Rebel News Podcast - DAILY Roundup ｜ Censorship⧸Chinese election interference, CBC's big bonuses, Hacking 'Smart Cities'

00:00:00.000 Hi, everybody. Ezra Levant here. How are you doing? Great to see you. Oh, I'm happy to be

00:00:18.360 back in this chair. I wish I had three different versions of myself, one that could do nothing but

00:00:26.880 commentary, one that would go out into the world and do journalism in interesting places like

00:00:32.980 that super fun trip we had to the World Economic Forum. And another one of me, the worst version of

00:00:39.120 me that would try and do the business side of things. I recently visited a couple of American

00:00:46.340 news organizations. I went to Blaze Media in Dallas. I went to Breitbart in LA. And both of them have

00:00:55.500 full-time business people as their CEOs. No one else tries to have a reporter run things too. I mean,

00:01:04.340 you can do that when you're a very small shop. But I hope that one day Rebel News grows enough

00:01:12.020 that it can be like Breitbart or Daily Wire and have or Blaze and have someone take over on the

00:01:17.680 business side just because I don't think that's my forte. Although, don't knock it. I mean, in eight

00:01:23.520 years, we've grown enough that we have 47 staff. That number's gone up and down sometimes during

00:01:30.100 the height of the pandemic. We were closer to 60. But, you know, I do get a kick out of all the

00:01:37.320 different sides of things. But if you had to say, well, what are you? Are you a reporter? Are you a

00:01:41.320 commentator? Or are you a business person? I'd say I'm probably a commentator first, a reporter second,

00:01:46.200 and a business person like 10th or something. But I think that's also given us a bit of a flavor

00:01:52.220 too. I mean, I think for better or for worse, when you regard your company as a mission even more than

00:02:01.680 as a business, it shows. People know that we care and that we don't just do things to make money.

00:02:09.680 I mean, the way to make money during the pandemic was to be a Pfizer repeater. And it was super gross

00:02:18.060 to see, for example, those late night comedians just go full pharma salesman. Wasn't that gross?

00:02:26.240 Stephen Colbert, the vaccine. That was, I think, the lowest moment I've ever seen in late night TV.

00:02:33.520 And I've seen Jimmy Fallon, but you can go lower than him. Yeah. I mean, if you're about making

00:02:42.800 money, you follow the establishment narrative. Because that's where the money is. You will not

00:02:48.600 get demonetized if you're a Pfizer salesman. Even if you say false and misleading things,

00:02:55.580 if it's in the service of the official narrative, you won't be demonetized. I've seen no fact checks

00:03:02.900 of the mainstream media for denying the lab leak theory now that it's effectively being confirmed

00:03:10.320 by the U.S. government. I've seen no fact checks calling it fake news when people said, oh, the

00:03:16.280 vaccine is 100% effective and 100% safe. Who would ever say those things to begin with? Who would ever

00:03:22.120 say that? So anyway, that's me. That's who I am. I'm part journalist and part business person and

00:03:31.720 part pundit. That's who I am. I used to be funnier, I think. Maybe I still have some funny in me, but

00:03:39.980 it's been tough to laugh over the last few years. And we deal with such heavy things. Maybe laughter

00:03:44.940 is the way. When I was at Sun News 10 years ago, especially in the early days, I was in the mood to

00:03:57.060 laugh more. And I'll tell you why. First of all, because the darkness of the canceled culture, 0.98

00:04:03.220 extreme woke politics had not yet really sunk its teeth into the culture. Sun News Network,

00:04:10.360 where I was a decade ago, was under some mild boycotting and by some Antifa types, but it

00:04:18.100 wasn't ubiquitous. Other media companies would still talk to us, come on our shows. We were officially

00:04:24.840 affiliated with the Sun chain of newspapers, so we had built-in friends. I guess what I'm saying is,

00:04:32.620 and of course, Stephen Harper was the prime minister, so you didn't have the insane divisiveness

00:04:37.500 and violation of civil liberties that you have now. And I didn't have other things weighing on my mind.

00:04:44.820 I was not a business person. I was a salaried presenter. So I would show up at the crack of 10,

00:04:50.820 do my writing, record my show. I think I did it every day at 1 or 2, and be done by 4. What a life that was,

00:05:00.660 working from 10 to 4. I dropped my kids off at school in the morning. So maybe I was more lighthearted.

00:05:06.880 I mean, I still think I'm the same person. It's just I think the world is more grave, and my hair is more white to show for.

00:05:12.860 Anyways, I want to show, the reason I tell you that, besides a little bit of autobiography,

00:05:17.700 is yesterday, I think it was yesterday, maybe it was today, I just saw it today,

00:05:22.900 in the House of Commons, CBC, you know, it's a state broadcaster, right? It's like

00:05:28.600 Pravda or Russia today, or Al Jazeera is in Qatar. A lot of countries have a state broadcaster. China has

00:05:37.060 a series of them. I haven't been to China in a while, but when I was there a dozen years ago,

00:05:42.340 they had, I think it was called CCTV or something, Communist China TV or whatever,

00:05:47.880 like there was like nine channels, and each one of them was a different

00:05:51.040 version of the state broadcaster. It was quite something. I wonder what it's like now.

00:05:57.580 So the CBC is a state broadcaster, which is gross to begin with,

00:06:01.060 but of course they have government comedians on the official government comedy show,

00:06:06.020 and being a government comedian makes about as much sense as being a government punk rocker.

00:06:11.540 It's like, I mean, the whole nature of being government is you're the establishment,

00:06:16.840 you're the ruler, you're the power, whereas the whole nature of comedian is to speak truth to power

00:06:23.160 in the form of ridicule and jest. Was it, who was it? Was it Solzhenitsyn or was it Orwell who said

00:06:31.440 every joke is a little revolution? I forget. It was one of those two freedom fighters. And it was

00:06:37.860 no one less than the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran who said, there is no humor in Islam, he said.

00:06:45.260 Now that's his view. There are some Muslim people who disagree with him, but the idea of authoritarianism

00:06:51.460 is that you cannot abide jokes because jokes are made at your expense. We've talked about this before,

00:06:56.820 how King Henry, for example, had a court fool, a court jester, and who was a jokester and who might 0.88

00:07:07.900 dress up sometimes. Will Sommer was the name, Will Sommer was the name of, yeah, put that up on screen 0.61

00:07:15.120 there, was a very famous court jester. I think it was Henry VIII's court jester. And this is just a

00:07:23.660 Wikipedia story, but I've read it and it appears accurate to me. He was at, the thing about the

00:07:29.580 court jester is he, his job was to joke and he was given a special immunity. What I mean by that is he

00:07:36.280 could do something that no one else around him could do. He could make fun of the king, make fun

00:07:43.640 of the king. In fact, Olivia, it's before your time, but did you ever watch that TV show called

00:07:49.180 The Tudors? T-U-D-O-R, that was Henry's last name. Did you ever watch The Tudors?

00:07:56.860 It was, it was quite a good show, if you like sort of British and medieval stuff. And of course,

00:08:02.920 King Henry, one of the most interesting people in the last thousand years. And it was, by the way,

00:08:10.300 it was as, I think, I think they got some things right. I think there was a fair bit of historical

00:08:17.400 accuracy there. And by the way, if you ask the average age, yeah, throw some B-roll up from,

00:08:24.600 from the Tudors just to give people some flavor while I talk about it. This is a very long way

00:08:29.540 to get back to the CBC, but I'm talking about what a government jester really is.

00:08:34.440 As you can see, there's a lot of, there was a lot of sex and relationship drama in The Tudors.

00:08:42.400 And you know what? I think that's accurate. I mean, how many wives did Henry VIII have? How many did

00:08:47.080 he divorce? How many did he kill? How many mistresses did he have? And when the movie starts

00:08:53.060 out, King Henry VIII is quite a young man. And of course, that is an, is accurate in other ways too.

00:09:00.460 The average life expectancy, um, you know, 500 years ago in the UK, I don't have that information

00:09:09.400 at my fingertips, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was like 35 and there were more children and

00:09:16.400 families. People, uh, lived shorter. And so the average life, the average person, forget about life

00:09:23.780 expectancy. The average person was probably a teenager. And you know, the concept that we have

00:09:30.240 of middle age, that's when you expired back then. They didn't have our notions of medicine and things

00:09:35.800 like that. My point is, um, I think that they, they captured the spirit of that time. And one of the

00:09:43.780 things they did, and I can't, I've looked for 20 minutes on YouTube another time. I couldn't find it.

00:09:49.340 There was a wonderful scene with, uh, Will Summers, the court jester. And of course, this was a fictional

00:10:00.140 dramatization of Henry VIII. But I think that Will Summers was actually a senior advisor to the king

00:10:08.060 in that he could say the king's things to the king. He could make genuine criticisms to the king

00:10:16.240 that no one else could make. And I think he took that role very seriously. And if you believe what

00:10:21.580 you read on the history side, not the fiction side, people would use the court jester, uh, as a way to

00:10:28.180 get information to the king through, you know, there's a lot of barriers. How do you get to the

00:10:32.300 king? You have to, you have to know someone, everyone's got their interests and agendas, but maybe

00:10:36.520 if he could get to the, the king's jester and convince him there's a problem, maybe he can speak

00:10:42.400 very candidly with the king. And there's a wonderful scene that I watched in this series a decade ago,

00:10:48.620 and I can't find it online, where, uh, the jester is really taunting and pushing, uh, King Henry and

00:10:56.680 just giving him, being like a one-man opposition to him. And I think that was essential. It's,

00:11:05.160 it's like the old apocryphal saying about Roman emperors, uh, that would have a slave. And I don't

00:11:14.500 know if this was real, but I've heard this enough. And how would we know that there would be a slave

00:11:19.400 standing next to the king whose job would be to whisper in his ear, you are mortal. You are mortal

00:11:28.580 because you're the emperor of Rome, the greatest empire the world has ever seen total power from,

00:11:37.300 uh, Britannia and Gaul, um, and Hibernia. These are the, these are the Roman names for

00:11:45.300 Britain and Scotland and France, all the way to Judea. Um,

00:11:52.800 you know, what a mighty emperor. And you might be tempted to think that you are a God. And so the,

00:11:57.880 the idea was that a slave would just whisper in your ear, no, you're just a man. And there's,

00:12:02.440 there's actually a Jewish story. King Solomon, uh, allegedly had a ring with a inscription on it

00:12:09.340 that was always true, which is this too shall pass. And when he had happy times, it sobered him up.

00:12:14.660 And when he was down in the dumps, it gave him hope. All this is to say in a very long way,

00:12:20.480 the powerful people need some sort of challenge. Powerful people need a check and a balance.

00:12:28.740 And if you've ever met an oligarch, and I have, I've had the pleasure, the mixed pleasure sometimes.

00:12:38.080 If you meet an extremely wealthy and powerful person, the kind of person who only travels on

00:12:44.180 private jets and limousines, who has personal security, who has a security VP, someone who has

00:12:51.560 billions or maybe even more, you'll notice that everyone around them, almost everyone around them,

00:13:00.580 is doing whatever they can to anticipate what the great man wants and to say, yes, sir, no, sir,

00:13:06.600 three bags full, sir. How high should I jump, sir? And I think the more self-aware oligarchs know this,

00:13:12.420 that they're surrounded by flatterers. And, and you can see, I mean, this is what they say about 0.99

00:13:19.640 Vladimir Putin. They say, and this could well be propaganda, how would I know, that he doesn't

00:13:26.200 tolerate bad news. And so his advisors won't give him the straight goods. And I don't know if that's

00:13:32.260 true. That sounds like a generic insult you could say about any out of touch politician, but I can

00:13:37.920 imagine it's true. And if you watch that docudrama Chernobyl, which I absolutely loved, there was a

00:13:44.760 degree of that too. Just lie, don't give anyone bad news. It's a wonderful show, Chernobyl. It's a

00:13:54.040 terrible story, but it's wonderfully told. Powerful people, rich people, people who are used to getting

00:14:01.100 their way. People who have a lot to give, whether it's power, money, access, or something like that,

00:14:08.080 they attract flatterers. They attract yes men. Would you have the courage to defy a billionaire,

00:14:19.440 let alone King Henry VIII, who wasn't just a billionaire, he had the power of life or death

00:14:25.100 over people? So Will Summers played an incredibly important role as the court fool, the court jester. 0.93

00:14:34.560 He was the only one who could look the king in the eye and say, you are full of it. You are so wrong. 0.98

00:14:41.520 And insult the king and not be killed for it. Isn't that an important job? I know it's an important

00:14:50.000 job. That's why in this country, we take the country's biggest complainer, we give him a free

00:14:56.120 house, a big staff, and a salary and call him the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.

00:15:01.780 We institutionalize dissent. We hardwire it right into the system. And there's something to the title,

00:15:11.140 Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, because you're loyal to the country, you just oppose the buffoon who's 0.99

00:15:16.260 running the place. Pierre Polyev is loyal to the king and to the country. He's not loyal to Justin 0.88

00:15:22.300 Trudeau and Trudeau's government. And that's an important distinction there too, isn't it?

00:15:27.360 And so here I am, a half hour having passed without me getting to my point. So maybe the time is to get

00:15:33.800 to my point now before we all get older. The CBC state broadcaster has a government comedian named Mary

00:15:40.360 Walsh, one of the least funny comedians I have ever seen. She's also a liberal partisan. I know this

00:15:48.920 because in the 2015 election, she recorded an attack ad on Stephen Harper. I might show you that

00:15:54.940 later, calling him Stasi Steve and said, Heil Harper, as if he's a Nazi. So Mary Walsh can find no jokes

00:16:03.320 other than to call someone a Nazi. That's how shallow her pool of humor is. And she doesn't mind

00:16:08.740 trivializing the Holocaust by equating the grave crimes and horrific crimes of the Holocaust with

00:16:15.420 her political opponent, because that's what's important to her. Anyway, so yesterday, I think

00:16:22.080 it was yesterday. I don't think it was today. Yesterday, in the foyer of the House of Commons,

00:16:26.720 where Rebel News is banned by Trudeau's parliamentary press gallery. We cannot attend. But this burnt out

00:16:33.500 over the hill, so-called comedian who is unfunny without a laugh track, goes and accosts the prime

00:16:40.800 minister when he is on the hot seat. Trudeau is on the back foot over these China allegations.

00:16:47.600 What did he know? When did he know it? How many Chinese hand-picked candidates are in his party, 0.94

00:16:54.120 in his caucus, in his cabinet? Why did he allow it? Did he, like there's, you could think of the

00:17:00.040 questions you said. They're simple questions. Trudeau has evaded all of them. And so there's

00:17:06.700 this brief moment he walks out of the parliament and he's available to the media. And there's a lot

00:17:11.340 of reporters, and I have to give credit to the mainstream media for the first time in eight years

00:17:15.060 that seem to have woken up. You've got Bob Fyfe and Steve Chase at the Globe and Mail. You've got

00:17:19.740 Sam Cooper and McKenzie, I forget his last name, at Global News. And look at me, I'm praising journalists

00:17:25.460 in the mainstream media. What's come over me? No, nothing's come over me. I'm the same guy I was a week

00:17:29.840 ago. It's that these journalists are actually doing some work. But instead of talking to Sam

00:17:35.860 Cooper or McKenzie, what's his name, or Steve Chase or Bob Fyfe or any other journalist who's

00:17:42.120 asking questions, the CBC state broadcaster sends in their alleged comedian. And we'll play it for you

00:17:50.780 in a second. I don't even know what the hell she's saying. I don't understand her point,

00:17:56.700 other than I think she's saying, Prime Minister, we should all be less partisan. Don't you think?

00:18:02.160 Why don't you set an example? I don't even get it. I think it's some stupid compliment. She's not

00:18:07.980 going to make a joke at his expense. She's going to save him, save him, A, from the journalists who

00:18:12.820 are trying to get questions to him a few feet away, and B, trying to create some change the channel

00:18:18.080 narrative. You could have a lot of funny jokes poking fun at Trudeau's, do you admire China 1.00

00:18:25.260 comment. That is not what the state broadcaster and their government comedians do. Watch the

00:18:30.980 unfunniest woman in Canada, paid for by your tax dollars, have a go at Justin Trudeau. Take a look. 1.00

00:18:38.580 I'm also outraged about everything, that we're not listening to each other anymore.

00:18:43.020 That was always your step.

00:18:43.880 I know you're a good-looking guy like you. You probably know how to fix that, right? And

00:18:47.880 so I'm here to listen to what you think. How do we get everybody back together again?

00:18:51.960 How do we can the water? How do we make Canada unbroken? Oh my God, is that Pierre Polly ever

00:18:57.200 over there?

00:18:58.220 I'm also outraged.

00:19:01.580 So I'm here to figure out how to make Canada unbroken. Everyone's so outraged. Prime Minister,

00:19:10.940 all these people are outraged because your party and your friends are taking hundreds of thousands

00:19:15.120 or millions of dollars from China. How do we get, how do we shut them up, Prime Minister? 0.99

00:19:21.820 Like, it's not even funny. Let's say the obvious thing, it's not even funny. And I think the chief

00:19:28.160 job of a comedian is to be funny. It doesn't make a point. And I think that's the second job of a

00:19:34.080 comedian. Do you have a point to make? Like, you can just tell a funny joke, make a fart joke for

00:19:39.880 all I care. If it's funny, I'll laugh. So is she funny? Check or X? X, she's not funny. Okay, fine.

00:19:48.320 So you're not that funny, but you make a serious point in a funny way. That's what a lot of late

00:19:52.580 night talk shows are. They're basically Democrat Party operatives with a band, a house band and some

00:19:59.020 jokes. So does she make a point? Not really. Her best point is, hey, Prime Minister, everyone is so

00:20:06.340 outraged. How do we get out of that? It's in the implication being there's no, there's no rational

00:20:11.620 basis to be outraged. We shouldn't be outraged. You've done nothing wrong. But before he even has

00:20:17.560 something to say, she turns around and goes, oh, there's Pierre Polyev. And I don't even know if

00:20:23.380 that's true. But I think we can assume it was true. Because if Pierre Polyev is there, she knows her

00:20:30.100 role is to be a destroyer. Can you, can you, I want to show my video that Andrew Lawton did next.

00:20:37.880 But then after that, if there's, there's a rebel news video from 2015, very early, where

00:20:46.220 Mary Walsh says to Stephen Harper, Heil Harper, and whatnot, we'll show that I want to just show

00:20:56.280 how unfunny she is, what a hack she is, the fact that she's basically paid to attack conservatives. 1.00

00:21:02.340 So when she doesn't even wait for Trudeau's answer, says, oh, there's Pierre Polyev. I think she's

00:21:06.980 actually telling the truth because she knows she's a, she has to go detonate herself on Pierre 0.95

00:21:11.800 Polyev because that's the CBC mandate. Anyways, when I was at the Sun News Network before Rebel News,

00:21:17.480 that was the predecessor to Rebel News. I worked at Sun News Network for a few years, well, from the

00:21:21.980 beginning. I worked it from the beginning to the end. And it shut down for regulatory and other

00:21:30.900 reasons I won't get into. But I did funnier stuff back then. And maybe I should get back to the

00:21:36.840 funny. So this is about a, this is about a decade ago. I dressed up as Mark Delahunty. I don't think

00:21:46.980 I've ever worn lipstick before or after. I wear a lip balm. And sometimes people say it looks like

00:21:51.680 I never wear lipstick. I think I wore lipstick in this video. I'm not sure. I think I had makeup. I wear

00:21:57.520 TV makeup. But, and it's a wig. That's not my hair. Let me show you

00:22:03.320 from a decade ago, my impression of Mark Delahunty of this hour is 22 minutes, stalking the late

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00:22:57.600 Hi, it's me, Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour. I'm here at Toronto

00:23:03.480 City Hall. That's the mayor's inner sanctum. I understand he's talking about busting the

00:23:09.020 labor he needs to pick up our garbage. I'm going to go in there now. If I don't make it out alive, 0.63

00:23:12.840 well, Wong, may your big jib draw. Let's go. 0.96

00:23:19.660 Yeah, Doug. No, no. We've got to figure our way to head off this garbage strike.

00:23:22.920 No, the city can't afford another garbage strike. 0.99

00:23:25.340 He's talking about the garbage strike.

00:23:27.060 No, it can't happen. It can't happen. We've got to figure our way to get these unions.

00:23:31.620 Can't. No.

00:23:32.560 Mayor Ford. Mayor Ford. Mayor Ford.

00:23:37.960 Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.

00:23:41.260 Well, every time you leave the office, you take out the garbage.

00:23:51.580 Go now.

00:23:54.860 I'm Barge Delahunty. From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.

00:23:59.220 And I've sneaked into City Hall to find Mayor Rob Ford.

00:24:03.180 Follow me. I think he's inside here, boy.

00:24:05.500 Mayor Rob Ford.

00:24:11.440 Mayor Rob Ford.

00:24:14.140 Where are you?

00:24:17.240 Smells like conservative policymaking in here.

00:24:21.500 Mayor Ford.

00:24:22.860 Is Barge Delahunty?

00:24:24.400 What are you doing?

00:24:25.400 Oh, Lord, love attack Jesus Mary Joseph and the Seventh Seventh.

00:24:28.280 Oh, what's that? What's that?

00:24:29.860 Is that your Tory policy platform?

00:24:31.500 Goddard!

00:24:41.300 Mayor!

00:24:42.120 You're going to listen to me.

00:24:43.700 You stay where you're to. We'll come to where you're at.

00:24:46.060 Mayor! Mayor! Mayor!

00:24:47.620 Why do you keep running from me, Mayor?

00:24:49.300 Barge Delahunty.

00:24:50.480 From this 22 minutes feels like an hour.

00:24:53.300 Goddard!

00:24:53.780 I'm actually in Rob Ford's home.

00:25:04.220 The chicken coop!

00:25:05.980 That's his bedroom in there.

00:25:07.860 Let's go catch him unawares.

00:25:11.880 Oh, Lord, he's like a beached whale, isn't he?

00:25:15.300 Oh, Lord, where's the business for?

00:25:20.220 There's trouble in the house, isn't there?

00:25:23.280 Mayor Ford!

00:25:25.000 Mayor Ford!

00:25:26.140 It's Barge Delahunty!

00:25:27.620 Mayor Ford!

00:25:28.700 Mayor Ford!

00:25:29.820 I'm going to give you a big smooch, Mayor Ford!

00:25:32.780 Oh, Mayor Ford!

00:25:34.400 My eyes are up here, Mayor Ford!

00:25:36.340 Look up here, that's my eyes!

00:25:38.600 Got him!

00:25:39.300 Look, let me just be the first to say that that was not particularly funny either.

00:25:48.100 That's the use of the laugh track.

00:25:49.720 And one of the creepy things about this hour's 22 minutes, especially Mary Walsh, who does 1.00

00:25:56.160 Mark Delahunty, is if you take the laugh track out of her videos, there is nothing funny

00:26:04.800 in them.

00:26:06.380 And I've done this before.

00:26:07.600 She actually went to Rob Ford's house and just started abusing him. 1.00

00:26:13.820 And the final version that was on TV obviously had a lot of laugh track, which we added here

00:26:19.080 too.

00:26:19.980 And a laugh track is a kind of conformity.

00:26:22.460 You hear other people laughing, you feel like, you know, if someone else tells a joke

00:26:27.080 and someone laughs, do you ever find yourself sort of, I don't get it, but everyone else

00:26:32.000 is laughing.

00:26:32.780 Do you ever do that?

00:26:34.080 I think it's like a yawn.

00:26:35.700 You see someone yawning and you yawn.

00:26:39.340 There's some human reaction.

00:26:41.980 That's why people use laugh tracks, because they work, because they're a cue to say other

00:26:47.000 people think this is funny, so you should laugh too.

00:26:49.760 In fact, there's this whole genre of YouTube videos of TV shows with the laugh track removed.

00:26:57.880 What's that one of all the nerds who live to get, what's that?

00:27:03.920 Big Bang Theory.

00:27:04.720 That's right.

00:27:06.580 Do you want to look for one?

00:27:07.740 Just go to Big Bang Theory, no laugh track.

00:27:11.420 And it is astonishing.

00:27:12.800 I never liked that show.

00:27:13.600 I don't think I've watched five minutes of that whole series.

00:27:16.040 But a lot of people love that show.

00:27:17.520 Listen, each to his own.

00:27:18.500 But it's just astonishing to hear that show with the laugh track removed.

00:27:23.800 Do you ever see that?

00:27:24.880 YouTube's got some funny genres.

00:27:26.680 One is, and I love this, famous singers singing famous songs with all the instrumental tracks

00:27:33.540 removed.

00:27:33.980 So it's pure acapella.

00:27:35.520 That can be a haunting, wonderful experience.

00:27:37.960 You can see who the true talent is when you strip out the background vocals, strip out the accompanying music.

00:27:45.820 There's just some extraordinary talent that almost was covered up by the accompaniment.

00:27:51.320 But I forget what you called this show again.

00:27:55.520 What's it called?

00:27:56.560 Big Bang Theory.

00:27:57.680 Thank you.

00:28:00.260 There's not a lot of raw talent there.

00:28:01.960 They just need that laugh track.

00:28:03.680 Do you have one?

00:28:04.960 Go ahead.

00:28:05.500 I just want to show people what I mean.

00:28:07.000 Go ahead.

00:28:07.960 Ah, nothing makes beer taste better than cool, clear, Rocky Mountains spring water.

00:28:18.440 Where are the Rocky Mountains, anyway?

00:28:21.660 Philadelphia.

00:28:24.360 Really, I thought they were out west someplace.

00:28:26.560 Think about it, Raj.

00:28:27.460 Where did the movie Rocky take place?

00:28:31.640 Philadelphia.

00:28:33.400 Okay, now I get it.

00:28:36.480 So, this is the plan?

00:28:37.680 I mean, that was just a quick, would you laugh out loud at that?

00:28:43.260 That you can see how achingly that show, I mean, maybe that's funny.

00:28:47.060 Were you laughing there, Olivia?

00:28:48.060 Was that funny?

00:28:49.300 I don't think that was funny.

00:28:51.440 That's not even like pun level word game fun.

00:28:56.340 Like that, but if you know this show, and I don't really, they just pour the, I don't know how this show could work.

00:29:02.800 That was, was that not excruciating?

00:29:05.840 Like, it's not even funny, but you throw on a laugh track and people laugh, and that is the story of Mary Walsh.

00:29:13.180 There's two stories of Mary Walsh.

00:29:14.460 Her mission is to destroy, embarrass, and genuinely, genuinely disrupt anyone conservative, and to do the bidding of the CBC.

00:29:29.380 So, their job right now is to go in and save Justin Trudeau in some way.

00:29:32.760 So, it's only taken me 31 minutes to talk about one story, Olivia, but I had a lot of things I had to, I had to get to.

00:29:40.240 There is a lot of news about the China stuff, and so the opposition is on a roll.

00:29:48.120 And so, the government and their agents, like the CBC, are doing everything to trip them up, to change the channel.

00:30:00.920 Here is an example of that.

00:30:02.680 Do we have that Michael Cooper clip?

00:30:05.640 Actually, I want to look at Sherry Romanato's response.

00:30:09.100 Do you know what I'm talking about?

00:30:09.920 I think you've got that, that video.

00:30:11.140 It's the second one there.

00:30:11.680 So, Michael Cooper, who is an MP from the Edmonton area, was asking questions of Melanie Jolie, our clueless foreign minister.

00:30:22.320 And she said something like, I stared him in the eye, and I looked him down on, talking about Vladimir Putin, I stared Putin in the eye.

00:30:29.360 I looked him, and Michael Cooper sort of laughed at that and said, ooh, you stared him in the eye.

00:30:34.160 And it's a funny phrase, because George W. Bush said, I looked into Vladimir Putin's eyes and saw his soul.

00:30:44.840 Okay.

00:30:45.420 And Stephen Harper said, I looked him in the eye and said, I'll shake your hand, but you get out of Ukraine.

00:30:51.080 Like, so, people talk about looking Putin in the eye.

00:30:53.960 It's a, it's a metaphor.

00:30:56.940 I mean, the eyes are, are the window to the soul.

00:30:59.200 The eyes tell us a lot.

00:31:00.620 Eye contact, he won't meet my eye.

00:31:02.680 He gave me the stink eye, the evil eye.

00:31:06.880 There's a lot of symbolism and nonverbal communication that happens to the eyes.

00:31:11.680 The eyes give you away.

00:31:12.400 That's why poker players often wear sunglasses.

00:31:16.520 Sometimes your eyes dart around or your pupils dilate, you can't even control it.

00:31:20.740 So, it's a metaphor.

00:31:22.700 And it's a symbol.

00:31:25.260 And Melanie Jolie deployed it, and Michael Cooper gently mocked it and said, oh, so that must have scared him.

00:31:31.260 A complete, I mean, just a completely irrelevant point.

00:31:36.040 Like, not even, but oh my God, the liberals have their proof of sexism. 0.97

00:31:42.420 Sexism, not even too long after International Women's Day. 0.66

00:31:47.000 Let's change the subject to that, to anything.

00:31:49.980 And, of course, the media has gone along with it.

00:31:51.740 Here, take a look at this.

00:31:52.520 Minister Jolie, you've talked tough.

00:31:56.860 You've talked tough with your Beijing counterparts.

00:32:00.940 So, you say, you even stared into his eyes.

00:32:04.320 I'm sure he was very intimidated.

00:32:05.800 And now we learned today, and now we learned today, or yesterday, in the Globe and Mail, very conveniently, that a visa was denied of a diplomat who wanted to work at the Canadian Beijing embassy.

00:32:25.520 One visa?

00:32:26.460 Is that it?

00:32:26.880 I have a point of order in regards to the conduct of Mr. Cooper and his comments.

00:32:31.020 I think any woman sitting around this room, I'm sure men can appreciate it and understand it, too.

00:32:37.420 The constant demeaning nature that only occurs to our female minister that appeared today. 0.97

00:32:46.000 Yesterday, it was another member of our team asking a question in QP, and a Conservative member said she deserved a participation medal.

00:32:54.320 Today, it was a question of whether this minister is tough enough.

00:32:59.000 Every single day, we sit in this house as women, and we hear these—they're called microaggressions, but they don't feel very micro—to continuously be undermined.

00:33:12.000 And I think he owes this committee and the minister in particular an apology.

00:33:16.240 And I am really sick and tired of sitting in here having to listen to it.

00:33:20.740 I am sick and tired of Canadians having to see it. 0.98

00:33:24.320 And I'm really sick and tired of the Conservatives just not getting it.

00:33:30.480 Mrs. Romanato?

00:33:33.460 Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and I, too, I'm really disappointed.

00:33:37.540 I want to know if that member opposite, when then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper confronted Vladimir Putin and said, get out of Ukraine, did that member opposite say, was he tough enough?

00:33:50.400 That was completely unacceptable.

00:33:53.280 Unacceptable behavior for every woman that has ever taken her place in this house. 1.00

00:33:57.160 And I demand an apology.

00:33:58.800 Understanding Order 18.

00:34:00.080 You know, let me list some of the toughest political leaders of the 20th century.

00:34:10.520 Are you ready?

00:34:12.360 I think at the top of the list, in the post-war world, like the toughest political leader in the 20th century was probably Winston Churchill.

00:34:19.760 So, Stalin and Mao in their own odious ways, they were tough in that they were brutal.

00:34:26.780 But in the second half of the 20th century, I mean, that's when Mao and Stalin did a lot of their work.

00:34:33.040 But would you agree with me that Margaret Thatcher was tough as nails?

00:34:39.180 If you don't agree with me, ask the Argentinian dictator, Galtieri, if I remember, who thought that he would take advantage of things and invade the Falkland Islands,

00:34:52.920 which is a little island, a group of islands off the southern tip of Argentina, couldn't be further away from the UK.

00:35:01.560 Like, we're talking almost of the Antarctic.

00:35:05.500 Very small population, maybe just a couple thousand, I don't know for sure.

00:35:09.560 So close to Argentina, so far from the UK, and he invades and reconquers the Falkland Islands. 0.73

00:35:16.500 They call them Las Malvinas.

00:35:18.880 That's the Spanish name for him.

00:35:20.400 And how on earth is Margaret Thatcher, thousands of miles away, going to, what's she going to do about it?

00:35:28.780 Well, she put together an aircraft carrier and a battle group and soldiers, and she had them steamed down to Argentina. 1.00

00:35:38.300 And she basically said, brother, you got till we get there to get out, or we are going to smash you.

00:35:43.300 And there was a war.

00:35:45.640 There was a war.

00:35:47.320 And the Brits, from thousands of miles away, won, retook the islands.

00:35:51.820 And in fact, the dictator was booted out.

00:35:54.420 There's some incredible imagery of the British aircraft carrier.

00:35:58.760 And the jets they used at the time were an American-made jet, the Harrier jump jet,

00:36:03.720 which could land, short takeoff, vertical landing, very maneuverable.

00:36:07.880 Well, the Argentinians had mirage fighters, and it wasn't without cost.

00:36:14.820 The Brits lost a ship called the HMS Sheffield.

00:36:19.360 The Argentinians lost a giant battleship called the General Belgrano.

00:36:23.440 It was actually a very bloody war, especially on the Argentinian side.

00:36:27.020 This is all a way of saying, you don't think Margaret Thatcher was tough?

00:36:32.520 Ha ha, there's that old saying.

00:36:34.540 I don't know if it's a joke or for real.

00:36:37.880 What would you like, Madam Prime Minister?

00:36:40.980 I'll have the roast beef, please.

00:36:43.460 And the vegetables?

00:36:45.060 Oh, they'll have the roast beef, too.

00:36:47.560 I mean, she was so tough.

00:36:50.060 She was so tough.

00:36:51.080 And not just tough on foreign enemies.

00:36:52.820 She was tough on the IRA.

00:36:57.320 The Irish Republican Army, you might recall that the IRA blew up, blew things up.

00:37:02.360 In fact, they tried to assassinate her.

00:37:04.700 I had a friend.

00:37:05.640 My old friend John O'Sullivan was with her the night that they had an explosion,

00:37:10.660 and he described it to me.

00:37:13.300 Terrifying.

00:37:17.160 Tough, would you say?

00:37:18.100 Do you think that she would whine if someone poked fun at her? 0.91

00:37:23.820 You're just saying that because I'm a girl.

00:37:26.440 Do you think Margaret Thatcher ever said those words in her life?

00:37:31.040 You're just doing that.

00:37:32.360 You're just mean to me because I'm a girl.

00:37:35.060 Do you think Margaret Thatcher could even make that whiny sound that we heard? 1.00

00:37:40.100 Yeah, put up some volume.

00:37:41.100 Let's hear her talk about the Falklands.

00:37:43.980 Or just anything.

00:37:45.040 Let's just remind our people.

00:37:46.320 They called her the Iron Lady. 0.99

00:37:48.600 She would chew up her critics, male or female, chew them up and spit them out. 0.98

00:37:54.700 And I can't imagine what she would think of those losers, Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry 0.99

00:38:01.040 Romanato, who instead of talking about the weighty items of the day, just want to have 0.95

00:38:06.120 a little pout.

00:38:06.980 They actually prove that they are girls, not women.

00:38:11.340 Certainly not women like Margaret Thatcher. 1.00

00:38:12.840 Here, play a bit of Margaret Thatcher. 0.95

00:38:13.820 She just gives people a little blast from the past.

00:38:15.680 Where there is discord, may we bring harmony.

00:38:19.100 Where there is error, may we bring truth.

00:38:22.220 Where there is doubt, may we bring faith.

00:38:25.320 And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

00:38:29.800 To those waiting with bated breaths for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have

00:38:37.000 only one thing to say, you turn if you want to.

00:38:45.280 The ladies, not for turning. 0.99

00:38:49.100 I'd be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the white ensign flies alongside the Union Jack

00:38:55.240 in South Georgia.

00:38:57.020 God save the Queen. 1.00

00:38:57.900 What happens next, Mr Nottingham?

00:38:59.360 Thank you very much.

00:38:59.920 What's your reaction, Prime Minister?

00:39:00.400 Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the Marines.

00:39:06.080 Of course, the chairman or the president of the commission, Mr Delors, said at press conference

00:39:11.260 the other day that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community.

00:39:16.780 He wanted the commission to be the executive.

00:39:19.200 And he wanted the Council of Ministers to be the Senate.

00:39:22.440 No, no, no.

00:39:26.260 All levels of income are better off than they were in 1979.

00:39:32.140 But what the honorable member is saying is that he will rather the poor were poorer, provided

00:39:39.880 the rich were less rich.

00:39:42.080 That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have.

00:39:47.220 And what a policy.

00:39:49.320 Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich.

00:39:54.640 That is a liberal policy.

00:39:56.720 And we're very happy that we leave the United Kingdom in a very, very much better state than

00:40:03.600 when we came here 11 and a half years ago.

00:40:07.780 Well, that's quite a tour de force of her history.

00:40:10.380 And when they talked about South Georgia, that's, I think, the name of the, sorry, that reference

00:40:16.580 about the white flag and the union flag, they're talking about reconquering the Falklands.

00:40:21.220 That was a great summary of her career arc.

00:40:24.020 She was deposed by her own party.

00:40:25.680 She didn't lose her election in the end.

00:40:28.020 But do you think the first woman prime minister of the United Kingdom who beat labor again and

00:40:34.560 again, like a drum, in fact, was undefeated?

00:40:37.240 She was only defeated by her own party's treachery.

00:40:40.920 Do you think she, what do you think she would think of not the women, but the girls who succeed

00:40:46.940 her and walk in her footsteps, Jennifer O'Connell and Sherry Romanato? 0.90

00:40:50.420 How dare you?

00:40:51.160 You wouldn't say mean things like that to a boy.

00:40:54.000 Yeah, actually, politics is mean.

00:40:56.300 And when you play the gender card, you're essentially saying, I can't hack it with the lads. 0.64

00:41:02.600 Please put your kid gloves on for me.

00:41:04.260 Now, we don't have the same time to go in depth with Indira Gandhi of India or Golda Meir

00:41:11.640 of Israel, the prime minister who had, you know, all three of these women ran nuclear powers,

00:41:21.660 nuclear armed powers.

00:41:23.280 And it's deeply embarrassing that their successors would push the, I'm just a girl.

00:41:32.040 Math is hard.

00:41:33.700 Don't be mean to me.

00:41:35.060 I'm a girl.

00:41:37.120 They're not mean to you because you're a girl. 1.00

00:41:39.880 They're mean to you because you're an idiot. 1.00

00:41:42.580 And to shift that to that you're a female is to imply that you're an idiot because you're 1.00

00:41:49.860 female. 1.00

00:41:50.420 You're an idiot because you're an idiot. 1.00

00:41:51.760 There are men who are idiots and there are women who are idiots. 1.00

00:41:55.280 And it's unthinkable that someone would say, you're just saying that to me because I'm 1.00

00:41:59.340 a boy. 1.00

00:42:00.520 No, it's because you're stupid. 1.00

00:42:02.760 And they actually demean femin, they don't demean feminism, they demean their own sex by 1.00

00:42:10.080 pushing the don't pick on me button instead of, what do you think Margaret Thatcher would 1.00

00:42:15.120 do, she would roar like a lion and intimidate the lads. 1.00

00:42:23.240 I'm conscious of the time.

00:42:24.880 I want to show you two videos about C-11.

00:42:30.100 C-11 is one of four bills that Justin Trudeau has introduced, passed, or will introduce to

00:42:37.920 censor the internet.

00:42:38.900 C-11, which regulates the internet.

00:42:41.480 That's C-18, called the Online News Act, regulates news broadcasters, especially like us.

00:42:49.820 There was a bill in the last parliament called C-36 that reintroduces hate crimes.

00:42:55.220 And then there's a bill that has not been introduced yet, but has been released in sort of a pre-bill

00:43:02.740 format, and it's called the Online Harms Act.

00:43:06.240 Taken together, that's four pieces of legislation to censor the internet.

00:43:10.300 That's more legislation, as I like to say, than Trudeau has to deal with the economy, than

00:43:15.280 he has to deal with inflation or housing prices.

00:43:17.920 Because Trudeau deeply cares about censorship, it's actually his number one issue.

00:43:25.220 Um, and I want to show you a new Democrat member of parliament, who just has a really

00:43:34.580 weird angle here.

00:43:36.680 Uh, I don't think this is accurate, talking about one million followers, but even if it

00:43:41.400 was, it's really weird here.

00:43:42.560 Without further ado, let's play that, play that NDP MP.

00:43:46.840 Well, we started with a bill called C-10, which was definitely a worse bill.

00:43:53.560 And I think what the member's referring back to is our concerns we were expressing at that

00:43:57.680 time.

00:43:58.700 Uh, and so some of the changes that came in C-11 reassured us.

00:44:02.160 And one of those changes is the very one the conservatives are harping on, and that is

00:44:07.460 the changes that made sure that user-generated, uh, content is not affected by this bill.

00:44:13.560 Now, I think what they're ignoring there is there's an exception.

00:44:16.480 If, if you're creating your own content and you're, have a million followers, a million

00:44:21.040 subscribers, and you're making money out of that, then yes, we are going to have the

00:44:25.520 CRTC have an ability to look at that.

00:44:27.720 So it's not what the conservatives are saying, is that we should have a blanket exemption

00:44:31.860 that nobody who's making money on the internet, uh, has to report to anybody or be accountable

00:44:36.880 for anything.

00:44:38.160 Um, and, and really that was one of the major improvements between the first version of the

00:44:42.320 bill and the bill that we're now supporting. 0.86

00:44:46.860 You know, I think I just got stupider, um, there.

00:44:51.100 I, I, I don't think that, I don't think a word that guy said was accurate.

00:44:55.940 Um, I think that million thing was just some, I just don't even think that that's in, in the

00:45:02.700 law.

00:45:03.680 Um, I'm not an expert in the same way that, um, Michael Geist is.

00:45:09.360 He's a professor of, um, law and especially a lot to do with the media and things like

00:45:15.560 that.

00:45:16.280 And he said this about, you can find this on Michael Geist Twitter account.

00:45:21.840 He said this, is it any wonder Canadian digital creators fear bill C-11?

00:45:27.400 Here's NDP MP Randall Garrison saying the bill is much improved since creators with a million

00:45:32.560 followers or who make money are subject to CRTC oversight.

00:45:35.740 He's wrong.

00:45:38.340 The bill regulates user content and subscriber numbers, not a threshold, but still.

00:45:45.760 Yeah.

00:45:45.900 Where's that?

00:45:46.380 Like that million where he just made that up.

00:45:48.920 He just made that up. 1.00

00:45:51.100 He's so dumb. 1.00

00:45:52.300 Even his opposition to it is dumb. 1.00

00:45:54.400 And there's a, oh my God, we're doomed. 0.99

00:45:57.100 But that isn't that right. 0.99

00:45:58.880 I mean, speaking of dumb, I'm going to call Jagmeet Singh dumb. 0.99

00:46:03.120 And it's not because he's a girl or a boy. 1.00

00:46:05.260 It's because he's truly dumb. 1.00

00:46:06.520 And I think he has the dumbest caucus. 1.00

00:46:08.100 Although those two liberals are giving him a run for the money. 1.00

00:46:11.940 Here's another, this is, this is scary.

00:46:15.420 I think this is another new Democrat.

00:46:16.720 An MP named Lori Idlout from the far north.

00:46:24.320 And she, there was sort of a vibe with Randall Garrison there that this is good, that people

00:46:31.220 who are saying things should be regulated because we don't like other people to have power other

00:46:37.520 than us.

00:46:38.220 And we should be able to censor them.

00:46:40.400 Here is, here's Lori Idlout basically saying, yeah, we like censorship. 0.99

00:46:46.600 We like the fact that we can finally control those pesky people who think they can just

00:46:50.640 talk freely. 0.97

00:46:51.280 Who the hell do they think we are?

00:46:52.520 Take a look at this video by another new Democrat.

00:46:55.860 And I thank the member for his question.

00:47:00.960 I guess to put it simply, I very much prefer to have the CRTC determine what is reflected

00:47:10.100 back, what, what they regulate regarding online streaming, as opposed to studio executives that

00:47:19.280 are outside of this country.

00:47:20.700 And that is what we're talking about in, in this bill.

00:47:25.400 There's already been content regulation for TV.

00:47:29.300 There's been content regulation for radio.

00:47:31.680 And that content regulation needs to happen for online streaming because so many Canadians

00:47:37.260 are online every day.

00:47:41.160 Content regulation.

00:47:43.120 You heard it.

00:47:43.560 So this isn't about a crime.

00:47:47.380 Crimes are already covered, whether you do it in person, on the phone.

00:47:50.700 In a newspaper, on the internet, crimes are already.

00:47:52.980 So it's not about crimes.

00:47:55.260 It's not about taxes.

00:47:57.160 You can make money in any way, but you're taxable.

00:48:00.180 You know, we're a for-profit company trying to make money.

00:48:03.400 Whether we do it in a podcast, an email, or a video, you're still taxed.

00:48:08.660 So she's not worried about financial matters.

00:48:10.900 She's not worried about criminal matters.

00:48:12.120 You heard her.

00:48:14.040 She wants to regulate content. 1.00

00:48:15.420 Now, one of the reasons why 80 years ago, the CBC, you know, all these regulations were

00:48:22.120 put into effect is because there was, it was thought that there was limited bandwidth.

00:48:27.220 And that's some, there's some truth to that over the air radio.

00:48:31.660 There were other reasons that are simply obsolete right now.

00:48:35.060 There's unlimited bandwidth.

00:48:36.900 There was also an idea what we need to boost Canadian content because otherwise it won't happen.

00:48:41.940 And everyone's a content producer now.

00:48:45.300 This is not about some noble reason.

00:48:48.040 You heard two MPs in a row.

00:48:51.600 This is about regulating what you say.

00:48:54.620 And what you say is based on what you think.

00:48:56.380 And what you think is based on what you believe, your conscience.

00:48:59.520 This is about regulating your mind and your heart and telling you what you can or can't say,

00:49:04.740 think, feel.

00:49:06.260 That's C11.

00:49:07.100 Don't take it from me.

00:49:07.740 Take it from its supporters.

00:49:08.660 Hey, I'm going to take a minute to read some super chats.

00:49:14.520 And Mark, five bucks.

00:49:15.520 Is Adam Sosa coming back?

00:49:16.520 I loved you on the news and why it matters.

00:49:18.460 I hope you go on there again soon.

00:49:20.840 Two parts there.

00:49:22.300 Yeah, I think Adam's coming back.

00:49:23.560 He's on paternity leave, which is the thing.

00:49:26.960 So I'm not sure exactly when he's back, but I think it, I think it might be next month.

00:49:31.300 And I'm glad you miss him.

00:49:33.240 The second is you love me on news and why it matters.

00:49:35.720 Because that's a show on the Glenn Beck Blaze Network.

00:49:39.040 Thank you very much.

00:49:40.000 I went down there the other day and I did four shows in one day, including Glenn Beck.

00:49:44.060 So and they were very warm to the messages we had and were very friendly.

00:49:50.020 Fraser McBurney says, wow, the last few days have had more news.

00:49:53.380 Tucker Carlson, Proud Boys, True Dope, J6, McCarthy, East Palestine and lying fake news.

00:49:58.300 Great job, Rebel News.

00:49:59.960 Well, there's the news never stops, does it?

00:50:02.140 And we do our best to cover it.

00:50:03.440 Look, we're a small, we're an army, but we're a very small army compared to other news gathering operations.

00:50:08.260 So it's hard to cover the waterfront.

00:50:11.260 But but I think we're doing a fairly good job, if I may.

00:50:15.220 LB762 said, Ezra, I was funnier and more lighthearted a few years ago as well.

00:50:19.060 Prior to 2020, it is a symptom of our current times.

00:50:21.700 For those of us that don't have our head in the sand.

00:50:24.300 You know what?

00:50:24.900 When I'm funny, I like that version of me.

00:50:27.600 Um, but there's many things that weigh on me and you can't always think about the news

00:50:34.800 because you'll be depressed all the time.

00:50:36.760 And I think social media is a depression machine.

00:50:40.800 If you're on Instagram, well, you just look at all the beautiful people and think, well,

00:50:46.200 I'm not that beautiful.

00:50:47.060 If you're on, um, I don't really spend any time on Facebook, but I don't know, LinkedIn

00:50:53.660 or whatever.

00:50:54.800 Oh, how's my career going compared to my classmates or something?

00:51:00.100 Uh, Twitter just makes you politically revved up, angry and nervous.

00:51:04.780 So I think social media has taken a lot of fun out of life.

00:51:08.860 And I say, this is a social media addict.

00:51:12.840 I think the times are heavy, but you've got to, you've got to fence it off.

00:51:17.200 You cannot, you know, there's a Jewish saying, you are not, it's not up to you to save the 1.00

00:51:22.420 world, but neither are you free to do nothing.

00:51:25.540 That's another way of saying there's a balance there.

00:51:27.360 You cannot just worry about the world.

00:51:31.520 You should do your part, but you can't just worry.

00:51:34.000 Another way of looking at that, this is a quote I use from time to time these days.

00:51:38.500 And I thought about it a lot during the lockdowns.

00:51:43.320 How hard should you fight?

00:51:45.640 How far should you go?

00:51:46.880 I fought in my own way as hard as I could.

00:51:52.080 That's what I think I did.

00:51:53.260 And we deployed our company to that.

00:51:55.520 But let me ask you a question that has never been posed to me.

00:52:01.520 If I would have lost my job, if I would, if, if fighting hard would have meant I would

00:52:07.020 have lost my job and thus put my family in economic distress, would I have fought?

00:52:12.640 Would I have fought?

00:52:15.160 So another way of saying, maybe it was easy for me to fight because I'm the boss of my

00:52:20.900 own company.

00:52:21.840 And, and in fact, our company's mission became fighting.

00:52:25.480 But what if I was a, had a more normal job?

00:52:28.820 Like, let's say I worked as a nurse somewhere and I had to be jabbed or be fired.

00:52:33.500 And if, and if I got fired, I don't have a ton of savings and my, my family depends on

00:52:39.380 me.

00:52:40.000 Would I have, would I have gone that distance?

00:52:43.160 I, I, I never had to think about that.

00:52:45.460 I would like to think that I would do the principled thing, but there's certainly a principle to putting

00:52:51.340 food on the table for your own family.

00:52:53.600 That's a, what about that principle?

00:52:55.860 So I'm lucky in that I never had an existential challenge before me.

00:53:00.020 I'm lucky, but I also created that possibility for myself by founding Rebel News, a place

00:53:06.300 that I could, it's right in the name, rebel.

00:53:09.320 It's a home for other rebels too.

00:53:12.100 But what if I wasn't so lucky?

00:53:13.540 What if I was working in a factory somewhere, um, like GM and I was told, guess what?

00:53:18.760 We're changing your collective agreement.

00:53:20.360 The union's being bought off and you now need to jam.

00:53:23.820 Would I have quit on principle?

00:53:25.220 And it's a different answer if you're only defending, depending on yourself or if your

00:53:30.400 family's depending on you.

00:53:32.820 I quote Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident, who takes this into account and realizes not

00:53:41.280 everyone can fight.

00:53:43.160 Not everyone can sacrifice.

00:53:44.460 Not everyone's conflict oriented.

00:53:46.040 Not everyone's built for fighting.

00:53:47.560 Some people are very weak or vulnerable or they just don't know how.

00:53:50.640 And so he said, and maybe you could find the exact wording here because I'm just paraphrasing.

00:53:55.420 I've used this quote before.

00:53:59.360 At least don't participate in it.

00:54:02.620 Don't participate in the evil.

00:54:04.320 Don't let it use you as a vector.

00:54:08.100 Yeah.

00:54:08.300 Live not by lies.

00:54:09.380 Um, it's probably, is there a quote there that touches on that?

00:54:18.020 Can you pump that up a little, just even two notches more size wise so I can read it?

00:54:29.520 Yeah, go.

00:54:30.280 Yeah.

00:54:30.480 I'll read that.

00:54:31.120 On the day Solzhenitsyn was arrested, February 1974, he released the text to live not by lies.

00:54:40.720 The next day he was exiled to the West where he received a hero's welcome.

00:54:46.660 This moment marks the peak of his fame.

00:54:49.460 Solzhenitsyn equates lies with ideology.

00:54:51.560 The illusion that human nature and society can be reshaped to predetermined specifications.

00:54:58.040 And his last word before leaving his homeland urges Soviet citizens as individuals to refrain from cooperating with the regime's lies. 0.72

00:55:06.920 Even the most timid can take this least demanding step towards spiritual independence.

00:55:12.380 If many march together on this path of passive resistance, the whole inhuman system will totter and collapse.

00:55:18.980 Okay, so that's written by this other guy, Edward Erickson.

00:55:23.980 That's not the actual quote, but you get my meaning.

00:55:26.960 Solzhenitsyn said, you don't have to be on the front lines.

00:55:31.660 You don't have to sacrifice, but at least don't go along with the lie.

00:55:36.320 Do not support the lie.

00:55:38.780 Do not say the lie is true.

00:55:42.400 Do not join the enemy.

00:55:45.480 Just don't, don't join the enemy.

00:55:47.180 Just don't be a part of the system.

00:55:50.340 And that's what I thought of when, for example, when I wasn't vaxxed and had no vax passport and would want to go to a restaurant that I've been going to for years.

00:55:58.620 And the woman who would always seat me said, no, get out. 1.00

00:56:02.240 You're not vaxxed.

00:56:03.220 And I thought to myself, why are you doing this?

00:56:05.200 There's no cop around.

00:56:06.200 There's no one around.

00:56:07.540 No one's holding you to account.

00:56:09.160 It's not like your boss is here.

00:56:13.000 You asked me if I'm jabbed.

00:56:14.700 I said no.

00:56:15.580 Okay, so you asked what you were supposed to do.

00:56:17.480 Now can I have a seat, please?

00:56:18.980 Why are you being a functionary of this authoritarian rule?

00:56:22.820 Why are you being a willing participant?

00:56:26.740 You're not in the government.

00:56:28.240 This isn't your policy.

00:56:29.580 Why are you taking it upon yourself to enforce it?

00:56:31.840 Why are you letting the lie flow through you?

00:56:35.600 Why don't you just ignore it?

00:56:37.160 You know, we had a, we had an event when vaccine passports were required.

00:56:43.400 And I'll tell you, I won't say who, but I talked to the manager and I said, we're not vaxxed.

00:56:47.980 Will you let us come?

00:56:49.080 And he said, I'm going to ask everyone for their vaxxed passport.

00:56:52.720 I'm going to just ask them in case a cop stings me.

00:56:56.480 He'll hear me asking, but whatever you say, I'll let you in.

00:56:59.280 I thought that's the right answer.

00:57:00.720 There's a guy who's protecting himself.

00:57:01.920 He doesn't want to lose his business and lose his job, but he's not going to be a little

00:57:05.800 Nazi about it.

00:57:07.980 I found people like that.

00:57:09.500 I found little restaurants and places like that.

00:57:12.020 I found a barber like that.

00:57:13.280 I found, found places like that during, during the lockdown.

00:57:19.080 Um, but I also found so many people who not only would be enforcers, they erotically loved

00:57:28.500 being snitches.

00:57:31.040 In fact, I just saw a court case.

00:57:34.220 I just read a court case.

00:57:36.280 It was crazy.

00:57:37.280 It's two o'clock, but give me a moment.

00:57:39.200 I saw this crazy court case.

00:57:45.220 I'll send the link to you.

00:57:47.080 I'm going to send you a link now.

00:57:52.460 I just put it in Slack.

00:57:55.860 This is a crazy case out of Quebec.

00:57:59.580 Olivia, did you get it in Slack?

00:58:00.860 There you did.

00:58:01.240 Yeah.

00:58:01.440 Pump it up big.

00:58:02.780 Um, you can, yeah, you can put it in PDF mode.

00:58:06.440 Do you see on the top right there, it says PDF that might make it prettier if you, if

00:58:11.320 you click on that link.

00:58:14.400 So this, this, uh, was before the honorable Dennis Galeatzos, uh, a judge in Quebec.

00:58:25.240 And it was the prosecution.

00:58:27.140 It was prosecuting a guy named Neil Epstein.

00:58:29.980 I have no idea who that is.

00:58:33.420 I'm going to read a little bit of this.

00:58:34.560 Okay.

00:58:36.500 The accused Neil Epstein is charged with criminal harassment and uttering death threats towards

00:58:40.580 his neighbor, Michael Nachachi.

00:58:43.360 The alleged events occurred between March and May of 2021.

00:58:46.880 Do you know what was happening between March and May of 2021?

00:58:50.120 I do.

00:58:51.740 Harsh lockdowns.

00:58:56.160 Paragraph two of this ruling.

00:58:57.340 Picture the following scene, a beautiful spring day, a quiet street in the small residential

00:59:02.560 neighborhood, just steps away from two elementary schools, a daycare in a park.

00:59:06.420 Up the road, a four-year-old girl rides her scooter in front of her house with three adults

00:59:10.600 sitting on camping chairs in their driveway, watching her said driveway is adorned with

00:59:14.620 chalk drawings made by the child.

00:59:17.060 A few meters away, another gathering of nine children spanning ages two to eight smiles from

00:59:22.060 ear to ear.

00:59:23.060 Some of bicycles, some of scooters, all are wearing helmets.

00:59:25.380 Other children are simply walking, playing, getting much needed fresh air.

00:59:28.660 They are all under the watchful eye of their parents.

00:59:31.800 It goes on and on and on.

00:59:35.180 Paragraph three.

00:59:35.880 To most, this scene represents a blissful snapshot of suburban utopia.

00:59:40.580 And then here we get to it.

00:59:43.520 Paragraph four.

00:59:44.180 Yet to the complainant and his family, this is an unbearable nuisance and affront on many

00:59:50.820 levels, so much so that according to objective video evidence, they drive dangerously near

00:59:57.060 the children as a way to protest their presence and express their discontent.

01:00:01.840 That is the backdrop of this case.

01:00:03.780 The complainant has a list of grievances against the accused, his family, his young children,

01:00:08.460 another neighbor's young children.

01:00:09.760 These grievances are nothing more than mundane, petty neighborhood trivialities.

01:00:13.400 The complainants have consistently videotaped their neighbors, yet they charge Mr. Epstein

01:00:19.480 with criminal harassment.

01:00:20.760 With an irony of unmatched proportions, they complain that he might have recorded them.

01:00:25.140 He did not.

01:00:25.760 To the complainants, the presence of young families outside is a source of scorn, blah, blah, blah.

01:00:34.640 A man who has somehow been subjected to criminal charges for almost two years, this injustice

01:00:39.540 ends today.

01:00:41.400 Are you not gripped?

01:00:43.380 Are you not riveted?

01:00:46.680 And I'm going to...

01:00:49.720 Okay, I'll just read a little bit of paragraph seven.

01:00:51.820 Give me some time here.

01:00:52.580 This is a fascinating case and it's beautifully written.

01:00:57.480 After Mr. Epstein testified in chief in a tremendous display of professionalism and objectivity,

01:01:02.340 Crown Counsel declined to cross-examine him since, in her view, it was not in the public

01:01:06.740 interest to do so.

01:01:08.280 Instead, she humbly invited the court to enter an acquittal.

01:01:11.120 Having heard the evidence, I can unreservedly confirm that she made the right call.

01:01:14.480 Counsel's integrity was commendable.

01:01:16.260 Let me tell you what that means.

01:01:18.100 So they charged this guy, Neil Epstein, with stalking, right?

01:01:22.200 That's what criminal harassment is.

01:01:24.220 But as the video evidence was played showing that it wasn't him that was the stalker, it

01:01:29.320 was the complainants.

01:01:30.460 It's that Nachachi guy. 0.98

01:01:32.860 When this Mr. Epstein got up and said, well, here's what happened, here's what happened,

01:01:36.760 here's what happened, the Crown Prosecutor said, judge, I don't think we should convict

01:01:43.120 this guy.

01:01:43.520 I'm going to stand down.

01:01:44.440 When was the last time that happened?

01:01:48.140 And look at the judge saying, good for the Crown Counsel.

01:01:51.680 And I'm just going to, I'm just going to skip ahead here.

01:02:00.080 The evidence presented a trial.

01:02:01.440 The interested parties live on Watford Street and Beaconsfield.

01:02:04.040 It's a small narrow road with sidewalks.

01:02:05.920 It is barely 10 houses long.

01:02:07.480 The testimony of the complainant, Michael Nachachi.

01:02:16.400 Michael Nachachi is a 34-year-old man.

01:02:18.400 He has a large build, albeit smaller than the accused.

01:02:22.480 Nachachi lives with his brother, Ari, who also has a heavyset frame.

01:02:26.000 His father, Frank, and his mother, Martine.

01:02:28.640 Nachachi has installed four closed-servic cameras filming in the front of his house at

01:02:32.460 all times.

01:02:33.060 He's also installed two dashboard cameras in his parents' vehicles, a third rear-facing

01:02:37.600 camera in his father's car, and a high-resolution camera on his motorcycle helmet.

01:02:42.800 He monitored the accused and his family, tried to record, anyhow.

01:02:49.900 So what's this beef about?

01:02:51.840 What are they mad about?

01:02:58.480 I'm going to look for it here.

01:02:59.920 They're mad that these kids and neighbors are violating the lockdown anti-gathering rules.

01:03:06.660 Look at paragraph 18.

01:03:10.320 Mr. Nachachi describes it as follows.

01:03:13.360 They were having a street party, blocking the street while drinking at the height of the

01:03:18.340 pandemic.

01:03:19.280 They were having a party in the middle of the street.

01:03:25.100 And he goes on.

01:03:26.920 But look at paragraph 20.

01:03:28.100 The video evidence paints a starkly different picture.

01:03:31.980 The scene is far less pernicious than it portrays to be.

01:03:34.660 First, this party in the middle of the street is a complete misnomer.

01:03:37.420 It implies some block party.

01:03:38.920 In reality, it was simply some children playing on the road.

01:03:45.140 The court does not see...

01:03:46.640 There were no toys left in the middle of the road.

01:03:49.560 On and on and on.

01:03:50.400 So everything was a lie.

01:03:54.220 But it was Nachachi who was driving fast and in a risky way. 0.82

01:04:02.120 Let me skip ahead to 31.

01:04:04.080 Martine Nachachi never slows down her car. 0.98

01:04:06.540 Instead, the little girl is left to her own devices, quickly pushing her scooter, narrowly

01:04:10.380 avoiding being hit.

01:04:11.620 And again, Frank Nachachi does not slow his speed.

01:04:16.220 In fact, Mr. Epstein gestures to him to slow down.

01:04:19.920 Again, so...

01:04:21.320 Anyway, it's a fascinating case.

01:04:22.680 You can find it yourself.

01:04:24.040 It's called The King versus Neil Epstein.

01:04:28.000 It's a Quebec case.

01:04:29.760 Maybe I took too long in there, but here's my point.

01:04:31.540 It is about a family, the Nachachis, if I'm saying that right, at war with the other families 1.00

01:04:41.280 on the street, if they're hanging out outside, kids using sidewalk chalk, scooters, playing

01:04:48.160 around.

01:04:49.420 And instead of slowing down for the kids, he drives quickly by them to scare them and almost

01:04:55.140 hits them.

01:04:55.780 And this crazy Nachachi family is filming everything. 1.00

01:05:01.460 And by the way, the film shows that they're the ones to blame.

01:05:06.380 And they managed to get the cops to charge this Neil Epstein guy.

01:05:12.220 And they managed to get all the way to court.

01:05:13.800 And as you can hear, after Epstein gave his testimony and after the video evidence was seen,

01:05:18.420 the Crown Prosecutor said, Judge, I'm sorry.

01:05:20.520 I don't want to proceed here.

01:05:22.440 And the judge commends the prosecutor.

01:05:24.240 There's a lot of interesting things in this case, a lot of crazy details.

01:05:29.120 But the thing that stands out to me is this was a snitch.

01:05:34.980 This was a pandemic snitch.

01:05:37.500 This was a Karen. 0.61

01:05:40.480 This was someone who was furious that neighbors and kids, no less, would be outside playing

01:05:45.980 during a pandemic.

01:05:48.660 And they actually managed.

01:05:52.540 And I didn't read the whole ruling.

01:05:53.820 I just read pretty much up to there a little bit further.

01:05:56.800 They managed to convince a cop and a prosecutor to take it to court.

01:06:00.940 And good for the prosecutor for seeing the error of her ways. 0.52

01:06:03.500 But why did it have to go that far?

01:06:05.100 She didn't know this was BS.

01:06:06.540 She had to wait till this Neil Epstein's life was turned upside down.

01:06:10.480 Why did it go that far?

01:06:11.760 And the judge, you know what?

01:06:14.740 Actually, I did read a little bit further.

01:06:24.480 I got to read a little bit more.

01:06:27.720 This is, someone sent this to me.

01:06:29.700 Go to paragraph 169 if you would.

01:06:31.560 So, apparently, Mr. Epstein gave Nekachi the finger one day.

01:06:39.820 Oh, my God.

01:06:41.560 And this was proof of stalking, criminal harassment.

01:06:44.880 Let me read what the judge says at 168.

01:06:50.020 To be abundantly clear, it is not a crime to give someone the finger.

01:06:52.980 Are you relieved, Olivia?

01:06:56.000 I wouldn't want to live in a country where it was a crime to give someone the finger.

01:06:58.780 To be abundantly clear, it's not a crime to give someone the finger.

01:07:02.160 Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right

01:07:05.060 that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian.

01:07:07.240 It may not be civil.

01:07:08.100 It may not be polite.

01:07:09.120 It may not be gentlemanly.

01:07:11.120 Nonetheless, it does not trigger criminal liability.

01:07:13.760 Offending someone is not a crime.

01:07:16.060 It is an integral component of one's freedom of expression.

01:07:18.980 Citizens are to be thicker-skinned, 1.00

01:07:21.080 especially when they behave in ways that are highly likely to trigger such profanity,

01:07:25.000 like driving too fast on the street where innocent kids are playing. 1.00

01:07:27.580 Be told to fuck off should not prompt a call to 911, 1.00

01:07:31.760 which is what happened here. 1.00

01:07:35.800 On that topic, the evidence in the case that Barr established that even after the accused's arrest,

01:07:40.540 therefore after the period covered by these charges,

01:07:42.820 Michael Nakachi called the police again

01:07:45.140 to report that Mr. Epstein's wife had given them the finger while walking on the street.

01:07:49.380 Calling the police because they gave you a finger because you're a pandemic scold?

01:07:53.700 Paragraph 171.

01:07:57.040 This needs to stop.

01:07:59.520 The complainants are free to clutch their pearls in the face of such an insult.

01:08:03.000 However, the police department and the 911 dispatching service have more important priorities to address.

01:08:07.680 The complainant's brother is fortunate that he was not charged with assault.

01:08:11.440 Similarly, both of his parents are lucky they were not taken under the highway safety code

01:08:15.040 for driveling recklessly in the presence of children.

01:08:17.500 Finally, based on the evidence of the case of Barr,

01:08:19.100 Michael Nakachi is fortunate that he was not charged with uttering death threats.

01:08:23.120 The complainants should all check those in the victory column.

01:08:26.980 Let me read paragraph 171.

01:08:32.360 I think this judge is doing a hell of a job.

01:08:34.540 This is really a crazy story, isn't it?

01:08:38.020 But this is, would you agree that this is a mask and pandemic scold gone wild?

01:08:42.920 Have you ever heard of such a thing?

01:08:44.020 They managed to get criminal charges.

01:08:46.880 Let me read right at the end.

01:08:50.540 Paragraph 174.

01:08:51.700 In the modern day vernacular, people often refer to a criminal case being thrown out.

01:08:57.140 Obviously, this is a little more than a figurative expression.

01:08:59.480 Cases aren't actually thrown out in the literal or physical sense.

01:09:02.700 Nevertheless, in the specific circumstance of this case,

01:09:05.000 the court is inclined to actually take the file and throw it out the window,

01:09:10.400 which is the only way to adequately express my bewilderment

01:09:13.580 with the fact that Mr. Epstein was subjected to an arrest and a fulsome criminal prosecution.

01:09:18.160 Alas, the courtrooms of the Montreal Courthouse do not have windows.

01:09:21.700 A mere verdict of acquittal will have to suffice.

01:09:25.340 For these reasons, the accused is found not guilty on all charges.

01:09:29.300 What do you think of that?

01:09:32.640 I like this Judge Galeatzos.

01:09:35.580 I think he's got a sense of humor to him.

01:09:38.000 Like I say, you really do need a sense of humor,

01:09:41.600 because what else are you going to do?

01:09:45.000 If you don't laugh, what else are you going to do?

01:09:47.300 That's just incredible.

01:09:52.580 Anyhow, a lawyer sent that to me because I was telling her the importance of being able to swear.

01:10:02.440 That being able to swear, it's not polite, but sometimes it's how we express ourselves.

01:10:09.140 And imagine having the cops called on you, being arrested, and being prosecuted because you swore.

01:10:14.460 And imagine the whole thing is over pandemic compliance.

01:10:18.940 That's a crazy story, and I'm glad to have read that case.

01:10:22.220 And I'm glad to know that a judge with that common sense and sense of humor sits on the bench.

01:10:26.760 And I hope to spend less time in courts in my second half century.

01:10:32.080 But if I ever find myself in a court, I would hope that a judge like that judge is sitting,

01:10:37.720 because we need all the common sense and humor we can find.

01:10:41.780 My friends, it is 2.12 Eastern Time, 12.12 in the Promised Land of Alberta, and I've got to go.

01:10:48.260 But I do have a couple of super chats I'm told that I'll read quickly before I vacate the chair.

01:10:53.400 I'll read quickly before I vacate the chair.

01:11:24.080 And Maminka says, yes, don't go along with the lie.

01:11:26.740 No excuses.

01:11:27.460 Even those who are not capable of fighting the evil can do their part.

01:11:30.260 Well said, Ezra.

01:11:31.200 Well, thank you.

01:11:31.820 Of course, it wasn't said by me.

01:11:32.880 It was said by Solzhenitsyn.

01:11:34.620 I'm repeating it, and I think that's important.

01:11:36.500 We have to repeat and remember these things.

01:11:40.280 You know, two years ago or three years ago, I did a whole show,

01:11:45.400 maybe the whole live stream, on the book Red Color News Soldier.

01:11:50.240 Do you want to put a copy of that book cover?

01:11:53.500 Red Color, C-O-L-O-R, News Soldier.

01:11:57.440 That's a weird title, isn't it?

01:11:59.140 But that was this, Red Color was Communist, News Soldier.

01:12:03.440 That's his book.

01:12:08.160 I bought that book in Hong Kong when I was there some 15 years ago.

01:12:14.200 I would not be safe to go back there now, and I don't even know if this book would be publishable.

01:12:20.020 Now, show some of the images.

01:12:21.040 Click the, so you show the book cover.

01:12:22.840 So, go back a page, and then click Images.

01:12:27.460 So, you're on the Amazon page, but go back to the Google search and click Images.

01:12:30.980 And look at those images.

01:12:32.400 These are the Red Guard and the Cultural Revolution and the Struggle Sessions and the Jailing of Dissidents. 0.91

01:12:43.200 And I want to show you what I regard as the most terrifying photo of them all.

01:12:54.400 I'm going to put it in Slack.

01:12:57.300 And I know that we did a whole show on this, but it was a few years ago, and people might forget.

01:13:01.420 So, there's a book, red-colornewssoldier.com.

01:13:06.340 Anyway, I just sent you the link, Olivia.

01:13:09.340 And there's one photo in particular I want to show you.

01:13:12.060 Feel free to put it on the screen, because even getting to there will be interesting.

01:13:17.660 We really should re-up that.

01:13:19.300 Anyway, I brought the book home.

01:13:20.920 I was showing it to my family.

01:13:24.900 So, click that link.

01:13:27.700 It's taking forever to load.

01:13:29.500 It's, I wonder if I can send you a different link.

01:13:36.920 I don't know if I can.

01:13:40.880 All right.

01:13:41.420 I'm going to send you a different version of it.

01:13:44.160 I'm going to actually just going to copy the image and send it to you.

01:13:50.640 I just sent it to you in Slack.

01:13:52.920 So, the actual image.

01:13:54.580 This is not a very high-res version, but you see it in Slack there now.

01:14:00.420 Yeah.

01:14:00.780 So, what is this?

01:14:08.000 You see a man being overpowered by what looks like military or police.

01:14:13.780 But what's he doing?

01:14:14.740 What's in his hand?

01:14:15.720 What's in his mouth?

01:14:16.920 This was a show trial, a sham trial. 0.66

01:14:21.960 He has something around his neck.

01:14:23.840 There's another photo of him.

01:14:24.840 It's a confession, a forced confession that he was like a capitalist running dog or he wasn't sufficiently obedient to Mao or something.

01:14:33.600 So, what's with his mouth?

01:14:35.880 Well, he was protesting his innocence.

01:14:41.680 He wasn't going along with the show trial.

01:14:44.060 He wasn't playing his scripted role.

01:14:46.200 He was saying, no, no, I'm not guilty.

01:14:47.960 Here's why.

01:14:48.620 Well, that doesn't work very well.

01:14:51.300 You've got to apologize and take your punishment.

01:14:54.340 So, they stuffed, I think it was a glove in his mouth to shut him up.

01:14:59.980 They stuffed a glove in his mouth to shut him up. 0.69

01:15:03.540 And Mao killed more people in raw numbers than anyone else in world history.

01:15:10.900 Depending on the source of statistics, between 50 million and 85 million of his fellow countrymen.

01:15:17.380 That's more than Hitler killed. 0.73

01:15:18.980 That's more than Stalin killed.

01:15:21.220 Depending on the sources, 85 million of his fellow countrymen.

01:15:28.920 Incredible.

01:15:29.660 There was a larger killer in terms of percentage of the world population.

01:15:34.200 In medieval times, someone named Tamerlane.

01:15:36.860 But we'll have to leave that for another day.

01:15:40.480 I tell you that because you say, you know, you refer to the Solzhenitsyn quote.

01:15:45.320 That's 50 years old now.

01:15:47.380 And these red-colored new soldier photos are from the late 60s, early 70s.

01:15:55.880 That's more than 55 years old now.

01:15:59.360 And, of course, the Holocaust itself is 80 years old now.

01:16:03.220 80, 85 years old now.

01:16:05.320 So, there's really no one alive from back then.

01:16:07.500 If you were 15 years old in 1945, you would have been born in 1930.

01:16:13.840 So, you would be 93 years old now.

01:16:16.420 That's how old Gene Hackman is, by the way.

01:16:19.020 You'd be 93 years old.

01:16:20.820 So, there are some people.

01:16:22.300 There are some people who were teenagers.

01:16:24.680 There might be some people who are 100 years old who were adults during the Holocaust.

01:16:32.340 But not a lot.

01:16:37.000 And soon, the generation of Chinese people who survived the Cultural Revolution will die off, too. 0.90

01:16:42.620 And soon, we'll only have memories, not eyewitnesses to testify.

01:16:48.780 And would it not be beneficial to all to learn from history rather than to be ignorant of it and condemned to repeat it?

01:16:58.420 I think so.

01:16:58.940 Well, that's our show for today.

01:17:02.840 I'll be back tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Mountain to talk about Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Party

01:17:10.060 and what a psychologist would call projection, projecting their sins on you and me.

01:17:18.180 I think we're going to close with a video from our friend Callum Smiles.

01:17:21.480 I'll see you tonight.

01:17:23.220 Goodbye, everybody.

01:17:24.360 And check out this video from Callum.

01:17:26.580 This is Callum Smiles for Apple News.

01:17:28.560 It was here in The Hague the day before the Dutch farmers' protest.

01:17:32.980 Now, Rebel News have covered these protests before.

01:17:35.360 And as the Dutch government aren't budging an inch, we've come back here to cover it once again.

01:17:41.180 And we have to be here because the mainstream media will most likely paint a government-positive narrative

01:17:47.260 as Mark Rutter has his lackeys in the mainstream media.

01:17:51.500 So you can stay tuned to everything we're doing here in The Hague as the Dutch protest happens tomorrow

01:17:57.200 at farmerrebellion.com.

01:17:59.660 Stay tuned and I'll see you then.

Rebel News Podcast - March 10, 2023

DAILY Roundup ｜ Censorship⧸Chinese election interference, CBC's big bonuses, Hacking 'Smart Cities'

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