Rebel News Podcast - DAVID MENZIES ｜ Thalidomide tragedy a history lesson we should have learned from

00:00:00.000 Tonight, as more and more information leaks out about the COVID-19 vaccines, the more

00:00:22.780 I think about the horror that was thalidomide. It's Wednesday, July 5th, 2023. I'm David

00:00:32.340 Menzies, and this is the Ezra Levent Show. 0.94

00:00:38.460 Shame on you, you sensorious bug. 0.99

00:00:41.820 Last year, my family doctor, who shall remain nameless because all things considered, she's

00:00:56.640 a very good doctor and I don't want to get fired as a patient. Well, she decided to start

00:01:02.660 seeing clients again, meaning she resumed in-person visits as opposed to exclusively virtual sessions.

00:01:11.820 via Zoom or Skype. Well, let me tell you, folks, when she discovered that I was unvaccinated,

00:01:20.040 did I ever get an earful for not getting those COVID-19 experimental jabs, as well as the

00:01:27.600 obligatory booster shots? Casting an evil eye upon me, she tersely said one word, why? 1.00

00:01:35.980 And my reply was this, well, doc, I'm a 1962 baby, so when I hear the words experimental

00:01:43.860 and medication combined in one statement, all I can think about is thalidomide. She immediately 1.00

00:01:53.080 cut me off saying words to the effect that I was comparing apples to oranges, that thalidomide 0.99

00:01:58.260 had nothing in common with the life-saving vaccines being peddled by the likes of Pfizer,

00:02:04.400 Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. Really? Thalidomide dates back to the late 1950s. It was supposed

00:02:12.940 to be a medical miracle. Instead, it was a medical disaster. The drug was meant to alleviate morning

00:02:20.500 sickness in pregnant women. In that regard, thalidomide worked brilliantly. Oh, but there was a price to 1.00

00:02:28.200 be paid. Namely, more than 10,000 babies the world over were born with severe birth defects,

00:02:36.320 thanks to thalidomide side effects. Perhaps the best written account regarding thalidomide is

00:02:43.340 Suffer the Children, the Story of Thalidomide, written by the Insight team of the Times of London.

00:02:51.040 Published in 1979, it is a tome that is designed to both sadden and enrage.

00:02:58.200 Allow me to reference a snippet from the book's introduction.

00:03:03.180 The thalidomide babies whose births shocked the world have grown up. They were born almost 20 years

00:03:11.500 ago with a terrible range of deformities because the thalidomide sedative pill their mothers took

00:03:19.700 during pregnancy was not a wonder drug but a cruel perverter of the growing body in the womb. 0.99

00:03:28.220 The thalidomide teenagers are coping with life as best anyone can when they lack arms or legs or suffer

00:03:36.580 from other serious deficiencies. In Britain, 19-year-old David Bickers, who has no legs and only rudimentary

00:03:45.820 digits where arms should be, studies mathematics and electronics, and produces his own talking magazine

00:03:53.800 for the blind. Terry Wiles, who is barely two feet tall and has no arms or legs and only one eye,

00:04:02.260 writes and types his own short stories. Gary Skinner, who has short flippers where his arms should be,

00:04:12.240 works as a telephone switchboard operator in his local hospital.

00:04:16.640 Something like 8,000 thalidomide children are alive in the United States, Germany, Japan, Britain, Ireland,

00:04:26.060 Sweden, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Italy, and Spain. Altogether, the pill known internationally as thalidomide

00:04:34.960 claimed victims in 46 countries where it was prescribed by doctors and sold across the counter

00:04:42.640 under a variety of trade names on license from the original German inventors, Chami Gerthenthal.

00:04:51.560 Mothers who took the pill in the first trimester of pregnancy, when limb buds of the fetus form,

00:05:01.560 produced children with a wide but distinctive range of deformities. Some have no arms,

00:05:08.880 just flippers from the shoulder. Some no legs, just toes from their hips. Some have limbless trunks with

00:05:17.540 just a head and a body. Some appear to be physically normal, but were injured internally. Most of the

00:05:26.140 children have a normal range of intelligence, but a few are vegetables. Some are deaf or blind or suffer

00:05:33.240 from epilepsy and other manifestations of severe brain damage. They are all victims, not merely of a drug

00:05:42.120 accident, but of the dangerous myth invented in Germany and exported to a credulous world that thalidomide 0.89

00:05:51.360 was better than all other tranquilizers because it was non-toxic, had no side effects, and was completely safe

00:06:00.880 for pregnant women. None of these statements announced by the drug companies and accepted by doctors

00:06:09.380 was true, end quote. Making things immeasurably worse, not only did this drug not come as advertised,

00:06:19.720 a second tragedy occurred when news of the deformed thalidomide babies started making headlines the world

00:06:26.300 over. And that second tragedy was how governments and social institutions not only failed to keep the

00:06:33.540 drug off the market, but did not act quickly, even when its effects were realized. By the way, folks,

00:06:42.500 that list of doddlers would include our home and native land. In Canada, thalidomide somehow remained

00:06:50.300 on the market for three months after it had been withdrawn in Britain and Germany. What in blue hell

00:06:59.420 was Health Canada thinking? How many more babies were born here with terrible deformities during those

00:07:05.960 months when it could have all have been prevented? Just remember this anecdote when it comes to our

00:07:14.240 healthcare head honchos, you know, like Dr. Theresa Tam, when they chirp, follow the science. As the saying

00:07:23.060 goes, sometimes the true sin of a scandal is not necessarily the crime committed, but rather the

00:07:29.260 cover-up. Alas, with thalidomide and I suspect with the COVID-19 vaccines, the sin was both the crime and

00:07:39.260 the cover-up. More on that later. But given the 2020 vision that inherently comes from hindsight,

00:07:46.960 does anyone with two functioning brain cells truly believe the official COVID-19 vaccine narrative

00:07:54.000 to be true? That it is effective in preventing COVID and that it is 100% safe? Indeed, the most

00:08:03.640 unintentionally funny tweet I laid eyes on regarding COVID came via a blackface liberal from last year. 0.98

00:08:12.460 It was authored by MP Carolyn Bennett, who, I must point out, is a medical doctor. And here's what

00:08:19.980 Doc Bennett tweeted on June 29, 2022. Quote, I have just tested positive for COVID-19. I am feeling fine.

00:08:29.180 I am grateful that my vaccinations are up to date, including my fourth shot. I will now isolate.

00:08:37.300 Teachable moment. Protect yourself, others, and our healthcare system. End quote.

00:08:43.380 Whoa, hold the phone. I'm not a medical doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but isn't Dr. Bennett's tweet

00:08:51.740 at best counterintuitive? She got double-jabbed. She got two boosters. Then she contracted COVID-19,

00:09:01.340 to which she says she's grateful?

00:09:09.500 By the way, folks, I wonder where Doc Bennett might have got infected. A tip of the hat to my colleague

00:09:15.780 Yankee, who dredged up this tweet the doctor issued just three days prior to her COVID-positive tweet.

00:09:25.060 Check it out. Quote,

00:09:25.940 The energy today was absolutely fabulous at Pride Toronto and long overdue after two long years.

00:09:35.100 It was so great to see everyone together again and celebrating their love, inclusivity, diversity,

00:09:42.380 bravery, and resilience that the LGBTQ plus community teaches all of us. End quote.

00:09:52.160 Hmm. Check out those photos, folks. Maybe there really was something to be said for all that

00:09:58.140 masking and social distancing after all. And forgive me, I don't know what all of us square straight

00:10:06.240 folk can learn from the rainbow unicorn set during Pride events. Learn what exactly? How to illegally wave

00:10:14.960 our schlongs in public in front of children? As for love, bravery, and inclusion, golly, where was Dr.

00:10:23.760 Frankenstein, or I mean, Dr. Bennett back in 2002 when this doctor, who should have known better,

00:10:31.360 voted against compensating those Canadians who contracted hepatitis C due to Canada's infected

00:10:41.280 blood supply. Wow. What love, what compassion, what empathy. Dr. Bennett, not only are you an idiot,

00:10:50.180 but you're an evil idiot. Thankfully, there are doctors out there who, unlike certain MPs, 1.00

00:10:56.840 are both qualified and ethical. And some of these doctors refuse to be silenced. That would include

00:11:04.760 Dr. Paul Elias Alexander. He advocates for the following, a complete changeover of pandemic responders,

00:11:14.280 firing those who have failed us, stop shifting the blame to the public who have done their part,

00:11:21.000 and electing qualified experts. My beloved colleague Tamara Ugolini is what I would call a 0.73

00:11:29.400 COVID-19 nerd. That's a term of endearment, by the way, because Tamara is a one-woman gang when it comes to 1.00

00:11:37.560 analyzing the official narrative of COVID-19 and calling out the misinformation and even the downright

00:11:45.000 lies. These past few years, Tamara has been doing the job that, well, you'd expect the mainstream media 0.99

00:11:52.280 to do, you know, slog through endless documents. But the train seals in the media party, well,

00:11:59.560 they've decided to sit this one out. Check out this excerpt from Tamara's interview with Dr. Alexander.

00:12:06.920 The bottom line here is that if you ask us to give you two weeks in February, March,

00:12:13.640 to flatten the curve, you said governments, you, even the Canadian federal government,

00:12:19.560 need two weeks so we could prepare our hospitals. It's been 19 months. If you are still asking the

00:12:26.920 society for more time and for more lockdowns and for more restrictions and masking and all these things,

00:12:34.360 you have failed. You, the government, have failed. You, the federal response people and the provincial

00:12:40.600 people on your task forces. You, the health system, has failed. The society has done its job

00:12:46.280 for 19 months. Anything you asked, we did. You should all be fired. That's my view.

00:12:52.440 Yeah, heads should roll all right, but that's just not going to happen. Then, in an interview conducted

00:12:58.120 in October 2021, Tamara got Dr. Alexander to weigh in on the rumblings of the Pfizer injection being 0.92

00:13:07.480 approved for use in children aged 5 to 11 and how it was both reckless and unnecessary.

00:13:15.880 What I found was that in a seminal research by Patel et al, they showed that the ACE2 receptor

00:13:23.160 is minimally expressed. Expressed means available or produced or, or, or numerically, it is numerically,

00:13:33.400 it is numerically. There's a low number of the ACE2 receptor on, in the nasal pharyngeal passage,

00:13:40.760 particularly nostrils of children and young children. And there's, there was this clear ACE gradient

00:13:46.840 in their, in their study that showed that the older person gets the more used to in the portion of

00:13:54.760 the human being in the nostril, nasal pharyngeal passage. So why is that important? Because normally

00:14:02.520 when you get infected, when, when, well, when the virus first comes at you, uh, this virus or other

00:14:08.520 respiratory viruses, they land in the nostrils, in the, in the oral cavity, et cetera. And the process,

00:14:13.560 the infection process begins there. So, so the issue was that, um, well, if children didn't have

00:14:19.560 such, uh, if children had such a low level of ACE2 receptors, that began to explain why children

00:14:26.920 didn't readily, were not readily getting infected and, uh, beginning to seek related more severe disease.

00:14:34.280 And, um, it is a very credible part of the discussion because the reality about it is when you add that

00:14:42.360 piece to the piece by, uh, some other researchers, who also showed that the upper respiratory tract

00:14:51.080 of children were preactivated or primed with, um, innate immunity with, with, with an immune, uh, posture

00:15:00.200 that was, that was, that left it very nimble and proactive in terms of its response to subsequent

00:15:06.600 exposure to SARS-CoV-2. And you added that to the research by Yang et al who found in the blood of

00:15:13.720 children that they had collected, uh, before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic emerged, they found, um,

00:15:21.720 B cell immunity that helped explain from prior coronavirus exposures.

00:15:27.080 So there you have it. There was a body of scientific evidence indicating children should

00:15:31.880 not get vaccinated, uh, but that didn't stop the powers that be from sacrificing the health of our

00:15:39.400 children upon the altar of profits, did it now? Indeed, around the same time Dr. Alexander was pointing

00:15:47.240 this out, various governments and health agencies were purposefully airing ad campaigns directly

00:15:55.240 targeting children, implying it was cool to get the jabs. Perhaps the worst offender was Ontario's Peel

00:16:03.160 region, which utilized Brampton Batman, if you can believe it. Just how desperate are Canada's

00:16:10.680 doctators when it comes to getting the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of our children? Well, how about

00:16:18.680 this? They are actually using fictional characters plucked from popular culture

00:16:24.200 to promote the gross theme that it is cool to get jabbed. Case in point, recently Ontario's Peel

00:16:33.880 region, population 1.51 million, actually employed the Cape Crusader in a one minute long video in an

00:16:42.680 effort to get kids to get the jabs. Indeed, Peel Public Health tweeted out a whiz-bang one minute long

00:16:51.080 video featuring Dr. Lawrence Lowe actually recruiting children 5 to 11 to get vaccinated

00:17:01.960 with the assistance of Brampton Batman and his Brampton Batmobile. You won't find that video online

00:17:09.480 anymore. It's been yanked like it never happened and more on that later. But I had my very own boy

00:17:16.760 wonder record this video with his cell phone camera before it was eradicated from cyberspace.

00:17:23.720 Here, check it out. Coming soon to a Peel vaccine clinic near you.

00:17:28.440 This battle began in January of the year 2020. With over 117,000 cases of COVID-19 in Peel,

00:17:36.280 it's been a tough fight. We've missed special occasions, families, friends. We've even experienced

00:17:45.800 online schooling. You have been the real heroes throughout this. With over 2.5 million doses of

00:17:52.440 vaccine given right here in Peel, COVID is starting to give up ground and we're finally starting to win.

00:17:59.320 We need you. There are many battles led to the fight and losing is not an option.

00:18:05.480 We're calling on our heroes. If you're 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 years old, it's almost your

00:18:17.880 turn to get the vaccine, get protected, and protect those around you.

00:18:22.520 Can you believe that the wannabe actor Lawrence Lowe is actually the top doctor in Peel region?

00:18:30.680 Holy Frankenstein. Yeah, and if Brampton Batman was a real crime fighter,

00:18:36.120 maybe he would be rounding up those criminals responsible for jabbing our kids. Not to be

00:18:43.000 outdone, around this time, Toronto's disgraceful ex-mayor, John Tory, made use of a character who

00:18:49.720 was last relevant back when Kim Campbell was Prime Minister. Pokeroo, what did you think?

00:18:55.080 Pokeroo! Pokeroo! Pokeroo!

00:18:57.080 I gather, for those who could translate, this is a ringing endorsement. This is a character of

00:19:04.040 few words, and so this is all good. And I can tell that Pokeroo is a huge fan of the setup.

00:19:09.640 Wow, the perverse irony here is richer than a double slice of Premier Doug Ford's beloved

00:19:15.880 cherry cheesecake. Because while Mayor Tory was advocating that we needed to get our kids jabbed,

00:19:22.600 and that we should wear face diapers, and that we should social distance, and stay in social

00:19:28.440 distancing circles that were painted upon city parkland. And then going on to shut down mom-pa

00:19:35.160 restaurants with all the king's horses and all the king's men. All in the name of public safety,

00:19:40.280 mind you. Well, it turns out that his dishonor was horizontally jogging with Emily Hillstrom,

00:19:47.560 a City Hall subordinate. Yeah, Pokeroo indeed. But here is a doctor I do trust, namely Dr. Julie

00:19:57.400 Panessi. And here's what she said at a London Freedom Rally vis-a-vis vaccinating children.

00:20:04.120 Why are we about to vaccinate five-year-olds when the vaccines offer them a one percent,

00:20:10.840 at most one percent, absolute risk reduction, and when there is no effective monitoring system

00:20:16.840 for the vaccine? Do you know folks that if Dr. Panessi goes back to the University of Western Ontario,

00:20:23.160 a.k.a. her former place of employment, where she was terminated for not getting the jab,

00:20:29.800 that she will actually be arrested for trespassing? But it's not just the kids. As we take inventory

00:20:38.440 of those who got the experimental COVID-19 jabs, evidence is emerging that far from being a panacea

00:20:45.800 against contracting the coronavirus, some people were very adversely affected. For example, I point to a

00:20:53.480 story penned by my colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed a few days ago regarding Carrie Sakamoto. Sakamoto is a

00:21:00.840 Lethbridge, Alberta mother of three, and she is suffering from permanent Bell's palsy, despite being

00:21:08.120 told by the government slash state broadcaster, CBC, that she was doing the right thing by following

00:21:16.680 constant recommendations to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. So it is that Sakamoto has filed a

00:21:23.640 lawsuit, represented by lawyers Eva Chipiuk and James Kitchen, working with the Institute for Justice

00:21:31.000 and Freedom and Empowered Canadians. The lawsuit names the Federal Minister of Health, the Chief Public

00:21:38.520 Health Officer of Canada, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Dr. Cecilia Larenko, and Alberta

00:21:47.800 Health Services, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The suit alleges all of the aforementioned

00:21:55.160 were negligent, provided information they knew to be false and incomplete, and that they censored and

00:22:02.600 suppressed truthful and reliable information about vaccine injuries, which caused harm to Miss Sakamoto.

00:22:12.280 She is seeking $10.5 million. That's an interesting number, isn't it? I think Sakamoto is entitled to

00:22:20.280 every penny and more, but she will undoubtedly spend years in court as she continues to suffer. And yet, 0.99

00:22:29.160 back in 2016, was it not the black-faced Liberals that could hardly wait to stick a $10.5 million

00:22:37.480 check into the pocket of Omar Khadr, Canada's homegrown Al-Qaeda terrorist who murdered one U.S. serviceman

00:22:46.600 and partially blinded another? Lesson learned, a woman maimed by the experimental COVID-19 vaccine

00:22:54.280 that she was duped into taking, has to spend eternity and a day fighting for justice. Meanwhile,

00:23:01.560 an Islamist terrorist gets a lotto $6.49 payment because of hurt feelings, because blackface reckons 1.00

00:23:10.600 that there are those living in our great dominion who sympathize and support little Omar, and that

00:23:17.720 translates into votes for Team Red. Unbelievable. But back to my colleague Tamara Ugolini. Two weeks ago,

00:23:27.000 she filed a blockbuster of a report. For starters, in the Department of the Ghost of Thalidomide,

00:23:34.440 Tamara points to data from a study indicating that out of 29 outcomes in pregnant women who received the

00:23:42.920 COVID-19 vaccine, 28 resulted in the loss or death of the baby. Equally disturbing is that it appears

00:23:54.040 that Health Canada has been caught in a bold-faced lie in terms of their analysis of Pfizer data. Check

00:24:03.080 out an excerpt of her report. Mary Ugolini here with Rebel News. And in today's report, I'm going to show

00:24:09.400 you a recent question brought forward in the House of Commons by Conservative Member of Parliament, Colin

00:24:15.400 Carey, who inquired with health regulatory agencies to test their knowledge of the Pfizer

00:24:21.880 data releases known as the Pfizer documents. The documents that he refers to came about by way of a

00:24:29.560 freedom of information request filed by a group of doctors in the United States who call themselves

00:24:36.120 public health and medical professionals for transparency. And they filed their request with

00:24:41.400 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, to obtain the COVID manufacturer's vaccine

00:24:48.280 safety data, namely Pfizer's, that was used to authorize the novel injections. The FDA originally

00:24:56.680 said that they would release 500 pages per month in their response after they attempted to delay the

00:25:03.080 release of the data for 75 years. But then a judge ordered them to release at least 55,000 pages every

00:25:11.960 month. Now for some historical context here, similarly to what happened with the FDA, Health Canada began

00:25:18.520 receiving submissions of potential COVID-19 vaccines for approval or authorization in October of 2020,

00:25:27.160 which they authorized for administration to the public on December 9th, 2020. That's roughly 90 days to

00:25:35.640 apparently do a thorough review of hundreds of thousands of pages of data. Either the process was rushed or

00:25:43.320 there wasn't actually a lot of data to review. Now MP Carey inquired about these reviews and specifically asks

00:25:51.240 about document 5.3.6 titled Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports. It's a

00:26:01.640 Pfizer COVID vaccine reaction report that showed troubling adverse events outcomes, especially for

00:26:08.280 unborn babies whose mothers had taken the shot in pregnancy, which included neonatal death and spontaneous

00:26:15.960 abortion. Dr. Shoemaker had previously joined Rebel News to denounce the exact same findings and data that

00:26:23.160 shows that out of 29 outcomes in pregnant women, 28 resulted in the loss or death of the baby. In response

00:26:32.040 to Carey, Health Canada said that they are aware of the ongoing release of these documents, but their

00:26:38.360 internal reviews of manufacturer reports did not identify new safety concerns. Health Canada claimed that

00:26:45.480 they began these reviews on January 15th, 2021 and completed them on April 4th, 2021.

00:26:53.880 Can you believe your ears? Somehow Health Canada completed a review of documents seven months prior to the

00:27:02.600 release of those aforementioned documents. Do Health Canada bureaucrats own a DeLorean DMC-12 with that

00:27:09.800 UberRare flux capacitor option, you know, so that they can bend the time-space continuum. Or maybe that so-called

00:27:18.200 review document is, well, take it away, Romulan Senator Wrenak. It's a fake. And so it is that I am experiencing a

00:27:30.280 mixture of dread and deja vu. So much of this is resembling the thalidomide scandal more than six decades ago.

00:27:41.480 Because with every passing week, more new evidence emerges that the COVID-19 vaccine is tantamount to the

00:27:50.440 scam of our young century that this vaccine is, as they say in Alabama, a dog that don't hunt.

00:28:00.200 And I don't care if you are pro-vaccine. It is a matter of fact that a new vaccine takes about a decade

00:28:07.560 to develop. If you can deliver a vaccine in five years, that's considered lightning fast. Yet the COVID-19

00:28:15.640 vaccine vaxes, they were rendered in a matter of months, not years. And just like thalidomide,

00:28:21.960 a growing body of evidence suggests that we were being lied to, that the off-uttered command of

00:28:29.320 follow the science was as bogus as a $3 bill because, well, there was no science to follow. Indeed,

00:28:38.520 hardly a day goes by in which I don't bump into someone who is not suffering from buyer's remorse

00:28:45.400 for taking that COVID-19 jab, including, I should add, people employed in the medical profession.

00:28:54.280 Just like thalidomide, it is evident that these vaccines were not properly tested nor analyzed.

00:29:03.000 No, the holy grail of the almighty dollar is what greased the wheels of both medications.

00:29:09.640 Profits trumped science. Alas, there is one profound difference

00:29:14.840 comparing the rollout of thalidomide and the COVID-19 vaccines. And that is no government of

00:29:21.400 yesterdecade ever coerced mothers into taking thalidomide. Instead, those mothers put their 1.00

00:29:28.680 faith in big pharma only to be utterly betrayed. COVID-19, however, had governments and health agencies

00:29:37.800 and corporations forcing people to get jabbed. Of course, I don't mean people were rounded up and

00:29:45.160 jabbed against their will. What I reference were those malicious mandates requiring one to get jabbed,

00:29:52.920 or else you'd lose your job. Yeah, physically you'd be all right, but you would receive an economic

00:30:01.320 death sentence. More and more damning testimony continues to trickle out regarding how this vaccine

00:30:08.360 was about as effective as a placebo for some. Meanwhile, for others, especially young, athletic,

00:30:15.080 physically fit males, well, it did turn out to be a death sentence, a real death sentence after all,

00:30:22.600 didn't it? How many young, physically fit people, for example, suddenly went from the picture of health

00:30:29.640 to dropping dead in their tracks via myocarditis? Of course, we're not supposed to talk about that.

00:30:37.880 We're not supposed to ask impolite questions of big pharma, who are aided and abetted by the

00:30:43.880 censorious thugs who run Silicon Valley, aka the information gatekeepers, who are doing everything

00:30:51.400 in their power to cover up any negativity regarding COVID-19 vaccines. For example, folks, merely Google

00:31:00.600 the phrase, why are COVID-19 vaccines bad? And you know what you're going to get? You're going to get

00:31:07.720 the precise opposite information, namely why COVID-19 vaccines are good, with sources ranging from

00:31:16.440 John Hopkins Medicine to, of course, the Canadian government. When it comes to COVID-19 negativity

00:31:24.120 online, the song Home on the Range springs to mind, you know, where seldom is heard a discouraging word.

00:31:31.960 In the years and decades to come, I think the quest for COVID-19 justice will morph into a lawyer's

00:31:40.440 paradise. And just like the drug makers who manufactured thalidomide, the vaccine manufacturers

00:31:48.600 will fight every lawsuit to the bitter end. What compensation that will result will no doubt be

00:31:57.080 chump change. Case in point, in Britain, after years of litigation, distillers, which was the UK

00:32:06.040 manufacturer of thalidomide, came to an agreement in 1971, in which the company would pay the 370 victims

00:32:16.760 of thalidomide, $7.8 million doled out over 10 years. That's $7.8 million in total for all 370.

00:32:31.400 Needless to say, this settlement was far short of the life needs of the thalidomide victims.

00:32:39.560 Despicable beyond words. And I'm sure the same nickel and diming is going to happen

00:32:46.040 to COVID-19 vaccine victims and their families as those lawsuits wind their way through the legal system.

00:32:55.160 The likes of Pfizer are very responsible when it comes to the well-being of their shareholders, you see.

00:33:03.160 Oh, by the way, folks, I almost forgot to mention a very relevant point regarding me

00:33:10.280 and thalidomide. You see, when my mother became pregnant with yours truly, that took place in August 1961.

00:33:19.560 I would later be informed that she suffered from horrendous morning sickness.

00:33:25.160 It was a very, very tough pregnancy indeed.

00:33:28.120 So what did she do? Well, like thousands of other pregnant women the world over at the time, 0.90

00:33:34.840 my mother got a prescription for thalidomide.

00:33:38.600 And there, upon her night table, did the so-called miracle medication sit,

00:33:45.160 much like a hand grenade waiting for its pin to be pulled.

00:33:48.840 But the cap on that little plastic bottle of thalidomide was never opened. Not a single tablet

00:33:57.240 was ever consumed. But why? Was it woman's intuition? Was it some hunch deep down in her gut

00:34:06.360 that while drug companies and doctors and pharmacists were all saying that these tablets were perfectly

00:34:14.120 safe and that the morning sickness would disappear? Tickety-boo. No must, no fuss.

00:34:21.160 Why did my mother, who was suffering, never imbibe? It's baffling and it remains a mystery to this day.

00:34:30.040 As well, I can't help but think, what if? What if she had taken those tablets as prescribed?

00:34:37.480 What if I had been born terribly deformed? Despite being dealt an awful hand, so many of the thalidomide 1.00

00:34:46.680 babies went on to make the best of their lives, getting jobs, contributing to society.

00:34:54.280 Their stories are absolutely amazing. And yet, I don't know if I would have had it in me

00:35:00.920 to cope in such a fashion, had I been born without legs, or my arms resembled flippers, or I was deaf

00:35:09.000 and or blind. Given the inherent logistics, I highly doubt I would have gone on to become a journalist.

00:35:15.880 I don't think I would be here today, employed by this wonderful company, presenting this monologue

00:35:22.360 to you in the here and now. Shortly after my birth, I would go on to be raised by my grandparents.

00:35:29.720 My birth parents were never a big part of my life. But I can tell you this for certain.

00:35:36.840 When my mother decided not to consume the poison that was thalidomide, that was the greatest gift 0.85

00:35:45.720 she could ever have given me. And a lesson was forever embedded in me, thanks to what is now known

00:35:53.240 about the horror that is thalidomide, which is to say, I am not open to any medication

00:36:00.280 whatsoever that is deemed as experimental, being injected into my body, profit-obsessed big pharma,

00:36:09.560 aided and abetted by control freak politicians and bureaucrats, as well as health agencies the world over.

00:36:18.120 They can all try coercing me and people like me to get injected with an experimental vaccine

00:36:26.280 that at best is totally useless and at worst is a potential death sentence. But so sorry guys, it's no sale.

00:36:35.800 Oh sure, there were brand new billionaires minted overnight thanks to COVID. I'm sure it must be

00:36:45.960 quite jolly to be a shareholder of Pfizer or Moderna or Johnson and Johnson. And I'm sure the CEOs of those

00:36:53.880 companies are still giddy that the Silicon Valley tech giants morphed into allies, heavily promoting

00:37:02.360 vaccination while censoring contrarian opinions. They no doubt love it that the practice of

00:37:09.800 investigative journalism, at least when it comes to the mainstream media, went on vacation these past

00:37:16.760 three years. Why? Hey folks, follow the money.

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00:38:10.280 On how to find the hidden sugars in the American family diet.

00:38:13.880 Sponsored by Pfizer.

00:38:15.000 And that's just a small sampling, by the way.

00:38:17.720 It goes on and on and on.

00:38:20.040 Just about everybody, it would seem, is on the take.

00:38:24.920 The point is, in 2023, there is likely two generations of people who have never even

00:38:31.400 heard of thalidomide, including many who are adherents of the COVID-19 experimental vaccine.

00:38:38.280 For those of you in this camp, I urge you to do some research.

00:38:44.520 You never know when the next scandemic is going to happen along.

00:38:48.360 And as the saying goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

00:38:54.520 In conclusion, I defer to the chilling paragraph that ends the introduction for Suffer the Children,

00:39:03.160 which tells you all you need to know about thalidomide and perhaps other egregious experimental

00:39:09.960 medications that are yet to come along.

00:39:12.680 Secrecy cast a long shadow in the thalidomide affair, first over the discovery of what went wrong,

00:39:22.520 medically and legally, and then over publication of the truth.

00:39:27.960 Much of the story in this book has lain for 15 years under the veils of legal censorship.

00:39:36.840 It is a story about a cover-up as well as about a drug disaster.

00:39:43.080 It is less a scientific horror tale, though that element is present,

00:39:48.760 than a parable about the predicament of the individual who is asked to pay the price for progress.

00:40:10.040 Folks, if you happened to notice a bunch of naked people

00:40:13.400 marching down the street buck naked, what would you do?

00:40:17.080 Perhaps call the cops?

00:40:19.320 Full frontal nudity is illegal after all.

00:40:22.040 But when my guest alerted law enforcement to such a display of public indecency,

00:40:29.080 he was told there was nothing to see here whatsoever.

00:40:32.680 Because apparently when it comes to the LGBT etc community,

00:40:38.280 it's one law for thee and one law for me.

00:40:41.880 Joining me now is Rob Primo.

00:40:45.720 Hi Rob, how you doing there?

00:40:47.240 I hope your eyes have recovered from taking in that impromptu sausage fest.

00:40:53.480 But tell me, I thought we were all supposed to live under one law here in Canada,

00:40:58.760 but apparently that isn't the case, correct?

00:41:02.520 Yeah, that seems to be correct.

00:41:04.200 I was under the impression that we all lived under one law and followed the same laws.

00:41:08.200 But it seems to be that there's this protective banner right now through diversity, equity,

00:41:14.440 and inclusion that protects the certain class of Canadians to behave a certain type of way.

00:41:21.800 Well, you know what, Rob?

00:41:23.000 Before we get into the crux of the matter,

00:41:26.200 let's throw to your phone call that you made to 911 and basically the very ho-hum nonchalant response

00:41:35.480 you received from law enforcement in regard to that display of public indecency.

00:41:42.920 Okay, here we go.

00:41:44.280 Ask a police officer a question?

00:41:46.600 Sure, one moment.

00:41:47.480 Thank you.

00:41:48.280 Thank you for calling.

00:41:50.040 Hi there, I was just looking to ask an officer a question,

00:41:53.720 and then I got forwarded to you.

00:41:55.800 Is there, I just want to make sure I'm not working outside of any laws or anything like that.

00:42:00.200 If you want to be out in the street, you have to be fully clothed and you can't

00:42:06.120 be naked or anything like that, right?

00:42:07.800 Well, I mean, there are naked people running around on the street.

00:42:14.120 Okay, but is that against the law?

00:42:16.520 It would be some mental health issues.

00:42:20.440 Okay, I agree with you on that one.

00:42:23.640 I'm having a hard time.

00:42:24.600 Yesterday I seen a bunch of people naked in front of children and police officers, 0.99

00:42:30.600 you know, seeing men with their penis out in front of kids, and I'm just wondering if that's acceptable. 0.98

00:42:36.040 Was that part of the pride, you mean? 0.99

00:42:38.280 Was that on the weekend?

00:42:38.920 Yeah, I was at the pride parade.

00:42:41.160 Yeah, yeah, so that's always the issue then each year.

00:42:46.200 What's the issue with that, sorry?

00:42:49.080 I mean, that happens every year.

00:42:51.800 Oh, so like it's kind of like it's okay for when it's at the pride parade,

00:42:55.480 but not in other situations, obviously?

00:42:59.400 Exactly, I would say so.

00:43:01.960 Okay, well, thank you very much for your time.

00:43:03.880 Well, first of all, Rob, I sure hope that that cop that was speaking to you

00:43:10.440 doesn't get suspended or terminated for talking about mental health issues.

00:43:15.800 But indeed, I mean, what kind of frame of mind do you have to be in

00:43:21.480 to think it is absolutely a-okay to get rid of all your clothing,

00:43:27.320 march down the street where there are children present?

00:43:30.200 I don't get it, Rob.

00:43:31.240 Yeah, I don't get it either.

00:43:33.480 You know, I don't understand how anyone who's an adult would be comfortable,

00:43:38.280 you know, taking their clothes off and being in front of a child in the nude.

00:43:42.040 I know I certainly wouldn't be able to do something of that nature.

00:43:46.360 And it really makes me question what the motive is exactly,

00:43:49.560 because, you know, in my eyes, it's completely wrong.

00:43:52.280 And Rob, here's something I've been asking this question for a couple of decades now,

00:43:57.800 even to those in that LGBT plus community.

00:44:02.200 What does nudity have to do with pride?

00:44:06.680 You know, if I'm proud of something in my life, maybe it's something my sons have achieved,

00:44:13.480 maybe it's buying a brand new car that I've lusted after.

00:44:18.280 I don't take off all my clothes and go running naked through the neighborhood.

00:44:24.040 So again, what is the connection with members of that community celebrating pride?

00:44:29.720 And that therefore means you go buck naked.

00:44:34.360 I'm trying to find that correlation myself.

00:44:36.520 And it doesn't seem like this is a one off as I live in Niagara.

00:44:39.640 And we had an incident like this happened a few weeks ago as well.

00:44:43.000 And I thought, you know, maybe this was just something that's being overinflated on the Internet.

00:44:47.240 And that's why I started to keep my eye on these events that were taking place.

00:44:51.320 But it's definitely not something that's just hyperinflated.

00:44:53.800 It's something that's replicating itself across the country and in America as well.

00:44:58.760 You know, Rob, a couple of months ago, we were tipped off by a police officer at the Toronto Police Service.

00:45:05.000 It was about the now mandatory transgender training all the police officers have to take.

00:45:12.360 And they have to pass with 100 percent or they have to redo the test.

00:45:16.840 And basically, the theme that emerges is that trans people are not worthy of equal rights, but rather of special rights. 0.59

00:45:27.320 I'll give you a quick example.

00:45:29.080 A trans man, meaning a woman who is identifying as a man.

00:45:34.280 When you are incarcerated, and I have been as a political prisoner in my own country, I can tell you, 0.95

00:45:40.040 you lose your necktie, your belt, your shoelaces, anything that can be weaponized, anything that you could use to hang yourself. 0.99

00:45:48.760 But some of these trans men, evidently, they have a dildo in their underwear. 1.00

00:45:54.840 It's not considered to be a sex toy. 0.99

00:45:57.720 It's considered to be a gender affirming article.

00:46:01.320 That's the term.

00:46:02.680 And they are allowed to bring it into the cell, even though it clearly can be weaponized.

00:46:08.040 So I think we're going down a dangerous route here.

00:46:12.840 Rob, based on gender identification, sexual orientation and what have you, it is two different laws.

00:46:22.360 And I'm sorry, that's not the way the law of the land should work.

00:46:27.880 No, not at all.

00:46:28.760 It's definitely seeming like in Canada we have a complete two-tier system right now.

00:46:34.040 And the police, I speak with police often in confidence.

00:46:37.800 And they are very scared to lay charges on individuals who are acting in this type of way

00:46:42.520 because they know that these people are going to use the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion

00:46:48.040 as this righteous thing that they have that empowers them and enables them to just get away with breaking the law

00:46:54.520 and doing whatever it is they want to do.

00:46:56.520 And these police officers, they just don't want to get canceled.

00:47:00.040 You know, I think you're right, Rob.

00:47:01.240 And I think that unholy trinity, as I call it, diversity, equity and inclusion,

00:47:06.920 I think that's what's driving all kinds of nonsensical decisions, be it law enforcement,

00:47:14.360 be it what's happening at our uber-woke school boards across Canada.

00:47:20.040 And yet, I can't help but notice the perverse irony here.

00:47:24.200 They say inclusion, but being allowed to go naked in a public street, that's not inclusion.

00:47:31.640 That is an example of exclusion.

00:47:33.880 Rather, people like you and I, if we were to go to, say, the Santa Claus Parade or the St. Patrick's Day Parade

00:47:40.360 and we got naked, we'd be gang-tackled by police officers and rightly so. 1.00

00:47:45.320 So what's the deal with inclusion? Nobody has this right to go naked at a public event.

00:47:52.040 What are your thoughts?

00:47:53.800 Well, I think this whole inclusion word is just a big buzzword that they're using right now.

00:47:58.200 And they're doing the exact opposite. What they're doing is they're segregating us.

00:48:01.800 They're not including us. They're putting us off into different groups.

00:48:05.160 And they're making these groups come at each other because, you know,

00:48:08.200 one group of people are not going to be happy with a certain type of group who's behaving in this manner,

00:48:13.320 who's getting naked in the streets, who's getting naked in front of children, 0.81

00:48:16.760 who's exposing themselves in front of children, who's, you know, doing these sick, perverted acts 0.97

00:48:21.880 in front of children. You know, the other part of that population isn't going to be happy with that.

00:48:27.160 And I do not see this as inclusion at all. I see it as segregation and, you know,

00:48:32.920 just having two different ideologies going against each other.

00:48:37.320 No, I think you're right, Rob. I think the precise opposite is going to be achieved.

00:48:43.960 In other words, there's going to be a backlash. There are going to be people who are decent minded.

00:48:48.840 They are, you know, they subscribe to common sense. They subscribe to one law should rule us all.

00:48:55.800 And they see these kind of exceptions being made. And I don't know, I think you can see that backlash happening right now.

00:49:07.160 I mean, look at Target in the US. More than $10 billion of share value has been lost by that company

00:49:14.520 for certain trans-themed merchandise they were foisting upon their shoppers.

00:49:19.800 Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch, a share value drop of $16.5 billion US for using a fake woman spokes thingy,

00:49:31.320 as opposed to a real woman. And I think it's more about Target merchandise and a certain brand of beer. 0.67

00:49:37.560 I think it's about, you know, a feeling that enough is enough. Stop shoving this agenda down our throats.

00:49:46.280 Your thoughts, my friend.

00:49:48.680 Yeah, that's exactly it. You know, and of course we hear all of these popular words we're all called,

00:49:53.240 where, you know, it's a transphobe or a homophobe and a bigot. And that's the furthest thing from the

00:49:57.960 truth. People don't care about what people want to do or what their sexual preference is. What

00:50:03.320 people care about is when you're involving our children in this, when you're shoving this down

00:50:07.400 our children's throat, and they're being forced to learn this ideology in the school system.

00:50:12.600 No, I think you're right. One last question, Rob, before you go. I wonder, is this idea of not

00:50:21.320 enforcing the law, is this internally generated by the police force in Toronto and other cities,

00:50:27.880 for that matter, where this occurs? Or do you think their political puppet masters, you know,

00:50:34.760 send down a message to the chief and he further sends it down the system? Listen, we all know there's

00:50:41.080 going to be some people flagrantly breaking the public decency law. They're going to go full

00:50:48.680 frontal, naked, even in front of children. But you know what? Please turn a blind eye. Just let it be.

00:50:57.240 Don't press any charges. What do you think, Rob? Is it the police, you know, independently deciding not

00:51:03.880 to lay charges? Or are they being told not to do so? No, I believe for sure they're being told not to

00:51:10.680 do so. And they're being used politically. And we all know that the police are here to serve and

00:51:15.000 protect the people. And it's time that they start doing that, because they can't just keep on pandering

00:51:19.720 to all the political nonsense that they're getting from the higher ups. Rob, it was a great idea what you

00:51:24.920 did in terms of making that call and, of course, recording it. Maybe I'm going to copy you next

00:51:29.480 year and make a call of my own. In the meantime, I wonder if I should test law enforcement tolerance to

00:51:38.840 full frontal nudity. I'd like to go naked during the Santa Claus parade, but that takes place in November.

00:51:45.160 We're talking serious shrinkage in that month. So I'm going to put that idea on the kibosh. Rob,

00:51:52.920 last word goes to you, my friend. Well, I just want to thank you for having me on here and

00:51:58.040 getting this out. And I hope everyone can stand up and start speaking up in our communities,

00:52:03.000 because we really need to do this for our kids. Thank you. Much obliged, Rob.

00:52:19.160 Well, folks, talk about being in the right place at the right time.

00:52:22.520 The big boss man, Ezra Levin. He was in the UK, along with super producer Efron,

00:52:28.600 to cover some other matters. And then those riots in France broke out.

00:52:33.080 Naturally, Ezra and Efron hopped aboard a flight to get to France. Because really,

00:52:40.680 do you ever trust what the mainstream media is reporting? And certainly, Ezra filed several reports,

00:52:49.320 and wow, he just knocked it out of the ballpark. Naturally, tons of response to Ezra's reports.

00:52:56.520 First off, there is Tracy, 8282.

00:53:00.600 This was great to hear from the people and not media propaganda. Well, that is the thing.

00:53:06.920 There was a definitive narrative going around in terms of who the rioters were and who the victims

00:53:15.320 were. Something that the mainstream media kind of glossed over, you know, because it doesn't quite

00:53:22.280 fit their narrative now, does it? Mindy Kay writes,

00:53:28.200 That neighborhood is ugly. That's what immigration does. It destroys the country in every way. 1.00

00:53:35.880 Well, you know, here's the thing. I personally believe, based on Ezra's reporting, there is plenty

00:53:41.880 of blame to go around. A lot of the migrants from Algeria, from Nigeria, they don't feel like full 1.00

00:53:50.440 citizens. And maybe there's some truth to be had here that they aren't treated as equally as other

00:53:57.880 born in France, French men and French women are. But by the same token, it was very telling when Ezra

00:54:04.280 asked these individuals, do you consider yourself a citizen of France or a citizen of Algeria or Nigeria?

00:54:12.600 And universally, it was Algeria and Nigeria.

00:54:17.080 The thing is, if you're going to become a citizen of an adopted nation, you've got to be all in.

00:54:25.000 Maybe that would go a ways to getting full equality in the nation of France.

00:54:31.480 And Danae2559 writes,

00:54:34.600 A real Canadian immigrant would always answer the question, 1.00

00:54:38.520 I'm from the Netherlands, Germany, England, et cetera, but I consider myself a Canadian.

00:54:45.720 A hundred percent. I have no problem with hyphenated Canadians, as long as the be-all and end-all is 1.00

00:54:52.920 that you're loyal to Canada. And you really have to question the loyalties of some of our folks here.

00:55:01.400 Omer Cotter, $10.5 million for killing and maiming two of our closest allies. In my own neighbourhood,

00:55:10.200 in Richmond Hill, for some reason, there's someone flying the flag of Communist China.

00:55:16.440 You know, I guess that's what freedom brings you. You have the right to do that on your private property.

00:55:23.320 But really, the flag of Communist China, a country that down the road, who knows, we might be at war with. 0.92

00:55:31.160 I guess the silver lining is this. At least when people do that, we know who's who in the zoo.

00:55:38.120 We know who to trust and who to be suspicious of.

00:55:43.080 Well, folks, that wraps up this edition of the Ezra Levent Show. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:55:48.680 The big boss man, Ezra, he'll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime, as always, stay safe and stay sane.

00:55:56.280 Have a good day.

Rebel News Podcast - July 05, 2023

DAVID MENZIES ｜ Thalidomide tragedy a history lesson we should have learned from

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