Rebel News Podcast - Climate activism and the Great Reset

00:00:00.000 Hello Rebels, you're listening to a free audio-only recording of my weekly Wednesday night show,

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00:00:10.040 you feel like. Tonight my guest is Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science, and we're

00:00:14.780 talking about the thing that everybody is talking about all of a sudden now that Trudeau has

00:00:19.420 actually used the words, and that's the Great Reset. But we're also talking about how climate

00:00:27.280 alarmism has become an excuse to limit the free expression of not just skeptics, but really

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00:01:25.560 Free speech, media blackouts, and the great reset. I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed and you're watching

00:01:45.340 The Gunn Show.

00:01:55.560 Our friends over at Friends of Science, that little upstart organization that tries to give

00:02:09.760 a more science-minded assessment of just how much us pesky humans affect the weather, is

00:02:17.000 hosting an online event that discusses how climate activism undermines free thought and

00:02:25.420 free speech. And speaking of which, some Canadian filmmakers are experiencing a bit of a media

00:02:32.180 blackout when they tried to promote their documentary that tried to give a more balanced take on the

00:02:41.000 global warming debate. And everyone is just now talking about the Great Reset now that Trudeau

00:02:47.940 used those words. The Great Reset is really using the pandemic to rewrite our economies in a more

00:02:54.120 green way, which of course means a less efficient way with more centralized control by people who don't

00:03:00.740 know what they're doing. But Friends of Science has been talking about the Great Reset for months

00:03:05.460 because they are regular watchers of the World Economic Forum. Now today's interview runs a little

00:03:12.320 longer than my interviews normally do, so I'm just going to get right into it. Here's my interview

00:03:18.280 with my friend Michelle Sterling from Friends of Science that we recorded yesterday afternoon.

00:03:35.460 Joining me now from her home in Calgary is good friend of the show, my friend Michelle Sterling

00:03:45.400 from Friends of Science. Michelle, thanks for joining me. Before we get going, it's the days of the

00:03:53.560 COVID and we aren't allowed to do a lot of big events in person anymore, but that hasn't stopped

00:04:02.640 Friends of Science from organizing an event with Donna LaFramboise. You've got an upcoming event

00:04:09.800 about how climate activism is stifling free speech. That's right. Donna LaFramboise was our speaker in

00:04:18.540 2012 when she exposed the IPCC as being a delinquent teenager, you know, unwilling to clean up its act

00:04:27.520 and filled with all kinds of nasty habits. And she was a big hit back then. And she's gone on and done 0.98

00:04:34.680 another book and she runs a great blog called bigpick.com. But we decided to invite her and she

00:04:42.520 was supposed to be speaking live last year in April, of course, and our event was canceled. So we moved it

00:04:47.440 online. It's going to be December the 8th at 7pm Mountain Standard Time. And people can either take

00:04:54.680 out a membership which will give them free access to this event and others, or they can just buy the

00:05:01.040 one-time ticket for $15. So I think the membership is a better deal because you also get the whole

00:05:07.900 package of Friends of Science membership, extracts, CLI-Sci, reports, press releases, and you can

00:05:15.680 subscribe or unsubscribe according to what your preference is on those. But it's a good deal. And

00:05:21.460 Donna is a free speech advocate. She's the former vice president of the Canadian Civil Liberties

00:05:28.160 Association. And she really believes firmly that, you know, no matter what your position is on climate

00:05:35.740 change, there should be an open debate about it. There should be open civil debate on these things,

00:05:41.200 and people should not be run out of academia or denigrated, called deniers. So she's got a very

00:05:48.600 interesting methodical presentation that I think will really enlighten a lot of people about what's

00:05:54.380 wrong with attacking and denigrating somebody who disagrees with you. So we really look forward to that 0.93

00:06:01.760 December 8th, 7pm Mountain Standard Time. And if all goes well, we will have her presentation and then

00:06:10.300 a live chat with Donna. So registered guests can send in questions, which will be fielded to Donna.

00:06:15.760 And I think it'll be a great evening. It's our first online event. So we are doing our best and

00:06:23.540 we look forward to making it work.

00:06:26.680 You know, I'm very excited because Donna is one of the civil libertarians of old. You know, 0.84

00:06:34.260 in the times of the COVID, civil liberties are really being stomped on and yet we're hearing a lot of

00:06:41.460 silence from the so-called civil liberties organizations outside of, I guess, the Justice

00:06:46.840 Center for Constitutional Freedoms. They're really on the front lines of a lot of this.

00:06:51.880 And it's strange how far, and I know this isn't really climate change related, but it's strange how

00:06:57.500 far things have fallen away since Donna left the organization.

00:07:02.980 Oh, the civil liberties. Well, I don't know all the history there, but I do notice that they are

00:07:10.940 pretty quiet about a lot of different civil liberties issues where you'd think that people

00:07:16.020 in that capacity would speak up. You'd think that most journalists would speak up for freedom of the

00:07:22.180 press. But in fact, I'm not going to give away too much of the show here, but one of the key points

00:07:28.100 she brings out is the Winnipeg Free Press wrote an op-ed that, you know, deniers should be denied

00:07:36.300 the right to speak. And she followed up with the editorial staff there because it was, you know,

00:07:44.140 the perspectives editor had put it together. But it was really an editorial from the whole

00:07:50.920 editorial department and they were like, no, that's our position. And it's like, how can that be?

00:07:56.600 Yeah. You know, you're supposed to be in newspaper. You're supposed to be in favor of

00:08:00.100 free speech and open debate, different points of view. Guess not. So very odd.

00:08:07.800 Yeah. Especially at a newspaper called the Winnipeg Free Press.

00:08:12.780 Good point.

00:08:14.040 And we've seen this sort of crackdown on free speech from within the media. We've seen it with

00:08:21.040 Rex Murphy, where his own colleagues at the National Post sort of spoke out against him

00:08:27.280 because, you know, he expresses opinions that are not woke enough for that, for, you know,

00:08:33.360 for the rest of the National Post colleagues. And instead of, you know, arguing these things

00:08:38.240 out on the editorial pages of a newspaper, they'd just much rather shut you up. It's very

00:08:43.320 fascinating to watch, but also sort of frightening to watch that this is the state of journalism in

00:08:48.980 this country. Yes. No, it's terrifying to watch because once you don't have freedom of speech,

00:08:54.840 then you have tombstones. If you ever read the book called Tombstone about Mao's era in the

00:09:01.320 Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward in China, where 36 to 48 million people died,

00:09:08.240 mercilessly died in horrible circumstances in the same kind of struggle sessions we see now in the

00:09:14.980 media, where people glom on and attack an individual and relentlessly go after them until

00:09:23.260 they comply or submit. You know, that's what we're seeing. We're not seeing open civil debate.

00:09:29.620 And when you look at Amartya Sen, who was a UN envoy, and he's an economist, and he did a study,

00:09:40.460 I think it was 1995, I can send you the clip. But he studied all, he and his group studied all

00:09:47.020 countries in the world. And they found wherever there was a free press, there was no famine. But

00:09:52.380 when there was no free press, there was famine in the land. So that's how serious it is.

00:10:00.140 Speaking now of the state of the media, that's pretty great segue because you folks at Friends of

00:10:06.960 Science have done some work promoting the, I guess it's a movie documentary, but it's pretty balanced.

00:10:16.360 It's called Global Warning, and it's by Matthew Embry. And there's been pretty much a media blackout

00:10:24.740 about his movie. And I think it's because it actually provides some balance to the climate change

00:10:31.820 debate, as opposed to the Greta Thunberg, one side, we're all going to die. We've got, I don't know,

00:10:37.200 what is it, nine, 10 years left to live? That sort of hysteria. He doesn't do that. And so again,

00:10:44.500 there's sort of this cone of silence falling over top of his movie.

00:10:50.820 Yes, well, Matthew Embry is a Calgary filmmaker. He's got a great track record. He's done a number of

00:10:57.700 award winning films. He's been publicized all over the world for his film work. And last year,

00:11:07.620 he did this film called Global Warning with Super Channel. And they sent out all kinds of press

00:11:15.360 releases and got one interview. Wow. So, you know, he just really had a media blackout. So

00:11:21.420 they asked us if we'd like to promote the film. And just so you know, we do get a small percentage of

00:11:26.940 the video on demand fee, but their, their fee is like $6. So yeah, you know, it's a nominal portion

00:11:34.920 of that. But we did some interviews with him to meet the filmmakers. So people could get to know

00:11:42.200 the person behind the film. What an interesting young man. He really throws himself right into

00:11:48.320 these topics. And in this film, he made every effort to interview everyone from every side of the story.

00:11:54.780 And so, you know, he does it from the point of view of a Calgarian watching his city crumble,

00:12:00.760 and trying to find out why, and trying to find out, well, where's the valid argument. And he found

00:12:05.860 valid arguments on many sides. And you see that in the film, it's really touching. And it's very

00:12:11.780 powerful. But what the thing I found most interesting is that he actually has Catherine Abreu,

00:12:18.440 who is one of the top 100 most influential people in the world on climate change. And he follows her

00:12:25.200 around at COP24. And he 24, yeah, 24. And, and she allows him to come to a meeting where she gets to

00:12:35.380 meet face to face with the climate change negotiator just before they go into negotiations. Like, would

00:12:41.600 anyone in Alberta, for instance, ever have that opportunity? Anyone from, say, Cody Battersell,

00:12:47.580 would he be able to go in and advocate for Canada Action and all the unemployed people? I don't think 0.96

00:12:52.800 so. But anyway, that was that just blew my mind. And the fact that he was able to do that on camera

00:12:58.260 was fantastic. So it's really a great film. And, you know, I understand we may be going into another

00:13:03.900 lockdown. So it's a good way to spend an evening, start a little discussion with your family and friends,

00:13:09.820 maybe a good gift. Well, I, you and I were talking off camera, I'm going to reach out to

00:13:15.140 Matthew, because first off, I don't like media blackouts on opinions that the mainstream media

00:13:23.460 doesn't like. Because usually when it's an opinion that the mainstream media doesn't like, it means

00:13:28.380 it's actually a mainstream opinion held by the public. And, you know, the fact that he's a Calgarian

00:13:36.000 talking about the destruction of his city, because of these weird climate policies. What a great

00:13:42.280 firsthand account, but also the fact that he went to the UN Climate Change Conference COP24 and had

00:13:47.800 access. He probably won't have that ever again, just based on personal experience. They probably won't

00:13:54.900 have him back. So I would love to talk to him. So yeah, I will definitely reach out to him.

00:14:00.320 Yeah. And another person that they ran into was Dr. Fritz Varenholt, who was also in Germany,

00:14:06.600 and he made time available for them to come and interview him. Now, Dr. Varenholt has a long

00:14:11.260 background as an environmentalist. He was really one of the first environmentalists over there back

00:14:16.280 in the 70s, an advocate for wind and solar. But as time has gone on, he's found he was an expert

00:14:23.540 reviewer for the IPCC. He found that there were many errors in the IPCC reports that he sent to them.

00:14:29.560 They did not correct them. And he's also found over time that really, you know, there's a true

00:14:36.220 limit to renewables on the grid. They may be complementary, but they cannot be 100%. And he

00:14:41.860 explains that in the film. But you know, this is from the voice of experience. This is a really

00:14:47.680 incredibly well-rounded person who's gone through the whole gamut of environmentalism and industry

00:14:55.300 activity. So he really, really knows his stuff. So great film in that regard, too.

00:15:02.320 It's funny how many people are, for lack of a better term, aging out of the environmental movement.

00:15:10.240 And I think it's because they've seen one too many doomsdays come and go. And then they've seen

00:15:15.540 the practical application of the ideas of the environmental movement and have seen the devastation

00:15:23.540 that they've caused or the ineffectiveness of the ideas of the environmental movement, like how green

00:15:31.140 energy is simply complementary. It's not something that could ever power our economy. Because really,

00:15:38.180 that's what we're talking about when we're saying the energy grid. You don't just need something that

00:15:42.560 keeps the lights on in your house. You need to be able to power and fuel a robust, active, reliable

00:15:50.960 economy that continues to grow and grow and grow. And that just can happen with renewables.

00:15:57.240 Yeah. And oddly enough, the University of Calgary just put out this paper based on the IEA report

00:16:02.860 claiming that now solar and wind are cheaper than natural gas. Oh, okay, but they just don't work.

00:16:09.400 Yeah. But you know, here's a group of economists at the U of C public school of public policy,

00:16:16.080 who just know zero about energy. It's astounding that people in that position are able to publish

00:16:24.080 these kind of reports, get press in the Calgary Herald. And yet, this film, which exactly tells the

00:16:31.480 story of energy and the collapse of the German economy because of their efforts to try and go

00:16:37.160 in that direction. And it's the voice of experience of someone who actually worked in that industry

00:16:43.400 and is knowledgeable on climate. He's also a professor of chemistry, you know, so

00:16:47.980 Varenholt has all this background, author of many peer-reviewed papers on climate change.

00:16:54.940 That doesn't get the headline.

00:16:56.400 You know, it's funny because it seems that Germany was the ground zero for a lot of these 1.00

00:17:04.320 bad ideas. And it's also ground zero for a lot of the, for lack of a better term, coming

00:17:10.080 to Jesus for a lot of these climate activists. I mean, we've, we've seen Ryan Pools who, you

00:17:18.400 know, he, he was working in Germany, although he's a Dutch filmmaker. You know, he talked about

00:17:24.620 how in one of his movies, how, you know, the push towards green energy is actually causing

00:17:31.640 food insecurity, you know, and it, and it was, it's a feel good idea to move to biofuels

00:17:37.980 and look, we can actually just grow electricity. Like we grow food, but then it's like, well,

00:17:43.560 you only have so much arable land. Where do you, where are you going to grow the food now?

00:17:47.200 Yeah. Oh, well, we'll make it in a lab. See? So now we have a whole new industry of lab

00:17:54.400 making food people or food making lab people.

00:17:58.700 Isn't, isn't that fascinating? You know, we used to be able to farm food and animals on

00:18:05.160 the land. Now we've decided to use that land to grow biofuels, corn, not to feed the animals

00:18:12.380 or to feed the people, but to feed the cars when we used to just get that out of the ground

00:18:18.460 underneath the land and then grow food on top of that. And now we have to grow our steaks 0.73

00:18:24.760 in a lab. What have we done? What have we done? I wanted to talk about one of the recent reports

00:18:32.500 or no, you know what? We'll get to that in a second. I wanted to talk to you first about

00:18:36.580 new contributor that you guys have. Kate Wand. Usually we just, we just see Michelle Sterling's

00:18:44.800 smiling face over at the Friends of Science YouTube page, but you've got a new girl on staff.

00:18:51.380 Well, no, she's not on staff. She's a contributor, but she's a wonderful young woman who I ran across

00:18:58.180 because she had done a piece on Drew Godafridi's book, The Green Reich. And Drew is from Belgium.

00:19:05.160 So, Drew actually sent me a clip saying, well, look at this. Do you know this girl? You know, 0.94

00:19:09.920 which is always so funny for someone in Canada because Europeans, you know, always kind of tend 1.00

00:19:16.000 to think that if they know someone in Toronto and we're in Calgary, we probably know them too.

00:19:23.140 So, anyhow, but she's down east and she's done quite a bit on aviation.

00:19:28.840 And she's followed the track on aviation and noted that the climate movement is now hijacking

00:19:36.700 the aviation industry. And Robert Lyman had written a number of reports about that for us

00:19:42.340 late last year, noting that they were trying to impose carbon offset regulations on airlines,

00:19:50.540 which, you know, most airlines already struggling were like, please stop hurting me. So, now what

00:19:56.580 they've done is, you know, the great reset COVID lockdown has completely cratered the airline

00:20:02.820 industry and they're all desperate. They're all just like hanging by a thread. So, now she's reporting

00:20:08.740 that in Europe, governments are coming in with a bailout, but they are imposing these formerly

00:20:16.300 voluntary carbon offset arrangements and taking a portion of the company in return for the financial

00:20:24.080 contribution, which you might say would be fine if it were, you know, a limited time frame, like for,

00:20:31.600 I don't know, five years till we can bail you out, you know, you pay us back, but that doesn't seem

00:20:35.940 to be the case. But anyway, she did a whole big collection of pieces on airline hijacking,

00:20:42.740 hijacking of airlines, aviation, I think it's called. You know, that's one of the pieces that

00:20:48.700 we saw. And then she, since she's in Ontario, she went and interviewed Robert Lyman, which was

00:20:53.820 fantastic of her own volition. And they continued talking about how climate change has now become

00:20:59.740 this kind of messy umbrella that's covering every single thing in public policy. But it's actually

00:21:06.640 destroying almost every single thing in public policy as well, because it's completely unbalanced

00:21:11.520 and, you know, the objectives desired are not being met by any of these policies.

00:21:18.680 You know, it's that speaking about aviation, that's a really quite a neat scam the government's

00:21:24.800 pulling there. They close your industry by order of the government, then they offer to bail you out

00:21:30.380 with, I guess, your own money. A little bit of water. Yeah, it's good. I like the water. Okay,

00:21:35.860 you want a full cup? Well, then you're going to have to do this. Yeah, they offer to bail you out

00:21:40.380 with your own money. Then you have to give them an ownership stake in the company that they have

00:21:45.660 ruined through an act of their own government. Oh, and by the way, you have to run it exactly how

00:21:50.480 they say. And I can't even think of anything more inefficient than a government run business.

00:21:56.920 It's insane. Well, yeah, the other thing that goes with that, if you've ever read George Monbiot's,

00:22:01.940 here's the plan from 2006, one of the things that he advocated for was a personal carbon ration

00:22:09.040 that you could use to, you know, apply to your heating bill, your travel by car or airline flights.

00:22:18.320 And if you run out of these carbon rations, then you just buy more from someone who has

00:22:22.580 some they aren't using. Well, who would that be? Al Gore, perhaps. So, but, you know, you can see

00:22:32.840 how this is a step further down that slippery slope, because now if the airlines are forced to deal in

00:22:40.060 carbon offsets, well, now it's an easy slide to say, well, if you want to fly, you know, then you're

00:22:45.900 going to cash in some of your ration. So. What a scam. Huge scam. Now, I alluded to a report that

00:22:57.560 Friends of Science has done rebutting Gerald Butts, because Gerald Butts, although he's no longer in

00:23:02.200 the prime minister's office, he's not gone away, and he's never going away. I think he's going to

00:23:07.480 plague this nation for a very long time. And you folks have a report rebutting his five bold moves.

00:23:15.060 That's right. We did this just shortly after the, the speech from the throne. But if you look at the

00:23:24.160 five bold moves report that the task force on resilient recovery, which is made up of a number

00:23:30.120 of people in smart prosperity, and also Mr. Butts, if you look at that five bold moves report, which is

00:23:38.180 its subtitle, and you look at the speech from the throne, there's curious confluence there. And

00:23:46.580 so we did an analysis of the task force report. And it's in it. Our report is called penury or

00:23:56.420 prosperity. What is Canada's future? And we also have a short video overview of it. One of the things

00:24:03.180 we found, first of all, is that the whole thing is fraught with conflicts of interest, foreign money,

00:24:09.720 just like the tar sands campaign. And Parker Gallant did a lot of that research.

00:24:16.520 Then we also went through the task force report, they did kind of a geopolitical overview saying,

00:24:23.000 well, look, this is what France is doing. They're putting lots of electric cars, we should too,

00:24:27.880 you know, and here's how much money the UK is spending, we should too, you know, let's retrofit

00:24:33.220 all our buildings too. So the you know, they're kind of doing this copycat thing, like those guys

00:24:38.080 are leaders. And if we want to be a climate leader, we better copy them. So we went through and did a

00:24:42.700 geopolitical analysis, showing that in every one of these countries, there are factors that might be

00:24:49.300 relevant for that country. And the best example is probably France. France has lots of nuclear power.

00:24:55.580 So for them to go all electric vehicle, it's not such a big deal. And it's fairly temperate climate.

00:25:02.340 It's a fairly small country compared to Canada. And it is also quite well wired already with

00:25:09.920 infrastructure, high voltage infrastructure, and a very dense population. None of those things apply

00:25:16.420 in Canada, none of them, not one. So you know, their big pitch was like, let's go all EV and let's

00:25:23.340 electrify Canada. So that's one of the things we debunk there. And then the second part of the

00:25:29.700 report, Canary or Prosperity, we go through step by step and look at things like hydrogen.

00:25:37.140 And one of the people we work with quite closely is Professor Samuel Fafari, who's from the University

00:25:44.340 of Free University of Belgium. And he's, he was working on hydrogen for the past, I don't know, 30,

00:26:01.660 40 years. He's been a chief advisor or a key advisor to the EU on energy issues. And he's just published

00:26:09.300 a book called the hydrogen illusion. Because hydrogen is not the next thing. Sorry, but it's not. And he's

00:26:18.140 done all the hard work on it. So we detail that in our report as well. And there's another one, we found

00:26:25.180 out one of the people who's a contributor to this group of the task force. She had been advocating for

00:26:33.160 more First Nations renewables projects. And she cited the Coeces band, First Nation in Saskatchewan,

00:26:42.060 and how they put up a wind farm with battery, and how great it was. And it only cost a couple of

00:26:48.640 million bucks. Well, it turns out it costs more like $9 million. It turns out that the power from it is

00:26:53.740 about three times the cost of regular power. And by comparison, you know, she had said, it's too bad we

00:27:00.260 didn't do more of these, because think of how wonderful it would be for First Nations people.

00:27:04.720 Well, we found that the Taltan people in BC, by comparison, they were the beneficiaries of $150

00:27:11.660 million power line that was criticized at the time. But this power grid transmission line went to the

00:27:18.700 mines in BC. And now, more than half the band is employed at these mines. They're making great money.

00:27:25.480 It's bringing in $8 billion to the BC economy from this one crazy power line. So you know, that's a

00:27:33.080 great infrastructure investment that has yielded multiple benefits, whereas the Coeces band experimental 1.00

00:27:41.040 wind and battery farm, it's money down the drain, because it's, you know, this is not suitable for

00:27:48.820 for Canada didn't create any jobs for them to speak of. And you can't export that energy,

00:27:54.880 you can't make more money from it. You know, it's not an exportable product. So that's what our

00:28:03.020 report does. It looks at all these things, breaks them down and debunks a lot of the ideological views

00:28:08.560 of Mr. Butts and crew. You know, it's funny. And exposes the conflict of interest. It's funny to see

00:28:15.400 people still pursue these weird wind farm dreams when over and Edmonton is doing it right now using 50

00:28:24.120 plus acres in the River Valley to put up tens of thousands of solar farm panels to provide I think

00:28:35.600 it's one one fifth of the power on the best of days for the water treatment facility there and they raise

00:28:43.500 the money by overcharging rate payers for the last few years for it. And they're doing this after

00:28:49.420 Medicine Hat decided our solar panel, our city run solar panel facility has been an absolute boondoggle.

00:28:58.220 I think theirs cost almost 10 million dollars and they're ripping the thing out and then you just

00:29:01.860 can't throw it in the garbage because it's toxic waste. When if we want to talk about indigenous 1.00

00:29:07.320 prosperity, pipelines, pipelines, oil sands development, we only have to look at Fort Mackay to

00:29:15.240 see the success or the recent partnership between TC Energy. They're the owners of Keystone XL Pipeline

00:29:23.520 and, you know, they've joined together with Natural Law Energy, which is a First Nations conglomerate

00:29:31.160 from Treaty 4, Treaty 6, and Treaty 7. They're investing one billion dollars into that pipeline.

00:29:38.000 Here's how it goes forward and, you know, Joe Biden doesn't cancel it.

00:29:42.680 Mm-hmm. Well, you know, the thing that people don't realize is that you want exportable products.

00:29:50.080 Right.

00:29:50.220 Like minerals can be exported, oil, gas, coal, all these forestry products. These are exportable

00:29:58.760 things that other people buy and when they buy them, the country gets money. But if you're just

00:30:04.080 putting your money into renewables here, then actually you're paying money probably to China

00:30:09.860 because that's where most of the renewables are made. And it's just a drain on the taxpayer's purse

00:30:16.440 and even more so, as you say, it's the one in Edmonton is subsidized by taxpayers. We did a paper that

00:30:22.820 you and I talked about in our last interview where the U of A was advocating for wind and

00:30:28.820 what a fantastic thing it is. Well, we showed how millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies are going

00:30:35.520 to wind farms. Millions of dollars. And we're never getting that money back in energy and it's

00:30:40.900 not an exportable product. Well, except in Ontario where they give it away. Yeah.

00:30:45.520 At taxpayer's expense. Right. While people there are doing their laundry in the middle of the night

00:30:53.180 to avoid the peak usage charges. Now, I want to talk to you about one thing that I noticed the

00:31:00.800 other day when I was poking around on the Friends of Science YouTube channel, as I tend to do,

00:31:06.220 you folks were on the case of the Great Reset way before everybody else is talking about it.

00:31:13.580 And, you know, that's the language of the World Economic Forum. But now it's also the language

00:31:17.840 of Justin Trudeau. He's used that phrase, the Great Reset, even though the mainstream media is

00:31:23.980 saying that's a vast right wing conspiracy, this Great Reset. But it is the language of the World

00:31:30.540 Economic Forum. And you folks had a video months ago talking about it when the rest of the world is

00:31:36.940 just catching up now. Yes. Well, we've been tracking the World Economic Forum for some time

00:31:42.780 and actually in part because of our working with Clintel. Because quite a few months ago,

00:31:49.540 Clintel sent a note to Dorge Bende, who is the CEO of the World Economic Forum, telling him,

00:31:57.820 hey, there's no climate emergency, like cut it out. So we started looking into more and more of what

00:32:03.560 the World Economic Forum was advocating for. You know, we've done quite a few videos on them.

00:32:08.880 One of them was about Davos depopulation. Like just before COVID hit, these guys had

00:32:15.340 one of their Davos fests as usual. And Jane Goodall was talking about how if only the world had only

00:32:22.520 500 million people. You know, like these really ridiculously small numbers and everyone's like

00:32:30.420 really engaged on that. They think that's a great idea. You know, like, let's reduce the population.

00:32:36.860 Well, you know, and what's happening right now is that population is being reduced. And it's very

00:32:42.980 creepy. But when you look at the World Economic Forum website, you can find all these things. And

00:32:48.800 if this is a conspiracy theory, then there is a Danish MP who is right in on it, because she wrote an

00:32:56.160 article blog for the World Economic Forum saying, I've forgotten what shopping is. You know, I live in an

00:33:01.960 apartment. I have nothing. When I go out in the morning, my living room is used by business people

00:33:08.240 for a meeting. And I don't mind that. Weird. I'm too bad about all the people we left behind who live

00:33:13.500 in the country. And they, you know, I know that surveillance follows me everywhere. And I have no

00:33:19.400 privacy. And I hope they don't use it against me. She actually says that in this article. You're

00:33:25.240 thinking this is a member of parliament? This person represents real people? Like who would think of that?

00:33:30.940 But, you know, this, this is Klaus's book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution. And he's got a couple of

00:33:38.620 other books. And one is called COVID-19, The Great Reset. That's the name of the book. Wow. And in that

00:33:47.540 book, actually, it was Winter Oaks Press that did a great article about how crazy this guy is. But in that

00:33:55.500 book, he says, this is the least deadly pandemic of the past 2000 years. And he's really excited that,

00:34:05.500 for instance, well, we're talking on Zoom right now, he's very excited in one passage in the book,

00:34:11.460 he says, you know, look, Zoom's market cap is bigger than that of a US airline. Isn't that fantastic?

00:34:18.760 Well, not really. Zoom is very useful. I'm enjoying it right now. I would rather have the

00:34:25.020 real experience of flying to Edmonton and seeing Sheila Gunn-Reed, or flying to Europe and meeting

00:34:32.020 Drew Godafridi. I would like to have all those people in the airline industry employed. I would

00:34:38.320 like to have that supply chain of food and all those little packaged items. I would like that to be in

00:34:44.780 action. I would like to have the joy of traveling to a tiny, you know, island and nation where my trip

00:34:52.680 there is going to be a big portion of their GDP. I think that's way more important than Zoom having a

00:34:59.940 fantastically high market cap in a couple of weeks. Yeah, I mean, like you, I don't have a problem with

00:35:08.100 our economies evolving as technology changes, but I want it to happen organically. I don't want it to

00:35:14.580 happen by the hammer of the government and their hand of intervention, where we've just decided that

00:35:20.720 certain industries are no longer going to exist because they're inconvenient for us with what we

00:35:26.540 want to do with the economy. These command and control economies never work. They always collapse

00:35:32.820 at some point. And in the meantime, there's utter economic devastation faced by the worker that the

00:35:39.480 people making the decisions never have to come to terms with. Yeah, yeah, they don't really care. I

00:35:45.540 mean, actually, and Kate Wand has just done a really great video about the morality of lockdowns, which is

00:35:52.640 basically on that same point. So might be good to look that up as well. Definitely. Now, Michelle,

00:36:00.880 you've been very generous with your time. I want to give you a chance to let everybody know again,

00:36:06.140 how they can support the work that Friends of Science does. And maybe give us the information

00:36:11.040 for your event with Donna LaFramboise one more time. Okay, so Donna's event is Climate Activism

00:36:19.080 Undermining Freedom of Speech, Free Thought and Free Choice. And that's going to be on December the 8th

00:36:28.040 at 7pm. And it's online. So we'll have our registration website up soon. Just keep an eye

00:36:34.820 out for it. We are running an ad on YouTube so that you can get a, you know, a sense of what it

00:36:40.760 will be about. And it will be $15 per viewer. Or if you get a membership, which could either be one year

00:36:49.720 for $40 or three years for $80, then you will be able to access these events free of charge. Because

00:36:57.180 we will have a subsequent event in January with Dr. Roy Spencer. And he'll be talking about the main

00:37:03.400 reasons why there's no climate emergency. And we're planning to do some more events with Clintel

00:37:09.400 over the course of the year as well. So you know, you'll have access to a lot of good material.

00:37:15.420 And you can find memberships on our website, just go to our website, friends of science.org. And

00:37:24.300 you'll find up in the corner, a donate membership button, just click on that. And you can go in

00:37:28.420 and become a member and or donate as you see fit. And we'd love to have you. And if not, you know,

00:37:34.860 we've got lots of free material on our Facebook, our LinkedIn, our Twitter feed, our YouTube channel,

00:37:41.000 our blog. So, you know, join us. You know, friends of science is one of those organizations that

00:37:48.440 stretches every penny. You're, you're a small organization, you don't have big foreign funded

00:37:56.020 backers like the environmental movement, very science focused, you take these big, complex,

00:38:02.180 scientific and economic ideas and break them down into digestible ways that people can consume the

00:38:09.420 information and not just consume the information and understand it, but then use it in the world

00:38:14.940 in, you know, in arguments, take those arguments out into the world and easily communicate them. And

00:38:20.340 for, you know, for 40 bucks a year, boy, people sure get their money's worth.

00:38:27.120 Thank you. Yes. Well, we hope so. We think so. Yeah, we do our best.

00:38:31.700 Well, Michelle, thank you so much for coming on the show. We'll have you back on again real soon,

00:38:35.740 definitely before your January event and maybe even after your December event to just see how

00:38:42.420 everything went. I'll probably be lurking in the Zoom call for that too.

00:38:46.940 Okay. Well, and I just want to say to you, Sheila and to all the viewers, I hope everybody

00:38:52.180 keeps their spirits up in these difficult times and Merry Christmas to everyone. Happy Hanukkah

00:39:00.340 and hang in there, everybody. It's tough times, but you know, people went through World War II,

00:39:07.520 World War I, the Great Depression, you know, read some of the biographies and autobiographies and

00:39:15.040 diaries of our forefathers and get some strength from it. So hang in there, everyone. Merry Christmas,

00:39:21.060 Happy New Year. May 2021 be way better than 2020. What a great way to leave the show. You know,

00:39:30.580 at times are tough, but as you know, Albertans are tougher. Thanks for coming on the show, Michelle.

00:39:35.540 Thank you, Sheila.

00:39:36.240 Thank you, Sheila.

00:39:36.260 You know, thank goodness for Friends of Science and the work that they do on their little shoestring

00:39:53.220 budget because boy, oh boy, they are often very ahead of the curve on so many issues where climate

00:40:01.360 change becomes the excuse to do so many things to us like tax us, put us out of work or limit our

00:40:08.900 free expression. Imagine what Friends of Science could do if they had the budget of the big foreign

00:40:15.420 funded environmental movement. Well, everybody, that's the show for tonight. Thank you so much

00:40:20.500 for tuning in. I'll see everybody back here in the same time, in the same place next week. And

00:40:25.520 remember, don't let the government tell you that you've had too much to think.

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00:40:35.180 Number seven.

00:40:36.280 America caught a cheating attack and said, I'm coming up his head on the same topic,

00:40:41.060 but unfortunately I won't make any detto in this starting point. Although I'm a new

00:40:43.420 fan of farming, when I don't dance between Samsung and Samsung and Samsung will have to be

00:40:48.100 successful in the same time in advance the competition and this season came with me,

00:40:50.940 a group of new CEO. It was a special lesson and we'll do not do on how to deal with that made

00:40:54.420 chemistry, which was all some jokes.

00:40:55.420 The info on that show started in, which we made today's fun, whereplayed activity was

00:40:58.580 built in peace.

Rebel News Podcast - November 26, 2020

Climate activism and the Great Reset

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