Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I'm back from the land Downunder as Elon Musk turns Twitter upside down

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I was away at Avi Yamini's wedding in Australia. I'll give you a report on

00:00:05.680 that and what else I got up to down under, and then I'll talk about news here in Canada. There's

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00:00:54.660 Tonight, a month has happened in a week. It's November 2nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:07.800 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.100 Hey, nice to see you. I sneaked away to Melbourne, Australia, but that's not really a sneak. It's 0.88

00:01:26.360 more than 24 hours each way by plane. What was I doing there? Well, my friend Avi Amini,

00:01:32.120 two-time Viewer's Choice Award winner for Best Rebel, he got married, and about a year ago,

00:01:38.560 during the deepest depths of the lockdown, he invited me. I said, look, brother, I am not allowed

00:01:43.840 to get on a plane in Trudeau's Canada, but if that ever changes, I said, I'll be there. Well,

00:01:48.580 time passed, and I was taken off the no-fly list, or rather, to be more accurate, the unvaxxed no-fly

00:01:54.160 list was dissolved, and so I kept my promise and schlepped down to Melbourne for a lovely wedding.

00:02:00.340 I really enjoyed it. Avi, I don't know if you know this, he is one of 17 siblings,

00:02:04.840 weddings, and a lot of them were there. It was quite surreal to be in a room with so many

00:02:10.680 Avi lookalikes. It was mildly terrifying, but they're great dancers. It was a very fun wedding,

00:02:16.860 and while I was down there, I hadn't been an Australian in five years, I met other Australian

00:02:21.200 journalists and troublemakers. I met Rakshan Fernando. You might recall him. He was one of the

00:02:26.240 six journalists that went with us to Davos, Switzerland, to do reportage on the World Economic

00:02:32.320 Forum. Rakshan, actually, his real-life job is a wedding photographer, and he was indeed

00:02:38.820 the photographer for Avi's wedding. He was a wedding photographer when weddings were canceled

00:02:43.040 because of the lockdown in Melbourne. He took his camera to the streets, and he recorded the

00:02:48.480 freedom protests that were a regular occurrence there, and he showed, just by pointing his camera

00:02:53.780 at the world, more journalism than the official big shots in Australian media. Obviously, he and

00:02:58.580 Avi became close friends during that time. It was nice to meet him in person. I also met some of

00:03:04.760 our Australian Fight the Fines clients. As you know, our Fight the Fines project is 99% here in

00:03:12.480 Canada. We have 2,100 cases, but there are about 40 people that we've helped in Australia. I met some

00:03:17.960 of them, and I met our lawyers down there, and I talked to one of our lawyers down there, Madeline

00:03:22.500 Smith, who made the point to me that all the traditional civil liberties lawyers in Australia,

00:03:28.520 they went hiding for two years, just like they did in Canada and the United States, and she had to build

00:03:35.240 a civil liberties-oriented public interest law firm from scratch because the old, reliable civil

00:03:42.040 libertarians didn't want to get involved in this fight. It was like I was hearing myself talk

00:03:47.240 about lawyers in Canada, too. So it was very interesting. I even met Avi's bodyguard, and you

00:03:53.560 might recall this terrible moment when police decided to try something new. Normally, they would

00:03:58.780 arrest Avi, but they knew we were suing them for that, so they tried to go after Avi's security guard.

00:04:04.780 Well, we defended him, and it was a pleasure to catch up with him in person. Melbourne, as you know,

00:04:10.200 was the city in Australia that cracked down the hardest on its own population. In fact,

00:04:15.520 so hard that tens of thousands of people fled the city, had net out migration during the lockdowns,

00:04:22.760 it's easy to understand. Now, like other places around the world, they're trying to gaslight people.

00:04:27.680 Even the police force, the Victoria Police, are trying to gaslight people. You know what that word

00:04:31.220 means, right? It means to lie to people about what they saw and heard. Oh, it wasn't that bad. Oh,

00:04:36.220 we were all in it together. Oh, no, we never did and said terrible thing about you. I see the Atlantic

00:04:41.240 Magazine, which is owned by Steve Jobs' left-wing widow. They're calling for an amnesty. Now,

00:04:49.560 we're calling for an amnesty, too. I don't know if you know, but in Alberta, we're having a project

00:04:53.200 called Lockdown Amnesty because the government there is still prosecuting people for lockdown

00:05:00.040 offenses that happened one or two years ago. And we're saying, no, it's time to have an amnesty

00:05:05.320 there. Danielle Smith, the new premier in Alberta, campaigned on turning the chapter from the dark

00:05:10.740 lockdowns and actually apologizing. And you might recall this video where our own Selene Galass asked

00:05:16.080 her, where's the apology and where's the amnesty? Remember this?

00:05:18.520 Hi, Mr. Selene Galass, from All News. During your campaign, you said that not only would you issue an

00:05:23.220 apology to those prosecuted during COVID restrictions, but you would also grant them amnesty. When can we

00:05:28.540 expect those apologies? I can apologize right now. I'm deeply sorry for anyone who was inappropriately

00:05:37.960 subjected to discrimination as a result of their vaccine status. I'm deeply sorry for any government's

00:05:45.220 employee that was fired from their job because of their vaccine status. And I'd welcome them back if 1.00

00:05:50.560 they want to come back. As for the amnesty, I have to get some legal advice on that. And so I've already

00:05:56.720 asked my staff to request that advice so I can see how we would be able to proceed on that. My view

00:06:03.660 has been that these were political decisions that were made. And so I think that they can be political

00:06:08.780 decisions to offer a reversal. But I do want to get some legal advice on that first.

00:06:14.000 Would that also have to do with the timeline for the proposed amnesty?

00:06:17.700 I would have to see. If I can do it, I will do it at the earliest opportunity. So I'm hoping within the

00:06:23.980 next week we'll get that legal advice. Thank you.

00:06:27.920 That was a great question and a great answer. A heartfelt apology. And I know for a fact that

00:06:33.240 the premier has been inquiring with her government about stopping the prosecutions. So when they say

00:06:39.780 lockdown amnesty, in Alberta that means stop prosecuting them already. But in the pages of the Atlantic,

00:06:47.620 that fancy billionaires play thing, hey, everybody gets to have their magazine, right? Jeffrey Bezos

00:06:52.860 of Amazon gets to own Washington Post. Carlos Slim gets to own New York Times. Why can't Steve Jobs

00:07:00.720 widow have the Atlantic? But what the Atlantic means by having an amnesty is they mean, hey, don't get mad

00:07:07.400 at us for what we said and did to you. It hasn't flipped around yet in Canada. In Canada, we're still

00:07:12.960 prosecuting victims. Just yesterday, for example, Pastor Tim Stevens got a verdict in his case.

00:07:21.260 Remember him? He was the Calgary pastor who was arrested in front of his crying children. Remember

00:07:27.680 this shocking, tear-jerking video.

00:07:32.980 God, we just need to pray that you would thank you and build your church through this time. Give

00:07:36.700 yourself glory. We pray this all in Jesus' name. Amen.

00:07:47.160 Don't be angry. Don't be angry. Okay? No anger. Okay?

00:07:51.740 Don't be angry.

00:08:00.700 Don't be angry.

00:08:08.000 I'll do it.

00:08:12.860 It's awful.

00:08:17.860 Before I put you in the back, we'll just need to put your hands on the side of the car 1.00

00:08:23.860 pony.

00:08:24.860 So nothing sharp, nothing basically at all in your pockets, nothing we need to worry

00:08:28.860 about.

00:08:29.860 Nope.

00:08:30.860 Bye, Daddy!

00:08:44.860 Bye, Daddy!

00:08:57.860 Bye, guys!

00:08:58.860 Well, that case finally went to trial, and it was thrown out by a senior judge.

00:09:06.860 I think that's five or six cases in a row that have been thrown out by the courts.

00:09:13.860 And there's a reason for that.

00:09:15.860 I think the mania of 2020, 2021 is now gone, and even the courts are starting to say, whoa,

00:09:23.860 we did what?

00:09:24.860 It's like waking up in the morning with a hangover and saying, I did what?

00:09:28.860 I think a lot of institutions are saying, yikes, I did that.

00:09:31.860 And the Atlantic is saying, no, no, no.

00:09:33.860 Let's just pretend not to talk about it.

00:09:36.860 But the judges are saying, no, these cases are not in the public interest to prosecute.

00:09:40.860 And I think it's safe to say there's no longer a reasonable likelihood of conviction.

00:09:44.860 I mean, Pastor Tim Stevens won.

00:09:47.860 Arthur Pawlowski won.

00:09:49.860 These cases are being thrown out.

00:09:51.860 And the idea that we take courts and judges and prosecutors and public resources to go

00:09:55.860 after some mask offense from two years ago, it's laughable.

00:10:00.860 And our courts cannot be laughed at.

00:10:03.860 There's important work for them to do, like going after real criminals.

00:10:06.860 I got an idea, though, because it's a little bit hard for the Premier of Alberta,

00:10:10.860 Danielle Smith, to call off these prosecutions when the Justice Minister,

00:10:14.860 Tyler Shandro, used to be the health minister who laid these prosecutions.

00:10:17.860 I think he's in a conflict of interest.

00:10:19.860 It's a repudiation of what he did.

00:10:21.860 But if Tyler Shandro, the Justice Minister of Alberta,

00:10:24.860 insists that he get his way rather than the new Premier of Alberta,

00:10:30.860 and I hope that's not the case,

00:10:31.860 if Tyler Shandro thinks that it is in the public interest to sue people for old offenses,

00:10:37.860 and it is reasonable likelihood of conviction, all right.

00:10:40.860 I'm not sure if I agree with him.

00:10:42.860 But if that is the way, may I draw your attention to Exhibit A?

00:10:46.860 May I direct the jury to the gentleman in the colorful tie?

00:10:50.860 His name is Tyler Shandro.

00:10:53.860 That's him at the Sky Palace,

00:10:55.860 where he was having an illegal gathering at the height of the lockdown.

00:10:59.860 He just didn't think anyone with a telephoto lens would capture it.

00:11:02.860 So if it's okay to prosecute pastors like Tim Stevens and Arthur Pawlowski,

00:11:07.860 if it's in the public interest,

00:11:09.860 maybe there should be a private prosecution of the Justice Minister himself, Tyler Shandro.

00:11:14.860 I think that's something Rebel News reviewers would get behind.

00:11:18.860 There are other prosecutions afoot.

00:11:21.860 In Lethbridge, peaceful truckers, peaceful truckers who were part of the Coutts blockade.

00:11:26.860 Well, they're being prosecuted.

00:11:28.860 In fact, they have a court hearing this week.

00:11:30.860 The prosecutor is seeking 10 years in prison.

00:11:34.860 They're going after working class truckers.

00:11:36.860 They're going after churches and small businesses.

00:11:39.860 I think it's time to have an amnesty in Canada for those people.

00:11:46.860 It's amazing to me that in the United States,

00:11:48.860 it's the Locker Downers that are saying,

00:11:50.860 hey, please, please have amnesty on me.

00:11:52.860 We're not that far ahead in the cycle.

00:11:55.860 I think that soon people will turn their rage against the Locker Downers and the abusers.

00:12:00.860 We can see things coming apart at the Trucker Commission of Inquiry in Ottawa.

00:12:05.860 We can see every day that the whole narrative that was cooked up about the truckers was fake.

00:12:11.860 It was fake news designed by fancy PR firms,

00:12:14.860 including a crisis communications firm called Navigator,

00:12:18.860 that was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Ottawa police

00:12:21.860 to gin up claims of violence and extremism.

00:12:26.860 The commission has seen email and text exchanges amongst politicians

00:12:31.860 trying to gin up the media to say that the truckers were violent and a threat when they were not.

00:12:37.860 And this is useful for two reasons.

00:12:39.860 First of all, the whole point of this commission of inquiry

00:12:42.860 is to see whether or not it was justified to put the country under martial law

00:12:46.860 if there was such a grave and present danger to Canada, the sovereignty of the country,

00:12:50.860 or the safety of its people that couldn't be handled by any other law.

00:12:53.860 It's clear that there was no such grave threat to the country

00:12:57.860 because the politicians were literally trying to gin up more scariness to justify it.

00:13:03.860 But second of all, we can see that this whole fake news industry,

00:13:07.860 it's the government projecting onto you what they themselves are doing.

00:13:11.860 The government knew the whole time that the truckers were not violent.

00:13:15.860 That there were no weapons.

00:13:17.860 Crime fell when the truckers were in the city.

00:13:20.860 The government knew all that, but they lied and they found reporters happy to lie about it.

00:13:25.860 The media party, by the way, is covering these revelations at the commission of inquiry,

00:13:29.860 just like they covered the convoy in the first place.

00:13:32.860 They're carrying the government's water.

00:13:34.860 I'm glad we are there.

00:13:35.860 And I think Rebel News and some of our friends, for example, True North, are covering it too.

00:13:40.860 I think Rebel News in particular, the guys in the gallery are doing a great job.

00:13:45.860 As you know, we've booked an Airbnb for the duration of the commission of inquiry.

00:13:50.860 We have journalists every day covering it in real time.

00:13:54.860 We're live tweeting the inquiry.

00:13:55.860 We're making video clips.

00:13:56.860 And every night at 6 p.m. Eastern time, we have a recap in the form of a live stream.

00:14:00.860 So I think we're doing a pretty good job, if I do say so myself.

00:14:05.860 But it's interesting to me to see different phases in America.

00:14:09.860 The Locker Downers are saying, please don't seek vengeance on us for what we did to you.

00:14:14.860 In Australia, they're, please don't think we meant it when we punished you.

00:14:19.860 In Canada, behind the times as always, we're still prosecuting people who illegally gathered.

00:14:25.860 That was one thing that was on my mind as I was traveling back from the wedding in Melbourne.

00:14:30.860 Another was the exciting news that Elon Musk actually did go through with his acquisition of Twitter, the social media company.

00:14:38.860 And one of the first things he did was sack the top team, including the head of censorship over there.

00:14:44.860 And it's sort of fun to watch the owner of Twitter because he bought it outright.

00:14:49.860 It's not a public company anymore.

00:14:51.860 The sole director, I think, is Elon Musk himself.

00:14:54.860 And he's promising to have more diversity of views, which is the worst thing you could tell a leftist.

00:15:01.860 They believe in diversity of every kind except of views.

00:15:05.860 Elon Musk says he wants to have right and left represented, for example, while the left doesn't believe in that.

00:15:12.860 There's one thing that he's announced already, which I just get a real kick out of.

00:15:16.860 I'm not sure if you're on Twitter.

00:15:18.860 There are hundreds of millions of people on Twitter.

00:15:21.860 And like other social media like YouTube and Facebook, you can get a little blue checkmark that verifies you are who you are.

00:15:29.860 It's useful, for example, if you're a big sports celebrity or a big politician and someone else might have a fake account that is a fan account or a critical account or a parody account that's very similar to your own.

00:15:45.860 I mean, Donald Trump's Twitter handle was real Donald Trump.

00:15:49.860 I presume that means someone else already took Donald Trump.

00:15:53.860 And how did you know it was the real president?

00:15:56.860 Well, he had that little blue checkmark.

00:15:58.860 So the blue checkmark was a way of verifying you are who you said you are.

00:16:01.860 But you couldn't just ask to be verified.

00:16:03.860 It was like a secret fraternity.

00:16:05.860 You had to be invited.

00:16:07.860 Or sometimes it just happened and you didn't know why.

00:16:10.860 It was an insider's club, a kind of aristocracy, not a meritocracy.

00:16:15.860 And it was sort of a pedigree like, I don't know, going to an Ivy League university instead of just a community college.

00:16:22.860 And one of the things that Elon Musk has announced is that he will let anyone verify their account for eight bucks a month.

00:16:31.860 He originally was thinking about 20 bucks a month.

00:16:33.860 Now, you should think, well, that's a good idea.

00:16:36.860 Everyone should be able to verify that it's them.

00:16:39.860 On many apps, we have to verify it's you.

00:16:41.860 When you set up a banking app on your cell phone, you have to verify that it's you with a password.

00:16:47.860 Certain apps, you have to show a picture of your passport or other ID.

00:16:52.860 So the idea that you identify who you are on Twitter and have the ability to buy that,

00:16:57.860 it seems sort of obvious, especially when one of the criticisms of social media is there's a lot of fake accounts and bots or robots.

00:17:04.860 No robot is going to spend eight dollars a month and have their account verified.

00:17:09.860 But the thing is, it doesn't just mean a source of revenue for Twitter.

00:17:13.860 I mean, imagine if a hundred million people decided to get verified.

00:17:17.860 I don't think that many will.

00:17:19.860 Let's say ten million people get verified.

00:17:22.860 Every month, that's eight bucks times ten million people.

00:17:26.860 That's almost a billion dollars a year when you think about it, right?

00:17:30.860 A billion dollars in revenue just from letting people verify themselves.

00:17:34.860 It's a great business idea for Twitter, but it's also useful for individuals to say, yes, this really is me.

00:17:41.860 And I think it could improve the Twitter experience in that you would know someone was real and not just some robot.

00:17:47.860 But the reaction to this has been gorgeous.

00:17:50.860 Here's a tweet by Stephen King, the horror author, who is outraged, outraged that he would have to pay anything for the privilege of reading his tweets.

00:18:03.860 He says he should get paid.

00:18:05.860 No, he's not mad that he'll have to pay eight bucks.

00:18:09.860 The guy's a gazillionaire.

00:18:11.860 He's mad that the lowly peasants can get the same status as he has.

00:18:16.860 He wants to be special, and that's what he thinks the blue verified checkmark is about.

00:18:20.860 He doesn't want just the hoi polloi to have it.

00:18:23.860 You've probably heard of Stephen King.

00:18:25.860 He's one of the best-selling horror fiction novelists of the generation.

00:18:30.860 But Rachel Gilmore, you probably haven't heard of her.

00:18:33.860 She's the TikTok queen of global news, which is pretty low on the totem pole.

00:18:38.860 But she has that blue verified checkmark. 0.88

00:18:42.860 And she, for the same reasons as Stephen King, is appalled that mere peasants will be able to buy her verified status.

00:18:51.860 She is quite a piece of work.

00:18:54.860 She tweets how proud she is of her, I don't know, third, fourth, fifth jab.

00:18:58.860 She actually made this little video about why you should not allow unvaccinated people over to your family Christmas dinner. 1.00

00:19:06.860 I don't know if you ever saw this. Take a look.

00:19:08.860 Are you going to invite your unvaccinated relatives to sit at the dinner table with you this Thanksgiving? 0.99

00:19:13.860 Experts are saying you might not want to risk it.

00:19:16.860 Here's why.

00:19:17.860 According to one expert from McMaster University, vaccines are super effective.

00:19:22.860 But they're most effective when you're surrounded by other vaccinated people.

00:19:27.860 If you invite someone who isn't vaccinated, there's a risk of having a breakthrough case.

00:19:32.860 Now, breakthrough cases are pretty rare.

00:19:34.860 There's only ever been about 8,000 in Ontario, but kids can't get vaccinated yet.

00:19:39.860 So part of keeping those kids as safe as possible is telling that one uncle who chooses not to get vaccinated that he might have to sit this one out.

00:19:46.860 One bioethicist said that that's actually the more ethical thing to do.

00:19:50.860 She also said you should try talking to your relatives about how safe vaccination is.

00:19:54.860 The best way to do that is to start the conversation from a place of respect and empathy.

00:19:59.860 Say things like, I understand you're feeling pressure.

00:20:01.860 I know you're freaked out, but here's why this is important.

00:20:04.860 You can read more at globalnews.ca.

00:20:07.860 So she is part of the chosen, the elite.

00:20:11.860 And this tweet here just got me laughing.

00:20:13.860 No, no, we can't let anyone think they're like me or you, she says to her fancy people.

00:20:19.860 I love it, I love it, I love it that the peasants are going to be allowed to get verified. 0.97

00:20:23.860 Now, I read a report that General Motors is questioning whether it wants to even advertise anymore on Twitter.

00:20:29.860 Yeah, it could be, I'm not sure if that report's even accurate, but then again when you remember that Elon Musk is also the CEO of Tesla,

00:20:38.860 which is a larger market capitalization than General Motors and is generally eating their lunch when it comes to electric cars,

00:20:43.860 maybe that's on their mind as well.

00:20:46.860 Elon Musk took over the company and he has publicly mused about slashing the workforce by as much as three quarters.

00:20:52.860 There's an implication there that a lot of people at Twitter are not actually engineers doing anything useful,

00:20:58.860 but they're rather woke bureaucrats who are busy banning people.

00:21:03.860 I think I love the idea that Elon Musk thinks the people there are surplus.

00:21:08.860 And one of the things that he's done is he's frozen the dashboard by which bureaucrats are able to censor people.

00:21:15.860 He's put that on pause until the U.S. election is over. I like that a lot.

00:21:20.860 Now, I don't know if you've heard about TikTok, which is a younger demographic.

00:21:24.860 It's a very video based social media app. I think the average age of a TikTok user is probably under 20.

00:21:30.860 It is owned by a Chinese company called ByteDance.

00:21:34.860 And it is very clear that TikTok is an asset of the People's Liberation Army, of the Chinese security services.

00:21:43.860 They say as much in their ownership and the laws of China and their privacy statements.

00:21:49.860 TikTok tracks where you are. It tracks your gestures, how you look at it.

00:21:55.860 It tracks your list of friends. It tracks everything about you.

00:21:59.860 And as all Chinese Internet companies have to do, it allows the state security services unfettered, continuous access to all its data.

00:22:08.860 So TikTok knows everything about its users.

00:22:11.860 And for that reason, some in America have called for TikTok to be banned.

00:22:15.860 I think it's safe to say that if TikTok is an asset of the Chinese deep state, Twitter is an asset of the CIA and the FBI. 0.89

00:22:24.860 I don't think that that's a shocking thing to say.

00:22:27.860 In fact, if you look at the old board of directors of Twitter, and I did this a few months ago,

00:22:32.860 many of them are from the foreign policy deep state establishment.

00:22:36.860 It's really weird to see all these CIA and State Department types on the board of a tech company.

00:22:41.860 They don't know anything about tech.

00:22:43.860 They don't know anything about computer science and engineering.

00:22:45.860 They don't know anything about marketing.

00:22:47.860 But that's not the value of Twitter.

00:22:49.860 The value of Twitter is who is on it and what they say and what they do and what they say in their private messages.

00:22:57.860 Again, if you're not a Twitter user, you might not know this.

00:23:00.860 But one of the ways to talk to other Twitter users is with a direct message.

00:23:03.860 It's like a private communication with someone else.

00:23:06.860 But the terms of service on Twitter say everything you type is the property of Twitter.

00:23:12.860 They own it.

00:23:13.860 So if you're a politician, if you're a lawyer, if you're an activist talking to anyone else on Twitter, that private communication is owned by Twitter.

00:23:23.860 You can see why the CIA and the FBI would find that very valuable.

00:23:27.860 Imagine all the data.

00:23:29.860 Imagine all the private messages amongst world leaders in any language.

00:23:33.860 It's why there have been reports over the years of, for example, Saudi nationals spying on Twitter users for their own government, including on dissidents.

00:23:43.860 There was the deep state in Twitter.

00:23:46.860 Now Elon Musk owns all that.

00:23:48.860 I'd say that makes him more powerful even than the finances of this do.

00:23:53.860 You know, the left, whenever conservatives would complain, for example, when Twitter banned the story of Hunter Biden's laptop, which is a legitimate factually accurate story.

00:24:02.860 When Twitter banned that from being circulated weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservatives obviously complained that that rigged the election, which it surely did.

00:24:13.860 But the left said, well, build your own Twitter, buy your own Twitter.

00:24:17.860 Well, Elon Musk did, and they did not like that.

00:24:20.860 They never meant that.

00:24:21.860 They never thought anyone would actually build or buy Twitter.

00:24:26.860 My rule of thumb is don't trust anyone, really.

00:24:31.860 Trust your family.

00:24:32.860 Trust your friends.

00:24:33.860 Trust people you know.

00:24:34.860 But I don't think you can trust politicians or big tech oligarchs.

00:24:39.860 I like Elon Musk for sure.

00:24:41.860 But he's not a savior.

00:24:44.860 I mean, as you may know, although he has libertarian leanings and I think has some great qualities, he is a China exposed businessman.

00:24:54.860 What I mean by that is that Tesla hopes to make it big in China.

00:24:58.860 They have a factory in China.

00:25:00.860 And anyone who does business in China cannot rely on the rule of law.

00:25:04.860 They have to rely on their relationship with the Communist Party.

00:25:07.860 I do have a worry that China will put pressure on Elon Musk as the owner of Twitter to give the kind of information to the government that TikTok does and that China could put pressure on Elon Musk to crack down on its enemies, whether it's Taiwan or Tibetans or the Falun Gong.

00:25:27.860 I'm worried about it.

00:25:28.860 But still, it's amazing to see, especially the freak out on the left as Twitter has stopped from putting its thumb on the scale in the lead up to the U.S. midterm elections.

00:25:37.860 Look, there are other social media companies out there.

00:25:40.860 Facebook owns Instagram.

00:25:42.860 YouTube owns Google.

00:25:45.860 They are censorship machines.

00:25:49.860 They're working with Justin Trudeau.

00:25:52.860 That's not a conspiracy theory.

00:25:53.860 They are part of Justin Trudeau's plans to give cash to Trudeau approved media.

00:25:59.860 As you know, Justin Trudeau has a massive media bailout, hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers money.

00:26:05.860 But he has coerced Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram into matching him.

00:26:10.860 And going forward in Canada, the number one source of revenue for journalism will be Justin Trudeau.

00:26:15.860 And the number two source will be Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

00:26:19.860 And they are working with Trudeau on his censorship.

00:26:23.860 Justin Trudeau was asked about Elon Musk and his freedom orientation.

00:26:27.860 Trudeau had this to say.

00:26:29.860 Is there a way to reconsider how it uses Twitter, the takeover by Elon Musk?

00:26:33.860 I think there's a lot of people reflecting on the best way to continue to connect with citizens.

00:26:39.860 People spend a lot of time on social media.

00:26:41.860 They get much of their news and information from social media.

00:26:43.860 And the government will continue to make sure that we're sharing what we're doing

00:26:48.860 and making sure that people are getting the facts on issues.

00:26:51.860 We will continue to evaluate how we choose to communicate with Canadians.

00:26:55.860 That's a very passive aggressive way of saying, yeah, well maybe we won't do business with Twitter anymore.

00:27:00.860 Imagine if Elon Musk were to make it a level playing field again for conservatives like us.

00:27:06.860 Versus being throttled and down ranked.

00:27:09.860 Imagine if we at Rebel News were ever monetized.

00:27:13.860 And that's one of the things Elon Musk is talking about doing.

00:27:15.860 Talking about letting content creators like us actually make money on Twitter.

00:27:19.860 We don't make money on Twitter.

00:27:20.860 But if we did, it could be a significant source of revenue.

00:27:23.860 We used to make a lot of money on YouTube until five and a half years ago when YouTube banned us because we were too Trumpy.

00:27:30.860 I think censorship is the front line of so many battles these days.

00:27:34.860 It certainly was during the pandemic.

00:27:36.860 I saw this terrible story in Black Locks, one of the few independent media left in this country,

00:27:42.860 about Black Locks being threatened by other journalists in the media party club.

00:27:47.860 It's all the insiders versus Black Locks threatening to kick them out. 0.99

00:27:52.860 One of the reasons is Black Locks criticized other journalists for taking Trudeau money.

00:27:57.860 And in turn, they want to silence Black Locks. 0.99

00:27:59.860 What a world we're in.

00:28:02.860 So much has happened.

00:28:04.860 Hey, I'm going to keep doing journalism in Canada.

00:28:07.860 I appreciate you letting me leave the country to go to my friend Avi's wedding.

00:28:11.860 You know, they say weddings are optional, funerals are mandatory.

00:28:15.860 But it is such a pleasure to go to a friend's wedding and just to be there at that moment.

00:28:19.860 I'm glad I went.

00:28:20.860 Avi's great.

00:28:21.860 And our little team in Australia is doing great, too.

00:28:23.860 I want to invite you to something that's going on that you can meet our rebels here in Canada.

00:28:29.860 We're setting up two conferences, one in Toronto on November 19th, one in Calgary on November 26th.

00:28:36.860 A day-long conference.

00:28:38.860 We're calling it Rebel News Live.

00:28:40.860 And we're having amazing guest speakers.

00:28:42.860 Basically, your favorite rebels and some of our favorite guests.

00:28:45.860 Everybody getting a 20-minute speech.

00:28:47.860 So, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:28:49.860 Throughout the day, there'll be, I don't know, 10 or more 20-minute speeches and breakfast and lunch.

00:28:53.860 It'll be fun to meet Tamara Leach. 0.98

00:28:55.860 She's going to be one of our keynote speakers.

00:28:59.860 Arthur Pawlowski, your favorite on-air rebels and a surprise guest I won't mention now.

00:29:05.860 You can go to rebelnewslive.com and get your tickets.

00:29:09.860 You can still get that early bird rate.

00:29:11.860 It's a whole day.

00:29:13.860 You get a light breakfast and a hearty lunch.

00:29:16.860 There's merch.

00:29:17.860 You can get your Rebel t-shirts and stuff.

00:29:19.860 I think the funnest part, besides listening to stars like Tamara Leach and Arthur Pawlowski,

00:29:24.860 will be meeting your fellow rebels, your fellow Rebel fans and viewers.

00:29:27.860 So, please, tickets are selling fast.

00:29:30.860 Go to rebelnewslive.com.

00:29:31.860 I'll be at both.

00:29:32.860 I'll see you there, as will much of our team.

00:29:35.860 Stay with us.

00:29:36.860 More ahead with Mark Morano.

00:29:49.860 Welcome back.

00:29:50.860 Well, I have some bad news, and it relates to media freedom.

00:29:53.860 As you know, it is our tradition to send journalists to cover United Nations conferences around the world.

00:29:59.860 These conferences are often lavish, luxurious affairs for the bureaucrats, diplomats, politicians, and lobbyists who attend them.

00:30:08.860 We go there to do the opposite, to work hard and try and hold them to account.

00:30:12.860 Because, of course, when you're at these four- and five-star get-togethers, you don't have the normal checks and balances or transparency that you would have if you're making decisions, say, in a local city council or even a national parliament.

00:30:26.860 That's one of the reasons they love these get-togethers.

00:30:29.860 They're amongst friends only, and they're not used to prickly questions.

00:30:33.860 For nearly ten years, Rebel News has sent Sheila Gunn-Reed and other reporters to the global warming conferences hosted by the U.M. 0.83

00:30:43.860 Sheila was there in Morocco.

00:30:46.860 Very interesting footage.

00:30:48.860 I don't know if you remember this from a few years ago.

00:30:50.860 This made me laugh out loud.

00:30:51.860 She saw an electric car charging station in the desert, leaned on it, and it bent on it.

00:30:58.860 It was fake!

00:30:59.860 It was fake!

00:31:00.860 Do you remember this video?

00:31:01.860 And here's what happened in Marrakesh.

00:31:03.860 Well, it was exactly what I expected.

00:31:05.860 In the middle of this old-world city is this big, fake, plastic, tarped complex.

00:31:11.860 It was a big, fake city, really, built in the middle of the desert with fake plywood buildings, fake cobblestone sidewalks, acres and acres of parking lots built specially for the conference.

00:31:22.860 And there were fake decorative fountains and fake restaurants.

00:31:26.860 And then this.

00:31:27.860 They watered the desert a couple of times per day just to keep the dust off the fancy people's expensive shoes while they walked into meetings to discuss water conservation policies and force you and me to use low-flow toilets in our home. 0.99

00:31:43.860 And just to remind the climate hypocrites what sort of fakers they really are, the complex was conveniently located under the flight path to the airport as a less than subtle memory jog that they're just as addicted to fossil fuels as I am.

00:31:59.860 There were idling limos, SUVs, and buses belonging to the international delegations. 0.69

00:32:04.860 And it was all day, every day that we were there.

00:32:07.860 I counted 12 buses idling in one day.

00:32:10.860 And it never changed.

00:32:11.860 It was constantly idling vehicles.

00:32:13.860 There were trash cans and recycling bins that no one knew how to use.

00:32:17.860 Now, these are the same politicians writing policies that make you and I sort our garbage at home.

00:32:23.860 Here they are, not following their own rules in the place where they come to make the policies about our garbage cans.

00:32:29.860 There were the ancient, archaic taxis deckled up like NASCARs to promote the conference that hadn't seen a tune-up in years.

00:32:36.860 And while we were out on the street watching taxis, the smog was literally choking us.

00:32:41.860 And this was right in front of the conference.

00:32:44.860 There were the electric car chargers that we never saw anyone use.

00:32:49.860 But there was a good reason for that.

00:32:51.860 When I leaned on one of them and nearly knocked it over, we discovered the chargers were fake too, like everything else at the conference.

00:32:59.860 They had no batteries in them and they weren't even hooked up to anything.

00:33:04.860 Oh, we learned so much.

00:33:05.860 They watered the desert every morning to keep the dust off the shoes of the delegates.

00:33:10.860 Then they told you that you had to conserve water.

00:33:13.860 Now, the reason I mentioned Morocco, it's a semi-free country.

00:33:18.860 It's not a totally free country, but it's not a harsh regime like, say, Iran or North Korea.

00:33:23.860 That said, when Sheila asked this fair but firm question of a Canadian delegate,

00:33:30.860 the Canadian government instructed the United Nations never to accredit Rebel News again.

00:33:38.860 Here's the question that did it.

00:33:39.860 Nice to meet you.

00:33:40.860 Hi, I'm Kevin.

00:33:41.860 Hi, Kevin.

00:33:42.860 Rachel, you got a card?

00:33:43.860 Yeah.

00:33:44.860 This is my staff.

00:33:45.860 Great.

00:33:46.860 Okay.

00:33:47.860 Sorry.

00:33:48.860 And for which organization?

00:33:52.860 No, sorry.

00:33:53.860 We're actually not available.

00:33:54.860 We're on our way to another meeting.

00:33:55.860 Well, he just agreed to speak to us.

00:33:58.860 But he just agreed to speak to us.

00:34:02.860 Why are you not speaking to us?

00:34:03.860 Is it just us in particular?

00:34:05.860 Is it just us in particular that you don't want to speak to?

00:34:12.860 Is it just...

00:34:14.860 We have to go to our next meeting now?

00:34:15.860 Thank you.

00:34:16.860 Why don't you want to speak to us?

00:34:18.860 Do I seem unpleasant or...

00:34:21.860 Was I rude?

00:34:24.860 I go, I don't understand why you won't speak to us.

00:34:29.860 You were just sitting there speaking to a bunch of people.

00:34:34.860 Are you worried I might ask a difficult question?

00:34:37.860 Nope.

00:34:38.860 This isn't going to look good, you running away from me.

00:34:43.860 You know that, right?

00:34:45.860 I think that's a pretty fair question.

00:34:47.860 But when we went to apply to the United Nations UN climate conference the next year, this is what they showed us.

00:34:54.860 The Canadian government had blackballed us.

00:34:57.860 Well, that doesn't stop us.

00:34:59.860 We continue to go to these conferences and simply report on them from outside the building.

00:35:04.860 You might think that would stop us.

00:35:05.860 No way.

00:35:06.860 We did some of our best journalism because, of course, the delegates spill out into the streets and restaurants.

00:35:11.860 Here's a clip of Sheila in Germany.

00:35:14.860 I'm here at the UN climate change conference in Bonn, Germany.

00:35:17.860 And the entire conference is set along the banks of the Rhine River.

00:35:22.860 Yesterday, right in front of the conference, we saw some pretty interesting boats.

00:35:25.860 We saw a couple of fuel tankers going down the river.

00:35:28.860 We even saw a barge moving coal down the river.

00:35:32.860 And today, right behind me, we found the Greenpeace boat.

00:35:36.860 Now, it's built, specially designed, in fact, for Greenpeace to look like a sailboat.

00:35:42.860 But when you look up the specs of the boat, you can see that it uses low sulfur diesel.

00:35:47.860 Those masts there, they don't really hold sails.

00:35:50.860 They hold signs.

00:35:52.860 That's the only useful thing that those masts do. 0.98

00:35:55.860 Like everything else here at the climate change conference, this is just an optical illusion behind me.

00:36:01.860 Greenpeace, just like you and I, need fossil fuels to get their job done too.

00:36:06.860 And here she is in Poland.

00:36:08.860 We're here in Katowice, Poland, covering the United Nations climate change conference.

00:36:12.860 We're not allowed inside the conference because the Canadian government asked the United Nations to ban us.

00:36:17.860 And, of course, the United Nations complied.

00:36:19.860 So, we're doing a lot of coverage from outside the conference.

00:36:23.860 And I think it's equally important to cover the people of Katowice and their response to the United Nations

00:36:30.860 as it is to cover anything that the United Nations does.

00:36:33.860 We're at the Christmas market in downtown Katowice.

00:36:37.860 And we noticed a few things right off the hop while we were here.

00:36:42.860 There's a lot of overt symbols of Christianity here.

00:36:46.860 A massive nativity scene.

00:36:49.860 Lots of Christmas ornaments.

00:36:51.860 Angels.

00:36:52.860 It is very, very Christian.

00:36:54.860 There's a lot of iconography here.

00:36:56.860 There's another very important thing that we noticed here.

00:36:58.860 And it is the lack of security.

00:37:01.860 The lack of police presence.

00:37:03.860 The lack of military presence.

00:37:05.860 And the lack of Angela Merkel's diversity barriers.

00:37:09.860 You see, these Christmas markets here in Poland, they are not targets for Islamic terrorism the way Christmas markets in Germany and the rest of Western Europe are.

00:37:21.860 Because Poland has a strong commitment to strong borders.

00:37:26.860 They stand firmly against mass Muslim migration.

00:37:30.860 In fact, there's the ongoing consensus here in Poland that their country is headed towards too much secularization when up to 90% of the population is practicing Catholic.

00:37:44.860 So, our experience here on the ground is that Poland is a very, very safe place.

00:37:50.860 And that's due in strong part to their commitment to strong borders.

00:37:54.860 Which is in stark contrast to the things the United Nations wants Poland to do with their United Nations Compact on Migration.

00:38:03.860 My point is that didn't stop us at all.

00:38:05.860 But Egypt, Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt, which is this year's location for the Global Warming Conference, it's a different thing.

00:38:14.860 Because if you don't have official press credentials and you try doing accountability style journalism like we specialize in, it's not the German police or the Scottish police or the Mexican police.

00:38:29.860 We're talking about police in a semi-free or unfree country that they are not gentle.

00:38:37.860 And we consulted a lawyer in Cairo, and another lawyer, and we were left with the belief that if we went to do our accountability style journalism at the UN Global Warming Conference this year, as we have in years past, that we ran a real risk of our reporters being thrown in jail.

00:38:57.860 And I simply was not willing to let that happen.

00:39:00.860 However, we have a friend on the inside who is officially credentialed, not as a journalist, but rather as an NGO.

00:39:10.860 You know who I'm talking about.

00:39:12.860 Because he's been going to these global warming conferences before even we've been.

00:39:16.860 I think he's been to pretty much all of them.

00:39:19.860 His name is Mark Morano.

00:39:21.860 He's the boss of ClimateDepot.com.

00:39:23.860 I think he probably knows more about the global warming wars than anyone else.

00:39:29.860 And I'm delighted to have him join us now via Skype from the Washington, D.C. area before he hops on a plane to Egypt tomorrow.

00:39:36.860 Mark, great to see you.

00:39:38.860 Thank you, Ezra.

00:39:39.860 Happy to be here.

00:39:40.860 And I've been going to these since 2002.

00:39:42.860 This will be my 20th year, I guess.

00:39:45.860 The first one I went to was the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

00:39:50.860 That was the summit where Colin Powell, the national security adviser to George Bush, got booed by the U.N. delegation.

00:39:57.860 And Robert Mugabe, the brutal dictator seizing white-owned farmland, was cheered and praised by all the delegates at that conference.

00:40:05.860 Well, listen, global warming is like a Rorschach test.

00:40:08.860 It's like an ink blot.

00:40:10.860 You can use it to justify whatever left-wing scheme you want from socialism and communism to lockdowns to race theory.

00:40:20.860 I mean, it really is the everything sauce for the left.

00:40:25.860 You can justify everything and anything in the name of climate these days, can't you?

00:40:30.860 You can, and they do.

00:40:32.860 A new study out today is talking about how rainbows, I think, are going to be more frequent due to climate change.

00:40:37.860 That sounds wonderful.

00:40:39.860 Well, then, of course, you see the studies that say autumn leaves will be duller.

00:40:43.860 Autumn leaves will be more colorful.

00:40:45.860 And then there's the studies that say the fog will be more fog, less fog.

00:40:50.860 And they make so many contradictory studies, Ezra, that no matter what happens, they're right. 0.92

00:40:56.860 It's like picking two teams to win at the big sporting event.

00:40:59.860 You could always say, I picked the winner.

00:41:01.860 That's right.

00:41:02.860 And they're right.

00:41:03.860 The climate models worked, no matter what happens.

00:41:05.860 You know, it's really funny.

00:41:06.860 And you and I have talked about a dozen times about that kookiness. 0.60

00:41:11.860 But I want to talk about Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt itself.

00:41:13.860 Yeah.

00:41:14.860 You know, I mean, if you believe in the concept of the United Nations, and I'm not sure if I do, but if you believe in a place where countries can meet together, countries that aren't necessarily the best of friends, you're going to have some rough characters there.

00:41:28.860 I mean, it's like Shimon Peres of Israel said, you make peace with your enemies, not your friends.

00:41:33.860 So if you're going to meet at an international meeting, you're going to have some rough customers.

00:41:38.860 And I'd say Egypt is a rough-ish customer. 1.00

00:41:41.860 They're not a tyranny, but they're not free either.

00:41:46.860 And I'm a little upset that we can't send our reporters because there's a real risk of them being arrested.

00:41:51.860 I think it's actually, in a way, Canada's fault, though, because they instructed the UN not to accredit us.

00:41:58.860 If we were accredited like you are, I think our journalists would probably be safe.

00:42:03.860 But Canada told the UN, do not let Rebel News in.

00:42:09.860 Wow.

00:42:10.860 I mean, yeah.

00:42:11.860 So we're going, as you mentioned, as an NGO.

00:42:13.860 I've gone as media in the past to these.

00:42:16.860 I've actually, you know, little known fact, I was actually banned for life as well from the UN.

00:42:21.860 The same year, Morocco, that she found, I guess, the fake solar generator, electric car generators, Sheila Gunn-Reed found that.

00:42:28.860 I did the cardboard cutout of Donald Trump with a paper shredder.

00:42:32.860 And I literally shredded the United Nations Paris Climate Agreement.

00:42:36.860 This would have been in November 2016, a week after Donald Trump was elected or won the election.

00:42:42.860 And I was immediately descended upon by armed United Nations climate cops.

00:42:47.860 They marched me and Craig Rucker, a CFAC, out into the desert.

00:42:50.860 We had to wander several football field lengths.

00:42:53.860 And then they came back around the armed climate police and they seized all the papers from my book bag, my briefcase.

00:42:59.860 And so and then, of course, we got banned.

00:43:02.860 Now, the following year, we had to do a, you know, a I am sorry letter and meeting.

00:43:08.860 And we did all that. So we have to really behave and watch ourselves according to UN protocols, even though none of the other NGOs ever have to watch themselves and behave.

00:43:16.860 If you if you err on the correct side of the policy, you're given a free pass.

00:43:20.860 So we're looking forward to it.

00:43:22.860 And I believe with the news that rebel news isn't going to be there.

00:43:25.860 I don't know that there'll be any other dissenting voices anywhere in all of Egypt during this conference.

00:43:30.860 I'm not aware of anyone who's going.

00:43:32.860 Any Republicans that go in the US will probably be supporting the UN agreement. 0.95

00:43:36.860 That's how pathetic many in the Republican Party have become. 0.97

00:43:39.860 Huh. You know what? You're right. 1.00

00:43:41.860 And hearing you say that makes me sad because I've enjoyed the fact that we have been independent, skeptical journalists.

00:43:47.860 I mean, we just got back from another UN event in Berlin, Germany, the World Health Summit.

00:43:53.860 We just got back from the C40 mayor's summit in Buenos Aires, which is a climate anti fossil fuel, anti meat summit.

00:44:04.860 So we love being the only independent people in a room, Mark.

00:44:08.860 And now you're making me sad when I realized we won't be there in Egypt.

00:44:11.860 I just you know, the the idea, God forbid, may it never happen of our people being arrested and put in an Egyptian jail. 0.88

00:44:19.860 I just could I couldn't risk that.

00:44:22.860 I wouldn't risk that for myself.

00:44:23.860 And I would certainly not risk that for our wonderful staff like Sheila makes me a little bit sad.

00:44:28.860 But, you know, that's that's the UN for you. And that's Egypt. 0.96

00:44:31.860 And what you said happened to you in Morocco is a reminder that this is real.

00:44:36.860 They will have armed police come and arrest you if you do something anti climate.

00:44:41.860 It's just a fact in some of these countries. It's it's a shocking reminder what you went through.

00:44:45.860 And I think you're sort of tough, like you're you're savvy and you worldly.

00:44:50.860 I mean, not that Sheila isn't, but I wouldn't want some of our younger journalists to be put through what you were put through in Morocco.

00:44:56.860 Yeah. And, you know, frankly, we'll see.

00:44:58.860 I may end up seeing the inside of an Egyptian jail cell.

00:45:01.860 Knock on wood actually is a metal table.

00:45:03.860 But who knows what's going to happen? I intend to cover this.

00:45:06.860 I mean, this is going to be I call it the cover your rear end summit.

00:45:11.860 I mean, we're seeing the entire United Nations climate agenda.

00:45:15.860 The fruits of it laid bare across of Europe, across Canada, across the United States.

00:45:21.860 We're seeing the intentional shutdown of energy with energy blackouts.

00:45:25.860 We're seeing intentional collapse of our agricultural system with the net zero goal of collapsing modern high yield agriculture and collapsing animal agriculture, making meat rare and expensive per United Nations goals.

00:45:38.860 We're seeing the collapse of transportation with the banning of gas powered cars and mandating of electric cars, making all the world kind of like the vintage car capital of Cuba or like Eastern Germany, East Germany, where they only had one government approved car.

00:45:54.860 No, not the electric car, but the old crappy East German Trabant. 1.00

00:45:58.860 Right. And then, of course, we're seeing the collapse of our free speech rights as as are literally as a corporate government collusion globally are making sure that governments aren't necessarily violating your free speech.

00:46:10.860 They're farming it out to their in collusion with big corporate partners.

00:46:15.860 So you look around the world and you see wood more valuable than gold in Europe.

00:46:20.860 You see forests being felled. You see massive blackouts and possible high death rates among particularly seniors.

00:46:27.860 And what is the U.N. going to do? They're going to double down as is Joe Biden and I'm sure Justin Trudeau and say this is a great opportunity.

00:46:34.860 All this chaos to now have a great a faster transition than we thought.

00:46:39.860 And that's the insanity that is the United Nations conference in Egypt that I'll be attending.

00:46:44.860 Yeah. You know, when the new chancellor of Germany met with Justin Trudeau, he practically begged Canada to replace Russian conflict oil and gas with Canadian ethical oil and gas.

00:46:56.860 But Trudeau said, no, no, we're going to help you with clean, green technologies.

00:47:00.860 Yeah, they don't need that, brother. They need natural gas.

00:47:03.860 Let me ask you this, because I was you know, I spent some time a couple of weeks ago going through that detailed New York Times poll.

00:47:10.860 And I'm saying New York Times poll because it was shockingly full of bad news for Biden and the midterm Democrats.

00:47:17.860 And to see it in the New York Times means that some people on the left know they're in trouble.

00:47:22.860 Everyone's worried about the economy. I mean, the top three concerns were all synonyms for the economy.

00:47:29.860 Jobs, inflation, affordability, you know, growth and climate change was so far down.

00:47:36.860 By the way, the pandemic was less than zero point point five percent.

00:47:41.860 No one in America is concerned about that other than the media class.

00:47:44.860 But here's the thing. The U.S. midterms are days away.

00:47:49.860 Americans are rightly riveted to their own prosperity.

00:47:54.860 Is Joe Biden going to do or say anything goofy, either personally or through his surrogate, John Kerry, his health is climate ambassador that will confirm in the mind, say, of Pennsylvania.

00:48:09.860 There's a lot of it's a real battleground this year, Pennsylvania, the Senate, the governor.

00:48:14.860 There's a real battleground. Are you going to have John Kerry saying I'm against fracking?

00:48:20.860 Are you going to have Joe Biden saying we're going to get off oil? 0.91

00:48:23.860 Are they going to do something dumb in these final days of the midterm campaign?

00:48:27.860 I don't think I'm particularly not in Pennsylvania. I think they got the message there. 0.97

00:48:33.860 Dr. Oz, his opponent, the Republican is surging in Virginia and Pennsylvania.

00:48:38.860 And probably part of the reason is, is that his opponent has had a stroke and has been all over the place on fracking as well.

00:48:46.860 You know, he had multiple incidences of saying he went to ban fracking.

00:48:49.860 And now in his post stroke adult mental state, he tried to he tried to literally say I'm for fracking now.

00:48:56.860 He could barely get the sentence out. So I think they'll be careful.

00:48:59.860 But there's an important thing here. Joe Biden is going to this U.N. summit in Egypt three days after the midterms.

00:49:05.860 You may ask that's always going after he's going after.

00:49:09.860 Now, here's the key. He's going because where else where else but to go to Egypt to get away after your party takes what looks to be a likely bloodbath.

00:49:18.860 In the midterm elections. That's a great escape for Joe Biden.

00:49:22.860 And probably the number one reason he's attending this conference in person.

00:49:25.860 Isn't that funny?

00:49:27.860 He's timing it so he goes afterwards to get away from his party.

00:49:31.860 And so he can make an announcement before after the votes.

00:49:35.860 You mentioned two things I just want to show our viewers.

00:49:37.860 First is here's what I think was the most important exchange between Joe Biden and Donald Trump in the 2020 leadership debates in America.

00:49:45.860 When Biden says, I want to transition off oil and gas, Trump said, are you serious?

00:49:50.860 And Biden said, yeah, he really meant it. Look at this exchange. Remember this?

00:49:54.860 One final question. Would he close down the oil industry?

00:49:57.860 It's false. Would you close down the oil industry?

00:49:59.860 Do I have a transition from the oil industry? Yes.

00:50:02.860 Oh, that's a big statement.

00:50:03.860 I would transition. It is a big statement.

00:50:04.860 That's a big statement.

00:50:05.860 Because I would stop.

00:50:06.860 Why would you do that?

00:50:07.860 Because the oil industry pollutes significantly.

00:50:10.860 Oh, I see.

00:50:11.860 Here's the deal.

00:50:12.860 That's a big statement.

00:50:13.860 Well, if you let me finish the statement, because it has to be replaced by renewable energy over time, over time.

00:50:20.860 And I'd stop giving to the oil industry.

00:50:23.860 I'd stop giving them federal subsidies.

00:50:25.860 You won't give federal subsidies to the gas.

00:50:28.860 Excuse me.

00:50:29.860 To the to solar and wind.

00:50:32.860 Yeah.

00:50:33.860 Why are we giving it to oil industry? 0.97

00:50:34.860 We actually do the solar and wind.

00:50:36.860 It takes everything out of context.

00:50:37.860 But the point is, look, we have to move toward a net zero emissions.

00:50:43.860 The first place to do that by the year 2035 is an energy production by 2050.

00:50:48.860 Totally.

00:50:49.860 Well, he's doing it.

00:50:50.860 It's sort of weird because he's begging Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to make more oil.

00:50:54.860 So he's not against oil.

00:50:55.860 He's just against American oil.

00:50:57.860 And here's that.

00:50:58.860 You mentioned that candidate Fetterman in Pennsylvania who had a stroke.

00:51:03.860 I just want to show a clip of him all over the map on fracking.

00:51:07.860 And I'd be in a Western Pennsylvania.

00:51:09.860 That state was saved economically by the fracking boom.

00:51:13.860 Here's Fetterman who, I mean, the guy, I think he's being victimized, really.

00:51:18.860 Why would you run a stroke victim as your candidate? 1.00

00:51:22.860 I suppose you could say, why would you run an Alzheimer's victim as your president?

00:51:26.860 But here's Fetterman.

00:51:27.860 Take a look.

00:51:28.860 The moment that stands out that they keep using over and over again is your comment about

00:51:32.860 fracking, your answer to the fracking question.

00:51:35.860 Here it is.

00:51:36.860 There is that 2018 interview that you said, quote, I don't support fracking at all.

00:51:40.860 So how do you square the two?

00:51:43.860 I do support fracking and I don't, I don't, I support fracking and I stand and I do support fracking.

00:51:57.860 Do you understand why people are now questioning your ability to be our senator from the state of Pennsylvania because of moments like that?

00:52:07.860 I believe that my support of fracking has always been, been one that in the past was some of the environmental concerns.

00:52:18.860 In 2018, when running for Lieutenant Governor, you said, I don't support fracking at all and I never have.

00:52:24.860 So to be clear, Lieutenant Governor, do you support fracking now?

00:52:28.860 Yeah.

00:52:29.860 All of the, all of the reservations that I had with fracking were all about the environmental concerns.

00:52:39.860 And Pennsylvania passed some of the strongest environmental regulations.

00:52:44.860 Uh, and that is now, you know, means that, that, that, you know, I've been very supportive about fracking because, uh, energy independence is critical.

00:52:52.860 Uh, and that gets more and more important, you know, given in light of the Ukraine war, uh, to make sure that we can't be, uh, at, uh, hostage to a nation like, like Russia.

00:53:04.860 Um, again, it's, it's all, it was all about the environmental, uh, issues.

00:53:09.860 And again, after the regulations passed, uh, it's, it's a no brainer to support fracking.

00:53:14.860 And I've been, been very strong, a strong supporter of fracking.

00:53:17.860 Gee whiz quick. 0.69

00:53:18.860 Give me a, give me a prediction.

00:53:19.860 Uh, we're shifting gears from climate politics to politics, politics.

00:53:25.860 How's it going to go on election day?

00:53:28.860 Tell me your call for some of the key states.

00:53:30.860 I think Rhonda Sanders is going to win handsomely in Florida. 1.00

00:53:33.860 I don't even think that's in question.

00:53:35.860 What do you think of Pennsylvania?

00:53:36.860 Cause I know, you know, that state well, what do you think the house and the Senate?

00:53:40.860 Will they, what will the outcomes be?

00:53:42.860 I just want to hear your predictions.

00:53:43.860 Cause I know it's going to make me feel better.

00:53:45.860 Okay.

00:53:46.860 I mean, I do predict that Oz is going to beat Fetterman.

00:53:49.860 The Republican will win in Pennsylvania.

00:53:50.860 And I think a lot of it sadly has to do with, uh, he's a stroke victim.

00:53:54.860 And he was so embarrassingly incompetent in that last debate that I don't even think, I think it's

00:54:00.860 got to depress the Pennsylvania voters.

00:54:02.860 But I think over, and I think Arizona, people like Carrie Lake, the governor is going to 0.68

00:54:06.860 win despite the national attention and people like Liz Cheney going there to stop her. 1.00

00:54:10.860 I do believe it may rival 2010 at this point.

00:54:14.860 Given the state of our economy, given the state of energy, given Joe Biden is unpopularity

00:54:20.860 and given just this momentum that's happening.

00:54:22.860 And a lot of this is even covert related.

00:54:25.860 Uh, there's a reckoning, I think now from, and we saw this in my state home state of Virginia

00:54:30.860 with the whole idea of the lockdowns and the vaccine mandates and the mask mandates and,

00:54:36.860 and even things like critical race theory with children and transgender ideology.

00:54:40.860 This is all coming home to roast, roost for the democratic party.

00:54:44.860 It looks like a perfect storm.

00:54:46.860 The issue of course is election integrity.

00:54:48.860 If this were a normal year pre COVID, I would predict a massive, confidently a massive Republican

00:54:54.860 takeover of the Senate and the house governors, huge historic gains.

00:54:58.860 But because a lot of these shenanigans of the easy mail in voting and all that's still accessible,

00:55:04.860 I'm going to hesitate a little, uh, and see now one of the big factors is, uh, as you may not be aware

00:55:10.860 of that, that just coming out and polling here in the United States is African Americans are very unmotivated 0.89

00:55:16.860 to vote in this midterm election.

00:55:19.860 They are not happy with the democratic party and all indications are if they were to stay home,

00:55:24.860 that would even be a bigger bloodbath than many of these polls are indicating.

00:55:27.860 Hmm.

00:55:28.860 Well, it's very exciting.

00:55:29.860 We'll look forward to that.

00:55:30.860 Mark Moreno.

00:55:31.860 Great to see you.

00:55:32.860 Stay safe in Egypt.

00:55:34.860 Uh, and maybe we can even get you doing a few videos from there because it's just too risky

00:55:39.860 for us to be there.

00:55:40.860 Take care of my friend and go ahead.

00:55:43.860 Uh, we got, uh, it's at a resort on the Red Sea in Sharm El Sheikh.

00:55:48.860 So I might be doing it with sunglasses and one of those drinks with a little umbrella in it,

00:55:52.860 but I'll be happy to do segment for you here because the one thing the UN knows how to do is throw a party.

00:55:56.860 Yeah.

00:55:57.860 Ask Sheila.

00:55:58.860 It's absolutely true.

00:55:59.860 That's the one thing they know how to do.

00:56:01.860 Lavish parties.

00:56:02.860 They fly in chefs, caviar, champagne.

00:56:05.860 There've been many articles.

00:56:06.860 The carbon footprint of these conferences exceeds entire African nations for annual output for a year.

00:56:12.860 Wow.

00:56:13.860 Yeah, you're right.

00:56:14.860 I mean, Cairo is one of the world's biggest cities.

00:56:16.860 It's an ancient city.

00:56:17.860 I've never been, but it looks wonderful and fascinating.

00:56:20.860 Sharm El Sheikh is a resort town.

00:56:22.860 So obviously the UN types, that's where they're going to go. 0.99

00:56:25.860 We'll talk to you.

00:56:26.860 I know you'll be working even if you are having the odd pina colada.

00:56:30.860 Take care of my friends.

00:56:31.860 Safe travels.

00:56:32.860 Thank you, Andrew.

00:56:33.860 I appreciate it.

00:56:34.860 There you have it.

00:56:35.860 Mark Morano.

00:56:36.860 He's the boss of climate depot.com and he was accredited as an NGO.

00:56:40.860 So he's safe.

00:56:41.860 We couldn't get that accreditation.

00:56:43.860 So it would just be too risky for us.

00:56:45.860 Forgive me for making that decision.

00:56:47.860 Stay with us.

00:56:48.860 More ahead.

00:56:49.860 You know what?

00:57:01.860 I'm sorry that we won't be able to send our journalists to Egypt.

00:57:04.860 I just want to be careful.

00:57:07.860 And talking to the lawyer in Cairo, you know, I just don't have a comfort with sending people

00:57:13.860 like Sheila Gunn-Reed into a situation where the possibility of them being jailed is as high as it is in Egypt.

00:57:20.860 If we were accredited like Mark Morano, I wouldn't worry about it.

00:57:25.860 But the combination of the UN not accrediting us, Canada denouncing us,

00:57:31.860 and us trying to do accountability journalism in a partly free country like Egypt is just too much risk.

00:57:37.860 It's not even just the risk of being sent home.

00:57:39.860 I wouldn't want our people in an Egyptian jail because I don't think they treat reporters very nice over there 1.00

00:57:45.860 if they regard them as a critic of the regime.

00:57:47.860 It makes me sad, but that's the world we're in.

00:57:49.860 Of course, I do blame Egypt, which has the quasi-police state. 0.99

00:57:52.860 But I mainly blame Canada for blackballing us, don't you think?

00:57:56.860 That's our show for today.

00:57:58.860 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:58:02.860 And keep fighting for freedom.

00:58:05.860 Which has consequences at having us risk more lockdowns because they haven't chosen to get vaccinated yet.

00:58:15.860 That there will be consequences for those people in not being able to go to a gym or a restaurant.

00:58:22.860 Not being able to go to a movie theater.

00:58:24.860 Not being able to get on a train or a plane.

00:58:27.860 The citizens of Alberta celebrated in close contact with loved ones.

00:58:31.860 We simply cannot afford a repeat scenario.

00:58:35.860 So my message is simple.

00:58:37.860 Please follow the rules that are in place.

00:58:41.860 I wasn't allowed to get any of this government money that they were giving everybody.

00:58:46.860 Because I hadn't been open a year.

00:58:48.860 So I couldn't prove my income.

00:58:49.860 I couldn't prove nothing here.

00:58:51.860 So now, we get to open and then they close us again.

00:58:56.860 And it's really hard on our businesses, especially the new ones who have fired up.

00:58:59.860 Because they haven't had the opportunity to get any of the help that the federal government is offering.

00:59:06.860 Because they're new businesses, so they have no criteria to meet.

00:59:09.860 So it's been difficult on them and we like to keep them open if we can.

00:59:12.860 Premier Daniel Smith has recently apologized for the sins of the previous leader of her own party here in Alberta.

00:59:18.860 Former United Conservative Party leader and Premier Jason Kenney oversaw some of the toughest lockdown crackdowns in the Western world.

00:59:26.860 Pastors were arrested in front of their children.

00:59:32.860 Others were taken down in El Chapo style arrests.

00:59:35.860 Others turned themselves in.

00:59:37.860 One had his church seized.

00:59:39.860 All for the crime of keeping their church doors open to all during the pandemic.

00:59:44.860 And business owners forced to make survival decisions to defy lockdowns on their own dining rooms,

00:59:49.860 to save their businesses, to pay their bills.

00:59:52.860 Well, they were sometimes arrested, jailed, repeatedly harassed by inspectors,

00:59:56.860 and issued huge fines and summonses.

00:59:59.860 Premier Smith's apology and her promise to investigate how best to provide lockdown amnesty

01:00:04.860 I can apologize right now.

01:00:06.860 I'm deeply sorry for anyone who was inappropriately subjected to discrimination as a result of their vaccine status.

01:00:16.860 I'm deeply sorry for any government employee that was fired from their job because of their vaccine status.

01:00:22.860 And I welcome them back if they want to come back.

01:00:26.860 As for the amnesty, I have to get some legal advice on that.

01:00:30.860 And so I've already asked my staff to request that advice so I can see how we would be able to proceed on that.

01:00:37.860 My view has been that these were political decisions that were made,

01:00:41.860 and so I think that they could be political decisions to offer a reversal.

01:00:45.860 But I do want to get some legal advice on that first.

01:00:48.860 Would that also have to do with the timeline for the proposed amnesty system?

01:00:52.860 I would have to see if, you know, if I can do it, I will do it at the earliest opportunity.

01:00:56.860 So I'm hoping within the next week I'll get that legal advice.

01:01:00.860 Thank you.

01:01:04.860 Has come too late for a lot of businesses, including one we were able to help through your generous donations to fightthefines.com.

01:01:12.860 That's a project where crowdfunded lawyers are provided at no cost to help businesses, pastors, and regular people fight their lockdown tickets in court.

01:01:21.860 Do you remember Debbie from the Tipsy Cow in Hanna, Alberta?

01:01:26.860 When the government told her that she would have to pivot her pub to takeout only, she knew there was no way she could make a go of it.

01:01:33.860 So she kept her doors open and her community supported her through it.

01:01:37.860 But the fines and the harassment forced her to comply.

01:01:40.860 Fight the Fines lawyer Chad Williamson from Williamson Law, though, was able to help Debbie get her lockdown tickets tossed out.

01:01:48.860 I wouldn't exactly call this one a victory.

01:01:51.860 Despite summoning the hammer of justice to screech down from the sky upon government bureaucrats like the bird, which is the bald eagle, and her office successfully nuking four Public Health Act and regulatory charges, the tipsy cow is no more. 1.00

01:02:10.860 The mandates killed them.

01:02:13.860 Government overreach has shuttered another friendly rural Alberta family business for good.

01:02:18.860 We saw this with outlaws and with other restaurants involved in the righteous rebellion against tyranny over the past two years.

01:02:26.860 Bittersweet indeed.

01:02:28.860 After you've taken somebody's livelihood, I mean, what's left?

01:02:33.860 Well, law enforcement thought that piling regulatory charges on an already terminal small business was the next appropriate step.

01:02:42.860 Obviously, we didn't and we did our job, as we always do, defending the good from the forces of old and evil in this province.

01:02:51.860 And although Debbie will no longer need to stress about the regulatory charges we had the Crown withdraw, the future is uncertain.

01:03:00.860 Now, perhaps there's been too little too late done in that respect.

01:03:06.860 And while we always celebrate legal victories, of which we've scored so many over the past two years, this one stings and is certainly hollow and devoid of joy.

01:03:17.860 Our office will mourn the loss of the tipsy cow the same way we've mourned the erosion of our civil rights and our civil liberties, especially over the past couple months in the past couple of years.

01:03:31.860 Now, we wish Debbie a gentle journey on the trail.

01:03:35.860 And we're hoping things will not just turn around for her, but will turn around for all Albertans on the tumultuous path that lies ahead for us all.

01:03:45.860 So that's great news for Debbie.

01:03:47.860 But unfortunately, the forced closure of her business by the province to comply with the lockdowns resulted in the permanent closure of her business.

01:03:56.860 The government put her out of business.

01:03:58.860 Debbie's just one of thousands of Alberta businesses who could not survive the government lockdowns. 0.99

01:04:03.860 It wasn't COVID that got them.

01:04:05.860 It was COVID hysteria.

01:04:07.860 And each and every one of these people, just like Debbie, well, the promise of Alberta was stolen from them.

01:04:12.860 This is a place of opportunity.

01:04:14.860 Entrepreneurialism and freedom.

01:04:16.860 It's in our motto, strong and free.

01:04:19.860 But Alberta was not those things for the last two years.

01:04:23.860 So let's make sure Premier Daniel Smith keeps her word and returns Alberta to what we once were.

01:04:28.860 If you agree with me, go to lockdownamnesty.com and sign our petition to Daniel Smith,

01:04:33.860 calling on her to toss out the lockdown prosecutions, regulatory offenses and fines before more dreams like Debbie's are stolen. 1.00

01:04:42.860 For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

01:04:47.860 To sign our petition calling on Premier Daniel Smith to keep her word to end the lockdown prosecutions, go to lockdownamnesty.com.

01:04:56.860 End rest.

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Rebel News Podcast - November 03, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ I'm back from the land Downunder as Elon Musk turns Twitter upside down

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