Is Canada not as grateful to the United States as maybe we should be? I'll make the case for just a tiny bit more gratitude, and you can tell me what you think. Rebel News Plus is the video version of this podcast, and I really think today's episode is a good day to get the full video version because I'm going to show you a bunch of videos by Marco Rubio and I think they're very persuasive.
00:04:26.560You know, we get less than one percent of our oil from this rate and some countries get much more.
00:04:34.220Japan gets 95 percent. China gets 90 percent. Many of the Europeans get quite a quite a bit.
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00:04:41.760South Korea gets 35 percent. So we want them to come and help us with the straight.
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00:04:48.980We have it in very good shape. The countries I said, we've already taken care of Iran.
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00:04:53.580But now, because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can put something in the water or shoot something or shoot a missile, a small missile, and it's fairly close range because it is a tight area, which is one of the reasons they've always used that as a weapon. Iran has always used that as an economic weapon.
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00:05:15.780Now, I don't think any country is really in a position to make a significant difference in the security scenario there.
00:05:23.480I mean, maybe Israel would be, but they're going full tilt on bombing Iranian targets in Iran itself.
00:05:29.100But no other Navy besides the U.S. is helping to do the work.
00:05:32.540There are no other Navy ships in that area.
00:05:35.660Now, the U.S. has more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined.
00:05:39.360The U.K. has two, but they're both under repair right now.
00:05:43.480Russia's navy has been partially sunk because of the Ukraine war and it's a net oil exporter
00:05:49.880anyways they don't rely on the Persian Gulf. China hasn't taken up President Trump on its
00:05:56.000invitation nor has India even though they are huge Persian Gulf oil importers and actually both of
00:06:01.040them have aircraft carriers. And we say to Europe and all these countries that do you know China
00:06:07.660It gets 90 percent of its oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
00:06:12.900And they should be policing their own strait.
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00:06:19.620And we're getting ready to get out of there.
00:06:23.680But they should, you know, all the damages.
00:06:26.020We have done such a job that they're really a very weak country.
00:06:30.660They've gone from the bully of the Middle East to essentially a weak country.
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00:06:34.280And I say, you guys, why should we get the problem with the thing of the strait is they can have one terrorist there with a machine gun someplace.
00:06:43.140And they'll say, oh, it's not totally clean.
00:06:52.780Let South Korea, who was not helpful to us, by the way, let South Korea, you know, we only have 45,000 soldiers in harm's way over there right next to a nuclear force.
00:13:34.160Did you know that Europe spent more money over the last four years buying Russian oil and gas than they have given to Ukrainian military aid?
00:13:43.660I say again, Europe, mainly NATO countries, are doing business with Russia every day that they claim to be on Ukraine's side.
00:13:51.580they are paying more to Russia than they are to Ukraine in aid. And Canada is in some ways the
00:13:59.140worst. We don't have U.S. bases in our country because we have U.S. bases next to our country,
00:14:05.240near our border, up in Alaska, way up north. Whenever there's a problem, it is U.S. jets
00:14:12.360that are the first to scramble. Much more often than Canadian jets are scrambled. It's a joint
00:14:17.420North American Air Defense Command. It's called NORAD. We're talking tough about maybe we're
00:14:23.540going to buy some Swedish jets, non-American F-35s, because Carney is mad at Trump. But the
00:14:28.740joke is American jets will protect Canada anyways, because we will never be able to defend ourselves
00:14:34.740properly, not in a real way that matters. We'll include pensions and environmental spending and
00:14:40.760feminist spending to fake our stats. That's how Canada does it. And the Americans are our friends
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00:14:46.140nonetheless yeah you have to put up with the odd barb from president trump but how does that change
00:14:52.300the massive benefit we get from being their friends and neighbors marco rubio the secretary
00:14:57.620of state i think he had something to say about this and i want to show you some of the videos
00:15:01.760what do you think of this one the united states is constantly being asked to help in a war and
00:15:05.900we have more than any other country in the world in the world on a war that's happening in another
00:15:10.840continent than ukraine but uh but when the u.s had a need he didn't get profit positive responses
00:15:17.160so he right now he's just making the observation that you know i think there was a couple of
00:15:20.760leaders in europe who said that this was not europe's war well ukraine is not america's war
00:15:25.500and yet we've contributed more to that fight than any other country in the world so it'll be
00:15:29.680something to examine uh the president will have to take into account down the road how is that wrong
00:15:34.460i mean europe and canada have refused to help trump which means they've refused to help america
00:15:39.640don't they see that? Even if they don't like Trump as the messenger. They say it's Trump's war
00:15:45.300or America's war. At least it's not their war. Okay. But they've demanded in the most insistent
00:15:51.420way that America pay the bulk of the cost and provide most of the high-tech weapons for Ukraine.
00:15:56.680How is that not a fit comparison? Here's another video where Rubio talks about bases in particular.
00:16:04.540And I've been a big supporter of NATO. And one of the reasons why I've been a supporter of NATO
00:16:08.700is because I believe that these basing rights give us leverage
00:16:11.940and give us flexibility and operational capability all over the world.
00:16:16.840But if NATO is just about us defending Europe of their attack,
00:16:19.980but them denying us basing rights when we need them,
00:22:25.920Because you know he's not going to ask.
00:22:28.300Why don't you just give a little bit of love to the guy who's going after the Ayatollahs,
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00:22:31.360Who, by the way, Iran shot down a commercial airliner, killing nearly 200 people a few years ago, including 55 Canadian citizens and dozens more Canadian permanent residents.
00:22:42.040The IRGC terrorist group fired the missile, so they murdered almost 100 Canadians.
00:22:48.980And yet Canada has not deported the 700 IRGC terrorists from Canada.
00:22:53.820And we haven't done anything about it, actually.
00:22:57.960If they get the regime change in Iran, the whole world will be safer.
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00:23:01.060and freer. The U.S. is saving the world from Venezuela to Iran and is coming to Cuba. And,
00:23:07.840you know, you can dislike Trump and his style. Sure, fill your boots. But he's having a Berlin
00:23:12.240Wall moment every month or so. And if you don't realize how successful he is and how terrified
00:23:17.660he's got the West's mortal enemies from China to Russia to the Islamists, you're too easily
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00:23:23.040distracted by Trump's personal style. And you probably misunderstand it. And maybe you're
00:23:28.080misunderstanding it on purpose. You know, yesterday Trump made a tweet that had the F word in it. I
00:23:33.700think that's probably got to be the first time he's done that. I was surprised by it. Let me
00:23:37.220read it to you. I'm going to swear here. Trump said, Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge
00:23:43.480day. He's talking about what he's going to attack. All wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be
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00:23:48.120nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just
00:23:53.860watch. Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. That is a wild tweet. Now, do you think
00:23:59.860that was an accident? Do you think Donald Trump was drunk? You know, he never drinks at all. He
00:24:06.520never takes drugs. So can you come up with another theory? Do you not see that part of Trump's
00:24:12.600tactics are to confuse and misdirect opponents and that he uses hyperbole for that? Do you not
00:24:18.320remember when he did the same thing to the little rocket man, Kim Jong-un in North Korea with
00:24:23.780tweets also remember he talked about i got a bigger button and the bigger missile of mine
00:24:27.440actually works remember he said that are you so mad at how trump talks and how he negotiates
00:24:32.860that you're willing to disregard every benefit we have by being next to america don't you remember
00:24:38.040art of the deal where trump talked about how he uses hyperbole to knock his opponents off balance
00:24:45.000you know marco rubio was talking about 60 years of a one-way street america rebuilt europe after
00:24:51.820the Second World War with billions of dollars in the Marshall Plan. Then it protected Europe
00:24:56.280throughout the Cold War with billions of dollars in soldiers and bases. America subsidizes the
00:25:02.800whole world. It protects the whole world. And the one time it asked for help, it's mocked and denied
00:25:10.100their own military bases. You know, the Europeans had better pray that Marco Rubio was just airing
00:25:16.080his grievances and won't actually act on them. And you know, we here in Canada, we had better
00:25:21.340pray that Marco Rubio and Donald Trump don't turn their attention to us, perhaps proportionately the
00:25:26.960biggest ingrates in the world towards the benefits of a trade and military friendship with America.
00:25:32.040Am I ever glad that Trump seems to admire King Charles? Because that's about all we have going
00:25:38.660for us, diplomacy-wise, right now. Stay with us for more with an interesting interview with Alexa
00:25:45.220LeBois. Hey, welcome back. You know, I really found my trip to the United Arab Emirates
00:25:58.880fascinating. You might recall that a few years ago, Rebel News put on one of our seminar tours.
00:26:05.040Normally we do it on a cruise ship, but we did what we call the Abraham Accords mission.
00:26:09.960We went to Israel first, and then we went to the UAE. We went to Abu Dhabi and Dubai. And the purpose was to see if that peace treaty was real, if it was a warm peace, a respectful mutual peace. And to my delight, it was.
00:26:25.740And I have to say, I was a little bit skeptical.
00:26:27.960And it was such a delight to land in Dubai, flying on El Al, coming over Saudi Arabia and having an Emirati say, welcome to the UAE.
00:26:38.320And I thought, oh, my God, just a few years ago, none of that would have been possible.
00:26:42.960So I was filled with so much hope for peace.
00:26:46.720Ironically, just a couple of months later, the October 7th terrorist attack happened.
00:26:50.580and it has been widely acknowledged that that was Iran's move to derail the peace process that I
00:26:57.720observed. Anyways, one of the fascinating things about visiting the UAE, if you don't mind me
00:27:02.100giving you a bit of a reflection, was how it felt to see mosques. For the first time in my life,
00:27:09.240I could look at these mosques, these Muslim places of prayer, as architecturally beautiful,
00:27:14.980culturally interesting, and without any sense of danger, because Jews and Christians and others
00:27:21.480in the United Arab Emirates are safe. They really are. And I was skeptical about that
00:27:26.180before I went there. And here's what I've learned about the UAE at that trip and since then,
00:27:32.040as I've studied it. They are in some ways more moderate than even Western countries. For example,
00:27:38.760they ban Muslim extremist groups that are not banned in Canada or the UK. I'm referring in
00:27:44.380particular, for example, the Muslim Brotherhood. Here's another thing, and this was a story in the
00:27:49.600Times of England a few months ago, is that the United Arab Emirates, which pays for young
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00:27:54.980Emiratis to go to prestigious schools in the West, they now no longer pay for their young men
00:28:01.500to go to schools in the UK that they deem to be too Islamically radical. Just stop and think
00:28:08.700about that for a second. You're a young man in the UAE and your senior government says you're not
00:28:15.540going to school in London or Birmingham or Manchester because it'll turn you into a terrorist
00:28:20.600supporter. The UK will. And finally, which brings us to our topic of the day, mass prayer in the
00:28:28.940public square is not permitted in those modernizing Gulf countries. There are countless mosques in
00:28:37.140the United Arab Emirates that if you want to pray as a Muslim, you go to those mosques and pray.
00:28:42.920You don't block the streets of Dubai. You don't have a mass prayer in front of a hotel or the
00:28:50.180government offices. But that is a tool, a tactic I've seen all across the West, a mass dominating
00:28:58.900public prayer, even in cities like Toronto that have 100 mosques deliberately designed to block
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00:29:05.620off streets, to disrupt, and to say, whose streets? Our streets. Well, as you may know,
00:29:12.820our friend Alexa Lavoie has been covering the most abusive use of these street-blocking show-off
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00:29:18.900prayers in Montreal, where incredibly, they have been done right outside the major church,
00:29:25.020the basilica, as it's called. There is no need for that. There are dozens of mosques in Montreal,
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00:29:30.840but to have a street-blocking, sidewalk-blocking, domination prayer.
00:29:36.180And by the way, this wasn't, oh, let's go practice our prayers.
00:29:38.480This was a flourish on a pro-Hamas, pro-Iran protest.
00:34:34.440And I knew it was important for me to be on the ground.
00:34:38.880And I had some information that they might have go to the Notre Dame Basilica once again.
00:34:47.600But I think it's because a group of Quebecers have organized to counter protest at the Basilica that they decided to change where they will finish their protest because nothing is, you know, set when they start marching.
00:35:04.400They just decide to go wherever they go.
00:35:07.720And the fact that it's a group of Iranian mixed with Quebecers who usually show up in large numbers to counter them,
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00:35:16.380they probably say, let's go somewhere else then.
00:35:22.760I was with Natasha, another independent that was there for covering what was happening.
00:35:30.380And I was really surprised of what was happening.
00:35:33.240And I'm not very surprised in a way because since two years and a half, there were only few papers on the street prayers and they were always favorable.
00:35:48.200They were always nice with the street prayers.
00:35:52.120And same, like sometimes I'm watching Radio Canada and all big shows, they are trying to legitimize those street prayers, saying, oh, you know, they are praying for the martyr.
00:36:06.620But I'm sorry, but this is literally a political act.
00:36:10.840They are doing this for showing their dominance.
00:36:14.340And I was there on the ground, but the mainstream media refused to do and refused to cover them.
00:36:21.040Why? Probably because they don't want to be labeled as racist
00:36:26.080Or also because we know that some of news, mainstream news
00:36:32.840They are advocating for multiculturalism
00:36:38.260So it would go against what they are trying to push on the society
00:36:43.600So obviously they are being told to not cover it
00:36:47.560And you know what? I'm not very surprised that they decided to not go and cover it.
00:36:54.640You know, I remember when you started covering those mass Muslim street prayers outside the Basilica,
00:37:00.080some of your videos were getting hundreds of thousands of views.
00:37:04.120And I think it's because you were the only person actually showing what was happening.
00:37:09.080You know, there's a joke. The mainstream media covered the story, covered the story with a pillow till it stopped breathing.
00:37:15.300I mean, as in they actually were anti-reporting.
00:37:19.420In fact, they sort of mocked you and made fun of you, which is interesting because I'm
00:37:23.660not an expert in Quebec cultural history, but Quebec came from a very Catholic past