Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Free speech has had a good few months — but now the empire is striking back

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00:00:49.340 Tonight, free speech has had a good few months, but now the empire is striking back. It's June

00:01:03.780 5th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:06.400 He's ready for freedom!

00:01:09.360 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.70

00:01:12.400 Hey, it is great to be back in the studio. I apologize for being away so long. I don't

00:01:26.820 want to get into the details, but I had an elective medical surgery. And I was fine in

00:01:33.040 a couple of days, but my face was not presentable. And I'm not particularly vain. I just didn't

00:01:38.520 want to come back on the show looking all like a chipmunk. But I'm in fine form now, 0.95

00:01:44.500 if I do say so myself, or at least good enough. And it's nice to be here. And I really appreciate

00:01:48.880 the whole team filling in for me when I was away. So great to be back. And it is my goal

00:01:53.660 to be here as often as possible. Sometimes I have to travel. Once in a while, there's a

00:01:58.800 family event that pulls me away. But mainly, these past months, I've just had to go for

00:02:03.440 some elective medical events, but nothing to be worried about. I want to talk to you

00:02:09.120 about my favorite subject that I know is important to you because it's an existential issue for

00:02:13.400 our company, but it's an issue of deep principle for our country. Talking of freedom of speech.

00:02:19.460 I was sort of blackpilled on the subject, as the kids say. I felt like we were doomed that

00:02:25.180 all of the controls were held by the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world who are slowly bringing us towards

00:02:31.780 a kind of matrix involvement like the old movie. But then Elon Musk surprised everyone, shocked

00:02:37.420 people, and bought Twitter for $44 billion of his own money. Took it private. And not only did he

00:02:45.220 reveal the censorship secrets of the past, but he revived people who had been doomed and banned for

00:02:52.840 life. He really turned back the hands of time to a freer era and exposed the wrongdoing that his

00:02:59.820 company had done. I've never seen anything like him. He's obviously been targeted for that by the

00:03:05.660 political class that now demonizes him. And a lot of people who care about free speech have been

00:03:12.720 dipping their toe back in the pool after having writing off Twitter. Tucker Carlson, for example,

00:03:17.520 has done one monologue since leaving Fox News. And it wasn't on YouTube or even on Rumble. He put it on

00:03:24.240 Twitter. And the Daily Wire put Elon Musk's belief and freedom to the test, too. You might know that

00:03:32.100 Daily Wire had a very successful documentary film. I call it a documentary with a comedic edge. It wasn't

00:03:39.940 meant to be funny. It was Matt Walsh asking the absurdly childlike question, what is a woman? Just to

00:03:49.080 remind you what the movie's like. Here's a clip from their trailer. I love this scene in Africa

00:03:54.720 where Matt Walsh is trying to use Western language about transitioning and binary, non-binary genders.

00:04:03.080 And it barely makes sense in English. And trying to translate that into an African language, I'm not 1.00

00:04:09.520 sure which, you hear the chuckling. Here, watch this. This gives you a flavor for the film.

00:04:13.780 What if a man decides that his gender identity is woman? 0.69

00:04:19.480 A woman has its own duty, and a man has its own duty. And a lady cannot do the duty of a man, 1.00

00:04:37.640 and a man cannot do the duty of a woman. Can a man become a woman? 0.97

00:04:49.340 No. No? No.

00:04:51.780 What about a transgender? Transgender? 1.00

00:04:55.620 No. No. It looks like if you want to become a lady but you're a man, you have something wrong 0.98

00:05:08.040 in your mind. Something wrong?

00:05:08.820 Something wrong in your family, something wrong in you.

00:05:13.320 What about if someone was non-binary?

00:05:16.520 Come again?

00:05:17.660 Non-binary?

00:05:18.620 Uh-huh.

00:05:19.720 Do you know, like non...

00:05:23.520 Like someone is...

00:05:24.520 You're not a woman, you're not a man. 1.00

00:05:26.820 Yeah, someone's like, someone is neither. There's something else. Is that...

00:05:30.520 He's saying we have never seen things like those. For a man, he has a penis. For a woman, he has a vagina. So we know this is a lady, this is a man. 1.00

00:05:50.620 What if it's a woman with a... What if it's a woman with a penis? 1.00

00:05:53.720 What? 1.00

00:05:55.720 Is that...

00:05:58.720 Hmm?

00:05:59.720 People are laughing. Is that a dumb question? 0.99

00:06:06.920 I want to show you the contrast between those very real men in Africa and these absolutely absurd professors in the West. 0.98

00:06:18.620 And Matt Walsh is not a trickster. He doesn't engage in any verbal sleight of hand.

00:06:23.600 He's not trapping people.

00:06:25.800 He's just asking that extremely blunt question. What is a woman here? 0.53

00:06:29.100 Just watch a clip from when Matt Walsh goes from talking to severely normal people in Africa to severely crazy people in the West. 1.00

00:06:37.800 Sometimes there are things so stupid, you need a PhD to believe them. Take a look at this. 1.00

00:06:42.100 A woman is not anything in particular. 0.90

00:06:44.100 There is not one particular thing.

00:06:45.800 It could be many things to many people. 0.99

00:06:47.600 Some women have penises, right? Some men have vaginas. 1.00

00:06:50.600 I like scented candles. I've watched Sex and the City. 1.00

00:06:52.900 Yeah.

00:06:53.900 How do I know if I'm a woman?

00:06:54.900 That's a great question.

00:06:56.400 So what...

00:06:59.400 What is a woman? 1.00

00:07:05.400 Why do you ask that question?

00:07:08.400 I just really like to know.

00:07:11.900 What do you think the answer to that question is?

00:07:16.900 Well, I'm asking. That's why I came to a college professor who's...

00:07:21.900 This is your... This is what you do.

00:07:24.900 What other kinds of answers have you gotten?

00:07:31.400 A lot of, like, this, where you're not answering, and I've gotten a lot of that, so...

00:07:34.400 I think it's interesting that you say that some of the people you've interviewed have been reluctant to answer it,

00:07:40.400 and I think that has a lot to do with the questions that preceded it and the way that you've conducted yourself in the interview.

00:07:45.900 Those are outtakes from the larger movie, What is a Woman?

00:07:49.900 And Daily Wire made the decision to air the movie in full on Twitter.

00:07:55.400 Now, Twitter is taking full movie-length videos.

00:07:59.400 So this was a dramatic moment for Twitter to have a feature-length film put up on it of that caliber.

00:08:05.900 And also a big statement from Daily Wire about their belief in freedom.

00:08:09.900 Because, remember, one of the most dangerous censorship hot buttons on Twitter for years was the transgender issue.

00:08:18.400 If you misgender someone, that is, call someone who was born a man and then transitions to be a woman, 0.70

00:08:24.400 if you call them a man, if you call them the gender they say they are not, 0.94

00:08:28.400 that is such a serious offense you can have your account suspended.

00:08:31.900 If you also deadname someone, which is use the name their mother gave them as opposed to whatever adopted trans name they've taken on,

00:08:40.900 that was the harshest censorship in all of Twitter.

00:08:45.400 More even than, I don't know, vaccine skepticism.

00:08:49.900 And so imagine taking a film called What is a Woman and putting that on Twitter that used to turn off your account if you just misgendered someone.

00:08:59.900 This was quite a moment.

00:09:01.900 And for the first little while, it looked like Twitter was failing.

00:09:06.900 When the movie was rolled out on Twitter, it was immediately appended with a warning that it was hate speech.

00:09:15.900 And it was throttled.

00:09:16.900 It was not allowed to trend.

00:09:18.900 It was only being shown to people that were registered followers of the Daily Wire account.

00:09:26.900 It couldn't go to people outside of that.

00:09:28.900 By definition, it could not go viral.

00:09:31.900 It was high drama.

00:09:33.900 Matt Walsh and other leaders of the Daily Wire and Jordan Peterson was down in their head office too.

00:09:38.900 They were tweeting about this.

00:09:40.900 They weren't abandoning hope that Elon Musk would save things.

00:09:43.900 They were saying, what's going on?

00:09:45.900 This is exactly the opposite about what Elon Musk said.

00:09:48.900 And all the free speech nicks on Twitter in unison said, hey, Elon Musk, this is the opposite of what you wanted.

00:09:57.900 You just dropped $44 billion on Twitter.

00:10:00.900 Why are you letting it be the same?

00:10:03.900 Elon Musk looked into it.

00:10:04.900 You could see him operating in real time.

00:10:07.900 And by the end of the day, mere hours later, in a very dramatic day, all the throttling was removed from the tweet.

00:10:17.900 It was allowed to go viral, not just viral, but super viral.

00:10:21.900 And in fact, at the end of the day, Elon Musk himself weighed in saying that every parent should watch it.

00:10:27.900 So it went from something that was being banned, throttled, defamed as hate speech, to one of the most viral tweets of all time that the proprietor of Twitter himself said everyone should watch.

00:10:40.900 There were a couple of staff exits over this kerfuffle, but I don't think Elon Musk cares much about that.

00:10:47.900 Last I checked, more than 150 million views of that movie.

00:10:53.900 And think about that.

00:10:54.900 That would be more views than almost any box office smash of the year.

00:11:00.900 Of course, it's a global number, but just a staggering, staggering success.

00:11:05.900 One of the most watched films in the world, and I think it would have been successful in any event.

00:11:11.900 But the fact that they targeted for censorship and they fought and won.

00:11:15.900 Well, that's what they call the Streisand effect, if you know that old story.

00:11:19.900 Someone was taking photos of beachfront properties in Malibu and in passing captured Barbara Streisand's house.

00:11:26.900 No one knew it. No one was clicking on it.

00:11:28.900 But when she took the photographer to court, all of a sudden everyone wanted to see what all the fuss about.

00:11:33.900 And thousands and thousands of people watched the photo, whereas I think the number was only three who had looked at it before.

00:11:40.900 That's called the Streisand effect.

00:11:42.900 And I think that's exactly what happened here.

00:11:44.900 I have no doubt that had Twitter allowed it to go viral in the first place, it would have had 5 million, maybe 10 million views.

00:11:52.900 No doubt about it.

00:11:53.900 Maybe it would have had 20 million views, like our viral video of the Pfizer CEO when Avi Amini and I were walking with him in Switzerland.

00:12:01.900 But to get almost 10 times that number is just so stunning and an enormous success to the Daily Wire and for free speech.

00:12:10.900 Such an important battle fought and won.

00:12:14.900 Well, not everyone is impressed.

00:12:17.900 You know, there's a voluntary European censorship group.

00:12:21.900 Well, of course, it's voluntary.

00:12:24.900 You'd better volunteer for it or else.

00:12:27.900 Well, Twitter announced that it's going to be leaving.

00:12:30.900 At least that's what this report says.

00:12:32.900 And here's the European Union Commissioner Vera Jourova said Twitter's compliance with the new Digital Services Act entering force on August 25th will be scrutinized vigorously and earnestly.

00:12:46.900 Good morning, everyone.

00:12:47.900 Welcome to this press corner with Vice President Vera Jourova.

00:12:51.900 We believe this is a mistake of Twitter.

00:12:54.900 Twitter has chosen the hard way.

00:12:56.900 They chose confrontation.

00:12:58.900 This was noticed very much in the commission.

00:13:00.900 And I know the code is voluntary.

00:13:03.900 But make no mistake, by leaving the code, Twitter has attracted a lot of attention and its actions and compliance with EU law will be scrutinized vigorously and urgently.

00:13:15.900 Now, Vera is a Czech bureaucrat and she was elected by no one to the European Union. 0.82

00:13:23.900 She grew up under communist censorship.

00:13:26.900 But now she does it for the EU, not the USSR.

00:13:32.900 Same difference, though.

00:13:33.900 But at least the USSR didn't claim to be able to censor American media companies.

00:13:40.900 Very interesting to me.

00:13:41.900 Here's a story in Barron's.

00:13:43.900 Twitter chose confrontation on EU disinformation code.

00:13:49.900 Twitter chose confrontation by exiting a voluntary EU disinformation code of practice that lays ground rules for an incoming European law on digital services.

00:14:00.900 A European Union commissioner said Monday.

00:14:04.900 We believe this is a mistake of Twitter.

00:14:06.900 Twitter has chosen the hard way.

00:14:09.900 They chose confrontation.

00:14:11.900 Commissioner Vera Jourova told journalists.

00:14:14.900 She said Twitter's compliance with the new Digital Services Act entering force on August 25th will be scrutinized vigorously and urgently.

00:14:24.900 The European Commission announced May 27th that Twitter had decided to leave the code of practice to which other major online platforms such as Google, Microsoft and TikTok continue to adhere.

00:14:36.900 The Voluntary Pact, which was launched in 2018 and strengthened last year with input from industry players, contains over three dozen pledges such as better cooperation with fact checkers and not promoting actors that distribute disinformation.

00:14:51.900 It serves as a test feeder to the DSA, which will impose legal obligations on big platforms and impose penalties that could go up to six percent of a company's global revenues in case of violation.

00:15:04.900 Since Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, it has cut more than 80% of the workforce and got rid of many moderators who vetted content for disinformation and harmful messages.

00:15:17.900 Let me read a little bit more.

00:15:18.900 Jourova said, I can't predict what conclusions the commission might make about Twitter's possible distribution of disinformation once the DSA comes into force.

00:15:27.900 But she said that signatories in the code of practice would have an easier situation because they would already have cleared the burden of proof.

00:15:34.900 There is an interplay between the code of practice, which is a voluntary agreement, and the Digital Services Act, which is enforceable.

00:15:41.900 In other words, we're going to go a lot hard on you.

00:15:44.900 There's no rule of law here.

00:15:46.900 This is Europe.

00:15:47.900 I would like to give Twitter the chance to defend the right to make business in Europe without any sanction, she said.

00:15:54.900 That's what she thinks is in question, not the right of European people to speak on Twitter or listen on Twitter.

00:16:01.900 She's not interested in those rights, just her right to stop Twitter. 1.00

00:16:06.900 So they're in trouble.

00:16:08.900 I wonder what they make of the Daily Wire's movie.

00:16:11.900 Here's a Wall Street Journal story on the war against Twitter.

00:16:15.900 Twitter to face stress tests this month, top EU tech regulator says, during Silicon Valley tour.

00:16:21.900 EU team will review social media platforms content moderation to measure compliance with new law.

00:16:28.900 So this is just another take on the same story.

00:16:30.900 The first was from the Association France Press.

00:16:33.900 And this is from the Wall Street Journal.

00:16:35.900 European Union regulators plan to subject Twitter to a stress test to determine how well it complies with Europe's new digital content law.

00:16:43.900 A top EU tech regulator said, ramping up the bloc's preparations for enforcing the West's most far reaching digital content law.

00:16:51.900 Hopefully it will just apply to Europe. 0.90

00:16:53.900 Like right now, Turkey or Pakistan have extreme censorship rules and Twitter has to comply to survive in those countries.

00:17:01.900 But this rule seems to imply that they would block out Twitter in all of Europe and they would claim the right to find Twitter for revenues it makes around the world.

00:17:11.900 I'll keep reading. Look at this. This is my favorite line.

00:17:14.900 What's a digital specialist?

00:17:16.900 No one knows, but the Wall Street Journal uses a word.

00:17:18.900 A team of roughly five to ten digital specialists from the EU plan to put Twitter and possibly other companies through their content policing paces during a visit to San Francisco in late June.

00:17:30.900 Terry Breton, the Blocks Commissioner for the Internal Markets, said in an interview.

00:17:34.900 A specialist, eh?

00:17:36.900 Do you go to school to be that? To be a Twitter specialist? Or is that just something you say?

00:17:40.900 The test is voluntary. It's another voluntary test. Wink, wink.

00:17:44.900 And Twitter has agreed to be subjected to it.

00:17:47.900 It won't carry any fines or other enforcement consequences.

00:17:50.900 It will offer companies a dry run for how the EU's Digital Services Act or DSA will be enforced.

00:17:55.900 Twitter officials in Europe and the U.S. didn't respond to requests for comment.

00:18:00.900 Twitter owner Elon Musk has said the company plans to comply with the EU law.

00:18:04.900 The law takes effect in late summer, empowering European regulators led by Breton to levy a maximum penalty of 6% of a company's annual revenue.

00:18:12.900 In case of violations, the EU has the power to block a service in the case of certain repeated infringement.

00:18:20.900 It really is Soviet style, isn't it?

00:18:22.900 I don't know of any social media companies that have started and thrived globally from Europe.

00:18:30.900 Do you know of any?

00:18:32.900 TikTok is Communist Chinese. 0.84

00:18:36.900 VK is Russian.

00:18:39.900 But Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, they're all American.

00:18:49.900 I don't know if Europe is good at creating social media companies, but they certainly seek to be world leaders at regulating and censoring them, are they?

00:18:56.900 They want to regulate the West because maybe they don't have any of their own.

00:18:59.900 Look at this part.

00:19:01.900 The EU team will also look at why certain content might slip through the cracks, he said, citing a hypothetical example of, quote, fake news that caused disturbances, but was promoted because it generated virality and advertising.

00:19:16.900 Did you have enough moderators beforehand?

00:19:19.900 Was it promoted by the algorithm?

00:19:21.900 Breton said, we want to do this for real, in the real world, so they see how it happens.

00:19:26.900 And above all, so they prepare, Breton said, of the companies.

00:19:29.900 Hmm.

00:19:30.900 Disinformation, fake news that goes viral.

00:19:33.900 Does that include the fake news that the CBC and other state broadcasters spread, and politicians mainly, about the origin of the coronavirus?

00:19:44.900 Does it include the fake news about the efficacy of masks?

00:19:48.900 First they didn't work, then they did.

00:19:51.900 Now we know they never did.

00:19:53.900 What about the lockdowns, that they were medically necessary?

00:19:57.900 That's fake news.

00:19:58.900 New study out today shows it.

00:20:00.900 Or what about the vaccines themselves?

00:20:02.900 We were told were safe and effective and long lasting, but they had to literally change the definition of vaccines to even call these short-term therapeutics vaccines.

00:20:11.900 Hmm.

00:20:12.900 I wonder what disinformation they'll be measuring for.

00:20:15.900 And all this brings me back to Canada.

00:20:18.900 One of my favorite news sources is called Black Locks.

00:20:22.900 It's an expensive subscription, but we pay it because we believe in it.

00:20:25.900 We believe in it.

00:20:26.900 Look at this story today.

00:20:28.900 Mandate CBC as mouthpiece.

00:20:31.900 The Privy Council, in an access to information memo, proposed a legal requirement that the CBC broadcast government messaging in a national crisis.

00:20:40.900 Huh.

00:20:41.900 Cabinet aides complained they had to buy advertising during the pandemic.

00:20:45.900 How much more on Trudeau's narrative could the CBC even possibly be?

00:20:52.900 I don't think they have any problem with their total compliance of the CBC.

00:20:56.900 They just think that they shouldn't have to pay for ads, I guess, which is weird since they're paying for the CBC in other ways.

00:21:03.900 But you know, if you give the government tyrannical dictatorial powers during an emergency, it'll always be an emergency.

00:21:13.900 They'll find something to call an emergency.

00:21:16.900 Climate emergency.

00:21:18.900 Nitrogen emergency.

00:21:19.900 Carbon emergency.

00:21:21.900 COVID emergency.

00:21:22.900 A trucker emergency.

00:21:25.900 Maybe that's an emergency.

00:21:27.900 Whatever they want.

00:21:28.900 Here, let me read some more.

00:21:29.900 In the past, services such as producing and broadcasting public service announcements in times of national crisis were covered under previous agreements with CBC Radio Canada, said the report.

00:21:39.900 The way forward.

00:21:40.900 Lessons learned.

00:21:41.900 Currently, the government of Canada pays the CBC and Radio Canada like any other media to air ads, but there could be new possibilities to create partnerships to respond to future crises.

00:21:52.900 You know, how much closer could their partnerships be?

00:21:57.900 And like I say, the CBC literally called the truckers Putin terrorists.

00:22:04.900 They would use any crisis, whatever they say as a crisis, to command government control.

00:22:10.900 Let me read a little more.

00:22:11.900 Perhaps the government of Canada could explore legislative amendments to the Quarantine Act to ensure that in the future federally funded organizations like the CBC Radio Canada support communications efforts during a national health crisis like the CBC, sorry, like the COVID-19 pandemic, wrote staff.

00:22:27.900 This could include partnerships and the provision of free placement.

00:22:32.900 If you think no one trusts the media now, and very few people do, well, this is a good recipe just to finish it off, isn't it?

00:22:40.900 Yeah, like I say, freedom of speech is having some very good moments in recent months, but I warn you, the empire is striking back.

00:22:47.900 Stay with us for more on these eternal crises that the left is fomenting with our friend Mark Moreno.

00:22:54.900 Welcome back.

00:23:06.900 You know, dogs are man's best friend.

00:23:09.900 You'll never convince me or half the world otherwise, but other than dogs and let's put cats aside because that's a very divisive subject.

00:23:17.900 I think something that we can all agree on is that cattle are humanity's best friend and domesticated cattle have been our friends for centuries, for millennia.

00:23:30.900 Whether it's meat or milk and dairy or leather, it's the cows that have helped civilization grow.

00:23:38.900 In fact, the Latin word for cow, pecus, is rooted in pecuniary or impecunious.

00:23:45.900 If you don't have cattle, you don't have wealth.

00:23:47.900 So tied to our civilization is the humble cow.

00:23:53.900 Who hates cows? 1.00

00:23:55.900 No one I would trust.

00:23:56.900 In fact, the country of India rather reveres cattle.

00:24:01.900 And imagine my shock when I see the news out of Ireland that they are planning to cull, to kill, to euthanize hundreds of thousands of cattle for no reason other than cattle emit greenhouse gases.

00:24:20.900 And by that, when they chew and digest the grass they eat, they burp and release some methane.

00:24:27.900 And apparently killing hundreds of thousands of cattle in Ireland, which isn't even a speck in the world's emanations of greenhouse gases.

00:24:38.900 Apparently that is the moral outcome, so much so that their government seems dead set on enacting it.

00:24:45.900 Well, if it's an idea in Ireland, you better believe it's an idea elsewhere.

00:24:50.900 Joining us now to talk about this insanity is our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:24:58.900 Mark, great to see you.

00:24:59.900 Of course they're doing this in the name of the climate, aren't they?

00:25:03.900 Yes.

00:25:04.900 I mean, and it's not just the culling of cows.

00:25:07.900 We're seeing it going after high-yield agriculture.

00:25:10.900 We're seeing it go after particularly the climate compliance regulations going after the small-time farmers.

00:25:16.900 But we just saw last week France beginning their climate lockdowns, banning short-haul flights.

00:25:21.900 At the same time, we're seeing Germany talking about massive meat restrictions down to one sausage a month.

00:25:28.900 I mean, this is since January.

00:25:30.900 The acceleration of this agenda for us, the unwashed masses, has nothing I've ever seen.

00:25:37.900 It's almost as if they think their time is limited, and they're rushing all of this through, almost all of it, without any vote of democracy.

00:25:44.900 They're going after collapse of energy, food, transportation, and yes, free speech as well.

00:25:50.900 If you dare to complain, it's immediate misinformation.

00:25:53.900 But the animal thing goes back to the net-zero commitments.

00:25:57.900 This has been on the table for decades.

00:25:59.900 I was working in the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

00:26:02.900 2007, I believe, they had the report about how cow emissions were more damaging to the planet than the entire transportation sector.

00:26:09.900 Planes, trains, automobiles.

00:26:10.900 So, for decades, they've had cows in their sights.

00:26:13.900 And guess what?

00:26:14.900 2023 is the year they're doing something about it.

00:26:17.900 It's crazy to me.

00:26:19.900 And you're right.

00:26:20.900 I mean, we covered, to the best that we could, the Dutch Farmer Rebellion.

00:26:24.900 Yes.

00:26:25.900 And I just couldn't understand it.

00:26:27.900 Like, why would...

00:26:29.900 Going after energy is insane.

00:26:31.900 Energy, poverty.

00:26:33.900 They want to jack up the price of energy.

00:26:35.900 They want to get us off cheap, plentiful, clean energy, and onto unreliable, climate-friendly energy that's not friendly.

00:26:42.900 Like, that seems like madness to me.

00:26:46.900 But to go after food, to go after the Dutch farmers, I didn't know that Holland was the second largest food exporter in the world.

00:26:52.900 You wouldn't think it for a rather small country.

00:26:55.900 The madness of it.

00:26:56.900 And that came to Canada.

00:26:58.900 The war on nitrogen.

00:26:59.900 Like, they're seriously going through the periodic table.

00:27:01.900 The war on carbon against energy.

00:27:03.900 The war on nitrogen for fertilizer.

00:27:06.900 But I saw on your website that story that you'll only be able to have one sausage a month if you're a good boy.

00:27:15.900 And, of course, the story that France is banning short flights.

00:27:20.900 It really is all of the same master plan.

00:27:24.900 And you dare call it a conspiracy theory, they'll call you a nut.

00:27:27.900 It's not a conspiracy theory.

00:27:28.900 It's actually happening.

00:27:29.900 It's a conspiracy fact.

00:27:31.900 Yes.

00:27:32.900 That's what's so shocking.

00:27:33.900 This is the quiet parts out loud.

00:27:36.900 This was, by the way, the German bill, the daily newspaper, literally on their huge article.

00:27:42.900 Only one sausage per month for everyone.

00:27:44.900 The German Nutrition Society, I'm sure steeped in the whole climate agenda, corporate wokeness and the whole net zero agenda, 0.90

00:27:54.900 is now recommending over a 90 percent reduction in daily meat eating.

00:27:58.900 And, by the way, when these unelected boards recommend something, usually it's bureaucrats that are fast to impose this on every single society.

00:28:07.900 And it's the same thing we saw during COVID.

00:28:10.900 If it's a recommendation by Lord Fauci or a public health official, then, by golly, it's the law.

00:28:15.900 And there's never a vote on it either.

00:28:17.900 And what they're doing in Germany is what they're doing in France.

00:28:21.900 And what they're doing in France and Germany is what they're doing in the Netherlands, is what they're doing in what they did in Sri Lanka, what they're doing in Australia.

00:28:28.900 I talked to an activist there.

00:28:29.900 They're decimating Australian farming.

00:28:31.900 They're doing the same thing now in the United States.

00:28:33.900 In the United States, John Kerry announced last week, our U.S. climate envoy announced that they were going to be coming after agriculture, that agriculture had to be part of the climate.

00:28:43.900 He doesn't even call it climate change.

00:28:46.900 He calls it the climate crisis.

00:28:48.900 So what this means, and we're seeing it now, EPA, Al Gore's group is pushing these methane restrictions.

00:28:54.900 They're going after animal agriculture, period.

00:28:58.900 Bill Gates' stated goal in being America's single largest farmland owner is to make us all eat what he calls synthetic meat.

00:29:06.900 Now, depending on how you want to define it, that's the vegetable oil process things.

00:29:10.900 It's also Bill Gates and Richard Branson have invested billions in this lab-grown meat that's grown in a steel vat in a laboratory from the stem cells and then additives.

00:29:20.900 Then get this as printed on a 3D printer as the final coup d'etat, final end of the thing.

00:29:27.900 So this is where they're headed.

00:29:29.900 Bill Gates has stated the quiet part out loud.

00:29:31.900 No one in the Western world should be eating actual animal beef anymore.

00:29:35.900 That's his stated goal.

00:29:36.900 And guess what?

00:29:37.900 As America's number one largest farmland owner, according to NBC News, he's got a lot of sway in agricultural policy.

00:29:44.900 Yeah.

00:29:45.900 It's crazy.

00:29:46.900 And, you know, I don't want to be too goofy about it, but Germany loves sausage.

00:29:51.900 Yes.

00:29:52.900 I mean, bratwurst, knackwurst, even look at some...

00:29:55.900 We use words like Frankfurter.

00:29:58.900 Well, that's named after Frankfurt.

00:30:01.900 Or hamburger.

00:30:03.900 That's named after Hamburg.

00:30:04.900 They love meat.

00:30:06.900 Weiner comes...

00:30:08.900 That means someone...

00:30:09.900 Something from Vienna.

00:30:11.900 Yeah.

00:30:12.900 You know, it...

00:30:13.900 Germany is known for their meats.

00:30:15.900 It's...

00:30:16.900 That would be like saying to the Brits, no more pubs.

00:30:19.900 And I just think it's absolute madness.

00:30:21.900 And by the way, they're not just going after cattle, they're going after sheep as well.

00:30:25.900 Yeah.

00:30:26.900 All animals.

00:30:27.900 Yeah.

00:30:28.900 Actually, we need to clarify that.

00:30:29.900 I mean, yeah.

00:30:30.900 This is all animal agriculture that's done for these net zero goals.

00:30:35.900 They're claiming methane is a potent greenhouse gas, which in certain laboratory settings it can be.

00:30:40.900 But in terms of the climate, it's been called the irrelevant greenhouse gas.

00:30:43.900 They're going after the nitrogen fertilizer, the high yield agriculture, claiming that turns the nitrous oxide and it's going to destroy the planet.

00:30:49.900 Now, we've been farming for thousands of years, right?

00:30:52.900 And suddenly, now, we can no longer farm.

00:30:54.900 Interesting.

00:30:55.900 The German daily, the Bild newspaper, actually quoted the lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture.

00:31:01.900 And they said, even if this plan of 90 plus percent meat reduction were to fully complied with, you'd have less than one percent point closer for Germany to reach the climate goals.

00:31:12.900 In other words, they're going after the middle class. 0.98

00:31:15.900 They're going after the general public.

00:31:18.900 They're not going after the same as with France with the two hour flight, two and a half hour flight bans.

00:31:23.900 Yeah.

00:31:25.900 They're not going after the private jets.

00:31:26.900 They're not going after the rich one percent.

00:31:28.900 And by the way, in case you're worried about all these sacrifices we're making and energy and transportation, giving up our gas powered cars, giving up plentiful food and plentiful energy.

00:31:37.900 Prince King Charles announced yesterday that Buckingham Palace, as a show of solidarity with the sacrifice needed to fight climate change, they're going to now lower the temperature in their swimming pool, turn the heated pools down a little cooler.

00:31:52.900 So we're all in this together.

00:31:54.900 I'm happy to report to you, Ezra.

00:31:55.900 We are all in this together.

00:31:57.900 You know, I follow James Lindsay, who's quite a radical thinker on woke issues.

00:32:05.900 And whenever I talk to him, my mind spins for a day.

00:32:08.900 I try and digest everything.

00:32:10.900 And he said something so shocking.

00:32:12.900 I want to talk to him about it.

00:32:13.900 Sure.

00:32:14.900 And I'm just going to lay it out here.

00:32:16.900 And I'm open for you to disagree or agree, because I'm still trying to come to terms with something he said.

00:32:22.900 He was talking about this war on cattle and war on farmers and war on farms and war on carbon and war on nitrogen.

00:32:29.900 And he compared it to something.

00:32:31.900 I'm going to shock you now.

00:32:32.900 At least I was shocked, Mark.

00:32:34.900 The holodomor, which is a Ukrainian word for famine, for a manufactured, fabricated, manmade famine as a weapon. 0.70

00:32:47.900 I don't know if you know the history, but Joseph Stalin forcibly collectivized the farms in Ukraine, Ukraine, the breadbasket of the region.

00:32:57.900 And it was such a disaster, this forced collectivization, that there was a mass manmade Soviet enforced famine that killed literally millions of people in the name of this abstract ideology of communist Soviet farms.

00:33:15.900 And I want to talk to James Lindsay more about this.

00:33:18.900 But I think he's saying this ideologically driven, centrally planned, anti-human ideology in the name of climate now or whatever may actually have the same result in actually create famines.

00:33:38.900 I mean, some might say that's sort of what happened in Sri Lanka.

00:33:42.900 And it's such a shocking idea.

00:33:44.900 But why would we think our authoritarian centrally planned economy meddlers today are any more or why are they any different from Stalin's five year plan experts, Soviet experts who claimed they were doing it for a noble reason, too?

00:34:03.900 That's what James Lindsay says.

00:34:04.900 I want to talk to him about it directly.

00:34:06.900 But what do you think about all that?

00:34:07.900 Well, I think he's exactly right.

00:34:09.900 And not just Stalin's five year plan, but there have been analysis by historian Helen Raleigh, who talked about Mao's great leap forward in China with aggressive deadlines, with massive targets, with a rush.

00:34:23.900 And we're all in this together mentality, forcing this sort of transformation of Chinese agriculture. 0.79

00:34:28.900 And what happened? Millions starved, mass starvation under Mao.

00:34:32.900 It was a disaster.

00:34:33.900 And to answer your question point blank, why is it going to be different this time in their minds?

00:34:38.900 The same reason when you say Marxism fails and socialism fails.

00:34:42.900 And you know what? The answer always back.

00:34:44.900 And you know this, Ezra, is, well, Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Cuba, they didn't do it right.

00:34:49.900 They didn't apply it right.

00:34:50.900 We've learned from their mistakes.

00:34:52.900 And here's the other problem.

00:34:53.900 When they have a vision, a net zero vision, a Green New Deal, a climate utopia, it is a Garden of Eden, utopian vision of the world. 0.91

00:35:02.900 That's going to compete with a free market private property one that's going to have warts and all.

00:35:07.900 Those things are, you're never going to really win that, especially in the hearts and minds of these activists, because they're seeing a utopian vision that's not based on reality.

00:35:16.900 And you're arguing from a reality position, so you're going to lose.

00:35:20.900 Their vision is going to win out a lot of hearts and minds.

00:35:22.900 And that's one of the ways they can recruit people, because they lay this out.

00:35:26.900 And it's incredible, because we're watching it happen throughout history.

00:35:31.900 Our ruling class, governing class, has literally invented reasons why the rest of us can't be free.

00:35:37.900 We've seen it, whether it's terrorism, wartime rationing, and sometimes you could say it was justified on very short timescales, particularly a wartime.

00:35:46.900 But then you see the war on terror, how that led to essentially a lot of the COVID stuff with domestic surveillance and declaring, like as you saw with your own prime minister, declaring Canadian citizens to be terrorists for trucker revolt.

00:36:00.900 So what they've done is they believe somehow that we're in a unique time in history, but they're not.

00:36:06.900 They're just following the tyrannical dictates of every previous historical example of declaring a crisis and taking over.

00:36:14.900 And that's what this is all about.

00:36:15.900 By the way, food crisis, there is no food crisis.

00:36:18.900 Every metric you can look at, NASA, greening of the earth, crop yields going up across the board.

00:36:24.900 The only reason we would have a food crisis is because of climate policy, not because of climate change.

00:36:30.900 And they're making sure that happens.

00:36:31.900 It's about nationalizing and taking over all of these industries.

00:36:35.900 They want to nationalize energy, nationalize food, nationalize transportation.

00:36:39.900 And they not only would just nationalize it.

00:36:41.900 They want to make it subject to core international governance.

00:36:44.900 And that's what the WHO pandemic treaty is about.

00:36:46.900 That's what the UN treaties are about.

00:36:48.900 So we are in for it because we are the most knowledgeable and most accessible to information of our generation in world history.

00:36:57.900 But maybe it's information overload because we are fighting back horribly so far.

00:37:02.900 We're accepting all of these premises and narratives.

00:37:04.900 You know what?

00:37:05.900 I have 20 things I want to say in reply to you.

00:37:08.900 And you know me.

00:37:09.900 I got to get through them.

00:37:10.900 Let me whip through them.

00:37:11.900 All of this is being done in the name of the climate.

00:37:14.900 And meanwhile, China, which is by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, if you think that's a problem.

00:37:19.900 And John Kerry claims that's the problem.

00:37:21.900 Yes.

00:37:22.900 They're building more coal-fired power plants than the rest of the world combined, not just in China, but they're building them around the world.

00:37:27.900 And I can't get over these pig farm urban skyscrapers. 1.00

00:37:31.900 I don't know if you've seen these images, Mark.

00:37:33.900 Literally skyscrapers where each floor of the skyscraper is a thousands and thousands of pigs in a pig farm.

00:37:42.900 And I'm not against pig farming.

00:37:45.900 I don't eat pork myself, but that's, you know, a religious thing.

00:37:49.900 China couldn't be going further, faster, harder on emissions.

00:37:54.900 And imagine Ireland or the Netherlands saying we are going to shut down our farms out of good faith here while China is going full tilt without criticism. 0.91

00:38:06.900 But there's so many, when you reference to the Great Leap Forward, Mao thought every Chinese family could have a little steel mill in their backyard.

00:38:18.900 They had to have a little brazier to make iron. 0.96

00:38:21.900 He literally thought that.

00:38:22.900 Mao sent intellectuals into the countryside to till agriculture when the land was still frozen solid.

00:38:31.900 And what do these things have to do? These super wise, super expert VVIPs with their utopian idea who are so stupid, they don't know how it really works. 0.99

00:38:42.900 Stalin probably had well-meaning PhD experts on farming. 1.00

00:38:47.900 Yes.

00:38:48.900 But the peasant farmers in Ukraine actually knew how to do it.

00:38:51.900 Mao probably had experts saying, oh, you see, we can get these little foundries in the backyard of every Chinese family. 0.92

00:38:58.900 No, that's not how it works. And here we have our own super smart idiots, intellectual yet idiot, as Al Taleb says, who have no bloody clue how it works and are going to wreck everything. 1.00

00:39:11.900 I feel like we're about to relive some very dark chapters of history. 1.00

00:39:16.900 Go back to you, Mark. Sorry, I took up so much time. Back to you.

00:39:18.900 No, that was absolutely spot on. I mean, the Great Reset, the World Economic Forum, one of their visions is you'll know nothing, be happy.

00:39:24.900 But they actually have a detailed analysis of this. You'll live in a place that during the day will be rented by a business.

00:39:30.900 And so you'll get free rent and then you won't even own appliances because you can just order.

00:39:35.900 You'll be able to order up your appliance like a blender on an app and a drone will come deliver.

00:39:39.900 You'll use it for an hour and then you'll put it out and then the drone will take it away.

00:39:43.900 They actually believe that they can plan these thousands, millions of interactions globally through their masterminding expertocracy.

00:39:51.900 And this is if you look back at history and I don't I'm not going to be accused of Godwin's law, but particularly Germany is a good example is you have to look at how people fell prey to this.

00:40:03.900 And it's because they're told these are the top, brightest people. These are experts. They know more than you.

00:40:08.900 Think back to covid. You have a parent who's upset that their six year old is wearing a mask eight hours a day.

00:40:15.900 Well, they go to a school board and complain and the school board's like, wait, what are you?

00:40:19.900 You're a plumber. You're you're not an expert. We have epidemiologists with PhDs and 30 years government experience telling us that kids need these masks to be safe.

00:40:28.900 Who the hell are you to tell us about public health and what your kids should or shouldn't do? That's that mentality. 0.99

00:40:34.900 And if you go back, I think it was March 9th. I was on your show in March 9th of 2020, Ezra.

00:40:39.900 I was trying to lay out this vision because I saw all the same things happen in the climate debate, the exact same debate.

00:40:45.900 They used covid and then they were so excited about how well covid went.

00:40:49.900 And the words of the UK House of Lords member, he actually said it was amazing how compliant the public was.

00:40:55.900 They've immediately shifted over to climate now. And this is where we're getting this energy restrictions, the food restrictions, the meat restrictions and the travel restrictions happening right now.

00:41:06.900 And by the way, everything we're reading about the last week or so minor France, two and a half hour flight ban.

00:41:11.900 They originally Greenpeace is calling for a six hour EU wide flight ban in this most latest example of the 200000 cows in in Ireland.

00:41:21.900 They're talking about a million cows and some of the proposals. So this is just to wet the public's compliance and to soften us up.

00:41:28.900 Their plans are much deeper. I've had so many people come back and say, well, what's the big deal? I don't fly under two hours anyway. It's too short.

00:41:34.900 It's like, no, the big deal is they just banned it in the name of the climate and they've admitted it won't even affect emissions.

00:41:40.900 They're you're not in charge anymore. That's the whole point. They're locking you down. This is what a climate lockdown looks like.

00:41:47.900 This is what the great reset looks like in action in 2023. We're not talking about theoretical scaremongering. We're living in it right now, Ezra.

00:41:57.900 Yeah. Let me come back one more time because you say so many interesting things, Mark.

00:42:02.900 I think some people are well-meaning but deeply misguided.

00:42:07.900 And these are the people who have all their plans and calculations and they think they know how to farm.

00:42:13.900 They think they know how to do energy, but they just have never lived in the real world and they've forgotten certain things that they didn't check. 0.99

00:42:21.900 So there are some well-meaning idiots, but then there are people who are not idiots. 1.00

00:42:27.900 They are just simply malicious. They know exactly what they're doing. 1.00

00:42:30.900 They saw how the covid lockdowns worked splendidly, not to stop covid, but to give government power.

00:42:39.900 And so they're inspired now with climate lockdowns.

00:42:42.900 And you made me think of something and I want to end on this because you and I could go back and forth all day because yes, every time you say something, I want to reply in some way.

00:42:51.900 I would like to read a paragraph from an old book written by a French politician and economist born about 200 years ago.

00:42:59.900 His name is Frederick Bastiat and he was a real thinker about freedom and economics.

00:43:05.900 And he he wrote this about Paris, which has always been one of the world's great cities.

00:43:10.900 And it's a story about spontaneous order versus planned chaos.

00:43:17.900 It's a story about central control versus allowing ordinary people to make decisions.

00:43:22.900 A commissar of agriculture or thousands of individual individual farmers.

00:43:26.900 Let me read just a little bit from Bastiat.

00:43:28.900 And I know that sounds high minded, but I've remembered this since I read it as a teenager.

00:43:33.900 On coming to Paris for a visit, I said to myself, here are a million human beings who would all die in a few days if supplies of all sorts did not flow into this great metropolis.

00:43:46.900 It staggers the imagination to try to comprehend the vast multiplicity of objects that must pass through its gates tomorrow if its inhabitants are to preserve from the horrors of famine, insurrection and pillage.

00:43:58.900 And yet all are sleeping peacefully at this moment without being disturbed for a single instant by the idea of so frightful a prospect.

00:44:06.900 What then is the resourceful and secret power that governs the amazing regularity of such complicated movements?

00:44:12.900 A regularity in which everyone has such implicit faith, although its prosperity and its very life depend on it.

00:44:18.900 That power is an absolute principle, the principle of free exchange.

00:44:24.900 In fact, he goes on to talk about if one person or one team or one government tried to replicate the thousands, the millions of individual decisions and transactions, they would fail for sure.

00:44:40.900 No one person knows enough, is smart enough, has good enough judgment.

00:44:44.900 But you have a million people making individual decisions of how to get ahead and what to do and what's best for themselves.

00:44:52.900 It's precisely because it's not centrally organized that Paris doesn't starve, whereas the Holodomor starved everyone. 0.99

00:45:00.900 And what they're trying to do, Mark, is they're trying to centrally control not just millions, but billions.

00:45:08.900 It's I don't want to seem alarmist, but if you're not scared about this, I think you're hitting the snooze button.

00:45:16.900 I'm done, Mark. Last word to you.

00:45:18.900 All right. Well, last word. Let me just tie that theme in directly.

00:45:21.900 What happened in the Netherlands, they ended up these climate compliance laws and Bloomberg News had an article on airline flights, cheap airlines, a thing of the past due to climate compliance laws.

00:45:31.900 What happens is the small family run independent farmers get crushed up to twelve thousand in the Netherlands.

00:45:37.900 The Netherlands would face just extinction if these rules come through.

00:45:41.900 Who can absorb these costs? Big multilateral Bill Gates, China, equity asset firms.

00:45:47.900 And all that's happening is it's a centralization of power.

00:45:51.900 But keep in mind, this is a globalization of power.

00:45:54.900 And that is what is so frightening, because it's a concentration of power in decision making and the fewer and fewer hands every day because no small business can keep up with the compliance regulations that they're going to hit, whether it was covid, whether it was climate or whether it's, you know, critical race or transgender.

00:46:13.900 All of those things decimate the small businesses and subject them to all sorts of rules and lawsuits, et cetera, whereas the big corporate chains can afford it.

00:46:21.900 So what we're seeing is a late stages. Some actually call it disaster capitalism.

00:46:27.900 But I don't think it is anymore. I think it's now an oligarchy and corporatism that have taken over.

00:46:32.900 And I think that's where we are headed. And, you know, we are literally now run by international corporations.

00:46:39.900 That's where the power is. If you can talk to poor people in African nations now, they know the government doesn't even control these corporations anymore.

00:46:47.900 And the corporations are working through things like the World Economic Forum through the U.N.

00:46:52.900 They're getting their goals and agenda out and only they can absorb the costs and they're crushing their competition.

00:46:58.900 This is why Exxon Mobil supported the Paris Agreement, because they could absorb in carbon trade.

00:47:05.900 They can absorb the cost. This is why big companies support national health care and mandates, because they can absorb all the costs and the small companies can't.

00:47:13.900 It's his late stage. And this is why. And this is I'll end with this. This is why the resurgence of guaranteed and minimum incomes have arrived.

00:47:22.900 Even people like Elon Musk supporting it. That middle class is disappearing.

00:47:26.900 You're going to have the wealthy ruling class and they're going to keep the peasants happy by a guaranteed income.

00:47:31.900 That's where we are right now. Every day it's getting worse on every front.

00:47:37.900 And of course, the biggest now is collapsing our transportation and food.

00:47:40.900 But the transportation is interesting because going back to your last theme on China, Europe and the United States, Australia, we're getting decimated as we get more and more EV mandates.

00:47:50.900 Guess who's taking over global car production? China. They've now passed the U.S., South Korea. 0.71

00:47:55.900 South Korea. They're going to dominate just like everything else, just like when you walk in a Walmart, everything made in China. 0.99

00:48:00.900 Pretty soon there'll be no such thing other than a Chinese car if we continue on this path. 1.00

00:48:04.900 And I see no reason why we're not going to continue on this path.

00:48:07.900 Yeah, well, certainly up here in Canada, Justin Trudeau couldn't be a more categorical asset of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.60

00:48:16.900 I think that's becoming, unfortunately, is going to be his legacy.

00:48:21.900 Well, Mark Morano, you and I could go another three rounds on this.

00:48:25.900 I've been thinking of things I want to say, but I better cork it now or I'll never let you go.

00:48:30.900 My friend, it's always so nice to see you.

00:48:32.900 Folks, as you know, we have Mark on all the time and it's because he's the absolute best informed battler on these issues.

00:48:40.900 His website, of course, is climatedepot.com, and we enjoy bumping into him at the global warming conferences when we go.

00:48:48.900 We were not allowed into the last one in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

00:48:53.900 That's the first global warming conference we have not attended since our company was started.

00:48:58.900 We were told by lawyers in Cairo that the risk of arrest was simply too high, and I did not want our people to suffer that risk in a fairly authoritarian regime like that.

00:49:08.900 But we will be at the next one with Mark.

00:49:10.900 Mark, great to see you again.

00:49:11.900 Thanks for your time.

00:49:12.900 Thank you, Ezra.

00:49:13.900 I appreciate it.

00:49:14.900 All right.

00:49:15.900 Stay with us.

00:49:16.900 More ahead.

00:49:27.900 Hey, welcome back.

00:49:28.900 Your letters to me.

00:49:29.900 Don Portugese says,

00:49:31.900 Hi, Ezra.

00:49:32.900 I was extremely angry reading the story of Blue Jay Anthony Bass, who foolishly apologized for his personal beliefs and comments.

00:49:39.900 In present-day Canada, your beliefs cancel your ability to play special sports.

00:49:44.900 First of all, the baseball team and stadium have no business in engaging in Pride Month or anything related.

00:49:50.900 This has nothing to do with sports and baseball.

00:49:52.900 The Toronto Star was quick to interject, saying Bass must go.

00:49:56.900 And stating his advocating Bud Light and Target boycotts go against themes that do not comport with his religious beliefs.

00:50:03.900 You know, there was a sports team in LA that not only declared it Pride Month, but celebrated Pride Month with an anti-Christian, I'm going to call it a hate group, because they say they're motivated by hate.

00:50:22.900 They hate the Catholic Church. 0.80

00:50:24.900 And so they're drag queen activists who are gay, but the expression of their politics is anti-Catholic bigotry. 0.99

00:50:33.900 And I'm not sure why that's any better than anti-Jewish bigotry or anti-Muslim or anti-Seek or anti-black bigotry or, frankly, anti-gay bigotry. 0.99

00:50:40.900 They hate the Catholic Church. 0.98

00:50:42.900 And so this LA team, they did a tweet about it. 0.91

00:50:44.900 They had a special day with this satanic anti-Catholic group.

00:50:48.900 And then I guess they realized that Los Angeles actually has one of the largest Catholic communities in America because they're just thinking, oh, I hate that Catholic school mom who taught me 30 years ago when I went to Catholic school.

00:51:01.900 No, the Catholics in LA are Latino immigrants who love their church and take it very seriously.

00:51:08.900 And all of a sudden, and by the way, a lot of their players are Catholic, too.

00:51:12.900 They miscalculated and they tried to patch that up.

00:51:15.900 I see there's been some other crazy pride moments, too, that had them be walked back.

00:51:20.900 I think it's always instructive to look at Twitter accounts from companies like BMW or Mercedes that during Pride Month make their Twitter account in the West rainbow flag-ish,

00:51:31.900 but would never, never, never make their Twitter accounts in Saudi Arabia rainbow flag-ish.

00:51:36.900 I mean, come on.

00:51:38.900 Why would they?

00:51:39.900 That's nuts. 0.97

00:51:40.900 Justin Trudeau scolded Georgia Maloney of Italy for being anti-gay. 0.93

00:51:45.900 She's not, actually, but would never say the same thing to say Turkey's president.

00:51:51.900 It's quite astonishing.

00:51:53.900 One more letter from Bike Infinity who says, hi, Ezra.

00:51:56.900 I thought David Menzies crossed the line recently by entering a room of Halton School Board secondary school teachers for the purpose of accosting Mr. Lemieux.

00:52:04.900 A.k.a. Busty Lemieux.

00:52:05.900 David was not invited to this meeting.

00:52:07.900 Personally, I think Lemieux is a disgrace to the teaching profession, as is everyone aiding and abetting him.

00:52:12.900 That would include his teaching colleagues in the board and administration of Halton School Board.

00:52:16.900 I hope Lemieux gets the help he clearly needs.

00:52:18.900 I think David Menzies' excellent journalistic skills could be put to better use.

00:52:23.900 Well, I mean, I appreciate your opinion.

00:52:25.900 I appreciate you sharing with me.

00:52:26.900 And I recognize your username.

00:52:28.900 I know you've been a longtime fan.

00:52:30.900 Busty Lemieux, as David calls him, is a figure of public interest in a public position and in a position of public trust.

00:52:38.900 And he has abused that public trust in the classroom.

00:52:42.900 And no one's held him to account, not his fellow teachers, certainly not the board.

00:52:48.900 He's also ran away from any questions about his public role.

00:52:52.900 And so at a public teachers' convention, it wasn't invited to the public, but David walked in.

00:53:00.900 David didn't make a big scene.

00:53:02.900 He didn't shut the event down.

00:53:03.900 He wasn't protesting.

00:53:04.900 He just asked Busty Lemieux some questions.

00:53:07.900 And within seconds, David was physically assaulted.

00:53:11.900 You can agree or disagree with the lengths David went to get that question.

00:53:16.900 But I think Busty Lemieux is hiding from journalistic scrutiny. 0.99

00:53:19.900 And I think he's absolutely a legitimate subject for media inquiry.

00:53:28.900 The disruption didn't... David didn't disrupt that meeting.

00:53:32.900 I suppose he did for the one teacher.

00:53:34.900 It was the extreme jackal-like attack on David that actually did the disruption.

00:53:40.900 David wasn't violent.

00:53:41.900 David didn't swear.

00:53:42.900 David didn't shout.

00:53:43.900 But all those things were due to David, and he was beat up.

00:53:46.900 Let's see what the court says.

00:53:47.900 Because, of course, we have filed a lawsuit against the teacher who physically assaulted David.

00:53:53.900 Let's see what the judge says.

00:53:55.900 That's our show for today.

00:53:57.900 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:54:02.900 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:54:04.900 That's our time.

00:54:05.900 Thanks, David.

00:54:06.900 Bye.

00:54:07.900 Bye.

00:54:08.900 Bye.

00:54:09.900 Bye.

00:54:10.900 Bye.

00:54:11.900 Bye.

00:54:12.900 Bye.

00:54:13.900 Bye.

Rebel News Podcast - June 05, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Free speech has had a good few months — but now the empire is striking back

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