Rebel News Podcast - Authoritarian China responds to coronavirus outbreak with arrests, quarantines and a massive cover-up

00:00:00.000 Hey, folks, today I make a comparison between how the Soviet Union reacted to their Chernobyl

00:00:05.440 disaster and how communist China is reacting to their coronavirus disaster. 0.96

00:00:11.940 I also play some clips from HBO's miniseries Chernobyl, one of my favorite shows of the

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00:00:50.760 Tonight, China responds to a massive virus outbreak by arresting people.

00:01:04.260 Yeah, that sounds about right.

00:01:05.680 It's January 24th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:08.420 You know, I don't get a lot of time to watch TV except when I'm on airplanes, which I am

00:01:21.380 too often, and so I clicked on HBO's Chernobyl miniseries, which I honestly thought was going

00:01:40.120 to be very boring, but it wasn't.

00:01:41.780 I thought it was riveting.

00:01:42.960 In fact, I have to admit, I watched the whole thing twice.

00:01:46.640 It was so good.

00:01:47.780 And what I appreciated the most about it was how they depicted the Soviet system.

00:01:53.680 I thought it was filmed beautifully, and the recreation of the actual explosion scene was

00:01:59.780 very well done.

00:02:00.740 I thought it was very dramatic.

00:02:02.320 I was so surprised by some of the things they depicted in the movie that I did some research

00:02:08.840 afterwards, you know, in real life, not on the miniseries, to confirm the accuracy.

00:02:14.040 It was a pretty accurate show.

00:02:15.560 I really didn't know how massive a problem Chernobyl was.

00:02:19.780 Because economically, logistically, literally hundreds of thousands of people in the Soviet

00:02:27.060 Union were pressed into service by the regime to try to fix the problem.

00:02:33.860 I think that Chernobyl, along with the costs of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and their attempt 0.93

00:02:41.760 to keep up with Ronald Reagan's Star Wars defense initiative, I think that was really the cause

00:02:48.060 of the fall of the Soviet Union, and I think Chernobyl was probably a bigger factor than

00:02:54.600 the war or the military arms race.

00:02:57.260 I just, that's my belief after watching the miniseries, it was that incredible.

00:03:01.020 But the thing I found the most fascinating about the show was the theatrical depiction of

00:03:07.300 how an authoritarian state, a totalitarian state in many ways, handles a crisis, a crisis that

00:03:14.980 involves danger, but also political embarrassment, and how it prioritizes those two problems.

00:03:22.420 Can I show you two clips from the movie Chernobyl, the miniseries on HBO?

00:03:26.760 Here's one, and this is set just hours after the explosion, the same night that the reactor

00:03:35.240 exploded.

00:03:36.460 So the level of danger was not yet known, but the local Communist Party committee was having

00:03:43.700 an emergency nighttime meeting.

00:03:45.640 And I want to show you their response, which is, of course, there's some artistic license

00:03:53.120 here, but we know the elements are true.

00:03:56.160 Send in soldiers.

00:03:58.360 Cut off telephone lines.

00:04:00.780 Lie to the people.

00:04:02.200 This is a couple of minutes, but watch it.

00:04:04.700 It's really incredible.

00:04:07.320 Detachments of military police to Pripyat.

00:04:09.860 How large of a detachment?

00:04:12.800 Between 2,000 and 4,000 men.

00:04:14.320 What's really going on here?

00:04:19.420 How dangerous is this?

00:04:21.680 There's mild radiation, but it's limited to the plant itself.

00:04:25.120 No, it isn't.

00:04:26.640 Excuse me.

00:04:28.120 You saw men outside vomiting.

00:04:32.280 You saw men with burns.

00:04:34.820 There's more radiation than they're saying.

00:04:37.340 We have wives here. 1.00

00:04:38.720 We have children.

00:04:39.940 I say we evacuate the town.

00:04:42.260 Gentlemen, please, please.

00:04:46.440 My wife is here.

00:04:48.860 Do you think I would keep it in Pripyat if it wasn't safe?

00:04:52.540 Prakhanov, the air is glowing.

00:04:56.360 The Cherenkov effect, completely normal phenomenon, can happen with minimal radiation.

00:05:00.960 I wonder how many of you know the name of this place.

00:05:17.840 We will call it Chernobyl, of course.

00:05:21.920 What is its real name?

00:05:23.440 The Vladimir I. 0.77

00:05:26.600 The Vladimir I. 0.77

00:05:26.760 Lenin nuclear power station.

00:05:29.800 Exactly.

00:05:33.160 Vladimir I.

00:05:35.480 Lenin.

00:05:37.400 Yes.

00:05:38.000 And how proud he would be of you all tonight.

00:05:48.840 Especially you, young man.

00:05:51.960 And the passion you have for the people.

00:05:55.940 For is that not the sole purpose of the apparatus of the state?

00:05:59.320 Sometimes we forget.

00:06:04.860 Sometimes we fall prey to fear.

00:06:09.240 But our faith in Soviet socialism will always be rewarded. 0.74

00:06:15.320 No, the state tells us the situation here is not dangerous.

00:06:23.380 Have faith, comrades.

00:06:27.200 The state tells us it wants to prevent a panic.

00:06:30.440 Listen well.

00:06:34.980 It's true.

00:06:36.240 When the people see the police, they will be afraid.

00:06:38.820 But it is my experience that when the people ask questions that are not in their own best interest,

00:06:49.280 they should simply be told to keep their minds on their labor

00:06:53.520 and leave matters of the state to the state.

00:07:01.280 We seal off the city.

00:07:04.800 No one leaves.

00:07:05.740 And cut the phone lines.

00:07:09.760 Contain the spread of misinformation.

00:07:14.780 That is how we keep the people from undermining the fruits of their own labor.

00:07:24.020 Yes, comrades.

00:07:26.700 We will all be rewarded for what we do here tonight.

00:07:33.200 This is our moment.

00:07:35.740 To shine.

00:07:40.700 Do you doubt that is exactly what happened

00:07:45.240 in the first hours, first days

00:07:48.400 of China's coronavirus epidemic

00:07:52.960 that is sweeping across that communist regime?

00:07:57.420 Let me show you one more video from Chernobyl.

00:07:59.440 I really recommend the series.

00:08:01.760 The only two other movies I've ever seen

00:08:04.160 that accurately, I think, reflect the tyranny of the Soviet Union 0.95

00:08:08.480 was one called The Lives of Others,

00:08:11.840 which was actually set in East Germany.

00:08:14.100 It was about a Stasi spy

00:08:16.020 who listened

00:08:17.540 to listening devices

00:08:19.440 planted in the homes of,

00:08:21.560 you know,

00:08:22.660 dissidents,

00:08:23.340 democracy activists,

00:08:24.320 just normal people.

00:08:25.320 And then there was a movie in 2017

00:08:30.080 called The Death of Stalin,

00:08:33.120 which was great, great actors.

00:08:36.240 Steve Buscemi,

00:08:37.120 Jeffrey Tambor,

00:08:38.100 for so many first-rate actors.

00:08:42.560 It was a dark comedy about Stalin

00:08:45.300 and the Soviet Union

00:08:46.560 after Stalin's death.

00:08:48.240 Now, it's a comedy,

00:08:49.100 but it showed the brutality of Stalinism

00:08:52.480 and the KGB.

00:08:55.400 Absolutely a must-see movie.

00:08:57.460 Anyways,

00:08:58.200 let me show you one last clip

00:08:59.960 from the miniseries Chernobyl.

00:09:02.660 This is when Moscow

00:09:03.940 starts to think

00:09:05.280 that maybe things are more serious

00:09:07.400 in Chernobyl

00:09:08.580 than they were first told.

00:09:11.080 A scientist managed to scare

00:09:13.000 the Communist Party's

00:09:14.740 Central Committee in Moscow

00:09:15.740 into thinking that maybe

00:09:16.700 it wasn't just nothing.

00:09:18.680 Maybe it was something really bad.

00:09:20.800 So, in this scene,

00:09:22.420 the scientist

00:09:23.000 and a Central Committee member

00:09:25.080 were sent from Moscow to Chernobyl

00:09:27.460 and they land in a helicopter

00:09:29.740 and that local committee

00:09:31.760 who you saw meeting

00:09:33.560 in the bunker there,

00:09:34.660 they all put on their best suits

00:09:35.900 and they go out to meet

00:09:37.180 the big bosses from Moscow.

00:09:40.720 And look at this.

00:09:41.420 I think it captures it perfectly.

00:09:44.020 Literally the first thing they say.

00:09:47.040 And I know this is probably

00:09:48.260 artistic license

00:09:49.120 because I don't think anyone

00:09:49.860 would have written down

00:09:50.960 exactly what was said.

00:09:52.540 I don't think we know

00:09:53.100 exactly the first thing

00:09:54.340 that was said,

00:09:54.740 but boy,

00:09:55.800 it sure rings true.

00:09:57.600 It's why I like the show so much.

00:09:59.400 The first thing they said was,

00:10:01.100 here's our list of people to blame.

00:10:02.440 Take a look.

00:10:02.880 Chief Engineer,

00:10:12.700 I mean,

00:10:13.640 Bernadette Pekalov and I

00:10:15.100 are honoured

00:10:15.980 that you're a rival.

00:10:17.020 Deeply, deeply honoured.

00:10:18.520 Naturally,

00:10:19.140 we regret the circumstances

00:10:20.540 of your visit,

00:10:21.480 but as you can see,

00:10:22.180 we are making excellent progress

00:10:23.540 in containing the damage.

00:10:25.340 We have begun

00:10:25.980 our own inquiry

00:10:27.380 into the cause

00:10:29.540 of the accident

00:10:30.300 and I have a list

00:10:31.660 of individuals

00:10:33.400 who we believe

00:10:34.240 are accountable.

00:10:36.960 Hmm.

00:10:38.960 And you know

00:10:39.700 why I'm talking about this.

00:10:40.720 China

00:10:41.060 and the coronavirus.

00:10:44.020 China's first reaction

00:10:45.200 was probably

00:10:45.800 to ignore it,

00:10:46.940 to cover it up,

00:10:47.760 to downplay it.

00:10:49.040 Out of laziness,

00:10:51.120 out of embarrassment,

00:10:52.680 out of ignorance.

00:10:54.500 The incentives

00:10:55.320 are all wrong

00:10:56.180 in China.

00:10:57.420 There's no free press

00:10:58.560 trying to sniff out problems.

00:11:00.540 There's no opposition party

00:11:02.280 trying to catch

00:11:03.220 the establishment

00:11:04.300 making problem.

00:11:05.780 There's no independent

00:11:06.860 entities

00:11:07.480 in civil society,

00:11:08.820 even like a labour union.

00:11:10.600 Like there's no

00:11:11.040 nurses union

00:11:12.100 that might say

00:11:13.260 we're seeing a lot of things

00:11:14.640 and our nurses

00:11:15.540 are in danger.

00:11:16.260 There's nothing independent.

00:11:17.920 There's no check

00:11:18.620 on power.

00:11:19.680 There's no one

00:11:20.340 with an incentive

00:11:21.160 to make a fuss

00:11:22.540 or make a problem.

00:11:23.400 It's actually

00:11:23.980 all the opposite.

00:11:26.980 And then when things

00:11:27.680 finally get so bad

00:11:29.660 that no one

00:11:30.800 can ignore the problem

00:11:31.700 anymore,

00:11:32.080 well then it's about

00:11:32.900 blame,

00:11:34.320 blaming others,

00:11:36.140 scapegoating,

00:11:37.320 saying here's a list

00:11:38.160 of the enemies, boss.

00:11:40.860 Speaking of which,

00:11:41.720 look at this.

00:11:43.760 The Daily Mail reports

00:11:44.820 China spent the first 0.98

00:11:45.740 few days of

00:11:46.260 coronavirus outbreak

00:11:47.380 arresting people

00:11:49.140 for spreading rumors

00:11:50.920 rumors that SARS

00:11:52.280 had returned.

00:11:54.000 That's a respiratory

00:11:55.600 illness that started

00:11:57.660 in China years ago.

00:11:58.900 New type of coronavirus

00:11:59.960 began in China

00:12:00.940 with first cases

00:12:01.680 reported in December.

00:12:04.380 China quickly reported

00:12:05.280 disease to world

00:12:06.040 authorities so they

00:12:07.380 could prevent spread.

00:12:09.460 Sure they did,

00:12:10.300 quickly, eh?

00:12:11.460 But among its own

00:12:12.620 people, China appears

00:12:13.480 to have tried to

00:12:14.320 repress the news.

00:12:15.780 Countries spent

00:12:16.580 crucial first days

00:12:17.460 of outbreak

00:12:17.940 arresting people

00:12:19.380 who spoke about

00:12:20.940 the disease online

00:12:22.000 and journalists

00:12:22.980 trying to report

00:12:24.160 on it.

00:12:25.260 Yeah, that sounds

00:12:26.380 about right.

00:12:27.060 That sounds like

00:12:28.560 Chernobyl, doesn't it?

00:12:30.320 Look, there are

00:12:30.860 cover-ups in

00:12:31.660 Western open

00:12:32.660 societies too.

00:12:34.200 Companies try to

00:12:35.220 cover up problems,

00:12:36.560 governments try to

00:12:37.480 cover up problems.

00:12:38.280 I mean, look at

00:12:39.640 Jeffrey Epstein

00:12:40.260 or Harvey Weinstein.

00:12:41.420 Those aren't

00:12:41.960 disease epidemics,

00:12:42.940 but they're massive

00:12:44.060 crime waves on

00:12:45.340 an industrial scale

00:12:46.440 over decades that

00:12:47.880 were fairly well

00:12:49.400 covered up.

00:12:49.980 So the West is

00:12:51.160 imperfect too, but

00:12:52.280 take, for example,

00:12:53.360 an oil spill.

00:12:54.960 Now in Canada,

00:12:55.740 those are reported

00:12:56.360 immediately because

00:12:57.420 there are severe

00:12:58.840 penalties for not

00:12:59.720 doing so, plus

00:13:00.940 there's a culture

00:13:01.600 of ethics and

00:13:02.580 transparency.

00:13:04.020 There's even

00:13:04.560 whistleblower

00:13:05.060 legislation in some

00:13:07.320 cases.

00:13:08.080 There's a scandal

00:13:09.040 hungry media

00:13:10.040 always looking for

00:13:11.340 news and there's

00:13:12.120 crusading politicians

00:13:13.100 and NGOs.

00:13:14.280 All the things that

00:13:15.440 aren't there in

00:13:16.800 places like China.

00:13:18.960 So look at these

00:13:19.380 photos.

00:13:20.500 Now these are

00:13:21.200 shocking photos

00:13:22.900 from the

00:13:24.160 Shingang oil spill

00:13:26.080 in China.

00:13:27.160 That's oil.

00:13:28.400 That's oil.

00:13:29.260 That's oily water.

00:13:32.320 It was as big

00:13:34.420 a spill

00:13:35.560 as...

00:13:37.040 That's oil.

00:13:38.060 That's...

00:13:38.820 It looks like water.

00:13:39.940 That's oil.

00:13:41.100 Look at that.

00:13:41.820 One of those guys

00:13:42.520 died.

00:13:43.120 There's a picture of

00:13:43.940 them dying.

00:13:44.480 I hope we don't

00:13:44.980 show that.

00:13:46.640 That's how they

00:13:47.100 tried to clean it

00:13:48.060 up.

00:13:48.620 It was as big as

00:13:50.140 the Exxon Valdez.

00:13:51.860 But I bet you

00:13:52.560 never heard about

00:13:53.320 it.

00:13:55.100 It's amazing that

00:13:56.080 those photos even

00:13:56.840 made it to the light

00:13:57.900 of day.

00:13:58.360 Greenpeace took

00:13:59.360 credit for those

00:13:59.960 photos.

00:14:00.300 Of course, there is

00:14:00.780 no Greenpeace

00:14:02.260 campaigns in China

00:14:03.460 that's not allowed.

00:14:04.160 They're not allowed

00:14:04.520 to criticize China.

00:14:07.360 There was no

00:14:08.040 grand reckoning

00:14:08.700 in China

00:14:10.380 as there was

00:14:12.080 with the

00:14:12.440 Exxon Valdez.

00:14:15.140 The Exxon Valdez

00:14:16.280 was a disaster.

00:14:18.760 Well, actually,

00:14:19.640 by many measures,

00:14:20.640 it wasn't.

00:14:22.040 No one died.

00:14:23.700 That's one measure.

00:14:25.140 It sure looked bad.

00:14:26.480 I mean,

00:14:26.700 it looked like

00:14:27.060 that Qingyang thing.

00:14:28.540 You know,

00:14:29.080 there's a seabird

00:14:30.140 or something.

00:14:31.640 Thousands of critters

00:14:32.700 did die.

00:14:33.520 It's true.

00:14:34.740 In Alaska,

00:14:35.580 where there are

00:14:36.260 billions of critters

00:14:38.320 and where the ocean

00:14:40.040 and the currents

00:14:40.680 wiped clean

00:14:41.500 that drop in an ocean

00:14:43.300 soon enough.

00:14:44.220 But still,

00:14:45.160 the PR disaster,

00:14:46.380 well,

00:14:47.000 from that came

00:14:47.940 new rules

00:14:48.580 for double-hulled

00:14:49.800 tanker ships

00:14:50.440 and new emphasis

00:14:51.720 on sailors

00:14:52.580 not drinking

00:14:53.280 and the need

00:14:53.960 for tugboats

00:14:55.740 in narrow waters.

00:14:57.500 My point is,

00:14:58.520 good things

00:14:59.340 actually came

00:15:00.180 from that disaster.

00:15:02.180 Lessons were learned.

00:15:03.980 But not from

00:15:05.100 China's disasters. 1.00

00:15:07.460 Unless,

00:15:07.980 like Chernobyl,

00:15:08.740 the disaster

00:15:09.280 is so critical

00:15:10.400 that it actually

00:15:11.120 breaks the system

00:15:13.640 as I believe

00:15:14.480 Chernobyl helped 1.00

00:15:15.540 break the Soviet Union. 0.63

00:15:18.360 And maybe

00:15:18.760 this coronavirus

00:15:19.400 will too.

00:15:20.560 China has now 0.96

00:15:21.400 quarantined

00:15:22.340 more than a dozen

00:15:23.340 cities,

00:15:24.540 including Wuhan,

00:15:25.960 the center

00:15:26.460 of the epidemic.

00:15:27.820 41 million

00:15:29.340 people

00:15:30.180 quarantined.

00:15:32.100 They shut down

00:15:32.820 parts of the Great Wall.

00:15:34.700 41 million people,

00:15:35.540 that's more people

00:15:36.000 than live in all

00:15:36.500 of Canada.

00:15:38.300 Now,

00:15:38.820 it's not even

00:15:39.320 5% of China's

00:15:40.360 population,

00:15:41.000 but do you really

00:15:42.280 think this thing

00:15:42.920 isn't spreading

00:15:43.680 anymore?

00:15:44.820 I saw pictures

00:15:45.700 like these,

00:15:46.900 piles of dirt

00:15:47.740 being put up

00:15:48.520 on roads.

00:15:49.560 I'm not sure

00:15:50.420 if that's supposed

00:15:50.960 to stop the virus

00:15:52.360 or stop people

00:15:54.020 from traveling.

00:15:55.400 I'm not sure

00:15:56.280 it's going to do

00:15:56.860 either,

00:15:57.360 but I'm sure

00:15:57.780 the Communist Party

00:15:58.880 Central Committee

00:15:59.480 is proud of it.

00:16:01.000 It looks

00:16:01.500 pretty bad

00:16:02.020 over there.

00:16:03.640 Apocalyptic

00:16:04.120 style hazmat

00:16:05.420 suits.

00:16:06.600 I don't know

00:16:07.100 if they actually

00:16:07.660 do anything,

00:16:08.640 but they're

00:16:09.140 terrifying.

00:16:10.060 I saw a video

00:16:10.620 of someone

00:16:10.960 being put

00:16:11.440 in a cart,

00:16:12.460 like a pod,

00:16:13.260 and wheeled

00:16:13.680 around to

00:16:14.220 contain them.

00:16:15.340 China is 0.85

00:16:15.940 excited to

00:16:16.640 announce that

00:16:17.140 they're building

00:16:17.560 a quick field

00:16:19.400 hospital in

00:16:20.200 Wuhan.

00:16:20.840 They released

00:16:21.560 this footage

00:16:22.280 the Communist

00:16:22.960 Party did.

00:16:23.580 Look at all

00:16:24.020 those diggers 0.77

00:16:24.820 doing something.

00:16:26.760 Wow.

00:16:27.940 A 25,000

00:16:29.080 square meter

00:16:29.800 mobile hospital.

00:16:30.840 It'll be done

00:16:31.280 in six days,

00:16:32.120 they say.

00:16:33.180 I bet it will.

00:16:35.380 That hospital,

00:16:36.440 even if it works,

00:16:37.520 will house

00:16:38.080 a grand total

00:16:39.200 of 1,000

00:16:43.220 people in

00:16:44.000 one city.

00:16:45.480 Like I say,

00:16:46.300 41 million

00:16:47.240 people have

00:16:47.920 been sealed

00:16:48.400 off.

00:16:48.880 Like the

00:16:49.300 Soviets at 0.99

00:16:49.780 Chernobyl,

00:16:50.340 I think they

00:16:51.460 might be lying

00:16:52.960 about the

00:16:53.580 size of

00:16:54.060 the problem.

00:16:55.640 China lied 0.99

00:16:56.420 about SARS-2,

00:16:58.540 severe acute

00:16:59.120 respiratory syndrome.

00:17:00.280 Remember that

00:17:00.700 one?

00:17:01.200 That was the

00:17:01.920 last sickness

00:17:03.420 that spread

00:17:04.060 from there.

00:17:05.880 There have

00:17:06.120 been stories

00:17:06.520 about how

00:17:07.040 this coronavirus

00:17:07.760 started,

00:17:08.840 how it spread,

00:17:09.740 including theories

00:17:10.480 that it came

00:17:10.960 from bizarre

00:17:12.440 foods eaten

00:17:13.680 in Wuhan,

00:17:14.620 like bats.

00:17:16.660 I'm sorry

00:17:17.420 to show you

00:17:18.160 something so

00:17:18.920 gross.

00:17:20.440 To eat bats,

00:17:21.600 they're ugh.

00:17:22.160 If you've

00:17:23.100 ever been to

00:17:23.540 China and

00:17:24.060 go to a

00:17:24.660 real market,

00:17:25.600 though,

00:17:25.820 you will

00:17:26.420 see that

00:17:28.260 will not be

00:17:28.880 the strangest

00:17:29.580 thing you

00:17:30.120 see.

00:17:31.140 I have to

00:17:31.640 say,

00:17:31.820 I will not

00:17:32.300 show you

00:17:32.960 absolutely

00:17:34.460 stomach-turning

00:17:35.420 images from

00:17:36.840 Wuhan's markets

00:17:37.860 of live

00:17:38.660 creatures being

00:17:39.520 eaten.

00:17:40.820 It's too

00:17:41.160 gross and

00:17:41.620 too disturbing.

00:17:42.340 I'm getting

00:17:42.760 a gag reflex

00:17:43.640 just thinking

00:17:44.240 about what

00:17:44.700 I saw.

00:17:45.740 Take it

00:17:46.080 from me,

00:17:46.420 folks.

00:17:48.040 Now,

00:17:48.540 it could be

00:17:48.920 that eating

00:17:49.400 bats is a

00:17:50.360 problem.

00:17:50.860 I don't

00:17:52.020 know.

00:17:52.300 I'm not a

00:17:52.740 scientist.

00:17:53.240 It could be.

00:17:55.620 But maybe

00:17:56.240 there's something

00:17:56.640 else about

00:17:57.180 Wuhan.

00:17:58.700 Wuhan.

00:17:59.560 Have you ever

00:17:59.920 heard of it?

00:18:01.880 Wuhan is where

00:18:02.700 China has its 0.80

00:18:03.580 biological warfare

00:18:05.500 lab.

00:18:07.840 There's a story

00:18:08.680 from just a few

00:18:09.820 months ago about

00:18:10.540 a Chinese national

00:18:11.480 who was fired

00:18:12.720 from a Canadian

00:18:13.860 biohazard lab

00:18:15.480 after sending

00:18:16.940 secrets to

00:18:18.980 this Chinese 0.78

00:18:19.760 lab.

00:18:20.000 Look at this

00:18:20.260 story here.

00:18:22.440 A Canadian 0.53

00:18:23.060 government

00:18:23.480 scientist at

00:18:24.260 the National

00:18:24.860 Microbiology

00:18:25.660 Lab in

00:18:26.040 Winnipeg made

00:18:26.600 at least five

00:18:27.180 trips to

00:18:27.620 China in

00:18:28.320 2017-18,

00:18:29.340 including one

00:18:29.760 to train

00:18:30.300 scientists and

00:18:31.000 technicians at

00:18:32.020 China's newly 0.98

00:18:32.660 certified Level

00:18:33.580 4 lab,

00:18:34.900 which does

00:18:35.320 research with

00:18:35.860 the most deadly

00:18:36.680 pathogens,

00:18:37.880 according to

00:18:38.420 travel documents

00:18:39.500 obtained by

00:18:40.660 CBC.

00:18:42.420 Xinguo

00:18:42.920 Chu, who

00:18:43.840 was escorted

00:18:44.360 out of the

00:18:44.620 Winnipeg lab

00:18:45.200 in July amid

00:18:45.860 an RCMP

00:18:46.760 investigation into

00:18:48.360 what's being

00:18:48.720 described by

00:18:49.360 Public Health

00:18:49.860 Agency of

00:18:50.380 Canada as a

00:18:50.980 possible policy

00:18:52.580 breach, was

00:18:53.080 invited to go to

00:18:53.740 the Wuhan

00:18:54.140 National Biosafety

00:18:55.400 Lab.

00:18:55.860 I love how they

00:18:56.580 call it a

00:18:56.960 biosafety lab.

00:18:58.500 The Chinese 0.89

00:18:59.020 Academy of

00:18:59.520 Sciences twice

00:19:00.200 a year for

00:19:00.620 two years,

00:19:01.260 for up to

00:19:01.780 two weeks at

00:19:02.420 a time.

00:19:04.440 Yeah, that's

00:19:05.160 buying, but

00:19:06.340 then there's

00:19:06.780 Justin Trudeau

00:19:07.620 just plain old

00:19:08.580 giving them

00:19:10.340 biological

00:19:11.980 materials.

00:19:12.620 Look at this

00:19:13.000 story.

00:19:15.060 Biowarfare

00:19:15.660 experts question

00:19:16.800 why Canada

00:19:19.120 was sending

00:19:19.540 lethal viruses

00:19:20.260 to China.

00:19:20.980 Yeah, don't

00:19:21.300 say.

00:19:22.740 I think the

00:19:23.420 Chinese activities

00:19:24.020 are highly

00:19:24.540 suspicious, one

00:19:25.400 expert said,

00:19:26.180 after it was

00:19:26.580 revealed a

00:19:27.100 Winnipeg lab

00:19:27.720 sent samples

00:19:28.760 of Ebola

00:19:30.040 and

00:19:31.980 Henipa virus

00:19:33.720 to China.

00:19:34.820 Why did

00:19:35.880 Justin Trudeau

00:19:37.180 approve

00:19:38.100 sending Ebola

00:19:40.140 viruses to

00:19:41.700 China's 0.76

00:19:42.500 government?

00:19:45.160 Taiwan

00:19:45.600 would like

00:19:46.700 to know.

00:19:47.080 Here's a

00:19:47.340 story from

00:19:47.740 Taiwan News.

00:19:50.540 Canada may

00:19:51.020 have assisted

00:19:51.500 China's 0.76

00:19:52.080 biowarfare

00:19:52.680 program with

00:19:53.240 transfer of

00:19:53.680 lethal

00:19:53.860 viruses.

00:19:54.800 Canadian

00:19:55.060 National Lab

00:19:55.640 under

00:19:55.800 investigation

00:19:56.280 possibly

00:19:56.700 tied to

00:19:57.060 transfer of

00:19:57.480 Ebola

00:19:57.700 and Nipa

00:19:58.260 samples to

00:19:58.960 Beijing.

00:20:01.520 Yeah, I'd

00:20:02.120 like to know

00:20:02.540 along with the

00:20:03.020 Taiwanese, not a 0.99

00:20:03.900 lot of Canadian 0.55

00:20:04.400 media curiosity

00:20:05.260 though.

00:20:05.580 Now, I don't

00:20:08.220 know if we'll

00:20:08.660 ever know the

00:20:09.280 facts about the

00:20:10.100 virus outbreak in

00:20:10.920 China.

00:20:11.360 We didn't know

00:20:12.220 the facts about

00:20:13.040 Chernobyl until

00:20:14.320 after the Soviet 0.81

00:20:15.460 Union collapsed

00:20:16.560 and only then did

00:20:17.620 the truth come out.

00:20:19.380 It'll probably be

00:20:20.140 the same with this

00:20:21.380 about China and

00:20:22.800 their virus.

00:20:23.840 Was it from

00:20:24.500 bats?

00:20:26.320 Or was it from

00:20:27.320 the biological

00:20:28.020 warfare lab?

00:20:30.160 What was

00:20:30.820 Canada's role,

00:20:31.940 if any?

00:20:34.300 In the meantime,

00:20:35.000 Hank, how do

00:20:35.900 you feel about

00:20:36.240 the fact that

00:20:36.660 neither Canada

00:20:37.300 nor the United

00:20:37.940 States has banned

00:20:40.040 flights from

00:20:41.280 China to our 0.97

00:20:42.600 countries?

00:20:44.460 Stay with us

00:20:45.140 for more.

00:20:56.960 Who do you

00:20:57.520 think you are?

00:20:58.460 I'm asking

00:20:59.080 questions.

00:20:59.800 Yes.

00:21:00.340 I want to ask

00:21:01.000 Greta some

00:21:01.400 questions.

00:21:02.160 Don't touch

00:21:02.560 me.

00:21:03.060 What are you

00:21:04.400 doing?

00:21:05.000 Do you

00:21:06.000 apologize for

00:21:06.540 hitting me?

00:21:07.600 Hitting me?

00:21:08.340 Yes.

00:21:09.060 Bullshit.

00:21:09.500 You punched me

00:21:09.880 in the gut three

00:21:10.680 times.

00:21:11.720 Your hands on me

00:21:12.620 wasn't a part of

00:21:13.240 this.

00:21:13.680 You didn't need to

00:21:14.160 be a part of

00:21:14.580 this.

00:21:15.000 You could have

00:21:15.260 left me alone.

00:21:16.400 It turned out

00:21:16.860 fine, didn't it?

00:21:18.200 You could have

00:21:18.740 left me alone.

00:21:19.660 You didn't.

00:21:20.220 And it's going to

00:21:20.600 blow back on you. 0.93

00:21:22.000 How does a 15-year-old

00:21:23.640 girl bewitch the 1.00

00:21:25.060 world?

00:21:25.860 She doesn't, at least

00:21:26.660 not alone.

00:21:27.340 Greta Thunberg's

00:21:28.200 rise to fame over the

00:21:29.380 course of several

00:21:30.080 months is not nearly as

00:21:31.640 innocuous as it might

00:21:33.140 appear from the

00:21:34.020 outside.

00:21:34.540 Rather, Greta's rise

00:21:35.500 was facilitated by

00:21:36.780 elites from around the

00:21:38.260 world.

00:21:38.680 The campaign to

00:21:39.480 canonize Greta as a

00:21:40.960 saint in the eyes of

00:21:42.400 the world's leftist

00:21:43.360 Zoomers and boomers 1.00

00:21:44.260 alike was coordinated.

00:21:45.600 It was orchestrated and

00:21:46.620 executed nearly

00:21:48.160 flawlessly.

00:21:49.080 Nobody has bothered to

00:21:50.320 dig deep into the rise

00:21:51.680 of her messiahhood until

00:21:53.260 now.

00:21:54.180 I've just landed in

00:21:55.220 Stockholm, Sweden to do

00:21:56.380 just that.

00:21:57.020 To expose the lies that

00:21:58.840 Greta's handlers have

00:21:59.960 built her movement on.

00:22:01.180 That is an excerpt from

00:22:03.160 our new rebel documentary

00:22:05.940 called Greta Inc., starring

00:22:09.160 our friend Kian Bexte, who

00:22:11.320 went all the way to

00:22:11.960 Stockholm, Sweden.

00:22:13.980 He joins us now via Skype

00:22:15.520 from Calgary.

00:22:16.320 Well, Kian, congratulations.

00:22:17.780 We launched your documentary

00:22:19.260 three and a half hours ago at

00:22:21.860 the time of our taping this

00:22:23.000 right now.

00:22:23.460 I was just checking the

00:22:25.500 stats.

00:22:25.940 We have approximately

00:22:27.440 50,000 views, 5.2,000

00:22:32.120 people, 5,200 people have

00:22:33.740 liked it.

00:22:35.080 Only 138 don't.

00:22:37.480 And we've had over 1,500

00:22:39.540 viewer comments.

00:22:41.700 I think we got ourselves a

00:22:42.900 hit.

00:22:43.160 What do you think?

00:22:44.500 I think so, too.

00:22:45.660 And you can tell that Greta

00:22:46.720 is a little bit worried.

00:22:49.300 Every now and then when I

00:22:50.160 publish something about

00:22:50.980 Greta, you can always read

00:22:52.440 her tweets and get some

00:22:54.160 cryptic message out of it.

00:22:55.700 And what I find funny

00:22:56.420 today is we've announced

00:22:58.400 this documentary about 14

00:22:59.860 hours ago.

00:23:00.300 We announced it last night

00:23:01.400 and we put it on YouTube.

00:23:03.220 We queued it on YouTube.

00:23:04.160 And since then, Greta has

00:23:05.480 tweeted or shared tweets

00:23:07.560 18 times.

00:23:09.380 And that was basically just

00:23:10.640 this morning when the

00:23:12.460 documentary went live,

00:23:13.740 which I think is hilarious

00:23:14.700 because the mainstream media

00:23:15.760 is going to eat up

00:23:16.640 everything Greta puts out

00:23:18.100 to her 4 million followers.

00:23:19.840 And she's kicking it 1.00

00:23:21.780 into overdrive now.

00:23:23.560 Looks like a little bit

00:23:24.480 of damage control.

00:23:26.120 Yeah.

00:23:26.340 I mean, there was a moment

00:23:27.440 in your documentary, and I

00:23:28.540 just want to play this clip

00:23:29.560 for our viewers.

00:23:31.320 Greta has been doing this 1.00

00:23:32.700 climate strike for more

00:23:34.280 than a year.

00:23:35.540 And she's been one of the

00:23:38.420 great media hounds of our

00:23:40.400 time.

00:23:42.480 You went down to New York

00:23:43.820 City when she arrived on

00:23:45.360 that boat.

00:23:46.260 There were dozens of

00:23:47.320 journalists.

00:23:47.880 Everywhere she goes,

00:23:48.620 dozens of journalists.

00:23:49.220 I think it's modest and

00:23:52.120 conservative to say that

00:23:53.440 she has met 1,000 journalists

00:23:56.060 in the last year and a half.

00:23:57.800 I mean, that's not that

00:23:59.000 big a number.

00:23:59.880 That's three or four a day.

00:24:01.980 She probably deals with 0.96

00:24:03.080 10 journalists a day.

00:24:03.940 That's really all she is,

00:24:04.680 is a PR front.

00:24:07.000 So for her to remember you

00:24:08.860 based on one meeting in

00:24:11.780 Edmonton, let me play that

00:24:13.060 clip from the documentary.

00:24:14.620 Here, take a look.

00:24:15.620 Greta, would you be able to

00:24:16.820 tell me what school are you

00:24:18.440 actually striking from?

00:24:19.640 Yes.

00:24:20.020 Yeah.

00:24:20.540 Tell me your press call.

00:24:21.500 I think it's basically a

00:24:22.700 school.

00:24:23.400 Yes.

00:24:24.000 So when you actually started

00:24:25.160 your school strike, were you

00:24:26.680 leaving the classroom or did

00:24:28.660 you have a day off from your

00:24:30.120 school that you were at?

00:24:31.560 You know that the school you

00:24:33.040 go to, you have multiple days

00:24:34.560 off a week.

00:24:35.500 You don't actually have to go

00:24:36.280 to class nine to five.

00:24:37.220 Did you walk valiantly from

00:24:38.580 the classroom like you've led

00:24:39.520 the world to believe or did

00:24:41.140 you just have days off on

00:24:42.060 Friday?

00:24:43.680 Nice to meet you again.

00:24:44.740 I remember you from Edmonton.

00:24:46.860 Yes.

00:24:47.300 I remember your Tesla.

00:24:48.140 It was full of plastic.

00:24:49.320 Oh, it was not my Tesla.

00:24:50.840 I shared it with many others.

00:24:52.580 So there you are in

00:24:53.860 Stockholm, Sweden.

00:24:56.160 Thousands of miles away from

00:24:57.540 where she met you months ago

00:25:00.200 in Edmonton.

00:25:01.780 But she still remembers you.

00:25:03.520 I don't think she remembers

00:25:06.680 99% of the journalistic

00:25:08.660 stenographers who say,

00:25:10.060 Greta, Greta. 0.95

00:25:11.620 But I think she remembered you,

00:25:13.340 Ian, because you were the

00:25:14.440 first and only journalist

00:25:16.220 ever to ask her an

00:25:19.460 accountability style question.

00:25:21.940 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:25:22.900 It's that's accurate.

00:25:25.760 After one question, I actually

00:25:27.680 was asking her a few

00:25:28.740 questions in Stockholm.

00:25:30.420 It triggered her memory and

00:25:32.860 she remembered, oh, the only

00:25:33.980 other time I've ever been

00:25:35.100 asked a tough question is when

00:25:36.560 I was in Edmonton and you're

00:25:37.400 that guy.

00:25:38.100 And then I asked her about her

00:25:38.960 Tesla, of course.

00:25:39.660 And she said, oh, well, that

00:25:41.380 wasn't my Tesla.

00:25:42.300 So it's clear that Greta is

00:25:44.080 actually watching our content.

00:25:45.880 It's clear that Greta is aware

00:25:47.420 of what we're putting out,

00:25:48.880 especially that Tesla vid full of

00:25:51.520 plastic.

00:25:51.860 When we asked her fawning

00:25:53.320 supporters what they would

00:25:54.580 think about someone's Tesla

00:25:56.660 full of plastic.

00:25:57.440 And then we told them that it

00:25:58.420 was actually Greta's Tesla.

00:26:00.260 It shows that what we're doing

00:26:02.300 is stinging.

00:26:03.600 It's seeing both Greta and the

00:26:05.580 cabal of leftist eco elites that

00:26:07.420 are propping her up.

00:26:08.320 So I'm very proud of this

00:26:11.040 documentary because I think

00:26:11.960 that we're doing something that

00:26:12.820 nobody in the world has really

00:26:15.280 done, either reporters in

00:26:16.880 Sweden or the reporters that

00:26:18.260 happily followed her along the

00:26:20.980 intercontinental field trip from

00:26:22.660 the BBC, the ones that flew out

00:26:24.640 to meet her in Edmonton to film

00:26:25.840 that documentary.

00:26:27.040 I'm glad that we were able to

00:26:28.360 release this one before anyone

00:26:30.460 else has really bothered to look

00:26:32.440 into it.

00:26:33.220 Yeah.

00:26:33.760 You know, sometimes I mean, for a

00:26:37.020 couple of years I've been

00:26:37.580 covering the case of Tommy

00:26:38.540 Robinson and I've been shaking

00:26:40.460 my head thinking, why am I in

00:26:42.200 Canada flying all the way over

00:26:44.280 to London when there's 60

00:26:46.700 million plus people there and

00:26:48.260 there's tons of journalists and

00:26:49.340 no one in London will just go and

00:26:51.760 report it straight.

00:26:52.820 And it's always boggled my mind.

00:26:54.800 Well, Tommy is in some ways an

00:26:57.180 obscure case.

00:26:57.940 I think it's an important case.

00:26:59.040 But Greta is a A-list celebrity,

00:27:02.280 no doubt about it.

00:27:03.260 Person of the Year in Time

00:27:04.420 magazine, invited speaker at

00:27:06.380 Davos, invited to the UN where

00:27:08.820 she says, how dare you?

00:27:11.180 So she's ten times the news story 0.99

00:27:14.900 that Tommy is, a hundred times.

00:27:16.940 And yet you, a young lad in

00:27:20.200 Calgary, barely a year into your

00:27:22.680 journalistic career, have to schlep

00:27:25.800 all the way to Stockholm because not

00:27:28.640 one reporter on the European

00:27:30.340 continent or one American that I know

00:27:32.500 of, has done that.

00:27:33.880 It's very strange that it falls to

00:27:35.460 us.

00:27:36.320 A low budget online news source in

00:27:38.720 Canada, it's a puzzler to me, but

00:27:40.900 I, you know, I guess if that's our

00:27:43.320 job, we'll take it.

00:27:45.260 Yeah, you're right.

00:27:46.120 I mean, we look at this, the array

00:27:49.100 of news stories coming out of the

00:27:52.780 international media cabal and we see,

00:27:58.000 well, where's the one-sided coverage

00:27:59.260 coming from and it tends to be from

00:28:01.380 these high-level, high-interest

00:28:05.440 people, Tommy Robinson, Greta

00:28:06.820 Thunberg, Jonathan Yaniv for the

00:28:09.540 first little bit.

00:28:10.960 And then we just go and ask

00:28:13.280 questions that the mainstream media

00:28:14.900 doesn't.

00:28:15.540 We ask the questions that nobody

00:28:16.600 seems to be asking.

00:28:17.540 And it's just, it's so curious to me,

00:28:19.840 someone who didn't go to journalism

00:28:20.900 school, someone who's kind of new at

00:28:23.040 this, this isn't a hard thing to do.

00:28:25.560 I mean, it takes a little bit of grit

00:28:28.100 and determination to try and shoulder

00:28:29.760 past these security guards that she

00:28:31.760 has and it takes a little bit to fly

00:28:33.800 out there and there's a little bit of

00:28:35.340 commitment there.

00:28:35.900 But in the practice of this

00:28:37.200 journalism, it's not really that

00:28:38.620 difficult to ask tough questions.

00:28:40.420 You just have to care enough to ask

00:28:42.460 them or at least not be paid off to be

00:28:44.400 asking the other questions.

00:28:46.100 Yeah, I mean, I didn't go to

00:28:48.060 journalism school either, Kian.

00:28:49.900 And in fact, the only on-air talent

00:28:53.740 we have that did was David Menzies

00:28:55.320 and I don't hold it against him.

00:28:57.860 But just out of sheer curiosity,

00:29:03.460 out of any skepticism, and Greta is a

00:29:05.720 powerful person.

00:29:07.180 Her trick is that she looks like a 1.00

00:29:09.300 frail teenager, but there's all the

00:29:12.420 security and PR agencies and capitalists

00:29:16.340 and manipulators behind her. 1.00

00:29:18.220 You'd think that of the thousand

00:29:19.920 journalists who have interacted with

00:29:21.360 her, that someone would have just 0.94

00:29:24.580 out of curiosity or skepticism or even

00:29:26.800 the desire to be different.

00:29:28.800 Like what happened to the desire to

00:29:30.300 make a name for yourself or to speak

00:29:34.280 truth to power or just take a run at

00:29:36.520 something?

00:29:36.900 That's what is so depressing to me.

00:29:38.960 The Greta story is fascinating.

00:29:40.220 You really nail it in the documentary.

00:29:42.960 But it could be a hundred things.

00:29:45.420 Why are journalists so docile?

00:29:48.200 Not just docile, partisan for Greta.

00:29:52.800 Like they're carrying her water.

00:29:54.420 I see online journalists tutting you for

00:29:58.580 having dared to ask questions.

00:30:00.380 Isn't that what a journalist is supposed

00:30:01.780 to be?

00:30:03.480 Not nowadays, Ezra.

00:30:05.160 The media approved group, the approved media

00:30:10.220 doesn't overstep their bounds anymore

00:30:12.400 because if they ever ask any tough

00:30:13.900 questions, well, they're going to lose

00:30:15.100 their United Nations credentials like

00:30:17.200 Sheila did when she asked some unscheduled 0.76

00:30:19.840 questions.

00:30:21.000 And in Davos, we couldn't get media

00:30:23.360 accreditation and that wasn't even UN

00:30:24.800 approved.

00:30:25.180 So it's clear that if you ask any questions that

00:30:29.500 aren't completely complimentary or totally

00:30:33.240 towing this globalist climate change line, well, then

00:30:37.660 you're not going to have the access that you need to do

00:30:39.500 your job.

00:30:40.100 Luckily, we do our job without the access.

00:30:42.640 We go to the interesting places on the ground.

00:30:44.900 We don't go to these scripted press conferences and

00:30:48.320 press release.

00:30:49.060 And we don't regurgitate these press releases that

00:30:51.620 Greta Inc.

00:30:52.580 releases.

00:30:53.460 We go to where the interesting stuff is happening,

00:30:55.680 whether it's her political rallies in Edmonton or her

00:31:00.540 sadly small rallies in Stockholm.

00:31:04.160 I was surprised to see it was only seven people.

00:31:06.400 There were seven people there and eight security guards

00:31:09.020 there.

00:31:09.220 There was more security guards than actual people

00:31:10.720 protesting.

00:31:11.280 But somehow this is an international sensation.

00:31:14.240 It doesn't really click.

00:31:15.400 But we go to these interesting places and we ask

00:31:17.500 questions.

00:31:18.140 And that's something that the mainstream media just

00:31:19.700 can't be bothered to do.

00:31:20.780 Because if they do, they'll lose their cushy chairs at

00:31:24.360 the press conference rooms.

00:31:25.800 Yeah, it's so strange to me.

00:31:29.980 There's one thing I want to bring to your attention.

00:31:31.740 I don't know if you noticed it.

00:31:32.760 I think it happened just yesterday.

00:31:34.100 Greta obviously noticed you when you talked to her a couple

00:31:40.460 weeks ago in Stockholm.

00:31:42.820 We showed the clip of that already.

00:31:45.160 And then when you put your, we announced that your documentary

00:31:49.820 would be coming.

00:31:50.480 We announced it earlier this week.

00:31:51.960 I think it might have been Monday or Tuesday.

00:31:53.820 So Greta would have seen that. 0.99

00:31:56.280 And she and her handlers would have remembered the questions you

00:31:59.720 put to her in Stockholm.

00:32:00.920 Did you really go on a school strike?

00:32:03.840 Have you actually been on a school strike?

00:32:06.060 And look at this tweet from Greta.

00:32:09.680 She says she's finishing her gap year.

00:32:15.120 And now a gap year, for those who don't know, is when a student

00:32:18.900 sort of takes a year off from school and, you know, goes

00:32:22.760 backpacking or, you know, goes, takes a break, works a bit.

00:32:26.860 That's what a gap year is.

00:32:27.920 She said, typically it's when you finish high school before you

00:32:31.000 go on to college or university, you gap year, travel,

00:32:33.960 sow your wild oats, run around a bit before you hunker down

00:32:37.940 to something serious.

00:32:40.460 Greta saying, I've been on a gap year.

00:32:42.540 Sorry, a teenager in the middle of high school is not on a gap

00:32:46.020 year at all.

00:32:47.260 That's just not a thing.

00:32:48.960 But more to the point, her whole shtick was,

00:32:52.200 I'm not on a gap year.

00:32:54.260 I'm an enrolled student who is striking.

00:32:58.080 I'm standing up to power by walking out of class.

00:33:02.160 I think, Kian, that that was Greta's way of saying, yikes,

00:33:07.680 Kian Bexty and Rebel News are going to out me,

00:33:10.720 that my whole school strike backstory is fake.

00:33:13.980 I'd better get ahead of that by saying, oh, no, no, no, no, no.

00:33:16.300 It wasn't really a school strike.

00:33:17.700 I was on a gap year, so you guys didn't actually cast me

00:33:22.860 in anything.

00:33:23.240 That's my theory based on how closely she follows you.

00:33:26.700 That tweet was extremely odd.

00:33:29.000 You're not on a climate strike if you're on a holiday year,

00:33:32.200 sister.

00:33:33.740 Yeah, that's what I was referring to when I said these cryptic

00:33:36.680 tweets, these cryptic defensive tweets.

00:33:39.300 There's another one, and I can't recall exactly what it was.

00:33:41.640 When I was in Madrid with Sheila Gunn-Reed at the COP25 summit,

00:33:45.220 we were putting out our news, and on the other side of the coin,

00:33:51.380 Greta Thunberg was releasing her damage control every time we released 1.00

00:33:55.700 more and more info about her campaign and about her political involvement

00:34:01.360 in rallies being staged across Canada.

00:34:04.540 So, yeah, I think it's fair to say that Greta Thunberg is very closely

00:34:07.700 following our coverage, especially when it comes to her plastic-filled Tesla.

00:34:11.060 She was very defensive about that, too.

00:34:12.700 Greta's watching because, and I wouldn't say that we're a huge news

00:34:18.080 outlet either.

00:34:19.360 We're not that large compared to many other news outlets that would

00:34:23.900 consider themselves conservative-leaning, but Greta is paying very close

00:34:27.380 attention to what we're releasing because we're the only ones that are

00:34:29.860 diving deep into Greta Thunberg's story and the lies that she's been

00:34:34.920 releasing or have been released on her behalf by Greta, Inc.

00:34:38.020 Greta Thunberg.

00:34:39.020 innocence in Greta Thunberg.

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00:35:00.020 Greta Thunberg.

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00:35:03.020 Greta Thunberg.

00:35:04.020 Greta Thunberg.

00:35:05.020 video people watch for a minute or so this is a 30-minute documentary but it's so well documented

00:35:10.720 you're there on the ground i think that it is possible kian for us to bend the narrative to

00:35:19.160 change the narrative here to start bringing up the other side of the story that's that's our

00:35:24.740 motto you know rebel news telling the other side of the story um that seems to me a pretty basic

00:35:32.320 tenet of journalism i think it's sort of cool that we're doing it i i think this documentary is going

00:35:38.100 to go well and i don't think it should be the end of our greta coverage i think that we should

00:35:43.020 continue on it i'm not afraid to send you on journeys around the world um i mean it costs money

00:35:49.540 flying to stockholm over christmas um i don't i just got your expense account uh we're going through it

00:35:57.820 i i think those tickets were around 1600 bucks each we had you and a cameraman go over and we

00:36:03.620 had a local helper on the ground and we had hotel i haven't looked at the whole thing but i think the

00:36:08.400 total cost all in of this documentary is about 10 000 canadian dollars now there's no way we'll

00:36:15.560 recoup that on youtube i don't even know if they're going to monetize the video we don't have ten

00:36:20.640 thousand dollars to chuck around every month but i think this is important work and if folks want to

00:36:25.500 help us they can go to greta inc.com g-r-e-t-a-i-n-c like greta incorporated greta inc.com 0.70

00:36:35.300 and if you want to chip in i can assure you kian flies economy class to stockholm yes and um i'd like

00:36:44.460 to do more of this you were in madrid you were in stockholm you were in hong kong covering the freedom

00:36:49.680 movement there there's a lot of stories and i think you've got that style you're aggressive enough to get

00:36:55.040 the questions but you don't get in deep trouble uh i think you've got to keep doing this kian

00:37:00.040 yeah i'm all in ezra i i want to keep it up too uh because nobody's holding these this these eco

00:37:07.980 elites whether it's uh you know greta inc or or whether it's the communists in hong kong

00:37:12.160 nobody's holding them accountable uh and and i'm honored to be able to keep doing it so i you know

00:37:18.340 what i one last note i think that we've reached peak greta i think when when greta was awarded the

00:37:24.140 person of the year i mean there's no topping that she was denied the nobel well you haven't heard

00:37:28.120 about the nobel prize yet my friend well she was snubbed on that last year at least maybe she'll

00:37:33.520 get it next year um but i i seriously think that you're you're right about us changing this narrative

00:37:38.940 i think that people are finally waking up to greta uh and i think this documentary is going to go a

00:37:43.440 long way to exposing greta as uh for what she is she's a fraud and i i think that the narrative is

00:37:50.020 finally turning and shifting away from uh just this blank face by a blank check buy-in into into what

00:37:57.360 she's putting out there yeah well your video uh when you met her in edmonton i think that has 1.2

00:38:02.960 million views sheila gun reid also did a video when she came to edmonton that video is closing in on

00:38:09.640 a million views um i think all of our greta videos combined have several million views i don't know

00:38:19.080 how many people will watch this documentary i think it is the authoritative documentary about greta that's

00:38:25.960 not just a love letter pr so theoretically this could be the video that everybody goes to for the

00:38:33.440 other side of the story i think we are going to debunk the myth and i think that that's a service

00:38:41.300 to journalism and in our case it's a service to the kind of things that we care about the oil and gas

00:38:47.020 industry jobs fighting against junk science and global governance so uh i'm pretty pleased last word

00:38:53.960 to you and then i'm going to throw to another clip just to show people so give me your final thoughts

00:38:58.280 on this has been an exciting few weeks in stockholm and then working on the edit give it give us your

00:39:03.540 final thoughts uh it i was surprised with how much uh it takes to actually put this stuff together

00:39:09.320 um when i went there i thought oh well we're gonna know this great footage uh and we i mean we put

00:39:14.440 footage together from the fact the fact that she's on a fake school strike to the fact that the person

00:39:18.920 who found greta found in very large quotation marks i had to walk two miles accidentally to

00:39:26.280 accidentally find her on the very first few minutes of her very first school strike we go to her 0.98

00:39:30.840 childhood home well the home that she lives now and document her community and show how privileged

00:39:35.560 greta tunberg really is she's not you know she's not someone from uganda or uh or bolivia or

00:39:42.680 bangladesh she's a rich elite we expose it all in this documentary at gretainc.com uh and i really

00:39:49.840 appreciate everyone who pitches in to help this kind of coverage um because you know if we're not doing it

00:39:55.500 nobody else is and i think that it's important work and i hope our viewers agree with me on that

00:40:00.060 all right well that's great for folks who want to chip in go to gretainc.com let's close this segment

00:40:04.720 with um another clip from the documentary that we launched today at 10 a.m eastern time take a look

00:40:11.820 hey what are you doing don't touch me who do you think you are don't we're serious i don't care get

00:40:20.380 the fuck off who do you think you are i'm asking questions yes i want to ask greta some questions 0.93

00:40:25.820 yes don't touch me yeah what do you think people are going to say when it gets out that a security

00:40:30.660 yard from sweden punched a reporter three times in the gut uh sure i don't care you don't care

00:40:36.160 oh you know this is communist country oh don't touch me they're pushing just larger larger frame

00:40:44.880 wide angle of this guy being an asshole my feet are planted here oh if you touch me i'll be reporting 0.83

00:40:53.120 you yeah sure what are you doing here are you from what are you doing here what do you mean what am i

00:40:57.840 doing here i'm a reporter i'm asking questions now i'm focused on you instead of greta who i should be

00:41:01.760 focus on fuck off don't get so close don't touch me i'm not touching you you're standing on my foot 0.99

00:41:07.040 once i haven't moved once hey what are you doing dude i'm not aggressive and you are dangerous for

00:41:15.120 us so no i'm not leave me alone leave me alone stop i'm allowed to do this where are we hong kong

00:41:23.840 china no this is sweden so you have id do you have yeah i do and i'll show it to you thank you

00:41:32.400 no fuck off are you here illegal i think so yeah you're done with this no i'm not i don't think i am 0.98

00:41:47.200 huh behave you behave me i will believe me

00:41:59.920 hey welcome back on my monologue yesterday about donald trump's speech at the world economic

00:42:04.000 forum in davos justin writes trump's speeches are so captivating i've never seen anything like it

00:42:11.040 well that speech that i played for you was obviously a scripted speech it was written by a speech

00:42:18.560 writer who obviously gets trump's message but i have to say if you've never watched trump at a rally

00:42:24.880 that's what you gotta watch because he's semi-scripted but he riffs and i gotta tell you

00:42:31.840 half the time it's like a stand-up routine he mocks democrats he mocks reporters he just riffs on things

00:42:40.080 things he saw a tweet he saw a clip he saw he's a master entertainer he's got a message he's got a point

00:42:48.000 i think you got to watch the unscripted uh rally speeches more than the scripted ones and that's

00:42:52.480 half the reason why the media party doesn't run his speeches because they are both informative and

00:42:58.400 entertaining and i put it to you persuasive pj writes what a concept a country's elected leader

00:43:06.320 putting that country first oh yeah you know i just see today that the new foreign minister uh champagne

00:43:14.960 is his last name is talking about the importance of canada getting on the uh security council of the

00:43:20.320 united nations you know the security there's there's a general assembly where every country has a vote but

00:43:25.520 then there's the security council that has the permanent members united states russia china

00:43:34.000 france for some reason and uh britain sorry i almost forgot uh it's funny how how uh france is on

00:43:43.520 there but india is not anyways they elect smaller countries for for terms and canada is or justin

00:43:51.200 trudeau wants to get on because it's a a bragging point for him is that really the point of foreign

00:43:57.360 policy to win votes from other little countries um and what is trudeau and champagne what are they

00:44:05.920 how are they tailoring their messages to win those votes is that the reason why trudeau was so gentle

00:44:11.120 with china on our hostages there is that the reason why trudeau was so gentle with iran after they shot 0.88

00:44:17.600 down that jet i think it might be on my interview with fh buckley ron writes your guest said he was

00:44:25.200 confident trump would be re-elected i hope he's right but i also agree with michael medved that the

00:44:30.000 dem candidate will not be any from the clown show but one of the obamas most likely michelle and that's 1.00

00:44:36.240 extremely dangerous well i've heard that theory i you know i obviously it's a possibility i don't think

00:44:46.400 so i don't see evidence of michelle organizing um you know she does some speaking tours but that's 0.97

00:44:53.440 just to grab some cash and to feel special um i just don't see it and i have to say obama

00:45:00.400 had a certain charm to him i mean i i disliked him deeply but he had an affable look he had a nice

00:45:08.000 face and a nice smile and he could be a charmer michelle obama comes across as scowling and angry 1.00

00:45:14.560 and i don't think she ever clicked with people uh other than partisans just my own view you could

00:45:20.160 maybe you thought she was charming i've never heard i've never heard anyone call her charming

00:45:24.320 um hillary clinton however oh she wants back in you can taste it on the conservative leadership race

00:45:34.000 in canada beverly writes rumor has it that harper will seek the nomination so that is why pierre stepped

00:45:39.680 down what do you think we need someone who will be a true conservative not just fiscal i got tired of

00:45:44.240 the party wanting social conservative but throwing us under the bus once they got our vote beverly uh

00:45:51.760 i saw a tweet by michelle uh rempel garner uh an mp from calgary who said she was in direct

00:45:59.760 communication with stephen harper and he's not running again and again i see no evidence that he

00:46:04.320 would run again he's last i saw he was giving some panel discussion in india like he's doing

00:46:10.320 international stuff and i think he is glad to be done with the hassle of things he resigned from the

00:46:16.160 uh conservative party's fundraising board they say it was so he could battle jean shere but who knows

00:46:21.680 maybe maybe uh is that why jean shere quit is that why pierre polyev quit if harper did return that

00:46:32.240 would be an excellent reason for those two to quit but i have some trouble believing harper would want to 1.00

00:46:37.520 come back in maybe i'm wrong we'll find out soon i guess because the election of that the leadership

00:46:44.640 contest is less than six months away whoever's going to run and better get going folks that's

00:46:50.000 our show for today and for this week i hope you had a chance to tune in to kian's documentary at

00:46:56.240 gretainc.com or you can find it on our youtube page until next time on behalf of us here at rebel

00:47:02.400 world headquarters see you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - January 25, 2020

Authoritarian China responds to coronavirus outbreak with arrests, quarantines and a massive cover-up

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