the first place?

00:16:47.840 I have a theory on that.

00:16:49.940 And let me put my cards on the table, Manny.

00:16:52.180 I'm critical of Saudi Arabia for a number of reasons.

00:16:55.500 Mainly, they are an extremist Islamic theocracy with no civil rights. 1.00

00:17:00.320 The Sharia is the basis of their constitution, the Koran, rather. 0.67

00:17:05.480 Right.

00:17:06.280 And I know this Raif Badawi was sort of a democracy activist blogger.

00:17:09.940 And so, I'm sympathetic towards him, as I would be with any Chinese democracy activist

00:17:14.120 or Iranian democracy activist.

00:17:16.220 I think because Canada took in, as for refuge, his wife, Ansef Haidar.

00:17:23.960 So, she's become a Canadian political figure.

00:17:25.600 And I'm sympathetic.

00:17:26.640 I'm sympathetic to him.

00:17:27.600 Absolutely.

00:17:27.940 I'm sympathetic to her.

00:17:29.320 But I think you're spot on.

00:17:30.780 And being politically sympathetic and making a public demand that a Saudi national have different legal treatment. 0.54

00:17:40.160 I don't know.

00:17:40.820 I mean, I think there is a place for Canada to be a moral exemplar and to push for human rights.

00:17:47.140 But obviously, this wasn't done right.

00:17:49.520 I mean, what do you explain?

00:17:51.400 I mean, Saudi Arabia has come down like a ton of bricks.

00:17:53.560 You know, dispatching the Canadian ambassador home, canceling flights, withdrawing Saudi students from our med schools,

00:18:04.620 you know, threatening to cancel imports.

00:18:07.660 Like, it's a real thunderclap diplomatically.

00:18:11.020 What was the precise thing that you think triggered it?

00:18:13.160 Was it that tweet from the Foreign Affairs Department?

00:18:17.420 Well, absolutely.

00:18:19.060 The tweet was a public tweet humiliating the kingdom.

00:18:23.920 And normally, these channels are done privately and communications are made privately.

00:18:29.540 To make a public tweet and to pick out the kingdom really alarms me.

00:18:34.340 There are, Ezra, if we look at it, there are 7 billion people on this planet.

00:18:39.280 About 6 billion don't enjoy what we enjoy in Canada.

00:18:43.760 That is the right of individual rights, the right of our own liberty, our right to assemble, our right to freedom of speech.

00:18:52.100 So, there are a lot of countries, you know, upwards of over 100 countries that do not enjoy the rights that Canadians enjoy.

00:19:00.260 Why single out Saudi Arabia?

00:19:02.360 We have to ask why.

00:19:04.300 And these are not, I mean, if they were dual citizens, I'd be strongly supportive of it. 1.00

00:19:08.680 But there are millions of people around the world that are either being killed, prosecuted, or in jail for doing absolutely nothing in these very barbaric countries.

00:19:18.760 Ezra, I put to you the following.

00:19:21.340 Mexico, Canada has, and I don't understand, but Canada has an asylum process for Mexicans.

00:19:28.840 We have accepted many Mexicans under the asylum process, basically saying that the government is a threat to its people.

00:19:38.680 We don't hear the prime minister speaking about human rights in Mexico.

00:19:44.380 We don't hear about the millions that are trying to escape from Mexico and the human rights violations there.

00:19:50.540 We don't hear about Iran.

00:19:52.840 Iran is going through a crisis right now, and the prime minister is getting close to Iran.

00:19:57.780 There are riots and there are protests to get some rudimentary fundamental rights in Iran, and we're silent.

00:20:08.800 China, as we know, is a terrible jurisdiction when it comes to human rights, but our prime minister was pretty cozy with him.

00:20:19.840 The biggest one, I mean, and I tweeted this, and that is Cuba.

00:20:24.600 I have gone to Cuba once, and I was heartbroken to see these beautiful 11 million people basically enslaved in a country, no freedom of speech, and their dissidents are jailed.

00:20:40.160 Their dissidents are flogged and some killed.

00:20:46.620 But our prime minister is very close to Cuba.

00:20:50.360 So how does this prime minister speak on human rights when he allows, in fact, loves jurisdictions that are abusive to human rights but picks out Saudi Arabia?

00:21:03.660 And I think that's why Saudi Arabia moved very quickly.

00:21:06.880 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:21:07.940 And I think Saudi moved quickly because, I mean, I find this one a tough one because I'm sympathetic to Raif Badawi.

00:21:13.620 He's a democracy blogger who was flogged by a theocratic dictatorship, so I'm sympathetic to him.

00:21:21.520 His wife in Canada.

00:21:22.860 Ezra, you...

00:21:23.500 Go ahead.

00:21:24.940 Yeah, you and I would be Raif in Saudi Arabia.

00:21:28.840 Yeah.

00:21:28.900 You and I would be subject to that.

00:21:33.500 So, of course we do.

00:21:34.680 But there is a bigger point here.

00:21:37.800 In Saudi Arabia, they have laws like we have laws.

00:21:41.820 They have, and I've looked at this, they have their M-130 that we have our, that we've passed as a motion, but they've put teeth into their law.

00:21:50.000 But if you speak poorly about Islam, you speak poorly about the Muslim culture, you will be imprisoned and you will be flogged and you will be...

00:21:59.860 So that is, they, I mean, what I don't understand is why our Prime Minister, who has held himself out to be knowledgeable about Islam, to be knowledgeable about the culture, completely misses what's really happening in these jurisdictions.

00:22:14.960 He does know what Sharia law means.

00:22:17.120 He does know that Saudi Arabia has 32 million people that all must be Muslim. 1.00

00:22:22.500 You cannot be a citizen of Saudi Arabia unless you're Muslim. 1.00

00:22:25.320 You cannot be a citizen if you say there are no churches, there are no, there are no any other forms of religious practice in Saudi Arabia.

00:22:35.320 So it's clear.

00:22:36.500 So how do we, how are we confused about this?

00:22:39.260 And our Prime Minister is, we see him in pictures, we see him understanding Islam and understand Sharia law.

00:22:47.680 It clearly tells me he doesn't understand it and he shouldn't be virtue signaling about it.

00:22:52.080 Here's a few of my thoughts, because on the one hand, I want to acknowledge the rare time Canada speaks out against an Islamic theocracy. 1.00

00:23:00.260 Like, that's sort of a miracle, but I have to ask, like you do, why Saudi Arabia, not Iran?

00:23:05.960 Because we know that Justin Trudeau is affectionate towards Iran.

00:23:09.920 His brother did a propaganda video with the Iran state media called The New Great Game.

00:23:15.100 Like, his brother worked with Iran propaganda.

00:23:19.320 There are MPs in Trudeau's caucus who are trying to rebuild diplomatic and business ties.

00:23:24.660 So is this some sort of move against Iran?

00:23:28.060 As you point out, China, Cuba, horrific places.

00:23:32.000 Why were Saudi Arabia chosen?

00:23:33.780 I'd like, I'm curious.

00:23:35.100 But also, it's that obsession with Twitter and social media.

00:23:40.360 Justin Trudeau starts so many policy disasters with a careless tweet, like his announcement to the world that we no longer enforce our borders.

00:23:48.420 I think maybe that's what bugged the Saudis. 0.98

00:23:50.960 It's just a virtue signaling tweet is what started this battle.

00:23:54.660 Well, I know, I think, I'll go a little bit further.

00:23:58.440 I think the Saudis wanted to send a worldwide message.

00:24:02.340 Do not interfere into our own governance.

00:24:06.380 And it so happened that they, who do they pick on?

00:24:10.100 Who do they send the message to?

00:24:11.940 Well, once again, our prime minister has demonstrated incredible weakness in the world.

00:24:17.040 And they just jumped on it like a cat jumping on a ball or or.

00:24:22.360 But the Saudi Arabia sees a very weak and vulnerable prime minister, a very weak candidate.

00:24:28.280 And you've already stated the reasons why the offense to India, the war with with the president of the United States over NAFTA and the embarrassment in China.

00:24:42.740 So they know and that Canada is weak.

00:24:46.440 And if you want to send a world message out, you use Canada.

00:24:50.060 What I'm alarmed about the most is is how weak has Canada become?

00:24:54.860 The U.K. has stepped aside and will not get into this battle.

00:25:00.720 How can the country that created the Magna Carta, the country that's shoulder to shoulder with Canada for since our inception is not standing beside Canada?

00:25:12.600 It's not Canada that they're not standing by side.

00:25:15.000 It's the prime minister.

00:25:16.500 You know, I think you're right.

00:25:17.320 I think this was a strategic choice by Saudi Arabia to smack Canada so hard pour encourager les autres, as they would say in French, to teach a lesson to everyone else. 0.75

00:25:29.020 You know, I don't know if you remember, Manny, a few weeks ago, some Iranian dictator mused about some threat to America.

00:25:37.180 And Donald Trump wrote an all capital letters tweet on the screen here.

00:25:42.680 And it basically said, don't you ever threaten America or you will have more pain than you can imagine.

00:25:48.020 Like it was a stunning tweet that written in all caps, as you can see on the screen right now.

00:25:53.460 It's as if Trump was shouting it.

00:25:56.380 You know what?

00:25:57.180 I would be scared.

00:25:57.980 I would be scared.

00:25:59.480 Whereas Trudeau, he didn't even react.

00:26:02.140 I mean, he was on vacation or maybe just got a vacation.

00:26:04.680 He went to the Pride Parade in Vancouver.

00:26:07.000 Everyone knows he's the world's weakest leader.

00:26:09.780 Well, he's demonstrated that for two years.

00:26:12.700 I mean, like the world takes notice when Justin Trudeau goes to important events and he shows his socks.

00:26:21.060 He does a dress up.

00:26:22.460 He's referred to as little potato in China.

00:26:24.860 The world notices that there's a weak, weak leader there. 0.90

00:26:27.960 I mean, and the embarrassment with India trying to blame India for Canada bringing a Canadian terrorist to India and trying to blame India was an embarrassment.

00:26:39.240 And so there are ample example.

00:26:42.340 Our own country has found this prime minister an incomprehensible failure.

00:26:49.340 I mean, there are lists of failures during the during the one year investigation of the of the ethics commissioner on his two hundred thousand dollar free trip to the private island.

00:27:02.140 The ethics commissioner found that his his excuse or his evidence that this was a friend not credible.

00:27:10.800 We have we have an adjudicator of fact finding our prime minister not credible.

00:27:15.560 We have another the attorney, the general finding colossal failures there.

00:27:19.960 So the world knows that this is not a very strong prime minister.

00:27:23.460 And and he should not be wading in into areas where he does not have the strength of UK, USA or Canada behind him.

00:27:31.300 This is very alarming.

00:27:32.820 Yeah.

00:27:33.260 You know, it's interesting.

00:27:35.040 Saudi Arabia, believe it or not, sells oil to Canada, which is so weird to me.

00:27:40.520 When I first learned that years ago, I was shocked.

00:27:42.840 I thought Canada is a major net oil exporter because of the oil sands.

00:27:47.560 Why are we importing oil from anyone, let alone from conflict oil regimes?

00:27:53.320 Well, because we don't have a pipeline going east.

00:27:55.260 And Trudeau and his liberal friends in Montreal, especially sunk a massive pipeline project called Energy East.

00:28:02.860 It was a private sector, shovel ready infrastructure project, 15.7 billion dollar jobs project.

00:28:10.300 Like, imagine how the 15 billion to build a pipe and it was stopped.

00:28:14.340 Not only did that kill a bunch of jobs, not only did it keep the oil price in Western Canada depressed, but it was the best thing ever done for Saudi Arabia. 0.98

00:28:24.100 Maybe.

00:28:24.980 I mean, I don't think that that deal is salvageable now because I don't think any sane pipeline company would proceed in Canada under Trudeau.

00:28:32.860 But what a shame we don't have the Energy East pipeline providing us with an alternative source of oil to Saudi Arabia and Algeria and Angola and the rest of the conflict oil countries selling into our country.

00:28:44.680 Last word to you.

00:28:46.400 Well, that's exactly right.

00:28:48.700 If there was a bona fide intent to message human rights, we would have created the Energy East as a national security interest, as he did with TransCanada pipeline.

00:29:02.300 TransCanada pipeline moves oil from Alberta to China or whatever consumer.

00:29:08.400 Energy East was a perfect national treasure that we could have created to get off Saudi oil. 0.99

00:29:15.500 Had that been done and had other acts been done and then speak strongly on human rights, it would have been more effective.

00:29:23.060 But there is none and there is no strategy.

00:29:25.440 Everything that this government does from its selfies and its socks and its trade war is simply virtual signaling to get, you know, what I'll call low-hanging votes in Canada, these patriotic votes.

00:29:38.500 And it's a reflection of how poor this government is doing.

00:29:42.360 Yeah.

00:29:42.620 What a laugh.

00:29:43.420 And Chrystia Freeland keeps boasting that she was voted Diplomat of the Year by some foreign policy magazine.

00:29:50.980 What a joke.

00:29:51.820 Manny, it's always great to catch up with you.

00:29:53.380 I really enjoy our talks.

00:29:54.380 And by the way, they're such fan favorites.

00:29:56.800 People love, love, love it when you come on the show.

00:29:59.940 We'll obviously put this outside the paywall on the Internet because people, I think people listen to what you have to say and they say,

00:30:07.040 I haven't heard that point of view anywhere else in the mainstream media.

00:30:10.640 So I think you're becoming a bit of a fan favorite here at The Rebel, by the way, Manny.

00:30:14.260 Thank you a lot, Ezra.

00:30:15.960 All right.

00:30:16.480 Take care, my friend.

00:30:17.400 Take care.

00:30:17.720 There's one of our favorite guys, Manny Montenegrino.

00:30:20.440 He's the president of ThinkSharp.

00:30:22.000 And he joined us today via Skype.

00:30:23.900 Stay with us.

00:30:24.680 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:30:25.380 Welcome back.

00:30:37.420 Well, the United States has a dealmaker as a president.

00:30:40.640 And really, there's no tougher place to make deals than the property wars, the developer wars, the financier wars of Manhattan real estate.

00:30:50.520 You can see the dealmaking when Trump engages in brinksmanship with everyone from China to the European Union to Canada itself.

00:30:59.680 The guy knows how to negotiate.

00:31:02.540 Compare that to our leader, whose negotiation is basically, his track record in business is basically giving Bombardier whatever they ask for.

00:31:12.240 And so it is that when Justin Trudeau thought he would solve the problem of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Project by buying it, he got, well, he got, what's a word to say that's not profane?

00:31:30.240 I don't think he did the best negotiation job possible.

00:31:33.600 Joining us now to talk about the new facts that have come forward about Justin Trudeau and his deal with Kinder Morgan is our friend Lauren Gunter, a columnist with the Edmonton Sun.

00:31:41.600 You know, I was thinking about a whole bunch of words there, but none of them were suitable for a family friendly program, Lauren.

00:31:47.840 Let me put it this way.

00:31:49.720 We see news filed by Kinder Morgan that all of a sudden this pipeline project that Justin Trudeau bought just a few weeks ago, just in the last few weeks,

00:32:01.060 the project is now one year delayed from what it was, and it is $1.9 billion more expensive than it was just a few weeks ago.

00:32:13.560 Don't tell me they didn't know that when they did a deal with Trudeau.

00:32:17.060 Don't tell me that wasn't known.

00:32:19.080 Yeah, it had to be.

00:32:20.820 They at least had to have a sense of that.

00:32:25.320 I think the thing, I mean, both of those bother me, the fact that it's going to be delayed by a full year and the fact that it's going to cost taxpayers an extra $2 billion

00:32:35.540 because they can't unload this white elephant that they bought, which is only a white elephant because they won't stand up to B.C. and get it built.

00:32:46.700 Otherwise, they wouldn't have had to put a nickel into this thing.

00:32:49.580 I guess I said there's two things about it.

00:32:52.420 I guess that's the third thing that bothers me.

00:32:55.360 Probably the most basic thing that bothers me is that this did not need a nickel of public money.

00:33:02.020 What it needed was the Trudeau government to stand up and say, this is a federal matter.

00:33:08.280 It's been federally approved.

00:33:10.080 We will do what we need to do legally and in terms of construction to get this built.

00:33:16.620 But they won't do that.

00:33:17.880 They could have passed a motion in the House of Commons.

00:33:20.000 They could have passed a law in the House of Commons asserting their federal jurisdiction according to the Constitution

00:33:25.860 over interprovincial movement of goods, which is clearly what a pipeline is.

00:33:30.740 They didn't do that.

00:33:32.920 Instead, in a desperation move, they went out and they paid $4.5 billion for a pipeline that does exist and works quite well

00:33:41.420 and for a pipeline that doesn't exist.

00:33:44.720 You know, the twinning of the Trans Mountain.

00:33:47.620 And so those annoy me.

00:33:49.280 And then, of course, we knew, suspected anyway, you and I have talked about this many times before,

00:33:54.960 suspected that they were never going to get a piece of pipe in the ground this construction season,

00:34:01.200 despite the fact in late May when they bought this thing, that was all the hurrah.

00:34:05.700 Oh, pick up your shovels, Rachel Notley said. 0.78

00:34:10.000 They're going to be jobs right away.

00:34:11.960 And the Fed said, oh, my goodness, construction will begin next week, meaning the first week of June.

00:34:20.700 And then slowly things trickle out through June and July that, well, yeah, it's probably not going to happen this year.

00:34:27.140 And finally, then Ian Anderson, who's the head of Kinder Morgan Canada,

00:34:30.760 says at a indigenous pipeline blessing ceremony about two weeks ago,

00:34:37.380 yeah, there's not going to be any pipe in the ground this year.

00:34:39.520 We'll be lucky if we get some in early next year.

00:34:41.900 That was always the feds knew that all along.

00:34:45.180 I am absolutely certain that they knew that right from the start.

00:34:49.500 The extra two point billion dollars in construction costs.

00:34:52.540 I think you're right.

00:34:53.140 I think they probably knew that, too.

00:34:54.400 But for sure, they knew they were not going to get the pipeline started this year.

00:34:57.480 But they bought it anyway so that they could have these glorious announcements.

00:35:00.780 And the provincial government in Alberta could have these fabulous announcements.

00:35:04.500 I'm sure you remember that that ceremony that Rachel Notley had.

00:35:08.160 It was a beautiful day on the plaza that overlooks the legislature.

00:35:11.720 She brought her cabinet out and they all stood around behind her and they were they were vibrating with excitement.

00:35:17.040 Oh, my goodness.

00:35:17.840 It's so thrilling.

00:35:18.880 We've got a pipeline.

00:35:19.780 It's going to be built.

00:35:20.720 Now we can win reelection.

00:35:22.280 Nothing can stop us.

00:35:23.420 And of course, it was all hogwash.

00:35:26.020 You know, politicians can lie and exaggerate and so can lobbyists and so can activists.

00:35:33.420 But when you run a publicly traded company, you must disclose the facts that are material to investors.

00:35:39.940 That's what the whole securities and exchange regulator is about.

00:35:44.880 And I am in no way saying that Kinder Morgan has misled investors.

00:35:50.440 I'm saying sort of the opposite.

00:35:52.800 Now this pipeline is, I think, out of the hands of a regulated company that has a legal and fiduciary duty to tell the truth.

00:36:03.040 I mean, public companies have to proactively disclose their worries.

00:36:10.080 Here's the risk.

00:36:10.840 Here's the risk.

00:36:11.240 They have to lead with their chin, so to speak, to warn investors.

00:36:16.360 Politicians are sort of the opposite, aren't they, Lorne?

00:36:18.540 Now that this thing is owned by Justin Trudeau, we're going to have the worst of all worlds.

00:36:24.320 We're going to have a politically partisan owner that no longer has the SEC requirement to tell the truth about it.

00:36:31.040 Yeah, and we're lucky that in one way that the sale hasn't officially occurred yet.

00:36:38.180 Because if it had already taken place officially, it's very likely then the feds would not have filed the same documents with the SEC that Kinder Morgan did yesterday.

00:36:48.200 And we would not know this unless we went to the trouble of filing an access to information request.

00:36:54.840 Oh, and it would be blacked out, I can assure you.

00:36:56.460 It would just be blacked out.

00:36:57.320 And it would take months, months and months and months.

00:36:59.480 But let me ask you something that I feel that this issue that I'm about to put to you, Lorne, has not properly been aired out anywhere.

00:37:07.900 And you tell me if I'm misunderstanding things or you tell me if it has been clarified.

00:37:12.040 But there's something about this that has frustrated me ever since the idea that this was bought by the government.

00:37:17.620 Here's the thing.

00:37:18.080 As you alluded to, the existing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline was built more than half a century ago.

00:37:26.500 And it's been happily pumping away ever since.

00:37:29.920 You know, it's great.

00:37:31.820 That is what the liberals bought.

00:37:34.520 Something that was non-controversial.

00:37:37.420 Most people don't even know it's there because it's buried.

00:37:39.900 It's just there.

00:37:41.340 And according to various bank estimates, Trudeau overpaid by more than a billion.

00:37:46.900 But that's for the one that's in the ground right now.

00:37:49.260 Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain.

00:37:51.560 But this new pipeline, the twinning of it, that's called the Trans Mountain Expansion.

00:37:57.840 That's what just jacked up $1.9 billion in price.

00:38:01.360 So the $4.5 billion that taxpayers have already spent was just to buy the existing one underground and we overpaid by a billion.

00:38:10.520 So we haven't even mustered what was until recently $7.4 billion.

00:38:16.700 And now it's $9.3 billion.

00:38:19.260 And here's my question to you, Lorne.

00:38:21.960 Where's the $9.3 billion going to come from?

00:38:24.820 It's going to come from taxpayers.

00:38:26.440 It's clearly going to come from taxpayers.

00:38:28.500 How?

00:38:28.700 Is that really going to come?

00:38:29.680 $9.3 billion?

00:38:31.360 I don't – well, okay.

00:38:32.640 If you're asking me, is it ever going to be spent, that's a different matter.

00:38:38.080 Was it actually going to be raised and put into the –

00:38:40.680 I'm not sure they're ever going –

00:38:42.960 I think this is just a stopgap measure to get them past the federal election next fall.

00:38:49.160 In about 15 months, we're supposed to have another federal election.

00:38:52.340 There are 18 liberal seats in BC.

00:38:56.160 There are four in Alberta.

00:38:57.280 And they will not win any but one of them.

00:39:00.160 There's one they might win in Edmonton.

00:39:03.320 But my guess is that the liberals will be wiped out of their four in Alberta.

00:39:07.880 So they have to really be careful not to lose the 18 in BC because they're not as popular in the ring around Toronto as they used to be.

00:39:17.500 They're not as growing as fast in Quebec as they'd hoped they would be.

00:39:21.280 They're solid still in Atlantic Canada, but they're starting to do these calculations.

00:39:24.640 And they realize that if they lost six or eight seats or ten seats in BC, they would be in real danger of losing the government to the conservative.

00:39:34.620 And so I think what they've done with this pipeline is I think they bought it so they could have all these handsprings and huzzahs about how wonderful it is and how they're going ahead with this.

00:39:47.720 But they're not actually going to do anything about it because they really don't want to anger the environmentalists in the lower mainland of BC who vote for liberal candidates, whose candidates they really, really need to keep their majority in the House of Commons.

00:40:02.460 And so I think we're going to see maybe some pipe late in Alberta next year.

00:40:07.220 But the chances of us seeing any construction in BC until after the federal election, pretty remote.

00:40:12.640 And once it's over, where is this where's the pressure coming from to make that to have the liberals push this through?

00:40:19.320 Yeah. You know, let me put to you my speculative theory.

00:40:23.580 And I think I'm entitled to have a speculative theory because I just offered you mine.

00:40:29.240 Yeah. Well, because we have been kept in the dark and shoveled manure, as they say about mushrooms.

00:40:37.800 My theory is the liberal government overpaid for the existing Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline by a billion, knowingly as a form of shut up money to Kinder Morgan.

00:40:50.380 They said, look, Kinder Morgan, you know, you're in for a world of pain.

00:40:53.500 Let's take the existing asset as a excuse to actually give you a billion dollar apology check.

00:41:01.720 And then so take your billion and count yourself lucky, great rate of return.

00:41:06.280 And then you just play along with this pantomime as we pretend we were going to actually throw another 10 billion behind this thing.

00:41:16.740 And we're just going to talk about it and you will be shut up because you're paid off now.

00:41:20.540 So be a good boy and go along with this ruse.

00:41:23.660 And they're not actually going to ever do it.

00:41:25.840 And soon we'll. Oh, it's delayed to 2022.

00:41:27.840 It's delayed to 2023 and no one will actually ever say the truth, which is they just paid four point five billion dollars to shut this pipeline project down.

00:41:37.700 And it's all a lie.

00:41:38.980 Yep. I mean, I've speculated on that, too.

00:41:41.700 That that is entirely possible.

00:41:43.600 That's entirely possible what they've done.

00:41:46.560 And there are other ways of of constructing this.

00:41:49.840 And maybe, you know, there are different ways of interpreting it.

00:41:53.240 But that's as good an explanation as any that they wanted to make a problem go away.

00:41:57.660 And they threw four point five billion dollars of your money and mine at it.

00:42:00.640 Yeah. It's so very frustrating.

00:42:03.200 I would say that I spoke at the top of our interview about a dealmaker named Donald Trump.

00:42:08.700 That Keystone XL pipeline that he brought back, exhumed from the grave that Obama and Hillary Clinton had killed.

00:42:16.780 I predict that will be the only major pipeline that Alberta gets in.

00:42:22.520 And and that does not get rid of the major problem that Alberta had. 0.99

00:42:26.900 Yeah. Which is that the Americans are our only buyers and they know that. 0.94

00:42:31.420 So they will give us a discount price.

00:42:33.940 They won't pay us the world price.

00:42:35.300 We need to get to tidewater, as everybody keeps saying, either in B.C. or in New Brunswick.

00:42:42.320 Hopefully, at some point in the future, to both places.

00:42:46.520 And at that point, then we open up the world market.

00:42:49.220 We open up competition for the Americans to buy our oil.

00:42:52.740 And the Americans then have to pay a more proper price right now.

00:42:55.960 Well, yesterday, I didn't check today.

00:42:57.800 But yesterday, the gap between the world price for West Texas Intermediate and the price for Western Canadian Select, which is what we're selling, was almost $30 a barrel.

00:43:09.060 Yeah. It makes just it's appalling. And that's not going to change with Keystone XL.

00:43:13.220 I'm happy we're going to get Keystone XL. Don't get me wrong.

00:43:15.960 But we need something else.

00:43:17.980 And that is dependent on Ottawa and the Alberta government.

00:43:21.500 And they're not pushing for it.

00:43:23.040 You know, let me throw one last thing in here.

00:43:25.320 The Saudi Canada spat.

00:43:28.060 Saudi Arabia still exports oil to the Atlantic, which is outrageous to me.

00:43:32.760 But the Energy East pipeline would have solved that if the Saudi oil and maybe Algerian oil and other OPEC oil is cut off.

00:43:40.560 You know who's going to replace that, Lauren? 0.99

00:43:42.620 American oil shipped in from North Dakota by rail.

00:43:48.560 So we, if we had that Energy East pipeline, we would be able to fill that largest refinery in Canada.

00:43:56.000 The bigger refinery.

00:43:56.640 Well, not only that, we would be able to take a principled stand on foreign affairs without cutting off our noses.

00:44:03.040 Yeah.

00:44:03.560 It's so frustrating that that Saudi boycott of, if they cut off their oil shipments, I don't know if they will.

00:44:09.960 The beneficiary of that will be Americans selling oil to Canada by train.

00:44:17.100 Maybe Venezuelans do, but yeah, for sure Americans. 0.50

00:44:19.640 Yeah, that's what happens when you have, you know, a drama teacher instead of a dealmaker as a president.

00:44:25.620 That's what happens when you have a first-year poli-sci class masquerading as a cabinet.

00:44:31.120 Yeah, you're so right.

00:44:32.460 It's so very frustrating.

00:44:34.080 Lauren, thanks for fighting the good fight.

00:44:35.520 I understand you've got a column on this subject coming out in the Edmonton Sun tomorrow.

00:44:39.280 We'll keep our eyes peeled for that.

00:44:41.380 Very good.

00:44:41.960 All right.

00:44:42.360 Thanks very much.

00:44:42.940 That's our friend Lauren Gunter.

00:44:43.900 He's with the Edmonton Sun, and I look forward to seeing what he has to say in tomorrow's Edmonton Sun newspaper.

00:44:50.220 Stay with us.

00:44:51.180 More ahead on The Rebel.

00:45:03.780 Hey, welcome back.

00:45:04.720 On my monologue yesterday about Alex Jones and Infowars being purged from the Internet, Peter writes,

00:45:09.240 Well, look, free speech only matters if you're allowed to say things that people don't like.

00:45:24.560 That's what the free part means.

00:45:25.720 It's free from other considerations, like what someone else thinks.

00:45:28.560 If you're only saying things that never challenge other values or never step on anyone's toes, it's not actually free speech.

00:45:36.000 Free speech indicates it is higher than another value.

00:45:39.540 Like not hurting someone's feelings.

00:45:41.220 It is legitimate to say we don't want to hurt feelings.

00:45:45.520 But freedom of speech says if those two are in conflict, the free speech wins.

00:45:51.420 Temi writes,

00:45:52.800 Orwellian censorship and deplatforming has only gotten started.

00:45:56.160 Ministry of truth to follow.

00:45:57.360 I listened to Paul Joseph Watson's reports and found Alex Jones to be too much and annoying.

00:46:02.560 I strongly disagree with this purge in principle.

00:46:07.280 Alex Jones is an acquired taste.

00:46:09.240 I think he's theatrical.

00:46:13.380 And he reminds me a little bit of Howard Stern.

00:46:16.860 You know who I'm talking about, the shock jock, who just, he'll say any joke to make anyone uncomfortable.

00:46:22.720 He's very sexual in his jokes.

00:46:23.960 He's far less political.

00:46:25.380 You know, people would listen to Howard Stern.

00:46:28.460 His fans would listen to him.

00:46:29.840 And his enemies would listen to him even more.

00:46:31.720 And both have the same reason.

00:46:33.280 I can hardly wait to see what he says next.

00:46:35.940 I think that's okay.

00:46:37.040 I think that's America.

00:46:38.180 And I wish there was a little bit more Canada, too.

00:46:42.580 Tyson writes,

00:46:44.140 Yeah, isn't that the truth?

00:46:50.940 I mean, Justin Trudeau thinks we're smart enough to vote for him.

00:46:53.700 Only 39% of Canadians did.

00:46:56.940 But we're not smart enough to make other decisions in the meantime.

00:47:00.740 And I mentioned Justin Trudeau because Gerald Butts, his principal secretary and his nanny, hates the rebel with a passion and has called for the banning of fake news, which means conservative news to him, and to Twitter accounts he doesn't like.

00:47:14.280 I think that what they're doing to Alex Jones today, they will do to us next.

00:47:17.640 By the way, I was just looking at our YouTube subscribers.

00:47:20.040 As you know, we don't get any money from our YouTube subscriptions.

00:47:22.900 It's a free subscription, so it's not that valuable, but it's a measurement of how many people like to see us because you can unsubscribe at any time.

00:47:31.700 Every day, some people sign up and some people unsign up.

00:47:35.760 And you know what?

00:47:36.360 We are coming up on 1 million subscribers.

00:47:41.280 In fact, last I checked, I think we were at like 980,000, and we're growing by about 1,000 a day, which makes sense.

00:47:48.320 We're about three years old, so it's about 1,000 a day on average since we were born.

00:47:53.000 That suggests to me that sometime in August, maybe September, we will hit a million YouTube subscribers.

00:48:00.360 What does that mean?

00:48:01.740 It actually means absolutely nothing other than the symbolic odometer flip, like in your car when you hit a million miles, maybe.

00:48:09.860 And that's a sign that there are a million people in Canada and around the world who want to see what we have to say.

00:48:14.360 Not all of them agree with us.

00:48:15.360 Some of them don't pay much attention to us.

00:48:17.580 Some of them hate us.

00:48:18.320 But a million people want what the rebel has to say.

00:48:23.040 Justin Trudeau is not amongst them.

00:48:26.300 Alex Jones had two and a half million subscribers.

00:48:29.260 They shut him down.

00:48:30.640 I hope that when they come for us, my friends, that you will be there for us to help us survive.

00:48:36.100 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:48:41.900 And keep ol' keep みんな, keep fighting for freedom.

00:48:44.160 Let's see.

00:48:45.660 Next is a assembly box.

00:48:48.280 I'll see you next time.

00:48:52.360 gehen.

00:48:53.260 Thanks.

00:48:54.360 Bye.

00:48:54.700 Thanks.

00:48:55.460 Bye.

00:48:57.180 Bye.

00:49:00.300 Bye.

00:49:00.780 Bye.

Rebel News Podcast - August 09, 2018

After Infowars purge, list of next targets includes two former Rebels — which means us, too

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