Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Every symbol can burn in Northern Ireland — except one

00:00:00.000 hello my friends big show today on the one hand i want to show you about these crazy bonfires

00:00:05.300 in northern ireland these are bonfires built out of wooden pallets and they're the size of

00:00:12.280 skyscrapers i mean not 600 feet but a couple hundred feet they're enormous but you're not

00:00:19.020 allowed to make certain kinds of bonfires anymore in ireland i'll give you the details northern

00:00:23.240 ireland that is and then we'll have a great talk with our friend mark morano of climate depot.com

00:00:28.820 on how the world is running away from global warming ism at least it's starting to i hope so

00:00:35.700 but first let me invite you to become a subscriber to rebel news plus i really want you to see these

00:00:41.560 northern ireland bonfires there's a 300 year old tradition and it's really incredible to see them

00:00:48.020 i want you to see them that's what we're going to be talking about it's sort of like a parade float

00:00:52.040 but it's a bonfire and i want to show you the one parade float that got a man arrested here's a hint

00:00:58.580 it was a mock-up of a mosque to see it you need to have rebel news plus just go to rebel news plus

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00:01:13.240 tonight in northern ireland you'll hear hard words about catholics and hard words about

00:01:21.300 protestants but you will never hear mockery of islam or you'll be sent to jail it's july 13th

00:01:28.500 And this is the Ezra Levant Show. 0.98

00:01:33.580 Shame on you, you censorious bug. 0.59

00:01:45.480 Police in Northern Ireland have announced the arrest of a man for mocking Islam too boldly. 0.89

00:01:52.660 Ireland has an interesting history, some of which I've talked about before, like the astonishing

00:01:57.900 raid by Muslim pirate terrorists who kidnapped the entire Irish village of Baltimore, taking

00:02:06.740 them by ship down to Algiers to be sold as slaves. Remember this? You may have heard of the Gilbert 0.97

00:02:13.540 and Sullivan comical musical called Pirates of Penzance. There were Muslim pirate raids on

00:02:21.220 Penzance and they took hostages to to Algiers in fact the same pirate raider

00:02:28.220 who came here to Baltimore raided all over northern Europe they even raided

00:02:34.740 into Iceland taking hostages killing hundreds and desecrating the churches 0.93

00:02:41.380 there there was an Islamic component to this that was very strong when the 0.62

00:02:45.940 pirates raided Baltimore, they shouted Allah Akbar and they took their booty back to Algeria.

00:02:52.980 I visited the Republic of Ireland many times and my colleagues Lincoln and Efron have visited

00:02:58.120 Northern Ireland, the six counties that are officially part of the United Kingdom. That's

00:03:02.960 the full name of the UK, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Northern

00:03:07.500 Ireland has been in the news lately for a lot of difficult reasons. Just last month, for example,

00:03:13.240 a Muslim migrant to Northern Ireland attacked a man on the street trying to behead him in the 0.86

00:03:21.060 medieval style. Just insane. That led to full-blown riots in Northern Ireland. There were riots a few 1.00

00:03:28.220 months ago too. That's when my colleagues went there after other migrants were accused of raping

00:03:34.280 a young Irish teenager. The thing about Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, the other 26 0.94

00:03:39.800 counties is that it is still very much it has an ethnic religious identity it has subsided to be

00:03:47.040 sure like the influence of the catholic church has subsided in quebec but it is very much a

00:03:52.360 christian place still and they are very aware of their tribe they talk about centuries of resistance

00:03:58.400 that's something that builds solidarity so now don't ask me to explain the historic rivalry

00:04:04.000 between catholics and protestants i'm still learning about it i'm not an expert but i think

00:04:09.280 ireland and northern ireland in particular are places in the west where a collective

00:04:14.880 ethnic identity is still strong it hasn't been atomized it hasn't been diluted through

00:04:21.120 mass immigration yet that's happening right now but it hasn't happened yet it's happening

00:04:27.600 ireland is small enough that it's almost like an extended family and people sometimes

00:04:32.000 affiliate that way thankfully it's not violent these days as it was during

00:04:36.880 The Troubles, this photo of a young woman in the IRA, the Irish Republican Army, was

00:04:41.340 taken in 1973.

00:04:43.020 That's not that long ago.

00:04:45.660 My point is, Northern Ireland has to be one of the most ethnically conscious places in

00:04:51.400 the world. 1.00

00:04:53.060 What a terrible idea it was to send migrants from all around the world there. 1.00

00:04:58.840 What are you doing to there? 0.97

00:05:01.440 There's more than 100,000 migrants in Northern Ireland in general and more than 5,000 asylum seekers or refugees, as we would call them in Canada.

00:05:11.960 Of course, they're not real refugees. 0.97

00:05:14.060 Most of them came over in dinghies from France. 1.00

00:05:17.160 France is perfectly safe. 1.00

00:05:18.480 There's no need to seek refuge from it.

00:05:20.860 They're coming for the free stuff.

00:05:22.300 In fact, many go to Northern Ireland and then just walk across the unguarded border into the Republic of Ireland. 0.89

00:05:30.940 The Sudanese man charged with the attempted beheading actually took the reverse route.

00:05:35.720 He flew to Dublin and then crossed over to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK.

00:05:40.000 Like I say, he's not a real refugee, but he felt very real to the man he was trying to behead. 0.93

00:05:46.280 But imagine having a policy of crabbing thousands of men like that into Northern Ireland just a 0.89

00:05:53.120 generation after the Troubles. Do you want more Troubles? There is still a religious and cultural 0.91

00:05:58.940 tension in Northern Ireland. Imagine willfully adding a new layer of complexity and risk and

00:06:05.400 irritation. What are you doing? One of the things that's so interesting to me in Northern Ireland

00:06:12.560 is the tradition of bonfires.

00:06:14.720 I won't get into the history of it.

00:06:16.460 It's mainly done by pro-British Protestants,

00:06:19.400 but there are some pro-Catholic bonfires too,

00:06:21.820 not as many.

00:06:23.200 These bonfires are massive towers

00:06:25.280 built with wooden pallets,

00:06:27.480 and they're decorated with the things

00:06:29.300 that each side opposes,

00:06:30.820 and then it's lit on fire at night

00:06:33.220 for an enormous spectacle.

00:06:35.220 I mean, it's just, it's really quite something,

00:06:37.160 and that's a tradition that goes back centuries.

00:06:39.560 These are huge structures,

00:06:41.180 really like a high-rise building.

00:06:42.560 And they're done with the approval of the government

00:06:45.340 because it's such a tradition.

00:06:47.380 It is a peaceful, if dramatic, expression of allegiance.

00:06:52.560 I mean, like I say, there are some Catholic ones,

00:06:54.820 but they're mainly Protestant.

00:06:56.620 Here's a Catholic one.

00:06:59.020 You can see they're adorned with the symbols of their foes, 0.76

00:07:02.040 the Union Jack, a picture of Queen Elizabeth, the Israeli flag. 0.93

00:07:06.900 And here's a typical Protestant bonfire. 0.99

00:07:09.080 You can see they're burning symbols of Catholics 0.70

00:07:11.380 and of the republic of ireland now these things are pretty huge and you get my point

00:07:15.940 they burn the symbols of their opponents i suppose it's better than burning their opponents i'm glad

00:07:22.720 there is peace on the irish island but here's the thing i mean you saw that some of them burn the

00:07:29.020 jewish flag now some burn the uk flag some burn the irish flag everyone gets burned in effigy and

00:07:34.720 and i would imagine it's hard to look at but look at what was on the giant bonfire one of them this 0.87

00:07:40.700 year a pretend mosque like a parade float and the words were clear secure our borders

00:07:48.920 end the threat of radical islam probably a reference to the beheading now to be candid 0.93

00:07:56.220 it's not much different from protestant and catholic barbs at each other it's tough out

00:08:02.400 there i mean i'm not thrilled to see the star of david on some of the bonfires it's not just a

00:08:06.220 symbol of israel it's a symbol of jews of which i am one but that's how it is there it's part of a

00:08:12.340 tradition going back many years it's not the first time that politics were immigration related

00:08:17.420 uh that mosque i mean here's the one from last year saying veterans before refugees and stop

00:08:23.780 the boats why that's a message that pretty much everyone gets behind in the uk even if they don't

00:08:28.360 mean it even the labor party says veterans before refugees and they're going to stop the boats they

00:08:33.980 don't mean it but they say it um like i say edgy is normal for these bonfires are you picking that

00:08:39.440 up that they it's basically a free speech zone and has been for centuries but this week this

00:08:46.580 time the man who put the model mosque up there he was arrested let me read more guess shell if i'm

00:08:54.540 saying that right bonfire accused appears in court facing incitement charge judge says those who

00:09:01.360 placed replica mosque on top of bonfire have, quote, an agenda full of hate and bigotry toward

00:09:06.680 others. Let me read a couple lines. Those who placed a replica of a mosque on top of a bonfire 0.76

00:09:12.760 have an, quote, agenda full of hate and bigotry towards others, a judge has said. District Judge

00:09:19.420 Barney McEllum made the comments as he refused to bail a man charged with incitement to hatred

00:09:26.480 linked to the Loyalist bonfire in Moigashel, County Tyrone.

00:09:31.160 Brian Conrad Neal, 56, of Hollow Mills, New Mills, Dungannon,

00:09:36.700 appeared in the dock of Dungannon Magistrates Court in handcuffs on Friday.

00:09:41.420 Handcuffs, eh?

00:09:42.860 The alleged offense Neal is charged with occurred on Wednesday night,

00:09:46.200 the night the mosque was placed on the bonfire,

00:09:48.480 which has received widespread condemnation.

00:09:51.880 So he's been refused bail?

00:09:54.300 And they handcuffed him?

00:09:55.460 what did they think he was going to do start crafting a parade float or something everyone

00:10:00.400 gets bail especially in ireland accused murderers sometimes get bail but not a lad who put a fake

00:10:07.360 mosque on a bonfire the mosque didn't say islam by the way i showed you it said radical islam

00:10:14.560 the arabic lettering i understand talked about fascism or something like that so they were

00:10:19.640 clearly trying to distinguish it from other forms of islam i say again these bonfires are tradition

00:10:26.220 for centuries and yes there is more than a whiff of sectarianism in these bonfires maybe a lot more

00:10:32.620 but islam alone to be more accurate radical islam is spared the indignity not catholics 0.81

00:10:41.640 they have to put up with it not protestants occasionally they have to put up with it not

00:10:47.060 jews occasionally they have to i showed you the pictures not various politicians not the queen 0.80

00:10:52.760 or the king no one is immune from the mockery on these bonfires except islam and a man sits in jail 0.56

00:11:02.740 for a month because of it bail i know what bail is for it's so a man doesn't run away and abscond 0.90

00:11:09.980 before his court date so he doesn't commit harm in the community before his trial those are the

00:11:15.220 two reasons for bail. Neither reason applies here, of course. It's a one-off, clearly. You know,

00:11:22.100 it reminds me of what I saw in Regina, Saskatchewan, a few weeks ago. You know, a generation ago,

00:11:27.280 the Lord's Prayer was said every morning in the schools, but it was purged from Saskatchewan

00:11:32.280 schools as being offensive to atheists and others who didn't follow it. A few noisy people ruined

00:11:38.980 for everyone. But into the void now comes Islam and its Arabic language call to prayer 1.00

00:11:45.900 blasted over loudspeakers. Remember this? 0.69

00:12:02.960 So that's how it is in Regina now. Lord's prayer, illegal. But Mohammed's prayer,

00:12:08.980 is mandatory you won't be able to escape it it's going to be blasted all over downtown 1.00

00:12:15.660 for a half mile radius it's bonfire season in northern ireland be prepared to have your religion 0.93

00:12:22.240 pricked unless of course you're muslim because anyone who dares to criticize even with caveats 0.99

00:12:28.520 of radical islam well off to prison for you stay with us for more 0.99

00:12:38.980 well as you know for the last few months we've been skeptical and critical of the so-called

00:12:49.320 memorandum of understanding between mark carney and alberta premier danielle smith

00:12:54.220 uh i can understand and i very much sympathize with the intentions of premier smith she wants

00:13:00.260 to get a pipeline built she wants to double the production of the oil sands and there's no time 0.96

00:13:05.960 like the president's. I mean, of course, the best time to have built these pipelines would have been 0.90

00:13:09.760 a decade ago. The second best time is now. Now, Mark Carney has agreed to vague deals, but they're

00:13:16.380 front and loaded with taxes and all sorts of carbon capture. But does the change, does the

00:13:24.940 tentative conditional approval of these pipelines, even though there is no proponent, no private

00:13:32.500 sector proponent. Does it mark a victory for those of us who have been criticizing the climate

00:13:38.980 insanity of Justin Trudeau, Stephen Gilboa, Catherine McKenna, and others? What's the view

00:13:45.040 from the United States? And you know who we're talking to, Mark Morano, the big boss of

00:13:50.260 climatedepot.com. I also want to talk to him about a place that makes Canada look positively free,

00:13:56.040 talking about the European Union. Joining us now is Mark Morano. Mark, great to see you again.

00:14:00.600 I love your website, climatedepot.com. For more than a decade, it's simply put the best information source on the climate wars. And I remember you and I've been talking, we've been talking since the days of the Sun News Network. So almost 15 years now, there have been some very pessimistic, dark moments where it seemed like things were only getting worse.

00:14:20.460 then there was trump's first victory including some of his brave appointments like the epa boss

00:14:26.480 then the setback of the biden years and now trump is even bolder in his second term yes um

00:14:32.980 tell me what you think the state of carbon taxes anti-carbon ideology what is the state of play

00:14:42.960 today would you call yourself net positive optimistic or net negative pessimistic well

00:14:49.700 Well, okay. Are you talking U.S. or global at this point?

00:14:52.820 Well, give me both. Give me both.

00:14:53.940 Okay. The U.S. we're doing very well.

00:14:56.280 However, I am concerned about the midterms and I'm concerned about 2028 in terms of,

00:15:01.900 because historically Republicans take a bath in the midterms after the two years after they've

00:15:06.700 won a presidency. And also when you, you know, the way our country is, we're very yin yang and

00:15:12.200 you have this whole Democrat socialist movement going. And I think we're going to have a lot of

00:15:16.680 momentum in 2028. So my point being, we are crushing, and I mean absolutely crushing beyond

00:15:23.100 my wildest fantasies, and not just my wildest fantasies, but we have two dozen skeptical groups

00:15:28.600 that have a loose network. We meet once a week online, and we've exceeded everyone's expectations,

00:15:36.580 Trump 2.0, on climate, energy policy, over 300 actions, unleashing energy, but he's also taken

00:15:42.580 two very important steps for permanence. He's getting rid of the 1992 U.S. treaty where we

00:15:50.480 adhere to the Rio Earth Summit Framework Convention on Climate Change, which brought us sustainable

00:15:55.020 development, et cetera. We have already announced our intention to pull out. That becomes official

00:15:59.120 February of 2027. And that and going after the endangerment finding where if he's successful,

00:16:05.860 makes it so unelected bureaucrats deep within our environmental agencies cannot regulate carbon

00:16:11.240 dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act that was passed decades earlier and never mentioned

00:16:15.440 carbon dioxide. Those two things alone will make it much tougher for a future president,

00:16:21.420 Gavin Newsom or AOC, to reimpose it. Globally, it's very good news, including Canada and

00:16:28.980 including in Europe. The entire EU net zero agenda is currently in danger. And the Canadian,

00:16:40.520 at least rhetorically, is reversing with what Carney's doing. But beyond that concrete steps,

00:16:46.440 you have the net zero banking alliance crushing out. You have AI data centers forcing people like

00:16:52.000 Larry Fink to say solar and wind can't power global energy. We need fossil fuels. We need

00:16:57.260 nuclear. All of those combinations. And I think the key thing here is Trump. Two things. In addition,

00:17:03.800 the whole climate fatigue of decades of failed promises, be they failed tipping points that

00:17:08.560 didn't happen on the climate. And also the failed transition. It's easier to transition your gender

00:17:14.720 than it is your energy. So the idea of solar and wind taking over, they're cheaper, they're more

00:17:19.500 reliable. We all know Europe knows that's a lie. Canada knows that's a lie. We know that's a lie

00:17:24.780 here in the U.S. and including places like California. And then also Donald Trump resetting

00:17:30.500 that narrative. And I've argued for decades that you've got to reset the narrative. Donald Trump

00:17:36.300 and his key cabinet agency, Lee Zeldin and Chris Wright,

00:17:41.540 call climate a scam, a cult, a religion, a hoax, routinely.

00:17:45.820 And that has now filtered out.

00:17:47.580 And when you reset the political narrative,

00:17:50.660 it becomes that much harder to resurrect it.

00:17:53.060 That's why Democrats have gone silent.

00:17:54.800 And they're all talking about energy affordability now.

00:17:57.800 Major publications, New York Times, Politico, Axios,

00:18:01.160 Washington Post have all said climate skeptics

00:18:03.440 have won the culture war on this.

00:18:04.960 You have to win that culture war. That's what's so important. It is trickling to Europe and Canada, not as fast and not as deep as it is in the US. But we are sitting pretty in the US. When I say final words, sorry to filibuster, but I did work in the Senate. We have the low point of climate alarmism, I would say, in the US in three decades. And we're approaching massive progress that we haven't seen in decades on the global front, including Canada and Europe.

00:18:32.460 you know you and i both um go to either un conventions or or the davos world economic

00:18:39.200 form convention and when we started going to davos climate was a really big deal

00:18:43.640 now there's just one time at least last year there was one tiny little it was actually like a

00:18:49.920 not quite a parking lot but a little outdoor area where some guy was handing out flyers that's it

00:18:56.800 the only thing people want to talk about is artificial intelligence which requires an

00:19:01.200 enormous amount of energy and i knew the climate movement was at its death now when bill gates 0.67

00:19:08.320 that kook who talked about emitting trillions of particles of fine powder in the sky to block out 0.82

00:19:15.540 the sun like truly mad scientist stuff the guy who said we have to cull a billion people when he said 1.00

00:19:22.880 oh yeah it didn't mean it because he just wants to stay rich he wants to get on when bill gates

00:19:27.940 dumps climate for ai you knew it was over i'm worried though and i and listen i don't want to

00:19:34.880 contradict you but my skepticism on mark carney is that he's using some of the language of energy

00:19:42.500 uh you know affordable prosperous energy but he still is putting conditions like this memorandum

00:19:49.240 understanding it requires billions of dollars of carbon capture as a kind of shakedown or uh you

00:19:58.140 know a ransom for for canada's oil industry to build a pipeline and that's going to add like 10

00:20:03.800 bucks a barrel and i think it's going to i think these pipelines will never happen uh mark because

00:20:09.620 i think they just don't make sense with that 10 per barrel carbon fee attached that no one in the

00:20:16.160 world cares about no one in the world talks about either than canada and maybe the uk labor party

00:20:21.520 i see uh mark carney as the second coming of donald trump maga 3.0 in canada okay i'm kidding

00:20:27.880 i'm kidding it's a joke i'm kidding no here's what's important though even in the u.s the trump

00:20:33.200 administration is still pushing carbon capture and remember what i just said about shifting

00:20:37.800 narratives and flipping narratives what carney did let's just forget about the details which

00:20:43.420 are very important. And you're absolutely right. He has probably no intention while he's in office

00:20:48.180 of doing most of this, if not all of this. But once you concede defeat and you start talking

00:20:54.940 like the opposition party in Canada, you're sounding like a just basically like the Green

00:21:00.080 New Deal is done and net zero is done in many important ways because you're talking about

00:21:03.960 expanding pipelines. You're talking about exporting natural gas and oil. And you're

00:21:10.100 talking in a way that is opposite of the way that Justin Trudeau spent 10 years crafting this

00:21:17.060 narrative and silencing any dissent for anyone who talked like this, that has an impact because

00:21:22.300 what it does is for the next, for local elections, for regional elections, for the next national

00:21:27.040 elections in Canada, the major climate party has just conceded that their goals are no longer

00:21:33.520 attainable and that they've shifted the ground and they sound very much like the opposition did

00:21:38.640 just a few years ago. That will have a consequence, and that will trickle down throughout Canadian

00:21:44.340 society. Remember, I said we won the culture war. That's a victory for the culture war in Canada,

00:21:49.560 even if the details aren't correct. Even if he's scamming the public, he is conceding. I'll make a

00:21:55.660 weird comparison. Maybe you'll find it weird. Think of Gorbachev and the later days of the

00:22:00.580 Soviet Union when he was in power. He would talk about glasnost and open society and

00:22:05.960 perestroika, rebuilding. And you had a lot of the hardliners say, you know, don't trust him,

00:22:10.940 don't trust him. Even if you couldn't trust him, he's former KGB. The bottom line is he started a

00:22:15.660 process he couldn't stop. So here's how I would ask you, or I would suggest you to look at Mark

00:22:21.360 Carney. He is like Gorbachev, whether he means it or not, he's starting a process he can no longer

00:22:26.400 control. And it's going to live past his prime ministership slash leadership. And I think that's

00:22:33.140 why I'm so excited. And that's why I'm excited about also what's happening in Canada. I was

00:22:37.780 cautioned on that as well. Don't make too much of it because they were, sorry, not Canada, Europe.

00:22:42.020 The EU commission is flipping all of their agricultural policies that restricted farmers.

00:22:47.360 And I got, I got inundated with people in Europe saying, don't believe this, but it's still the

00:22:52.020 same thing is true. Even though they're doing it on paper, there's a lot of stuff that they're not

00:22:56.600 actually doing. And a lot of people saying it's just a PR stunt. Once you shift that narrative,

00:23:00.940 it's hard to once you let the you know the cat out of the bag it's hard to gather the cats again

00:23:05.340 you know and i will concede that the first move that mark carney made when he became um prime

00:23:11.040 minister was to reduce the the retail carbon tax to zero yes with a push of a button he can put it

00:23:19.160 back up but that would be quite hard to do and not as much fun as reducing the tax um i saw

00:23:26.180 a bunch of news reports from germany about a young woman who was saying i'm going child free

00:23:36.820 for the future and and i don't have the exact word in front of me it's like um the future

00:23:43.540 or carbon killer or something it was like she was it was this bizarre very german euthanasia type

00:23:51.940 eugenics statement of i'm not having children because i'm worried about global warming and 0.60

00:24:00.260 such wide coverage of it totally being pushed and while they're bringing in mass immigration

00:24:06.500 from the third world to germany this psychological war against women having kids

00:24:11.780 and even if you don't go that far i think that there's a general dystopian neuroses that has

00:24:21.420 been planted by the greta tunbergs of the world for a generation i think young people are worried

00:24:29.520 are pessimistic about the future um i believe that we are in a world of scarcity uh it has an

00:24:38.760 apocalyptic future so even if the instruments of climate policy are being changed and and you say

00:24:46.420 we're changing the debate the political debate sure but i think if you were to go in downtown

00:24:52.520 toronto or downtown new york and ask 10 young people about the future and climate eight of

00:25:00.640 them would give you a dystopian answer brought to you by this don't have kids you know woman

00:25:06.940 or greta tumber what do you think about the massive anxiety bomb that has been planted in

00:25:13.840 the minds of young people since, well, for a generation now. Yeah, I agree. I mean, from

00:25:18.700 kindergarten through college, these kids have been indoctrinated, not just in school, but in

00:25:22.540 Hollywood and pop culture, social media. But I think you eventually outgrow it. And I'll use

00:25:28.380 Greta as an example. Five years ago, six years ago, she literally was talking about her eating

00:25:34.740 disorder. She was talking about her climate anxiety being fueled by this thinking the earth

00:25:40.120 was doomed and climate was the most important issue in the world. Fast forward to a much older

00:25:44.820 Greta, and she's shifted now. Her whole focus is on anti-Israel policies, the Middle East. 0.94

00:25:50.520 She hardly ever talks about climate. In fact, someone, a reporter asked her about a month ago

00:25:54.760 and she made a couple of comments and they tried to make hay out of it. But it was the first time,

00:25:58.520 frankly, she had talked about climate in a very long time, in almost years. Even she has moved on

00:26:04.740 from that issue she was indoctrinated from, from a very young child. So I think what happens is

00:26:10.300 once the adults, once the culture shifts, you eventually get detox. You'll grow out of it.

00:26:16.200 Even cult members, you know, that once they get deprogrammed, we'll move on. It will take time.

00:26:21.120 And I think they will still vote for climate friendly politicians, so to speak. But even

00:26:25.880 those very politicians who would be appealing to them aren't talking climate anymore. Look at

00:26:30.920 Carney. He's talking about, even if he doesn't mean it, he's talking about oil pipelines and

00:26:34.720 exporting natural gas and zero carbon taxes. And in the United States, you have the Democrats

00:26:39.500 who've literally gone silent on climate. They will not talk about it. And they will now only

00:26:43.820 talk about energy affordability. And in fact, they're resurrecting the Green New Deal. But

00:26:48.220 it's really not about climate. It's going to be about a sort of energy bill of rights and about

00:26:53.320 an anti-AI data center bill of rights type thing. So I'm cautiously optimistic it's going to take

00:27:00.960 another five to ten years but the generation that was indoctrinated will slowly come out of it and

00:27:06.200 even if they're still indoctrinating like in public schools they're not getting reaffirmation

00:27:11.660 when they when they put on the news every night and i mean that if you i watch all the left-wing

00:27:16.980 podcasters i watch the progressives climate has just disappeared from the scale it did come back

00:27:22.320 for the first time in over a year briefly with the heat waves in europe and the u.s as some people

00:27:27.500 tried to tie it, but it's they're not getting that reinforcement, the young people that they

00:27:31.700 used to. And that's the first step to deprogramming. You know, I know you're not into the weeds on

00:27:36.800 Canadian domestic political rivalries, but for our Canadian viewers, I would remind them that

00:27:43.060 Aaron O'Toole, the conservative leader who preceded Pierpoliev, he campaigned on a conservative

00:27:51.120 party carbon levy. He refused to call it a carbon tax because a decade of denouncing carbon

00:27:57.340 taxes would be too much to overcome but he said no no no no i'm for a carbon levy and you can't be

00:28:02.240 a serious candidate without a climate policy and yeah i i despise that forever the the smart people

00:28:10.540 were saying oh conservatives must adopt this you must like it was you cannot oppose anymore you

00:28:16.860 can't stick with your principles you simply will lose if you don't say the things that my side says

00:28:23.720 And Aaron O'Toole bought that, and he went with the carbon levy, and he is rightfully in, you know, just his irrelevance, he's an asterisk, a footnote in history, but it's a reminder to people not to throw out your principles just because, you know, if 10 pundits and TV talkers are telling you to throw out your principles, it's not a persuasive argument to do so.

00:28:48.320 um before you go i just want to talk about something that is so funny i or funny might

00:28:54.840 be the wrong word but uh talk about showing you to use your analogy of the cult the cult leaders

00:29:01.840 certainly have a different life than the cult followers give us the latest on this scandal in

00:29:08.100 the european union about air conditioning and it's been a hot summer there as it has been

00:29:12.920 in parts of canada and uh but only the fancy people of the european union were allowed to

00:29:18.260 have air conditioning they literally did it based on your rank tell us a bit about that

00:29:24.220 yeah this was the eu headquarters in brussels which by the way was the site of the big

00:29:29.040 netherlands farmer protest with manure being sprayed which i can't think of a better building

00:29:33.780 that deserves manure on it than that apparently they had a massive air conditioning issue and

00:29:39.420 they had to restrict it severely. It could have been the net zero goals or their carbon footprint,

00:29:43.400 but they only allowed air conditioner for floors one through seven of the EU headquarters.

00:29:48.840 And that included all of the EU commissioners, the leaders, the top leadership of the EU,

00:29:54.720 and the peons, the unelected bureaucrats, the lower level administrative, they had to suffer

00:30:00.600 in the heat. And they actually, this was in, what publication was this? It was in Politico EU.

00:30:07.120 they actually interviewed workers at the eu headquarters who called it like feudalism the

00:30:13.280 idea was that the leaders got the comfort and i shouldn't even call it comfort life sustaining

00:30:18.060 service that those kind of temperatures without air conditioning in a sealed building you're going

00:30:22.220 to be choking off life uh and they called it feudalism and it's a classic example of how the

00:30:27.800 whole system works whether you're talking the politburo whether you're talking climate policy

00:30:32.060 the climate communists are basically the same, one in the same policy. But in addition to that

00:30:37.820 in Europe, the most striking thing, and I did a deep dive into this last week, and you can find

00:30:42.400 it at Climate Depot, 20 to 25% of European households have air conditioning. And they're

00:30:47.500 basically condemned not to have it based on EU net zero policy. In fact, in England, they're

00:30:52.380 ripping out air conditioners if they were put in without the proper paperwork that's climate

00:30:56.540 requirements, your chance of getting air conditioning in Europe is dramatically higher

00:31:03.120 once you die. Because once you die, there's an EU-wide policy where your corpse has to be

00:31:09.840 refrigerated at temperatures down to 34 degrees Fahrenheit. And this was what struck me,

00:31:14.960 is that the only way you can guarantee yourself air conditioning in the EU is after death.

00:31:19.300 Otherwise, you have a 75% chance of not getting air conditioning. And even if you get it,

00:31:23.380 It's going to be well over 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:31:25.660 I hope I'm not losing your listeners here because I'm not converting to Celsius.

00:31:28.180 I know Zoran Mamdani has asked New Yorkers, New York, the wealthiest city in the world by some measures, when you have a socialist mayor and you're bringing in socialist policies and you're shutting down carbon-based fuels for unreliables, don't be surprised that in New York the mayor is telling people to have 78 or 80.

00:31:49.640 In Celsius, that would be like 25 degrees or more.

00:31:54.480 Hey, I want to just leave by telling you Lee Kuan Yew, the benign dictator of Singapore for so many years, who really took a poor, racially diverse country and built a very wealthy and by some others, extremely wealthy country with racial integration and assimilation.

00:32:19.640 He said one of the key tools he used for the modernization and the growing prosperity of Singapore, I don't know if you know this, Mark, it was air conditioning.

00:32:31.620 And if you've ever been to Singapore, you would know why.

00:32:34.420 It is extremely hot and humid, and it would be quite difficult to focus.

00:32:40.300 I mean, you want to talk about, it's like 35 and humid and rains buckets.

00:32:45.220 Lee Kuan Yew said that air conditioning was a key to Singapore's economic prosperity.

00:32:51.180 What do you think of that?

00:32:52.380 I think it's, I mean, think about it for a moment.

00:32:54.700 You have Nigeria, over 60% households have air conditioning now.

00:32:58.840 India, over 76% have air conditioning.

00:33:02.020 The US, it's about 90%.

00:33:03.480 Europe, 20%, 25%.

00:33:05.260 And so what it means is it's a lifting of the human spirit because when you don't have

00:33:11.980 air conditioning and you're suffering under that kind of heat you are just going to basically you're

00:33:15.680 you're at a subsistence level of survival you're not doing anything you're not ambitious you're

00:33:20.540 not going to go out and start some new project you're going to just survive that heat wave so

00:33:25.580 he understood rightly so in singapore that to unleash human prosperity and potential and lift

00:33:32.460 the human spirit you've got to you know you've got to give them comfort it's the same with heat

00:33:37.120 in the winter you know you don't have to hunker down that's what the modern world has brought and

00:33:42.320 that now i have one exception to that i think you might agree with me washington and i bet

00:33:47.100 well i don't want to be as affected as the heat but washington used to be much better when they

00:33:51.960 didn't have air conditioning because they actually would convene you know i'm sorry

00:33:55.860 dismiss themselves for several months of the year in the rest of the summer and they got a lot less

00:34:01.680 done a lot less regulation and a lot less damaging policy so i do support no air conditioning for

00:34:07.460 politicians at their headquarters at this point you know um i don't know if you watched any of

00:34:12.760 the soccer uh or as the europeans call it football but one of the fun little vignettes were when

00:34:19.680 these europeans came over and they just loved america they had never seen anything like it

00:34:24.320 they would go to a a huge gas station a bucky's or whatever we don't have those in canada but like

00:34:29.660 a 20 bay service station with it like a almost like a walmart attached to it they were everything

00:34:35.820 from the portion sizes to you know the fact that you could buy a gun like it was fun watching these

00:34:42.080 sort of european influencers um i mean they were hyping it up a bit but i think one of the things

00:34:48.720 that they that they loved was the prosperity the and including air conditioning and i know that

00:34:54.560 sounds sort of dumb to say but when when three quarters of europeans don't have it and they come

00:35:00.860 to a country of america plentiful you know um alex epstein uh who wrote uh you know a number of books

00:35:08.700 about the the ethical case for the moral case for fossil fuels etc um you know i i think that uh

00:35:18.180 the world out there untamed is a hard place to live in and air conditioning is one what you just

00:35:25.400 mentioned it unlocked various cities think of las vegas without air conditioning impossible

00:35:29.860 impossible to imagine and so these europeans come to this place of and sorry my point about epstein

00:35:35.260 uh alex epstein said to have a successful country you need cheap food and cheap fuel

00:35:42.280 and the europeans have neither and they came to america and saw a place with cheap fuel

00:35:47.100 and cheap food and they loved it last word to you mark and i think i think that is the world cup

00:35:53.980 especially opened a lot of europeans eyes and it's they're going to go back to europe and they're

00:35:58.100 going to explain this especially during this heat wave you have your french leaders still telling

00:36:03.380 the mayor of paris telling people that the u.s air conditioning is fueling the heat wave in europe 0.78

00:36:08.680 i mean they're still caught up into this old world paradigm it's funny how even african nations now

00:36:15.080 have doubled and tripled the rates of air conditioning that Europeans have. 0.58

00:36:19.340 I think there's a wake-up call coming for Europe, but they have to, first of all,

00:36:23.240 remove the net zero shackles of the EU, and that's a longer way coming.

00:36:27.440 Europe has a tough uphill battle.

00:36:29.420 Mark, great to catch up with you folks.

00:36:31.220 If you don't visit climatedepot.com, you're doing it wrong.

00:36:34.200 It's such a great compendium of daily news.

00:36:37.080 And, of course, when our friend Mark is on TV, he doesn't just come on Rebel News.

00:36:42.200 He goes on a wide variety of TV shows fighting the good fight for, what, 20 years or more?

00:36:48.040 I mean, you were in the Senate even longer ago.

00:36:50.360 25 years on climate, yeah, and actually going back to 30, 35 years on environment, energy, endangered species, et cetera.

00:36:58.160 But I didn't really focus on climate until about year 2000.

00:37:00.860 Well, you're doing great.

00:37:01.940 And like you say, it's the best of times.

00:37:06.160 I mean, there are some places where it's still bad, but it's the best of times for energy prosperity.

00:37:10.560 Keep in touch, my friend.

00:37:11.420 thanks for giving us so much time. Thank you, Ezra. I appreciate it. There he is,

00:37:14.600 Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com. Stay with us. Your Letters to Me next.

00:37:27.860 Hey, welcome back. Your Letters to Me. On my monologue about Harvey Finkelstein and Shopify,

00:37:34.160 Ruth Bard said, first the Saturday people, then the Sunday people. Don't think it won't happen.

00:37:39.360 well that's the thing Jews are a very small part of Canada just one percent and if the Jews leave 1.00

00:37:45.520 and I think Jews are leaving France for sure I think they're starting to leave the UK if Jews 0.87

00:37:50.020 left Canada um wouldn't take too long for the Jews to leave I mean the Jews have been swept out of 0.74

00:37:55.440 all the countries in the Middle East do you think that the radicalization do you think the domination 0.99

00:38:01.100 do you think it would stop if Canada were a Jew free zone I promise you it wouldn't if you need 0.99

00:38:06.920 proof look at egypt look at syria look at lebanon those used to be christian majority countries 1.00

00:38:11.820 bruce atchison commented canada has too many useful idiots along with socialists we have 0.99

00:38:18.380 jihadi and sikh extremists there are also those elbows up boomers who believe the tv all these 1.00

00:38:24.200 people contribute to canada's destruction you know uh the hardest thing in the world sometimes 0.92

00:38:29.240 is to see what's in front of your eyes isn't it jane vanderville commented jews are a thin 0.99

00:38:35.980 shield between the barbaric political ideology islam and the west if they are removed look out 0.94

00:38:41.480 you know there's that phrase canary in a coal mine it used to be that people miners would take 1.00

00:38:45.600 a canary down there because there was a kind of gas that was dangerous to people but it would 0.67

00:38:50.660 kill the canary far quicker and that was like a warning if the canary died i think jews in some 0.95

00:38:56.420 ways are a canary in the coal mine not just on radical islam but of various kinds of intolerance 0.98

00:39:01.580 and it's not just that violence is normalized this is happening in canada

00:39:05.060 you know i didn't quite understand at first what charlie kirk meant by

00:39:09.380 brain rot he called anti-semitism brain rot and i i thought what does that mean that's sort of a

00:39:15.420 childish phrase but i know what he means now that i because i see it i see it in people like

00:39:21.320 tucker carlson now tucker's doing it as a shtick he's doing it as an act as a project as an

00:39:26.860 information operation, but I see other people who have the brain rot and everything in life, 0.87

00:39:33.560 they explain with the universal explanation of the Jews. Why do I get a parking ticket? The Jews. 0.98

00:39:40.460 Why didn't I go to the gym today? The Jews. Why did I, you know, have this trouble in life? It's 1.00

00:39:46.180 always the Jews, this mystic cosmic reason that explains everything and absolves you of any 0.99

00:39:53.760 personal responsibility for your life that's the brain rod he's talking about he's not even 0.91

00:39:57.940 talking about what you were doing to to other people it's how you've warped your own mind 0.92

00:40:04.080 so that this universal explanation for bad stuff the jews has now conquered your mind you're not 0.71

00:40:11.260 thinking clearly you're certainly taking no personal responsibility and and that's what's

00:40:16.820 happening in canada and people like mark carney and evan solomon who's actually jewish himself

00:40:23.040 i don't think they're deeply anti-semitic people i don't haven't someone's jewish but they've

00:40:29.660 thought about it and they they've thought i'm gonna go for the anti-semitic vote because it's

00:40:34.720 so numerous and in such a close election to get five percent of the vote you know tip over it's

00:40:42.780 a winner so you have genuine anti-semites and then those who are pragmatic anti-semites who say you

00:40:48.240 know what i'm gonna go full anti-semite because the jews won't hurt me they won't kill me they

00:40:53.200 won't bomb me they won't threaten me and there's just so many anti-semites these days because of

00:40:58.180 mass immigration well that's our show for the day until tomorrow on behalf of all of us here

00:41:03.860 at rebel world headquarters to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom

00:41:18.240 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - July 14, 2026

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Every symbol can burn in Northern Ireland — except one

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