Rebel News Podcast - DAILY ｜ The West levies sanctions against Russia： do they actually do anything？

00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, Ezra Levant here in Toronto. My good friend Sheila Gunn-Reed is out west,

00:00:20.420 outside the city of Edmonton. Sheila, how are you doing today?

00:00:23.420 I'm doing great. As usual, there's absolutely nothing happening in the world that we should

00:00:27.680 be talking about with our viewers. It's just another boring news day here at Rebel News.

00:00:31.680 You know, we've got a ton of stuff. It's a pleasure to be sitting here in the live stream. I used to

00:00:34.980 do the live stream quite a bit, but we got so darn busy. Our company really doubled in size over the

00:00:39.700 last year, Sheila. So, I mean, literally just helping to run that. And over the last year,

00:00:46.940 as our viewers know, really spinning off an enormous project called the Democracy Fund and

00:00:51.980 staffing that up. So, whereas in the early days of the pandemic, what a pleasure it was to

00:00:56.920 actually do a daily live stream. It got to the point where there were so many other duties on

00:01:02.520 me. And we had great talent who did the live stream. I mean, yourself and David, of course,

00:01:09.300 was the most, I think, favorite combo. But we've tried out so many other

00:01:15.640 folks over the last year. It's been great. But I still, I love the live stream because there's a lot

00:01:23.660 of things I like to get through that I don't have time to do on my show, which is more scripted.

00:01:28.560 I like the interactive nature of it. I like that it's okay for me to sort of rant for a bit

00:01:35.020 in a way that's a little bit different than on the produced shows. And there's just so many things

00:01:43.840 I want to say in the middle of the day. I don't want to wait till 8 p.m. So that's what I like about

00:01:47.320 the live stream. And so I'm already enjoying being back, even though I haven't really said

00:01:53.120 a word about the news yet. It's good because you can get it out of your system instead of calling

00:01:58.860 me in the middle of the day and talking to me about all these things. But, you know, you point

00:02:04.480 out that the company has grown. And I think we're truly more interactive than ever. And our reach has

00:02:11.640 grown. Specifically, we're trying out something new today. A couple of weeks ago, we tried out

00:02:16.740 something new there too, and it seems to be a success. So initially, we used to just stream

00:02:21.600 this show on the censorship platform of YouTube. And we still do. But there are certain things that

00:02:27.220 we can't say on YouTube, even if it's true, even if it's reported elsewhere. Because we're

00:02:32.760 conservative, there are certain things we can't say. So there may come a time during the show today,

00:02:36.620 viewers, that we may cut our feed to YouTube. And if that happens, I'll invite you to join us on one

00:02:43.960 of the several other platforms that we're streaming on today. I think I counted them up. It's seven

00:02:50.340 simultaneously that we're streaming on. So of course, the censorship platform of YouTube,

00:02:55.300 the quasi-censorship platforms of Twitter and Instagram. So we've got this for the first time,

00:03:00.980 we're trying that out over there. And we have the free speech platforms of Rumble,

00:03:04.920 Odyssey, and SuperU, where we're also streaming. And those last three give our viewers at home an

00:03:10.520 opportunity to support the work that we do completely willingly, unlike what Justin Trudeau

00:03:15.260 does to our viewers by making them support the mainstream media that they don't watch and

00:03:20.320 talks down to them anyway. So you can leave us a Rumble rant, an Odyssey hyper chat, or a SuperU

00:03:25.700 shout. And if you do that, that's your chance to interact with each other. Because myself or Ezra

00:03:31.600 will do our best to address those paid chats on air when our producer sends them to us.

00:03:36.760 And I think that's all the nuts and bolts.

00:03:38.040 Well, that's great. So if I've got them right, you said Twitter, YouTube, Rumble, Instagram,

00:03:43.680 Odyssey, SuperU, and is Getter on there also?

00:03:47.340 Getter.

00:03:47.680 Yes. I forgot Getter. I'm very sorry, Getter friends. I forgot you. We started that out

00:03:52.320 about three weeks ago, and it's been a great success for us. We're getting a lot of engagement

00:03:57.880 on Getter, and that is a wonderful free speech platform.

00:04:02.100 I'm really glad to hear it. I'm not even up and running on all these platforms myself. I had some

00:04:07.220 trouble signing up to Getter, but hopefully I can work through that. And of course, there's Trump's

00:04:11.780 imminent platform called Truth Social. So that, I presume, will be the eighth platform. That's

00:04:19.920 pretty great. And the thing is, it came out of necessity, not out of choice. We were happy

00:04:25.420 campers with YouTube for years, and we were one of the fastest growing Canadian channels

00:04:32.960 until they decided to censor us and throttle us, specifically because of our editorial outlook. So

00:04:39.180 that necessity became the mother of invention. Anyways, we're talking about talking,

00:04:43.360 which is never good. We should just talk about the substance itself.

00:04:46.340 I want to say one thing, which is we are expanding our little toehold in America.

00:04:57.380 We haven't had American talent in a long time. Gavin McInnes was probably our most famous American,

00:05:04.680 and he left us in the fall of 2017. So it's really been four and a half years since we've had

00:05:10.160 an American presence. Our friend Yankee Pollack works from Florida. He's a dual citizen.

00:05:15.940 But he's more a behind-the-scenes fellow. He's at CPAC, but he's not like a big, he's not an

00:05:23.040 on-the-spot news reporter. He works from his office. But I'm pleased to say that we are debuting

00:05:28.780 a couple of new talents, even just on a try-em-out kind of basis. We have a freelancer who's embedded

00:05:37.720 on the U.S. trucker convoy. His name is Jeremy Lafredo, and he's a man of the left who believes

00:05:48.740 in the working classes and their right to organize, and other traditional leftist views like personal

00:05:55.880 privacy and integrity of your own body, and being skeptical of big business, including big pharma,

00:06:03.080 and being doubly skeptical of the merger between big business and big government,

00:06:07.720 which historically was one of the definitions of fascism. So it's very interesting to me

00:06:12.760 to work with people who probably two years ago we wouldn't have found common cause with. I had a good

00:06:17.760 heart-to-heart with Jeremy. I said, look, there may be other things we disagree on. Let's focus on what

00:06:22.560 we agree on until we're through the crisis. And then when we're through the crisis, we can go back to

00:06:27.940 disagreeing on other things that are less important. But for now, we have this common

00:06:31.820 purpose. I really enjoyed that. And I really mean it, by the way. And the last year especially

00:06:38.740 has really been an opportunity. I mean, you would think you can't teach an old dog new tricks. But

00:06:44.200 I really believe that I have changed my outlook on groups of people. I organize the world differently

00:06:53.140 in my mind now. If I see a worker who's in the union, whose union bosses sold them out to the

00:06:59.780 corporations to get a forced jab, I'm with the worker. And I think, well, why did the union,

00:07:07.860 the yellow union, sell them out to the company? These are thoughts and words I probably wouldn't

00:07:12.060 have had two years ago. But they're a very genuine feeling in me now. We deal with people who are a 1.00

00:07:17.420 little bit more. Age of Aquarius, hippy-dippy, you know, crystals kind of thing now. People,

00:07:22.180 again, who two years ago I probably would have sort of chuckled at. But I've deeply sympathized

00:07:28.360 with their personal bodily integrity. People who are very careful about what they eat. People who are,

00:07:35.280 you know, I used to sort of chuckle at folks who were into supplements. But not chuckle. I just sort

00:07:39.720 of thought, okay, that's a different approach to me. You know, vegetarians. But people who really 0.64

00:07:44.440 thought about what they put in their body, as you can see, I, in 50 years. I think you think

00:07:49.780 about it a lot. I think about it a lot, but not in a discriminating manner. My point is people,

00:07:55.900 and I think you're right, imagine someone who's so exquisitely careful about what they eat,

00:08:00.200 how they treat their body, exercising, vitamins. And I think of, you know, a lot of moms when they 0.97

00:08:08.160 get preggers, they take folic acid, they don't eat raw cheese or sushi because they're trying to be 1.00

00:08:13.840 very, very careful about their body. Again, that's never been me. But now those people are being

00:08:18.720 forced to get a jab, an experimental jab, and then another one, and then another one,

00:08:25.280 or on pain of losing their job. And so again, I find myself in alliance with people who maybe two

00:08:33.820 years ago I would have sort of probably even made jokes about. In fact, I've always, for a long time,

00:08:41.080 I have had jokes, you know, standard jokes about, about those things, but I find myself in alliance

00:08:47.560 with them now. And I, and I don't find that contradictory. I find it actually, I, I like the

00:08:53.620 fact that I can change how I think when the world changes. You know what? I don't feel like I have

00:08:59.740 changed how I thought. I, it just, for me, I feel like all of this confirms my preexisting biases

00:09:09.420 against unions that I don't think they're in it for the working man and they never have been. And

00:09:13.620 I've just watched them get tested and they're not. And, uh, you know, I have my, my political

00:09:19.960 philosophy is leave me alone and I'll leave you alone. And that counts for the government too.

00:09:23.920 And it's nice to see people from the left, uh, holding hands with me on, on that same opinion

00:09:31.280 where I just want to be left alone by them, by the government, by everybody. And they're having

00:09:37.000 a real awakening too, I think, because they never had for them for so long, the government was on

00:09:42.820 their side and they're getting mugged by reality. Yeah. It's, you know, well, I mean, I saw that poll

00:09:48.740 that, um, um, abacus did about three weeks ago showing that 57% of green party voters saw themselves

00:09:57.240 reflected in the truckers. 57% other than PPC members, it was the highest number. And think

00:10:04.320 about it. Of course they did. They're, they're, they're a little bit dissident. They're, they're

00:10:09.080 really conscious about health. They're always skeptic about big pharma and their party sold them

00:10:14.540 out. Anyways, I, I, I think I see it teed up. I wanted to show you a quick video. We've got

00:10:18.460 Jeremy Lafredo who is on freelance assignment for us with the convoy. Do we have a little

00:10:24.120 bit of a viz from that? Cause, cause there is this growing convoy and it seems to be gathering

00:10:28.820 some steam. Let's see if we can go ahead, Sheila, you were saying. No, I was just going

00:10:33.200 to say, and the people in this video are exactly the people we're talking about where they would

00:10:38.420 probably not meet up with truckers in their usual life with blue collar Trump voting truckers.

00:10:43.620 Um, but there are people from the Occupy movement who would probably, if they were in Canada, be in

00:10:50.340 the green party. They're on this convoy too. And he ran into them. Hey, let's take a look.

00:10:56.320 I'm Jeremy Lafredo on assignment for rebel news in Kingman, Arizona, where the U S trucker convoy

00:11:00.820 arrived last night. They departed 300 miles East of here in Atalanto, California and arrived around

00:11:06.020 sundown. They're set to leave Kingman, Arizona in about two hours. You can see the sun's coming up.

00:11:10.300 The truckers are waking up before their 300 mile stretch to New Mexico East. All the trucks behind

00:11:15.620 me are brand new. You can tell that the truckers have grown exponentially since leaving California.

00:11:21.120 This grew overnight. I mean, there was half the trucks here last night. So there's a lot of support.

00:11:25.360 We're bigger on semis. We're bigger on campers and we're bigger on cars.

00:11:28.620 As far as the convoy and how big it's gotten, I started in California. It was, uh, it's amazing.

00:11:34.040 Uh, the amount of support and people I, I mean, I, I, it just, you emotionally break down. I've done

00:11:40.840 it two, three times and it's, uh, it's, it's, it's heart wrenching. We need to get rid of these

00:11:45.000 mandates. People are getting fired. People are, uh, uh, can't get in the hospitals. Nurses are getting

00:11:49.460 fired. Uh, so many people's lives are at danger right now. So basically we need to, uh, uh, raise the

00:11:56.060 word and, uh, uh, bring into fruition that, that our government needs to work for us. We don't work for

00:12:01.080 them. It's just, it's just not us truckers, but it's everybody. It's not here. Do you here in the

00:12:06.460 U S across the world? They need to know that we ain't going to deal with it no more. That's the 1.00

00:12:10.240 reason why it's supported. For me, I was an activist with Occupy Wall Street. I stood with

00:12:15.200 Standing Rock. I stood, um, you know, with people all across this country for injustice and this,

00:12:23.380 you know, forcing people to take a vaccine or a medical procedure is at the heart of, uh, there's

00:12:30.540 authoritarianism and tyranny. We support the convoy because it's time for America to be

00:12:36.100 free again. We're doing this for our kids and our grandkids. And I hope everybody joins

00:12:43.120 in and does the best they can to support America. We support the convoy here because we want

00:12:48.740 to stand up for our freedom. We came from a communist country. We know what freedom is

00:12:53.760 like. So we're not about to see freedom being taken away from the American people. If you don't

00:12:58.780 stand for something and you get older and older and you don't, you don't realize that you

00:13:05.440 need to stand for something in your life. At some point you'll be old and empty. Don't

00:13:13.300 stand for something. That emptiness. That'd be horrible. I know people like that. I'm not

00:13:20.880 going to be one. I'm going to stand for something while I can. And freedom is my favorite choice.

00:13:27.580 It's freedom. American freedom.

00:13:40.120 So it's about 10 a.m. in the Arizona desert, um, the second day of the trucker convoy and the

00:13:47.120 trucks are leaving and they're on their way to New Mexico. They're getting hundreds of

00:13:53.240 goodbyes from supporters. I'm seeing American flags. I'm seeing Canadian flags. There's a new

00:13:58.040 flag. Uh, there's a, a half American flag, half Canadian flag, which is the first time I'm seeing

00:14:03.500 this. Um, but yeah, lots of support. These mandates are very, very unpopular.

00:14:11.900 Well, there you have it. That's pretty raw footage from our friend, Jeremy Lafredo. We're going to have

00:14:15.900 a slightly more, uh, edited version of that up, uh, very shortly. And, um, I hope that I can connect

00:14:22.140 with him today on my evening show, but I'm excited to have him out there and it really looks great.

00:14:28.060 Uh, the chief difference between it and the Canadian version is it looks not quite as cold

00:14:33.380 down there, although it does look cool. I see people in Arizona wearing, uh, what I would call

00:14:37.820 winter coats. So, but, but I think that's just cause it's, uh, I don't see any snow down there. I think

00:14:44.800 that they're, they're just sort of terrified by a little bit of chill in the air, but it seemed like

00:14:49.440 salt of the earth folks, great folks, people from a diversity of backgrounds. And, um, they, you know,

00:14:55.060 there's obviously Vietnam vets. Uh, I really liked the looks of it. It really does look inspiring to

00:15:01.140 me. Well, yeah. And I think this will change hearts and minds. When you see somebody from

00:15:07.080 occupy wall street in a convoy with people with don't tread on me flags. And then when that person

00:15:14.780 from occupy wall street, here's MSNBC or CNN saying, this is a white supremacist movement of

00:15:22.120 far right radicals or whatever, it will wake them up to the fact that they've been lied to for so

00:15:28.600 long. It's very interesting group of people there. Isn't that the truth? So as Jeremy Lafredo,

00:15:33.740 he's doing a, basically a two week stint for us. I'm very excited about that. And, um, and we also

00:15:39.400 have another video. I'm not sure if it's up yet, but I expect it imminently. We have a new talent

00:15:43.820 that we're trying out in a New York city, a young lady named Siobhan Brandman, uh, Brandman who, uh,

00:15:50.400 I don't know how the algorithms, uh, brought us together, but TikTok said, Hey Ezra, um,

00:15:57.620 take a look at this. And also a woman of the left who can't believe that the left has sold out on

00:16:05.280 these issues of the day. So, um, she's tried some streeters, which are just what they sound like,

00:16:12.460 uh, talking to men on the street. So I expect to have our first video up by Siobhan, uh, today. So,

00:16:17.280 you know, I mean, these are, these are just sort of dip our toe in the, in the swimming pool moves. Uh,

00:16:23.900 you know, being a rebel is a hard job because, um, it's a wonderful job, I think, but it's hard because

00:16:30.840 you're, you're a dissident, you're a disagreeer for the establishment narrative. And sometimes that,

00:16:36.720 that's hard. Um, I can only imagine how hard it would be in a place like New York city.

00:16:43.260 Yeah. But, um, pretty easy here. Yeah. I mean, some people though, they are naturally that way.

00:16:51.580 A quick anecdote, you know, my wife's aunt, who's from Khabarovsk, Siberia. She, um,

00:16:59.120 I talked to her about, uh, what it was like under the Soviet Union. And, and she said to me that the

00:17:08.080 people who got in trouble with the KGB were not in the main political dissidents. Did I ever tell you

00:17:15.980 this, Sheila? They're not, they weren't like, it was very rare to find an, a freedom dissident,

00:17:22.240 an anti-Soviet activist. Like those were very, very rare, especially at somewhere like in the middle of

00:17:28.860 Siberia. I mean, you'd probably have them in intellectual circles in Moscow or St. Petersburg

00:17:34.620 or wherever, Odessa maybe. But, um, she said that the people who were in trouble the most

00:17:41.160 were just quirky people, eccentrics, eccentrics, people who had a personality. You know, I would

00:17:48.420 imagine people who today we would say he's on the spectrum, you know, people who are a little

00:17:52.160 irritating and they maybe didn't know it. And because of the snitch culture and the police

00:17:59.280 state culture, you bugs, I mean, it, it, you get ratted out, you get turned in. Maybe there was a

00:18:07.640 genuine political or even police reason to turn someone in, but more likely it's just that you

00:18:13.620 offended someone powerful. And so they said, get rid of this guy. And they did. And it reminds me

00:18:19.620 actually of what I learned from another police state of sorts, which was when I was in Israel

00:18:24.600 a decade ago and I was talking to one of the counterterrorism guys who was, uh, operating in

00:18:31.600 the West Bank. And, and, and he said that one of the chief reasons people turned in, um, terrorist

00:18:41.060 plots was for a personal reason, a vendetta. You slept with my sister and then humiliated her.

00:18:49.600 You slept with my brother and you know, or, you know, your, I, you know, that it was often an honor 0.96

00:18:59.080 thing, a sexual honor thing, or just a vengeance thing. The ultimate I'll get you was I'll turn you 0.99

00:19:07.520 into the Israeli counterterrorist police. And, and this goes to my point with, um, you know,

00:19:15.260 in Khabarovsk, it was just anyone who was a little contrarian, they would be removed from an unfree

00:19:22.640 society. And what's my point other than telling a couple of personal anecdotes like that? My point,

00:19:27.740 Sheila, is that part of the West is you're allowed to be contrarian. You're allowed to be eccentric.

00:19:35.400 You're allowed to be a little bit unusual. In fact, there's sort of this wonderful British

00:19:40.420 aesthetic stereotype of the mad scientist, the, the local eccentric, you know, a little bit goofy

00:19:49.100 wearing, you know, I mean, you can see it in Mary Poppins, the guy who dresses up like he's a captain

00:19:56.020 of a ship, but he's actually just the ship is in his house. Like just the idea of being a little weird,

00:20:02.120 a little dissident, a little different, but being accepted in society that used to be a wonderful

00:20:11.580 part of being in the free West where you got to be a little bit unusual. Those people are being

00:20:19.080 thrown out. And those are in many ways, the canaries in the coal mine for society, because

00:20:24.060 those are the people who color outside the lines. Yeah. That's that pot. Mary Poppins is exactly what 0.99

00:20:29.860 I mean. Thanks for finding them. And my point is, um, they're going to be the first to go because

00:20:35.800 they're the ones who irritate someone who bugs someone who are not conformist. They're not

00:20:41.820 cheering when they're supposed to cheer. And I believe that being a rebel news reporter is being

00:20:47.600 a dissident, but it's also a place where other dissident people can say, okay, I'm not going to be

00:20:52.160 bugged. I'm not going to be bothered. I'm not going to be shunned and shamed. And we've lost that.

00:20:57.720 That's part of cancel culture. That's part of de-platforming. Unless you're a cookie cutter,

00:21:03.140 what is approved aesthetically, personality wise, politically, socially, um, you're going to be

00:21:09.100 thrown out. And I think that, I think that's part of our rebel mindset. I know that was a very lengthy

00:21:16.220 indulgence by me, Sheila, but that's another reason I like these live streams. 0.96

00:21:19.980 You know what? It's funny because I found myself doing a lot of reading on what it was like in

00:21:27.160 East Germany, uh, during the time of the Stasi. And I think I can draw a straight line from that 0.80

00:21:31.900 to Ottawa and what prompted me to do that. But one in three people there, one in three were under

00:21:40.880 investigation by the Stasi for crimes. And it was, it was exactly what you say in these other

00:21:47.460 authoritarian places that if you were annoying, snitch culture was weaponized against you.

00:21:54.320 They didn't like how you cut your grass. Well, they would report you to the Stasi and that they

00:21:58.820 use the police state to carry out their personal vendettas, much like in the West Bank that, and I

00:22:04.720 often wondered how we moved so fast to other people yelling at you in the grocery store because you're

00:22:12.060 using the wrong lines. Uh, you're not following the arrows on the floor. I think it's a condition

00:22:17.380 of humanity. It isn't, it isn't unique to COVID apparently because it happens everywhere where

00:22:24.440 snitch culture is a virtue instead of something I find grotesque. Well, um, it's 1223 and we haven't

00:22:35.740 even tucked into the main thing I want to talk about. And I want to talk about what I call fake

00:22:41.140 sanctions against Russia. I want to say that I think Vladimir Putin is, um, authoritarian.

00:22:49.000 I think he's imperialistic. I don't know enough about the modern history of Ukraine and Russia to have,

00:22:56.100 um, a strong view on it, but I think we can generally say invade one country invading another

00:23:01.240 is not a good thing. Um, but what's striking to me is the difference between the West that says

00:23:13.960 they're against it and what they're doing. Now there's many things to learn about. I don't want

00:23:18.060 to weigh in too deeply on this. I honestly haven't been so focused on the trucker convoy. I have so

00:23:23.120 many other things that I don't want to suddenly position myself as an expert on Ukraine and Russia.

00:23:27.420 By the way, my family 118 years ago came from a part of Ukraine called Dnipropetrovsk, which is

00:23:34.200 now called Dnipro. So I, so the first thing I'd have to say is thank God I'm here in Canada

00:23:39.980 where these endless wars don't touch me. Um, and I'm, and I, and I hate to see the violence being

00:23:48.320 wrought against these cities and towns, but let me just show you what Justin Trudeau said,

00:23:53.780 which is similar to what Joe Biden said. And then let me come back and give you some thoughts

00:23:57.440 on it. So here's Trudeau looking very grave and listen to what he has to say.

00:24:03.680 Today, in light of Russia's reckless and dangerous military strike, we're imposing further severe 0.68

00:24:12.740 sanctions. These sanctions will target 58 individuals and entities, including members of the Russian

00:24:20.400 elite and their family members, as well as the Wagner group and major Russian banks, among others.

00:24:26.740 We will also sanction members of the Russian security council, including the defense minister,

00:24:33.380 the finance minister, and the justice minister. In addition, effectively immediately, effective

00:24:40.300 immediately, we are ceasing all export permits for Russia and canceling existing permits.

00:24:46.680 These sanctions are wide-reaching. They will impose severe costs on complicit Russian elites, 0.69

00:24:55.520 and they will limit President Putin's ability to continue funding this unjustified invasion.

00:25:02.520 I want to be clear. Our quarrel is not with the people of Russia. It is with President Putin

00:25:09.160 and Russian leadership that has enabled and supported this further invasion of Ukraine.

00:25:19.500 So he's sanctioning 58 individuals, including various cabinet ministers. Now, what does that mean?

00:25:27.080 Did they have bank accounts at Scotiabank? Was the defense minister of the Russian Federation,

00:25:35.720 was he, you know, did he have a little savings account at BMO or something? I mean, seriously.

00:25:43.780 So you've sanctioned 58 of the top. Literally anything. Did literally anything he say actually

00:25:52.800 make a difference at all to those 58 people and companies? Now, he said there was one thing I heard

00:25:59.220 him say is he was canceling export permits for Russia. So certain things you need a permit to export for

00:26:06.560 Russia. Okay, but trade typically is two-way trade. So vodka? Yeah, that's right. Well, no, no, but that's

00:26:15.440 an import. See, that's, but that's where I was going, Sheila, because, yeah, so you can't sell things to

00:26:23.420 Russia. You can't export things. So someone might say, okay, so you're sanctioning Canadian businesses

00:26:28.900 that have customers in Russia. Okay. And maybe, maybe there's certain things we don't want to sell

00:26:34.140 Russia. I don't really think we're selling them any weapons. We have a very modest arms industry in

00:26:39.920 Canada. Russia has one of the most developed arms industries in the world, I'd say, next only to China

00:26:45.960 and America and maybe the UK. So the sanctions that Trudeau announced are on 58 individuals and

00:26:55.100 none of whom deal with our banking system. I'll just tell you that right now. They're not,

00:26:59.800 they're not at TD Bank. He's punishing Canadian businesses that were selling things to Russia.

00:27:08.380 Okay, I don't know what was for sale. I don't think it was anything

00:27:11.480 of deep strategic importance to that country, but you'll notice he did not announce any sanctions

00:27:20.920 or prohibitions on imports from Russia. Why would he not do that? Because that would hurt

00:27:28.420 Russia. It would stop them from getting foreign currency and that would hurt Russian business

00:27:34.620 people. And in fact, as it so happens, Russia's largest export is oil and gas. Yep. It's about 30%

00:27:50.300 of Russia's GDP. I may be off a little bit on that, but it depends, depends on what source you go to. I,

00:27:59.440 I would say 25 to 30% of Russian GDP is energy and about 50 to 60% of their exports is energy. That

00:28:08.220 used to be even higher. It wouldn't surprise me if it's higher. You know, the three largest oil

00:28:14.140 producers in the world, and they're pretty much all tied at 10 million barrels a day. It's Saudi 0.97

00:28:19.880 Arabia, Russia, and America. And we had an image on the, on the screen for a second. Can you put that

00:28:26.740 Bloomberg? Yeah. Perfect. That chart. Um, I don't know if you can see that who's dependent on Russia's

00:28:32.760 gas. So remember, natural gas is different than oil. Oil is what you refine into gasoline and jet

00:28:40.600 fuel. Oil is very important for, you know, for, for driving. There's also some home heating or bunker

00:28:46.920 oil for, for ships, et cetera. Anything that moves needs oil, but gas is more for electricity and heat.

00:28:55.040 You know, you think about natural gas in your own home. It's your, it's your stove. Um,

00:29:01.460 many houses have a natural gas fired furnace. Uh, in Europe, there used to be a lot of coal fired

00:29:07.880 power plants. Some of those are switching to natural gas. Um, natural gas is used in, in industry.

00:29:13.940 It really is a source of power. So this chart here from Bloomberg and I've seen other, I mean, this is,

00:29:19.840 this is five-year-old data. It's even more pronounced now. I mean, seriously, find your own chart.

00:29:25.040 Who's dependent on Russia's gas. 14 countries get more than 50% of their gas from Russia. And,

00:29:35.460 and you can see the darker, the purple, the more it is. So Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,

00:29:43.180 Belarus. Um, and you can see the pipelines and this is, this is even outdated. It's more.

00:29:51.380 So even France, Italy. And what's so interesting, Sheila, is that Gazprom, which is by far the

00:30:00.620 largest Russian gas company, you can sort of tell by the name Gazprom. They're, they're deemed a,

00:30:08.400 first of all, they're owned 51% by the Kremlin. So it really is like a state energy producer,

00:30:13.320 but they're deemed a, um, strategic corporation, which means all of their foreign contracts have

00:30:20.880 to be approved by the Kremlin. So the price, keep with that map up just for one more second.

00:30:26.560 So the price that, uh, Gazprom charges for these different countries is a politically determined

00:30:36.140 price. So you could have natural gas piped all the way to France being sold at a more,

00:30:44.500 a lower price than let's say what's sold to Poland, even though, as you can see, uh, it's closer to

00:30:52.120 Russia. Thanks very much. And the reason I say that is that there is a world price for oil and

00:30:57.800 there's sort of regional prices for gas, but with Gazprom, the prices are determined by what

00:31:03.340 Vladimir Putin has to negotiate with them. So if you're obedient and submissive and helpful,

00:31:09.940 he gives you cheap gas. And if not, he he'll give you expensive gas and he can outright turn it off.

00:31:15.940 As you may know, Russia has on several occasions, simply turned off the flow of natural gas to Ukraine

00:31:23.340 in the dead of winter, by the way. And I tell you that, uh, to let you know that this, that Russia

00:31:31.980 still sells oil to Canada too. Yeah. And to the United States. So Joe Biden shut down, um,

00:31:43.780 the Keystone XL pipeline, which was going to bring 800,000 barrels of oil a day from

00:31:48.000 Alberta down to America. Joe Biden shut that down. He imports oil from Russia instead.

00:31:52.800 That has not been touched by sanctions. Canada, Justin Trudeau shut down the Energy East pipeline

00:31:58.940 that was going to take oil from Alberta, take it to, you know, the biggest refinery in Canada,

00:32:04.640 Sheila, I know you know this cause you've got, you're, you know a lot about oil and gas. It's

00:32:09.280 St. John, New Brunswick. It's, um, it's the Irving refinery. So where does that largest refinery in

00:32:16.380 Canada get its raw material from? Not from Alberta. They want to, it's actually cheaper for them to get

00:32:22.220 oil from Alberta, but they're not allowed to cause Trudeau blocked it. So they have to buy oil and gas.

00:32:27.520 Some of it comes up from American fracked oil, but a lot of it comes from tanker ships from OPEC.

00:32:35.540 So you have Saudi oil sailing all the way to Canada. You have Russian oil selling all the way

00:32:41.380 to Canada. And you heard Justin Trudeau. We played it at some length. He is not cutting off imports

00:32:49.620 from Russia. He's not cutting off the imports. What do you think of that?

00:32:53.840 You know, as you were talking there, boss, I was pulling up the statistics. So, uh, exports,

00:33:01.160 total value of Canadian exports to Russia is one 10th of 1% of our GDP. That's it. It's, uh, about

00:33:09.980 half a billion dollars annually. Um, and it's mostly in, um, food product and that's it. So this is

00:33:18.440 really quite insignificant what he's done and actually imports to Canada from Russia are double

00:33:24.960 that. And they're probably a lot of oil. Um, yeah, yeah. It's, it shows as oil and gas.

00:33:31.680 Now, let me show you this. Um, Andrew, I sent you, uh, uh, the chart. I mean, there's lots of

00:33:37.720 different oil prices because oil is largely a world, uh, global commodity. There's different wrinkles.

00:33:43.080 There's West Texas Intermediate, North Sea Brent, you know, Saudi oil, um, Western Canadian select.

00:33:51.200 Exactly. So different, the different kinds of oil have slightly different prices, a couple of bucks

00:33:57.760 more, a couple of bucks less. Uh, so, you know, I don't know what the benchmark, uh, would be for

00:34:04.000 the price of Russian oil, but it's not going to be too different from West Texas Intermediate or

00:34:09.500 whatever. So I want to show you what's happened over the last six months with the price of oil.

00:34:15.320 I think we've got a chart there. So roughly speaking, the price of oil was, you don't even

00:34:24.820 have to be rough about it. It's zoomed. It's increased tremendously for a number of reasons,

00:34:31.780 supply and demand, obviously the main one risk. And there's nothing riskier than war

00:34:39.480 and sanctions. But why do I tell you this? So if oil is now about a hundred bucks a barrel,

00:34:47.520 whereas six months ago, it was half that. And Russia's pumping out 10 million barrels a day.

00:34:56.420 Just, just do some really back of the napkin math with me. So I'm not, I'm not saying this is precise.

00:35:01.480 But if Russia's making 10 million barrels of oil a day, and if the price of oil has gone up by 50 bucks

00:35:11.820 a barrel, and if in fact the war makes oil prices go even higher because of risk. So Russia is making

00:35:22.160 $500 million per day more than they were six months ago.

00:35:34.160 Russia is pretty much, we'll get to that video in a second. Yeah, don't put that video up just yet.

00:35:39.140 I want to show that video. It's such a funny video.

00:35:41.340 Um, so if you are not willing to sanction Russian oil,

00:35:49.180 this war is profiting them.

00:35:53.320 500 million bucks a day. Now obviously war is very expensive, it's probably costing them billions a day.

00:35:58.660 But, but you heard Trudeau, he's not putting sanctions on,

00:36:01.820 on Russian oil or gas.

00:36:05.600 And Europe has refused to stop buying gas from Russia.

00:36:13.740 Where are the sanctions again? I mean, we know Justin Trudeau looked in the camera and spoke very passionately like he was on a first date or something.

00:36:21.000 But, but I don't think that he, um, I don't think he's put a dent in Russia. Do you think those 52 senior Kremlin officials have a bank account, you know, at the Royal Bank of Canada? I don't think so.

00:36:34.660 Sheila, I want to show you a funny video in a second, but do you have anything you wanted to jump in on first?

00:36:40.240 Sure. I've been doing a lot of research over the years into how we got into this position.

00:36:45.340 And it is the real Russian collusion. In fact, um, I recall that, um, there was some investigation done.

00:36:56.040 And I think some of it was actually done by Ann and Phelan McAleer. It was in their movie Frack Nation.

00:37:02.580 But Russia has been funding environmentalist activist groups in the United States, in San Francisco.

00:37:11.980 They've been giving money to this holding company called Klein. It's Bermuda-based.

00:37:17.680 Klein then gives money to the Sea Change Foundation in San Francisco, where all of these places are headquartered.

00:37:24.960 Sea Change gives it to Tides, and then Tides dumps it into Canada and all around the world to oppose pipelines.

00:37:31.880 And that has been very clear in congressional reports. And in fact, according to WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton knew about this as early as 2014.

00:37:42.480 And she spoke about it in a speech in 2016. And she was the Secretary of State, so she should know.

00:37:48.400 But when the people on the left won't shut up about Russia collusion, Russia collusion, they're enabling the Russia collusion by their green policies.

00:38:00.000 And people always get on my case, Sheila, why do you care so much about green activism and green policies?

00:38:05.120 Well, this is why. Because it has filled up Russia's war machine with money, and it's destabilizing Europe now.

00:38:12.420 But don't worry, they got their pipelines blocked.

00:38:15.780 And did you have that clip of Trump lecturing NATO about... Yeah, let's play that for a second.

00:38:22.420 So we were talking about all this Russian money and all this Russian oil and gas.

00:38:28.020 Here's a clip from a few years back when Trump was at a NATO meeting.

00:38:30.980 So these are other NATO leaders. You can see Mike Pompeo there.

00:38:33.540 And actually, the NATO leaders are loving this because their own, you know, the NATO leadership and the NATO defense ministers, their own politicians refused to pay for their military.

00:38:46.980 And they were all in love with this Russian gas. And here's Trump lecturing them.

00:38:51.100 This was actually well-received by NATO, who said, finally, someone's trying to encourage us to stand up to the Russian bear. Take a look.

00:38:59.460 I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia, where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia.

00:39:11.160 And Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.

00:39:15.960 So we're protecting Germany. We're protecting France. We're protecting all of these countries.

00:39:20.620 And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia, where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.

00:39:30.640 So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia.

00:39:35.580 And I think that's very inappropriate.

00:39:37.420 And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas.

00:39:42.640 Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70 percent of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas.

00:39:52.460 So you tell me, is that appropriate?

00:39:54.720 I mean, I've been complaining about this from the time I got in.

00:39:58.220 It should have never been allowed to have happened.

00:40:00.560 But Germany is totally controlled by Russia.

00:40:02.760 Yeah. You know, Andrew, type in, go to Google Images and type in Putin and Schrader.

00:40:11.460 Gerhard Schrader is a former chancellor of Germany.

00:40:14.160 Imagine you're the boss of Germany, the chancellor.

00:40:16.680 Like, that's the equivalent of our prime minister or the American president.

00:40:20.200 Like, the top, the absolute top person.

00:40:22.200 And you retire and you go to work for Russia. 0.73

00:40:26.520 What?

00:40:27.160 That would be like if, you know, Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter or Barack Obama literally went to work.

00:40:35.620 Yeah. So, and just, just, I mean, that's one picture.

00:40:39.000 But if you just, I want to show the mass of it.

00:40:41.240 So go to Google Image Search and just type in Putin and Schrader.

00:40:44.640 I want you to see there are hundreds of pictures of them.

00:40:48.600 They are best friends.

00:40:51.820 The former chancellor of Germany is the pipeline boss for Russia's state pipeline company, for Gazprom.

00:41:05.360 Yeah.

00:41:06.760 And Nord Stream.

00:41:08.440 How?

00:41:09.320 It would be as if Barack Obama, I mean, just look at the best friends.

00:41:14.080 It would be as if Barack Obama went to work for Venezuela.

00:41:17.980 It would be as if, it would be as if George W. Bush went to work for Cuba. 0.53

00:41:26.600 Like, it's madness.

00:41:29.220 Yeah.

00:41:30.340 You know, and I was thinking about this the other day.

00:41:32.680 There are 40,000 American troops stationed in Germany.

00:41:36.720 40,000.

00:41:39.480 Why is Germany getting the economic benefit of this?

00:41:43.860 All of those troops should really be pulled out and placed in a more stable, reliable ally like Poland. 0.99

00:41:49.600 Yeah.

00:41:50.000 Let them have the benefit of the economic stimulus of 40,000 American troops spending their salaries there.

00:41:58.320 And, you know, as you were talking about how Russia basically owns Germany, it's no joke. 0.78

00:42:06.000 Germany blocked the sale of Estonia was going to export arms to Ukraine.

00:42:14.080 Germany blocked the sale of that because they were German-made weapons.

00:42:20.740 So they're using these back channels to still be overrun, I guess, by the Germans or by the Russians.

00:42:28.400 They're doing the Russians bidding here. 0.99

00:42:31.380 I want to show you something.

00:42:32.860 I used to, I mean, I wrote a book called Ethical Oil, The Case for Cannabis Oil Sends.

00:42:36.720 And then I wrote a follow-up called Groundswell, The Case for Fracking.

00:42:39.940 And I had a whole chapter about Gazprom in there.

00:42:41.800 And I learned a lot about Gazprom because it's a real crony, like it's half owned by the Russian government.

00:42:53.220 And so there's all these sort of mafia-style characters who are just placed there.

00:43:02.260 Like it would be as if the world's largest gas company were owned by Tony Soprano.

00:43:09.340 And so it's a huge company.

00:43:11.600 It's an extremely, like I think it is actually the world's largest gas company.

00:43:16.460 Extremely wealthy.

00:43:18.420 They just built a staggering new headquarters in St. Petersburg.

00:43:23.120 I don't know if you can call up that image.

00:43:24.480 Just go to Gazprom.

00:43:27.900 Like their office looks like it's just Gazprom office, St. Pete.

00:43:34.820 Yeah, look at that.

00:43:36.020 Look at, just unbelievably gorgeous.

00:43:41.300 I think that's an artist's depiction of it or is that a photo?

00:43:46.660 Like it's just unbelievable.

00:43:49.040 It looks like something you'd see in Dubai where they just waste money on buildings.

00:43:52.780 Exactly, exactly.

00:43:54.040 But I want to show you one of the characters.

00:43:57.080 So it's such a large company.

00:43:58.440 So it has a sports team.

00:44:00.500 It has a football team, soccer team.

00:44:02.740 Yeah, look at that.

00:44:03.620 It's got, it's got.

00:44:07.120 George's Wow.

00:44:07.980 Like it's huge.

00:44:11.420 So it's like Exxon, right?

00:44:14.660 So I don't think Exxon has a, has a sports team, but.

00:44:19.480 Space needle.

00:44:20.420 Yeah.

00:44:20.900 So Gazprom does.

00:44:22.540 And so Gazprom has a song, like a corporate song, which isn't that weird.

00:44:27.380 But this executive of Gazprom, his name is Vladimir Tumayev.

00:44:35.400 And he's, so he came up with the idea of a song for Gazprom.

00:44:42.460 But instead of hiring like Celine Dion to sing it or the winner of the Euro contest, whatever

00:44:49.620 that's called, Vladimir Tumayev said, no, I'll sing it.

00:44:54.720 Oh, I'm loving this idea already for us.

00:44:56.760 So he's like, he's like in his fifties.

00:45:00.060 He's like just some, he looks like a soprano and he says, I think we need a company song.

00:45:08.300 And they say, okay, great idea, boss.

00:45:09.680 It's very corporate.

00:45:10.920 Yeah.

00:45:12.060 I'm going to write it.

00:45:13.960 I'm going to sing it.

00:45:15.920 I'm going to star in the video.

00:45:18.840 And no one had the courage to say, that's not a great idea.

00:45:24.560 In fact, they all said, that's a great idea, boss.

00:45:29.520 There's no one who's a better singer than you.

00:45:32.560 There's no one who is a better video rock star than you.

00:45:36.160 This song is really great.

00:45:37.980 And let's make a corporate video for Gazprom and boss, other than Vladimir Putin himself,

00:45:47.760 no one could do a better job than you.

00:45:49.360 You're so great.

00:45:50.460 And I swear to God, what you are about to see is real.

00:45:55.500 Let me now play for you the anthem, the corporate song for Gazprom, sung by no one less than Vladimir

00:46:08.500 Tumiyev.

00:46:09.480 Take it away, maestro.

00:46:14.960 Starts well.

00:46:16.260 Starts very nicely.

00:46:17.940 Look at that.

00:46:18.580 Oh.

00:46:19.180 That's Siberia.

00:46:19.880 Siberia.

00:46:19.940 Siberia.

00:46:19.980 Siberia.

00:46:25.500 Nice.

00:46:29.200 Oh, there he is.

00:46:30.780 Rock star.

00:46:32.560 This is real.

00:46:33.500 Vladimir Tumiyev.

00:46:34.460 Listen to how he needs auto-tune.

00:46:36.340 He needs auto-tune.

00:46:42.400 Gazprom.

00:46:45.640 Officer.

00:46:47.120 Your office or your home.

00:46:48.680 All right, you know the chorus, right?

00:46:56.760 You know the chorus?

00:46:57.720 You going to join in?

00:46:58.580 No.

00:46:59.520 Go.

00:47:05.000 You don't know this?

00:47:07.380 He won Russian Idol like seven years in a row for this.

00:47:10.300 You don't know this?

00:47:11.560 Okay, one more.

00:47:12.180 Go.

00:47:12.580 Go.

00:47:12.780 Go.

00:47:13.140 Go.

00:47:13.240 Go.

00:47:13.280 Go.

00:47:13.320 Go.

00:47:13.360 Go.

00:47:13.400 Go.

00:47:13.440 Go.

00:47:13.680 Go.

00:47:13.800 Go.

00:47:13.880 Go.

00:47:13.920 Go.

00:47:14.400 Go.

00:47:14.440 Go.

00:47:14.480 Go.

00:47:14.520 Go.

00:47:14.560 Go.

00:47:14.920 Go.

00:47:14.960 Go.

00:47:15.000 Go.

00:47:15.040 Go.

00:47:15.520 Go.

00:47:15.560 Go.

00:47:15.600 Go.

00:47:16.040 Go.

00:47:16.640 Go.

00:47:17.160 Go.

00:47:17.520 Go.

00:47:17.640 Go.

00:47:17.660 Go.

00:47:18.740 Go.

00:47:19.280 Go.

00:47:19.540 Go.

00:47:19.800 Go.

00:47:20.220 Go.

00:47:21.040 Go.

00:47:22.000 Go.

00:47:23.940 Go.

00:47:24.420 Go.

00:47:24.640 Go.

00:47:25.020 Go.

00:47:25.620 Go.

00:47:25.720 Go.

00:47:28.200 Go.

00:47:28.900 Go.

00:47:29.140 Go.

00:47:29.500 Go.

00:47:29.800 Go.

00:47:30.340 Go.

00:47:30.900 Go.

00:47:31.320 Go.

00:47:31.920 Go.

00:47:34.240 Go.

00:47:35.400 Go.

00:47:36.420 Go.

00:47:37.640 Go.

00:47:39.780 Go.

00:47:40.180 Go.

00:47:42.980 Go.

00:47:44.520 Go.

00:47:45.420 Go.

00:47:46.480 Go.

00:47:48.620 That's their old headquarters.

00:47:50.920 They have a much fancier building now.

00:47:55.440 They look very depressed, actually.

00:48:00.160 And it's a drinking song.

00:48:01.800 It's a drinking song.

00:48:12.400 This is real.

00:48:15.420 Gazprom.

00:48:15.900 Now, give them credit for one thing.

00:48:19.440 Exxon would never show any actual oil or gas

00:48:21.740 in an ad about oil and gas.

00:48:24.240 They would never show white men 0.99

00:48:25.940 working with flames.

00:48:28.140 They would never show anything industrial.

00:48:29.800 They would just be reclaimed forests

00:48:31.340 with multicultural kids

00:48:33.560 playing with a transgender ball or something.

00:48:36.120 But... 0.95

00:48:37.120 The words are actually pretty great.

00:48:45.580 It's so hard

00:48:46.640 to dig beneath the ground.

00:48:48.620 Oh, you need a drink for it.

00:49:00.160 You need a drink for it.

00:49:01.460 There's a lot of Russian eyebrows in there. 0.80

00:49:04.160 Yeah.

00:49:04.920 You know, I'm from Russia.

00:49:05.940 I told you.

00:49:06.580 I'm from Dnipro.

00:49:07.860 It's actually from Ukraine.

00:49:09.160 It's a sad song.

00:49:18.480 It's in a minor key.

00:49:19.540 And with the flame.

00:49:30.860 And with the...

00:49:32.600 That's beautiful.

00:49:34.680 That's Vladimir Tumayev.

00:49:36.400 I didn't want it to end.

00:49:37.760 I won't lie.

00:49:38.320 I want to tell you something, Sheila.

00:49:40.600 You may think that Vladimir Tumayev

00:49:42.960 is just an oil and gas executive

00:49:46.980 and just the star of Gazprom's video.

00:49:50.760 But he is much more than that.

00:49:52.880 I mentioned before that Gazprom has a soccer team,

00:49:56.020 a professional football team.

00:49:57.980 And obviously, duh, he's the coach of it.

00:50:01.380 Duh.

00:50:01.640 And, you know, I look at that guy

00:50:06.520 and he's sort of built like me,

00:50:08.160 which is another way of saying he's 50 pounds overweight.

00:50:12.540 And he's...

00:50:12.900 He does a lot of thinking about his food.

00:50:14.380 That's right.

00:50:14.720 And what goes into his body.

00:50:15.900 That's right.

00:50:16.120 Let's just put it that way.

00:50:17.220 That's right.

00:50:17.660 So he's the...

00:50:18.780 He's the Gazprom executive.

00:50:20.900 He's the star of the...

00:50:23.100 He's the star of that,

00:50:26.500 but he is also the coach of the team.

00:50:29.140 And I'm talking young football players.

00:50:32.700 That's what they call soccer over there. 0.68

00:50:34.580 Yeah.

00:50:35.020 But he is famous, Sheila,

00:50:38.100 for playing himself.

00:50:41.240 For saying,

00:50:42.040 All right.

00:50:43.740 I'm going to put myself in, lads.

00:50:47.360 And...

00:50:47.720 He was the oldest professional player in...

00:50:51.020 Soccer player ever in Russia

00:50:53.220 and possibly Europe.

00:50:54.880 At 58 years old,

00:50:56.780 10 months and 19 days.

00:50:59.220 Because...

00:51:00.360 Are you going to tell him?

00:51:03.180 Right.

00:51:03.580 He's not...

00:51:04.540 So he's 45

00:51:06.060 and well into his 50s.

00:51:09.240 He's in the Russian National Football League.

00:51:12.740 And they're playing against...

00:51:14.540 I think I might have pronounced that wrong.

00:51:20.240 And he says,

00:51:20.920 All right, guys.

00:51:21.800 We're going to get letters.

00:51:23.420 Time to bring out the big guns.

00:51:26.720 Vladimir Tumoyev.

00:51:28.540 Time to bring out the secret weapon.

00:51:31.780 And do you think a single football player

00:51:34.140 would dare say,

00:51:35.380 No, boss,

00:51:36.760 you're 32 years old.

00:51:39.060 You're 32 pounds too heavy.

00:51:41.560 And you're 32...

00:51:43.420 You know,

00:51:43.740 you just...

00:51:44.800 No.

00:51:45.780 And if they wouldn't stop him

00:51:47.220 from singing the song in the music video,

00:51:50.160 do you think they stopped him from playing?

00:51:51.360 That is gas problem.

00:51:53.320 Now, the story ends...

00:51:56.300 Throw that news story back up there,

00:51:59.020 that Wikipedia.

00:52:00.100 I mentioned Sopranos.

00:52:01.880 He was charged...

00:52:03.780 I'm trying to remember what he was charged with,

00:52:06.120 but I think he was arrested

00:52:08.220 for like ordering a hit on someone or something.

00:52:11.700 Can you throw up the Wikipedia there?

00:52:15.840 And again...

00:52:16.480 He attempted to murder his business partner.

00:52:20.060 Well, I mean, I'm sure he had it coming.

00:52:23.660 The business partner.

00:52:25.240 I mean, he probably criticized his singing

00:52:28.180 or his soccer playing.

00:52:30.100 So, I think that he may be in custody to this day.

00:52:33.720 I'm not sure.

00:52:36.320 I think he had his murder charges dropped

00:52:38.800 to organizing grievous bodily harm,

00:52:42.440 to which I'd say...

00:52:43.720 Yeah, mischief.

00:52:44.300 So what?

00:52:45.500 So, you know,

00:52:46.600 isn't that part of the job description

00:52:48.200 of being a Gazprom executive?

00:52:51.200 Anyways,

00:52:52.620 I wanted to show you...

00:52:53.540 This is an amazing story.

00:52:54.880 It's an amazing story.

00:52:55.700 I'm sure the other...

00:52:56.580 I'm sure the soccer players on the other team

00:52:58.640 were like, you know what?

00:52:59.840 We're going to let him score

00:53:00.680 because he's going to poison our families 0.90

00:53:02.200 as Russian oligarchs tend to do.

00:53:04.440 Yeah.

00:53:04.760 Yeah.

00:53:05.200 I mean...

00:53:06.220 And so,

00:53:07.340 playing soccer

00:53:10.000 or what they call football over there,

00:53:11.780 he probably was the best player on the team.

00:53:15.060 Oh, yeah.

00:53:15.620 Because the other guys...

00:53:17.120 The other goalie would say,

00:53:18.720 if you know it's good for your family,

00:53:21.820 you'll let...

00:53:22.560 Bingo!

00:53:25.860 Bingo!

00:53:27.120 Oh! 0.60

00:53:28.320 It's unbelievable!

00:53:29.840 He scored seven to zero.

00:53:33.320 Never before is a soccer game seven to zero.

00:53:36.780 How you do this?

00:53:38.980 Oh, what a improvement.

00:53:40.000 He scored six points.

00:53:42.580 Six points!

00:53:43.700 Amazing.

00:53:44.520 Duh.

00:53:45.380 Хорошо.

00:53:48.620 So, yeah.

00:53:49.760 Thank you for letting me tell you all these tall tales.

00:53:52.080 But part of the reason why

00:53:54.920 is to let you know that

00:53:56.740 Gazprom is doing better than ever.

00:54:00.240 No one in Europe is stopping to buy their gas.

00:54:04.000 No one in Canada or America 0.59

00:54:06.020 is stopping to buy their oil.

00:54:07.520 As the risk of war causes the price of energy to go higher.

00:54:12.600 That's going straight into

00:54:14.140 maybe not Vladimir Tumayev's pockets,

00:54:16.580 but Vladimir Putin's pockets.

00:54:18.580 And how can Trudeau stand up there

00:54:20.940 and use his best first date voice

00:54:22.780 and pretend that he's doing anything

00:54:28.000 when, in fact, he's doing nothing.

00:54:30.400 He's sanctioning 58 people

00:54:32.060 who don't do business with Canada.

00:54:35.040 He's banning Canadian companies

00:54:36.800 from selling half a billion worth of stuff there.

00:54:39.000 Okay.

00:54:39.640 But he's not actually banning the imports.

00:54:41.700 Why are you banning the good guys from business

00:54:45.340 but not the bad guys?

00:54:46.700 It's just quite something.

00:54:49.040 So that's...

00:54:49.160 And they've more harsh...

00:54:50.220 And you know the only people

00:54:51.520 they've ever really sanctioned?

00:54:53.720 Alberta.

00:54:54.420 Yeah.

00:54:55.100 Yeah.

00:54:55.580 That's it.

00:54:57.880 Well, there's a lot there.

00:54:59.120 All right.

00:54:59.420 It's 1255.

00:55:00.780 And we've covered remarkably little ground.

00:55:04.640 But I just thought that...

00:55:05.520 I knew we would.

00:55:06.760 I just thought...

00:55:08.080 I wanted to share...

00:55:09.880 And, you know,

00:55:10.340 my pronunciation wasn't great

00:55:12.040 but the vice and that's the vice...

00:55:13.560 We drink to you.

00:55:15.040 We drink to us.

00:55:16.100 We drink to Russian gas.

00:55:18.000 Let's whiskey gas.

00:55:19.580 So it's a drinking song.

00:55:22.100 It's a drinking song.

00:55:23.340 That's why it's slightly sad.

00:55:25.700 Sheila, next time I see you

00:55:26.760 I'll bring some extremely cold Russian vodka

00:55:30.080 and we'll sing the song.

00:55:34.980 And, in fact,

00:55:35.420 I think there's probably a rule

00:55:36.520 you're not allowed to sing it

00:55:37.560 unless you've had two, three, four shots of vodka

00:55:39.700 because then you get your courage.

00:55:42.840 Right.

00:55:43.060 I mean, for those extracting the new sun

00:55:45.500 from down beneath the ground,

00:55:46.980 it's actually a wonderful ode to oil and gas

00:55:50.020 that no Western oil and gas company would say.

00:55:52.780 They would never praise it.

00:55:53.940 They would say,

00:55:54.560 and we're into renewables

00:55:56.060 and we like the sun

00:55:57.680 and we hate oil.

00:55:58.400 They would be...

00:55:59.320 Yeah.

00:55:59.640 You'd have a Suncor ad

00:56:01.580 but with wind turbines.

00:56:03.500 Yeah.

00:56:04.040 That's what they would show.

00:56:04.900 Yeah.

00:56:05.120 They actually talk about how hard...

00:56:07.140 Like, actually, the lyrics,

00:56:08.340 if you...

00:56:08.920 You know, first of all,

00:56:09.660 I like the fact that it's a drinking song

00:56:11.080 while showing heavy industrial equipment.

00:56:14.540 I mean...

00:56:14.660 I like it, too.

00:56:15.780 It's very me.

00:56:18.500 You should probably record a song like that

00:56:20.760 for Rebel News

00:56:21.980 and I obviously should be.

00:56:22.820 You know what, boss?

00:56:23.600 I'm going to do exactly what

00:56:25.180 the Gazprom employees did

00:56:27.120 and I'm going to be like,

00:56:28.120 yep, you know what?

00:56:28.960 Not only are you the guy to write it,

00:56:30.660 you're the guy to sing it.

00:56:31.600 Yeah.

00:56:31.880 I can't wait.

00:56:32.440 That's right.

00:56:32.980 Except for I would be smart enough

00:56:34.080 to use auto-tune

00:56:34.940 unlike Vladimir Tumio.

00:56:36.920 I don't think you need it.

00:56:38.060 I heard you sing on the stream here

00:56:39.780 and so did thousands of other people.

00:56:41.840 Yeah.

00:56:42.260 Yeah, that's great.

00:56:43.120 That ship has sailed.

00:56:45.120 Well, listen, it's 1257

00:56:46.520 so we don't have too much more time yet.

00:56:48.320 We've covered some ground.

00:56:49.300 We showed...

00:56:50.300 We showed that we've got a lad

00:56:54.160 on the American convoy.

00:56:55.520 We've talked a little bit about

00:56:56.860 sanctions and the lack thereof.

00:57:01.140 Is there anything you want to...

00:57:02.300 We have a few minutes

00:57:03.260 but maybe we should read some comments.

00:57:05.040 How's that?

00:57:05.380 That's a good way to close out the show.

00:57:08.700 Yep.

00:57:08.800 All right.

00:57:09.220 So where are we going to see those?

00:57:12.840 Okay.

00:57:14.600 Do you want to go

00:57:15.200 or you want me to go?

00:57:15.720 Sure, I'll read it.

00:57:16.280 B. Bapas,

00:57:17.320 Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe

00:57:18.420 is renewing pandemic emergency orders

00:57:20.280 of March 1st.

00:57:21.340 Yeah, they all are

00:57:22.100 and there's a few reasons for that

00:57:23.460 because it justifies

00:57:25.480 their ongoing health orders.

00:57:26.820 I think it might even be required

00:57:28.720 to use an emergency untested drug.

00:57:33.260 That may be the reason.

00:57:34.980 And by untested,

00:57:36.500 I mean all of the vaccines

00:57:38.820 still have years more

00:57:40.860 of experimental tests to do

00:57:42.340 and the only way you can get that

00:57:44.380 into circulation in a mass basis

00:57:46.560 if you're in some state of emergency.

00:57:48.120 That's literally,

00:57:49.180 they're called an emergency use authorization.

00:57:51.600 So that's my theory.

00:57:52.840 Yeah, I don't believe

00:57:53.860 any politician who says it's over

00:57:56.940 until all of the underlying legislation

00:57:59.880 is ripped up.

00:58:01.380 They're all just biding their time

00:58:03.660 for when they want to reintroduce it.

00:58:05.440 Absolutely they are.

00:58:09.680 Mika,

00:58:11.040 people need to begin protesting

00:58:12.820 social credit and digital ID

00:58:15.040 and you still haven't found

00:58:16.440 a video editor yet

00:58:17.540 despite me submitting an application

00:58:18.920 six weeks ago.

00:58:19.880 Well,

00:58:21.920 we are reviewing them

00:58:24.280 so on the video editor's side

00:58:26.180 our head of Video Mocha

00:58:27.920 reviews the applications

00:58:29.320 so I can't speak to that.

00:58:30.540 I'll leave that in his judgment.

00:58:32.720 I think you're right.

00:58:33.580 We have to fight against digital ID

00:58:34.900 and I think that the Canadian banks

00:58:36.980 love the digital ID

00:58:38.760 almost as much as the government does

00:58:40.420 because the banks and the government

00:58:41.680 are pretty much merged in this country.

00:58:43.720 Let's see if we can bang through

00:58:44.540 a couple more Super Chats.

00:58:45.720 Sure thing.

00:58:47.780 We've got one from Boken7.

00:58:50.700 My dad stood on the overpass yesterday

00:58:52.720 with a sign.

00:58:53.480 He is a veteran.

00:58:54.220 It was nine degrees and windy.

00:58:56.100 God bless them all.

00:58:57.940 You must be an American.

00:59:02.520 Macaria maybe is how I say that.

00:59:04.960 Dollar.

00:59:06.000 Friendly reminder.

00:59:07.100 Unions are as strong as their members.

00:59:10.020 Unions can be vastly different

00:59:11.380 across sectors.

00:59:12.580 Please don't discount

00:59:13.200 the important work that they do

00:59:14.420 and paint them with the same brush.

00:59:16.760 Another thing I learned

00:59:17.620 during the pandemic.

00:59:18.660 There are some good unions

00:59:19.600 who did resist tyranny

00:59:21.540 and others that quickly folded

00:59:23.560 because they are not in it

00:59:25.540 for the workers.

00:59:26.500 They are in it for the union bosses

00:59:28.140 it would seem.

00:59:30.060 Schmickle.

00:59:31.260 Yeah, read this one

00:59:32.020 and then we got a skedaddle.

00:59:33.380 So go ahead.

00:59:35.000 Okay.

00:59:35.780 Schmickle gives us five bucks.

00:59:37.200 Thoughts on Dr. Bonnie Henry

00:59:38.340 writing a book during the pandemic

00:59:39.560 using her platform

00:59:40.520 and making money.

00:59:41.600 A pandemic so deadly

00:59:43.320 and so busy

00:59:44.580 and such an emergency

00:59:45.540 that you had time to write a book

00:59:46.860 as the chief public health officer.

00:59:48.440 Seems legit to me.

00:59:50.440 Yeah, just a disgrace.

00:59:52.020 You know, I've written

00:59:52.620 a few books in my day.

00:59:53.800 They are the most time-consuming thing.

00:59:56.280 And if you're...

00:59:58.980 First of all, the vanity

01:00:00.420 of I want to tell you

01:00:02.180 how great I am everybody

01:00:03.280 is astonishing.

01:00:07.100 And the fact that

01:00:08.640 it's such an emergency

01:00:09.560 that you have 500 hours,

01:00:11.820 1,000 hours to write a book

01:00:13.000 because that's how long

01:00:13.540 a book takes.

01:00:15.780 Like, it takes hundreds of hours.

01:00:19.760 I think that was a disgrace

01:00:21.040 and the fact that

01:00:21.620 that was permitted

01:00:22.340 and not an obvious

01:00:23.740 conflict of interest

01:00:24.580 I think is gross

01:00:25.360 and redounds to the discredit

01:00:26.600 of everyone involved.

01:00:28.420 Well, look, it's...

01:00:29.260 After one and there's

01:00:30.000 so many things cooking,

01:00:30.920 I've enjoyed being back

01:00:31.760 on the live stream.

01:00:32.420 I hope to do it

01:00:32.940 from time to time.

01:00:33.660 Sheila, thanks very much

01:00:34.480 for co-hosting

01:00:35.260 and listening to me sing.

01:00:38.480 And...

01:00:38.840 I loved it.

01:00:39.800 You know,

01:00:40.360 I want to let you know

01:00:42.820 that Vladimir Tumiev

01:00:43.640 is not the boss

01:00:44.780 of Gazprom.

01:00:46.080 I think he may be

01:00:46.840 in jail right now.

01:00:48.460 And...

01:00:48.900 But Gazprom

01:00:50.020 is bigger than ever.

01:00:51.120 And it's just

01:00:51.920 as authoritarian as ever.

01:00:53.440 It's just as controlled

01:00:54.220 by Putin as ever.

01:00:56.640 It's full of

01:00:57.660 Sopranos-style

01:00:58.940 executive mobsters,

01:01:00.500 the biggest mobster

01:01:01.260 of all being 0.94

01:01:01.760 Putin himself.

01:01:03.000 And that is who

01:01:04.700 is selling...

01:01:06.180 I don't think we import

01:01:07.200 natural gas from Gazprom.

01:01:08.500 I don't think they bring it

01:01:09.280 all the way to Canada.

01:01:10.360 But they sell that gas

01:01:11.920 to Europe

01:01:12.400 and they sell their oil

01:01:14.660 to Canada.

01:01:15.440 And it is a disgrace

01:01:16.860 that Justin Trudeau

01:01:18.360 buys

01:01:19.480 Putin's 0.59

01:01:21.200 Russian

01:01:21.880 conflict oil

01:01:23.160 instead of Alberta

01:01:24.080 ethical oil sands oil.

01:01:27.180 And I guess we'll leave it there.

01:01:28.340 Last word to you, Sheila.

01:01:30.360 Well, I think this was great.

01:01:31.800 I think we should have you back

01:01:32.700 on the stream

01:01:33.220 a little more frequently

01:01:34.240 instead of just

01:01:35.100 whenever you have a minute

01:01:36.200 to pop in.

01:01:36.900 I think people appreciate

01:01:37.980 your perspective

01:01:38.840 and your vocalizing.

01:01:41.560 Well, I'll be doing

01:01:42.420 some more sound.

01:01:43.820 Yes.

01:01:44.820 All right.

01:01:45.640 Well, thanks to everybody

01:01:46.580 for watching.

01:01:47.400 I'll be on tonight

01:01:48.500 at 8 p.m.

01:01:49.080 as I always am

01:01:49.860 on the Ezra LeVant Show.

01:01:51.240 You can find out more

01:01:52.120 at rebelnewsplus.com.

01:01:53.480 Until next time,

01:01:54.480 on behalf of Sheila

01:01:55.300 and myself,

01:01:56.680 goodbye

01:01:56.960 and keep fighting for freedom.

01:01:58.500 It's going to take

01:02:00.580 a hell of a lot of work

01:02:01.640 to make up

01:02:03.100 for all the damage

01:02:03.800 he's done internationally

01:02:04.780 and nationally.

01:02:06.520 His network of thugs 0.60

01:02:08.120 and co-conspirators 0.89

01:02:09.340 are going to continue

01:02:11.080 to try to undermine

01:02:11.900 our democracy

01:02:12.440 in the meantime.

01:02:14.200 Imagine what he can do

01:02:15.500 in another year.

01:02:18.500 Imagine what can happen

01:02:20.140 in Ukraine.

01:02:21.580 Make no mistake,

01:02:22.540 this is a full-scale

01:02:23.560 Russian invasion

01:02:24.520 into Ukraine

01:02:26.040 happening right now

01:02:27.320 and the air raid sirens

01:02:28.620 going off

01:02:29.180 in the Ukrainian capital

01:02:30.400 as we speak.

01:02:32.180 It's going to take

01:02:32.720 a hell of a lot.

Rebel News Podcast - February 25, 2022

DAILY ｜ The West levies sanctions against Russia： do they actually do anything？

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