Rebel News Podcast - Are lockdowns going to be permanent？

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I talk about where we're going next. Are we going to have another lockdown?

00:00:04.800 How bad will it be? How brutal will it be? And what's the model? Is it what they're doing in

00:00:08.960 California or New York? I think maybe what they're doing in the UK is a sign of what's to come. I'll

00:00:14.400 take you through that. Before I do, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus.

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00:00:58.720 Tonight, our lockdown's going to be permanent. It's January 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:16.800 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:20.220 Well, there's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:24.560 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:29.440 right to do so.

00:01:35.120 I like to follow the news in the United Kingdom because in some ways, it's a better predictor

00:01:39.780 of what's going to happen in Canada than just watching the United States. I think the UK

00:01:43.740 is temperamentally more similar to us in some ways. Our parliamentary system, I think they're

00:01:51.300 a bit more reserved like Canadians are in comparison to Americans. There's definitely 0.85

00:01:55.940 many Americans who have a Canadian temperament, but America also has a significant personality

00:02:01.220 trait defined by their Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment and the Second Amendment,

00:02:05.520 freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the right to bear arms. It just makes them a bit 0.98

00:02:09.460 more stubborn and independent in the face of government bullying. I mean, remember, they

00:02:13.580 had their independence through a revolutionary war. And it makes the government a little bit

00:02:18.100 less likely to push too hard against the citizens. We're all genetically the same. But the way they

00:02:24.060 limit their government in America has a way of shifting the balance in life away from the blob and the 0.97

00:02:30.220 mob of the state and towards the individual. I mean, it's almost impossible to imagine a Canadian 0.89

00:02:36.040 province with the license plate, the motto that New Hampshire has, live free or die. That's on every

00:02:44.860 license plate of every vehicle in New Hampshire. They look at those words every day. Or the great seal

00:02:50.660 of the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's in Latin, and people don't look at a great seal very much, but

00:02:56.900 it says sic semper tyrannis, which in Latin means thus always to tyrants, or to be more modern

00:03:03.860 in the translation, up yours tyrants. We have friendly Manitoba on our license plates. I think

00:03:11.980 that's more Canadian. So when a tyrant does arise, speaking of Manitoba, like Brian Pallister, and he

00:03:20.140 starts bullying people and prosecuting churches and looking, you know, locking down businesses and

00:03:25.360 defaming people he accuses of not being locked down enough. Being friendly actually means being

00:03:32.080 obedient, and that's not good. There's a problem, though, because we see that in every lockdown

00:03:38.500 province, and federally, of course, the lockdown elites, the ones who are enforcing the lockdown,

00:03:45.020 they're not following the lockdown themselves. Literally, the top civil servant in friendly

00:03:48.940 Manitoba just went traveling and super spreading, as the lockdowners would say. So I'm trying to look

00:03:54.980 ahead and I'm trying to predict where we're going with all this, and I think that there are some parts

00:03:59.580 of the United States that are socialist enough to be templates for Canada. I think California and New

00:04:04.620 York meet those tests sometimes. I mean, absurd lockdowns, the destruction of the entire hospitality

00:04:10.580 industry, especially in New York. I mean, thinking of New York without its restaurants is like thinking

00:04:17.260 of Paris without its cafes. Really, it's essential to its character. What a bizarre official broadcast this

00:04:25.420 was on New Year's Eve from Times Square, normally a hub of activity, life and excitement and commerce

00:04:32.760 and energy and entertainment and youth. Just desolation, except for the Marxist mayor of that 0.93

00:04:39.980 city and his Marxist wife dancing for the cameras in the deserted canyons of Manhattan. It was like 0.78

00:04:48.180 something post-apocalyptic. How awful. And yet they thought it was so wonderful. So I think that's a

00:04:54.640 possible template for parts of Canada. But I think the United Kingdom is interesting and terrifying.

00:05:00.280 Their Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has just announced another total, total lockdown. Remember,

00:05:06.780 their lockdowns have weird rules like no singing. Seriously. And if you go out to drink, you have to

00:05:12.980 have a meal because, of course, the virus checks first. Total lockdown, insane, really absurd. That's

00:05:19.700 going to last for months. Take a listen. With most of the country already under extreme measures,

00:05:26.760 it's clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control while our vaccines

00:05:35.360 are rolled out. In England, we must therefore go into a national lockdown, which is tough enough to

00:05:42.900 contain this variant. That means the government is once again instructing you to stay at home.

00:05:50.960 You may only leave home for limited reasons permitted in law, such as to shop for essentials,

00:05:57.880 to work if you absolutely cannot work from home, to exercise, to seek medical assistance,

00:06:05.060 such as getting a COVID test, or to escape domestic abuse.

00:06:09.820 Yeah, it's permanent now, isn't it? Which is odd because it's exaggerated, the whole virus. I mean,

00:06:16.360 there are people indeed dying in the United Kingdom from the virus. And like here,

00:06:19.660 they're overwhelmingly very old people who have serious underlying health conditions like diabetes

00:06:25.080 and heart disease and dementia, all combined, by the way. But in general, life is unaffected by

00:06:30.500 the virus itself. Speaking of viruses, this video has gone viral. In the UK, a woman went into a

00:06:38.880 hospital in the United Kingdom, a hospital that was allegedly overwhelmed with cases. And she filmed

00:06:44.460 it on her phone, and it was practically empty. There's actually no hospital bed crisis. There's

00:06:51.180 fewer hospital beds in use now than this same time last year in the UK. And she was arrested

00:06:58.080 for taking that video. I'm not making that up. Arrested.

00:07:02.060 They'll arrest you for anything in the United Kingdom. They arrested this guy for hugging,

00:07:06.380 hugging. Take a look.

00:07:07.640 Can I give you a hug, sis?

00:07:08.640 Yes.

00:07:09.640 Can I give you a hug, sis?

00:07:10.640 Yes.

00:07:11.640 She's not concerned.

00:07:12.640 Exactly.

00:07:13.640 She's not concerned. We're not concerned about an invisible fictitious virus.

00:07:14.640 Exactly.

00:07:15.640 Come on, look at this.

00:07:16.640 Oh, yeah.

00:07:17.640 Sure.

00:07:18.640 Sure.

00:07:19.640 Give me a hug.

00:07:20.640 I thought it was a free hug.

00:07:21.640 That's okay.

00:07:22.640 It's okay.

00:07:23.640 I'm a spirit artist.

00:07:24.640 Have a free hug.

00:07:25.640 Come on.

00:07:26.640 Thank you.

00:07:27.640 Brother, a hug.

00:07:28.640 Oh, thank you.

00:07:29.640 The hug, sister.

00:07:30.640 Come on.

00:07:31.640 Yes.

00:07:32.640 Brother, a hug.

00:07:33.640 Oh, yes.

00:07:34.640 Yes.

00:07:35.640 We're being in contact with each other.

00:07:36.640 We are not scared of COVID.

00:07:37.640 Come on, brother.

00:07:38.640 Yes.

00:07:39.640 We're not scared of COVID.

00:07:40.640 Not at all, brother.

00:07:41.640 Not at all, man.

00:07:42.640 Who wants a hug?

00:07:43.640 We're not scared of COVID.

00:07:44.640 Come on.

00:07:45.640 Come on, bro.

00:07:46.640 Oh, no.

00:07:47.640 You want a hug?

00:07:48.640 Come on, let's go. 0.98

00:07:49.640 Let's go.

00:07:50.640 Let's show these lying criminal politicians.

00:07:53.640 We aren't going to take this **** anymore.

00:07:55.640 Come on.

00:07:56.640 Who else wants a hug?

00:07:57.640 I would've given you one.

00:07:58.640 Yeah.

00:07:59.640 That's it.

00:08:00.640 Take care.

00:08:01.640 I'm going to walk it.

00:08:02.640 Don't we, bro?

00:08:03.640 Do you have a hug, sir?

00:08:05.640 No, I do not, sir.

00:08:06.640 Why not?

00:08:07.640 Please maintain social distancing properly, sir.

00:08:08.640 Okay.

00:08:09.640 You have a good day.

00:08:10.640 Okay.

00:08:11.640 Now, you need to hang about, sir.

00:08:12.640 Why?

00:08:13.640 Because you've clearly just been engaging with people who are not in the same house.

00:08:16.640 Okay.

00:08:17.640 Cool.

00:08:18.640 I'm recording, officer.

00:08:19.640 And I'm recording as well.

00:08:20.640 Okay, good.

00:08:21.640 You can see the red light going around in there on my camera.

00:08:24.640 That means that I'm recording.

00:08:26.640 This is just evidence to you.

00:08:27.640 You're going up to people.

00:08:28.640 Do you know these people?

00:08:29.640 Mm-hmm.

00:08:30.640 Oh, you do know them?

00:08:31.640 They're human beings, like me.

00:08:32.640 They're not mine.

00:08:33.640 They're happy.

00:08:34.640 They're all hurt.

00:08:35.640 Who's been hurt, sir?

00:08:36.640 Who's been hurt?

00:08:37.640 Who's been hurt?

00:08:38.640 Who's been hurt by my accent?

00:08:40.640 You?

00:08:41.640 An officer of the government?

00:08:42.640 Sir.

00:08:43.640 There's God.

00:08:44.640 Human beings and government.

00:08:47.640 Governments are inferior to human beings.

00:08:49.640 Okay.

00:08:50.640 No, look.

00:08:51.640 This is…

00:08:53.640 They go on.

00:08:54.640 We're not…

00:08:55.640 They need to keep you scared, I think.

00:09:09.760 Otherwise, how are they going to get you to submit?

00:09:11.440 They came up with a UK mutation of the virus

00:09:14.860 because the original one, I guess, was losing its scare factor.

00:09:18.560 That was an excuse to ban a lot of things,

00:09:20.220 including flights between the UK and Canada,

00:09:22.580 which is a very important flight route

00:09:24.660 for both Canadians and Brits.

00:09:26.460 But I guess it didn't sound scary enough, this UK variant.

00:09:29.960 So they came up with a new South African mutation of the virus.

00:09:33.560 That's much scarier, I guess.

00:09:35.460 Maybe they'll call it the Ebola coronavirus

00:09:38.680 if they need some real shock value

00:09:40.940 and they're running out of ideas.

00:09:42.800 I see that Quebec is going full martial law.

00:09:46.060 I know that martial law typically means soldiers in the streets.

00:09:49.420 They just use police these days.

00:09:52.000 I showed you this from Gatineau, Quebec just yesterday.

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00:09:59.280 Lower children! 0.99

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00:10:14.700 Don't fuck it, brother.

00:10:16.700 Don't fuck up.

00:10:17.700 Stay here.

00:10:18.700 Stay here.

00:10:19.700 Don't fuck and do that. 1.00

00:10:21.700 Don't fuck and do that. 1.00

00:10:23.700 Don't fuck and do that. 1.00

00:10:25.700 Don't fuck and do that. 1.00

00:10:26.700 Okay, calm down, calm down.

00:10:29.700 Here.

00:10:30.700 Can we move?

00:10:31.700 Okay?

00:10:32.700 Okay, we're calm.

00:10:33.700 Don't do that.

00:10:35.700 We're people.

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00:11:02.700 get a face?

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00:11:06.700 That's gonna face! 0.88

00:11:08.700 Hey! 0.99

00:11:09.700 Nothing's worse. No. Yes. What are you going to do now? Stay there.

00:11:39.700 OK.

00:11:43.700 Oh, my God!

00:11:45.700 Mo się gonna vous Download ?

00:11:47.700 Jszcerwo opposition?

00:11:48.700 Jeśli 방송ście na Snap,-

00:11:49.700 ...when wy Rebel Policier?

00:11:51.700 Jakub時 wymagał się.

00:11:52.700 Przepraszam, dobrze.

00:11:53.700 You know, no one really protested that, certainly not the official opposition whose job it is

00:12:13.460 to oppose. So the premier, he can read the reaction. He's now going to bring in a brutal

00:12:19.220 lockdown that might actually include UK-style curfews. I mean, it's science. The virus is

00:12:25.480 particularly deadly after 10 p.m. at night, don't you know? That's science, folks. What are you,

00:12:30.920 some conspiracy theorist? And in the city of Toronto, they are literally dispatching police

00:12:35.800 cars with cops with guns in their holsters to tell children where they can and can't toboggan.

00:12:41.620 You don't catch the virus outside on toboggan hills. You just don't. Sorry, there's never been

00:12:46.660 a recorded case of that happening ever. And kids, by the way, are the least vulnerable in society to

00:12:52.060 this virus. What on earth is going on? I note that shootings in Toronto have nearly tripled

00:12:58.740 under Mayor John Tory's watch. Tripled, but he's taking police off the gangland beat to patrol toboggan

00:13:07.080 hills with their guns. I'm not kidding. Are they going to shoot someone? Are they going to shoot

00:13:11.800 someone? They're talking about getting more brutal. I don't know why. Masks were not mandatory for the

00:13:19.180 first six months of this pandemic. Then they were, and cases went up. Lockdowns have been tried once,

00:13:24.960 twice again, and cases went up. We know that cases can mean false positives, of course. That's why the

00:13:31.380 public health deep state insists on mass testing healthy people. Remember this clip?

00:13:36.280 If you test somebody today, you only know if they're infected today. And in fact, if you're

00:13:44.360 testing in a population that doesn't have very much COVID, you'll get false positives almost half the

00:13:51.060 time. Why would you deliberately test healthy people en masse, other than to find cases? I say

00:13:57.940 again, I'm not denying that some people really are getting sick and dying, as they do every year from

00:14:04.140 the flu. And this is a particularly bad flu season, about twice as bad as the normal flu season. But

00:14:09.100 we are now killing far more people through the lockdown than are being saved by the lockdown,

00:14:15.860 if indeed anyone is being saved by the lockdown. Why are we shutting down restaurants full of 20 and

00:14:21.800 30 somethings, both customers and workers, when the virus targets people in their 80s and 90s?

00:14:26.760 So why are we doing that? Well, it depends who we are. Why are we doing it? As we all saw this past

00:14:34.740 week, the ruling class is leaving this monstrous mess they've created to go to Vegas or Hawaii or 1.00

00:14:40.920 Palm Springs or Florida or Greece to get away from the mess that they have made, to get away from the 1.00

00:14:46.140 police state themselves, to get away from cops busting into a house and dragging out someone because

00:14:50.280 they were the sixth person in the room. But not everyone can afford to fly away. Not everyone gets paid,

00:14:55.380 whether they work or not. Not everyone can afford to have a two-week quarantine off of work after

00:15:01.420 their holiday. So take a look at this kid. Now he swears, which young people sometimes do. Once in a

00:15:09.840 blue moon, I've been known to swear. But listen to the cops. They're arresting him. Well, just because,

00:15:16.440 really. Take a listen.

00:15:17.260 I swear to god they're arresting this guy. But what the fuck?

00:15:21.140 What the fuck?

00:15:22.080 What the fuck?

00:15:23.560 What the fuck?

00:15:26.800 What the fuck?

00:15:28.040 What the fuck?

00:15:29.540 Oh, not support.

00:15:31.540 What's this?

00:15:32.540 That's fine.

00:15:33.540 Get out of my car.

00:15:34.980 Get out of my car.

00:15:36.820 Guys, find your back.

00:15:38.300 I didn't do anything.

00:15:40.020 You're under arrest for obstructing a piece of.

00:15:41.620 I didn't obstruct you. I was going to volunteer.

00:15:43.680 Asked for your ID. He told me to go f*** him.

00:15:45.820 No, I didn't.

00:15:47.460 So the cop asked him for ID and he said him to go f*** himself, which is not illegal.

00:15:51.880 And he punched me in the face.

00:15:53.260 Yeah, what the f***?

00:15:54.860 Bro, he hurt you.

00:15:55.580 Oh, this guy just pushed him into the car too.

00:15:59.020 You can't punch somebody in the face for that, sir.

00:16:01.540 You can't do that.

00:16:02.300 You're also not supposed to be out right now, eh, bud?

00:16:04.420 Yo, yo, yo. Just chill. Just chill.

00:16:05.960 Go, go, go.

00:16:07.560 Can you just listen to me, please?

00:16:08.600 Yeah, I am listening.

00:16:09.380 I didn't do anything. He didn't like it.

00:16:11.220 Why are you out right now?

00:16:12.220 I was going to Bonte. I told him that.

00:16:15.400 Oh my God.

00:16:16.400 Can I talk? Start walking.

00:16:18.220 Can you let me explain?

00:16:19.340 Literally dragging him by the neck.

00:16:20.620 Walk.

00:16:21.220 Are you the supervisor, sir?

00:16:24.080 You're under arrest.

00:16:25.100 What?

00:16:26.440 You're under arrest anything.

00:16:30.060 Right, after him, keep your ID as well.

00:16:31.980 Why do you buy?

00:16:33.020 The Opened Ontario Act, sir.

00:16:35.540 The Opened Ontario Act.

00:16:36.480 Yes, sir.

00:16:36.940 Are you going to arrest me, too?

00:16:38.280 They're literally going to arrest him.

00:16:39.600 Sir, we're literally here.

00:16:40.980 You have a choice.

00:16:41.540 You can hand over your ID or you can get arrested?

00:16:43.580 So he's saying if you don't ID yourself, he's going to arrest you.

00:16:46.500 He said I'm going to get arrested if I don't get my ID.

00:16:48.560 You don't have to give your ID, bro.

00:16:49.800 It's not the law.

00:16:50.740 They have to ask.

00:16:51.820 They have to give you a reason why they're asking.

00:16:53.360 I didn't even do anything.

00:16:54.140 You guys push the guy into my car.

00:16:56.100 Exactly.

00:16:56.420 Rude kid.

00:16:58.440 Okay, we can all agree on that.

00:17:00.440 I think I'd probably be rude, too, if a cop busted my chops for literally standing in

00:17:05.340 a public parking lot outdoors doing nothing wrong.

00:17:08.680 So the kid got roughed up and he was assaulted, he says, and he was arrested and he was taken

00:17:13.900 to jail and now he's dead, suicide, he was taken into police custody for what?

00:17:21.500 And then they released him and he kills himself.

00:17:23.840 Why?

00:17:25.260 What did police say to him in custody?

00:17:27.000 What did they threaten him with?

00:17:28.020 What did they tell him?

00:17:29.940 Why would he do that?

00:17:31.140 He swore at them, so they arrested him and put him in his cell and told him things and

00:17:35.800 he killed himself.

00:17:38.600 But it'll probably be marked as a COVID death, I bet, and used to justify even more lockdowns

00:17:45.560 and even more brutal policing.

00:17:49.080 Lucky Mayor John Tory, he's got that gorgeous house in Palm Beach, Florida to go to after he's

00:17:55.060 done destroying his own city.

00:17:58.300 Stay with us for more.

00:18:01.140 Well, we knew even before Donald Trump became president in the 2016 election and 2017 inauguration

00:18:17.320 that China would be a focus of his presidency.

00:18:22.040 It was certainly a focus of his campaign.

00:18:24.120 And if you looked at his historical tweets, and historical tweets sounds like a bit of a

00:18:28.960 joke, but it shows what he was thinking about and talking about even before he formally entered

00:18:33.580 politics, well, he was obsessed with China politically, militarily, geopolitically.

00:18:40.440 I always laugh when I listen to this mashup of him saying the word China again and again,

00:18:45.840 but it shows what was on his mind.

00:18:47.440 Remember this?

00:18:47.980 Well, indeed, it came to color his administration.

00:18:59.860 Everything from trade and tariff barriers to trying to box in China, trying to get North 0.81

00:19:06.860 Korea out of China's thrall, strengthening allies in the region like Korea, Japan, and

00:19:12.440 Taiwan, and India.

00:19:13.640 But of course, it looks like Donald Trump, despite fighting to the very end, will not

00:19:19.940 be reelected.

00:19:21.480 And Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will assume the presidency in short days.

00:19:28.780 So what is China thinking about this reorientation? 0.76

00:19:32.140 Well, there's a very thoughtful piece in Newsweek magazine, of all places, entitled,

00:19:36.800 Communist China, is preparing to eat Joe Biden's lunch.

00:19:42.120 And it's written by no one other than our friend Ben Weingarten, who joins us now via Skype.

00:19:48.000 Ben, great to see you again.

00:19:49.080 Happy New Year.

00:19:50.300 Let's put aside any lingering possibilities, however faint, that Trump might pull a victory

00:19:56.240 out of the jaws of defeat.

00:19:57.460 I don't think it's likely.

00:19:58.720 There are some people who are waiting to the last moment.

00:20:01.320 It's not going to happen.

00:20:02.020 Let's move on with the assumption that Biden becomes president.

00:20:04.940 He really is more under the sway of China than any president in American history. 0.76

00:20:12.680 Am I right?

00:20:14.120 Yeah, I think that's a great point.

00:20:16.080 And you can go back and look at, for example, Communist China's attempts to sort of compromise

00:20:21.860 Democrats around Bill Clinton and perhaps Bill Clinton himself.

00:20:26.080 But there is nothing really like the ultimate swamp creature in Joe Biden.

00:20:31.300 And part of the swampiness is his lifelong, his career-long effort to cheerlead for greater

00:20:39.440 integration, so-called integration, cooperation, accommodation of, in effect, Communist China's

00:20:46.220 rise.

00:20:46.820 And he's actually put it very explicitly that Communist China's rise in the past, he said,

00:20:51.440 it's a good thing.

00:20:52.480 It's a positive thing for America.

00:20:54.200 America, he was in charge, of course, of the so-called China portfolio under the Obama

00:20:59.800 administration, which was completely toothless as China continued to expand its sphere of 0.56

00:21:04.460 influence in its near abroad and beyond, engaged in the catastrophic Office of Personnel Management

00:21:10.880 hack.

00:21:11.300 And we can go through the litany of ways, including, of course, when he chaired the Senate Foreign

00:21:16.100 Relations Committee and during his career cheerlead for China being integrated into the world trade

00:21:22.580 and financial architecture that was largely built by America and obviously the West more

00:21:27.580 broadly.

00:21:28.280 At every turn, he has supported China's rise. 0.52

00:21:31.060 And this is to say nothing of, at very minimum, the appearance of compromise and corruption associated

00:21:38.140 with his family's dealings with Chinese Communist Party tied individuals and entities.

00:21:43.320 So all of that adds up to, in effect, a national security disaster for America.

00:21:48.980 And what I write about in this piece is what China is saying and what Chinese officials are

00:21:53.200 saying, including the foreign minister, is that they look forward to the end of the bad old days of the Trump

00:22:00.220 era, where, of course, you know, they use the same kind of rhetoric as CNN would use over here,

00:22:05.400 isolationism and McCarthyism and the like.

00:22:07.880 And essentially what they say is now we can return to a period of normalcy and cooperation.

00:22:13.860 And they don't they use sometimes those exact words.

00:22:16.520 And of course, that's exactly what the Biden camp is messaging itself in the realms of space,

00:22:22.740 for example, on the environment and COVID-19 relief measures and a litany of other areas as well.

00:22:31.460 So what you see ultimately is China believes they have they have Joe Biden's number.

00:22:36.600 And I think it's in part because where the globalist transnational progressive elite

00:22:42.020 stands in America is pretty much where China stands as well.

00:22:45.400 They're all in on the game together.

00:22:47.200 And ultimately, it's catastrophic for the West.

00:22:49.700 And I just point out, you can look at small data points like The New York Times today writing

00:22:53.740 this article on a straight news piece, I guess, reporting on how great things are in China,

00:22:59.380 that they have freedom from fear, whereas we're all stuck in lockdown here in America.

00:23:04.640 And you saw the media cheering on, in effect, the fact that in Wuhan they were celebrating.

00:23:10.080 And, you know, of course, this is China putting out propaganda.

00:23:12.820 But in Wuhan, they're celebrating.

00:23:14.280 And Times Square on New Year's Eve is completely empty and dark.

00:23:19.140 This is the world that they're all cheering on.

00:23:20.920 And they're all in on the game because all of the Western elites think they're going to

00:23:24.280 profit from it.

00:23:25.320 But in the end, they're going to be the first ones, maybe not lined up and shot, but figuratively

00:23:30.560 at least, they will be the ones who pay the dearest price at the end of the day if we become

00:23:34.860 satraps of China.

00:23:37.180 Yeah.

00:23:37.780 You know, it's interesting.

00:23:39.440 There's China has had a number of billionaires for a long time, sort of like when the old Soviet 0.99

00:23:47.040 Union crumbled, you quickly saw these oligarchs who brutally carved up the assets of the former 0.99

00:23:54.140 Soviet Union.

00:23:55.060 Some of them were truly phenomenal businessmen, but most of them were just sharp dealers who

00:24:01.200 put together power.

00:24:02.840 In China, I think there was some of that, but there were actual innovators too, especially

00:24:06.500 in the tech side.

00:24:07.760 One of them was named Jack Ma, Alibaba, Ant.

00:24:10.880 He became one of the richest men in the world through his Communist Party connections, no

00:24:15.520 doubt about it.

00:24:16.580 But I think he was genuinely a businessman and an innovator.

00:24:20.360 I mean, I think you could say he was the closest thing to, I don't know, the Jeff Bezos or the

00:24:26.700 Steve Jobs of China, worth close to $50 billion.

00:24:31.100 But then he started talking a little too proudly, I think, and China squashed his public offering 0.88

00:24:41.580 and now he's gone missing.

00:24:44.300 He's literally gone missing.

00:24:47.060 It would be as if, you know, suddenly the CEOs of Twitter, Amazon and Facebook just went

00:24:54.640 missing after criticizing Donald Trump.

00:24:57.980 I think that's the most shocking story around about what China's really like.

00:25:02.740 And it should be a warning to the Western business elites who think they can outmaneuver

00:25:07.520 the Chinese Communist Party when Jack Ma, the top commie, couldn't do it himself.

00:25:12.680 Yeah, several years back, Jack Ma came out as a member of the Chinese Communist Party because,

00:25:17.680 of course, if you were a billionaire there, you would have had to have been a member of

00:25:21.020 the Chinese Communist Party and probably literally and figuratively paid your dues.

00:25:25.760 And I think that was maybe the first sign that he understood, he was self-aware enough to

00:25:31.380 know that there's a problem here of creating the appearance of being maybe bigger than the

00:25:35.620 party itself, maybe being bigger than, I would call him Chairman Xi himself, General Secretary

00:25:41.100 Xi Jinping himself.

00:25:43.280 You saw that he ran afoul of regulators in some remarks he made.

00:25:47.680 This is the diplomatic Western way of describing what happened in advance of this much bandied about

00:25:53.160 initial public offering, which was supposed to be the largest one in the world, and then

00:25:57.360 essentially it was pulled.

00:25:58.540 And the reporting suggests that it was pulled at the behest of General Secretary Xi himself.

00:26:03.900 Why was that pulled?

00:26:04.880 I would say that's another example of the party imposing its rule, its dominance in general,

00:26:10.480 and Xi imposing his strength in particular, showing that no man is above the party and no man is above

00:26:16.180 the new Mao in Xi, now you see he's missing.

00:26:20.940 And I think you have to put this in the broader context as well of the fact that there's been a

00:26:25.760 significant, I don't know if I'd call it crackdown on quote unquote private enterprise in communist

00:26:32.080 China, but Xi has made it very clear that he believes that state-owned enterprises and state-backed

00:26:38.160 companies need to play a much more significant role in the economy and that the Chinese Communist 1.00

00:26:42.280 Party needs to play a much more significant role in the economy, which only makes sense because their

00:26:47.300 economy, in effect, is all about, at the end of the day, serves at the behest of and serves the aims of

00:26:52.600 that party itself.

00:26:54.100 This could be a good thing for the West in some respects, to the extent that the central planning of the

00:26:59.060 Chinese Communist Party ultimately destroys some of their ventures that might really undermine us

00:27:04.040 strategically and from a national security perspective.

00:27:06.760 One of the apparent casualties, it seems, is going to be Jack Ma, and I've speculated in

00:27:13.220 conversations with friends and maybe on social media as well, that Jack Ma will reemerge at some

00:27:18.440 opportune time for the Chinese Communist Party, fully chastened and pledging his devotion and newfound

00:27:25.120 passion for the party.

00:27:27.120 We'll see.

00:27:27.680 That may be the luckiest that he ends up.

00:27:30.160 We'll see how it plays out.

00:27:31.760 You know, it reminds me of a case more than a decade ago.

00:27:34.940 One of the richest men in Russia was named Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and he was the head of an oil company

00:27:40.900 called Yukos.

00:27:42.400 And he started to have political thoughts, and he was giving money to different political groups and

00:27:50.100 civil society groups, and he had opinions.

00:27:53.220 And then one day, his private jet touched down in Siberia.

00:27:56.660 It was stormed by security services.

00:27:59.200 He was thrown in jail, and that's that.

00:28:03.540 And now, I should say, in reaction to that, there were some sanctions and business and other

00:28:11.460 retribution that the West punished Russia with.

00:28:16.980 In fact, his arrest caused their stock market to fall more than America's did on 9-11.

00:28:22.220 I remember that detail.

00:28:23.220 But with Jack Ma just being, you know, unpersoned, I haven't seen any reaction politically, economically

00:28:32.480 to that.

00:28:33.560 I mean, sure, people are maybe nervous, but I haven't seen, I mean, I think China is untouchable.

00:28:40.940 They can't do, there's nothing they can't do that would make the West retaliate.

00:28:46.840 Now, with Trump leaving, I think they're going to be more brazen than ever.

00:28:51.300 Has there been, like, maybe Jack Ma is a bad example, but I can't think of anything real

00:28:57.300 and toothy that's being done to challenge China that, I mean, a few minor matters from

00:29:04.900 the U.S. State Department in the last few months, but I think they're all going to be undone

00:29:07.880 by Joe Biden in the first year.

00:29:09.260 Yeah, the Trump administration has imposed significantly more sanctions, I'm sure, than

00:29:15.460 any administration to come before it on Chinese Communist Party henchmen, essentially, officials

00:29:22.020 and Chinese Communist Party tied entities.

00:29:25.040 And there have been several equities that have been delisted on American exchanges.

00:29:30.700 And there's a much broader push within Congress to push for the delisting of all the Chinese 0.99

00:29:35.620 companies that do not adhere to the same regulatory reporting standards as every other company

00:29:42.020 in the world that does business and gets access to our capital markets.

00:29:46.620 But leaving all of that aside, I think you're absolutely right.

00:29:49.380 First of all, that there will be no response from a Biden administration.

00:29:52.780 And if anything, a negative response in that they'll want to do even more business.

00:29:56.240 Second of all, look, just a week or so ago, the EU entered into that investment pack with

00:30:02.260 China, which essentially rewarded them for all of their malign behavior over the last year. 0.92

00:30:07.240 So to put your statement a different way in question form, what would China have to do?

00:30:12.920 What pain would China have to inflict on the West or on its own people? 0.87

00:30:16.880 Of course, it seems that our woke capital doesn't really care about what it does with its slave

00:30:21.420 labor and its own chores.

00:30:22.560 What would China have to do to cause a reaction, a concerted, resolute effort front among the

00:30:28.060 few remaining free powers in the West?

00:30:30.760 And it's a scary hypothetical to ponder right now, I'm sorry to say.

00:30:34.480 Yeah, you're right.

00:30:35.240 I mean, I do know that America has put some sanctions on, for example, companies using

00:30:40.100 slave labor in Xinjiang.

00:30:42.040 I note that Nike has opposed this.

00:30:45.320 Nike that loves the woke reputation with Colin Kaepernick.

00:30:50.580 It is opposing any restrictions on letting it use slave labor.

00:30:55.040 I want to get back to your piece for a second in Newsweek.

00:30:58.000 You quote at some length this Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, and he has five

00:31:05.580 topics that he wants, five red line tests, as you call them, that China has, five things 0.73

00:31:17.860 he wants to accomplish with the Biden administration.

00:31:22.720 You know, the language is interesting.

00:31:24.240 We need to respect each other's choice of system and development path.

00:31:28.660 That's another way of saying don't criticize us anymore, no matter what we do.

00:31:32.740 Second one, respect our national sovereignty.

00:31:35.540 That's a way of saying don't talk to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Xinjiang.

00:31:39.400 Like, they're phrased neutrally, but when you think of what they mean, you know, on maritime

00:31:45.920 issues, cooperation, not friction, that means let China dominate the seas and threaten Taiwan.

00:31:55.540 And the last one I think is the most terrifying, more people-to-people exchanges.

00:32:00.740 That basically means sending thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Chinese

00:32:05.960 agents, operatives, the children of Communist Party officials into colleges, basically letting

00:32:12.500 China walk into America and continue to take the levers of power and influence. 0.97

00:32:18.460 Essentially, what he's laying out is a roadmap for China returning to its rise without any 0.96

00:32:24.580 sort of resistance from the West, because what's happened in the last four years has truly

00:32:29.920 threatened their hegemonic march.

00:32:33.240 And so, again, I go back to return to normalcy and cooperation.

00:32:38.000 What does that really mean?

00:32:39.080 And I do believe that the foreign minister has used those exact words, at least as translated.

00:32:44.900 Return to normalcy means return to China's march to global dominance over the capitalist 0.95

00:32:50.580 West.

00:32:51.060 And by the way, they talk about when they talk about respect for systems, one of the things

00:32:54.740 she has said in the leading philosophical journal of the Chinese Communist Party, which

00:32:59.800 transcribed a speech he gave to parties to the party's bigwigs some years back, about seven

00:33:05.100 years back when he started his reign, was he said that ultimately socialism will dominate

00:33:11.140 capitalism and we need to end up essentially in an invincible position and seize the initiative.

00:33:16.400 So it isn't about two systems coexisting.

00:33:18.740 It's about their system dominating us.

00:33:21.360 So return to normalcy, return to China's march, inexorable march to be the hegemonic power. 0.98

00:33:27.460 And cooperation means with Western help, with the West colluding in that march out of our

00:33:32.400 greed, naivete and the litany of self-loathing.

00:33:36.160 And we could run through all of the explanations for it.

00:33:38.360 But I think it's just imperative to look at the words that they use.

00:33:41.820 Obviously, there's the communist doublespeak and the typical deception.

00:33:45.140 But really what they're saying is, hands off of us, don't you dare get in the way of our

00:33:49.900 march.

00:33:50.780 And we should not exceed to any one of these red lines.

00:33:54.000 In fact, we should exceed to zero red lines that the Chinese Communist Party puts forth.

00:33:58.000 Because ultimately, if we don't resist it, and they are fighting on every single possible

00:34:04.200 prong, this comprehensive march, and we don't put up any fight to it, we will lose.

00:34:09.220 Definitionally, we will lose to them.

00:34:10.620 Well, as Gordon Chang always tells us, China says they are at war with us, not a shooting

00:34:17.720 war.

00:34:18.120 They say they're at war.

00:34:19.680 Whether we admit it or not is rather irrelevant, because that's what they say they're doing.

00:34:25.820 Ben, great to see you again.

00:34:26.760 Thanks very much for joining us.

00:34:27.800 Let me encourage folks to click on over to newsweek.com, where you can read this essay,

00:34:34.300 Communist China is Preparing to Eat Joe Biden's Lunch. 0.87

00:34:37.880 Ben, take care.

00:34:38.480 We'll talk to you again soon.

00:34:39.260 Thanks for having me.

00:34:41.020 All right.

00:34:41.360 Welcome.

00:34:41.880 Nice to see you.

00:34:42.560 Stay with us.

00:34:43.180 More ahead.

00:34:55.160 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.

00:34:57.180 Douglas writes, surprising to see Ezra so in favor of cancel culture.

00:35:01.980 The biased media complain about hypocrisy and liberals chime in against the government,

00:35:05.440 and presto, certain key elements of Kennedy's establishment are gone.

00:35:08.440 The ruling class in Alberta are following the rules, which say travel outside the country

00:35:13.080 is not recommended, and even the federal advisory to avoid all non-essential travel.

00:35:18.520 Yeah, I'm not with you on this one.

00:35:20.880 It's not cancel culture.

00:35:22.000 These are the enforcers of the rules who are destroying lives by the thousand, causing mass

00:35:30.360 unemployment, and then sneaking away to enjoy the things they're banning.

00:35:35.920 It's not cancel culture.

00:35:38.720 I have no beef against these people.

00:35:40.440 They haven't said a word incorrectly.

00:35:43.340 They haven't expressed an unacceptable point of view.

00:35:46.620 They've shown that while they'll jail their own citizens effectively, they'll sneak out the 0.53

00:35:51.960 back and party and deceive.

00:35:54.080 I saw a memo that Tracy Allard allegedly sent to Jason Kenney saying,

00:35:58.520 Premier, I'm taking three weeks off for personal time.

00:36:01.860 She even hid her plans from the Premier.

00:36:04.760 She's a deceiver. 0.93

00:36:06.640 And that's why she's gone.

00:36:08.760 I was shocked that Jason Kenney spent his own personal capital on these people.

00:36:12.060 Look, I want every single one of these MLAs to travel and live freely.

00:36:17.380 But last, not first.

00:36:21.220 They have to free everyone else.

00:36:22.600 They, in fact, are going around locking down and fining and prosecuting.

00:36:28.480 You can't do that.

00:36:30.300 So I'm going to just agree with you on that.

00:36:33.000 Bruce writes,

00:36:33.560 I'm sad to admit that you're right, as for politicians believe that getting caught is

00:36:36.600 the only crime.

00:36:37.560 They'll be more sneaky in the future.

00:36:39.020 But this lesson of cabinet firings won't quell their desire to flout the very laws they

00:36:43.740 make.

00:36:45.100 Well, the answer to that is don't make laws they don't believe in.

00:36:48.180 I think it was very clear that Alberta was trying hard to hold out against this lockdown

00:36:52.940 mania, but the public health deep state and the media sort of wore them down.

00:36:59.320 If they didn't believe in the lockdown, they shouldn't have ordered it for the little people. 0.99

00:37:04.460 That's what insiders, elites, gravy train types do.

00:37:08.700 It's not what Alberta populist conservatives do.

00:37:11.860 Paul writes, always great to hear from Spencer.

00:37:14.020 Sure, politicians will continue to do what they want until the people stand up to them.

00:37:19.460 Yeah, and obviously, I don't like being in common cause with Rachel Notley, who's been

00:37:25.060 on the warpath on this too.

00:37:26.680 But it's not because I agree with Rachel Notley's ideology.

00:37:29.580 It's because the United Conservative Party of Alberta made some terrible decisions, terrible

00:37:35.820 ethical decisions.

00:37:37.100 Again, I say I'm all for traveling, but you can't go for a jaunt to Hawaii while you are

00:37:43.700 enforcing an emergency lockdown.

00:37:46.220 There is a state of emergency in Alberta.

00:37:48.860 I know this because that's what the law is called, and they need that state of emergency

00:37:53.260 to give them the power to crush businesses.

00:37:56.520 So if there is a state of emergency that's letting you crush lives, you can't skedaddle off

00:38:03.140 to Hawaii for three weeks.

00:38:04.620 That's our show for today.

00:38:07.480 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:38:10.860 good night.

00:38:12.100 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:13.040 Keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - January 06, 2021

Are lockdowns going to be permanent？

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