Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m a pessimist these days, but I have a few reasons for optimism

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Today's podcast is a little different. I'm going to try and be optimistic

00:00:04.500 and hopeful. I'm going to try and come up with reasons to think that maybe there's a light at

00:00:10.220 the end of the tunnel that's just not another train. I'm going to give you a few examples,

00:00:15.120 including I'll just give you one right now. Did you know the stock price for Moderna is down about

00:00:20.740 30% in the last month? Why is that? Why are those greedy capitalists bailing on Moderna?

00:00:27.280 Pfizer, too. I'll take you through some little proof points that suggest that maybe we can see

00:00:33.900 the end of this nightmare. That's today's podcast. I'd like to invite you to see the video version of

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00:01:13.720 Tonight, I'm a pessimist these days, but I have a few reasons for optimism. Let me see if I can

00:01:18.700 persuade you. It's January 18th, and this is The Answer of the Vance Show.

00:01:22.880 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:27.900 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:31.960 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:36.840 right to do so.

00:01:42.940 The story of the pandemic is how fast things went so badly and how little anybody or anything did

00:01:49.340 about it. Canada's one of the worst examples. There's some atrocious misconduct in Australia,

00:01:55.520 to be sure, but at least there are some institutions, some elected officials, some media, some judges

00:02:01.300 there who are skeptical. Same in the United Kingdom, where significant wings of both the conservative

00:02:06.520 government and the Labour opposition, including Jeremy Corbyn, have been skeptics of the lockdowns.

00:02:12.080 Not so here in Canada. Every government and every opposition party in federal and every province

00:02:17.640 are in lockstep. Every judge, every TV station, every doctor, because they've suspended the doctors

00:02:23.680 who object. Every chamber of commerce, every official person. It really is this shocking 99% conformity

00:02:31.820 from that historical picture of August Landmesser, the one German who didn't give Hitler the salute

00:02:37.920 in that iconic picture. I think some people were stunned by what happened to us, almost in a state

00:02:44.500 of shock. I don't think that was accidental. I think it was absolutely a psychological operation,

00:02:50.200 a psyop. When all the world leaders start using the same hypnotic code words at the same time,

00:02:56.320 build back better, the great reset, and all prescribe the same untested, unscientific responses

00:03:01.980 to the virus in lockstep. They all use the same trick, two weeks to flatten the curve. They all

00:03:06.900 swore by six feet of separation, even though the former head of the FDA himself says no one actually

00:03:12.760 knows where that six feet or two meter advice came from. When they all say the same thing about masks,

00:03:18.560 don't wear them. Then do wear them. Then the masks you've been wearing for the past year aren't good.

00:03:23.560 And it's all a giant game of Simon Says, where they're all just repeating what the other one says.

00:03:27.980 It's not science. It's something else that I don't think we've seen before, not in the free West

00:03:33.120 anyways, not on this scale. And of course, the tech giants are key to it. It was a snow day in

00:03:38.920 Toronto yesterday and again today. I get it. It really was a big blizzard. So the kids did school

00:03:43.440 on their laptops by Zoom all across the city, which they've been doing for much of the past two years

00:03:48.160 anyways. My point is, if it weren't for Zoom and laptops and broadband internet and all the other

00:03:54.860 technologies, the half-baked, demoralizing, anti-social way of doing school from home,

00:04:00.420 wouldn't have been possible. And schools would have been back in action in 2020. Tech provided a

00:04:07.880 sneaky way for politicians to shut down schools with a half-hearted solution. Same thing with 0.98

00:04:13.060 everything that closed from Parliament. The Parliament in the UK shut down briefly during the

00:04:18.980 Great Plague hundreds of years ago. I think that shutdown was measured in weeks. They actually just

00:04:23.920 moved the Parliament to Oxford from London. Trudeau has used Zoom and the other excuses to avoid

00:04:30.480 and evade parliamentary oversight for two years. But by far the most important use of technology was

00:04:37.280 the brainwashing effect of social media. You're bombarded by news and tweets and Instagram and Facebook

00:04:43.080 posts around the clock. You're terrified. You're terrorized. And that's the point. And now they're using

00:04:49.660 technology to foment hate against minorities, the unvaxxed. I'm not saying crowds can't go mad without 0.99

00:04:57.340 the internet and social media and phones. I mean, Hitler managed to whip up people in the age of stadiums 0.97

00:05:03.300 and newspapers and radio broadcasts and film reels, but nothing like this. It really was what Orwell wrote

00:05:09.580 about in 1949 when he wrote his book in 1984 and imagined what he called telescreens. The telescreen received

00:05:18.100 and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made about the level of a very low whisper

00:05:23.520 would be picked up by it. Moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision,

00:05:28.220 which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was, of course,

00:05:33.140 no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. Orwell didn't foresee

00:05:38.480 telescreens so small you carry them with you everywhere. You sleep with it next to you.

00:05:43.860 You can actually be listened to at every given moment because the listening is done by a machine,

00:05:49.080 by artificial intelligence, by the algorithm where you're constantly nudged towards approved content

00:05:54.900 and away from banned content, which you might never see and which if you publish it yourself might

00:06:00.100 never be seen by anyone. Nothing like it before. Social media and cell phones were bad enough before

00:06:05.220 the pandemic. A source of mental illness, depending on your social media of choice. Watch Instagram,

00:06:10.900 feel envy. Read Twitter, feel rage. They've conditioned us so well. So many people are so

00:06:17.940 afraid and they will be long after the last lockdown is legally rescinded. The fear will remain. You can

00:06:24.060 see it already. I tell you that without the media and especially social media, no one would have even

00:06:30.360 known there was a pandemic. It really was equivalent to a bad flu season, except it was even more skewed to

00:06:36.060 the very elderly. Average age of death, 80. Average number of underlying conditions, 4. I mean it would

00:06:41.920 be unthinkable to have closed businesses and schools for such a disease before the true disease, the

00:06:49.020 mind virus of media hypnosis was in place. But you've heard me say most of this before. I'm here today with

00:06:55.300 a different point of view, at least just for today. I'm here to tell you that there are some little green

00:07:01.100 shoots of hope. I mean, Orwell himself in 1984 wrote, if there was hope, it must lie in the proles. By

00:07:07.860 proles, he meant the proletariat, the working class, ordinary people, not the ruling class. My previous

00:07:13.740 point about mass hypnosis, mass fear-mongering through social media, through our cell phones, might blunt

00:07:18.820 any belief that the proles could save us, but I think there's still some truth to it. I see it in my own small

00:07:25.060 travels, the latest lockdown in Toronto. Moms and dads who were compliant, even obedient before, maybe even

00:07:31.060 amateur self-appointed enforcers before. They now have tiny acts of rebellion as a matter of course,

00:07:37.180 like someone who at 3 a.m. might stop at a red light at an intersection, realize there's no one

00:07:41.600 around for miles, and then just decides to go through the light anyways. That kind of rebellion,

00:07:45.820 not a showy rebellion, or one that's rational, not driving through a red light in midday, but I don't

00:07:51.300 know, a gymnastic studio or a hockey rink that was told to close, but that finds a way to open quietly

00:07:56.960 under the radar for parents who are tired of having their kids' lives disrupted. I've really never

00:08:02.420 worn a mask in public. That still attracts some mass scolds, but not as often, not as adamant. In fact,

00:08:10.700 I'm trying to think of the last time it was enforced against me in a way that altered my course in any

00:08:15.740 way other than some banter. Jordan Peterson is an example of, I think, the change that's going on.

00:08:22.460 He got his jab somewhat reluctantly, it seems, because he did so to remain active in his public

00:08:29.000 life. He's just given her. He travels a lot. He likes to go to public venues like theaters,

00:08:34.180 be a full citizen. He kept his end of the bargain, but when the government didn't keep its end, when they

00:08:39.280 still subjected him to tests and rules and inspections and limits, and now to lockdowns like

00:08:45.180 the dirty unvaccinated, he rightly said, hang on, what's the point? I have to laugh. All the people, 1.00

00:08:51.240 especially in the big provinces of Ontario and Quebec, who got jabbed just for the privilege of

00:08:55.280 living a normal life, when they were put under curfew and lockdown, just like the unvaccinated, 1.00

00:08:59.900 didn't they feel like they were cheated, like the social contract was torn up? In many places,

00:09:05.580 Israel being one, two doses is now called unvaccinated. You're back to square one.

00:09:10.660 Here's the CEO of Moderna getting really excited about how many more doses he has in store for you

00:09:16.060 and how many more hoops you're going to have to keep jumping through to remain a clean person.

00:09:21.420 Is how do we make it possible from a societal standpoint that people want to be vaccinated?

00:09:27.080 And we're trying to do this by preparing combinations. You know, we're working on the

00:09:30.400 flu vaccine, we're working on the RSU vaccine, and our goal is to be able to have a single annual

00:09:35.480 booster so that we don't have compliance issues where people don't want to get two to three shots

00:09:40.140 a winter, but they get one dose where we get, you know, a booster for corona and a booster for flu

00:09:45.180 and RSV to make sure that people get their vaccine. So yeah, it's a new kind of vaccine skeptic, not the

00:09:50.780 die hard, I'd rather go to jail type, more the Canadian go along to get along, reasonable, even 1.00

00:09:56.260 passive type, who played by the rules and sees that the rules have just been changed.

00:10:00.680 That's a different kind of objector. And then add to that, the fact that the vaccinated are now 0.67

00:10:06.340 catching the Omicron variant at the same rate or even more than unvaccinated people are. The

00:10:12.060 cognitive dissonance is strong, strong enough for some to break them out of their social media

00:10:17.940 hypnosis. There's an amateur comedian in Toronto, he's on social media mainly, he does different

00:10:23.980 impressions, pretty funny, really normal guy, not political at all, never seen him talk politics

00:10:28.940 before. He makes lots of cultural jokes in a friendly way. I think he's Persian himself.

00:10:34.200 He did this rant yesterday about Doug Ford's latest lockdown, and Justin Trudeau's insults to

00:10:40.100 the unvaccinated. Now it's two minutes long, I'm going to play it for you. Now maybe you don't find 0.98

00:10:44.380 him as funny as I do. Maybe you can't quite understand his Persian accent, which he really

00:10:48.780 ratchets up here. But none of that's really my point. My point is that this is a normal guy,

00:10:53.360 not quite a celebrity, but a normie, an apolitical, friendly fellow, very pro-Canadian,

00:10:59.000 friend to all type of guy, who has decided that he's done being quiet and compliant and obedient,

00:11:05.800 and he's going to speak up just a little bit. He's frustrated. I think he's jabbed. And he obviously

00:11:11.620 feels safe to speak out now. So watch for two minutes. I think it's funny myself, you may not,

00:11:17.180 but the point is you would not have had a normal person like this say these things six months ago.

00:11:24.660 Take a look.

00:11:33.300 Hello. Hello. Hi. Mr. Dougie Dougie. How are you doing? Okay. Listen, um, idiot. Just I have one

00:11:39.300 question. Why you're so stupid? Huh? Just I don't get. I don't understand. Uh, how do you do one more

00:11:48.440 lockdown? I, I just, I can't take. It's too much. Okay. If you are, uh, the longest lockdown in the world

00:11:57.720 now, how is possible? Please tell me how many, how many times I can drive my white, um, luxury Mercedes

00:12:06.440 C-Class in the neighborhood? Just I am tired. I can't, I can't do. Okay. I want to get back to normal life.

00:12:16.040 I want to go to club, pick the white girl, do some dancing, shake my shoulder. Okay. What the hell 0.99

00:12:22.680 you're doing? And please tell your idiot friend, Justin Trudeau, that Ola, Kessafat, Bishur, Ahmaq, go.

00:12:30.260 Please tell him he is more a super than you. Yeah. Yeah. Because listen, um, Dougie, I am full vaccine.

00:12:38.760 I take the two shots. Okay. Uh, like the tequila. Uh, actually my friend Javshid, he give me the booster,

00:12:45.160 booster, whatever. Some of my friends, they are not wax. Uh, uh, it's, it's okay. But how the hell

00:12:54.500 Justin is saying they are the racist. When this guy, he do the black face. Are you crazy? Huh? You're

00:13:04.360 Haji Firouz? You, you are racism, not my friend. So kiss my ass, shut your mouth. And please,

00:13:10.820 Mr. Dougie, please. Stop talking of the shit Tim Horton and, um, uh, egg bacon sandwich. You're too fat.

00:13:20.360 Go for walking. Swim in lake. Put the right food in your mouth. Okay. Stop telling us to stay inside.

00:13:28.420 How about you can go somewhere else for long time and let us, the people, be free. One, again. Okay. I can't take.

00:13:39.680 Please. Okay. Anyway, uh, I go now. Shut your mouth, please. And, um, take care. Okay. Be sure. Take care.

00:13:47.980 Now he's not going to dethrone Dave Chappelle anytime soon for world's funniest guy,

00:13:55.640 but mocking Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau and mocking Trudeau calling anti-vaxxers racist. I like that.

00:14:03.100 Uh, that's a sign of the times, I think, but let me give you some real proof now, bigger proof,

00:14:07.540 more meaningful proof than just the little details in my own modest social life and my own modest

00:14:13.120 online life. Uh, let's, let's start here. This is the stock market price for Pfizer for the last

00:14:22.680 one month. It's down more than 10% in the last month. Here's the same one month chart for Moderna.

00:14:30.640 One month, it's down more than 30%. Why? Obviously they're both still way, way up from where they were

00:14:38.320 in 2019. I mean, Moderna never actually managed to sell a single dose of any drug before the

00:14:44.600 pandemic. Did you know that? This is their first drug. So they're all billionaires many times over,

00:14:49.360 but in the past month, the market, which is a way of saying the collective judgment of thousands or

00:14:54.720 even millions of very self-interested people, greedy people, if you like capitalists, people motivated

00:15:01.260 by nothing, but making a buck. That's why you're an investor. They have decided to get out of these

00:15:05.980 stocks. Democrats or Republicans, pro-vax or anti-vax, none of that matters to the question, do you believe

00:15:12.460 in these two companies enough that in the future they will pay you enough so you want to invest their

00:15:19.060 money now? And the answer is more people are selling these stocks than buying them. That wasn't true

00:15:25.020 before. That hasn't been true until now. What's changed in the past month? Now, every seller of the

00:15:31.140 stock has their own reason. Is it the general recognition that vaccines aren't really working anymore?

00:15:35.960 And that sure, Pfizer and Moderna managed to con the dumber world leaders like Justin Trudeau into

00:15:43.140 buying years and years worth of supplies. Trudeau has got to be the worst for that. But those windfall

00:15:48.880 contracts are already priced in. They're already signed. It's all downhill from here. The smart money

00:15:54.540 is out. I mean, sounds like Bill Gates himself has moved on. Economic damage, the deaths, it's been

00:16:04.320 completely horrific. And I would expect that will lead the R&D budgets to be focused on things we

00:16:14.340 didn't have today. You know, we didn't have vaccines that block transmission. We got vaccines that help

00:16:20.120 you with your health, but they only slightly reduce the transmissions. We need a new way of doing the

00:16:25.960 vaccine. Here's the head of Pfizer himself saying the first two doses, well, they didn't really do

00:16:31.360 anything against Omicron. But he really, really promises you that the third dose of the same

00:16:36.640 vaccine will. And we know that the three, the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection,

00:16:43.280 if any. The three doses with a booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and

00:16:50.220 deaths. So yeah, when completely amoral, completely financially oriented capitalists are selling their

00:16:57.440 vaccine stock. It tells you the party's over, at least from that one point of view. But maybe that's

00:17:03.840 something else going on. I don't know. Well, look at this news. Look at this news from the weekend in

00:17:08.420 the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's a state with about 8.5 million people in it. Same population as in

00:17:16.060 Quebec. The new governor was sworn in on the weekend. On his very first day, he canceled the state's mask

00:17:23.660 mandates and vaccine mandates. Just canceled them, freed millions of people. And Virginia abuts 1.00

00:17:29.760 Washington, D.C. It's sort of carved out of Virginia. Many people who work in D.C. live in

00:17:34.780 Virginia. Remember, Virginia voted for Biden by about 10 points over Trump just a year ago. Now it has a

00:17:42.000 strong Republican rolling back lockdowns. And just a week or so ago, as our friend Janine Younis explained to

00:17:51.680 us, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled six to three against Joe Biden's vaccine mandate that

00:17:57.980 applied to more than 80 million workers who were covered by federal occupational safety and health

00:18:04.340 laws. Six to three. So it wasn't just Republicans on the bench. Biden himself is at a record low in the

00:18:12.320 polls, just 33 percent. A lot of things are behind that, of course. Inflation, the price of gas,

00:18:17.720 soaring crime, general lawlessness in cities like L.A. and San Francisco, New York. Biden clearly losing

00:18:24.080 his cognitive abilities. But it's not just the failure of the lockdownists. It's the success

00:18:30.480 of the anti-locker downers. I mean, I enjoyed reading this article in the Miami Herald.

00:18:38.480 Who will challenge Jimenez Salazar for seats in Congress? Don't ask Florida Democrats.

00:18:45.240 What? Can you believe it? It used to be that Latino voters were Democrats, but under Ron DeSantis,

00:18:52.300 the Republican, and in reaction to the pro-Cuba, pro-Venezuela, pro-communist Democratic fringe

00:18:58.360 and Joe Biden's failures, the Democrats don't seem to be able to find any strong candidates

00:19:04.060 to run against three Latino Republican congressmen in Miami. Would you ever believe that?

00:19:11.320 No Democrat wants to run and lose in Miami? It's a Republican city, not all of it, but it's

00:19:18.800 about freedom now. Yes, I know by many measures it's never been worse here in Canada. No important

00:19:26.180 wins in court yet. But then again, no appeal courts have had a substantive case yet, and not our Supreme

00:19:32.220 Court yet. Justice is very slow in Canada. The curfew was back in Quebec, but you know what? It was so

00:19:38.100 palpably unpopular that it was quickly repealed. Did you know that? Did you see that?

00:19:44.800 I saw a new opinion poll yesterday that puts Doug Ford, the Premier of Ontario, at an all-time low,

00:19:50.380 30% approval. Here's the rest of the poll, which is just as interesting. It's a little bit small

00:19:55.260 to show you the whole thing on the video screen, but we'll put a link to it on the website. It's an

00:19:59.780 Angus Reid survey. I recommend you just poke through. It's pretty quick. I mean, Doug Ford is very

00:20:03.960 unpopular, and specifically, so for us handling the pandemic, but so are some of the most abusive

00:20:09.060 locker-downers. Jason Kenney being the most brutal and also the most unpopular in Canada.

00:20:15.080 Here's one of the questions they asked. Do you think the following are doing a good or bad job

00:20:20.620 handling the COVID-19 pandemic overall? And the answers are interesting by different demographics.

00:20:26.260 A majority of Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick disapprove

00:20:32.520 of their government's handling. But look at the age and sex breakdowns. Young men are the most upset,

00:20:39.360 70% of young men. Young women not far behind, 66% young men. Of course, almost no young healthy

00:20:47.420 men get seriously sick from COVID, but they are the highest at-risk group for myocarditis and

00:20:52.620 pericarditis from the Pfizer and Moderna shots. But more to the point, they want to work. They want to

00:20:58.340 go to the gym. They want to go to a restaurant. They want to meet people. They want to live their lives,

00:21:02.080 start their lives. Young women, too, obviously. And they have the added concern that the jabs have 1.00

00:21:07.120 not been tested in a long-term basis. How will these jabs affect reproductive health? 1.00

00:21:13.380 I showed you the other day that studies show that the jab affects women's menstrual cycles. Oh,

00:21:19.320 oh, just that, hey? Oh, I'm sure it's nothing. I mean, listen, those pharma bros need to make their

00:21:25.560 next billion. Come on, ladies. You can trust this male feminist pickup artist. He truly cares about 1.00

00:21:32.220 your female health. So yeah, here's my point. The reason the politics and the media are getting so 1.00

00:21:39.920 extreme is precisely because they need to do so, because what they're doing isn't really working,

00:21:46.340 not working against the virus, and not working to keep their promise to voters who took the jab

00:21:51.620 and now have remorse over it. Canada's democracy is obviously not as healthy as America's. Our

00:21:58.440 checks and balances are broken. Our media is bought off. Our courts are timid and slow. Our politics

00:22:04.900 are a monoculture. We're too passive. Yes, yes, yes, I know that. But if there is hope, it lies with the

00:22:11.480 proles. People are sick of this. Not that you can do anything about it. What are you going to do?

00:22:16.780 Vote for the opposition, who propose identical solutions? No, but I put it to you that the

00:22:23.500 smart money is moving. And when America votes out the lockdownists in November, when half a dozen

00:22:30.340 other states join with Virginia and flip from Democrat to Republican, and when the Congress itself

00:22:36.580 returns to Republican hands, I think that will spill over our borders too. At least I hope so. 0.99

00:22:44.140 So there it is for what it's worth. My attempted optimism. Stay with us for more.

00:22:55.640 Well, as you know, in December, I had some unfortunate news for Rebel News, which is we

00:23:01.480 applied for a commercial mortgage in Calgary with the Royal Bank, had a great series of meetings on

00:23:06.140 the phone and by Zoom with the commercial mortgage lenders in that city. They loved our application,

00:23:12.000 said it was very strong. Rebel News has no debt. We have strong cash flow. So they approved the

00:23:16.320 mortgage and in fact offered us $200,000 or $300,000 in a line of credit, which we didn't

00:23:22.760 even ask for, a sign of how strong they thought our application was. But the Toronto head office

00:23:29.480 scotched the deal. And as you know, when I spoke to the mortgage lenders, they said it was

00:23:34.740 not for any financial reason, but rather for our strong opinions. Apparently Rebel News or myself

00:23:41.280 or both are on some sort of internal enemies list, a blacklist of people who for non-financial reasons

00:23:49.500 are not allowed to get mortgages. A shocking turn of events. But apparently I'm not alone. Neither is

00:23:56.160 Rebel News. Here's a story in Blacklock's reporter. You know Blacklock's one of the few independent

00:24:02.680 journalists left in this country. They were on a Zoom call with the Bank of Canada, which is not a

00:24:10.000 lending institution like the Royal Bank, but rather the Canadian version of the Federal Reserve. It's

00:24:15.620 the government's bank and they lend money to the banks who lend it to you in America.

00:24:21.760 And I guess they didn't realize that reporters had already joined the call because they started

00:24:27.680 talking amongst themselves. I'm talking about the Bank of Canada media handlers about which reporters

00:24:34.340 they had in their pocket and which reporters they hated or banned. There's a couple of people here who

00:24:41.500 I am absolutely, I'll check the list to make sure who's listening, absolutely not keen to give questions

00:24:46.280 to. I do not want to be in a situation where we're allowing Blacklocks to be asking us. So yeah, 1.00

00:24:55.580 that's about where we're at. The only non-government funded media on that call,

00:25:02.540 our friends at Blacklocks, were banned from asking any questions. It was a hot mic moment here to talk

00:25:09.700 with us about it, is our friend Spencer Fernando, who himself, like us and like Blacklocks, is one of

00:25:15.640 the few media companies in Canada that does not take money from Trudeau. Spencer, great to see you

00:25:21.040 again. I'll go through some of the details here, but are you surprised that government agencies

00:25:26.620 have blacklists of folks that they just don't talk to, that they ban, that they shut out?

00:25:33.920 I'm not surprised because we've been caught up in that ourselves, even in the leaders' debates,

00:25:38.060 but the Bank of Canada, that's supposed to be a pretty non-partisan place, isn't it?

00:25:42.400 Yeah, you'd think so, although we've certainly seen them become more and more partisan and,

00:25:46.380 you know, interventionist and kind of backing up big spending liberal policies, right? I mean,

00:25:51.180 every time the government goes into more of a deficit, they kind of make it easier for them

00:25:54.460 to get away with it, right? They keep interest rates low, they print more money, they spread all

00:25:58.480 the money around. And so it kind of dulls the pain of these policies. So really, it's not surprising

00:26:03.020 that they would be, you know, not wanting to talk to people who would actually ask them tough

00:26:06.700 questions, in large part because I don't think they really want the public to make the connection

00:26:10.700 between what they're doing and what people are seeing in terms of prices and shortages,

00:26:14.560 right? They don't want people to make that connection. They just want them to blame,

00:26:17.640 oh, it's just the big mean capitalist companies all there to blame. The government has nothing

00:26:21.140 to do with it. Don't worry about us. So certainly they wouldn't want any tough questions.

00:26:25.400 Yeah. You know, it's not just that they were blacklisting Holly Doan and Blacklocks. It's 1.00

00:26:31.460 the reporters they were favoring because these reporters were so, you know, interwoven with the

00:26:38.600 government. They basically said to the government, what do I write? I want to quote to you

00:26:41.620 from Blacklocks. So like I say, this is a Zoom call where the microphones are on because the Bank of

00:26:48.900 Canada, they don't really, they're not aware that reporters are already on the call. So they think

00:26:54.160 they're talking amongst themselves. And I'll read to you in a moment what they said about Blacklocks,

00:26:59.340 who are the good guys. But here's what they said about a Bloomberg reporter. Bloomberg, of course,

00:27:04.260 the big financial news agency. Michael Bloomberg was his founder. Here's what they said about a

00:27:09.420 Bloomberg reporter named Theo Argetus. They said, Theo Argetus gave me a call just to sort of do the,

00:27:16.700 hey, what's my lead here? You know, as a former colleague of mine and lead spelled N-E-D-E is the

00:27:23.620 media term for the lead sentence, the breaking news. Sum it up for me in one sentence. So you have

00:27:29.900 Bloomberg calling up the bank spin doctors and say, OK, can you basically tell me what I should write?

00:27:36.480 So they, because we're all friends and we're all in the same club. So they'll, they'll do business

00:27:42.640 with Bloomberg because that just repeats Trudeau propaganda. But the one reporter on the call who

00:27:48.060 doesn't take Trudeau money, Blacklocks, they won't even talk to. That's, I guess that's very 1.00

00:27:53.480 unsurprising, isn't it? Yeah, it just shows much of the media has become literally an extension of the

00:27:59.380 government propaganda apparatus, right? Normally the Bank of Canada, where the government would have to put

00:28:04.020 out a press release and actually, you know, there's, there's transparency in that. The government

00:28:07.760 certainly has a right to share information, but it should be shown that it's from the government.

00:28:11.300 So you know what the bias is and, and it's likely propaganda that it serves the interests of those

00:28:15.700 in power. But when you have obviously Bloomberg saying, oh yeah, we'll just, just tell us, you know,

00:28:21.200 kind of what the, what we're going to say about this. Well, then it kind of hides it from people,

00:28:24.960 right? Because people will read an article thinking, OK, I'm reading a journalist opinion,

00:28:29.520 or reading their analysis of events when it's really just something that the Bank of Canada

00:28:34.520 wants people to read, but without being that honest about it. So I think, you know, it's not

00:28:39.160 surprising that the Bank of Canada would try to do that. I think, you know, politicians are pleased

00:28:43.840 to try to buy up the media and make it just an extension of the government, but the rest of us

00:28:48.800 should be pretty disturbed to see that. Yeah, I guess it's natural for spin doctors to want to talk to

00:28:54.180 comply. I mean, you know, way back in the day when I was in my twenties, I was a press aide to

00:28:59.900 Preston Manning in the Reform Party. And obviously we had a number of more sympathetic reporters and

00:29:05.700 some hostile ones. So sure, that's natural, I guess, for the Bank of Canada. I mean,

00:29:09.500 why wouldn't they be thrilled that they have some soft touch at Bloomberg? I think the embarrassment

00:29:14.880 there is on Bloomberg, which is supposedly this first rate professional news gathering agency

00:29:19.800 with no fear or favor will tell you what's going on. Oh, really? They just really published Trudeau's

00:29:25.160 press release. You're right. It's embarrassing on Bloomberg more so than on the government. But let

00:29:30.520 me read you what what got Blacklock's ears perked up, because like I said, you got you got 23 different

00:29:36.320 journalists signed up for the Zoom call. It's the big Bank of Canada Zoom call. They're going to talk

00:29:41.540 about inflation and things like that. But the bank people don't realize their mics are on. And here's

00:29:47.640 what they said. So you just heard what they said about their lovey-dovey reporters at Bloomberg.

00:29:53.280 Here's what they said about Blacklock's. Again, Blacklock's reporter. It's a small website. It's

00:29:57.280 about 300 bucks a year to subscribe. But we're proud to be subscribers because like you, Spencer,

00:30:02.120 like us, they don't take any government money. They said there's a couple of people here who I am

00:30:06.600 absolutely check the list to make sure who's listening. Absolutely not keen to give questions to.

00:30:11.320 I do not want to be in a situation where we're allowing Blacklock's to be asking us. 1.00

00:30:17.000 Um, so, um, yeah, that's about where we're at. That reminds me of when Rebel News was kicked out

00:30:23.780 of the leaders debate. We had to go to federal court to get in. I don't know what Blacklock can

00:30:27.920 do about it. I mean, I suppose there's no rule that you have to take a question from any reporter,

00:30:32.420 but it's just pretty gross to see that you're not going to take a question from the only independent

00:30:37.780 journalist in the room. Yeah, I mean, the Bank of Canada literally is in charge of Canada's money

00:30:43.300 supply. So you'd think they would be open to the opinions of all Canadians, right? That's like,

00:30:48.020 it's the bare minimum you'd expect from them considering they're supposed to be a public

00:30:52.300 institution for everybody. But no, I mean, they, they obviously don't want any tough questions.

00:30:56.800 They're trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public, just like Justin Trudeau is, which is,

00:31:00.940 again, as I said, not letting people ever make the connection between what they're doing and what

00:31:05.200 people are seeing in terms of prices. So yeah, I think, I think they're running pretty scared right now.

00:31:09.540 They know that if people realize what's going on, a lot of people are going to be pretty upset and

00:31:13.500 are going to demand a lot of changes and they don't want to see that happening. So I would expect them

00:31:18.240 to keep doing this. They're obviously going to be a little more careful on their Zoom calls going

00:31:22.000 forward, but I'm sure the internal policy is not going to change. Yeah, I think you're right. You

00:31:26.200 know, I can't help but think back to the Trump administration for all his flaws. Let me tell you

00:31:30.420 one thing about Donald Trump. He loved taking questions from the roughest, toughest oppositional

00:31:36.940 journalists in the room. Like Jim Acosta of CNN built his career on being Trump's antagonist.

00:31:43.760 He wrote a book, didn't he? Sorry, go ahead. He wrote a book, I think, didn't he?

00:31:48.140 And yet every single day, Trump asked him a question. Every day. Like it's, it, Trump wasn't

00:31:54.320 afraid of him. Trump wasn't, I mean, I don't even know if he was mad at him because I tell you,

00:31:59.100 I don't think anyone got more questions from Trump than the number one Trump hater, Jim Acosta.

00:32:03.700 And for, you know, for all of the criticisms of Trump, oh, he's, you know, he's calling us fake

00:32:10.280 news. He's really mean. He would take hour-long press conferences and exhaust them. Like it was

00:32:17.560 ridiculous compared to, you know, Trudeau and the Bank of Canada hiding. And Joe Biden, who doesn't

00:32:23.380 even take questions. I miss that part about Trump. Yeah, it was so interesting to see people, you know,

00:32:28.920 call him, you know, a fascist or a dictator when he's literally standing there fighting with the

00:32:32.700 media. I mean, that's, that's a free country. The media is allowed to criticize a politician

00:32:36.940 and the politicians allowed to criticize the media, the media, you know, a real fascist or

00:32:41.480 authoritarian or communist state. And you look at history, that's where the media gets bought off

00:32:45.660 and controlled by politicians. So I think people should be very careful in not looking at the

00:32:50.260 outward appearance of conflict as if that means there's some sort of problem there. There actually

00:32:55.500 should be some conflict and disagreement in a semi-functioning democracy. And in Canada,

00:33:00.100 you don't see much of that. You see a lot more, it's a much more polite, but that's much more

00:33:03.860 insidious because your people are being denied the debates and the information that we should be

00:33:08.260 getting. Yeah. You know, I think it's about to get worse. We know that Justin Trudeau has been

00:33:13.260 threatening to bring in an online censorship bill. He's been talking about it for years. He gave a bit

00:33:17.820 of a hint of it in the spring. I know it's coming back this year. And again, that's something Donald

00:33:22.320 Trump never did. I think he should have taken on big tech and broken up some of their monopolies and

00:33:27.060 strengthened free speech. He never touched them. Here comes Justin Trudeau. He's going to censor

00:33:32.200 the internet. And I think most journalists are going to support him. Yeah. Well, it's because

00:33:36.000 he's going to go after their competition, right? They're dependent on government money and they

00:33:39.820 don't like the fact that people can pick and choose independent outlets to compete with them. So they

00:33:44.740 just want to shut them down. Right. It's really, it's disturbing to see what's happened to the media.

00:33:48.360 It's totally been twisted around. Yeah. I'm not the first person to say it, but the media

00:33:52.540 used to speak truth to power and now it speaks power to truth. And that's, that's a pretty big

00:33:57.680 change for them. And that's why independent media has grown so much. People can sense that

00:34:01.700 something's wrong with the media and they want an alternative. And we're seeing the growth of

00:34:06.000 independent media, but also obviously the backlash from those who have a vested interest in things

00:34:10.980 not changing. Yeah. Well, listen, you're one of the good guys. Spencerfernando.com is your website.

00:34:16.920 I love it. Great writing, very fast on the news. Nice to see you. Thanks for joining us today.

00:34:21.300 All right. Take care. All right. There you have it. Spencerfernando.com. Stay with us. Mo ahead.

00:34:33.840 Hey, welcome back. Your viewer feedback. Sean Robbins says,

00:34:37.100 I just was denied to my father's memorial service because I'm not jabbed. The irony and stupidity

00:34:43.360 and pure evilness of it all is mind boggling. You know, the things that are being done to countless

00:34:49.600 millions of people on such a vast scale. Two, three years ago, this would have been this little

00:34:57.060 story you've just told would have been a shocking national news item where people would have reacted

00:35:03.360 normally and like fellow humans. But now it's like half the world says, well, were you jabbed? Were you

00:35:09.500 masked? If not, you deserve anything bad. The police brutality, the economic brutality,

00:35:15.260 firing workers, you know, governments enforcing jabs on you. So much for my body, my choice.

00:35:21.860 Every day, millions of things are happening that two and a half years ago, two years ago,

00:35:26.180 would have been a national scandal, including what you've just described.

00:35:30.920 Garland 53 says, liberals appear to be using the same tactic as the Nazis did by demonizing a group

00:35:36.780 based on lies to mostly deflect from their own failures. Well, I mean, I think the Nazis demonized the

00:35:43.380 Jews more than just to deflect from their failures. It was, it was, it was a more active thing. It

00:35:49.880 wasn't a reactive thing. But I take your point. You have a demonization of a minority, calling them

00:35:54.840 unclean, blaming them for your lack of health. I mean, the Jews were blamed by the Nazis for typhus.

00:36:02.780 And they were compared to rats, not just physically, but in terms of a public health threat.

00:36:08.740 You know, people say, oh, don't make comparisons to the Nazis. But I'm not comparing the lockdown to

00:36:15.560 the death camps. But I'm comparing the psychological manipulation, the bullying, the segregation,

00:36:22.160 the demonization. The death camps didn't happen right away. The death camps came almost 10 years

00:36:27.900 after Hitler first took power in 1933. We can observe the incremental way in which German civil 0.71

00:36:34.740 liberties were destroyed. German democracy were destroyed. We can observe that and remark on the

00:36:39.720 similarities. And especially when it comes to forcing people to get an injection, taking away

00:36:46.500 their informed consent, putting them under duress. That is one of the very specific lessons we learned

00:36:52.800 from the Nazis. And the doctor's trials, when the Nazi doctors were put on trial after the Holocaust,

00:36:59.080 that's where our whole understanding of informed consent and medical ethics in the modern age came

00:37:04.320 from. It was in reaction to the horrific experiments and things done to the concentration camp victims

00:37:11.040 that we came up with our do not harm, our modern version of do not harm, that ancient Hippocratic

00:37:16.860 oath. So yeah, it is absolutely fair to make a comparison to the Nazis on a spot basis. I sure hope 1.00

00:37:24.840 that we don't go too far down that road. But so far, no one's really pumping the brakes, are they?

00:37:30.520 That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you

00:37:36.340 at home, good night. And keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with our video of the day, our friend

00:37:41.040 Avi Amini, setting the record straight about Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, the tennis tournament.

00:37:47.340 Take a look.

00:37:47.660 Why is he different than us, man?

00:37:49.720 What's he different? Why is he different? It has nothing to do with it. But that's not why he got kicked out.

00:37:53.980 No, no, but that's a...

00:37:54.980 Pretend you're not Croatian for a second.

00:37:56.440 No, I'm not Croatian. I just have the shirt. And it has nothing to do with...

00:38:00.300 He didn't get kicked out because he was jacked.

00:38:02.340 Do you have the wax?

00:38:03.220 Does it matter? He wasn't kicked out for that.

00:38:05.300 Yes, he has.

00:38:06.400 That's the rule number one to come here.

00:38:07.940 That's not why he was kicked out.

00:38:10.120 I support you on Facebook, man, but...

00:38:12.660 Well, come, I want to explain to you something.

00:38:14.980 I'm an arsehole.

00:38:16.660 Who?

00:38:18.340 Not you.

00:38:19.340 Do you want to hug?

00:38:20.400 I'm like thinking, why is she calling me an arsehole?

00:38:22.880 He's just misguided.

00:38:25.380 Yeah.

00:38:25.960 He's all right.

00:38:28.320 People...

00:38:29.000 You know what the problem is here today?

00:38:30.560 Is that people believe the mainstream narrative.

00:38:32.700 You see, what he just said to me, why he's so upset and why he thinks...

00:38:36.080 He said he follows me on Facebook, he likes my stuff, I'm just wrong about this.

00:38:40.100 But the thing he doesn't know is he's just fallen for the government and mainstream media's narrative.

00:38:44.980 He thinks Novak Djokovic was kicked out because he was un-vaxxed.

00:38:47.960 That's not true.

00:38:50.460 Like, he's fine.

00:38:53.660 But he's just...

00:38:54.960 It's...

00:38:55.960 Avi Amini here for Rebel News in Melbourne, Australia.

00:39:01.940 Outside the Australian Open for the very first night when Novak Djokovic was supposed to play.

00:39:08.460 But less than 24 hours ago, the tennis number one was deported from our country.

00:39:14.400 So I'm here to find out from those attending the Australian Open, firstly, how they feel about that decision to deport him.

00:39:21.320 And if they even know why he was deported.

00:39:24.700 Well, I think it was just a big PR stunt by the government.

00:39:28.440 He made them look like dickheads and that's it.

00:39:30.660 I think he's been made out to be a little bit of a scapegoat.

00:39:32.460 The politicians know how to play here so that, you know, it works in their favour.

00:39:38.380 They knew they could get him on that technicality and stuff like that and make him look like the bad guy

00:39:42.860 when it wasn't even really the point they were arguing in court.

00:39:47.000 It is what it is.

00:39:47.780 Good decision.

00:39:48.640 You happy he's deported?

00:39:50.480 The rules, mate.

00:39:51.760 Which rules?

00:39:52.620 The laws.

00:39:53.820 The laws?

00:39:54.880 Is there not...

00:39:55.700 You have to be vaccinated to come here, don't you?

00:39:57.380 I think it was alright that he had to go home.

00:39:59.520 Why is that?

00:40:00.500 Because we all had to get vaccinated.

00:40:02.460 Yeah, I agree.

00:40:03.100 I think he should have gone.

00:40:04.060 Why?

00:40:04.800 Um, don't know.

00:40:06.800 Because he wasn't vaccinated.

00:40:08.260 There's rules.

00:40:08.780 He didn't abide by him.

00:40:09.800 Pay the price.

00:40:10.860 What was the rule that he didn't abide by?

00:40:12.640 The government rules of being vaccinated to come to the country.

00:40:15.360 So, do you know why they deported him?

00:40:17.680 Because he didn't meet the requirements?

00:40:19.360 No.

00:40:19.820 Do you know?

00:40:20.620 Um, the only thing I know is that he lied on his thing.

00:40:23.780 That's all I've heard.

00:40:24.520 No, I don't blame him.

00:40:25.780 It's not you, is it?

00:40:26.780 It's true.

00:40:27.720 He was pretty arrogant.

00:40:28.580 Oh, but is arrogant...

00:40:30.580 I like it.

00:40:33.400 But is arrogance what he got deported for?

00:40:37.020 No, I haven't followed it too closely.

00:40:39.120 But if he was arrogant enough to lie on his visa applications, arrogant enough to not respect

00:40:46.780 the rules, then...

00:40:48.840 So, do you know why he was deported at the end?

00:40:51.340 Um, not really.

00:40:53.760 This is what's interesting because we're talking to people and it seems like everybody's got

00:40:58.200 this perception of what happened.

00:40:59.560 Um, but that's not why he was kicked out.

00:41:01.640 What happened?

00:41:02.020 So, originally...

00:41:03.060 We'll go through it.

00:41:03.620 Originally, when he got here, they kicked him out because they said that he didn't have

00:41:07.520 a valid exemption.

00:41:08.400 Mm-hmm.

00:41:08.920 But then, uh, the federal government and the state government, uh, both conceded he did

00:41:14.740 have a valid exemption.

00:41:16.360 So, then they changed it and they tried to tell everyone he lied on his documents.

00:41:18.960 Yeah.

00:41:19.100 But it turns out the lie that they were making out to be such a big lie was like, you know

00:41:23.640 when you go into an airport and you tick all the boxes and you tick the wrong one?

00:41:27.140 It doesn't really make a difference which answer they just...

00:41:29.700 It's just one of those...

00:41:30.520 Yeah.

00:41:30.700 That's what it was.

00:41:31.660 So, they didn't even kick him out on that either because that wasn't really grounds.

00:41:34.680 What they kicked him out on is that they believe, without any real evidence besides

00:41:42.100 a comment he made two and a half...

00:41:43.500 Two years or a year and a half ago.

00:41:44.840 They believe that he has anti-vaccine, you know, thoughts.

00:41:50.200 He believes in anti-vax ideas and that would encourage anti-vax sentiment in the community.

00:41:58.460 Do you think that's fair to kick someone out?

00:41:59.960 Wait, so it wasn't because...

00:42:01.520 It wasn't because he didn't break the rules, it was because someone thought he was going

00:42:06.460 to, what, like, make someone upset?

00:42:10.760 Because he's a champion and people are going to follow his lead.

00:42:14.840 Oh, so he's like a person in the media or someone who's famous and because he's not

00:42:18.320 for it, other people will follow him.

00:42:20.020 Oh, I see.

00:42:20.720 Well, that's a different conversation, I suppose.

00:42:22.540 Well, 93%.

00:42:23.620 So, I don't know how he's...

00:42:24.480 How's he...

00:42:24.800 Is he going to...

00:42:25.500 Tell me this.

00:42:26.400 Do you think...

00:42:26.780 Like, I know he's a good tennis player.

00:42:28.280 Do you reckon he can...

00:42:29.820 He also has a superpower where he can take vaccinated people and un-vax them? 1.00

00:42:34.840 Is that what the government was worried about?

00:42:36.200 He's pretty clever.

00:42:37.040 I would have asked him.

00:42:38.120 He's pretty clever.

00:42:38.340 93%.

00:42:39.220 Everybody kind of followed the media and the government narrative.

00:42:42.440 Yeah.

00:42:42.620 Now, knowing that, even if you like him or dislike him, do you think it's fair he was deported?

00:42:46.520 Because I got this feeling that, tell me if I'm wrong, you could have some pretty dirty

00:42:50.520 thoughts sometimes.

00:42:51.420 Imagine getting into Thailand and they deport you for those thoughts you have.

00:42:54.260 Yeah, fuck yeah.

00:42:55.160 Of course.

00:42:56.580 Because Novak got kicked out because he might be having bad thoughts.

00:43:00.120 Not bad thoughts.

00:43:00.880 Maybe...

00:43:01.220 Thoughts different than...

00:43:02.420 Bad, bad.

00:43:03.260 Bad, bad.

00:43:04.000 We don't want to get banned.

00:43:04.940 Bad.

00:43:05.460 They're bad.

00:43:05.920 They're bad.

00:43:06.220 Bad.

00:43:06.440 They're bad.

00:43:06.880 The government said they're bad.

00:43:08.580 Yeah, I didn't know that was the case.

00:43:09.620 I didn't know that was the...

00:43:10.400 He got deported because he was going to incite something.

00:43:12.560 I didn't know that was the case.

00:43:14.060 That's a bit of a different conversation, I suppose.

00:43:15.620 That's pretty stiff.

00:43:16.540 Do you think that's fair that they can kick you out on your thoughts?

00:43:19.120 Yeah, no, that's pretty bad, yeah.

00:43:20.860 Like, for that, I think.

00:43:22.260 Like, he can have that opinion.

00:43:24.260 So he can have the opinion, but he can't come here with the opinion?

00:43:28.040 Well, I mean, if the rule is that you have to be vaccinated and he decides not to,

00:43:32.160 then he should also face the consequences.

00:43:34.140 But, no, the rule is that he has to be vaccinated unless he had an exemption, and he had the

00:43:37.820 exemption, so they didn't get...

00:43:39.540 But he had an exemption that was accepted by the Victorian government and Tennis Australia,

00:43:43.600 but not the federal government.

00:43:45.480 At the end, it was accepted by the federal government.

00:43:47.620 So it was...

00:43:48.300 Yesterday, the immigration minister, Hawke, who you just mentioned, he conceded that it

00:43:52.360 was accepted by the federal government.

00:43:54.240 Yeah.

00:43:54.500 The grounds, they changed the grounds.

00:43:56.560 Yeah.

00:43:56.780 So it wasn't his vaccination, it wasn't that he lied, it was that they said that him being

00:44:03.180 here would encourage anti-vax.

00:44:06.360 Yeah.

00:44:06.980 Do you think that's fair?

00:44:08.960 Well, I don't think people would change their minds because he's here.

00:44:13.300 You don't think people would change his mind?

00:44:15.300 No, I think people made their mind up already.

00:44:18.340 So do you think it's fair he was kicked out then?

00:44:20.500 Or do you think the government was just using that as an excuse?

00:44:25.240 Yeah, it was certainly politicised.

00:44:27.460 Do you care what Novak thinks, or do you care how he plays?

00:44:31.380 How he plays.

00:44:32.560 What about you?

00:44:34.160 I don't really care.

00:44:35.920 I just wanted to see his playing.

00:44:38.240 Yeah.

00:44:38.420 Yeah.

00:44:39.380 Crazy tennis fans.

00:44:41.020 What are you guys doing here?

00:44:42.900 Are you making people smile?

00:44:44.400 Do you think people need a smile now after the week they've been through here at the Australian

00:44:47.720 Open?

00:44:48.140 Absolutely.

00:44:48.860 Yeah, definitely.

00:44:49.140 How long have you been in Australia?

00:44:50.860 Four years, and I love it.

00:44:52.780 Absolutely love this country.

00:44:54.140 So you've been in Australia for four years, from Venezuela.

00:44:56.540 You love Australia.

00:44:57.760 How do you feel knowing that the government can deport you based on what you might think?

00:45:02.500 It's pretty sad.

00:45:04.020 It is sad.

00:45:05.320 Yeah.

00:45:05.880 Are you going to stop thinking?

00:45:07.160 Nope, never.

00:45:09.360 Not fair, no.

00:45:10.900 I don't think it's fair, no.

00:45:11.940 Because it's like their opinion, so.

00:45:14.140 Can't force it.

00:45:14.600 We don't even know if it's his opinion.

00:45:15.940 Yeah, exactly.

00:45:17.000 Don't have the wrong thoughts.

00:45:18.100 You might get deported.

00:45:19.140 I couldn't kill us, man.

00:45:21.740 Couldn't kill us.

00:45:22.540 Really?

00:45:23.160 You're here at the tennis and you don't have an opinion either way?

00:45:25.640 Hey, I go home, bro.

00:45:26.440 Oh, you work here?

00:45:27.380 Yeah, I work here, bro.

00:45:28.260 Ah, you're just here for the money.

00:45:29.860 But listen, be careful, because apparently in Australia nowadays, they're deporting people

00:45:33.880 based on how they think.

00:45:36.580 Don't...

00:45:37.100 Wrong think, you're out.

00:45:38.100 Wrong think, you're out.

00:45:38.440 You're being warned.

00:45:40.220 Still good, man.

00:45:41.120 So now that you know all that, do you think it's still fair that he was deported?

00:45:46.000 Yeah, I mean, the information I have is a bit different than what you described.

00:45:50.120 Do you think that's a fair reason to deport someone from a country, because you think you think

00:45:54.540 you know what they think for an opinion?

00:45:57.340 Probably not, then, no.

00:45:58.440 Behind us here in front of the Australian Open, you have a small contingency that are supporting

00:46:03.580 the number one tennis player who was deported from our country less than 24 hours ago.

00:46:10.340 Yeah, he stood up for his rights, so yeah, that's what we need to do here as well.

00:46:14.280 I'm taking it you're happy with the Djokovic decision?

00:46:17.680 No, I'm not happy at all.

00:46:19.160 Why not?

00:46:19.700 But he's such a bad man.

00:46:21.380 He had evil thoughts.

00:46:23.060 What were his evil thoughts?

00:46:24.700 I'm not aware of his evil thoughts, apart from standing up for free choice.

00:46:30.380 What's going on with those little caps on your head?

00:46:32.480 Is that for Djokovic?

00:46:34.040 Where's yours, mate?

00:46:35.420 I'm undercover.

00:46:36.600 If Novak was watching this right now, what would you tell him?

00:46:38.860 I'd probably tell him, it'd be good to see you here, but yeah, I don't know.

00:46:44.520 Good question.

00:46:45.560 That's about as Aussie as a response as you can get. 1.00

00:46:48.300 It's just disappointing when it's political rather than about, especially for us tennis

00:46:51.580 fans, we love tennis.

00:46:52.800 And no Djokovic, there's a lot of excitement missing.

00:46:56.720 Whoever wins really came second, we can say that, yeah?

00:46:59.780 Absolutely, man.

00:47:00.380 The greatest player of all time, Djokovic, 100%.

00:47:02.060 Nah, he probably could have stayed.

00:47:02.940 You're going for Nadal.

00:47:03.800 That's why you got him out.

00:47:04.780 Well, no, no, be honest.

00:47:05.940 You're going for Nadal and you thought this was the only way you were going to win.

00:47:08.280 Do you think that they deported him because, not because they were worried he was going

00:47:13.880 to spread the virus, but that he was going to spread dissent?

00:47:17.620 Yes.

00:47:17.940 I don't think I'd get that close to the great man, but no, I don't think I would have gotten

00:47:23.480 COVID off him.

00:47:24.720 It's probably just as risky to get it from anyone else that's attending, vaccinated or

00:47:29.620 unvaccinated.

00:47:30.920 It's spreading.

00:47:32.820 He donated so much charity to the bushfires and stuff and then they just kick him out.

00:47:37.440 I think it's probably not fair.

00:47:38.820 I reckon there's a strong mix of people that disagree with, you know, what's going on.

00:47:43.560 But then there's a lot of people, I think it's just in the class of, oh, I had to do

00:47:46.680 it, so should he.

00:47:47.780 They should be more angry at the buddy mandate than as opposed to the, you know, one person

00:47:51.840 sort of not getting away with it.

00:47:53.160 He was fully exempt from it.

00:47:54.920 You know, your buddy had COVID.

00:47:58.340 How you going?

00:47:59.480 You behaving yourselves, guys?

00:48:00.980 You good?

00:48:01.320 You good, you Avi?

00:48:02.100 Yeah.

00:48:02.220 Oh, first-hand basis, I love it.

00:48:05.020 I know what you're thinking.

00:48:06.760 Avi, you're such a rebel with a cause.

00:48:08.440 But guess what?

00:48:09.340 You can also be one.

00:48:10.740 You just got to go to rebelstore.com.au, get yourself one of these t-shirts and you can

00:48:15.480 look as badass as me.

00:48:17.140 You bought tickets, you were in there today?

00:48:18.560 Yeah.

00:48:18.920 What would you say to Novak now if he was watching this?

00:48:21.560 Oh, I'd say just keep your head up.

00:48:24.100 You just don't listen to him.

00:48:24.900 Just keep going.

00:48:25.660 Play tennis.

00:48:26.540 I don't know what the real issue is.

00:48:28.760 Maybe it's bigger than that.

00:48:29.800 Maybe it's geopolitical.

00:48:32.220 Um, I don't know.

00:48:33.320 Who's he going to convince?

00:48:34.700 Yeah.

00:48:35.420 Yeah.

00:48:35.780 It's a fair point.

00:48:36.340 According to their own narrative, he's so hated, although I've been out here.

00:48:39.600 People, would you have booed him?

00:48:41.300 No, no, no.

00:48:42.260 No way.

00:48:42.740 No.

00:48:43.160 He's not a person.

00:48:44.380 I think most people are just uneducated, read headlines and base their judgments and opinions

00:48:48.840 off that, but that's the world we're living in at the moment.

00:48:52.340 Listen, I'm the Capitano and I'm responsible.

00:48:54.740 What nasce are you?

00:48:56.260 This might explain the...

00:48:58.440 What nasce?

00:48:59.520 Italian.

00:49:00.120 No, Maltese. 0.92

00:49:01.320 Maltese.

00:49:01.800 I don't get this boat back.

00:49:02.980 You don't want to get it.

00:49:04.120 Are you Maltese as well?

00:49:05.620 She's Italian.

00:49:06.460 You're Italian?

00:49:07.420 Greek?

00:49:07.860 We've got everybody.

00:49:08.700 What is this?

00:49:09.240 A whole Europe?

00:49:10.120 Did you guys actually get here by boat?

00:49:12.420 Oh, wow.

00:49:12.940 Can I see your visas?

00:49:14.920 She's laughing at Novak getting kicked out, but I think we might need to get the AFP.

00:49:19.180 I can't believe it.

00:49:20.380 I'm surprised.

00:49:22.020 No.

00:49:22.420 You don't like the city?

00:49:23.460 No.

00:49:23.720 What about you?

00:49:24.160 What, you reckon you should play?

00:49:25.140 I do.

00:49:25.700 Oh, I might be fun to play.

00:49:27.540 You see, most people here tonight who seem to be for his deportation, when you present

00:49:34.360 all the facts, suddenly they're not so sure.

00:49:38.720 In his words, pretty stiff.

00:49:40.580 I'll see you in Melbourne, Australia, for Rebel News.

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00:50:00.940 There are some that don't like him.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 19, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m a pessimist these days, but I have a few reasons for optimism

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