Rebel News Podcast - May 09, 2019


Brainwashing children to panic about global warming is child abuse — Look what’s happening in Quebec


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A cult brainwashing children to panic about global warming is child abuse. It reminds me of those really weird beauty pageant moms we all made fun of 20 years ago. But these climate cult moms are the worst. They re brainwashing kids to make them sound like grown-ups.

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00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels, today I tell you about a creepy cult of using kids for political purposes.
00:00:06.460 It reminds me of those really weird beauty pageant moms that we all made fun of 20 years 0.98
00:00:12.380 ago.
00:00:13.100 Yeah, they were sort of harmless, I think, but these climate cult moms are the worst. 1.00
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00:00:29.160 You got to see the videos of this Greta Thunberg I'm talking about today. 0.91
00:00:32.920 That's that Swedish girl. 1.00
00:00:34.320 The way her eyes dart around, the creepy, creepy, creepiness.
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00:00:46.900 Okay, here goes today's podcast.
00:00:49.840 You're listening to a Rebel Media podcast.
00:00:53.080 Tonight, brainwashing children to panic about global warming is child abuse.
00:00:57.600 I'll show you what's happening in Quebec.
00:00:59.860 It's May 8th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:04.560 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:08.320 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:12.400 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's
00:01:16.780 my bloody right to do so.
00:01:18.240 I remember as a kid I used to hate the phrase children should be seen and not heard.
00:01:29.240 You know that saying.
00:01:30.300 Now when I was a kid I took it to mean at worst that kids should be disrespected or maybe more
00:01:36.080 likely that kids have nothing interesting that grown-ups want to hear.
00:01:39.860 Well, that's not really what it means.
00:01:43.240 As everyone who's ever watched, you know, shows like Kids Say the Funniest Things or
00:01:48.820 America's Funniest Home Videos know, kids are hilarious.
00:01:54.620 They're funny.
00:01:55.520 They're pure and without cynicism and they're so honest.
00:01:58.420 They're too honest.
00:01:59.120 That's where the funny comes.
00:02:00.600 Kids should be heard all the time.
00:02:03.840 Like little angels should be heard laughing and singing.
00:02:08.000 Give me one more moment on this.
00:02:09.180 Every parent knows this.
00:02:10.580 When kids mispronounce words or say words wrong, it is the cutest thing in the world.
00:02:17.120 When they say peschetti, can I have some of peschetti?
00:02:20.000 When they call a stuffed animal a stuffed up animal, you don't want to correct them.
00:02:24.540 In fact, you say the same thing back to them because it's so funny and you don't want them
00:02:28.420 to stop because you know they will stop soon enough and they'll sound like grown-ups soon
00:02:32.480 enough and if they have an older sibling, that older sibling will correct them soon enough.
00:02:36.160 Kids should be seen and heard.
00:02:38.120 But what I only now understand as I approach the end of my fifth decade is that old saying,
00:02:43.940 children should be seen and not heard, doesn't mean ignore kids or shut kids up, let alone
00:02:50.080 disrespect kids, as I sullenly thought it meant when I heard that phrase in my own childhood.
00:02:55.440 It means children ought not to be heard about matters grown-up, about adult things because
00:03:04.520 they are not interesting and they are not convincing and they are not correct and they are not morally
00:03:08.740 full, morally developed on adult subjects.
00:03:12.040 If they do opine on adult subjects, it's a parlor trick.
00:03:17.700 They've been taught a line by someone.
00:03:19.460 They parrot it.
00:03:21.400 We find child prodigies interesting but slightly unsettling. 1.00
00:03:26.620 But their unnatural adultness is restricted to an art.
00:03:30.600 Usually, a young child who's a prodigy playing piano is amazing, if unusual, but at other matters,
00:03:41.140 it would come across as unnatural, a bit creepy maybe.
00:03:43.360 It's like a robot that's too human.
00:03:46.260 Have you ever heard of that?
00:03:46.980 Psychologists call it the uncanny valley.
00:03:49.640 A robot makes us uncomfortable if it's too lifelike.
00:03:55.200 A child ought not to be like an adult either. 0.72
00:03:59.540 And I tell you all this because, of course, we have legions of children being turned into
00:04:03.560 mini-adults and it's creepy.
00:04:05.400 A decade or two ago, we were all repulsed and riveted by beauty pageant culture that seemed
00:04:11.140 to sexualize girls of tender years.
00:04:13.500 They were all being weaponized by their own moms who seemed to be living out their dreams 0.99
00:04:18.420 vicariously through their daughters.
00:04:20.040 Too much makeup.
00:04:20.740 It was too adult for little girls.
00:04:22.980 But that was just beauty pageants. 0.99
00:04:26.360 Now it's gone right over the edge.
00:04:28.540 Now it's children of tender years.
00:04:30.520 In this case, a young boy who has been turned into a performing drag queen by his parents, 0.61
00:04:35.780 his handlers, like he's a circus freak.
00:04:38.160 He's surrounded by naked men.
00:04:40.480 He's at bars.
00:04:41.380 He's sexualized.
00:04:42.420 But again, it's not his childlike nature that's being promoted.
00:04:46.060 It's the opposite.
00:04:47.680 It's the creepy, freaky nature of a child.
00:04:52.200 So obviously a child that is pantomiming, mimicking the sexual excesses of adults, of
00:04:59.040 adult extremists around them.
00:05:00.660 That's why it's bizarre.
00:05:01.960 Talk about child abuse.
00:05:04.280 Well, you may know what I'm talking about today.
00:05:06.160 I'm talking about children who are weaponized by parents or teachers to talk about politics.
00:05:13.420 It happens more and more because of their parents, but usually because of teachers and teachers' unions
00:05:19.780 who have the legal privilege of being in loco parentis, as it's called in law in Latin.
00:05:24.700 Teachers have the legal right to stand in the place of parents and make legal decisions about children.
00:05:30.120 That's what in loco parentis means, in the place of parents.
00:05:34.820 Decide for the kids.
00:05:36.140 And they're abusing that by deciding for the kids that these young kids will skip class
00:05:40.840 and engage in political rallies, mimicking what their teachers' union bosses have on
00:05:45.440 their own political agenda.
00:05:46.400 So obviously these young kids parrot, we want more money for teachers, but they also skip
00:05:52.040 school for other reasons.
00:05:53.340 Students in Alberta last week, our Kian Bextie covered a student walkout that was orchestrated
00:05:58.360 by teachers, but he found one student who sounded a bit normal, who said, this was a big nothing.
00:06:04.540 This was all just students running errands for political teachers.
00:06:07.500 Did you catch this video?
00:06:08.700 Why didn't you participate in the walkout?
00:06:10.220 Well, I don't support it.
00:06:11.800 It's honestly run by the teachers.
00:06:14.600 They're just mad that the NDP lost.
00:06:18.380 What do you think about the kids that were participating in it?
00:06:20.940 Are they generally political activists?
00:06:22.620 Well, just look at them.
00:06:24.260 Honestly, just look at them.
00:06:25.460 They're just mad, I guess.
00:06:30.440 The teachers wanted to seem like all the kids support all this gay rights and this whole
00:06:36.100 thing, but most of us really don't care about it.
00:06:39.840 Do you think that it was like from 930 to 950, were they in spare, the people that came
00:06:47.240 out?
00:06:47.900 Hi there, we'll ask you to turn that off.
00:06:49.620 You're on school property.
00:06:50.460 It may not surprise you that the teachers kicked Kian off school property the moment
00:06:55.380 he started talking to that one kid who wasn't parroting the teachers union line.
00:07:00.420 So I guess that's the one student teachers want to only be seen, not be heard.
00:07:05.920 But of course, the biggest of all is the climate cult.
00:07:09.380 I showed you this back in 2015, right when the rebel was new.
00:07:13.220 I went to some big global warming protest in Toronto, and you might recall I came across
00:07:18.300 a woman, she actually came up to me, and insisted so hard that I interview her young daughter.
00:07:27.020 And I told her, no lady, I don't interview kids. 0.99
00:07:30.620 It's just not what I do.
00:07:31.780 And she was so insistent, I said, fine, but you have to say right into the camera that
00:07:38.160 you give me permission to talk to your kid, because I thought it was creepy what she was 1.00
00:07:42.480 doing, pageant mom style.
00:07:45.480 And I wanted it on the record that I wasn't the one who thought, I'm going to talk to a
00:07:50.620 kid that mom wanted me to.
00:07:52.440 Anyways, so I had the mom give me permission on camera. 0.98
00:07:55.560 And then I asked the child, with the mom right there, what is it that your mom wants you
00:08:01.340 to ask me?
00:08:03.600 And it was this.
00:08:04.640 What's your name?
00:08:05.180 My name's Lai.
00:08:06.220 Hi, Lai, I'm Ezra.
00:08:07.720 Hi, Lai.
00:08:08.320 Do you have a question?
00:08:09.260 Do you believe in climate change?
00:08:11.560 Well, it's a good question.
00:08:13.060 I think the obvious answer is yes, because over the course of thousands of years, the earth
00:08:18.300 gets warmer and colder.
00:08:19.280 Have you ever heard of the ice ages before?
00:08:21.840 And we're not at an ice age now, right?
00:08:23.880 So then I guess, and there's been more than one ice age, right?
00:08:31.860 So the earth has warmed and cooled over the years, right?
00:08:34.860 I mean, tell me, have you heard of the ice ages?
00:08:37.880 Have you ever, you know, when the earth was covered with ice?
00:08:40.580 So obviously there was climate change since we're not in an ice age anymore, right?
00:08:44.820 So that's how I talk to kids of that tender age, like they're kids.
00:08:49.420 I don't talk to them like they're adults.
00:08:51.020 I don't debate them.
00:08:52.260 That would be creepy.
00:08:53.880 But this mom really, really insisted I talk to her young daughter. 1.00
00:08:57.480 It was so obvious.
00:08:59.980 The whole thing was so staged.
00:09:01.680 I felt like I was talking to a pageant mom.
00:09:03.480 So I asked the kid, well, who made your political sign?
00:09:06.900 What's your sign say?
00:09:07.800 The sign is about the car of the future that doesn't leak, well, leave carbon dioxide.
00:09:15.980 And what kind of car do you guys have?
00:09:18.600 A normal car.
00:09:19.700 A normal car.
00:09:20.520 What do you mean by normal?
00:09:21.840 Is it an electric car?
00:09:23.180 No.
00:09:23.500 Well, uh, don't we have electric cars right now?
00:09:26.720 Like, isn't the car of the future here already?
00:09:28.480 Well, the gas companies don't want it to happen.
00:09:32.960 Well, a Tesla is pretty successful, isn't it?
00:09:35.040 Have you heard of a Tesla?
00:09:36.440 No.
00:09:37.120 No.
00:09:37.460 Can I ask you a question?
00:09:38.800 Um, did you design this poster for your daughter?
00:09:41.940 No, I didn't.
00:09:42.480 I wouldn't have designed this poster.
00:09:43.680 Did you design the poster?
00:09:45.180 Um, yes, and, but my mom kind of helped. 0.95
00:09:49.340 All right, well, I had had enough of playing the mom's weird games here, so I said goodbye.
00:09:55.040 The whole interaction was about four minutes, and obviously I recorded the whole thing.
00:09:59.140 And wouldn't you know it, it was all a setup.
00:10:01.840 That mom was a crooked journalist named Catherine Porter, who was using her child as a gimmick, 0.97
00:10:10.120 like bait for a story about me, and she made up a whole dialogue that just never happened.
00:10:16.000 She painted me as a bully, and her daughter is having said things that the daughter just didn't say.
00:10:21.180 Catherine Porter is foolish, because, of course, I had everything on videotape to prove what happened.
00:10:26.740 I mean, seriously, who would lie about a recorded interview?
00:10:30.720 That's dumb.
00:10:32.200 And the Toronto Star, can you believe it?
00:10:33.780 They actually did the right thing.
00:10:35.260 They suspended this weirdo, Catherine Porter, for 90 days.
00:10:41.200 They didn't fire her outright.
00:10:42.540 They suspended her for 90 days, and they wrote a huge, I'm going to call it a semi-apology
00:10:48.140 to me in the star, huge, but only because I caught it on tape.
00:10:53.720 But my point is, parents are really creepy about how they use their own children for political
00:11:01.240 purposes.
00:11:02.240 That daughter, Catherine Porter's daughter, was not the actor there.
00:11:07.280 She was just the ventriloquist dummy for her mom. 0.99
00:11:11.780 In any case especially, the kid was sort of normal.
00:11:15.900 In fact, when she wasn't saying exactly what her mom wanted her to say in our conversation,
00:11:19.740 the mom just made it up in the Toronto Star.
00:11:22.000 That was the whole point.
00:11:22.460 Anyways, I should tell you, besides being suspended for 90 days, that weirdo, Catherine
00:11:27.260 Porter, went on to be hired by the New York Times, if you can believe it.
00:11:31.400 A serial fabulist was promoted.
00:11:34.360 But that was four years ago.
00:11:35.720 Now, using kids to say global warming messages on behalf of their parents, today it's just
00:11:40.020 commonplace, including on the CBC State Broadcaster.
00:11:43.760 Remember this from the other day?
00:11:45.020 A lot of people are like, oh, what about the people in the oil industries, and the electronic
00:11:52.100 industries, and the paper industries?
00:11:54.900 Well, it doesn't really matter what job you have if you're dead, so.
00:11:59.400 That is so crazy.
00:12:00.960 But I think that young girl believes it.
00:12:03.360 I think it's more young girls than young boys, actually.
00:12:06.060 Young girls, I think, are more obedient and more calm and go along with their mom's schemes.
00:12:11.400 Young boys, in my experience, just want to run around and play sports and fight and throw
00:12:16.140 things.
00:12:17.340 They're not going to become propagandists in the same way as girls. 1.00
00:12:21.060 I'm not mad at these kids.
00:12:22.940 I actually liked Catherine Porter's daughter.
00:12:25.380 She seemed normal.
00:12:26.440 I don't think she was creepy because she was normal.
00:12:28.940 It was her mom who was creepy.
00:12:30.460 And even though I'm appalled by that young drag queen dancing boy, it's not him I'm mad 1.00
00:12:35.180 at.
00:12:35.360 It's his handlers, his agent, his manager, his abusers I'm mad at.
00:12:39.500 Same with these propaganda kids on the CBC.
00:12:42.560 You know when they say kids should be seen and not heard?
00:12:45.420 It's because when a child says something like an adult, it's a form of deception because
00:12:50.600 they themselves didn't think it or write it.
00:12:52.780 They just repeated it.
00:12:54.060 They're young child actors.
00:12:56.240 The CBC News Kids channel specifically says their kids are child actors.
00:13:03.620 Of course they don't write their own news.
00:13:05.620 They're kids.
00:13:06.420 So when they do their endless pro-marijuana stories, for example, it's not a young child
00:13:12.680 writing that.
00:13:13.860 I think most kids, especially of really young age, think drugs bad.
00:13:17.800 That's what their parents tell them.
00:13:19.200 This is some hidden guy writing it and giving them to say.
00:13:23.240 I'm actually worried about the kids at CBC Kids News.
00:13:26.000 I mean, remember, the CBC is the TV network that gave us serial sexual abuser Xi'an Gomeshin.
00:13:32.360 And maybe they couldn't have known that or stopped that or controlled that.
00:13:36.960 But when they found out about it, they covered up for him.
00:13:42.060 They covered up for Xi'an Gomeshin. 0.77
00:13:43.660 Imagine having a whole kids news department with kids eager to please adults and hidden
00:13:49.340 adults writing things and directing things.
00:13:51.680 I wonder how far the abuse goes.
00:13:53.740 And if the CBC is covering it up, too, like they did with Xi'an Gomeshin, I don't know.
00:13:58.060 But the weirdest girl, as I've shown you before, the weirdest pageant child, is Greta Thunberg. 0.72
00:14:07.460 Watch her a bit.
00:14:08.380 You say you love your children above all else.
00:14:12.060 And yet you're stealing their future in front of their very eyes.
00:14:17.020 A 15-year-old in Sweden has missed class every Friday since August to sit outside her country's parliament.
00:14:23.980 And she's been calling on others around the world to do the same.
00:14:28.100 Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope.
00:14:32.280 But I don't want your hope.
00:14:36.980 I don't want you to be hopeful.
00:14:39.700 I want you to panic.
00:14:41.840 I want you to feel the fear I feel every day.
00:14:45.700 And then I want you to act.
00:14:48.040 Do you see what I mean about creepiness?
00:14:49.800 Now, she is dressed up as a very young girl most of the time.
00:14:53.940 Childlike pigtails.
00:14:55.180 But she's actually 16 already.
00:14:57.820 She presents as a much younger girl on purpose.
00:15:01.600 And she has a creepy adult style juxtaposed with her tender years look. 0.58
00:15:08.100 She's got the darting eyes.
00:15:09.380 I'm not mocking her.
00:15:10.560 But I have since learned that I didn't know the first time I did a story about her.
00:15:15.180 Is that she's mentally ill. 0.94
00:15:17.940 I don't mean her Asperger's.
00:15:20.480 And I don't mean that she has other permanent mental conditions.
00:15:24.120 I'm saying that she suffered clinical depression.
00:15:28.460 That's what I mean.
00:15:29.240 And she was suicidal.
00:15:32.400 At least that's what her parents and promoters say. 0.98
00:15:35.920 But they push her out there.
00:15:38.320 With this creepy apocalyptic message.
00:15:40.980 Because she's this huge PR and financial success. 0.98
00:15:45.000 But look at this.
00:15:45.780 I don't know if she wrote this.
00:15:47.540 I doubt it frankly.
00:15:48.800 But she says these things all the time.
00:15:50.180 So maybe she wrote it.
00:15:51.800 You saw her talking about she wants people to panic.
00:15:54.060 That's not a normal healthy thing for a young girl to say.
00:15:56.980 A young girl who was suicidal.
00:15:59.180 Look at this.
00:15:59.620 Just a random selection from her Twitter account.
00:16:02.480 A new UN report concludes that one million, she wrote, spices, species risk extinction because of human activity.
00:16:08.680 And that the destruction of nature threatens humanity.
00:16:11.400 And yet this is not top news.
00:16:13.540 As long as it continues like this.
00:16:15.200 As long as the media fails to take responsibility.
00:16:17.680 We stand no chance.
00:16:22.400 We stand no chance.
00:16:24.780 This girl has said that there's no point going to school since we're all going to die in a few years.
00:16:30.200 That's why she started the climate strike where she doesn't go to school. 1.00
00:16:33.860 Obviously kids can't decide not to go to school.
00:16:36.840 Parents take them.
00:16:37.820 Teachers take them.
00:16:38.480 Obviously this was stage managed by her parents.
00:16:41.060 Kids are not autonomous.
00:16:43.760 So when I say she went on strike, I mean her pageant mom and pageant dad.
00:16:48.600 They're long time hucksters.
00:16:50.520 They're in the entertainment business.
00:16:52.360 They're promoters.
00:16:53.820 They don't have a beauty pageant daughter.
00:16:57.160 Almost the opposite.
00:16:58.400 They have a daughter with various illnesses, so they say, including mental illnesses, including suicide.
00:17:03.860 thoughts and tendencies, but boy, they know how to market just like any pageant mom, do they? 1.00
00:17:10.080 Let me read a bit about how creepy her parents are. 0.72
00:17:13.240 I'm not blaming the girl here.
00:17:15.520 I'm blaming her parents who push a suicidal girl out to talk about the apocalypse.
00:17:20.300 Let me quote from this story.
00:17:22.120 According to her mother, Milena Earnman, 48, 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg can see CO2 with the naked eye.
00:17:30.400 She writes it in the book, Scenes from the Heart.
00:17:33.860 Our Life for the Climate, which she wrote with her family.
00:17:38.580 Greta was diagnosed as a child with obsessive compulsive disorder and Asperger's syndrome, just like her younger sister Beata.
00:17:45.440 The activist also has a photographic memory.
00:17:48.180 She knows all the capitals by heart and can list all the chemical elements of the periodic table within one minute.
00:17:54.680 That's very quick because there's over a hundred.
00:17:56.740 In addition, she has another gift, according to her mother.
00:18:01.420 Quote, Greta is able to see what other people cannot see, writes Milena Earnman in the book. 0.99
00:18:06.740 She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye.
00:18:10.480 She sees how it flows out of chimneys and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.
00:18:14.900 Now, I'm not sure what to believe.
00:18:17.840 It's possible for a smart kid to name all the capitals.
00:18:21.220 That's one of those parlor tricks.
00:18:22.380 It's possible to name all the elements.
00:18:26.480 That's not really creepy, but it's trying pretty hard.
00:18:29.340 You can believe that at parties, her parents trot her out and ask her to do those tricks to entertain their friends.
00:18:36.260 That's a bit weird, it's a bit creepy, but seeing carbon dioxide, CO2, it's actually not possible.
00:18:44.820 CO2 is invisible.
00:18:46.380 It's a trace gas, 400 parts per million.
00:18:49.680 You can't see your breath, which is 40,000 parts per million CO2.
00:18:55.040 When it's cold outside, you can see your breath, but you're seeing the moisture, the water vapor.
00:19:00.500 That's not CO2.
00:19:02.000 CO2 has no color.
00:19:03.360 It cannot be seen with the human eye.
00:19:06.260 So maybe we can't believe a word these creepy parents say about anything, but we have to go by it.
00:19:12.840 They say their daughter is mentally ill and was suicidal, and thus she has been deployed to infect other children with the same mental illness of depression and despair.
00:19:23.600 Boys probably won't go along with this, but this obedient girl does. 1.00
00:19:27.680 Another young girl seems susceptible to it, and I bet she actually believes what she's saying. 1.00
00:19:32.620 Wouldn't you believe what your mother and father told you if you were a teenage girl, and if you had nothing but lavish praise from every powerful grown-up you ever meet?
00:19:41.420 I actually think she has come to believe it.
00:19:44.460 Wouldn't you believe what your mom and dad tell you?
00:19:46.120 I think her parents are scammers, like the scammers who manage boy bands and steal all their money.
00:19:54.540 You know, taking candy from a baby, that's another saying.
00:19:58.560 But her, the 16-year-old girl herself, I think she believes it.
00:20:02.360 But the depression, the fear, the stress, why are we telling young kids, especially young girls, to believe we're all going to die, to believe we don't stand a chance?
00:20:14.420 You know, suicide is contagious.
00:20:16.200 It's not like a virus or a bacteria that literally is passed on, like through a bug.
00:20:22.420 But when you see or hear about someone you know committing suicide, you are more likely to do it too.
00:20:27.840 Suicide happens in clusters.
00:20:29.860 It becomes normalized, that's why, because the unthinkable suddenly becomes thinkable when it's done, that's why.
00:20:36.040 And if this young person killed themselves, and if you know her, and if you understand her concerns, and you share her concerns, well, maybe you should choose the same exit too.
00:20:46.480 It's actually true in a way.
00:20:48.040 Smiles are contagious.
00:20:49.660 Laughter is contagious.
00:20:51.240 It's actually true.
00:20:52.720 Not contagious like a virus.
00:20:54.220 But you want to laugh along with someone who's laughing.
00:20:59.820 And depression is contagious.
00:21:01.900 And this young robot from Sweden is being manipulated to tell millions of girls, especially girls, to despair. 0.88
00:21:10.520 And I think it's sick.
00:21:12.860 Which brings us to the CBC News out of Quebec today.
00:21:16.800 This story.
00:21:18.340 Exam question on climate change draws anger.
00:21:21.160 Memes from Quebec students.
00:21:23.240 Education minister says it would have been better to ask students how to fight climate change.
00:21:28.500 Let me read a bit.
00:21:30.840 A Quebec high school French exam question that asked students about adapting to climate change has drawn a torrent of online criticism as teens used memes and videos to denounce what they see as government inaction on climate issues.
00:21:45.100 The question on last week's ministry exam for grade 11 students asked, can we adapt to climate change?
00:21:51.160 Are you surprised?
00:21:53.160 Are you surprised?
00:21:54.420 You tell kids they're going to die in, what's the phrase now, 11 and a half years?
00:21:59.760 That's pretty precise, isn't it?
00:22:01.640 And you're surprised when they say, hang on, you're just asking us to adapt?
00:22:04.980 We're going to be dead in 11 and a half years.
00:22:08.100 Well, of course we can adapt to a changing climate.
00:22:09.980 The climate has been changing ever so slowly for thousands of years as the world has emerged from the last great ice age about 10,000 years ago.
00:22:18.760 It is imperceptible.
00:22:20.500 It's generally for the better.
00:22:22.060 Life does better in warmth than in cold.
00:22:24.880 That's why there are bigger cities and more diversity of animal and plant life near the equator and not a lot in the Arctic.
00:22:31.520 Of course we can adapt to the warmth or more to the point, we can't stop the earth from warming.
00:22:37.180 So if you actually want to do anything about it, how about adapting?
00:22:41.940 Let me read some more.
00:22:42.980 It quickly drew the ire of students like 17-year-old Francis Claude, who feels the way the question was phrased, suggests the government has accepted climate change.
00:22:52.460 It's like they want to abandon the fight against climate change and just make, do, and adapt, said Claude, whose Facebook group dedicated to the exam has exploded to almost 37,000 members in recent days.
00:23:05.800 But that's the thing.
00:23:06.720 These kids have believed what their parents and teachers said to them, even the lies, what the government said to them, even the lies.
00:23:12.500 They believe this shrieking kook who says the arson forest fires in B.C. were actually caused because of climate change. 0.98
00:23:20.960 So let's talk about climate change for a second.
00:23:24.820 Who believes it's real?
00:23:27.480 Who believes in science?
00:23:30.840 We got a report last year that said we have 12 years to take serious climate action.
00:23:38.420 We are all in this together.
00:23:40.460 We need to act.
00:23:41.620 And just remember last year.
00:23:43.660 Who remembers last summer?
00:23:46.340 Who remembers the extreme heat that we felt last summer?
00:23:50.960 Who remembers that people literally died of extreme heat?
00:23:55.240 I've called people, I've called mothers in British Columbia where there were forest fires.
00:24:01.860 Remember those forest fires?
00:24:03.400 And guess what?
00:24:04.380 They were scared for their kids to go outside because the air quality was so bad.
00:24:10.100 Yeah, no, sister, that was arson.
00:24:13.340 Let me read some more.
00:24:15.040 Claude said members of his generation are committed to fighting environmental destruction, not adapting to it.
00:24:20.100 What's the point of studying for a future we're not going to have, said Claude, who attends Mont Saint-Anne School in Beaupré, 40 kilometers northeast of Quebec City.
00:24:27.840 Who told that child he has no future?
00:24:33.260 Pope John Paul II always said where there's life there's hope.
00:24:36.160 That's a pretty Catholic thing to say, a pretty Christian thing to say.
00:24:38.960 The Jews say l'chaim.
00:24:40.800 That means to life.
00:24:42.700 Life is what we believe in in the West.
00:24:45.100 It's why we keep going.
00:24:46.120 It's the light at the end of the tunnel in dark times.
00:24:48.620 We believe in life.
00:24:50.260 We believe in light.
00:24:51.820 Other cultures believe in death, not us.
00:24:56.160 And yet our young people have been taught that despair and death are imminent because, well, because we drove a car or we didn't pay some carbon tax or something, some kook at school or on TV or in parliament told them.
00:25:10.380 Let me read some more.
00:25:12.380 Olivia Ralston, another student at Mont Saint-Anne School, said some students found the question confusing.
00:25:17.340 Since it didn't really match up to the study materials.
00:25:21.060 She also questioned the use of the word adapt.
00:25:23.520 We are living in this world and we're not going to live anywhere else.
00:25:26.420 So why shouldn't we try to change it, she said.
00:25:30.220 Ralston said some students put a green dot on their exam to signify climate change.
00:25:35.500 And others have since started wearing the symbol as a call for action.
00:25:39.720 A green dot, eh?
00:25:41.300 Wearing a green dot.
00:25:42.560 Do you think that was an organic, natural, unplanned thing that just happened spontaneously?
00:25:49.620 Or is that being schemed by some pageant mom too? 0.98
00:25:54.360 Some PR huckster too?
00:25:58.020 We are deeply psychologically damaging our young people.
00:26:01.140 It is creepy.
00:26:02.260 It is creepier than a beauty pageant.
00:26:04.520 At least a beauty pageant claims to venerate beauty.
00:26:08.880 And maybe even talent.
00:26:10.640 This cult of climate is as creepy as that boy drag queen. 1.00
00:26:16.940 That creepy child from Sweden has been weaponized by her parents for profit. 0.76
00:26:21.740 And the profit comes by infecting your children with her belief in the global warming cult that says, 1.00
00:26:28.440 we're all going to die. 0.84
00:26:30.240 So what's the point?
00:26:33.020 Stay with us for more.
00:26:34.040 I figured I would chat with students to figure out if they agree with the message of these pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
00:26:53.800 Here's what the students of Stanford had to say.
00:26:55.800 How does it make you feel that they're saying that Israel...
00:26:59.020 I don't think I know enough about this protest.
00:27:01.600 I'm generally in support of Palestinian rights.
00:27:04.080 Oh, really?
00:27:04.560 Yeah.
00:27:05.000 Do you think that Israel is an apartheid state?
00:27:06.980 Yeah, for sure.
00:27:08.300 What about it makes it an apartheid state?
00:27:09.880 Well, I mean, it separates, like, I didn't go there, but it separates, like, Israelis and Muslims. 0.99
00:27:18.620 That's Kian Bexty, who is crisscrossing North America, going to where the news is hot.
00:27:26.660 In recent days, he's been in Winnipeg when Linda Sarsour came to town.
00:27:32.080 San Diego, right after the synagogue there, was attacked by a shooter who was actually stopped by congregants,
00:27:39.620 including the rabbi, who had his fingers shot off.
00:27:42.160 And now he's in Stanford, a fancy university near San Francisco,
00:27:47.980 for what has become the dominant political narrative of North American universities,
00:27:54.520 namely anti-Israel leftist extremism.
00:27:59.560 It's so un-American to me. 0.68
00:28:01.780 It's un-Canadian, but I can't think of anything more un-American than leftism
00:28:06.040 plus a blend of anti-Israel and anti-Semitism.
00:28:09.700 Kian Bexty joins us now via Skype.
00:28:14.080 You know, I can't imagine how beautiful it must be at Stanford, San Francisco, an amazing city,
00:28:20.460 a prestigious university.
00:28:22.280 I mean, it really should be the best time of their lives for the students there.
00:28:26.500 But they're getting all revved up about hating Israel.
00:28:29.580 It just seems out of place to me.
00:28:32.660 Who's organizing this?
00:28:34.720 And as I was just saying to you before we turned the camera on,
00:28:37.060 I suppose this is an infection in every campus around North America,
00:28:41.320 not just, for example, in San Francisco there.
00:28:44.660 Yeah, I don't think it's exclusive to the Palo Alto area at all.
00:28:49.180 There's a group of students gathered just behind me,
00:28:52.160 and they've put up these wall barricades,
00:28:55.440 somehow pretending to simulate Israel, like the walls in Israel are some evil thing.
00:29:01.780 And they're trying to walk this line where they say it's not anti-Semitic to be anti-Zionist.
00:29:13.660 And that's the line that they're trying to walk.
00:29:16.040 Of course, time will tell once I actually go up and talk to them
00:29:19.720 and speak with them and figure out what is behind their drive,
00:29:23.900 why they're taking off time in the middle of exam week to put up these walls
00:29:29.460 to spread this pro-Palestine, pro-Hammat, well, I shouldn't say pro-Hammat, pro-Palestine story.
00:29:37.500 Yeah, you know what?
00:29:38.420 I agree that every country in the world should be open to criticism.
00:29:42.540 Lord knows I criticize Canada, and I'm not an anti-Canadian bigot.
00:29:46.700 I criticize it because I live here, and I want it to be better,
00:29:49.420 and I have a certain philosophy that would make Canada great.
00:29:52.700 I don't believe in destroying Canada.
00:29:54.540 And here's my thoughts on anti-Zionism.
00:29:57.720 And when people say, I'm not anti-Semitic.
00:29:59.540 I have no problem with Jews. 0.96
00:30:00.960 It's just Israel I don't like. 1.00
00:30:02.560 If someone were to say, I'm anti-Italy,
00:30:06.840 and it's all they would talk about, and they would nitpick Italy,
00:30:10.860 and they would boycott pizza.
00:30:13.040 I can't even imagine anyone who would do that.
00:30:15.560 And pasta, I mean, my God.
00:30:16.920 I know we're deep into hypothetical territory here.
00:30:20.140 And they just wouldn't shut up about Italy.
00:30:22.940 And they would just boycott anything made in Italy.
00:30:26.100 I'd say, you know what?
00:30:28.000 I think you've got a problem with Italians, mate. 1.00
00:30:31.060 I mean, every country has their flaws.
00:30:34.200 Italy, I could name you five.
00:30:35.560 But if all you do is you bash Italy and things made in Italy,
00:30:39.980 and you don't like the Italian teams in sports,
00:30:42.600 and you don't like Italian professors coming over,
00:30:44.760 and you try and boycott touring, I think you're a bit of an anti-Italian bigot.
00:30:49.760 That's what I would say if someone was really weird anti-Italy or anti-Spain or anti-Ireland.
00:30:56.220 I think that these folks are obsessed by Israel,
00:30:59.580 and they don't care about any of the world's other 200 countries.
00:31:03.600 I think it's something besides politics.
00:31:05.940 I think they don't like Jews. 0.79
00:31:07.180 I would agree with you there, Ezra.
00:31:10.780 There's a Christian guy.
00:31:13.280 I've got to just give you some context to what I'm listening to right now.
00:31:16.380 And I don't know if you can hear it on the mic,
00:31:17.860 but there's a Christian preacher who is set up right in front of the apartheid wall
00:31:22.500 that the Palestinians have put up. 0.99
00:31:25.180 And he's just spouting off about Donald Trump and illegal aliens.
00:31:29.800 But he has this Alex Jones shirt on,
00:31:32.180 so I'm really excited to go talk to him to see what brought him out to this protest,
00:31:38.720 this Palestinian protest,
00:31:40.200 because I'm sure it's not a coincidence that he's standing out here.
00:31:42.820 And I'm also interested to chat with the students that are here,
00:31:45.940 that are walking by, sort of glancing at this wall,
00:31:48.580 and they continue walking, or if they stop and talk with the guys.
00:31:52.000 I want to know what the average Stanford student thinks
00:31:54.740 about this apartheid wall that is set up.
00:31:57.300 I'm not sure which way.
00:31:59.260 I have a feeling that they're not really going to know what it is about.
00:32:02.900 I don't think that the majority of Stanford students are anti-Semitic.
00:32:07.280 But, you know, they all like to be progressive.
00:32:09.460 They all like to be with what's hip.
00:32:10.980 So they might just go along to get along.
00:32:13.660 So I'm going to chat with them and see what they end up saying about it.
00:32:18.200 Yeah, and if there's any Jewish students, I'd be curious.
00:32:20.460 I mean, I find, unfortunately, some Jewish students become anti-Israel,
00:32:24.160 thinking that maybe if they bash Israel first, people won't be mean to them.
00:32:28.160 That's a phenomenon I detect.
00:32:30.120 But I think you're right.
00:32:31.120 I mean, most people, if you're at Stanford, you're there to learn.
00:32:33.880 One thing I'd like you to keep your eye peeled for is,
00:32:36.580 are these professional instigators?
00:32:38.340 I think of Canada, where a lot of the environmental groups,
00:32:41.960 they're not your friends and neighbors.
00:32:44.000 They're not organic.
00:32:45.100 It's not like the neighbor's kid is in Girl Guides.
00:32:48.420 Ding-dong, I'm with Girl Guides.
00:32:49.620 Can you buy some cookies?
00:32:50.400 Okay, it's real, it's natural, and it's, you know, self-funded kind of thing.
00:32:55.840 These are, I'm talking about professional, paid professionals who are paid to say this,
00:33:00.600 and in most of the time, they're paid by foreigners.
00:33:03.120 I'm talking about the environmental extremists in Canada.
00:33:05.680 I have a theory that this anti-Israel extremism, which is fused with anti-Americanism,
00:33:12.820 it's often fused with anti-capitalism, with even communism.
00:33:16.560 I have a theory that it's not organic, that it's stimulated by professional organizers,
00:33:23.280 and in some cases, we know that both Iran and Saudi Arabia spend billions of dollars overseas,
00:33:30.780 and Qatar now does, too, promoting this agitation.
00:33:35.000 And I wonder if you'll be able to detect any of that.
00:33:38.940 And I don't know.
00:33:40.460 I mean, you're there in the middle of Palestinian awareness, 0.94
00:33:43.200 and maybe you can find out what's going on.
00:33:45.260 Well, it is the Palestinian awareness week, sure, but it's also the middle of exam week.
00:33:51.060 I don't know.
00:33:51.620 When I was in university, I don't know a single student who would have taken off time from class
00:33:58.000 if they were a real student to do this.
00:34:00.380 I wouldn't have the time to do that, and that's at the U of C.
00:34:05.060 Stanford is this really prestigious school.
00:34:07.980 I don't imagine their students are taking off time to do this.
00:34:10.700 And you're right about this being infused with anti-Americanism.
00:34:14.360 The wall is plastered with anti-Donald Trump sentiments.
00:34:17.620 And I mean, that could be because Donald Trump has been a strong supporter of the state of Israel,
00:34:21.600 moving the Capitol, the embassy to Jerusalem, that sort of thing.
00:34:25.460 But these people aren't fans of Donald Trump.
00:34:27.820 I don't think they're fans of the United States, the country that they're living in.
00:34:31.540 And I think that all goes hand in hand with hating Israel. 0.81
00:34:34.880 Yeah.
00:34:35.220 You know, one thing I do love about San Francisco, or maybe I used to love it,
00:34:38.880 I don't know if it's there anymore, is the free speech movement.
00:34:42.440 I mean, 30, 40, almost 50 years ago, it was the home of free speech,
00:34:46.480 a little bit further away from you there at Berkeley.
00:34:49.540 But Stanford is part of that San Francisco milieu.
00:34:52.240 I wonder if that free speech spirit lives on.
00:34:55.440 I wonder if they tolerate dissenting voices.
00:34:59.900 You mentioned that there's sort of a fun right-wing troll kind of guy there.
00:35:05.420 I'm excited to hear more about that.
00:35:07.660 That's a real American experience.
00:35:09.980 I can't help but notice of the 10 people who are so standing behind you,
00:35:14.260 and this is just anecdotal, that all of them are Asian,
00:35:17.420 which, of course, very large Asian population in San Francisco and Stanford, an elite school.
00:35:22.180 These kids are there to learn.
00:35:24.280 And they're there to learn, typically, STEM studies.
00:35:29.060 I'm not being, I'm not stereotyping.
00:35:31.260 I'm just saying that that's one of the interesting things about schools, especially in California.
00:35:37.400 And it's my observation from Vancouver, where I've studied environmental extremist groups,
00:35:42.960 is the left-wing groups, the anti-capitalist groups, the anti-Israel groups,
00:35:46.640 their white liberal trust fund kids, and foreign exchange students from Arabia.
00:35:56.260 I went to a rally, I think I told you this once before,
00:35:58.720 almost 1,000 anti-pipeline protesters in Vancouver, a majority-minority city,
00:36:04.460 and I saw precisely two Asian people in a crowd of 1,000, which is statistically impossible.
00:36:13.840 Like in Vancouver, if you have 1,000 people chosen at random, you're going to have 40, 50% of them Asian.
00:36:20.680 And I'm just saying this because I think that new immigrants to America who are there to learn
00:36:25.560 and become American and study and do what you're supposed to do at Stanford,
00:36:29.480 they're not interested in these shenanigans.
00:36:31.560 That's a shenanigan for foreign-funded provocateurs 1.00
00:36:34.700 or guilty white liberal board trust fund kids looking to be woke.
00:36:39.700 That's my theory from here in Toronto.
00:36:41.240 What do you see there?
00:36:42.760 Well, I think you're right.
00:36:43.660 And now that you mention that, you're right, it is sort of anecdotal.
00:36:47.920 But I haven't seen one Asian-American interact with this board behind me.
00:36:53.100 I'll actually talk to them.
00:36:54.680 I'll try and ask them a few questions and see what they think about it
00:36:58.100 and see if there is a stark difference between, and I don't want to profile Asian-Americans,
00:37:02.800 but people who are here quite clearly to study and then those who are here
00:37:07.720 because this is where their parents told them to go to school.
00:37:10.340 This is where their parents went to school.
00:37:11.880 They are trust fund babies, just like our prime minister.
00:37:16.140 And that's why they have time to do this sort of activism.
00:37:19.680 Yeah, I mean, it's just because I happen to notice,
00:37:22.400 I mean, Stanford, that's an elite school.
00:37:25.280 I'm interested in learning this.
00:37:26.640 I mean, as we've said before, you can find anti-Israel extremism in any campus in North America,
00:37:32.040 including back here in Canada.
00:37:33.780 But I thought this would be an interesting adventure for you down in Stanford.
00:37:37.140 You've been on the road in other places.
00:37:39.120 Give me a quick recap of some of the places you've been to.
00:37:42.040 And without giving too much away,
00:37:43.400 where are the places you're going to be going to in the days ahead?
00:37:45.900 So I have been, I've been lots of places lately.
00:37:50.820 I've been to Winnipeg, like you mentioned, to cover Linda Sarsour.
00:37:54.120 There's been a distinct Israel flavor to the stuff I've been covering lately,
00:37:57.840 but that's not, you know, I wasn't on purpose or anything like that.
00:38:00.640 It's just what has happened.
00:38:02.580 I was in Winnipeg covering Linda Sarsour,
00:38:04.780 her anti-Semitic crowd that follows her wherever she goes.
00:38:07.980 And in particular, I was covering the pro-Israel protest that was across the street.
00:38:13.840 Also, what coincided with that was the Burmax Bakery,
00:38:17.140 the Jewish bakery that caused their own false flag vandalism of their bistro
00:38:24.320 to make it look like there was a huge Nazi problem in Winnipeg,
00:38:27.420 when in fact it was just the Jewish owners who were looking for attention,
00:38:30.840 probably to help with crowdfunding, to get out of a financial bind.
00:38:35.520 You're not too sure about that yet.
00:38:36.600 I've been to Vancouver, and I'm trying to remember why I was in Vancouver.
00:38:41.120 Oh, yes, I was in Vancouver to cover the gas price,
00:38:44.320 the crazy gas price crisis that they're in.
00:38:49.580 There's, you know, if you go across the border,
00:38:51.480 you'll see that the price is like half, it's like 50% what is in Canada.
00:38:55.360 And it's not just because of supply, it's because of provincial taxes,
00:38:59.360 federal taxes that are all lumped into metro downtown Vancouver.
00:39:04.160 But when you cross the border, there's none of that.
00:39:07.080 Well, there's some, but there's not near as much to that scale.
00:39:09.340 And they also don't have the same supply problems that metro Vancouver has,
00:39:12.900 which is about 80% supplied both in crude imports as well as refined products.
00:39:20.620 There's about 80% of that coming from Alberta,
00:39:22.680 which, as you know, is coming through that one Trans Mountain pipeline
00:39:25.880 that Albertans want to expand.
00:39:27.300 But for some reason, British Columbians,
00:39:29.340 or at least the British Columbian government, doesn't want to.
00:39:31.880 So that story is going to be coming up soon.
00:39:34.760 All right.
00:39:35.300 Well, listen, we look forward to following your travels,
00:39:37.140 and thanks for giving us the reports.
00:39:39.680 I mean, today was a curiosity.
00:39:41.240 It was a bit of an experiment.
00:39:42.960 I look forward to seeing the results of your work,
00:39:44.820 and we'll follow you on the road as you continue to crisscross Canada
00:39:48.460 and the United States for the Rebel.
00:39:50.000 Thanks, Kian.
00:39:51.600 Thanks, Ezra.
00:39:52.260 All right.
00:39:53.140 There you have it, Kian Bexty.
00:39:54.280 Stay with us.
00:39:55.280 More ahead on The Rebel.
00:39:55.960 Well, that's today's show.
00:40:09.000 I tell you, the more I look at these child actors
00:40:11.920 who have been pushed out to promote global warming,
00:40:14.800 the more it irritates me,
00:40:16.400 and the more I'm troubled by the fact that our teachers' unions
00:40:19.780 are doing it with impunity.
00:40:22.300 And, of course, our state broadcasters,
00:40:24.160 the worse CBC News kids is at the absolute worst.
00:40:27.380 But at least they admit they're using child actors
00:40:30.000 to propagate Justin Truro's talking points.
00:40:33.200 I'm actually more worried about what happens in the schools.
00:40:35.480 What do you think?
00:40:36.980 Well, folks, today, during the day,
00:40:38.660 I was at the Mark Norman hearing in Ottawa,
00:40:43.160 where I was live tweeting.
00:40:44.220 I will have an update for you on that tomorrow.
00:40:48.680 Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:40:51.380 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
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