DAVID MENZIES ｜ Thalidomide tragedy a history lesson we should have learned from
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As more and more information leaks out about the COVID-19 vaccines, the more I think about the horror that was thalidomide. It was supposed to be a medical miracle. Instead, it was a medical disaster.
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Tonight, as more and more information leaks out about the COVID-19 vaccines, the more
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I think about the horror that was thalidomide. It's Wednesday, July 5th, 2023. I'm David
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Last year, my family doctor, who shall remain nameless because all things considered, she's
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a very good doctor and I don't want to get fired as a patient. Well, she decided to start
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seeing clients again, meaning she resumed in-person visits as opposed to exclusively virtual sessions.
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via Zoom or Skype. Well, let me tell you, folks, when she discovered that I was unvaccinated,
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did I ever get an earful for not getting those COVID-19 experimental jabs, as well as the
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obligatory booster shots? Casting an evil eye upon me, she tersely said one word, why?
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And my reply was this, well, doc, I'm a 1962 baby, so when I hear the words experimental
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and medication combined in one statement, all I can think about is thalidomide. She immediately
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cut me off saying words to the effect that I was comparing apples to oranges, that thalidomide
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had nothing in common with the life-saving vaccines being peddled by the likes of Pfizer,
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Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson. Really? Thalidomide dates back to the late 1950s. It was supposed
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to be a medical miracle. Instead, it was a medical disaster. The drug was meant to alleviate morning
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sickness in pregnant women. In that regard, thalidomide worked brilliantly. Oh, but there was a price to
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be paid. Namely, more than 10,000 babies the world over were born with severe birth defects,
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thanks to thalidomide side effects. Perhaps the best written account regarding thalidomide is
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Suffer the Children, the Story of Thalidomide, written by the Insight team of the Times of London.
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Published in 1979, it is a tome that is designed to both sadden and enrage.
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Allow me to reference a snippet from the book's introduction.
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The thalidomide babies whose births shocked the world have grown up. They were born almost 20 years
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ago with a terrible range of deformities because the thalidomide sedative pill their mothers took
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during pregnancy was not a wonder drug but a cruel perverter of the growing body in the womb.
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The thalidomide teenagers are coping with life as best anyone can when they lack arms or legs or suffer
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from other serious deficiencies. In Britain, 19-year-old David Bickers, who has no legs and only rudimentary
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digits where arms should be, studies mathematics and electronics, and produces his own talking magazine
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for the blind. Terry Wiles, who is barely two feet tall and has no arms or legs and only one eye,
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writes and types his own short stories. Gary Skinner, who has short flippers where his arms should be,
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works as a telephone switchboard operator in his local hospital.
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Something like 8,000 thalidomide children are alive in the United States, Germany, Japan, Britain, Ireland,
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Sweden, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Italy, and Spain. Altogether, the pill known internationally as thalidomide
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claimed victims in 46 countries where it was prescribed by doctors and sold across the counter
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under a variety of trade names on license from the original German inventors, Chami Gerthenthal.
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Mothers who took the pill in the first trimester of pregnancy, when limb buds of the fetus form,
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produced children with a wide but distinctive range of deformities. Some have no arms,
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just flippers from the shoulder. Some no legs, just toes from their hips. Some have limbless trunks with
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just a head and a body. Some appear to be physically normal, but were injured internally. Most of the
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children have a normal range of intelligence, but a few are vegetables. Some are deaf or blind or suffer
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from epilepsy and other manifestations of severe brain damage. They are all victims, not merely of a drug
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accident, but of the dangerous myth invented in Germany and exported to a credulous world that thalidomide
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was better than all other tranquilizers because it was non-toxic, had no side effects, and was completely safe
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for pregnant women. None of these statements announced by the drug companies and accepted by doctors
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was true, end quote. Making things immeasurably worse, not only did this drug not come as advertised,
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a second tragedy occurred when news of the deformed thalidomide babies started making headlines the world
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over. And that second tragedy was how governments and social institutions not only failed to keep the
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drug off the market, but did not act quickly, even when its effects were realized. By the way, folks,
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that list of doddlers would include our home and native land. In Canada, thalidomide somehow remained
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on the market for three months after it had been withdrawn in Britain and Germany. What in blue hell
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was Health Canada thinking? How many more babies were born here with terrible deformities during those
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months when it could have all have been prevented? Just remember this anecdote when it comes to our
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healthcare head honchos, you know, like Dr. Theresa Tam, when they chirp, follow the science. As the saying
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goes, sometimes the true sin of a scandal is not necessarily the crime committed, but rather the
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cover-up. Alas, with thalidomide and I suspect with the COVID-19 vaccines, the sin was both the crime and
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the cover-up. More on that later. But given the 2020 vision that inherently comes from hindsight,
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does anyone with two functioning brain cells truly believe the official COVID-19 vaccine narrative
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to be true? That it is effective in preventing COVID and that it is 100% safe? Indeed, the most
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unintentionally funny tweet I laid eyes on regarding COVID came via a blackface liberal from last year.
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It was authored by MP Carolyn Bennett, who, I must point out, is a medical doctor. And here's what
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Doc Bennett tweeted on June 29, 2022. Quote, I have just tested positive for COVID-19. I am feeling fine.
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I am grateful that my vaccinations are up to date, including my fourth shot. I will now isolate.
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Teachable moment. Protect yourself, others, and our healthcare system. End quote.
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Whoa, hold the phone. I'm not a medical doctor, nor do I play one on TV, but isn't Dr. Bennett's tweet
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at best counterintuitive? She got double-jabbed. She got two boosters. Then she contracted COVID-19,
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By the way, folks, I wonder where Doc Bennett might have got infected. A tip of the hat to my colleague
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Yankee, who dredged up this tweet the doctor issued just three days prior to her COVID-positive tweet.
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The energy today was absolutely fabulous at Pride Toronto and long overdue after two long years.
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It was so great to see everyone together again and celebrating their love, inclusivity, diversity,
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bravery, and resilience that the LGBTQ plus community teaches all of us. End quote.
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Hmm. Check out those photos, folks. Maybe there really was something to be said for all that
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masking and social distancing after all. And forgive me, I don't know what all of us square straight
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folk can learn from the rainbow unicorn set during Pride events. Learn what exactly? How to illegally wave
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our schlongs in public in front of children? As for love, bravery, and inclusion, golly, where was Dr.
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Frankenstein, or I mean, Dr. Bennett back in 2002 when this doctor, who should have known better,
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voted against compensating those Canadians who contracted hepatitis C due to Canada's infected
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blood supply. Wow. What love, what compassion, what empathy. Dr. Bennett, not only are you an idiot,
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but you're an evil idiot. Thankfully, there are doctors out there who, unlike certain MPs,
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are both qualified and ethical. And some of these doctors refuse to be silenced. That would include
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Dr. Paul Elias Alexander. He advocates for the following, a complete changeover of pandemic responders,
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firing those who have failed us, stop shifting the blame to the public who have done their part,
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and electing qualified experts. My beloved colleague Tamara Ugolini is what I would call a
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COVID-19 nerd. That's a term of endearment, by the way, because Tamara is a one-woman gang when it comes to
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analyzing the official narrative of COVID-19 and calling out the misinformation and even the downright
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lies. These past few years, Tamara has been doing the job that, well, you'd expect the mainstream media
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to do, you know, slog through endless documents. But the train seals in the media party, well,
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they've decided to sit this one out. Check out this excerpt from Tamara's interview with Dr. Alexander.
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The bottom line here is that if you ask us to give you two weeks in February, March,
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to flatten the curve, you said governments, you, even the Canadian federal government,
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need two weeks so we could prepare our hospitals. It's been 19 months. If you are still asking the
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society for more time and for more lockdowns and for more restrictions and masking and all these things,
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you have failed. You, the government, have failed. You, the federal response people and the provincial
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people on your task forces. You, the health system, has failed. The society has done its job
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for 19 months. Anything you asked, we did. You should all be fired. That's my view.
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Yeah, heads should roll all right, but that's just not going to happen. Then, in an interview conducted
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in October 2021, Tamara got Dr. Alexander to weigh in on the rumblings of the Pfizer injection being
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approved for use in children aged 5 to 11 and how it was both reckless and unnecessary.
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What I found was that in a seminal research by Patel et al, they showed that the ACE2 receptor
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is minimally expressed. Expressed means available or produced or, or, or numerically, it is numerically,
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it is numerically. There's a low number of the ACE2 receptor on, in the nasal pharyngeal passage,
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particularly nostrils of children and young children. And there's, there was this clear ACE gradient
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in their, in their study that showed that the older person gets the more used to in the portion of
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the human being in the nostril, nasal pharyngeal passage. So why is that important? Because normally
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when you get infected, when, when, well, when the virus first comes at you, uh, this virus or other
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respiratory viruses, they land in the nostrils, in the, in the oral cavity, et cetera. And the process,
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the infection process begins there. So, so the issue was that, um, well, if children didn't have
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such, uh, if children had such a low level of ACE2 receptors, that began to explain why children
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didn't readily, were not readily getting infected and, uh, beginning to seek related more severe disease.
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And, um, it is a very credible part of the discussion because the reality about it is when you add that
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piece to the piece by, uh, some other researchers, who also showed that the upper respiratory tract
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of children were preactivated or primed with, um, innate immunity with, with, with an immune, uh, posture
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that was, that was, that left it very nimble and proactive in terms of its response to subsequent
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exposure to SARS-CoV-2. And you added that to the research by Yang et al who found in the blood of
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children that they had collected, uh, before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic emerged, they found, um,
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B cell immunity that helped explain from prior coronavirus exposures.
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So there you have it. There was a body of scientific evidence indicating children should
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not get vaccinated, uh, but that didn't stop the powers that be from sacrificing the health of our
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children upon the altar of profits, did it now? Indeed, around the same time Dr. Alexander was pointing
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this out, various governments and health agencies were purposefully airing ad campaigns directly
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targeting children, implying it was cool to get the jabs. Perhaps the worst offender was Ontario's Peel
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region, which utilized Brampton Batman, if you can believe it. Just how desperate are Canada's
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doctators when it comes to getting the COVID-19 vaccine into the arms of our children? Well, how about
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this? They are actually using fictional characters plucked from popular culture
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to promote the gross theme that it is cool to get jabbed. Case in point, recently Ontario's Peel
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region, population 1.51 million, actually employed the Cape Crusader in a one minute long video in an
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effort to get kids to get the jabs. Indeed, Peel Public Health tweeted out a whiz-bang one minute long
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video featuring Dr. Lawrence Lowe actually recruiting children 5 to 11 to get vaccinated
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with the assistance of Brampton Batman and his Brampton Batmobile. You won't find that video online
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anymore. It's been yanked like it never happened and more on that later. But I had my very own boy
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wonder record this video with his cell phone camera before it was eradicated from cyberspace.
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Here, check it out. Coming soon to a Peel vaccine clinic near you.
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This battle began in January of the year 2020. With over 117,000 cases of COVID-19 in Peel,
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it's been a tough fight. We've missed special occasions, families, friends. We've even experienced
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online schooling. You have been the real heroes throughout this. With over 2.5 million doses of
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vaccine given right here in Peel, COVID is starting to give up ground and we're finally starting to win.
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We need you. There are many battles led to the fight and losing is not an option.
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We're calling on our heroes. If you're 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or 11 years old, it's almost your
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turn to get the vaccine, get protected, and protect those around you.
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Can you believe that the wannabe actor Lawrence Lowe is actually the top doctor in Peel region?
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Holy Frankenstein. Yeah, and if Brampton Batman was a real crime fighter,
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maybe he would be rounding up those criminals responsible for jabbing our kids. Not to be
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outdone, around this time, Toronto's disgraceful ex-mayor, John Tory, made use of a character who
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was last relevant back when Kim Campbell was Prime Minister. Pokeroo, what did you think?
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I gather, for those who could translate, this is a ringing endorsement. This is a character of
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few words, and so this is all good. And I can tell that Pokeroo is a huge fan of the setup.
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Wow, the perverse irony here is richer than a double slice of Premier Doug Ford's beloved
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cherry cheesecake. Because while Mayor Tory was advocating that we needed to get our kids jabbed,
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and that we should wear face diapers, and that we should social distance, and stay in social
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distancing circles that were painted upon city parkland. And then going on to shut down mom-pa
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restaurants with all the king's horses and all the king's men. All in the name of public safety,
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mind you. Well, it turns out that his dishonor was horizontally jogging with Emily Hillstrom,
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a City Hall subordinate. Yeah, Pokeroo indeed. But here is a doctor I do trust, namely Dr. Julie
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Panessi. And here's what she said at a London Freedom Rally vis-a-vis vaccinating children.
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Why are we about to vaccinate five-year-olds when the vaccines offer them a one percent,
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at most one percent, absolute risk reduction, and when there is no effective monitoring system
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for the vaccine? Do you know folks that if Dr. Panessi goes back to the University of Western Ontario,
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a.k.a. her former place of employment, where she was terminated for not getting the jab,
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that she will actually be arrested for trespassing? But it's not just the kids. As we take inventory
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of those who got the experimental COVID-19 jabs, evidence is emerging that far from being a panacea
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against contracting the coronavirus, some people were very adversely affected. For example, I point to a
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story penned by my colleague Sheila Gunn-Reed a few days ago regarding Carrie Sakamoto. Sakamoto is a
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Lethbridge, Alberta mother of three, and she is suffering from permanent Bell's palsy, despite being
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told by the government slash state broadcaster, CBC, that she was doing the right thing by following
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constant recommendations to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. So it is that Sakamoto has filed a
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lawsuit, represented by lawyers Eva Chipiuk and James Kitchen, working with the Institute for Justice
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and Freedom and Empowered Canadians. The lawsuit names the Federal Minister of Health, the Chief Public
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Health Officer of Canada, Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, Dr. Cecilia Larenko, and Alberta
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Health Services, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The suit alleges all of the aforementioned
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were negligent, provided information they knew to be false and incomplete, and that they censored and
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suppressed truthful and reliable information about vaccine injuries, which caused harm to Miss Sakamoto.
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She is seeking $10.5 million. That's an interesting number, isn't it? I think Sakamoto is entitled to
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every penny and more, but she will undoubtedly spend years in court as she continues to suffer. And yet,
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back in 2016, was it not the black-faced Liberals that could hardly wait to stick a $10.5 million
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check into the pocket of Omar Khadr, Canada's homegrown Al-Qaeda terrorist who murdered one U.S. serviceman
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and partially blinded another? Lesson learned, a woman maimed by the experimental COVID-19 vaccine
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that she was duped into taking, has to spend eternity and a day fighting for justice. Meanwhile,
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an Islamist terrorist gets a lotto $6.49 payment because of hurt feelings, because blackface reckons
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that there are those living in our great dominion who sympathize and support little Omar, and that
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translates into votes for Team Red. Unbelievable. But back to my colleague Tamara Ugolini. Two weeks ago,
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she filed a blockbuster of a report. For starters, in the Department of the Ghost of Thalidomide,
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Tamara points to data from a study indicating that out of 29 outcomes in pregnant women who received the
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COVID-19 vaccine, 28 resulted in the loss or death of the baby. Equally disturbing is that it appears
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that Health Canada has been caught in a bold-faced lie in terms of their analysis of Pfizer data. Check
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out an excerpt of her report. Mary Ugolini here with Rebel News. And in today's report, I'm going to show
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you a recent question brought forward in the House of Commons by Conservative Member of Parliament, Colin
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Carey, who inquired with health regulatory agencies to test their knowledge of the Pfizer
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data releases known as the Pfizer documents. The documents that he refers to came about by way of a
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freedom of information request filed by a group of doctors in the United States who call themselves
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public health and medical professionals for transparency. And they filed their request with
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the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, to obtain the COVID manufacturer's vaccine
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safety data, namely Pfizer's, that was used to authorize the novel injections. The FDA originally
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said that they would release 500 pages per month in their response after they attempted to delay the
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release of the data for 75 years. But then a judge ordered them to release at least 55,000 pages every
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month. Now for some historical context here, similarly to what happened with the FDA, Health Canada began
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receiving submissions of potential COVID-19 vaccines for approval or authorization in October of 2020,
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which they authorized for administration to the public on December 9th, 2020. That's roughly 90 days to
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apparently do a thorough review of hundreds of thousands of pages of data. Either the process was rushed or
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there wasn't actually a lot of data to review. Now MP Carey inquired about these reviews and specifically asks
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about document 5.3.6 titled Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports. It's a
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Pfizer COVID vaccine reaction report that showed troubling adverse events outcomes, especially for
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unborn babies whose mothers had taken the shot in pregnancy, which included neonatal death and spontaneous
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abortion. Dr. Shoemaker had previously joined Rebel News to denounce the exact same findings and data that
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shows that out of 29 outcomes in pregnant women, 28 resulted in the loss or death of the baby. In response
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to Carey, Health Canada said that they are aware of the ongoing release of these documents, but their
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internal reviews of manufacturer reports did not identify new safety concerns. Health Canada claimed that
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they began these reviews on January 15th, 2021 and completed them on April 4th, 2021.
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Can you believe your ears? Somehow Health Canada completed a review of documents seven months prior to the
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release of those aforementioned documents. Do Health Canada bureaucrats own a DeLorean DMC-12 with that
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UberRare flux capacitor option, you know, so that they can bend the time-space continuum. Or maybe that so-called
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review document is, well, take it away, Romulan Senator Wrenak. It's a fake. And so it is that I am experiencing a
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mixture of dread and deja vu. So much of this is resembling the thalidomide scandal more than six decades ago.
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Because with every passing week, more new evidence emerges that the COVID-19 vaccine is tantamount to the
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scam of our young century that this vaccine is, as they say in Alabama, a dog that don't hunt.
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And I don't care if you are pro-vaccine. It is a matter of fact that a new vaccine takes about a decade
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to develop. If you can deliver a vaccine in five years, that's considered lightning fast. Yet the COVID-19
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vaccine vaxes, they were rendered in a matter of months, not years. And just like thalidomide,
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a growing body of evidence suggests that we were being lied to, that the off-uttered command of
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follow the science was as bogus as a $3 bill because, well, there was no science to follow. Indeed,
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hardly a day goes by in which I don't bump into someone who is not suffering from buyer's remorse
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for taking that COVID-19 jab, including, I should add, people employed in the medical profession.
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Just like thalidomide, it is evident that these vaccines were not properly tested nor analyzed.
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No, the holy grail of the almighty dollar is what greased the wheels of both medications.
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Profits trumped science. Alas, there is one profound difference
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comparing the rollout of thalidomide and the COVID-19 vaccines. And that is no government of
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yesterdecade ever coerced mothers into taking thalidomide. Instead, those mothers put their
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faith in big pharma only to be utterly betrayed. COVID-19, however, had governments and health agencies
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and corporations forcing people to get jabbed. Of course, I don't mean people were rounded up and
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jabbed against their will. What I reference were those malicious mandates requiring one to get jabbed,
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or else you'd lose your job. Yeah, physically you'd be all right, but you would receive an economic
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death sentence. More and more damning testimony continues to trickle out regarding how this vaccine
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was about as effective as a placebo for some. Meanwhile, for others, especially young, athletic,
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physically fit males, well, it did turn out to be a death sentence, a real death sentence after all,
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didn't it? How many young, physically fit people, for example, suddenly went from the picture of health
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to dropping dead in their tracks via myocarditis? Of course, we're not supposed to talk about that.
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We're not supposed to ask impolite questions of big pharma, who are aided and abetted by the
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censorious thugs who run Silicon Valley, aka the information gatekeepers, who are doing everything
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in their power to cover up any negativity regarding COVID-19 vaccines. For example, folks, merely Google
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the phrase, why are COVID-19 vaccines bad? And you know what you're going to get? You're going to get
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the precise opposite information, namely why COVID-19 vaccines are good, with sources ranging from
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John Hopkins Medicine to, of course, the Canadian government. When it comes to COVID-19 negativity
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online, the song Home on the Range springs to mind, you know, where seldom is heard a discouraging word.
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In the years and decades to come, I think the quest for COVID-19 justice will morph into a lawyer's
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paradise. And just like the drug makers who manufactured thalidomide, the vaccine manufacturers
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will fight every lawsuit to the bitter end. What compensation that will result will no doubt be
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chump change. Case in point, in Britain, after years of litigation, distillers, which was the UK
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manufacturer of thalidomide, came to an agreement in 1971, in which the company would pay the 370 victims
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of thalidomide, $7.8 million doled out over 10 years. That's $7.8 million in total for all 370.
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Needless to say, this settlement was far short of the life needs of the thalidomide victims.
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Despicable beyond words. And I'm sure the same nickel and diming is going to happen
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to COVID-19 vaccine victims and their families as those lawsuits wind their way through the legal system.
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The likes of Pfizer are very responsible when it comes to the well-being of their shareholders, you see.
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Oh, by the way, folks, I almost forgot to mention a very relevant point regarding me
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and thalidomide. You see, when my mother became pregnant with yours truly, that took place in August 1961.
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I would later be informed that she suffered from horrendous morning sickness.
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So what did she do? Well, like thousands of other pregnant women the world over at the time,
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And there, upon her night table, did the so-called miracle medication sit,
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much like a hand grenade waiting for its pin to be pulled.
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But the cap on that little plastic bottle of thalidomide was never opened. Not a single tablet
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was ever consumed. But why? Was it woman's intuition? Was it some hunch deep down in her gut
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that while drug companies and doctors and pharmacists were all saying that these tablets were perfectly
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safe and that the morning sickness would disappear? Tickety-boo. No must, no fuss.
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Why did my mother, who was suffering, never imbibe? It's baffling and it remains a mystery to this day.
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As well, I can't help but think, what if? What if she had taken those tablets as prescribed?
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What if I had been born terribly deformed? Despite being dealt an awful hand, so many of the thalidomide
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babies went on to make the best of their lives, getting jobs, contributing to society.
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Their stories are absolutely amazing. And yet, I don't know if I would have had it in me
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to cope in such a fashion, had I been born without legs, or my arms resembled flippers, or I was deaf
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and or blind. Given the inherent logistics, I highly doubt I would have gone on to become a journalist.
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I don't think I would be here today, employed by this wonderful company, presenting this monologue
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to you in the here and now. Shortly after my birth, I would go on to be raised by my grandparents.
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My birth parents were never a big part of my life. But I can tell you this for certain.
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When my mother decided not to consume the poison that was thalidomide, that was the greatest gift
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she could ever have given me. And a lesson was forever embedded in me, thanks to what is now known
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about the horror that is thalidomide, which is to say, I am not open to any medication
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whatsoever that is deemed as experimental, being injected into my body, profit-obsessed big pharma,
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aided and abetted by control freak politicians and bureaucrats, as well as health agencies the world over.
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They can all try coercing me and people like me to get injected with an experimental vaccine
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that at best is totally useless and at worst is a potential death sentence. But so sorry guys, it's no sale.
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Oh sure, there were brand new billionaires minted overnight thanks to COVID. I'm sure it must be
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quite jolly to be a shareholder of Pfizer or Moderna or Johnson and Johnson. And I'm sure the CEOs of those
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companies are still giddy that the Silicon Valley tech giants morphed into allies, heavily promoting
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vaccination while censoring contrarian opinions. They no doubt love it that the practice of
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investigative journalism, at least when it comes to the mainstream media, went on vacation these past
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This week with George Stephanopoulos is brought to you by Pfizer.
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And now a CBS sports update brought to you by Pfizer.
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Just about everybody, it would seem, is on the take.
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The point is, in 2023, there is likely two generations of people who have never even
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heard of thalidomide, including many who are adherents of the COVID-19 experimental vaccine.
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For those of you in this camp, I urge you to do some research.
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You never know when the next scandemic is going to happen along.
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And as the saying goes, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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In conclusion, I defer to the chilling paragraph that ends the introduction for Suffer the Children,
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which tells you all you need to know about thalidomide and perhaps other egregious experimental
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Secrecy cast a long shadow in the thalidomide affair, first over the discovery of what went wrong,
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medically and legally, and then over publication of the truth.
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Much of the story in this book has lain for 15 years under the veils of legal censorship.
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It is a story about a cover-up as well as about a drug disaster.
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It is less a scientific horror tale, though that element is present,
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than a parable about the predicament of the individual who is asked to pay the price for progress.
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Folks, if you happened to notice a bunch of naked people
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marching down the street buck naked, what would you do?
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But when my guest alerted law enforcement to such a display of public indecency,
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he was told there was nothing to see here whatsoever.
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Because apparently when it comes to the LGBT etc community,
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I hope your eyes have recovered from taking in that impromptu sausage fest.
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But tell me, I thought we were all supposed to live under one law here in Canada,
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I was under the impression that we all lived under one law and followed the same laws.
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But it seems to be that there's this protective banner right now through diversity, equity,
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and inclusion that protects the certain class of Canadians to behave a certain type of way.
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let's throw to your phone call that you made to 911 and basically the very ho-hum nonchalant response
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you received from law enforcement in regard to that display of public indecency.
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Hi there, I was just looking to ask an officer a question,
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Is there, I just want to make sure I'm not working outside of any laws or anything like that.
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If you want to be out in the street, you have to be fully clothed and you can't
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Well, I mean, there are naked people running around on the street.
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Yesterday I seen a bunch of people naked in front of children and police officers,
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you know, seeing men with their penis out in front of kids, and I'm just wondering if that's acceptable.
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Yeah, yeah, so that's always the issue then each year.
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Oh, so like it's kind of like it's okay for when it's at the pride parade,
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Well, first of all, Rob, I sure hope that that cop that was speaking to you
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doesn't get suspended or terminated for talking about mental health issues.
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But indeed, I mean, what kind of frame of mind do you have to be in
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to think it is absolutely a-okay to get rid of all your clothing,
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march down the street where there are children present?
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You know, I don't understand how anyone who's an adult would be comfortable,
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you know, taking their clothes off and being in front of a child in the nude.
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I know I certainly wouldn't be able to do something of that nature.
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And it really makes me question what the motive is exactly,
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because, you know, in my eyes, it's completely wrong.
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And Rob, here's something I've been asking this question for a couple of decades now,
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You know, if I'm proud of something in my life, maybe it's something my sons have achieved,
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maybe it's buying a brand new car that I've lusted after.
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I don't take off all my clothes and go running naked through the neighborhood.
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So again, what is the connection with members of that community celebrating pride?
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And it doesn't seem like this is a one off as I live in Niagara.
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And we had an incident like this happened a few weeks ago as well.
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And I thought, you know, maybe this was just something that's being overinflated on the Internet.
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And that's why I started to keep my eye on these events that were taking place.
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But it's definitely not something that's just hyperinflated.
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It's something that's replicating itself across the country and in America as well.
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You know, Rob, a couple of months ago, we were tipped off by a police officer at the Toronto Police Service.
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It was about the now mandatory transgender training all the police officers have to take.
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And they have to pass with 100 percent or they have to redo the test.
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And basically, the theme that emerges is that trans people are not worthy of equal rights, but rather of special rights.
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A trans man, meaning a woman who is identifying as a man.
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When you are incarcerated, and I have been as a political prisoner in my own country, I can tell you,
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you lose your necktie, your belt, your shoelaces, anything that can be weaponized, anything that you could use to hang yourself.
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But some of these trans men, evidently, they have a dildo in their underwear.
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It's considered to be a gender affirming article.
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And they are allowed to bring it into the cell, even though it clearly can be weaponized.
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So I think we're going down a dangerous route here.
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Rob, based on gender identification, sexual orientation and what have you, it is two different laws.
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And I'm sorry, that's not the way the law of the land should work.
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It's definitely seeming like in Canada we have a complete two-tier system right now.
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And the police, I speak with police often in confidence.
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And they are very scared to lay charges on individuals who are acting in this type of way
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because they know that these people are going to use the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion
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as this righteous thing that they have that empowers them and enables them to just get away with breaking the law
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And these police officers, they just don't want to get canceled.
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And I think that unholy trinity, as I call it, diversity, equity and inclusion,
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I think that's what's driving all kinds of nonsensical decisions, be it law enforcement,
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be it what's happening at our uber-woke school boards across Canada.
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And yet, I can't help but notice the perverse irony here.
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They say inclusion, but being allowed to go naked in a public street, that's not inclusion.
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Rather, people like you and I, if we were to go to, say, the Santa Claus Parade or the St. Patrick's Day Parade
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and we got naked, we'd be gang-tackled by police officers and rightly so.
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So what's the deal with inclusion? Nobody has this right to go naked at a public event.
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Well, I think this whole inclusion word is just a big buzzword that they're using right now.
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And they're doing the exact opposite. What they're doing is they're segregating us.
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They're not including us. They're putting us off into different groups.
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And they're making these groups come at each other because, you know,
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one group of people are not going to be happy with a certain type of group who's behaving in this manner,
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who's getting naked in the streets, who's getting naked in front of children,
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who's exposing themselves in front of children, who's, you know, doing these sick, perverted acts
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in front of children. You know, the other part of that population isn't going to be happy with that.
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And I do not see this as inclusion at all. I see it as segregation and, you know,
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just having two different ideologies going against each other.
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No, I think you're right, Rob. I think the precise opposite is going to be achieved.
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In other words, there's going to be a backlash. There are going to be people who are decent minded.
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They are, you know, they subscribe to common sense. They subscribe to one law should rule us all.
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And they see these kind of exceptions being made. And I don't know, I think you can see that backlash happening right now.
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I mean, look at Target in the US. More than $10 billion of share value has been lost by that company
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for certain trans-themed merchandise they were foisting upon their shoppers.
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Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch, a share value drop of $16.5 billion US for using a fake woman spokes thingy,
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as opposed to a real woman. And I think it's more about Target merchandise and a certain brand of beer.
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I think it's about, you know, a feeling that enough is enough. Stop shoving this agenda down our throats.
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Yeah, that's exactly it. You know, and of course we hear all of these popular words we're all called,
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where, you know, it's a transphobe or a homophobe and a bigot. And that's the furthest thing from the
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truth. People don't care about what people want to do or what their sexual preference is. What
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people care about is when you're involving our children in this, when you're shoving this down
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our children's throat, and they're being forced to learn this ideology in the school system.
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No, I think you're right. One last question, Rob, before you go. I wonder, is this idea of not
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enforcing the law, is this internally generated by the police force in Toronto and other cities,
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for that matter, where this occurs? Or do you think their political puppet masters, you know,
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send down a message to the chief and he further sends it down the system? Listen, we all know there's
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going to be some people flagrantly breaking the public decency law. They're going to go full
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frontal, naked, even in front of children. But you know what? Please turn a blind eye. Just let it be.
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Don't press any charges. What do you think, Rob? Is it the police, you know, independently deciding not
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to lay charges? Or are they being told not to do so? No, I believe for sure they're being told not to
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do so. And they're being used politically. And we all know that the police are here to serve and
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protect the people. And it's time that they start doing that, because they can't just keep on pandering
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to all the political nonsense that they're getting from the higher ups. Rob, it was a great idea what you
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did in terms of making that call and, of course, recording it. Maybe I'm going to copy you next
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year and make a call of my own. In the meantime, I wonder if I should test law enforcement tolerance to
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full frontal nudity. I'd like to go naked during the Santa Claus parade, but that takes place in November.
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We're talking serious shrinkage in that month. So I'm going to put that idea on the kibosh. Rob,
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last word goes to you, my friend. Well, I just want to thank you for having me on here and
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getting this out. And I hope everyone can stand up and start speaking up in our communities,
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because we really need to do this for our kids. Thank you. Much obliged, Rob.
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Well, folks, talk about being in the right place at the right time.
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The big boss man, Ezra Levin. He was in the UK, along with super producer Efron,
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to cover some other matters. And then those riots in France broke out.
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Naturally, Ezra and Efron hopped aboard a flight to get to France. Because really,
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do you ever trust what the mainstream media is reporting? And certainly, Ezra filed several reports,
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and wow, he just knocked it out of the ballpark. Naturally, tons of response to Ezra's reports.
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This was great to hear from the people and not media propaganda. Well, that is the thing.
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There was a definitive narrative going around in terms of who the rioters were and who the victims
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were. Something that the mainstream media kind of glossed over, you know, because it doesn't quite
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fit their narrative now, does it? Mindy Kay writes,
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That neighborhood is ugly. That's what immigration does. It destroys the country in every way.
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Well, you know, here's the thing. I personally believe, based on Ezra's reporting, there is plenty
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of blame to go around. A lot of the migrants from Algeria, from Nigeria, they don't feel like full
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citizens. And maybe there's some truth to be had here that they aren't treated as equally as other
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born in France, French men and French women are. But by the same token, it was very telling when Ezra
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asked these individuals, do you consider yourself a citizen of France or a citizen of Algeria or Nigeria?
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The thing is, if you're going to become a citizen of an adopted nation, you've got to be all in.
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Maybe that would go a ways to getting full equality in the nation of France.
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A real Canadian immigrant would always answer the question,
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I'm from the Netherlands, Germany, England, et cetera, but I consider myself a Canadian.
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A hundred percent. I have no problem with hyphenated Canadians, as long as the be-all and end-all is
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that you're loyal to Canada. And you really have to question the loyalties of some of our folks here.
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Omer Cotter, $10.5 million for killing and maiming two of our closest allies. In my own neighbourhood,
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in Richmond Hill, for some reason, there's someone flying the flag of Communist China.
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You know, I guess that's what freedom brings you. You have the right to do that on your private property.
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But really, the flag of Communist China, a country that down the road, who knows, we might be at war with.
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I guess the silver lining is this. At least when people do that, we know who's who in the zoo.
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We know who to trust and who to be suspicious of.
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Well, folks, that wraps up this edition of the Ezra Levent Show. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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The big boss man, Ezra, he'll be back here tomorrow. In the meantime, as always, stay safe and stay sane.