Rebel News Podcast - COVID-19： “Two weeks to flatten the curve”？ That’s been changed to two YEARS

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. I saw an incredible clip from Teresa Tam, Trudeau's hand-picked public health

00:00:05.000 officer, who actually still works for the World Health Organization. It's so weird.

00:00:09.580 She says we have to live in this lockdown for two or three more years. I've got the videotape

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00:00:56.480 Tonight, two weeks to flatten the curve, they said. Now that's being changed to two years.

00:01:12.900 It's August 5th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:15.460 Two weeks to flatten the curve. That's what they told us when they asked us to live a little bit

00:01:41.180 like prisoners. Be under a form of house arrest. Stop visiting other people, including our own 0.96

00:01:47.320 families. Give up our freedom of mobility. Give up our jobs, our businesses. Give up our right to

00:01:53.360 visit our doctors or anyone else. Give up the right to visit our grandparents, even if they're

00:01:58.180 dying, especially if they're dying. Tonight, I'll have an interview with our friend Avi Yamini, who lives

00:02:03.480 in Melbourne, Australia. They're truly under martial law. They literally have members of the Australian

00:02:09.780 military patrolling the streets, not hunting for invading armies, but hunting for Australian

00:02:15.800 citizens who dare to leave their houses. That's what you do with the prison. But prisoners at least 1.00

00:02:22.620 have a trial first. There's no trial here. They're all guilty. Two weeks to flatten the curve, they said.

00:02:29.300 Remember what that meant, though. They didn't say two weeks to stop the disease. That would require

00:02:34.060 sealing off our entire country to outsiders. Now, they did that pretty much in Taiwan. 0.99

00:02:39.120 They literally told tens of thousands of Taiwanese citizens that they simply could not come back home

00:02:44.960 from China because of the pandemic. And when people were allowed in, they had strict quarantines. I tried

00:02:51.680 to send a reporter from Rebel News to Taiwan to cover how they fought the pandemic, but they actually

00:02:57.320 refused to let us send anyone, even if we promised to spend two weeks in the quarantine. That's what

00:03:02.740 quarantine means, actually. You'll remember from my very long monologue the other day about

00:03:07.260 medieval Mediterranean port cities during the plague. Places like Venice and Marseille. That when ships would

00:03:14.180 arrive from other ports known to have the plague, the arriving ships had to stay for 40 days.

00:03:20.620 Quaranta giorni. That's where the word quarantine comes from, from the Italian.

00:03:26.140 They'd have to stay at a little island off the main city for up to 40 days till they got a clean bill of health.

00:03:32.460 That's where that phrase came from. They didn't put the entire city in a lockdown or a quarantine.

00:03:38.020 They only quarantined people arriving to the city. They focused their efforts on risky people, on sick

00:03:44.800 people, on foreign people, not on safe people, healthy people, their own people. Trudeau did the opposite.

00:03:51.060 Canada, United States did the opposite. Australia did the opposite. So they've locked down the entire

00:03:56.720 state of Victoria in Australia, including the mighty city of Melbourne. They're really under

00:04:01.600 martial law. So quarantine doesn't mean what it meant. And two weeks to flatten the curve doesn't

00:04:08.500 mean what it meant. Flatten the curve didn't mean stop people from getting sick, by the way. It meant

00:04:14.860 slow down the rate of people getting sick so that when the pandemic peaked, that highest amount of sick

00:04:21.140 people at any one time would be low enough that everyone could be taken care of in our system.

00:04:25.640 And let's just slow down the spread of the virus a bit through social distancing and breaking the

00:04:31.060 chain of contagion so that instead of us all getting sick at once, we spread it out so it's not bunched

00:04:37.980 up. So the maximum disaster is small enough for our hospitals to handle. Yeah, as you can see from

00:04:43.860 this graph of Toronto cases, and it's pretty much the same for every Canadian jurisdiction,

00:04:49.800 we flattened the curve. The curve itself never came close to overwhelming hospitals. Hospitals

00:04:55.980 have been shockingly empty. Bored doctors and nurses spend their time filming little TikTok videos

00:05:02.140 because there's nothing else to do. There was no curve to flatten. Justin Trudeau and Teresa Tam,

00:05:07.540 the public health officer, they said according to their models, we'd have between 50,000

00:05:12.580 and 350,000 dead by now. The number actually hasn't hit 9,000, thank God. The curve peaked in mid-April,

00:05:22.740 but that peak itself was nowhere near overwhelming. It's done. It's over. It's finished. I showed you

00:05:28.120 the British Columbia stats the other day. Not a single person under age 47 died from it. Fewer than 200

00:05:34.600 people in the entire province. A small fraction compared to other causes of death like opioid drugs,

00:05:41.300 which are a real pandemic in BC. You know, entire provinces are virus-free in Canada,

00:05:47.580 have been for weeks. Nova Scotia brought in its mandatory mask bylaw only after the whole place 0.98

00:05:54.120 was certified virus-free. There's no one who's got it there. What sense does that make? Here's our

00:06:00.700 newest contributor, Tamara Ugolini. You might recall that she's one of our clients too. We met her

00:06:05.780 through fightthefines.com. She was thrown in a jail cell, no exaggeration, because she was walking

00:06:12.940 on the beach. A jail cell. Well, we liked how clearly she spoke. We liked her fighting spirit,

00:06:18.760 so we asked her to make videos with us. Here's part of her first report from yesterday. I don't know

00:06:24.140 if you saw it. Here with Rebel News, I'm Tamara Ugolini in what is coined as the feel-good town of

00:06:30.460 Coburg, Ontario. Here locally, the Medical Officer of Health, Lynn Noseworthy, has implemented a mask

00:06:36.880 mandate for the Kawartha-Halliburton-Pine Ridge region and seems to come as of yesterday after all

00:06:44.900 cases have been declared resolved by the same health unit within Northumberland County. Isn't that funny?

00:06:51.200 Her hometown had the virus, but it's completely cured. Not a single person in her whole town has it now,

00:06:58.400 but now is the time they're making masks mandatory. There's no science there. That's not public

00:07:04.680 health. The only science there is psychology. Keep people scared. Keep people submissive. Keep people

00:07:10.360 obedient. Here's one more clip from Tamara's debut video. Someone who actually worked in the personal

00:07:16.080 protection industry for nearly 30 years. Listen to him say the obvious about mandatory masks.

00:07:22.060 Well, my name is Ron Mitchell. I worked for OPG for close to 38 years, and over 30 of those years,

00:07:27.880 I worked in developing personal protective equipment. I heard what was going on here,

00:07:32.220 and I thought I'd come down, and if somebody wanted a little bit of different information,

00:07:37.020 I might be the guy who can supply it. I would say roughly 70 percent of the air that you're

00:07:41.880 breathing in your lungs is not going through the mask. 30 percent or less is actually going through

00:07:47.000 the mask. So tell me again what is protecting you from the virus, because the air is going down by

00:07:51.660 your nose in the two big open holes in your cheeks and a couple of holes down here. So the virus is

00:07:57.300 bypassing the mask. That seems to be right. I mean, I don't want to be gross, but I want to tell you a

00:08:02.560 comparison I hear from time to time, and it's gross. I'm sorry, but I think it's true, and I'm sorry in

00:08:08.820 advance because it's gross. But I saw this meme, and it's gross, but it's true. I mean, the real

00:08:19.940 answer is plastic waterproof diapers that babies wear. It can stop everything, but not a flimsy mask.

00:08:28.560 I don't know. A flimsy mask is for obedience training. It's for conditioning. If you want a mask

00:08:32.460 that has a tight seal around your mouth like a plastic baby's diaper would, there are masks like

00:08:38.500 that. They're called N95 masks. They cost a bit more. They seal up to the face. The N95 means they

00:08:45.160 stop 95 percent of particles. But there's a secret about these N95 masks that I only learned the other

00:08:50.000 day. They protect you, the wearer, at least more than a hand can share for those blue cloth masks do.

00:08:56.620 But you know that little valve on them, that little circle? That's to exhale. It's like a

00:09:02.320 tailpipe for a motor. So the mask, the N95 mask really filters what you breathe in. But when you

00:09:08.580 breathe out, it goes to that little valve easily. It's a one-way exit valve, and it doesn't filter

00:09:14.360 anything going out. So you're breathing out of those masks naturally and easily. It makes the

00:09:21.460 mask more comfortable. N95 masks don't actually filter what you exhale. I'm not trying to get kooky

00:09:30.660 or go down some rabbit hole here. I'm just saying, look, the pandemic peaked nearly four

00:09:35.220 months ago. We flattened the curve so much it's not even a curve. The worst it did was the same

00:09:40.420 as the annual flu season in terms of death toll. And it's done now. What we're seeing now is politics,

00:09:46.500 not medicine. In fact, I think it's always been politics, not medicine. These masks are the worst

00:09:51.640 example of it. But look at this. Look at this. Listen to this. I think we're in it. We're planning

00:09:57.300 as a public health community that we're going to have to manage this pandemic, certainly over the

00:10:03.460 next year, but certainly maybe, you know, planning for the longer term or the next two to three years

00:10:08.920 during which the vaccine may play a role. But we don't know yet.

00:10:15.720 That one part, the public health community, is that how we make decisions as a country,

00:10:22.880 as a democracy, as businesses, as families, as churches, as schools? The public health community

00:10:30.400 says, who's in that community again? Presumably Patty Hajdu, Trudeau's health minister, who ordered

00:10:37.060 you not to go traveling. But look at that. She took 70 grand worth of private jet flights back and 1.00

00:10:44.380 forth through her hometown because she's important. She's a member of the public health community and

00:10:49.960 you're not. Say, since when did any federal government have jurisdiction at all over schools

00:10:57.220 and hospitals and matters of local affairs? Section 92 of our constitution gives the provinces,

00:11:04.020 not the federal health minister, and definitely not some unelected federal bureaucrat in her health 0.63

00:11:09.720 community, the power to make decisions about schools and hospitals and cities. And according to

00:11:13.940 section 92 16, generally all matters of a merely local or private nature in the province. Yeah.

00:11:20.300 So thanks, Theresa Tam. We know that by public health community, you mean you and your other UN

00:11:26.300 obeying bureaucrats who have no democratic legitimacy. And by the way, you've been wrong on every possible

00:11:32.460 thing so far. Yet you've called us racist for being concerned. And even the vaccine isn't enough for

00:11:38.140 these people. The made-in-China vaccine. Imagine thinking that's a good idea. Here's Tam's deputy, 0.94

00:11:44.540 Howard Nju. The bottom line, I think, is the question where it was asked is that, you know,

00:11:49.320 people might think that if we get a vaccine that everything, quote, goes back to normal the way it

00:11:53.580 was before. And that's not the case. As Dr. Tam and others have mentioned, a vaccine will not be a

00:11:58.720 silver bullet. It'll certainly be an important tool. It'll be something that hopefully we can use

00:12:03.900 to an effective purpose for a large part of the population or certainly for certain vulnerable

00:12:10.360 populations. But all of the measures we've put in place now will still have to continue with that

00:12:15.420 new reality for quite some time. So certainly I think that we need to temper people's expectations

00:12:20.280 thinking that the vaccine's going to be that silver bullet that will take care of everything and

00:12:24.920 everything we've done up to now won't be necessary in the future. Oh, so the lockdown wasn't enough.

00:12:31.540 The masks aren't enough and the vaccine won't be enough. It's never enough. They're already moving

00:12:38.300 the goalposts. Boy, they love power over you. They love threatening you. They love making rules to boss

00:12:45.060 you around. Until a few months ago, no one had even heard of these little tyrants, let alone voted to give 0.84

00:12:50.840 them absolute power. Now they refuse to let go of that power. What a disgrace they are. But can you

00:12:57.460 please tell me something? Has anyone seen Her Majesty's loyal opposition? A two or three year lockdown for

00:13:07.480 a pandemic that never really arrived and that went away in April? Anything? Anyone? Have you heard of

00:13:13.780 any opposition or are they too afraid to point out that the emperor has no clothes? Stay with us for more

00:13:22.400 from Melbourne, Australia.

00:13:35.160 Well, yesterday we told you about the martial law in the Australian state of Victoria, where the large

00:13:42.320 city Melbourne is located. You know, Australia, one of its many nicknames is the lucky country.

00:13:50.120 It doesn't seem like it's having good luck. I'm not referring to the coronavirus, which has a modest

00:13:56.980 death toll in Australia. I'm referring to the shocking and totalitarian response by some of its politicians,

00:14:04.800 including the premier of Victoria State. Well, we have a good friend who lives in Melbourne. It's Avi Yamini,

00:14:12.020 who works with TR.news. You'll remember Avi went to Hong Kong as a freelancer for us last year and did some

00:14:20.340 world-class journalism about the democracy protesters. Well, now he's fighting for democracy in his own

00:14:27.760 country. Joining us now via Skype is our friend Avi Yamini. Avi, great to see you. How are you keeping,

00:14:32.480 my friend? I'm good, mate. It's 11 o'clock at night, and if I dare commit the offense of leaving my

00:14:42.400 property, I shall be arrested or fined up to $5,000. That's crazy. The curfew kicks in at 8 p.m. till 5 a.m.

00:14:56.320 That really is how you treat children. I don't know if it's how you treat a virus. I don't know if the

00:15:01.260 virus understands that you can't catch it at 7.59 p.m., but at 8 p.m. it becomes a public menace.

00:15:10.300 Is there any science behind any of this, or is it just an authoritarian premier having some fun?

00:15:18.460 I reckon Rebel News is risking getting banned here for rebelling against the official health

00:15:25.760 recommendations that the virus comes out at night. It only comes out at night. That's why we need to

00:15:33.180 stay home at night. It doesn't make any sense. Tell us a little bit of what it's like. I mean,

00:15:41.180 you can't set foot outside your home at night. If I was reading the regulations correctly, you're only

00:15:46.680 allowed outside for one hour period during the day, less than five kilometers from your own home for

00:15:53.360 exercise. This reminds me of when our mutual friend Tommy Robinson was in Belmarsh Prison in solitary

00:16:00.720 confinement. He was allowed one hour of exercise within five kilometers of his cell daily. So,

00:16:07.380 sounds like you're in prison, mate.

00:16:10.000 It pretty much is. That's what it is. And it seems like basically our government here lost control

00:16:17.360 of the virus, whilst the rest of the country seemed to pretty much quell it. Now, that came down to

00:16:25.620 hotel quarantine issues, which at the same time, he allowed a Black Lives Matter rally, which all these

00:16:32.900 little clusters started between there and there. And then there was the towers, the commission flats,

00:16:38.220 and the cedar meats all connected. It was going undetected. And the way to respond to it in the last,

00:16:45.860 we've been in lockdown now, the second lockdown, only in the state of Victoria. Everyone else had one

00:16:51.820 lockdown and we'd had near to no cases around the country. And then it started to pop up here in

00:16:58.720 Victoria. And four weeks ago, four weeks ago now, we went back into lockdown. It was a six-week

00:17:07.760 lockdown again to flatten the curve. And it didn't do anything because it had already got out of hand.

00:17:17.460 It had already passed that point. And about two weeks ago, they made masks mandatory. And now this

00:17:28.040 week, it's gone into a stage four lockdown, which is, like you said, some of those regulations you've

00:17:33.760 given, which includes a curfew, and the only very minimal amount of essential workers allowed out.

00:17:41.740 It's very confusing as well. But besides that, it just reminds you of, you know, I'm sure you,

00:17:47.400 you as a Jew would know Holocaust survivors and heard their stories. And some of the regulations and

00:17:54.820 some of the restrictions just very much remind me of those stories that we were told as children of

00:18:01.920 what they went through then, obviously, without some of the, you know, the, the, the, the, not the

00:18:09.780 Holocaust, but the actual regulations and the laws about movement just remind, and I never thought I'd

00:18:15.520 ever live through something where I'd, I'd witness it myself, let alone in here in Australia, you know,

00:18:20.680 maybe in Hong Kong, where we're doing the reporting there, but not here in Melbourne, Australia. And

00:18:25.300 it's bizarre. And I know some viewers will think you're exaggerating or using hyperbole. But I read

00:18:31.760 through the rules, and you have to carry papers on you and furnish them. Hundreds of soldiers will be

00:18:40.980 in the streets. There's military now patrolling the streets with police, enforcing these restrictions and

00:18:50.900 these rules. It's, there's no exaggeration. Businesses that breach some of these draconian

00:18:58.360 laws are going to, they're fined up to $100,000. Think about that for a small business, $100,000 to

00:19:06.060 breach those laws. So it's no exaggeration. It is what is. Now it's all in the name of fighting this

00:19:14.060 virus and beating this virus. But as we've seen in some parts of the world, look, if you look at New

00:19:21.620 Zealand, New Zealand managed to do it for now. Nobody knows where it's going, where it's going

00:19:26.540 to go. But they've essentially, they're on an island, and they've managed to eradicate it from

00:19:31.320 the island. They went in early, and they did that. And no one can go in there. And if you go in, there's

00:19:35.820 very, very strict quarantine restrictions. Here, we almost did something similar, besides for our one

00:19:43.140 state. And even in the first lockdown, we were far harsher than any other state. You know, when

00:19:49.700 everyone was opening up, we were still locked down, because our premier really wanted to make sure he

00:19:54.600 was going to beat this virus. But in the one place where it mattered, in the one place that they should

00:20:00.400 have been really focusing their energy, and still should focus their energy, which was stopping the

00:20:06.260 import of the virus internationally, the hotel quarantine, that's where he failed us. And that's where

00:20:11.900 this came and spread. You know, as it was spreading, he allowed a Black Lives Matter rally here in

00:20:17.760 Melbourne. And there's a bunch of connected clusters to that. So right now, we're being, as a society,

00:20:24.760 punished. You know, as a healthy person, I'm being forced into a lockdown, instead of just

00:20:32.140 locking up the sick, I guess. You know, if you're going to quarantine anyone, you quarantine the sick,

00:20:37.060 people come from overseas. But we're not seeing that here. Here, we're seeing everybody is locked

00:20:43.160 down. They say it's six weeks. If you believe six weeks is going to be the lockdown, then I think

00:20:50.640 you're delusional. Yeah. Well, I was reading that there were 11 deaths. I think it was yesterday.

00:20:56.360 But all 11 were in senior centers, or old folks' homes, as they're sometimes called. And that sounds

00:21:02.740 like the same pattern in the United States and in Canada. In fact, in Canada, there was a headline

00:21:08.060 I saw in the Toronto Star that more than 80% of all the victims live in certain institutional seniors'

00:21:16.860 homes. So it's not a problem of the youth. It's not a problem of people outdoors. It's not a problem

00:21:23.040 of schools or people of working age. The average age of the death in our province of British Columbia

00:21:29.320 was 85 years old. And don't mistake me, not for a second am I saying that's good. But I'm saying

00:21:35.360 that information is useful. Focus 99% of your efforts on either the airport, where people are

00:21:43.220 coming into the country, or the seniors' homes. I think it's the same pattern in Australia, if I'm 0.99

00:21:48.540 reading the stats. It absolutely is. So some of the major clusters, and the ones where we're having

00:21:53.640 the fatalities are in the old age, the aged care facilities. And a lot of it has been mishandled

00:22:01.640 and mismanaged. You have, you know, a lot of it came from staff who were working at multiple locations,

00:22:06.280 and they spread it through all of them. But you're right, we should be protecting those facilities.

00:22:11.540 We should be protecting the quarantine system properly. Today, for example, I think there was 15 cases.

00:22:19.540 There's one case today, today specifically, where there was a younger fatality. I think it was in his 30s.

00:22:27.840 But they don't tell us, you know, anything else. I highly doubt that it was a strong, healthy 30-something-year-old.

00:22:35.780 I'm assuming that there's underlying issues there. But the majority of the, by far, in Australia have been,

00:22:43.260 I would say it's going to be something similar to your average age of 85 or, you know, 80, somewhere

00:22:49.800 around there. It's definitely over 70s we're seeing almost all the cases.

00:22:55.420 Avi, I know it's so late in Melbourne because of the time zones. So let me just ask you one last

00:23:00.160 question. And thanks so much for staying up so late for us. It's great to see you. And I tell you,

00:23:05.840 so many Canadians were inspired by your work in Hong Kong. And it must have been so wonderful to

00:23:14.400 be there in those freedom-fighting moments. And just seeing you again and remembering that there

00:23:20.280 was a sense of freedom in Hong Kong that's being snuffed out makes me a little bit sad. But let's

00:23:24.640 get back to what's going on in Melbourne. Mind you, I feel like those days were freer than now.

00:23:30.000 Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, it really is. In different jurisdictions, we see people fighting

00:23:36.500 back. Harmeet Dhillon, the civil liberties lawyer in California, is suing everything that moves. Across

00:23:42.840 America, you have little lawsuits, little rebellions. Here in Canada, Rebel News is doing a very small

00:23:47.740 scale civil liberties project, helping individual people who have been fined. I just read a major

00:23:54.740 lawsuit in the United Kingdom against the lockdown. So I see little green shoots of civil liberties

00:24:02.180 resistance, often in the courts. Sometimes more physically, there was a case of a gym

00:24:08.780 in New Jersey where the gym owner just said, I'm staying open. You got to throw me in prison. I don't

00:24:14.660 care. How about Australia? Because there is that independent streak in the Australian character,

00:24:21.180 a little bit of defiance, a little bit of a sense of humor. Has there been any political

00:24:26.980 or legal resistance to what can only be called martial law?

00:24:33.100 Honestly, I think there's two groups of people in Australia at the moment. There's those that

00:24:37.220 are really scared of the virus because of the media. But I think also there's the majority of

00:24:44.780 people are less scared of the actual virus and more scared of the consequences of breaking as in

00:24:52.660 the government crackdowns and the lockdown. So people just want this to be over with. So

00:24:56.940 I think most Australians are not too happy when they see

00:25:00.220 these rebels or as they call them, Karen's, that are fighting back. And I think I support when people

00:25:09.120 do it in the courts and do it properly, especially when it comes to economic, fighting back for the

00:25:15.680 economy and to fight for business to reopen. I think Australians would be a lot more open to it.

00:25:22.320 We're seeing some here and there protesting the masks or whatever. That's what we're really seeing.

00:25:31.280 I know there is a mass protest planned. I have seen online a mass protest planned and they have

00:25:39.040 about two and a half thousand people who say that they're interested. It'd be interesting to see

00:25:45.520 if Facebook pulls this down or not. But two and a half thousand people marching onto parliament

00:25:52.080 coming up. So we're going to have to watch that closely because there hasn't been anything like

00:25:57.680 that yet. It has been single people here, a few little protests, but they generally, they tend to

00:26:03.360 be, you know, anti-vaxxers and into all sorts of other mass conspiracy theories. And I'm not talking

00:26:09.360 about specifically around the virus and where it came from. A lot of these people deny that there even

00:26:16.000 is a virus. And I think many Aussies have time for that. And that's why I'm hoping that there are 1.00

00:26:23.440 groups that kind of pop up that fight for the civil liberties without, um, taking on, you know,

00:26:30.720 some of the other, uh, parts of, of the protest, which makes him kind of loses the argument because

00:26:37.680 I think most Australians are sensible and they use common sense and, you know, they're happy that

00:26:43.040 a lot of Aussies here also happy, you know, that they might not think the mask works much,

00:26:47.440 they might whatever, but they're happy to do it if, if it is potentially going to help someone.

00:26:51.840 And as long as that they, as long as they can continue to go to work and go, go do their day

00:26:57.440 to day, you know, activities here right now, we, we have to go to the supermarket. One person in the

00:27:03.040 family can go visit a supermarket once a day. These are the kinds of rules we're living under.

00:27:07.760 I don't think Aussies would mind if they can move freely and wear a mask. So I think we are going to 1.00

00:27:13.600 see over the next few weeks, uh, a bit of pushback and hopefully it's, um, pushback that, uh, doesn't

00:27:23.680 turn Australians against it and, and brings people together. Well, thank you, my friend and, uh, keep

00:27:30.240 your spirits high and, uh, maybe we can check back with you in a few weeks. I fear that once governments,

00:27:37.040 uh, exert such power and control over citizens, they're not quick to relent and give that power

00:27:44.080 back. And looking at your premier in the Australian state of Victoria, he looks like he, I mean,

00:27:49.520 he's the same one who, who was trying to cut deals with communist China personally.

00:27:53.520 I think, well, he signed up the boat, uh, uh, uh, road and belt initiative, belt and road initiative.

00:27:59.280 Um, yeah, so he's, he's certainly in bed with the CCP and he, look, he loves, but yeah, who in

00:28:05.920 government gains power and then wants to just give it back. He's just escalated this from a, you know,

00:28:14.480 declaring a state of emergency to now a state of disaster. All that does is give him even more

00:28:19.600 power to basically do whatever he wants. They can, they can literally walk into your house now

00:28:27.200 to make sure you're complying without a warrant, without anything. They have all the power in the

00:28:33.120 world. And that is a very, very scary thought because we know what comes with that. And it may,

00:28:40.560 I don't think it's come with the best of intentions right now. Um, but even if it had, it did come with

00:28:45.760 the best of intentions, uh, I'd, I'd be nervous. Yeah, that really is worse than how it was when

00:28:51.200 you were in Hong Kong. Avi Yamini, great to see you. Stay safe, my friend. Thanks for having me,

00:28:55.280 mate. All right. There you have it. Avi Yamini, you can watch all his videos at tr.news and we'll have

00:29:03.520 his YouTube channel and his Twitter handle beneath this video. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:29:15.760 Hey, welcome back. My monologue last night, Bruce writes,

00:29:25.040 Premier Dan Andrews sure is a little dictator. He's treating free people like criminals in a prison

00:29:29.080 camp. People of his ilk need to be voted out. Citizens in Victoria must remember this whenever

00:29:34.240 the next election happens. There's a paradox here. The more you scare people, the more they crave

00:29:40.080 strong, authoritative leadership. So the worse his decisions become, and the more barbaric he

00:29:46.000 becomes in his treatment of his own people, some people will say, no, no, no, I need this tough love.

00:29:52.400 I even heard a tiny drop of that from our friend Avi. Um, I think when people are afraid and, uh,

00:29:59.520 I see they look to a strong captain, but in the case of Victoria, Australia, and in Justin Trudeau,

00:30:05.920 uh, the strong captains are headed straight to the iceberg. Sherry writes, I had a bad feeling

00:30:11.600 that when this China virus started and authorities started, uh, their lockdowns, that some governments

00:30:16.320 would be reluctant to give back people's freedoms. Well, even here in Ontario, where Doug Ford,

00:30:21.680 man of the people, Ford nation is premier. He and his party passed a law to give them the right to act

00:30:29.920 without renewing the state of emergency. The emergency powers laws in Canada have some checks

00:30:35.920 and balances. I don't know if you know, if you remember my early conversation with Sam Goldstein

00:30:40.080 about that a few months ago. Um, every, I think it was 30 days or 60 days, parliament had to meet

00:30:45.680 again and say, are we really still in emergency? Are we really still in emergency? Doug Ford said,

00:30:50.080 oh, that's way too much accountability. Let's get rid of that. He actually borrowed the move from

00:30:54.240 Justin Trudeau. So like I said in my monologue, where are the conservatives? On my interview with

00:31:00.000 Gordon Chang, Dave writes, the rest of the world needs to immediately put serious efforts into

00:31:04.720 cutting off all reliance on Chinese goods and labor. He honestly says it's easier said than done,

00:31:09.760 right? I mean, just go through your clothing, go through any little retail items, anything plastic,

00:31:16.240 anything, your cutlery, your appliances in your kitchen, even your computer, your fancy cell phone.

00:31:20.880 So much of it's made in China. So if you say I'm going China free, you're not going to, 1.00

00:31:27.600 you're not going to make it. It would be like saying I'm going to go on a starvation diet.

00:31:32.160 You're not going to make it. But if you cut back on your China stuff, one item a week, one item a day,

00:31:39.760 slowly, slowly wean yourself. I think that's the way. And yeah, it might mean switching away from

00:31:47.040 your TikTok app to an Instagram app. And you might miss a little bit here and there. But you know what?

00:31:54.160 We have to unhook from these people. And by these people, I mean the Communist Party of China. One day

00:32:00.000 will come where the Chinese people will be free, just like the Soviet Union fell and the Russian 0.86

00:32:07.360 people became free or at least freer. I hope that day comes when Hong Kong is once again free,

00:32:13.760 free as Taiwan and the Chinese mainland is that free. I don't see that happening in the immediate

00:32:20.800 future. So until then, we have to unhook from them, as I argue in my book, the same way we unhooked

00:32:27.920 from apartheid South Africa, the same way the world contained Soviet Russia. All right, that's the show for 0.86

00:32:33.760 today. Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:32:38.000 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - August 06, 2020

COVID-19： “Two weeks to flatten the curve”？ That’s been changed to two YEARS

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