Rebel News Podcast - DAILY Roundup ｜ Israel-Hamas hostage⧸prisoner swap, Protesters block infrastructure, Populism rising

00:00:00.000 I'm the Rebel Commander here. That's a title I give myself. It's a little bit tongue-in-cheek,

00:00:22.940 but we are certainly in an information war. There are real wars going on. I saw startling

00:00:29.440 news out of Ukraine two days ago. I don't know if you saw that. According to the Ukrainian

00:00:34.940 government, so this is not guesswork by outsiders, the average age of Ukrainian soldiers in the field

00:00:42.980 right now is mid-40s, which is terrifying because that suggests that a whole generation of young 0.98

00:00:50.800 men have been killed in the meat grinder of that war. Absolutely heartbreaking.

00:00:59.440 And I say this at the same time that the United States government, can you find that tweet?

00:01:07.020 I'll probably find it faster, where out of the blue, the United States government, which has so

00:01:11.780 resolutely refused any talk of negotiation or any talk of a little ceasefire, suddenly, here,

00:01:23.340 I'm going to put it right in the Slack channel there, suddenly is talking publicly about a negotiated

00:01:31.160 settlement. That's got to, yeah, you found it there, exactly. So this is from the U.S.

00:01:39.340 a mission to NATO. So this isn't just any old part of the U.S. military. This is the part that is

00:01:50.160 engaging with Europe and the other allies in Ukraine. Let me read it to you. Ukraine has taken 0.60

00:01:56.280 back more than half of its territory seized by Russia's forces since February 2022. Now, I should 1.00

00:02:03.280 say most of that taking back happened a year ago. In this tough and dynamic battle, it's not really

00:02:11.980 that dynamic, though the front lines have been static for almost a year. Ukraine's forces are

00:02:19.560 fighting bravely every single day, and they continue to inspire the world with their bravery and courage.

00:02:24.920 We will continue to support them to be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table

00:02:34.380 when the time comes. We continue to stand united with Ukraine while they defend their freedom.

00:02:42.060 And then look at the infographic there. We are focused on setting the conditions

00:02:46.660 conditions for a just, durable, and sustainable peace. This is a completely new message from the United

00:02:57.100 States. It was victory. It was repel the Russians. There was even talk about taking back Crimea, 0.83

00:03:06.680 which was the part of Ukraine that Russia seized and annexed. They were talking about,

00:03:12.720 they were audacious proposals, I don't know how serious they were, of going into Russia proper.

00:03:21.240 There was a point in time when Zelensky himself was talking about regime change in Russia.

00:03:26.500 And now the U.S. government, and I have no idea if they consulted about this language with Ukraine in

00:03:31.900 advance. I mean, it's, you can take it or leave it when they talk about, you know, fighting bravely,

00:03:38.940 retaking land, tough and dynamic battle. But that one sentence, we will continue to support them to

00:03:44.680 what? To victory? To expel Russians from every acre of land? No. The goal, according to this tweet,

00:03:52.980 which has 4.9 million views, is to be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.

00:04:02.340 What negotiating table? Who said anything about negotiating tables? That was absolutely forbidden

00:04:08.200 in the vernacular of the U.S. military until just a month or two ago. I find that absolutely

00:04:16.200 astonishing. And although some people who actually wanted Russia to be expelled from every acre,

00:04:24.840 and perhaps even the retaking of Crimea, although they will be perhaps demoralized by this,

00:04:31.780 and I mean, I think of Trudeau's speech when Zelensky came to Canada,

00:04:35.580 we will be with you to the end. No one actually ever said what that end was. And now the U.S.

00:04:43.580 military, which is basically bankrolling and arming the entire battle, is saying, we'll tell you what

00:04:48.800 the end is right now. The end is a negotiated settlement, and we're going to try and do our best

00:04:53.880 at that negotiated settlement. I find that a stunning about-face. That is a 180-degree turn.

00:05:01.160 But, you know, let me tell you something. Do you have that clip of when I went to Davos

00:05:06.660 nine months ago, ten months ago, whatever it was? Or maybe it was on the previous trip, actually.

00:05:13.560 No, it was that one. Sorry. I've only been to Davos once. I'm trying to keep confusing my trip with

00:05:19.080 someone else's. We did so much journalism there. It's a bit of a blur. I went to the Ukraine Pavilion

00:05:26.240 at Davos. And, you know, Davos, the World Economic Forum, we, of course, were not accredited journalists.

00:05:33.880 They would not accredit us, so we were sort of milling around the outside.

00:05:39.280 Davos, the World Economic Forum, takes over the entire town of Davos.

00:05:43.020 So the conference center and the hotels and certain things are private, and you need access to get in

00:05:49.040 there. But there are parts just along the main streets of this town that are taken over for the week

00:05:55.020 by companies or governments and turned into sort of like a World's Fair kind of thing. And one of them

00:06:02.360 was Ukraine. And I don't want to play the whole video for you, but I went into the Ukrainian

00:06:08.320 Pavilion. This is obviously the Ukrainian government, so it is their point of view. Russia was not allowed

00:06:15.040 in Davos. That's what I was told several times. So this was the Ukrainian point of view. Critics would

00:06:22.460 call it propaganda. But I went in because I wanted to hear what they had to say. And let me play a

00:06:27.540 little bit of it for you, because a lot has changed in the almost one year since I was there. Take a look.

00:06:37.220 Ezra Levant here on the streets of Davos, Switzerland. This is the annual meeting of the World Economic

00:06:42.820 Forum, which is a unique blend of big business, big media, and big government. Well, one of the

00:06:49.520 biggest governments in the world these days, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, Canadian taxpayer,

00:06:54.580 British taxpayer, is the government of Ukraine, which is in an existential battle against the Russian

00:07:02.100 Federation. I say it's an existential battle because, of course, Russia seeks to annex certain regions 0.89

00:07:08.560 of Ukraine, that Russia claims are ethnically Russian, and that Russia claims are being punished,

00:07:15.940 being persecuted by the Kiev-based government that has a different history. I mean, Ukraine's borders

00:07:24.220 have changed over the years. There's different ethnicities. And it's quite a brutal battle. 1.00

00:07:30.680 It's not the first time Russia has invaded Ukraine, and it did it in 2014. But this time, 0.61

00:07:35.520 NATO, and in particular, the United States, has flooded the zone with money and with weapons. And

00:07:41.560 it's turned into a brutal, long-running battle that I'm sure has caught Vladimir Putin by surprise.

00:07:46.880 Makes me nervous, the whole thing, because, of course, both sides have nuclear weapons. And

00:07:51.380 I don't know if you could ever have a total victory over a foe that has nuclear weapons,

00:07:56.860 especially Vladimir Putin with the imperialistic pride that he wields. That's a background. You already

00:08:02.160 know that. But here I am at the massive Ukraine pavilion. Now, as I've showed you by walking these

00:08:09.600 streets before, there are other countries here and other states of countries, for example, in India,

00:08:16.520 that are promoting themselves. We talk with him. We'll show you some of the imagery that was shown.

00:08:23.120 Yes. Hello, everyone. My name is Alekh Manochenko. I'm from Ukraine. And this is two projects.

00:08:27.900 Ukraine is you and Ukraine, House of Us. It's dedicated to show that Ukraine, Ukraine role in

00:08:34.180 the world to show the, to show the Russian crimes in Ukraine, to show, to reveal Russian crimes to the 0.55

00:08:41.120 world. That's the main point of today's, of today's meeting. And we're happy for, for hosting us

00:08:47.340 within the framework of World Economic Forum. So is the president of Ukraine making a presentation

00:08:53.200 either in person or by video link? Yes. President, don't leave the country because

00:08:58.420 of exception was like a wizard to Washington DC. And he is addressing the guests by the video.

00:09:04.020 It will be. And the head of the office president was heading address to the guests. And also

00:09:10.940 first lady of Ukraine while there yesterday. She was here in person? Yes. And also some very

00:09:17.220 distinguished guests with. I don't want to play the whole thing. It's a long video, but I want

00:09:21.480 to tell you the two things I thought there. First of all, they had, they had images of atrocities.

00:09:28.080 That's how they describe them of civilian apartments attacked. And it's interesting to contrast

00:09:34.760 the world's reaction to those apartments being blown up versus Gaza. It's just a thought that

00:09:42.280 popped into my mind. Obviously that was not on my mind then because the Gaza war was not until October.

00:09:46.300 But I talked to advocates for the Ukrainian government, including that young fellow. And I

00:09:52.080 talked to an international lawyer and I won't take up more time. I don't want to play a little

00:09:56.680 video. It's a lengthy video, but you can find it on our website, wefreports.com. Anyways, I talked to

00:10:02.940 this international lawyer who was saying, not only are we going to beat Russia, we're going to take

00:10:08.200 Russia to the war crimes court. And we're going to take Putin and the oligarchs and the army to the

00:10:13.640 war crimes court. And we're going to get them like we got the Nazis. And we're going to make Russia 0.97

00:10:19.400 pay to rebuild all Ukraine. We're going to seize hundreds of billions of dollars of Russian assets. 0.75

00:10:26.060 And, and it was such a maximalist goal. I mean, I, I was very attentive. I let them speak at great

00:10:34.800 length. My questions to them were very gentle response. I didn't want to pick a fight. I just

00:10:39.420 wanted to hear what they had to say. I guess my point is that was January 2023. So that's 10 months

00:10:46.320 ago. So 10 months ago, the stance of the Ukrainian government was not only are we going to kick Russia

00:10:53.880 out of every square inch of Ukraine, but we're going to topple the regime, put them on trial for

00:11:01.120 war crimes, take all their money and rebuild Ukraine. And now NATO is saying, no, actually,

00:11:09.000 we're just going to try and get you as presentable as possible for a peace negotiation.

00:11:15.520 I think that is an incredibly underreported story, an underreported story. Wouldn't you say?

00:11:24.400 I mean, the number one foreign policy issue of the entire West for two years has been Ukraine.

00:11:33.620 People still have the Ukrainian flag as their icon on social media. I, I was at Pierre Polyev's press

00:11:40.860 conference yesterday, and one of his staff was wearing a Canada-Ukraine flag pin, like Vladimir

00:11:46.520 Zelensky was just in Canada a month or two ago. To go from, you know, we're with you till victory in

00:11:54.260 the end. We're going to put these Putin on trial for war crimes to, hey, Ukraine, get ready for a 0.76

00:12:00.080 peace deal is quite astonishing. And I don't know if it's the fact that the US election is less than

00:12:07.060 a year away and American public opinion is falling away, or if it's simply a recognition of the fact

00:12:14.160 that Russia has an enormous military, not just in terms of troops, but in terms of replenishing

00:12:22.160 ammunition, they've got the military industrial complex, the infrastructure to keep, you know,

00:12:28.080 as Professor Mearsheimer says, Russia has a three-to-one person advantage, you know, population

00:12:36.220 advantage over Ukraine, but it's a ten-to-one artillery advantage. And of course, then there's the fact

00:12:42.980 that Americans are feeling overstretched and maybe war weary, even though US troops have not been involved

00:12:52.120 in the war in Gaza. It certainly has taken up a lot of the share of the mind of the American

00:12:58.300 public. And yeah, I thought that was really an underreported story. And don't mind me, I didn't

00:13:04.340 even plan to talk about that, but I was just thinking about that startling tweet. Would you agree with me?

00:13:09.140 I mean, that is a complete about face. Can you call up that video? We've played it several times

00:13:17.600 of, I think his name is Kirby, the US spokesman on military and State Department issues. I think he

00:13:27.400 works for the White House though. And he, this was like this year where he said, we will not even

00:13:35.420 allow talk of a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, because that would grant that the status

00:13:42.440 quo is somehow acceptable. So look at, this is, and we'll move on after this, but I just want to show

00:13:48.620 you how just a few months ago, the US was saying, we will never accept the status quo, not even

00:13:55.580 temporarily. Take a look. Hey, that if coming out of this meeting, there's some sort of call for a

00:14:02.140 ceasefire. Well, that's just going to be unacceptable, because all that's going to do,

00:14:05.660 Mike, is ratify Russia's conquest to date. All that's going to do is give Mr. Putin more time

00:14:11.560 to refit, retrain, remand, and try to plan for renewed offensives at a time of his choosing.

00:14:18.620 We hope, and we've said this before, that President Xi will call and talk to President Zelenskyy,

00:14:24.240 because we believe the Chinese need to get the Ukrainian perspective here.

00:14:27.800 Hey. You know, it's so interesting, isn't it? So that he was taking a very hard line,

00:14:34.300 even though there was an enormous number of Ukrainian men who were killed. I was talking

00:14:38.640 to Conrad Black, and he thought it was about 100,000 young Ukrainian men. I think the number

00:14:43.840 is much higher than that. And of course, millions, I've seen a number of 8 million Ukrainians have

00:14:51.380 left the country, is one report. I've seen, of course, there's the Ukrainians who've been simply 1.00

00:14:56.860 annexed by Russia. So the country, it's just a terrible, disastrous outcome for Ukraine. And

00:15:07.620 you can see there that that White House spokesman was adamant, no ceasefire ever, that just gets the

00:15:13.740 bad guy's chance to recoup. How different, how interesting that that line was the gospel for

00:15:21.440 a year and a half. Now it's gone. But Israel is the one being pressured to ceasefire, including by

00:15:27.380 the Biden administration, even though their rhetoric is more friendly. Speaking of the Gaza war, I left

00:15:35.160 the office yesterday, and I did a little reporting myself, which I, whenever I do it, I'm glad I've done

00:15:41.260 it. I got to get out of the office more. Pierre Polyev, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, was at a

00:15:46.760 local Toronto synagogue, where he was announcing really nothing new, frankly. He was talking about how he wanted

00:15:54.980 to declare the Iranian Republican Guard a terrorist group, as other countries have done. He was talking about

00:16:00.160 expelling 700 Iranian agents from Canada, based on a global news study, investigative report. He wanted to speed up

00:16:09.240 the security infrastructure for, that's where they get alarms and video surveillance cameras for religious

00:16:17.160 institutions. So there really wasn't anything new there. But I went and I asked a question about our

00:16:26.300 deport Hamas idea. Let me show you how that went. I just want to show you my, and I tried to get a second 0.64

00:16:32.680 question in, but they would not let me. I tried. Here's my question and Polyev's answer, and I'll talk to you a

00:16:38.240 little bit about it. But then I want to show you what some of the other journalists there, there were

00:16:41.500 a bunch of other journalists. That was actually far more interesting to me than, than the speech

00:16:47.100 itself. Here, so here's my question to Polyev and his answer. Hi, Mr. Polyev, Ezra Levan from Rebel News.

00:16:54.240 You mentioned certain things that rise to the level of a crime, but there are many things that aren't

00:16:59.620 quite at that level. For example, people marching, calling for an intifada, or say, or, or using language that

00:17:06.120 may not rise to the level of a criminal prosecution. And you've said before that you

00:17:11.340 respect freedom of speech, even for odious views. But what about people who are not Canadian citizens,

00:17:17.740 who are foreign nationals, perhaps here on a student visa to go to our schools, and instead of studying 0.80

00:17:23.740 at university, they're participating in these hate marches, intimidating people, Jewish restaurants, 0.99

00:17:29.200 calling for the death of Jews. Again, not criminal level, but these are foreign nationals. Would you 1.00

00:17:36.900 support canceling the visas and deporting foreign nationals, who instead of doing what they came here 1.00

00:17:45.440 to do, are spreading hate at these pro-Hamas rallies? Thank you for your question. You raise a number 0.83

00:17:51.600 of different issues. One, if someone comes here on a student visa and they're not actually a student,

00:17:55.200 then on that basis alone, they should go home. We don't want to have, one of the problems we have

00:18:00.800 with the student visa program is that it has been used as a fraudulent point of entry, particularly

00:18:06.760 for corrupt employers trying to get labour from abroad. So in general, we believe that we should

00:18:12.260 shut down all the fraud in the student visa program, and anyone who claims to come here to study 1.00

00:18:17.560 that is not actually studying should not be here. With regards to protests, I do believe in freedom

00:18:24.480 of speech. I believe people should be allowed to say things I disagree with, even things that I find

00:18:28.400 appalling. That is the price of living in a free country. The alternative is to have state censors

00:18:39.200 who then decide what kind of speech is acceptable and what is not, and who chooses those state censors.

00:18:44.960 And then those censors will pick and choose, based on their own political views, which speech is allowed

00:18:51.520 and which speech is not. That's why I believe in freedom of expression. You mentioned, for example,

00:18:58.480 if someone stands up and calls for violence against a particular group, they can, under the current

00:19:03.440 criminal code, be charged with incitement. Those provisions already exist. And I would encourage

00:19:11.360 law enforcement to make sure those provisions are upheld for any and all people who incite,

00:19:18.640 deliberately incite violence against an identifiable group, because that has been criminalized

00:19:24.960 for many years. And anyone who is convicted of that, who is not a citizen, should obviously not be in

00:19:31.040 Canada. You know, I appreciate as far as he went, but he didn't go very far. I'm not talking just about a

00:19:40.720 hate crime, which is a difficult crime to prosecute. It's very rare. And it does offend the notions of free

00:19:47.520 speech. I'm talking not about violating free speech. I'm talking about people who come to Canada's guests,

00:19:52.560 temporary guests, to be students or workers or whatever, people who do not have tenure here,

00:19:57.200 who do not have a citizenship status, going to these hate marches. And if they were Canadian citizens,

00:20:06.880 maybe you have to live with it, unless they do go to the point where they're threatening someone,

00:20:12.000 actually doing a crime. But if they're foreign nationals, basically tourists who are allowed to 0.99

00:20:17.760 stay a little longer to get a degree, why should they be allowed to go to these hate marches? I've

00:20:22.400 seen a lot of these hate marches. They are overwhelmingly either new Canadians or people

00:20:29.440 who aren't Canadian at all. So why should they be allowed to get on a plane, come here either 1.00

00:20:36.560 temporarily as a tourist or saying they're students, and then vomit out anti-Semitic bigotry on our

00:20:44.640 streets, terrifying and terrorizing actual Canadian citizens. So I think he wiggled out of that one a

00:20:52.400 little bit, but I think we should keep at it. I think it's a fruitful line of questioning.

00:20:58.240 So I was the only, there was a reporter from the Canadian Jewish News who asked a

00:21:01.680 question about these hate rallies too, and it wasn't a particularly thoughtful question.

00:21:07.280 Polyev answered it very briefly, again, with freedom of speech answer. But there were about

00:21:11.360 half a dozen other reporters there, CBC, CTV, Canadian Press. And I thought their questions

00:21:21.040 were more, the most interesting part of the day. None of them had anything to do with

00:21:27.520 what Polyev was there to talk about. None of them had anything to do with

00:21:31.040 security for Jewish community as the Hamas front comes here. None of that. It was carbon tax questions.

00:21:39.920 They were furious that Polyev didn't want a carbon tax to be inserted in Canadian aid

00:21:47.840 to Ukraine. They were so, why won't you allow a carbon tax in Ukraine? Like, it was crazy.

00:21:53.600 There were some vendetta questions, or like, it was just, the questions were so bizarre.

00:22:03.760 A couple of them were about the fact that Polyev briefly said, as did many others,

00:22:09.200 that the explosion of the border crossing in Niagara Falls looked like terrorism. And Polyev was actually

00:22:14.320 citing CTV. I want to show you, maybe you've seen this clip on social media, but you probably just saw

00:22:20.240 the CPAC camera, which was fixed on Polyev the whole time. I had my camera and I pointed it at the

00:22:26.400 Canadian Press reporter. And so we did a new little video edit. I want to show you this.

00:22:32.240 This wasn't quite apple orchard, Pierre Polyev, you know, when he had that apple and he was schooling

00:22:37.760 that reporter in the Okanagan. It was pretty close. And I think that Pierre Polyev should carry an apple

00:22:43.680 with him, maybe in his pocket. That might look a little bit funny to have a whole apple in your pocket,

00:22:47.920 but maybe he should have an assistant nearby with an apple. And when a question like this comes,

00:22:53.360 he should say, apple? And then an assistant who is an apple assistant, who does nothing else,

00:23:01.280 other than he or she carries the apple, waiting for the apple. And then the apple is run on to this,

00:23:08.400 almost like, you know, in tennis matches, there's people who run to get the tennis ball super quick.

00:23:13.920 It's really fun to watch those ball kids run and get the ball super quick. There's one job.

00:23:21.360 Get someone that with that kind of speed and attentiveness to be Pierre Polyev's apple handler.

00:23:29.760 And the moment you see a question like this, you're getting ready. The apple is taken out of the apple

00:23:35.600 bag. You're getting ready. You're getting ready. You're looking at the boss. You're looking at the

00:23:39.920 boss. You're waiting for the moment. And then he says, and maybe he doesn't even say it out loud.

00:23:44.480 Maybe he just goes, maybe he just mounts it. And you say, oh, that's my cue. And you run with the

00:23:51.280 apple and Polyev takes the apple. It takes a bite. And then he answers and it goes like this.

00:23:56.800 Do you think it was responsible for you to call yesterday's explosion by the customs,

00:24:11.200 by the checkpoint at the Rainbow Bridge terrorism when no U.S. or Canadian officials said that was

00:24:17.200 like authorities said that was the case. And when the New York governor also said there was no evidence

00:24:21.840 to suggest terrorism activity. Actually, you're wrong. Are you with CP?

00:24:25.760 Okay. So CP, by the way, CP, just for everyone's knowledge, did have to make three corrections for

00:24:31.520 falsehoods that they put into a single article. I think that might be unprecedented.

00:24:36.560 I'm actually thinking about checking with the Guinness Book of World Records to see

00:24:40.720 if there's ever been a news agency that has had to issue three corrections for patent falsehoods that

00:24:46.800 they admit they had been made in one single article. And now you've made yet another falsehood in your

00:24:51.680 question. Where you are wrong is that CTV reported that the government of Canada

00:24:58.400 was presuming that the incident was terrorist. So yeah, that was and that's what I said in my remarks.

00:25:04.400 You're right. It was a media report. But it's citing media reports and not.

00:25:09.120 Which is what I said in the House. I said there are media reports.

00:25:13.680 And you think that's a responsible thing to go on to make that kind of a statement at the time without

00:25:18.480 speaking? What kind of statement? I didn't. I said there were media reports.

00:25:26.640 That's the distinction we're making? Okay. No, there's no distinction. What I said,

00:25:32.320 and I was right, was that there were media reports

00:25:37.200 of a terror related event. By your admission, there were media reports of a terror related event.

00:25:44.960 And that media report, according to CTV, unless you're questioning their integrity now,

00:25:51.280 came from security officials in the Trudeau government. So do you think the CTV was

00:25:57.280 irresponsible in putting out that tweet?

00:26:02.560 Do you think it was a responsible comment to make it in the House of Commons?

00:26:05.120 Sorry, I'm asking. I have already answered that. Do you think CTV was irresponsible to put that tweet out?

00:26:11.440 That's none of my business. That's not for me to comment.

00:26:15.600 Well, you just did comment.

00:26:20.560 Okay. I just hope you're not going to print something that you have to apologize for again. Okay.

00:26:25.600 I liked it. I mean, I was there for it. It wasn't as delicious, so to speak, as the original Apple

00:26:34.960 moment. But I think, you know what? I think he should have a little Apple lapel pin or something.

00:26:42.080 I don't know. Like really little. But you sort of have to squint and say, what's that?

00:26:47.520 Oh, it's just an apple. How do you like them apples? I should tell you that question was no

00:26:55.680 dumber than the other questions that the rest of the media party asked. And no, I thought it was 0.90

00:27:02.480 astonishing. I did my show on this last night, by the way. I don't know if you're a subscriber to

00:27:07.280 the As for LeVant show. It's what we call Rebel News Plus. We put it behind a paywall. It's eight

00:27:11.680 bucks a month, which isn't that pricey. I know that's not a lot of dough to you, but it really adds up

00:27:15.840 for us because, you know, that's how we pay most of our salaries here is with that subscription.

00:27:21.520 Because as you know, we don't get any money from Trudeau. We would never take it even if it was

00:27:26.080 offered and it will never be offered. And we've been demonetized by YouTube. They won't even let

00:27:31.040 us do Super Chats anymore. You might recall when we started our daily live stream during the pandemic,

00:27:36.800 the Super Chats were actually an important source of revenue for Rebel News. And so obviously,

00:27:40.960 YouTube cut that off. And it's because YouTube itself is beholden to woke mindsets, but also

00:27:48.640 beholden to advertisers like Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies, and even more worryingly,

00:27:55.360 to governments. After Elon Musk took over Twitter, he released what he called the Twitter files,

00:28:04.000 showing how the government pressured Twitter to censor even more than they would do so for their

00:28:09.360 own ideological or commercial reasons. I mean, of course, all these social media companies happen

00:28:14.480 to be based in San Francisco, the most left-wing city in America. So by their own nature, they're going

00:28:20.800 to be very censorious of conservatives. But then add in the pressure from, you know, hypersensitive

00:28:30.320 advertisers and then the government. It's extremely bad. Which is why I am interested, nervous, angry,

00:28:38.960 defensive, but also ready when Justin Trudeau says he's got a big announcement coming about a digital

00:28:48.160 partnership targeting artificial intelligence. I wish Justin Trudeau had any sort of intelligence,

00:28:56.720 intelligence. Real intelligence, artificial intelligence, just any sort of intelligence

00:29:00.720 would be a welcome change. But whenever he talks about misinformation and disinformation,

00:29:08.000 that's when I got a hold out of my wallet because I know he's coming to pull a fast one on us. This is

00:29:14.000 the guy who said that Israel fired a missile at a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds. And it was later

00:29:25.680 proven by multiple sources that it was actually an Islamic jihad rocket that went astray. It didn't

00:29:33.200 destroy the hospital. The hospital itself was not actually even hit. There was a fire in the parking

00:29:38.080 lot. As far as we know, there were no casualties. And Trudeau to this day has not corrected himself and his foreign

00:29:45.840 minister, Melanie Jolie. Her tweet on the subject remains up. These are the people lecturing you on

00:29:52.560 misinformation and disinformation. And yeah, here's the clip from Trudeau.

00:29:58.560 We're also talking about a digital partnership that is going to make a huge difference. Building on that as we work

00:30:04.400 together to understand the impacts of AI, the impacts of disinformation and misinformation on

00:30:10.160 the social media that people get to get overwhelmed by in so many ways that tend to exacerbate our

00:30:15.440 challenges. That's the big second announcement we're making. You know, when he starts going like

00:30:21.360 this with his head, you know, that's when you know a big lie is coming. You know, 91% of

00:30:29.360 liberal voters in 2021, if I'm remembering the abacus poll correctly, found Trudeau inauthentic

00:30:38.640 and phony. Am I remembering that right, Olivia? I think it was 91%. It was an enormous number.

00:30:45.840 Inauthentic and phony. And the thing is, once people think you're inauthentic and phony, you can't

00:30:52.080 re-fool them. I really think the best analogy is when you're sort of enchanted or you have a crush

00:30:59.280 on someone, let's say. Maybe you're in love with them. And then you see something about them. The

00:31:04.560 mask falls. The veil falls. And you see their true nature. You see them do something or say something.

00:31:11.600 And you just instantly realize you were sort of tricked. And you can never look at them the same

00:31:16.720 way. And you fall out of love. But it's not just, okay, you know, things have cooled off. You feel

00:31:22.720 like you were tricked. Like if you like someone and then you don't really like them, you don't

00:31:29.280 necessarily feel tricked. You just think, okay, you know, he's not my cup of tea. But if you actually

00:31:35.280 were emotionally invested in Trudeau because you thought he was passionate and real and smart and

00:31:42.880 hopeful and progressive, and then you come to learn, for example, the carbon tax issue, which is in many

00:31:48.800 ways a dry financial issue. But he claimed it was a passionate issue about caring for the world.

00:31:54.800 We all knew it was just a tax grab. So he gets in trouble in Atlantic Canada because they have home

00:32:00.240 heating oil out there and they're going to really get walloped by this carbon tax. And so he says,

00:32:06.480 okay, fine. I'll save you money. I'm not going to bring in the carbon tax for, I think, three years.

00:32:12.640 Well, what did that say? It said, first of all, Trudeau was lying when he said it was

00:32:17.120 revenue neutral because he says this is going to save you hundreds of millions of dollars. So he

00:32:21.600 showed he was lying. But more than that, he showed that his whole passion was phony and inauthentic.

00:32:30.480 That he absolutely would throw away his centerpiece legislation if it meant saving a few liberal MPs out

00:32:38.880 there. I follow on Twitter, Catherine McKenna, the disgraced former environment minister. And she was

00:32:45.120 so appalled by him, she fell out of love with him too. And that's what I mean. Yeah, show that

00:32:51.360 abacus survey. Yeah, put that on the screen just for one second. Those who have a negative impression of

00:32:57.520 Trudeau and voted liberal in 2021. So understand this, these are people who voted for Trudeau just

00:33:05.920 two years ago, but they've soured on him. I don't like him as a person. Only 23% are saying that.

00:33:15.520 But 77% are saying, I'm tired of him. I just don't want to see his face or hear that

00:33:22.480 substitute drama teacher sound. He got Canada into this mess. Two thirds of people say that.

00:33:32.240 He has a clear vision of where he wants to take the country. Only 14% believe that. And then look at

00:33:39.200 the next one. This is the money shot here. He's authentic and genuine. Nine percent say that.

00:33:48.240 Whereas look across the row there, 91% say he is inauthentic and phony. These are people who voted

00:33:57.600 liberal in 2021. He's too cautious and doesn't promise enough. Only 18% say that, whereas 82%

00:34:09.520 he makes promises he can't keep, you think. Thanks very much. But those, so I think what a lot of

00:34:15.280 those show is those are emotional. Those aren't saying, those aren't asking, does he have the right

00:34:19.200 tax policy? Does he have the right foreign policy? Does he have the right policy on issue one, two,

00:34:23.920 three, four, or five? Should the tax rate be this percent or that percent? These are not brain issues.

00:34:28.960 They're heart issues, right? They're not testing science. They're testing feelings.

00:34:34.960 And people feel burned by Trudeau. They feel tricked by him. They feel like he's a phony who

00:34:41.040 lied to them. And they're just tired of him. They just want him to go away. And that is not easily

00:34:47.680 remedied. Once you fall out of love that hard, I don't know if there's a road back. And that's the

00:34:55.280 thing. And I won't go through the polls right now, but I like looking at them. I like looking

00:34:59.360 at polls from David Coletto at Abacus because I know his company is really a liberal company

00:35:05.760 chaired by a liberal operative. And the reason I say that is if they're critical of Trudeau,

00:35:11.280 you know it's true. I mean, if a right-wing pollster, I don't even think there is one in

00:35:15.840 Canada, were to critique Trudeau, you'd say, well, that's just a right-wing pollster.

00:35:19.680 But when a liberal party pollster like Abacus says that, you know, you can take it to the bank.

00:35:25.520 Well, it's 1.37. I want to take a short break and run some ads. Since the last time I spoke with you,

00:35:31.840 we had our Rebel News Live

00:35:34.080 conference. And it was great. And can you

00:35:38.840 find

00:35:41.600 the proud Mary clip of Tamera Leach?

00:35:47.300 Did I ever tweet that one?

00:35:50.820 So let's run an ad. Let's run some ads, including for our Rebel News

00:35:54.340 cruise. But I want to show people what I thought was

00:35:57.820 the most fun part of the Rebel News Live conference in Calgary,

00:36:01.500 which was just a week ago. Time flies.

00:36:05.640 I want to show you that music video of Tamera Leach

00:36:08.020 and her husband Dwayne in concert. It was unbelievable. Here's some ads. Come right back.

00:36:11.560 I'll show you Tamera Leach playing guitar. 1.00

00:36:12.720 David Menzies for Rebel News here in downtown Toronto. And I got to tell you folks, next March,

00:36:21.360 March 23rd to 30th, to be precise, we are going on a Caribbean cruise. Can you imagine that? And a lot

00:36:28.520 of your favorite Rebels will be there, such as Sheila Gunn-Reeds. We got Alexa Lavoie, the big boss man 1.00

00:36:34.880 himself. Of course, he'll be there, Ezra Levent. And how about this? How about this for the cherry on the sundae?

00:36:40.280 Tamara Leach, Canada's number one freedom fighter. She'll be on that boat, too. 0.79

00:36:45.720 And look at the itinerary. We're going to be going to Half Moon Cay in the Bahamas.

00:36:51.520 And then we're going to jazz it up in Oco Rios, Jamaica. And then there's Georgetown in the Cayman Islands.

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00:37:44.240 Come on out November 25th. It's all aboard the Freedom Train in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

00:37:48.880 You can check Rebel News for updates and also the Freedom Passports item.

00:37:53.840 Tamera Leach, who led the Truckers Convoy, will be sharing the stage with some of the finest

00:37:58.960 international recording artists. Like the Chopps Horns from New York City, who's played with Alicia

00:38:04.480 Keys, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones, and many more. Plus New World Sun, just off a European tour,

00:38:11.360 and the legendary R&B master, Leroy Emanuel. Get on the Freedom Train with Tamera Leach.

00:38:20.320 Saturday, November 25th at Niagara-on-the-Lake Central Community Center, 680 York Road.

00:38:26.000 Get your tickets today at freedompassport.ca. The Freedom Train is coming. Know your rights. Know your freedoms.

00:38:34.240 Hey, welcome back. You know what? Did you see that? The Freedom Train concert is tomorrow in

00:38:42.400 Niagara-on-the-Lake. That's amazing. I hear turnout is incredible. I cannot attend for a family reason,

00:38:48.720 but boy, I wish I would be there in person. And it's a great concert, but we had a sneak preview of

00:38:56.880 two of the musicians. And I tell you, I can't believe Tamera Leach has so many different talents.

00:39:03.920 She's not just the brave political prisoner who was jailed for 49 days for leading the Trucker Convoy,

00:39:11.600 who is currently on trial in Ottawa for mischief. But she is in a rock and roll band. And at the end

00:39:19.040 of our Rebel News Live conference in Calgary, six days ago, she and Dwayne played a whole half hour set.

00:39:25.600 It was great. So I filmed this on my, I was in the first row. Obviously, I'm the number one fanboy. Let

00:39:32.080 me just show you one of the songs that they played. And I tell you, I just really, it's exactly what I

00:39:39.840 needed. Take a look at, I think this is Proud Mary, written by Credence Clearwater Revival, later covered

00:39:47.840 by Tina Turner. What a great song. Take a look. Okay. You guys should be able to sing along to this one.

00:39:55.920 It's another oldie, but a goodie.

00:40:02.080 I gotta remember how it starts here.

00:40:03.600 I got left a good job in the city. Workin' for the man every night and day. But I never lost,

00:40:18.320 come in and sleepin'. Workin' out the way things might have been. Big wheels keep on turnin'. I said,

00:40:32.480 rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin' on a river. I said, rollin', rollin', rollin' on a river. Two, three, four.

00:40:48.480 They left a good job in the city. Workin' for the man in the city.

00:40:52.880 Workin' for the man. I left a good job in the city.

00:41:09.600 I left a good job in the city

00:41:15.820 Working for the man every night and day

00:41:20.640 But I never lost a minute to sleep

00:41:24.380 And worked out the way things might have been

00:41:28.140 Think we just keep on turning

00:41:31.060 I sit proud there and keep on burning

00:41:34.840 Rolling, rolling

00:41:38.640 Rolling on the river

00:41:41.700 I cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis

00:41:46.240 I popped a lot of pain down in New Orleans

00:41:50.820 But I never saw the good side of the city

00:41:54.640 Till I hitched a ride on the riverboat queen

00:41:58.580 Big wheels keep on turning

00:42:01.280 I sit proud there and keep on burning

00:42:05.040 Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river

00:42:11.920 I said rolling, rolling, rolling on the river

00:42:19.500 Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river

00:42:24.880 And Iência

00:42:30.860 We did not know that what does see muchas die 1.00

00:42:35.680 I had never seen by the river

00:42:37.040 We passed from the river

00:42:38.060 dataset

00:42:38.620 Before the river

00:42:38.760 And week

00:42:39.620 I went to Job

00:42:43.000 Andobject

00:42:44.400 You're going, going, going on the river

00:43:00.400 If you come down to the river

00:43:04.620 I bet you're gonna find some people who live

00:43:09.280 You don't have to worry cause you got no money

00:43:13.160 People on the river happy to get

00:43:16.740 Big wheels keep on turning

00:43:19.560 I sit right out there, keep on burning

00:43:23.460 Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river

00:43:30.100 I say rolling, rolling, rolling on the river

00:43:37.500 I say rolling, rolling, rolling on the river

00:43:44.900 Boy, that was fun.

00:44:02.420 Hey, you know what?

00:44:02.960 I just want to show you a flavor of that song.

00:44:05.360 I mean, I like that song and I think I fell in love with that song when I heard Tina Turner sing it.

00:44:13.760 And I want to show you a clip, I mean, Tina Turner, it's one of her signature songs, even though she didn't write it.

00:44:19.440 The raw energy, the showmanship, the entertainment, just the talent, the power, it's one of the greatest rock and roll performances of all time to see her do that.

00:44:31.580 And she's done it 20 times, you can find it online.

00:44:34.040 Let me just give you a taste of one performance.

00:44:35.900 I just chose this at random and sent it to Olivia, just grabbed it off YouTube.

00:44:40.400 I don't want to play too much of it, but give me a minute or 90 seconds of Tina Turner just rocking to Proud Mary.

00:44:47.000 She starts nice and steady.

00:44:56.820 You know, every now and then, I think you might like to hear something from us.

00:45:04.400 Nice and easy.

00:45:08.020 There's just one thing.

00:45:10.840 You see, we never, ever do nothing.

00:45:15.040 Nice and easy.

00:45:18.000 We always do it nice and rough.

00:45:24.060 But we're going to take the beginning of this song and do it easy.

00:45:30.280 But then we're going to do the finish.

00:45:33.260 Rough.

00:45:35.320 It's the way we do Proud Mary.

00:45:37.820 And we're rolling, ooh, rolling, ooh, rolling on the river.

00:45:47.000 Listen to the story.

00:45:49.920 Left a good job down in the city.

00:45:55.420 Working for the man every night and day.

00:46:00.460 And I never lost one minute of sleep.

00:46:04.800 Now we're rolling about the way the same might have been.

00:46:08.880 It's the detonate button.

00:46:10.340 You know that big job in the city.

00:46:13.420 Working for the man every night and day.

00:46:16.400 And I never lost one minute of sleep.

00:46:19.020 And we're all about the way the same might have been.

00:46:21.980 Big wheel keep on turning.

00:46:24.100 Run it.

00:46:24.780 Round door and keep on burning.

00:46:26.940 Run it. 0.52

00:46:27.440 I tell you, unless you were a paraplegic, you would be on your feet.

00:46:46.700 This song, there's something about it and the way Tina Turner plays it.

00:46:51.260 You just got to stand up.

00:46:52.260 You got to move.

00:46:52.780 How can you listen to this without moving?

00:46:54.300 Holy mackerel.

00:46:55.620 In Memphis.

00:46:56.900 I've had the long time.

00:46:58.620 I regret I never saw her in caution.

00:47:00.220 But I never saw the good side of a city.

00:47:02.860 Till I hissed the ride on the rim of old queen.

00:47:05.760 Big wheel keep on turning. 0.99

00:47:07.820 Burn it. 0.98

00:47:08.520 Prime Mary keep on burning. 1.00

00:47:10.600 Don't ever run it.

00:47:12.360 Oh, I think she's stronger than Beyonce. 1.00

00:47:15.780 You know what?

00:47:16.500 I think Beyonce's overrated.

00:47:18.340 I mean, try and hold a candle to this lady. 0.98

00:47:22.980 Just the raw showmanship.

00:47:24.980 You know, one of my favorite roles for Tina Turner was when she played, I forget the name

00:47:36.040 of the part, in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

00:47:38.800 Have you ever heard of that, Olivia?

00:47:40.560 I bet you're gonna find some people who live.

00:47:43.740 You don't have to worry.

00:47:44.840 You know, she was just perfect in that.

00:47:47.000 It was a very unusual casting.

00:47:49.040 We'll keep on turning.

00:47:52.140 Prime Mary keep on burning. 1.00

00:47:53.920 I'm gonna send you one quick clip.

00:48:09.600 Just, oh my God.

00:48:11.380 I forgot how much I love Tina Turner.

00:48:13.700 So when Tamera Leach and Dwayne played that song, I mean, I was trying to behave.

00:48:19.880 Plus, I'm 51, so I don't want people to make fun of me for bouncing around too much in

00:48:24.420 my seats.

00:48:25.640 Last concert I went to was Morrissey.

00:48:27.540 He's 64.

00:48:28.680 But he can still sing like he's 24.

00:48:31.080 That voice is like honey.

00:48:34.380 Anyway, one of my favorite things that Tina Turner did was so unexpected was she played,

00:48:37.980 I forget the name of, like some queen rebel or something in Mad Max with Mel Gibson.

00:48:44.420 Imagine being with those two icons.

00:48:47.500 Imagine what that would have been, like filming Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson and

00:48:53.720 Tina Turner.

00:48:54.280 Just play a minute of that and then we'll get back to business.

00:49:02.920 Open it.

00:49:03.760 There she is.

00:49:16.560 There she is.

00:49:20.200 And there he is.

00:49:21.580 There's Mel Gibson.

00:49:27.620 Post-apocalyptic.

00:49:28.500 She was tough and hard.

00:49:40.500 When was that?

00:49:45.060 What's this?

00:49:46.440 1985.

00:49:49.080 What's this?

00:49:51.140 You think I don't know the law?

00:49:53.640 Wasn't it me who wrote it?

00:49:55.320 And I say that this man has spoken the law.

00:49:58.980 Right or wrong?

00:50:00.300 We had a deal.

00:50:01.600 And the law says, bust a deal, face the wheel.

00:50:05.500 Bust a deal and face the wheel.

00:50:07.940 Bust a deal and face the wheel.

00:50:10.860 Bust a deal and face the wheel.

00:50:12.220 All right, thanks.

00:50:12.940 I just wanted to indulge my love for Tina Turner there.

00:50:16.420 That's 1985.

00:50:18.260 I was 13 when that movie came out.

00:50:20.140 But I think it still holds up just for sheer entertainment value, drama, and the Mad Max dystopian.

00:50:28.100 I mean, by the way, Mad Max Fury Road is a great movie, too.

00:50:32.900 Just absolutely great.

00:50:34.880 And it's a reminder of how many amazing things Mel Gibson did.

00:50:37.580 And he's still an amazing filmmaker.

00:50:39.720 And he's been demonized for his politics.

00:50:41.560 And he has had a few outbursts, granted, that were quite rude.

00:50:45.140 And some could describe his outbursts as racist, and I won't defend the outbursts themselves.

00:50:50.960 But I think he's a great filmmaker, a great artist.

00:50:53.740 I think he has strong ideas about freedom and about America.

00:50:59.360 And I think about him quite a lot when I think about the meaning of his movies, whether it was Braveheart or The Patriot or even Apocalypto or The Passion of the Christ.

00:51:11.760 I mean, he was in some movies that are just like junk food.

00:51:16.760 Like, he was in, what's the one where he, oh, shoot, I can't remember.

00:51:24.160 There's too many.

00:51:24.780 He's in some fun movies, too.

00:51:26.500 But I think he's actually a meaningful guy in Hollywood who actually thinks.

00:51:31.160 Well, listen, I want to tell you a change that we're making at our daily roundup.

00:51:36.500 We're going to turn it into a weekly roundup.

00:51:38.760 What I mean by that is the live stream, which we've been doing pretty much every day from 1 to 2 Eastern, we're going to do it just on Fridays now.

00:51:47.300 And let me tell you why.

00:51:48.920 We started the daily live streams during the depths of the pandemic when there was an enormous demand for news.

00:51:59.920 And we weren't supplying enough of the news in our prepared videos and in my nightly show on Rebel News Plus.

00:52:07.080 And so every day I would sit here and I would talk over the daily stats and the daily lockdown.

00:52:15.080 And it made sense for a lot of reasons.

00:52:18.160 First of all, there was an enormous demand, but a tiny supply of contrarian news and views.

00:52:22.780 Second of all, in terms of what we were allowed to do, remember, we were all locked down.

00:52:29.920 We couldn't travel within the country.

00:52:33.560 That ban came into effect later.

00:52:36.740 But being in the office, this was a way we could still do great journalism from the set.

00:52:42.460 And finally, and not unimportantly, when YouTube had not yet demonetized us, we were making about 500 bucks or more per day in Super Chats.

00:52:57.260 So it was a commercially important project for us to do, especially given that we take no government money and YouTube had demonetized our regular ads.

00:53:07.840 But the live stream in recent years is not those things.

00:53:12.460 It's we're not facing a daily news crisis, although we are, you know, there's always things happening.

00:53:20.380 We make very little money through Super Chats.

00:53:25.360 We're not allowed to do Super Chats.

00:53:26.700 We make some money on Rumble.

00:53:27.980 And I see someone has just chipped in $50, which is incredible.

00:53:32.320 And I want to say thanks to Stefan Aug for 50 bucks.

00:53:36.120 He says, Ezra, love what you're doing.

00:53:37.460 Great to see you engaging on True Social and Rumble.

00:53:39.720 We all must support free speech platforms.

00:53:41.640 Pierre, 24, 25, Trump, 24.

00:53:45.400 And Bess Araba chips in 20 bucks and says, love the show. 1.00

00:53:48.980 Not interested in movies, actors or singers.

00:53:51.620 Keep up the good fight.

00:53:52.980 People hate it when I talk about movies.

00:53:56.840 But here's the main thing.

00:53:58.280 I watch the live stream and I see David Menzies on the live stream.

00:54:02.520 And he's fun and he's great.

00:54:04.420 He's one of my favorite guys.

00:54:05.360 But I can't help but thinking David needs to be out in the field doing news in the field.

00:54:10.140 And when I see Alexa on the live stream, I think there's so much news in Montreal on the streets right now.

00:54:16.140 Alexa needs to be in the field. 1.00

00:54:17.440 And other reporters who were not hired to be pundits or commentators have been pressed into service to keep the daily live stream going.

00:54:26.760 And after thinking about it for some time, I've decided that those rebel talents should be deployed on other journalism.

00:54:35.900 Now, our dear friend Sheila Gunn-Reed is based at home.

00:54:40.340 She has a home studio and she loves doing it.

00:54:43.360 And she is a great pundit and commentator, always has been.

00:54:47.600 So our new thinking is that every Friday, Sheila will host the live stream.

00:54:54.600 She may have guests, but typically she will run through the highlights of the week.

00:54:59.520 And she's in a position to know those because she's our chief reporter.

00:55:03.780 She deals with all the stories constantly.

00:55:07.440 So every Friday, Sheila will host a one-hour live stream, sort of reviewing the best of the week.

00:55:14.640 And we will still have ad hoc live stream if there is an emergency, if there is some huge breaking news, and for certain events like elections.

00:55:26.440 We love our elections live streams.

00:55:28.600 They're very successful, both financially and in terms of viewership.

00:55:32.400 And we'll continue to do those.

00:55:35.100 But on any given day, we will have our reporters out doing reporting.

00:55:42.900 And I think that's an important thing for Rebel News.

00:55:45.940 I look around the independent news space and I look at our colleagues and our competitors.

00:55:52.020 And some of our colleagues and competitors do live streams, do commentaries, do chats.

00:55:59.880 But I think the thing that makes Rebel News special and different is our emphasis on on-the-ground video reporting.

00:56:11.300 I mean, think of David Menzies, and I'll mention him because he's done the live stream so much.

00:56:15.200 David Menzies shines when he is at a rugby game for a transgender rugby player who's smashing women. 1.00

00:56:24.860 And he's saying, what are you doing?

00:56:26.420 And he's getting the candid comments from everyone there.

00:56:29.240 That's David Menzies at his best.

00:56:30.980 David Menzies is at his best when he's at a pro-Hamas rally.

00:56:35.400 And he encounters, yeah.

00:56:37.180 I mean, look at this.

00:56:37.880 When David was out there, by the way, that had hundreds of thousands of views.

00:56:42.180 Actually, I think that video had a million views because it was so amazing.

00:56:47.180 In this case, there was a male rugby player named Ash.

00:56:50.800 Male pattern baldness.

00:56:51.940 He didn't look like a girl at all. 0.96

00:56:54.380 And David was there saying, what's going on?

00:56:56.240 And all these women were defending him.

00:56:57.560 It was crazy.

00:56:58.740 They called the police on him.

00:57:00.440 Don't you think that that is the proper use of David's time?

00:57:04.120 Remember when David went out there in Mississauga to a place we call Gaza Plaza?

00:57:09.800 Actually, I call the whole town that.

00:57:12.340 And met a young woman who was wearing machine gun earrings and machine gun shirt and saying

00:57:21.140 nothing that Hamas did was a pro.

00:57:25.860 Yeah, that's exactly her.

00:57:27.640 Put her on screen.

00:57:28.260 Remember that woman?

00:57:29.580 And don't you think that that journalism is not only where David shines, but that's

00:57:38.300 what Rebel News has come to mean.

00:57:41.160 We will tell you the other side of the story.

00:57:42.920 Here's my thinking on punditry.

00:57:44.420 And of course, I'm a pundit myself.

00:57:46.200 Every night at 8 p.m. Eastern, I do a show.

00:57:49.200 We call it The Ezra Levant Show.

00:57:51.300 It's on Rebel News+.

00:57:52.160 I give you my pundity opinions every night.

00:57:55.460 So obviously, I'm not criticizing pundits, but pundits, by definition, chew over material

00:58:03.880 that a primary news gathering journalist got first.

00:58:07.380 A pundit is sort of a secondhand dealer in ideas.

00:58:11.180 But the person on the ground filming is the firsthand reporter.

00:58:15.800 And that's more important.

00:58:17.220 As I said in my speech at Rebel News Live last weekend, the greatest source of bias in news

00:58:24.620 is not how a story is covered.

00:58:27.840 It's what stories are covered at all.

00:58:30.420 I mentioned earlier, I was at the event with Pierre Polyev yesterday.

00:58:33.260 There were six journalists from the regime media.

00:58:35.500 Not a single one of them asked any questions about Polyev's speech.

00:58:40.300 Not a single one of them asked any question that I think an ordinary Canadian would care

00:58:45.340 about.

00:58:45.520 There was all their own vendettas or their own beats.

00:58:50.400 And that is the deepest form of bias there is.

00:58:54.240 And so when Rebel News goes and shows things on the ground, that's how you tell the other

00:58:59.240 side of the story.

00:59:00.140 Not sitting in front of a green screen or in a studio and opining on what someone else reported,

00:59:06.200 because then you're giving the real power to the CBCs and the CTVs of the world, because

00:59:10.520 you're actually letting them choose your subject.

00:59:12.800 This is a very long way of me saying, Rebel News is going to stick to our knitting.

00:59:18.160 We're going to do what we do best.

00:59:20.040 If you ask me what David Menzies does best, the answer is he goes out into the world and

00:59:25.680 he finds amazing people doing crazy and fascinating things, and he lets them have their say and

00:59:31.280 he points the camera at us.

00:59:32.620 If you were to ask me what Alexa Lavoie does best, I'd say she commands the province of 1.00

00:59:40.880 Quebec, whether it's Roxham Road or the crazy Antifa protesters in Montreal.

00:59:45.620 That's Alexa Lavoie's highest use to journalism. 1.00

00:59:51.580 Not, I mean, listen, I love hearing both of their thoughts about the world as pundits, but

00:59:56.520 I don't want them taking out a swath of the middle of the day to be a pundit.

01:00:01.760 We will still give you the live stream experience that you like every Friday when Sheila Gunn-Reed

01:00:07.620 does a wrap up of the week.

01:00:08.780 And we will do live streams on an emergency basis, as we have for years, and we'll do

01:00:14.160 live streams when there is an election afoot or some other momentous occasion.

01:00:19.400 But Rebel News, especially in the post-pandemic world, will be on the streets.

01:00:25.460 And I can tell you, as someone who lives in Toronto, that there is an enormous amount of

01:00:30.080 news on the street every single day because the pro-Hamas activists have taken to the streets

01:00:36.500 and so far, police and prosecutors have not stopped them.

01:00:40.920 Show for a second the shutting down of the major highway in Toronto.

01:00:46.020 Take a look at this.

01:00:47.400 This happened in Toronto.

01:00:49.060 It didn't happen in a studio.

01:00:50.780 It happened on the street.

01:00:52.080 Look at this.

01:00:54.880 This action is only taking four minutes.

01:00:57.100 We're not here to disturb anybody.

01:00:58.540 We just wanted to show solidarity, and we're going to be on our way.

01:01:01.320 Four minutes, that's it.

01:01:02.260 Remember, your brothers and sisters in Palestine, and to say that we will never, ever give an

01:01:07.720 inch away from this land.

01:01:09.900 When they die, young brothers and sisters like yourself, who are so concerned about a matter

01:01:16.380 they thought they made you forget it.

01:01:19.600 But they are wrong.

01:01:20.960 Because as long as we live, and as long as we breathe air, Palestine will never, ever be 1.00

01:01:27.800 forgotten, and this is the message that we send clearly to the Zionist Israeli regime.

01:01:35.240 No matter where we are, even if we are at the other side of the world, or the other side

01:01:40.440 of anywhere, Palestine will never, ever be taken away from our hearts, because Palestine

01:01:45.800 is in our hearts.

01:01:47.340 You remembering Palestine.

01:01:49.660 You gathering for Palestine.

01:01:51.760 You thinking of Palestine.

01:01:52.800 I mean, look at what, that is a, I think that's the Gardner Expressway in Toronto, correct

01:01:58.320 me if I'm wrong.

01:01:59.220 It's an absolutely essential major street, and you can see this was a carefully scripted,

01:02:03.020 carefully planned propaganda moment.

01:02:06.160 Drones in the sky, still photographs from the sky, or I mean, this was a production, and

01:02:13.500 you can hear, and this gets back to my question that I put to Pierre Pauly of, who is that man

01:02:19.460 who is obviously speaking with a foreign accent, is he a Canadian citizen, or is he one of those

01:02:26.100 700 agents of Iran, or is he here as a guest in some way, as a tourist, or on a student visa

01:02:32.820 or a temporary work visa, and what is he doing shutting down this critical infrastructure for

01:02:38.060 four minutes?

01:02:40.720 They brought in martial law when the truckers honked their horns.

01:02:44.400 My point, though, in showing this video now is, where is the news?

01:02:48.360 The news is on the street.

01:02:51.060 The news is out there.

01:02:53.160 And we will go to get the news, and we will show you the news that we think is important,

01:02:57.800 not the news that CBC, CTV, or the rest of the regime media thinks is important.

01:03:01.960 And that is our emphasis as Rebel News, gathering the news from the streets, and frankly, around the world.

01:03:09.080 If you want commentary, you'll get it every Friday from Sheila Gunn-Reed on the live stream,

01:03:13.280 or every night at 8 p.m. on my show.

01:03:16.280 And Sheila has a weekly show as well.

01:03:18.480 I hope you agree with me on this decision.

01:03:20.700 Obviously, if you're watching the live stream, that tells me you like it, maybe even you love it,

01:03:24.720 and you've come to rely on it.

01:03:25.760 But as the Rebel commander, it is my belief that we must be on the streets, not just in Toronto and Montreal,

01:03:35.780 but in Calgary and Edmonton and Vancouver and Ottawa.

01:03:38.920 And each of those cities I just listed does have a Rebel in it, as well as Avi Yamini in Melbourne. 0.99

01:03:44.980 When I think back to the most successful journalistic moments that I have had in the nearly nine years of Rebel News,

01:03:53.240 none of them have been me sitting at a desk giving you my views.

01:03:57.480 All of them have been me in the field engaging, interacting, especially with opponents,

01:04:03.760 whether it was Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, or Greta Thunberg, both of whom we encountered at Davos,

01:04:10.780 or whether it's Sheila Gunn-Reed at the UN Global Warming Conferences,

01:04:16.420 or Avi Yamini on the streets of the protests and the lockdown in Melbourne,

01:04:22.920 or Alexa Lavoie challenging Justin Trudeau at the leaders' debates.

01:04:30.340 Our golden moments have not been when we sit in the comfort of our living rooms or our studios chattering.

01:04:38.240 And I'm not saying there's no role for that.

01:04:39.660 I do it every night on my show.

01:04:41.680 The best moments of Rebel News are when we are out there engaging with the news

01:04:45.600 and then sometimes trying to do something about it to make a difference.

01:04:49.580 That's what Rebel News is going to do going forward.

01:04:51.940 I thank you for your loyal viewership of our live stream.

01:04:54.800 I invite you to watch every Friday when Sheila Gunn-Reed does it.

01:04:58.300 I invite you, if you want more commentary, to subscribe to Rebel News Plus,

01:05:02.400 where Sheila and I have our shows behind the paywall.

01:05:04.580 And we need that paywall, because that's how we pay the bills around here.

01:05:07.600 We have 45 staff that we have to pay for.

01:05:11.480 And that $8 a month charge, like I say, it's probably not a lot of dough to you, but it really adds up for us.

01:05:18.540 So that's the live stream for today.

01:05:21.160 Sheila will be back in this chair on Friday.

01:05:23.960 We will occasionally have other live streams as events warrant.

01:05:26.940 But until then, look for rebels on video and look for them on the streets.

01:05:35.020 Goodbye.

01:05:36.600 And keep fighting for freedom.

01:05:37.980 All parties in Canada stand with Ukraine.

01:05:42.460 So it is particularly troubling to see, even though we are seeing a rise of right-wing rhetoric in the United States,

01:05:55.340 with MAGA conservatives, across Europe, in certain corners, of right-wing politicians and parties,

01:06:02.080 starting to pull their support for Ukraine, starting to parrot Russian disinformation and misinformation and propaganda,

01:06:12.760 that suddenly the Conservative Party of Canada would choose to not stand with Ukraine in something that they need,

01:06:22.740 that the Ukraine has asked for.

01:06:24.500 And to use the frankly absurd excuse, that it's because Ukraine will be bringing in a price on pollution in the coming years.

01:06:35.800 Obviously, that's an excuse.

01:06:39.840 But it's not the real story.

01:06:42.580 The real story is the rise of a right-wing, American MAGA-influenced thinking

01:06:50.620 that has made Canadian Conservatives, who used to be among the strongest defenders of Ukraine,

01:06:59.160 I'll admit it, turn their backs on something Ukraine needs in its hour of need.

01:07:06.180 That is the danger of the rise of the right-wing influence that is feeling its impact in Canada.

01:07:13.740 That's what not just Ukrainian Canadians, but all Canadians should be concerned about

01:07:19.260 when the Conservative Party of Canada and Pierre Polyev turn their backs on history,

01:07:25.340 turn their backs on our friends and allies,

01:07:27.900 turns their backs on the international rules-based order

01:07:32.400 and our support for the UN Charter and territorial integrity.

01:07:36.780 It is of real concern and should be of concern to all of us

01:07:41.120 because we're seeing that spiking up all around the world.

Rebel News Podcast - November 24, 2023

DAILY Roundup ｜ Israel-Hamas hostage⧸prisoner swap, Protesters block infrastructure, Populism rising

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