Sen. Lindsey Graham is calling for the assassination of Vladimir Putin, and a pharmaceutical executive says something shocking, but if you post it on social media, it will be censored by the government. Also, a Russian plane carrying Canadian citizens is being held hostage by the Canadian government.
00:00:00.520Hello, my rebels. Today, I'm going to try and take a break from talking about the Ukraine-Russia war and talk about an interesting short clip of a speech by a pharmaceutical exec at a big conference. And weirdly, if you quote this pharmaceutical executive, if you post his video, it'll be censored by Twitter, even though he said it, it's his video.
00:00:24.980So I'll get into it and I'll show you what I mean. First, let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus so you can see the video. That's really what Rebel News Plus is. It's the podcast with the video side to it. And it's eight bucks a month for that. You get my daily show. We get four other weekly shows. So that's a lot of stuff. Eight bucks a month is about half of Netflix. And we need that because we don't take any money from Justin Trudeau. We're independent.
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00:01:13.000Tonight, a pharmaceutical executive says something shocking, but Twitter won't let you post the video clip. That's odd, right?
00:01:20.340It's March 4th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:24.920Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:28.720There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:32.800The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:38.660I feel like taking a break from talking about the Russia-Ukraine war, but it is causing so many shocking things to happen over here.
00:02:08.860Is there a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military?
00:02:14.180The only way this ends is for somebody in Russia to take this guy out.
00:02:18.740You would be doing your country and the world a great service.
00:02:21.780And then he followed up with another tweet.
00:02:23.880He said, the only people who can fix this are the Russian people.
00:02:29.560Easy to say, hard to do, unless you want to live in darkness for the rest of your life, be isolated from the rest of the world in abject poverty, and live in darkness.
00:02:40.920Maybe I'm wrong, but it just seems a little reckless, undiplomatic, for a member of the United States government, member of a NATO country, to publicly call for the assassination of a world leader who happens to have a nuclear arsenal.
00:02:57.260What's odd is that Twitter deleted Donald Trump's Twitter account permanently when he was a sitting president for much less.
00:03:48.120Are they being detained, like under arrest or something?
00:03:50.840Does anyone remember the two Michaels, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, that China just seized and held as part of their diplomatic feud with us?
00:05:16.680I think most of the world does, although numerically, I think about half the world's population might not if you take China and India and Russia and Vietnam and the rest of the abstainers in the recent UN vote on the subject.
00:05:32.060You can support the little guy, Ukraine, without wanting Canada itself to be dragged into a war.
00:05:38.500Since when do we detain Russians without a hearing in Yellowknife or shut down Russian TV stations simply on the orders of our Banana Republic prime minister?
00:05:48.100He's still governing as if he had emergency powers.
00:06:00.340This is from a pharmaceutical executive with Bayer.
00:06:04.420It's tweeted by Aaron Gin, and here's how he describes it.
00:06:09.300He writes, the head of pharma at Bayer proudly proclaims the COVID mRNA vaccine is gene therapy and that misleading the public was useful to create widespread adoption.
00:06:22.700We're really taking that leap, us as a company buyer, in cell and gene therapy, which to me is one of these examples where really we're going to make a difference, hopefully, moving forward.
00:06:35.380There are some, ultimately, the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy.
00:06:41.400I always like to say, if we had surveyed two years ago in the public, would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body, we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate.
00:06:54.640I think this pandemic has also opened many people's eyes to innovation in a way that was maybe not possible before.
00:07:03.320Okay, so you read how he described it and you saw the video.
00:07:06.360Did Aaron Gin more or less describe it accurately?
00:07:10.780But look underneath the video on that tweet, misleading, learn about the science behind COVID-19 vaccines and how health officials say they work.
00:07:21.640And then there's a link to their pro-vaccine messaging.
00:07:25.140And at the bottom, you see it says, this tweet can't be replied to, shared or liked.
00:07:30.160But Aaron Gin didn't say anything about whether the vaccine worked or not.
00:07:34.260He didn't really talk about the vaccines at all, other than to quote a pharmaceutical executive at the World Health Center.
00:07:40.780This is the website of the World Health Summit, if you're curious.
00:07:44.780It's a huge conference in Berlin, produced in coordination with the United Nations World Health Organization.
00:07:51.640If you just scroll down the speakers list, just look at it, tons of UN types, tons of pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer, Roche, Gavi, the Rockefeller Foundation, Janssen, they make a vaccine.
00:08:09.180The Bill Gates Foundation is there, World Bank, the CDC.
00:08:12.720These are the masters of the universe.
00:08:14.960It's like the World Economic Forum, but for vaccines.
00:08:19.340And the guy we just showed you is a health official.
00:08:22.340But Twitter says it's misleading to quote him.
00:08:40.640I find that all exhausting and frustrating.
00:08:45.460Just all of a sudden, you can't even have a different opinion.
00:08:48.780You can't even point to certain facts neutrally.
00:08:51.720Until the moment where you can, until the moment that politicians decide, uh-oh, they're going to be voted out if they keep their insane mask laws or insane COVID laws and lockdown laws.
00:09:02.400And then, suddenly, the science changes.
00:09:06.560Here's a story in Black Lock's Fed's Shelf proposed vax mandate for inter-province truckers.
00:09:15.300Stress this has nothing, repeat, nothing to do with the 24-day Freedom Convoy blockade.
00:09:40.660I wonder what new scientific study emerged about inter-provincial trucking between the time of the trucker's convoy and today to cause the very science-y government to change their scientific science.
00:09:56.420I'm sure they could cite the peer-reviewed medical scholarship, right?
00:09:59.700You know, the Soviet dissident, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, said the simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.
00:10:12.360That was all he could ask for, not for people to actively fight, not for people to risk themselves or even to push back.
00:10:43.000Well, I see the trucker rebellion is still reverberating in Canada, as I mentioned in the monologue.
00:10:59.100They have abandoned, the federal liberals have abandoned a plan to require vaccine mandates for truckers to travel from province to province.
00:11:09.620It was an absurd, unconstitutional plan to begin with, deeply punitive.
00:11:14.840That said, it would surely have been upheld by the courts.
00:11:18.160The reason it was thrown out could only be attributed to the political and popular success of the truckers.
00:11:25.820We've shown you how the truckers have inspired rebellions around the world, from Israel to the Netherlands.
00:11:31.900And for the past week or so, we have had a freelance reporter reporting on the U.S. trucking convoy that left California and is now closing in on Washington, D.C.
00:11:44.020We're joined live via Skype with Jeremy Lafredo, who is with the convoy in Hagerstown, Maryland, just a couple hours outside Washington, D.C.
00:11:53.560Hey, Jeremy. Great to see you. It looks like good country.
00:11:57.640It looks a little warmer than the truckers in Canada.
00:12:01.160I was there myself. It was minus 20. It was very bitter.
00:12:04.500It looks like a nice spring morning where you are in Maryland.
00:12:09.100It's beautiful here. Nice to be here, Ezra.
00:12:11.340Well, tell me a little bit about your journey, because you've been embedded with these truckers for more than a week, I think.
00:12:17.540I mean, you start out in California. Give us some numbers.
00:12:22.000How many trucks are there and the big rigs, but also, you know, people coming along for the ride for a day or something, maybe in their pickup truck or even a regular sedan?
00:13:04.160I don't know the actual number of big rigs that entered the city of Ottawa last month, but it doesn't actually take that many to create quite a spectacle and to create a focal point, because they're so glorious to behold some of these rigs.
00:13:20.900And in Ottawa, they blocked that main street for a week or so.
00:13:59.680So there's been a lot of debate about that.
00:14:02.300You know, at their truck stops at night, they talk about that.
00:14:05.720There's a giant divide between the organizers and those that they have organized, the truckers.
00:14:12.680You have the organizers who are saying, you know, we're going to go around D.C.
00:14:16.660You know, we're not going to go into D.C.
00:14:18.480And then you have you have these truckers who hear that and are, you know, not happy with that plan.
00:14:25.320You know, they are here for a reason and they're here to, you know, get the trucking, the cross-border mandate dropped as long as well as with other freedoms that have been taken away during this COVID regime.
00:14:37.420And they're here for their families and their kids and their grandkids.
00:14:40.240And I talk to them every day and, you know, they have brought their wives with them and they've left their kids at home and they are here for the long haul.
00:14:46.800They tell me and their their truck gets towed.
00:14:50.100And if they get tickets, they have the money to pay them.
00:14:51.920And then they plan on staying in D.C. until until something changes, until their voices are heard.
00:14:57.560And then you have the organizers who, you know, are a little more light footed than that.
00:15:02.700You know, one of the things I saw in Canada is at first, I think the official political establishment didn't really take the truckers seriously.
00:15:13.380But I think the whole world has observed, including the very heavy handed policing tactics in Canada.
00:15:18.520One of the things they're still actually doing, believe it or not, in Canada, even though the truckers have sort of dispersed, is that the police are still blocking off key roads.
00:15:28.820Now, they've stopped that, believe it or not, to allow protests for the Ukraine-Russia war.
00:15:34.560But anytime there's a suspected trucker convoy, it's the police that literally seal off the roads.
00:15:42.700I'm in the city of Toronto, and they block off the entire downtown area preemptively.
00:15:55.200And I wonder if Washington, D.C., which has a heavy handed, has many levels of police.
00:16:02.120They've already had fences and National Guard and things like that for over a year.
00:16:08.420I'm wondering if the grassroots truckers who have big plans to go to D.C., I'm wondering if they'll actually even be allowed to get into the city.
00:18:23.640It makes me nervous because, of course, in America, there's more of a gun culture than in Canada.
00:18:29.960And it wouldn't surprise me if a number of these truckers have a firearm in their vehicle, not in any aggressive way.
00:18:36.220It's just I think it's it's it's probably legal in many states, if not everywhere.
00:18:42.040And it's and I think it's culturally more normal there.
00:18:45.780It makes me nervous if you have peaceful protesters who have a firearm, but then you have an ultra militarized police response.
00:18:54.520And I don't know, I just I'm worried that the kind of heavy handed police like there was no violence in Canada from the truckers, even when the police came in brutally.
00:19:06.040Like they literally shot one of our reporters, Alexa Lavoie, in the leg with a gun, with a with a with a tear gas canister.
00:19:34.800But I think I know America enough that there's a little bit more of a don't tread on me vibe there.
00:19:41.480And if you have that kind of provocative policing in America, I'm worried that that someone's going to defend himself.
00:19:48.360I don't know. I'm not I'm not saying I hope anything.
00:19:50.800I'm just it makes me nervous to hear that they're literally deploying military vehicles on the street.
00:19:56.960Yeah. Well, I mean, there's definitely a lot of don't tread on me flags, which is essentially a flag that is supposed to tell the government not to tread on my rights, essentially.
00:20:07.400And there is every truck is flying these flags.
00:20:09.880And these are people that generally support the police force.
00:20:12.840You know, these are Republicans or conservatives and, you know, they they are totally against the idea of defunding the police and they think the police are very important.
00:20:20.660But when I speak to them about how far are they willing to go and, you know, you might have confrontations with the police, they are 100 percent.
00:20:29.940They're willing to confront the police if they think the police are acting illegally and not in line with the Constitution and are infringing upon their rights.
00:20:37.740Yeah. I mean, it's very, very interesting. There's a different culture in America.
00:20:42.280I mean, your country was born through revolution, our country through evolution.
00:20:46.340In fact, the losing side of the U.S. revolution sort of all came north.
00:20:51.240We call them United Empire Loyalists and they formed the political culture in the province of Ontario, which dominates Canada.
00:20:57.340By nature, we are more passive. And sometimes that's great and sometimes it's terrible.
00:21:03.580I mean, during the last two years, that passivity has been absolutely terrible and and it's allowed government tyranny to dominate.
00:21:12.860It'll be very interesting to see a replay of the trucker convoy phenomenon in a country with a little bit more freedom backbone.
00:21:52.840Hey, welcome back. I got some letters.
00:21:54.980Cora of Venice, a wolf, says inching closer and closer to the Zelensky principle, shut down all TV stations that don't parrot your views, jail all your political opponents already in place to Merrill Lynch.
00:22:09.380It's a political prisoner and be the wolf in sheep's clothing.
00:22:14.580Well, I don't I don't quite know what you mean by the Zelensky principle and those things.
00:22:18.900I'm worried about Ukraine. I've never been there, you know, 118 years ago.
00:22:24.540My family was from there, but it's terrible.
00:22:29.160It's a war and I'm glad I was born in Canada where it's safe and we've never actually had a war here.
00:22:33.840But I'm worried about the war being used as an excuse to crush civil liberties.
00:22:38.940And I I really find it terrifying how everyone's willing to go along.
00:22:42.180Of course, they're willing to go along.
00:22:44.520They were willing to go along with deep violations of our civil liberties for two years because of the sniffles, because of a cold, really.
00:22:51.520And we actually had curfews in Quebec.
00:22:54.100So, of course, they'll go along with it for a war.
00:22:58.360Next letter from Javali, if I'm saying that right.
00:23:01.820We have one of those doublespeak online groups in the U.S. too.
00:23:05.320They call themselves the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
00:23:08.980They counter what they deem hate and misinformation with hate and misinformation.
00:25:39.920I'm Jeremy Lafredo on assignment for Rebel News in Lupton, Arizona, where people are braving freezing temperatures in order to stand and welcome the U.S. trucker convoy.
00:25:53.520The convoy is traveling from the westernmost part of the country, roughly 3,000 miles, to Washington, D.C.
00:25:59.360to demand an end to vaccine mandates and the restoration of other freedoms that were taken away under the guise of COVID-19.
00:26:05.140Today, their nightly stopping location is Lupton, Arizona.
00:26:08.060Lupton, Arizona is an unincorporated community located 7,000 feet above the desert in the easternmost part of Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
00:26:14.960The official population of Lupton, as of 2019, is only 12 people.
00:26:19.480Upon our arrival, several hours ahead of the convoy, we were surprised to see some local supporters had already staked out a space,
00:26:25.000keeping warm around a fire and preparing some food for the incoming truckers.
00:26:28.320Among the support in Arizona were members of the Navajo Nation tribe.
00:26:30.940One elder explained that he came out to support the truckers because he's had enough of COVID-related mandates.
00:26:35.220The reservation that I live on, we are told to do this, to do that by the government.
00:26:44.740And so our people are just going along.
00:26:47.980These mandates, you know, these people that are calling for this and that, that we have to abide by,