Rebel News Podcast - EXPOSED： COVID-19 pandemic disinformation from Edmonton’s biggest newspaper

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I go deep on a crazy headline in the Edmonton Journal that said

00:00:04.720 ICUs, intensive care units, are full to the brim because of the virus. Is that really true?

00:00:11.560 And if it wasn't true, how could they possibly tell such a lie? I'll show you the numbers on

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00:00:59.180 Tonight, pandemic disinformation from Edmonton's biggest newspaper. It's August 21,

00:01:09.720 and this is The Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:13.380 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:17.040 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:21.140 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:26.000 right to do so.

00:01:31.720 The Edmonton Journal is lying about the pandemic. I don't know what game they're playing.

00:01:35.900 I don't know why they're doing it, but they're deeply misleading people about this critical issue.

00:01:40.660 It's bizarre. Now, my book of political commentary on the pandemic called China Virus,

00:01:45.740 that was banned by Amazon because I allegedly contradicted official sources about the pandemic.

00:01:52.860 But that's a crock. My book isn't a medical book. It was a political commentary.

00:01:56.840 But the Edmonton Journal flat-out misled readers today. Here's their story. They posted it online

00:02:02.860 last night. Edmonton ICU, that's intensive care unit, doctor says his unit is, quote,

00:02:10.500 full to the brim, spike partly due to COVID-19. That's a lie. I'll prove it. But let me take a

00:02:20.040 minute to show you some relevant background first on the statistics. I follow the stats of the pandemic

00:02:24.360 pretty closely, as you know. Some jurisdictions are better than others, but they're all pretty good

00:02:28.400 at giving you the numbers. Even the federal government of Canada. Look at figure four here,

00:02:33.680 toggled to deceased. It's pretty clear this is a disease that targets people in their 80s and 90s

00:02:39.520 and 100s. A single death under age 20 in the entire country of Canada throughout the entire pandemic. So

00:02:46.020 stats are useful when making decisions about things like, should we let kids go back to school?

00:02:50.660 Obviously. Here's Ontario's statistics page. Look at the first two graphs on the left. The first is

00:02:56.920 called daily new cases. And you can see it peaked in mid-April, but now it's much lower. But the next

00:03:02.460 graph right under that is even more encouraging. It's called daily deaths. It's almost down to zero.

00:03:07.720 That is very encouraging. And if you look at these two charts together, you can see that something must

00:03:11.900 be happening. Cases are being detected, but people aren't getting as sick, and they're certainly not

00:03:16.140 dying as much. Just go to the next chart under that called comparing active and hospitalized cases.

00:03:21.340 So the blue curve is the number of cases, but the dark line there is the number of cases in the

00:03:27.180 hospital. So it's almost zero. So the cases are by no means at almost zero, but the hospitalization

00:03:34.760 is. So how is that possible? I'll let the experts give you their theories, but I think there's a few

00:03:40.240 common sense possibilities. One is there's just so much more testing going on. I'm not quite sure

00:03:45.720 why really. But you're going to detect more because you're testing. Let me scroll down all the way to

00:03:50.940 the chart called daily tests. You can see they're testing three times as many people per day now as

00:03:57.260 they tested at the height of the pandemic. So of course they're going to find more people who

00:04:00.740 technically have the virus in them perhaps, but they don't feel sick or certainly not enough to go to

00:04:06.160 the hospital or ICU or God forbid to die. So they just have it, but they're not sick. Maybe they're immune

00:04:12.720 to it. I don't know. Maybe the community is getting immune as a whole. They call that herd immunity.

00:04:17.040 I don't like that phrase because it sounds like we're a herd of animals or something, but if we're

00:04:21.140 getting that immunity as a community, great. There's also this wrinkle that Ontario public health

00:04:26.160 politicians said. And in fact, if you're testing in a population that doesn't have very much COVID,

00:04:32.840 you'll get false positives almost half the time. That is the person actually doesn't have COVID.

00:04:38.400 They have something else. They may have nothing. Yikes. Half the tests could be false positives.

00:04:45.000 Can you imagine? Imagine making laws that destroy businesses and civil liberties based on science

00:04:50.900 with a 100% margin of error. So there's two of you, either one or two of you has the virus. Sorry,

00:04:56.200 that's not science anymore. It's so inaccurate. But one thing I noticed when I study these charts,

00:05:00.540 which almost every jurisdiction has, countries, provinces, states, even lots of cities have them.

00:05:05.360 One thing I noticed that a lot of jurisdictions are doing is they're making graphs that are

00:05:10.280 deceiving. They're not lying, but they're deceptive. Here's what I mean. Because the numbers are getting

00:05:16.440 so much better, the pandemic peaked in Canada in May to April, and people can see that just by walking

00:05:22.600 around. The stats show that. Well, politicians want the state of fear. They want to justify their new

00:05:28.560 bans and laws, their mask laws, their lockdowns, their emergency spending, their emergency power. So I start to

00:05:34.480 see this. And I'm just picking Toronto at random here. But a lot of jurisdictions do this. Now look

00:05:41.680 at this chart called cumulative cases by episode, date and outcome. That's a very first chart you'll

00:05:48.660 see on the Toronto stats page. Look at that graph. That graph is terrifying. It looks like a huge tidal

00:05:54.020 wave or something. I'm panicking just looking at it. It makes me stressed. But hang on, hang on,

00:05:58.480 those gray lines there, those are not sick people. Those are recovered people. They were sick, maybe

00:06:06.360 just a little bit sick. Some of them may be a lot sick, but they're all better now. But they're still

00:06:11.620 stuck on the same graph. The orange is the number of people who have died. But again, it's misleading

00:06:18.420 because it's cumulative. So you have dates along the bottom of the graph here, and you're probably

00:06:22.960 thinking, oh my God, people are still dying every single day. No, no, they only die once. But they

00:06:28.880 stay on this graph forever, and they accumulate. That's why it only gets bigger. This graph only gets

00:06:34.980 bigger because it is cumulative. It will never shrink. It'll only grow. That tiny turquoise sliver

00:06:42.220 there is called active cases. Can you even see it? Those are the only cases still around. It doesn't

00:06:48.080 even make sense to have the active cases on this graph because it's not even what this graph

00:06:52.520 measures. It's not accurate. Every other person on the graph would cumulatively have been active

00:06:58.100 at one time. They either got better or they died, I guess. That tiniest turquoise sliver

00:07:03.420 is not cumulative. It's the tiny number of people who are sick right now, most of whom will get

00:07:09.180 better. It's a tiny attempt, I think, by someone in the Toronto Statistics Department to rebut

00:07:15.140 the monstrous misdirection of this bizarre graph that makes it look the worst ever.

00:07:20.480 You have to go to the graph underneath it to get a real idea of what's happening.

00:07:25.080 Cases by episode date. You can see it went up, and it's come down. The curve was flattened

00:07:31.660 back in April. The last number there, August 18th, is so small, you can't even see it with the naked eye

00:07:37.380 of a single new case. One. One case in the greater Toronto area. Population, six and a half million

00:07:44.220 people. One new case. I bet there's one case of leprosy in Toronto, too. You don't see the

00:07:50.060 province shutting down every school and business for that, do you? But back to that Edmonton Journal

00:07:54.160 article. Edmonton ICU doctor says his unit is full to the brim. Spike partly due to COVID-19. Wow.

00:08:02.520 So you know it's true because an Edmonton intensive care doctor said so. This isn't just some

00:08:06.920 journalist saying that. Let me read. An Edmonton intensive care doctor says his unit is, quote,

00:08:10.860 full to the brim because of patients with COVID-19, in addition to an increase in trauma

00:08:17.960 patients and more surgeries. Is that what the doctor said? I'll keep reading. As Edmonton

00:08:24.040 continues to be a COVID-19 hotspot with 561 cases or approximately 54.9 active cases per

00:08:31.520 100,000 people, Dr. Darren Markland, who works at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, took to social

00:08:36.980 media this week to caution people to continue following public health guidelines and stay safe

00:08:41.020 as the pandemic stretches on. Well, I guess it's settled then. 561 cases. You heard the Edmonton

00:08:49.100 Journal. It's a hotspot. This is terrible news. We better shut things down again. I mean, 561 cases.

00:08:56.140 Are there even that many hospital beds free in Edmonton? I'm scared. Actually, I'm not scared,

00:09:01.240 but the Edmonton Journal wants its readers to be scared, apparently. Let me read some more.

00:09:04.540 You may be tired of COVID-19, but it's not tired of you. Our ICU is full to the brim and we can't

00:09:10.640 stop running, he said in a series of tweets on Tuesday and Wednesday. Well, that settles it then,

00:09:15.320 right? I mean, they just quoted the doctor. He is literally there in the hospital ICU. So they

00:09:20.240 quoted him. They said he had a series of tweets. Actually, they didn't show you that series of

00:09:25.320 tweets, did they? They took a few words out of one of them. I wonder what they left out. Probably

00:09:30.580 nothing. They're probably telling the whole story at the Edmonton Journal, right? I'll read some more.

00:09:36.480 Dr. David Zigen, the Edmonton's own medical director for Alberta Health Services, confirmed

00:09:41.360 Thursday that the occupancy rate for the zone's approximately 100 ICU beds has been in the mid-90s

00:09:47.500 throughout the pandemic, sometimes spiking over 100%. Whoa, that is terrifying. Occupancy was sometimes

00:09:55.680 over 100%. I don't even know how that's possible. It's like when someone says I'm going to give her

00:10:03.180 110%. I think that might be something like this. This is a tarp to what we use on stage, but it's very

00:10:11.200 special because if you can see, the numbers all go to 11. Look, right across the board. 11, 11, 11.

00:10:20.680 And most of the amps go up to 10. Exactly. Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? Well,

00:10:26.700 it's one louder, isn't it? It's not 10. You see, most blokes are going to be playing at 10. You're

00:10:32.540 on 10 here all the way up, all the way up, all the way up. You're on 10 on your guitar. Where can you

00:10:37.320 go from there? I mean, you thought the ICU could only be 100% full. Well, it's 110% full, so you know

00:10:43.480 it's super full. I'll read some more. Occupancy rates prior to the pandemic were typically in the high

00:10:49.120 80s to mid-90s, he said. Oh, so we're not really in an unusual crisis? Now, we're five paragraphs

00:10:55.560 deep into the story by now. It's starting to get sort of boring, isn't it? Most people will only

00:11:00.360 read the headline. Most people who read the story don't read the whole thing. But if you were one of

00:11:05.240 the very few people who are still reading, in the sixth paragraph, you'll finally read this.

00:11:11.140 While the most recent data shows that only 12 COVID-19 patients are in Alberta ICUs, both

00:11:20.900 Marklin and Zygon say ICUs have seen an increase in trauma patients. There's also been an increase

00:11:27.080 in opioid and mental health-related admissions. Hospitals are also doing more surgeries than

00:11:31.960 normal as they attempt to catch up on a backlog caused by the cancellation of elective surgeries

00:11:36.720 early in the pandemic. Oh, so it's not the virus patients at all. There are only 12 virus patients

00:11:43.200 in intensive care in the entire province. It's other stuff. Politician-caused stuff. Panic and fear

00:11:51.440 and depression-caused stuff. Drug use. Mental health stuff. If you're in intensive care for mental health

00:11:56.920 stuff, I think that means you tried to commit suicide. And then there's the backlog from surgeries

00:12:02.420 delayed while we all panicked and cleared out the hospitals for the 350,000 deaths that were expected

00:12:09.260 from the virus. That's what Justin Trudeau and Teresa Tam said their models predicted, from 50,000 best

00:12:14.960 case to up to 350,000 deaths worst case from the virus nationwide. It's been 9,000. Almost all of them

00:12:22.480 in seniors' homes, especially in do-not-resuscitate provinces like pro-euthanasia Quebec. In fact,

00:12:31.020 in all of Edmonton, a mighty city of more than a million, there are only six people in ICUs from

00:12:38.260 the virus. Six in the whole city. That's fewer than one per hospital. By the way, there are only 12

00:12:45.220 people in the entire province of Alberta in ICUs. There are special, there are 70 special ICU rooms

00:12:52.080 set aside for this virus. They have special things. They have negative air pressure, stuff like that.

00:12:57.000 Out of those 70 set aside, only 12 renews across the whole province. And by the way, at the worst of

00:13:01.580 it, there was never more than 22 people in ICUs in the whole province of Alberta. This thing isn't just

00:13:08.220 over. It never began. But they quoted a doctor, didn't they? As proof of their claim, didn't they?

00:13:16.240 And indeed, he said the hospitals were full to the brim. At least his was. Yes, he did say that,

00:13:21.280 but not from the virus. He did not lie. The Edmonton Journal lied. They love the fear. I guess

00:13:29.420 it sells newspapers. They love the pandemic. People are stuck at home. What are they going to do but read

00:13:34.460 a newspaper? Here's one of the many tweets from the doctor they cited. We have seen a significant

00:13:40.980 increase in trauma. Some of this is just a return to previous lifestyles and poor decision making,

00:13:45.480 but much of it is amplified by huge increases in substance abuse. Whether this is driven by

00:13:50.560 COVID-related mental health issues is not for me to say. Got it. So, in fact, only six people in

00:13:57.560 Edmonton in intensive care from the virus. The rest can be blamed on politicians.

00:14:04.460 Who whipped up stress and fear and poverty and mental illness and driving people to drugs. Oh,

00:14:09.460 and right on cue. Look who's here. Edmonton's left-wing, power-hungry, civil liberties-violating

00:14:14.600 mayor. Stronger action may be necessary to get Edmonton COVID-19 numbers under control.

00:14:21.720 Iverson. The numbers are under control, mate. It's you who's out of control. And because of that,

00:14:29.020 drug use is up. Suicides are up. You can blame politicians for that. And you can blame

00:14:35.940 the liars at the Edmonton Journal, too.

00:14:38.780 Hey, welcome back. As you know, we generally interview a guest as the second segment in the

00:14:55.700 show. But there was a little documentary. I think it's more than just a little video that

00:15:00.540 we put out today that I just wanted you to see. We put some effort into it and some expense.

00:15:04.920 We had to hire three bodyguards to accompany our David Menzies and his reporter on this one,

00:15:10.380 his cameraman, rather. It's a story that's been going on literally for decades that the

00:15:16.660 mainstream media ignores or is too afraid to even report on. Our motto is telling the other

00:15:22.520 side of the story. And so we did. Here, let me invite you to watch a new mini documentary

00:15:27.920 by our friend David Menzies out in Caledonia. Take a look.

00:15:32.760 A small percentage of them are native and actually know the history and the debate that's going

00:15:38.220 on right now in this area and genuinely want what's good for the native people. And then you

00:15:43.580 have a large percentage who are basically anarchists. They're coming from Kitchener, Toronto, Brantford,

00:15:50.040 and they're only coming here to cause trouble. It's unfortunate.

00:15:53.760 Go away from the country.

00:15:55.880 Go away from the country.

00:15:57.620 We should just go.

00:15:59.240 David Menzies for Rebel News here in Caledonia.

00:16:18.580 And folks, before I get to our story today, if you can, please go to journalistdefensefund.com.

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00:16:36.020 to bring you the other side of the story.

00:16:38.540 Well, I'm with James Bradbury. He lives in the Caledonia area.

00:16:42.400 You might recall James. We met him, I think, back in May.

00:16:47.140 And it was about the PPE issue with one of the long-term care facilities in this neighborhood.

00:16:53.660 But of course, if you're talking Caledonia, you are talking problems with certain elements

00:17:00.220 of the native community.

00:17:01.580 For years, decades perhaps, there have been all kinds of land dispute claims going on here.

00:17:09.220 I think it was about 10 years ago, Chrissy Blatchford, the late Chrissy Blatchford,

00:17:13.140 wrote a bestseller called Helpless about what it was like to live in Caledonia.

00:17:17.980 And, James, I can't help but notice Argyle Street, which we're standing on right now,

00:17:24.040 just a little adjacent to the Canadian tire here, it is closed off.

00:17:29.100 I see several OPP officers and OPP cruisers about 150 meters further.

00:17:36.120 I see it looks like some derelict cars and a motorhome and several tires,

00:17:42.940 which is making an additional blockade. I assume that's the native blockade.

00:17:46.820 What exactly, right now in August of 2020, what is the issue here in Caledonia?

00:17:53.260 The main issue is the government's lack of resolving the situation.

00:18:00.000 In my personal opinion, the natives actually, because I'm not anti-native in any way,

00:18:04.560 I actually believe that they do have a legitimate claim to some of this land.

00:18:09.040 The problem is that the government hasn't resolved it.

00:18:13.480 And so every time the OPP comes in, they kick them out.

00:18:17.460 They come back with a vengeance for the next protest.

00:18:20.060 And this has been ongoing since 2006, these protests.

00:18:23.220 And they've only been getting worse and worse and worse.

00:18:25.260 And now we're starting to see armored cars.

00:18:27.240 It's just, it's not getting any better.

00:18:29.100 We need resolution from our government.

00:18:30.620 And not just local government, like provincial and federal.

00:18:34.000 When it's technically supposed to be federal, it's supposed to be handled once.

00:18:36.060 I know it can get very complicated when we deal with native land issues, James.

00:18:40.120 But at the root of the matter here, is it that some in the native community are saying that

00:18:47.760 they have ownership of land, land that I understand is about to be developed?

00:18:52.540 Yeah.

00:18:53.240 So the Six Nations, in particular the hereditary chiefs in that, they do claim the ownership.

00:18:58.640 And there is paperwork with the Haldeman track that shows that this was theirs.

00:19:04.240 Unfortunately, due to mishandling and whatnot, it did wind up in the hands of private citizens

00:19:09.640 away from the reserve.

00:19:12.300 The thing is, is that the government was supposed to pay them for that.

00:19:16.440 Now, like I say the government, we're talking about the Ontario government right now?

00:19:19.300 No, we're talking about federal government.

00:19:20.480 Federal government?

00:19:20.960 Actually, back when we're talking about this, this is the crown, right?

00:19:24.200 You know, we're going back far enough, right?

00:19:26.860 The thing is, is that, you know, we understand that that's how that needs to be resolved.

00:19:31.280 They need to get paid for this land.

00:19:33.420 Okay.

00:19:33.880 Now, the developer did try to pay them, to be fair.

00:19:36.520 But he tried to pay the ban council, not the hereditary chiefs.

00:19:41.360 And he did try to reach other hereditary chiefs, but, you know, nothing happened, unfortunately.

00:19:46.940 But at the end of the day, the government needs to step in and resolve the entire Haldeman 1.00

00:19:52.920 track.

00:19:53.380 And that needs to be finished.

00:19:55.000 And then to make it all worse, I mean, this is already a complicated situation.

00:19:58.220 Then you get extremists from outside.

00:20:00.600 Then you get extremists from like Toronto and that coming in here and saying, yeah, all white

00:20:03.980 people need to leave.

00:20:04.680 And by extremists, I think you told me off camera, you have seen busloads of Antifa from

00:20:11.860 the greater Toronto area coming here to, I guess, really stir the pot.

00:20:16.580 And it seems to me from what you were telling me, they're not really interested in any kind

00:20:21.280 of negotiated settlement.

00:20:22.780 They just want anarchy and violence.

00:20:24.840 A small percentage of them are native and actually know the history and the debate that's

00:20:29.720 going on right now in this area and genuinely want what's good for the native people.

00:20:35.000 And then you have a large percentage who are basically anarchists.

00:20:38.720 They're coming from Kitchener, Toronto, Brantford, and they're only coming here to cause trouble. 0.88

00:20:44.880 It's unfortunate.

00:20:46.260 Now, speaking of violence, James, there has been some acts of arson of late, hasn't there?

00:20:51.580 Yes.

00:20:51.800 Now, officially, it is not linked to this, but Mark Hill did condemn.

00:20:58.880 And Mark Hill is who?

00:21:00.080 Mark Hill is the elected band council chief.

00:21:03.420 So he, the hereditary chiefs don't acknowledge the band council because it was imposed by the

00:21:09.820 white man, right?

00:21:11.200 So he denounced these protests as a native person, denounced it, and his house was burned

00:21:16.620 the next day.

00:21:18.100 I mean, there is the place-

00:21:19.400 There were people in the house at the time, wasn't there?

00:21:21.200 From what I understand, his parents were in the house.

00:21:24.220 It's very unfortunate.

00:21:26.360 And from eyewitnesses that I've talked to, they've saw this happening.

00:21:30.560 They saw it was arson.

00:21:32.020 It was intentional.

00:21:35.380 And, but we've also heard stories where other locals who have spoken out on camera, and this

00:21:41.700 is one of the things that even I'm concerned about, that I want to make sure I'm representing

00:21:44.700 in a balanced fashion, is that other locals who have spoken out have been attacked in the

00:21:50.600 past, and who have had vandalism and have been targeted.

00:21:54.820 James, let's talk about the rule of law here.

00:21:56.740 I mean, what they're doing on this road has to be illegal, I'm sure.

00:22:01.840 And yet, it's kind of like New Day, same story here in Caledonia.

00:22:07.980 You have law enforcement out here en masse, but they're not enforcing the law.

00:22:12.060 And I'm trying to understand why that is.

00:22:14.140 We actually have a court order right now to clear that.

00:22:18.360 And I don't want violence.

00:22:21.400 That's the last thing anyone wants on both sides.

00:22:23.800 I've been talking to both sides.

00:22:25.240 Violence is not the answer.

00:22:27.380 But these blockades, especially with COVID, this is like strangleholding our community.

00:22:33.320 It's killing us.

00:22:34.720 And I mean, there are so many communities that now have to do this huge detour to get

00:22:38.340 around.

00:22:38.900 And there are so many businesses and homes over there that are struggling.

00:22:41.700 I don't know if you can see it, but there's some houses.

00:22:45.320 And those houses are actually behind the barricade and are basically behind in uncontrolled area.

00:22:53.020 And how are they treated?

00:22:54.660 These are non-natives that live basically in disputed areas.

00:22:57.500 I don't want to speak for them because I obviously don't live over there.

00:23:03.400 But as long as, you know, obviously nothing's, you know, happening, you know, they're left

00:23:09.700 for the most part alone.

00:23:10.600 They're allowed to travel back and forth.

00:23:12.420 But when you have tense situations with police moving in and a fire in an emergency, not being

00:23:19.160 able to respond to you.

00:23:20.340 So like, for example, when this whole thing started out this year, fire trucks responded

00:23:24.660 to a fire down there and just booked it down there.

00:23:28.660 They've started pelting them with rocks.

00:23:30.200 Oh, really?

00:23:30.840 Now.

00:23:31.980 That's the natives that. 0.99

00:23:33.000 Yes.

00:23:33.740 Now, again, I can't stress this enough.

00:23:36.360 The natives are not, not all natives are violent.

00:23:39.320 Okay.

00:23:40.120 This is obviously a few radicals that, you know, decided to take their anchor out on the

00:23:43.980 truck.

00:23:44.300 And that's not appropriate.

00:23:46.220 These were people responding to an emergency.

00:23:48.940 But when you're a resident back there and you know fire trucks can't get to you, like,

00:23:53.880 how does that make you feel?

00:23:54.660 One of the complicating factors, perhaps, folks, is that the conservative MP for this

00:24:01.040 writing, Diane Finley, she announced she is not going to stand for re-election, something

00:24:08.380 that might happen as soon as spring 2021.

00:24:13.380 And in stepping down, the veteran MP had this to say about the situation.

00:24:18.800 It comes down to law enforcement.

00:24:21.900 Everybody has the right to protest, but not to disrupt the lives of others.

00:24:27.180 Our laws in Canada are set by Parliament according to the values of the society.

00:24:33.000 People who choose to live within that society are obliged to follow the law.

00:24:38.720 So I think that is a common sense take.

00:24:43.020 But it stands to, I guess only time is going to tell whether law enforcement will indeed

00:24:50.280 enact the law of the land.

00:24:52.440 Because as it stands now, that is certainly not the case here in Caledonia.

00:24:57.420 Well, folks, we're now on McKenzie Road in Caledonia, and this is a development called McKenzie

00:25:18.800 Meadows, or it's supposed to be a development.

00:25:22.160 You can see that the land has been surveyed for the roads, and this is where houses would

00:25:29.920 be going up.

00:25:31.260 But alas, it is occupied by natives. 0.74

00:25:34.760 You can see tents everywhere.

00:25:37.940 And actually, just as we came here, there were a couple of people tearing down the billboard

00:25:44.500 here, announcing the McKenzie Meadows development, which is owned by the developer, Foxworthy.

00:25:53.640 And that's the thing.

00:25:55.400 This is indeed private property.

00:25:57.280 It has the green light for development, but no development is going to happen anytime soon

00:26:03.500 by the likes of it.

00:26:04.300 It looks like the natives are here to assert their claims that this is disputed land.

00:26:12.280 And we are indeed trying to negotiate to have someone come on camera for an interview, but

00:26:18.680 it doesn't seem to be going that well so far.

00:26:21.940 But we'll give it the old college try.

00:26:24.120 Nobody's going to talk to anyone.

00:26:35.260 Thank you.

00:27:05.260 Thank you.

00:27:35.260 Thank you.

00:28:05.780 Even though this area of land that we're on is not the disputed territory at all.

00:28:12.720 What about you ladies? Would any of you like to come on camera?

00:28:15.020 Or, uh, and I don't see any point in staying here, so we shall be on our way.

00:28:23.120 Well, darkness is starting to take lease here in Caledonia, and you know, for several years, since 2006, there has been a lot of darkness here.

00:28:38.200 It seems these land disputes, the turmoil, the violence, the arson, it just, it's a never-ending cycle in Caledonia.

00:28:48.000 And it's funny, folks, I referred to Christy Blatchford's book, Helpless, and here's a passage from that book.

00:28:55.780 Caledonia is the story of innocent victims who have been abandoned, left helpless.

00:29:01.180 It is the story of a government that has not governed and police who have not policed.

00:29:07.500 It is the story of a community whose freedom and peace of mind have been sacrificed in order to maintain a toxic status quo and keep officials in the jobs they are refusing to do.

00:29:23.020 And you know, folks, those words were published in 2010, it is now a decade later, and really, when it comes to Caledonia, has anything really changed?

00:29:36.520 For Rebel News, I'm David the Menzoid Menzies. 0.60

00:29:39.580 Hey, welcome back to my monologue last night.

00:29:52.960 John writes, a few more months of slave obedience training, and they won't even need to keep us muzzled.

00:29:58.100 We'll just fall into line like good little tax sheep.

00:30:00.940 Yeah, it's not good. It's not good to teach people to wear muzzles and to wear masks and to not look each other in the eye and not have facial expressions and to live in fear. 1.00

00:30:10.840 You heard what that emergency doctor in the monologue said.

00:30:14.400 He said things are worse than ever, not for the virus, but for drug use and suicides.

00:30:20.380 Tom writes, what a bunch of BS lies.

00:30:22.840 Victoria, Australia is not on martial law.

00:30:25.100 New Zealand is not under martial law.

00:30:26.620 The pandemic is real and unprecedented.

00:30:28.400 And in Canada, we choose to listen to health experts, so we aren't a shit show like the United States.

00:30:33.860 It's morons like you that will keep us fighting this virus for a long time.

00:30:39.060 Well, I'm glad you feel free to speak your mind.

00:30:43.020 It is under martial law.

00:30:45.360 It is under the Emergency Powers Act of each of those countries, just like every jurisdiction in Canada is under our Emergency Powers Law.

00:30:54.480 We used to have something called the War Measures Act.

00:30:57.140 Now, I think it's called the Emergency Management or Emergency Measures Act.

00:31:01.620 We had a whole half-hour show with our civil liberties lawyer, Sam Goldstein, about it.

00:31:06.360 So you're actually wrong.

00:31:08.040 We are in a state of emergency.

00:31:10.620 Now, there is still civil governance.

00:31:13.780 But when you have, as you do in Australia and New Zealand, military soldiers enforcing masks,

00:31:21.800 knocking on doors to see if you're home, that is martial law.

00:31:25.440 I mean, I suppose you could say, well, it is a civilian oversight of the army, but the army is conducting civic duties.

00:31:33.320 That's martial law, mate.

00:31:34.280 That's just martial law.

00:31:35.720 And the insanity is there's only six people in the hospital in all of New Zealand, but they shut it down.

00:31:41.420 So, yeah.

00:31:41.700 I don't think I'm the crazy one here.

00:31:44.240 I think Jacinda Ardern's the crazy one. 1.00

00:31:47.520 Sherry writes, interesting how this WE scandal was being carried out in April during the peak of the China virus scare.

00:31:53.340 What better time to push a scam than during a health emergency lockdown?

00:31:56.540 Almost like it was planned that way.

00:31:57.980 I'm not going to say it was planned that way, but I think two things happened.

00:32:02.060 I think, first of all, it put the WE charity in a pickle because they love doing those big mass stadium-style rallies.

00:32:09.800 That's the source of so much dough.

00:32:11.620 And so I think they were under some financial pressure like so many other Canadians were.

00:32:15.400 And so they had the push and then they had the pull while everyone was distracted.

00:32:21.100 While money was flowing like Niagara Falls, they thought they'd make their move.

00:32:26.020 And, of course, Parliament has reduced scrutiny now.

00:32:29.040 It was just a perfect storm for bad decision-making.

00:32:31.820 Funny enough, that's what I think is going on in Scotland.

00:32:34.980 I think I showed you the other day.

00:32:37.800 Their justice minister took the pandemic as the moment to introduce a censorship law.

00:32:42.600 By the way, that video, I put my monologue about Hamza Youssef and his Scottish censorship law.

00:32:49.240 I put that whole thing online.

00:32:50.900 It's a 30-minute monologue.

00:32:52.360 It got more than 160,000 views.

00:32:55.880 And the justice minister himself has clearly wobbled by it.

00:32:58.920 It's gone viral in Scotland.

00:33:00.640 And now he's shooting back at us at Rebel News.

00:33:03.780 It's very exciting to have made a difference for freedom on the other side of the pond.

00:33:07.960 I'm very proud of that.

00:33:09.080 And hopefully the bill will be reformed or even abandoned.

00:33:12.620 I'll keep you posted on that.

00:33:14.640 Well, that's the show for today.

00:33:16.600 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,

00:33:19.340 to you at home, good night.

00:33:20.800 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:33:21.780 Thank you.

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Rebel News Podcast - August 22, 2020

EXPOSED： COVID-19 pandemic disinformation from Edmonton’s biggest newspaper

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