Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I think we all know how corrupt the U.S. security and intelligence industry is — wait till you see how bad Canada’s is

00:00:00.000 tonight i think we all know how corrupt the u.s

00:00:18.000 security and intelligence industry is well you see how bad canada's has become

00:00:24.200 it's may 24th this is yes why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer i know

00:00:32.960 there's 8 500 customers here and you won't give them an answer the only thing i have to say to

00:00:38.620 the government about why i publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so

00:00:43.120 did you know that hillary clinton's campaign lawyer is being prosecuted right now

00:00:54.000 probably going to go to jail that's my amateur assessment for lying to the fbi for giving them

00:01:01.780 false information about donald trump in an attempt to have them investigate trump to embarrass him and

00:01:09.240 to spread that embarrassment in the news media what what you didn't know that that bombshell trial was

00:01:15.700 going on right now it's not just any trial it's the result of a government investigation by u.s

00:01:22.940 attorney john durham and it's already proved that the u.s government was spying on donald trump's

00:01:30.000 political campaign what that's not on the cbc each night or the globe and mail it's not i checked you

00:01:37.980 you'd think it would be covered around the clock i mean here's just a randomly selected bombshell

00:01:45.300 moment from the trial i i could have chosen from five clips here take a look at this one

00:01:51.000 fox news alert on the trial of former clinton campaign lawyer michael sussman

00:01:58.700 hillary clinton's 2016 campaign manager robbie mooc testified today that clinton herself

00:02:05.880 approved the idea of giving the alpha bank story to a reporter as part of the trump russia narrative

00:02:12.580 as you'll remember that suggested that there were connections between alpha bank and the trump

00:02:17.500 campaign server the fbi looked into that and found nothing suspicious david spunt is live outside

00:02:23.460 the federal courthouse in washington with more david hi kaylee good afternoon uh there was a little

00:02:29.820 bit of surprise in the courtroom when robbie mooc the 2016 hillary clinton campaign manager

00:02:35.460 just answered a question casually that she personally approved uh sending that story to the media as you

00:02:42.500 mentioned it deals with an allegation or an accusation about the trump organization not the trump

00:02:48.320 campaign but the trump organization having a back channel to a russian bank named alpha bank which

00:02:54.520 has some ties to the kremlin some russian oligarchs uh that are close with vladimir putin so to give

00:02:59.880 everyone a little bit of a backstory uh on this story because it is complicated there are a lot of

00:03:04.580 twists and turns hillary clinton had a campaign attorney named michael sussman he is on trial right

00:03:09.740 now behind me in federal court because in 2016 september 2016 he went to his friend who happened to be the

00:03:17.040 general counsel at the fbi a man named james baker and sussman said james i have or jim rather i have some

00:03:23.940 information linking the trump organization to a russian-based bank via a back channel via a computer

00:03:31.160 server james baker took the information at the fbi the fbi investigated they found out there was

00:03:38.160 nothing to it kaylee as you mentioned hillary clinton's team at the campaign also found out about 0.96

00:03:44.200 that information and we are learning today via robbie mooc the campaign manager she personally was

00:03:50.160 briefed on this allegation about the uh russian bank and trump organization and she said okay go ahead

00:03:56.380 give it to the media and that's where we are right now sussman is charged with one count of uh providing

00:04:01.620 a false statement to the fbi the trial's been going on for a week it's expected to continue another week

00:04:07.160 but again uh definitely a little bit of a surprise in the courtroom i think from not only the government

00:04:12.880 but the defense when robbie mooc uh went ahead and admitted that clinton herself uh gave the go-ahead

00:04:18.780 for disseminating that story which turned out to be false oh nothing just that hillary clinton approved

00:04:24.860 a shopping around a false perjury filled document about trump including giving it to the fbi no big

00:04:33.120 whoop i mean they're all in on it the cia the fbi the national security agency i would never have said

00:04:40.100 that before in my whole life i would have called any skeptics or critics either kooks or paranoids or

00:04:47.080 conspiracy theorists or probably communists or anti-americans i would have said those things

00:04:51.460 myself but they really were all in on the plan to keep donald trump out of office by spying on him

00:04:59.740 and leaking this so-called dirt on him as the left-wing critic at grand glenn greenwald points out

00:05:06.840 it's very very weird that every senior fbi and cia man whether he's uh doing his career in the

00:05:15.020 when he's done rather doing his career in the military industrial complex gets a job afterwards

00:05:22.120 as a pundit on cnn or some other network in the past they tried to influence the news

00:05:27.880 subtly but not directly seriously even the ones caught doing atrocious things here's peter strock

00:05:36.020 former senior fbi agent spying on trump his text amongst his colleagues came out terms out he was

00:05:45.840 having an affair with another fbi agent but that's not my point he's allegedly a cop a neutral cop

00:05:51.800 allegedly working for the law but he was actually campaigning against trump using his law enforcement

00:05:57.040 powers here's senator lindsey graham reading out some of strock's texts march 16th 2016

00:06:06.260 i cannot believe trump is likely to be an actual serious candidate for president july the 21st 2016

00:06:14.600 trump is a disaster i have no idea how destabilizing his presidency would be august the 8th 2016

00:06:22.180 three days before struck was made deputy acting uh in charge of the counterintelligence division of

00:06:29.980 the fbi he's never going to become president right page to struck no no he won't we'll stop him

00:06:40.080 these are the people investigating the clinton email situation and start the counterintelligence

00:06:49.820 investigation of the trump campaign compare them to muller august the 15th 2016

00:06:57.220 struck i want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in andy's office

00:07:03.220 that there's no way he gets elected but i'm afraid we can't take that risk it's like an insurance

00:07:10.600 policy in the unlikely event you die before you're 40 august 26 2016

00:07:18.180 just went to the southern virginia walmart i could smell the trump support 1.00

00:07:25.560 october the 19th 2016 trump is a idiot he's unable to provide a coherent answer 1.00

00:07:34.920 sorry to the kids out there these are the people that made a decision that clinton didn't do anything 0.99

00:07:44.820 wrong and a counterintelligence investigation of the trump campaign was warranted we're going

00:07:52.760 to in a bipartisan way i hope deal with russia but when the muller report is put to bed in it soon

00:07:59.120 will be this committee is going to look long and hard and how this all started do you see what i

00:08:05.480 mean so yeah they're all in on it uh none have gone to jail they've all landed rich tv gigs including

00:08:11.680 struck there they're still lying there's a trial on right now that's getting next to zero media coverage

00:08:19.840 at least in canada not much in america either hillary was just implicated by name by her own lawyer but 1.00

00:08:25.480 nothing um thanks for letting me tell you that by the way because i want to put it to you that canada

00:08:31.720 is sort of the same these days you know uh because brenda lucky the head of the rcmp that's the 1.00

00:08:39.120 equivalent of the fbi down there she's just as in the pocket as james comey was he was the former head

00:08:45.660 of the fbi brenda lucky was handpicked by trudeau to run the rcmp she owes her career to him 0.92

00:08:52.780 she simply won't allow charges to be laid against him not for using not for taking a bribe in the

00:09:00.080 form of a free vacation to the bahamas in the aga khan not for interfering with the prosecution of

00:09:06.500 snc lavaland and trying to bully the justice minister jody wilson raybold into dropping the

00:09:12.280 charges against his friends yeah our military industrial espionage deep state is politicized

00:09:19.060 and corrupt too um here's a story uh they literally deployed a military aircraft to spy

00:09:26.480 on the truckers in ottawa that's against the law by the way they lied about it but

00:09:32.160 they did it other than a story in the ottawa citizen and a few small echoes it really went

00:09:38.000 unmentioned but the real shock is that not a single person involved no one on that spy plane

00:09:44.620 no one involved with planning or executing that mission no one on the civilian side said

00:09:50.700 what are we doing using canadian armed forces to spy on a civilian peaceful protest just because they

00:09:57.620 are you know honking their horns at trudeau that that's that's my point they're all in on it just 0.76

00:10:03.840 like the fbi and the cia are all in on it they're corrupt and partisan they're anti-trump and here's my

00:10:09.560 proof look at this story in trudeau's cbc state broadcaster today just astonishing the story canada

00:10:17.540 should rethink relationship with u.s as democratic black backsliding worsens security experts say

00:10:25.620 what rethink our relationship with the united states in favor of whom china should we just ignore the

00:10:33.480 world's longest undefended border and our geographical location what does it even mean

00:10:37.100 although i suppose it's not the world's longest undefended border anymore try crossing it if you

00:10:42.200 don't jab but seriously i'll read more former national security advisors ceases directors saying

00:10:49.220 u.s could become a source of threat and instability 1.00

00:10:52.640 really canada's intelligence community that's an oxymoron will have to grapple with the growing

00:11:02.340 influence of anti-democratic forces in the united states including the threat posed by conservative

00:11:07.760 media outlets like fox news says a new report from a task force of intelligence experts oh i get it um

00:11:14.980 so they love america they they all go down in new york to catch some broadway shows they all go down to

00:11:21.040 florida for the sun um but it's the conservative political opinions that they hate and they don't just

00:11:28.020 disagree with them they're calling conservative viewpoints dangerous foreign policy threats now

00:11:34.980 not china that actually kidnapped two canadian men and held them for a thousand days china

00:11:41.360 that's about to swallow taiwan china that's stealing our industrial secrets stealing things from our 1.00

00:11:47.180 bio labs it's building up its military no no no that's not the threat to canada fox news it's a threat

00:11:53.080 to canada let me read the united states is and will remain our closest ally but it could also become

00:11:59.120 a source of threat and instability says a newly published report written by a task force of former

00:12:04.420 national security advisors former canadian security intelligence service directors ex-deputy ministers

00:12:09.380 former ambassadors and academics members of the group have advised both prime minister justin

00:12:14.620 trudeau and former prime minister stephen hopper now is the time for the federal government to

00:12:19.700 rethink how it approaches national security the report concludes imagine believing that imagine

00:12:26.940 imagine writing it and calling it a national security document these people are just like james comey

00:12:33.280 and the other crooks down south except in america their judicial system works and wrongdoers are

00:12:40.720 occasionally rooted out and brought to justice tell me the last time that happened in canada

00:12:45.320 last time that happened when jody wilson rabel tried to root out corruption from trudeau and jerald

00:12:53.200 butts who were trying to get their friends at snc level and off the hook it was jody wilson rabel

00:12:58.220 who was fired not the crooks i'll read you some more from this cbc story

00:13:03.480 we believe that the threats are quite serious at the moment but they do impact canada said report

00:13:11.280 co-author vincent rigby who until a few months ago served as a national security advisor to trudeau

00:13:16.900 we don't want it to take a crisis for the government of canada wake up okay at least we know this is a

00:13:24.080 liberal document but uh he controlled things he he changed the the national security apparatus

00:13:31.840 um trudeau is changing what we look for we're not looking for terrorists anymore

00:13:38.260 not islamic terrorists not eco-terrorists whatever they're looking for truckers now and for us tv hosts

00:13:45.820 let me read thomas juno co-director of the task force and associate professor at the school of public

00:13:52.400 and international affairs at the university of ottawa said that while canada's right-wing extremism is

00:13:58.240 homegrown cross-border connections between extremist groups are alarming there are growing

00:14:04.280 transnational ties between right-wing extremists here and in the u.s the movement of funds the

00:14:10.420 movement of people the movement of ideas the encouragement the support by media such as fox

00:14:16.240 news and other conservative media he said what what extremists the only ones they seem to mention

00:14:23.380 are the peaceful trucker protests where every single allegation of violence turned out to be

00:14:27.860 false he pointed to a state senator doug mastriano's recent win in the republican primary for governor

00:14:35.700 pennsylvania mastriano is a well-known proponent of the lie that election fraud caused former president

00:14:43.680 donald trump's loss in 2020 there are serious risks of democratic backsliding in the u.s and at this

00:14:49.960 point that is not a theoretical risk juno said so all of that is a serious threat to our sovereignty to

00:14:55.680 our security and in some cases to our democratic institutions we need to rethink our relationship

00:15:00.660 with the united states so because some republican that these liberals don't like want a primary election

00:15:08.080 democratic institutions are at risk because the election didn't go the way the liberals wanted

00:15:15.020 and the cbc says they just say they just assert that it's a lie lie that there was an election fraud not

00:15:25.020 that it's an error not that it's a opinion not that it's a matter uh contested they have decided it's a lie

00:15:31.020 that there was election fraud in 2020 was there election fraud in 2020 i mean surely there was some

00:15:37.180 there always is in a large nation that's quite something it is a lie that there was election

00:15:45.320 fraud against trump is this a news report or or a democratic party talking points it's so weird

00:15:51.460 the word fox news by the way is in the cbc story seven times i check during the convoy protest

00:15:59.160 fox host tucker carlson whose show draws in millions of viewers each night called trudeau a

00:16:04.420 stalinist dictator on air and accused him of having suspended democracy and declared canada

00:16:10.020 dictatorship now you might think that's a bit much um i might have until trudeau brought in

00:16:17.520 martial law seized bank accounts without legal process deployed riot police with guns to clear

00:16:24.460 out unarmed peaceful truckers shot our reporter alexa in the leg

00:16:29.240 yeah i think stalinist uh is strong but i can see it i can understand it but but look at what

00:16:54.000 they're saying here because tucker carlson called trudeau stalinist because he said that about our

00:17:01.480 prime minister our precious one um so tucker carlton carlton is therefore a military and security risk

00:17:09.560 to canada so canada needs to i don't know to get stalinist on him i guess it's just crazy on top of

00:17:16.800 crazy let me read more calls for new national security strategy when we think about threats to canada

00:17:22.700 we think about the soviet military threat we think about al-qaeda we think about the rise of china 0.95

00:17:27.480 we think about the war in ukraine all of these are true but so is the rising threat to canada that

00:17:33.300 the u.s poses said juno actually there is no more soviet union so i think he's wrong saying the soviets

00:17:38.200 form a threat um that's completely new that calls for a new way of thinking and a new way of managing

00:17:45.620 our relationship with the u.s yeah i don't like tucker carlson so let's build a new military security

00:17:53.640 spy strategy around our tv pundit tastes that's not uh a report from a serious country but then again

00:18:03.360 you already knew that i got a copy of this underlying report that the cbc cites with such glee the first

00:18:09.640 thing i noticed is that the cbc sort of doctored the report a bit i mentioned that the cbc story

00:18:14.880 contains the word fox as in fox news it's seven times on the page i checked the report that they're

00:18:22.740 reporting on mentions the word fox just once in passing it's still nuts to mention the conservative

00:18:30.340 media outlet as a risk to your country but it shows that the cbc cannot be trusted at all and that

00:18:36.340 they have some bizarre rivalry with fox and tucker carlson at least in their own mind because i don't

00:18:41.840 think carlson even knows the cbc exists tucker uh isn't even mentioned um in the report itself but

00:18:50.180 he's mentioned twice by the cbc and his picture is in the cbc story too don't you think that's a bit

00:18:56.700 weird the report by the deep state lists the top risk to canada as great powers russia and china i think

00:19:05.800 that's right even trudeau's people who wrote this thing aren't crazy enough to say that tucker

00:19:11.620 carlson is a bigger threat than them uh they sure downplay islamic terrorism boy i hope they're right 1.00

00:19:17.140 on that they'd probably say that tucker carlson works for russia that's probably how they'd square

00:19:22.200 all that but but there is this crazy paragraph that the cbc did use as a jumping off point for

00:19:27.880 their article i'm just going to read the crazy it also quickly became apparent that there were ties

00:19:33.800 between far-right extremists in canada and the united states there was moreover open support from

00:19:39.100 conservative media including fox news and conservative politicians in the united states

00:19:43.120 this may not have represented foreign interference in the conventional sense since it was not the

00:19:47.960 result of actions of a foreign government but it did represent arguably a greater threat to canadian

00:19:52.920 democracy in the actions of any state other than the united states it will be a significant challenge

00:19:57.840 to our national security and intelligence agencies to monitor this threat since it emanates from

00:20:02.880 the same country that is by far our greatest source of intelligence they're talking about the truckers

00:20:08.000 they're saying bizarrely here they just said that russia and china were the threat but here they're 0.50

00:20:12.560 saying the truckers are the greatest threat to canada in the world now what they said is simply factually

00:20:18.700 not true there were no ties between the truckers and foreign actors there just weren't a sliver of the

00:20:26.800 gofundme funds were raised were from americans as you know those funds never actually got to the

00:20:31.500 structures uh the cbc grudgingly apologized for this conspiracy do you remember this one i do ask that

00:20:39.820 because uh you know given canada's support of ukraine in this current crisis with russia i don't know if

00:20:47.500 it's far-fetched to ask but but there is concern that russian actors could be continuing to fuel things

00:20:55.020 as this as this protest grows but perhaps even instigating it from from the outset

00:20:59.740 well again i'm going to defer to uh our partners in the public safety the trained officials and experts

00:21:08.220 in that area yeah uh that was fake of course fake news having u.s politicians speak out against trudeau

00:21:14.900 imposing martial law hardly is a threat to canada it's actually nice that some politicians care

00:21:20.940 about democracy in canada it's sort of opposite day when the guy suspending civil liberties justin trudeau

00:21:27.420 is called the democrat and peaceful protesters who care about canadian civil liberties are called the 0.88

00:21:32.960 greatest threat to canada in the world just dumb you know it's not serious when they say global warming

00:21:39.720 is a national security threat and their proof is a scary red and orange map the authors lie again 0.93

00:21:47.120 saying the truckers were part of an ideologically motivated violent extremism poses a growing threat

00:21:53.920 to canadian national security the disruptive protests in ottawa windsor emerson and coots in early 2022

00:22:00.480 validated concerns that experts have been voicing for years cases are mounting of threats directed at

00:22:05.680 canadian politicians officials and vulnerable groups individuals and groups who adhere to do a

00:22:11.760 diffuse range of violent far-right ideologies have become better organized and emboldened in the

00:22:18.320 wake of the events of early 2022 what what what violence the most serious offense for which charges were

00:22:26.640 laid in the entire ottawa trucker protest was incitement to mischief that's it nothing violent

00:22:36.800 not even mischief mischief itself i'm not sure how you can be charged with inciting mischief

00:22:44.560 if it never was incited no weapons were found in the entire ottawa trucking convoy that arson claim

00:22:51.440 as you know turned out to be a hoax but these authors put the truckers in with terrorists violent

00:22:56.640 far-right ideologies is it far right by the way to say my body my choice i thought that was liberal

00:23:01.840 or give me my privacy or let me travel by plane or train in my own country or don't segregate me is

00:23:08.640 that is that far right they keep saying right and far right again and again because that's

00:23:15.040 that's where they're looking for evil the words left wing never actually appear in the entire report

00:23:20.960 neither does the word environmentalist or eco-terrorist look at this from from just a few weeks ago

00:23:28.000 there really are eco-terrorists in canada attack on coastal gas link left workers terrified the

00:23:34.480 company said 20 people surrounded and attacked workers rcmp are investigating and had to make

00:23:39.600 their way through downed trees wire boards with spikes and other obstacles to get to the location

00:23:45.520 that's terrorism wonder why it wasn't mentioned in the report even toronto's globe and mail

00:23:50.640 covered this eco-terrorist attack on a natural gas pipeline construction website

00:23:54.720 more violence in one nightmare and by all the trucker protests combined total ever

00:24:02.800 but eco-terrorists are not mentioned in the report look it's not a serious report by serious people

00:24:08.000 i'll tell you what it is it's the liberal party platform rewritten as a national security document

00:24:16.400 yes there are a few national security things in the report but but the heart of it is trudeau's own

00:24:22.000 partisan grudges he hates conservatives he hates the truckers he doesn't really like the more vocal

00:24:28.320 parts of america not a word about threats on the left so not surprisingly their recommendations are not

00:24:34.960 actually national security recommendations the trudeau's policies dressed up as national security

00:24:41.040 recommendations like his plan to restrict social media here the deep state says they need to do a lot

00:24:48.240 more spying on what canadians are saying online let me read to you one of the key challenges in this

00:24:55.680 area however is collection of social media posts who in the government should be responsible for

00:25:01.920 monitoring social media different parts of the national security community have the partial mandate to do

00:25:08.320 so the rapid response mechanism at global affairs canada for example monitors and analyzes potential

00:25:14.640 cases of foreign interference including by observing content shared through social media but as we saw

00:25:20.560 during the protests across canada early 2022 when protest organizers were openly telegraphing their

00:25:26.000 intent on various social media platforms government mandates are strictly limited this impedes and sometimes

00:25:32.560 prevents the ability of national security agencies to do their work what what work would they have with a

00:25:38.000 peaceful protest and here's the recommendation here's the recommendation of these experts

00:25:44.320 devote greater resources to open source intelligence to the national security community i mean spying on you

00:25:52.000 gathering and analyzing open source intelligence and then incorporating it into the broader intelligence

00:25:57.520 collection and analysis process is complex it requires specific skill sets which despite recent improvements

00:26:05.600 are often lacking this requires the hiring of analysts with the necessary skills e.g imagery analysis

00:26:13.360 as well as a broader cultural change to remove analysts away from a mindset that still often perceive

00:26:19.760 such intelligence as inferior to classified intelligence so so they're saying we need to spy on citizens more

00:26:25.600 spy on what they're saying on facebook and twitter more on canadian citizens for their political beliefs that's

00:26:32.080 what the truckers were about there is no question that the world is changing rapidly and getting more dangerous

00:26:40.080 in new ways than ever before when we look at the prevalence of misinformation of disinformation

00:26:47.360 the way social media has been weaponized both by uh foreign actors and by people within canada pushing

00:26:54.240 extremist views trying to foment anger and discord whether it's uh extremist ideology and right-wing

00:27:01.680 terrorism on the rise in canada or whether it's uh examples like the illegal uh protests we saw in in in

00:27:10.160 the winter um there are a whole new set of challenges that uh we need to be responding to and that's why we're

00:27:16.800 working closely with our national security agencies working closely with uh organizations like the the

00:27:22.560 the uh canadian security establishment around communications uh to make sure uh that we are able to

00:27:29.920 respond to these new issues new new realities we need to do it however in a way that continues to defend

00:27:36.320 freedom of speech freedom of expression freedom to protest for uh pro to to uh legally protest

00:27:43.360 while at the same time we're taking on more tools uh to keep canadians safe because increasingly we're

00:27:48.480 seeing that things that start online end up having impacts on the real world

00:27:53.440 now i'm sure they would pick up the odd criminal threat on on twitter or facebook but and i'm no

00:28:01.440 expert here uh i'm guessing that criminals generally don't tweet their plans out in public the tweeting

00:28:07.840 and the facebooking is more done by regular people uh regular citizens yeah no trudeau's brain

00:28:14.080 tough trust doesn't really think americans are our top national security threat

00:28:20.240 we think canadians are stay with this

00:28:38.800 i do lots of uh media friendly media no i do no god the ones that are here invited

00:28:45.040 no i'm doing i'm doing no media can we sit down and i'll make a time with you and answer some

00:28:50.960 actual tough questions you can you can make a request for a meeting and so you can deny it

00:28:59.760 i never do uh my one question is canadian oil and gas sector survive the net zero approach that's

00:29:07.040 being promoted here i as i said i never do you want if you want an interview with me uh like everybody

00:29:13.760 else you make a request and you can have it and will you accept that like everybody else if i can

00:29:19.120 put it in okay how do you how do you justify the how does the un climate envoy justify the massive

00:29:24.080 carbon footprint here today to set this up this fake city for a week event how did you how did you get

00:29:32.320 here did you thought you walked yeah did you come on a private jet of course not no so how do you

00:29:39.840 justify this look at all of this for one week event the carbon footprint is huge do you think that's

00:29:45.440 a bit of hypocritical oh drop it no look there's uh lots of progress being made but look i'm not

00:29:52.640 doing a stand-up interview okay why not you're walking that way anyways i think people around the 0.77

00:29:57.920 world you know they see they say regaining trust that's the whole purpose i do lots of uh media friendly

00:30:04.640 media no i do no god the ones that are here invited look i'm doing i'm doing no media can we sit down

00:30:11.200 and i'll make a time with you and answer some actual tough questions you can you can make a request

00:30:17.520 for a meeting and so you can deny it look as i say with everyone as with everyone else you can do the

00:30:23.360 same thing as with the uh the guy from true north yeah oh you he's he's a good guy but i'm not a good guy

00:30:29.680 i'm sure you're a good guy as well all people are good it's absolutely right but uh but the whole 0.97

00:30:34.480 world is looking at this now going you're a pack of hypocrites and you're the you're at the top of 0.92

00:30:38.400 the chain there how do you what would you answer people just give me one answer to the people 0.95

00:30:44.160 take care sir that's our viewers choice award-winning journalist avi amini trying to get a straight answer

00:30:53.520 from mark carney the former governor of the bank of canada the bank of england

00:30:57.120 a u.n climate uh diplomat and perhaps a future leader of the liberal party of canada you probably

00:31:05.440 saw our friend andrew lawton ask some questions first then avi amini took over there is a gaggle

00:31:12.320 of canadian journalists in davos but they are all of the independent variety six journalists are coming

00:31:19.040 from rebel news including the aforementioned avi his friend rakshan fernando from melbourne australia

00:31:27.120 two brits our own lewis brackpool and sophie corcoran a young lady just ripping it up 0.95

00:31:33.760 on social media in that country two americans also

00:31:41.120 and savannah hernandez who is a great field journalist too team of six and our friend andrew lawton

00:31:48.480 i put it to you that you just saw more journalism by avi and andrew with mark carney than the entire media

00:31:55.440 party combined have ever put to that man and joining us now from the airbnb outside of davos

00:32:02.400 switzerland is avi amini i'd be great to see you you've been working so hard and it's late at night

00:32:08.560 over there so thanks for staying up to do this interview give me a report you're there in the

00:32:13.920 airbnb there's six of you tell me a little bit about what your day is like because you've got to schlep

00:32:19.200 into the city you've got to sort of split up tell me how you've been doing it so we drive about an

00:32:24.080 hour and a half from the airbnb because this terrain is pretty intense and they've blocked the main road

00:32:32.000 the highway for security reasons um and you know if you have a business on that highway well too bad

00:32:39.600 and so we're forced to drive through the the alps the mountains and it's um we've just arrived back

00:32:46.720 here it's it's supposed to take about an hour i think it's taken us closer to two just because of the

00:32:52.560 intense and clouds and fog so it was we were driving probably a kilometer an hour at one point

00:32:58.960 um we drive in there and uh then spent the day in town on the on the promenade looking for um i guess

00:33:08.080 it's elitists to challenge on their ideas and and break their safe space uh here's one you button

00:33:16.720 hold the very senior executive at microsoft let's take a look at that you're from microsoft is that

00:33:23.040 right yeah why is microsoft wearing like a un pin

00:33:29.360 rebel news avi from rebel news well we uh because we do a lot of work on the sdgs

00:33:34.880 um you know we address things like skilling and climate change internet access for everyone

00:33:40.560 and i happen to be an sdg advocate uh myself for appointed by the un secretary general and and this

00:33:46.720 year it's you into your thing okay yeah one more question one more question is this year they're

00:33:51.040 saying that this is about regaining trust why do you think so much of the world has lost trust in the

00:33:54.720 wef well the first thing i would say is we live in a world where i think people question much more

00:34:02.720 everything around them and questioning can be a challenge but you know questioning i think is

00:34:07.360 also an opportunity mostly to provide people with better information more information and

00:34:12.080 that's one of the things that the world economic forum does but that doesn't answer that doesn't

00:34:16.800 answer the question why people mistrust and specifically bill gate no no but it's okay that's

00:34:22.400 all right there we go microsoft un looks like uh their one organization there you go

00:34:28.000 okay so you've got to move fast i guess they're all wearing name tags with different kind of

00:34:34.800 access um a lot of these tech and journalist executives are there not to sort of report on

00:34:41.840 it but to participate in it to sponsor it to try and get business deals to lobby for things like

00:34:47.600 they're all insiders there right 100 and what i keep saying is that these guys don't practice what

00:34:53.680 they preach at all what they want the rest of the world to do except for one thing um this segregated 0.53

00:35:00.320 society and this class system they've created in davos where they put their name tag and in fact it's

00:35:06.240 all color coded so you know who's more important than who which has been a blessing for any investigative

00:35:14.160 journalists any real journalists that's there trying to track down um the most important figures and

00:35:20.880 those that are really running the show it's been great um i dare say that they may

00:35:27.600 cut their segregation from next year because um they certainly handed us one where we're able to 0.91

00:35:34.240 and thanks to the help of andrew gorton there from the true north that we've really worked hard on on

00:35:39.600 tracking him down there was a moment uh where another uh rebel news alumnus jack pasobic was in town

00:35:47.360 and he was surrounded by swiss police with guns i shouldn't say swiss police because they actually

00:35:54.080 had patches that said world economic forum police which is frankly the most terrifying thing i've ever

00:35:59.440 heard and it wasn't until savannah hernandez from our team came there and started uh shining a light 1.00

00:36:05.120 of scrutiny on these cops that jack was let go i won't play the whole thing but look at this and look

00:36:09.840 at this lady he's saying i have a reason for detaining him i won't tell it to you turn the camera off

00:36:15.200 it's quite something uh take a look excuse me can i ask you while you're detaining this journalist

00:36:34.480 can you put the phone away please uh can i ask you why you're detaining this journalist i don't answer

00:36:38.640 your question is it uh not uh we're not able to report here please put your phone away okay uh can

00:36:44.160 i ask you guys you can can you yeah can you um please stop filming then we can talk oh why do i

00:36:50.080 need to stop filming because i ask you to it's the per it's my personal right because i don't like to be

00:36:55.760 filmed and it's a right in switzerland um if i don't want to but can i ask why he's being detained then i

00:37:01.440 won't point the camera at you then i won't film you but i would like to know why this journalist is

00:37:05.200 being detained on public property what's detained uh can you explain how come he's being surrounded

00:37:11.280 right now is he allowed to leave the area we're we're just um making a normal police control uh

00:37:17.440 because you know it's web everything is very he specifically was targeted uh there is a reason

00:37:24.000 because we we have to have a reason to to to uh control that what was the reason what was he doing

00:37:31.280 yeah world economic forum police that's actually what their badges say just just crazy times i have

00:37:38.960 a theory i'll be that you and the rest of the six on the rebel team plus jack basobiec plus andrew

00:37:46.320 lawton so that's eight independent journalists you've done more journalism than has ever happened

00:37:50.960 to davos before i think they're going to change the rules next year i think they're going to find

00:37:55.840 some way to try and keep you guys out again uh a hundred percent you see their reaction um when we

00:38:02.880 do confront and more than anything is is utter shock yeah how dare somebody walk up to me and ask me a

00:38:11.680 question and you know you they put they they basically tell you just get in line send me an email and and

00:38:18.400 and i'll um we'll make a time to to do a proper sit-down interview and it's obviously that they're not going to

00:38:25.520 to follow up on that because i'm happy to do that in fact the who um the the the who executive or

00:38:34.960 envoy un m w ho special envoy he was really he was so shocked at the end that all he could do was

00:38:43.840 even turn to um rook sean and at the end because he'd realize i you know i've asked him questions

00:38:52.080 frankly that every normal person who has suffered under um uh covert tyranny in the last two years

00:38:59.840 would ask anything a regular person would ask but he was so shocked like physically shaken up visibly

00:39:06.720 shaken up and he and he realized that he had nowhere to go with me and i i said to him i'll email him

00:39:12.640 which i did email him to give him the option the opportunity to sit down and do the interview and

00:39:17.360 finish it properly so it wasn't on the run so he didn't feel like i threw what he called um

00:39:22.160 ambushing questions but he went to rook sean and and basically tried to guilt trip him and

00:39:28.160 pattern him and said i hope you feel good with yourself that you're doing this you're part of

00:39:32.640 this ambushing journalism i'm just you know that is what journalism is supposed to be but these guys

00:39:40.640 feel so safe and protected why because they've built this um place where it's it's just you know

00:39:47.280 all the journalists there in davos want to be in the club and they know that if you actually question

00:39:54.640 them properly if you do your job you're not going to you're not going to get an invite next year and

00:39:59.280 you're not going to be part of the elite you know something we don't have to worry about ezra because

00:40:04.640 thanks to you and the supporters that we have that we're only accountable to the truth and um

00:40:11.280 we'll keep chasing it yeah all our reports are at w e f world economic forum wf reports.com

00:40:19.200 it's it's like when mark carney was asked about private jets oh just leave that aside put that aside

00:40:24.960 sorry that's not a substantive answer that is not as an acceptable answer for mr global warming when he's

00:40:30.800 asked how he travels let's let's show that world health organization uh uh diplomat um because of

00:40:38.160 of course both the world health organization and the world economic forum are meeting at the same time

00:40:43.840 in the same country so there's lots of cross pollination here's that interview the one where

00:40:47.920 you describe he says i hope you feel good about yourself well i hope you do avi because you're doing

00:40:52.240 more journalism than the rest of the media party put together here's that video i'm an envoy

00:40:57.520 on behalf of who have you many for rebel news in davos switzerland at the world economic forum moments

00:41:03.840 ago i managed to track down one of the special envoys for the who's response to covert 19. now

00:41:12.080 i'm not going to put his full interview yet because i hope viewers can understand and i hope this is not

00:41:19.440 cut out that i've been ambushed in the street and i'm responding to this gentleman's i don't even know his

00:41:26.000 name of you many i'm responding to his questions because i believe that it is my duty to attempt

00:41:32.960 to communicate so i appreciate that i don't mean i don't mean to be strange we're just running fast

00:41:38.320 so that's why i i get it i'm late for a meeting all right it's just that you are asking questions that

00:41:43.840 i can't answer all right thank you for your time i i would like to say to those of you who are watching

00:41:50.320 this you know i would be very happy to be interviewed normally about this can i get a car ambushed i don't

00:41:56.400 have any cards left david where can i catch you to to continue this interview uh let me just write

00:42:02.480 it down i mean i want to show one more because we actually um you actually before you get before you

00:42:08.480 get to that ezra i want the audience to know that that is just that is 30 seconds because i am a man of

00:42:14.800 integrity and a man of my word and i promised him i'll email him to let him have the opportunity

00:42:20.480 for a sit down and i have emailed him and in fact i've also tagged him on twitter to make sure he knows

00:42:25.440 that that opportunity is there and i'm even willing to meet him in geneva at the world health

00:42:31.120 organization assembly but if not i am running with what we have and i promise the viewers um that there is

00:42:40.000 a few newsworthy elements to the interview with him and some of it's going to be shocking including

00:42:46.480 him just a bit of a preview is that he actually condemned any mandates that's one thing he did say

00:42:53.200 so there is an interview at that and maybe that's why he's he's so nervous for it to go out because he

00:42:58.800 kind of went against the grain at one point in uh maybe i forced him into it i don't know the the

00:43:05.440 audience will decide wef reports.com it's going to come out i dare say he's not going to answer me so

00:43:11.120 we will run with the the interview i got with him on the street then i want to show um one more thing

00:43:17.840 you and kid you saw the different media companies as massive sponsors i can only imagine how many

00:43:24.480 hundreds of thousands or possibly even millions of dollars that these sponsors pay to have their

00:43:29.440 names plastered everywhere for the world's oligarchs wall street journal uh i think i saw cnbc

00:43:36.640 um obviously google youtube etc different banks um accounting firms here's the new york times

00:43:44.960 wasn't there to report i'd like to have a thoughtful investigative report by the new york times no no

00:43:50.960 they're not there to the report they're there as a sponsor which tells me you cannot get an honest

00:43:56.720 report from the new york times because they're literally advertisers here i'd like to show your

00:44:00.960 interaction with this lady who i understand is the deputy editor there take a look rebecca how you

00:44:06.000 doing from new york times can i ask you a quick question as ivy from rebel news how is the public

00:44:11.280 meant to believe that the new york times is here to actually ask the tough questions when you're here

00:44:16.080 as an invited guest how are people meant to rely on the mainstream media we have if you wouldn't mind

00:44:22.960 we're just having just if you could give us you know thank you you don't want to explain to people

00:44:28.480 why we should trust the mainstream media no of course no comment there we go so that's the point

00:44:34.480 here is in davos you have the mainstream media that are not here to report the truth they are

00:44:39.680 here as part of the event invited guests with a white name tags now you're more polite than me i think

00:44:46.880 i would have asked one more round of questions uh but you know you left good enough alone i think you

00:44:51.120 made your point that these folks have nothing to say these folks who like to hold others to account

00:44:56.800 refuse themselves to be accountable absolutely and i think it's important you know to find balance

00:45:01.920 between um what people try to say you're you're harassing you know innocent people and i'm there to

00:45:09.280 do my job i'm there to make a point to show the world what the truth and the truth is that the mainstream

00:45:14.720 media media is is not unbiased they are actually part of the story that they're supposed to be there

00:45:22.400 reporting on um and and an active part and in fact worse than that like you said they spend hundreds of

00:45:30.000 thousands probably even millions of dollars to be a part of it so how can we get objective journalism

00:45:36.560 there we can't they can say whatever they want about us but the fact is that wef do not own us

00:45:45.440 yeah the viewers do well you made the longest journey you and ruckshan came all the way from

00:45:50.000 melbourne australia which is quite a journey our americans traveled far our brits not quite as far

00:45:54.640 but still it's a schlep you've got a couple more days in the continent uh without giving away any of our

00:46:00.240 journalistic moves because we don't want to telegraph to the bad guys what we're up to next

00:46:04.240 um how much longer are you in the country we'll be here till friday where uh both the wef and who uh

00:46:15.040 end their uh um their meetings their respective meetings both in davos and geneva to be fair now

00:46:24.080 that i myself and ruckshan we got here early because we need to get over the jet lag and we

00:46:29.440 we we witnessed the construction of this fake town and what must be the enormous um carbon footprint

00:46:37.920 from these people that are telling us how to live our life to be better people but uh there's a part

00:46:44.480 of me that wishes that i probably should stay just to see um the destruction the wrecking ball that will

00:46:51.440 go through davos when everybody leaves um because you know if if the setup is anything to go by ezra

00:47:00.400 um i i i have a feeling because these are not the nicest people in the world i don't think they care

00:47:05.680 much for the town of davos or or geneva or wherever they're setting up um for the cameras it's all when

00:47:13.360 the cameras then when the mainstream media's cameras are there the cameras that um have paid hundreds of

00:47:20.160 thousands if not millions of dollars to be there when they move on when they're not there whether

00:47:25.200 it's before or after um it is an absolute disgrace what goes on there well avi i i couldn't be prouder

00:47:33.360 of you and the rest of the team some of whom i know more than others you know we have some pretty

00:47:38.480 new teammates there including uh sophie corcoran a very young lady from the uk who we've only just

00:47:44.640 met and jeremy lafredo our newest hire in new york so it how's it been working with these

00:47:50.320 journalists from three different continents three different styles different i mean you're the most

00:47:56.000 seasoned of the group sophie's the the most junior and there's everyone in between how are you guys

00:48:01.360 getting along and and are you learning from each other are you becoming friends absolutely it's been

00:48:08.560 every time we do something like this ezra it's it's a learning experience i remember in hong kong

00:48:13.120 even before i was officially with rebel i i you know i met some of the rebel team there and we

00:48:17.760 worked alongside each other i think every time if you don't learn something from um whether it's the

00:48:23.360 most experienced or the newest uh team members then you're doing something wrong everybody's gives

00:48:30.160 something has got something to offer and it's been amazing it's been tough it's been long days um tiring

00:48:37.120 but um uh i wouldn't give it up for anything it's been amazing and i want to thank

00:48:42.080 everybody that's supporting the work here because whilst it is hard um it's an honor but it's uh

00:48:48.400 it's also an experience of a lifetime that i'll never forget and hopefully um we shine a light in

00:48:53.760 a place that's quite dark well you sure have listen you you mentioned the the airbnb you mentioned the

00:49:00.160 van that you're going back and forth of course you guys have to eat there's lots of little expenses

00:49:04.560 keep those receipts and and i and i sent this uh message to the other reporters to keep those receipts

00:49:10.240 because we don't want you out of pocket and we're crowdfunding the airbnb and and other things that

00:49:15.440 we didn't disclose i'll mention it now that we're coming to an end we had a lawyer a swiss lawyer that

00:49:23.040 we hired and had on standby because i was worried that what happened to jack what happened to our team

00:49:29.040 it's happened before so you know we did a lot of preparations behind the scenes we had the flights

00:49:34.000 the the taxi the car so keep all those things because obviously we want to reimburse you and

00:49:40.240 the other journalists i i think it's money well spent i think our viewers are so interested in this

00:49:45.920 subject that that this is something they really value folks if you're watching and you haven't

00:49:50.800 gone to wefreports.com yet you should go there see all the work from the six journalists and if you

00:49:57.280 want to chip in to help cover the cost for these guys maybe even buy them a beer when they're in the

00:50:01.440 swiss alps that's the closest thing it'll be to a vacation these guys are not on holidays i can

00:50:06.000 assure you that they travel economy class but if you want to chip in go to wefreports.com

00:50:11.520 i'll be say hi to the rest of the team and have a good night i know it's super late over there

00:50:15.760 thank you thanks for everything okay right on good night cheers well there you have it our friend

00:50:21.200 avi amini our chief australia correspondent and two-time back-to-back winner of our viewers choice

00:50:27.360 awards stay with us more ahead

00:50:41.360 hey welcome back your letters to me marie jean garrity says excellent interview hope a bunch more

00:50:47.280 people get it real soon are you talking about my interview with manny monogreno i like that

00:50:52.880 guys great to see him again paul batik says amazing that they don't even have to explain

00:51:00.400 the current rationale all other laws or policies have to have an explanation especially if a charter

00:51:07.280 issue you know there were so many things done wrong legally judicially legislatively medically

00:51:15.360 statistically policing journalism everything failed everything failed you know there's some amazing

00:51:23.920 videos our teams are getting out of davos uh you got to check out the website wefreports.com

00:51:31.760 and jeremy lafredo our new new york reporter makes the point that the theme of davos is building back trust

00:51:39.040 but they don't know why they lost it they don't know what they did wrong because they can't admit they

00:51:43.840 did anything wrong they want to build back trust but they refuse to come to grips with what they

00:51:48.240 did to destroy the trust in the first place rorschach says what shocks me is how the conservatives

00:51:55.840 are not mentioning this pfizer documents at all you know i myself haven't dug deep into them although

00:52:01.840 we've criticized pfizer many times maybe i should take a look at the papers well that's our show for

00:52:07.280 today until tomorrow let me leave you with our video of the day from sheila um calgary is stonewalling

00:52:15.680 rebel news on how much money bureaucrats blew on climate change influencers it really bugs me that

00:52:22.960 our government spends money on these like tick tockers and instagram models to talk politics it just 0.99

00:52:29.520 it feels like a weird corrupt bribe and calgary won't disclose it here's sheila's video on that i'll see

00:52:35.920 you tomorrow just a few weeks ago actually at the end of april 2022 rebel news filed for access to

00:52:41.200 information regarding the amount of money the city of calgary is spending on third party social media

00:52:47.120 influencers to push the government's agenda on a whole host of issues we hadn't even quite asked for

00:52:53.120 the names of the people or companies they were contracting with we just wanted to know the bulk numbers

00:52:58.800 the costs and if the numbers were outrageous then that's when we were going to dig down and file a

00:53:03.760 second access to information request or maybe a third or even a fourth to get all the details of

00:53:08.640 the contracts again we would only do that if the numbers were ridiculous and if the spending was

00:53:12.720 insane you see unlike the city of calgary we're trying to be frugal over here because these sorts

00:53:18.880 of investigations cost money and precious time and we even have a researcher who helps us carry them

00:53:25.040 out we try to be strategic and follow the breadcrumbs if indeed there is a breadcrumb trail at all

00:53:30.720 and here somebody left me a whole bakery in the woods what i can tell you is that over the course

00:53:36.160 of january 1st 2020 up until april 25th 2022 the city of calgary has spent nearly 75 000 hiring paid

00:53:44.000 tweeters and instagramers to talk about all sorts of things like labor day canada day tomorrow's

00:53:49.280 chinatown their toolkit for covid and a climate program just to name a few but if you look right here

00:53:55.200 in 2022 i cannot tell you the specific numbers of the contracts for a whole bunch of these things

00:54:01.440 and in particular the climate program you know that's really the one i'm interested in the cities

00:54:06.720 redacted it for some reason while also publishing the data on other programs i think that's odd don't you

00:54:13.280 now i want to know how much that money was and now i want to know who they paid it to we are going to

00:54:19.200 appeal those redactions and just to be clear those 16.1 redactions that's the section of the

00:54:24.800 information law they're using to justify blacking things out that's the disclosure harmful to business

00:54:31.040 interests of a third party clause so if the city tells us how much money they blew on so-called

00:54:37.120 influencers it would be harmful to the business interests of the influencers how could it be harmful

00:54:44.000 they haven't even told us the names of the paid tweeters and instagramers so how could it harm them

00:54:49.440 the amount of money spent by the city on influencers particularly on the issue of climate change

00:54:54.720 in the heart of oil country should not be a trade or state secret especially when the city has no

00:55:00.880 problem giving away other information on other influencer contracts on other issues for example

00:55:06.640 apparently it's harmful to find out how much calgary taxpayers were paying for climate change postings but

00:55:12.000 not for canada day ones what's the difference so today i'm just showing you the first

00:55:19.040 part of an access to information investigation that is just getting started if you'd like to help me

00:55:24.720 find out how much money the city of calgary actually paid to climate influencers to push their

00:55:29.920 climate scare agenda and now you can help me find out exactly who they paid it to you can do that by

00:55:36.400 topping up our investigations fund at rebel investigates.com you know we don't take any

00:55:41.200 money from justin trudeau to hold governments to account and that means all levels of government we're

00:55:46.320 proudly independent and supported by our viewers at home so thank you these people don't get to spend

00:55:52.320 taxpayer money in secret and i think the new mayor of calgary god gondek best learn that sooner rather

00:55:59.040 than later for the sake of calgarians i am going to drag this information out of them now we can do it

00:56:05.040 the easy way or we can do it the hard way with your help though i will get it for rebel news i'm sheila gunreed

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Rebel News Podcast - May 25, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ I think we all know how corrupt the U.S. security and intelligence industry is — wait till you see how bad Canada’s is

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