Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Minister Ya'ara Saks cancels speaking engagement after Rebel News received invite

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Interesting show today. We got a great chat with our friend Mark Morano

00:00:04.040 about Elon Musk. And what does he really think about global warming and carbon dioxide?

00:00:10.020 But I also want to show you what happened when David Menzies and I tried to track down a liberal

00:00:14.620 cabinet minister named Yaara Sachs. You got to see it. I really want you to see the video version

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00:00:38.600 version of the show. Tonight, we try and catch a liberal cabinet minister.

00:00:58.920 But she runs away. It's August 16th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:05.740 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:09.400 Oh, hi, everybody. Yesterday, the funniest thing happened. We were told that a couple of cabinet

00:01:24.420 ministers were having an announcement in Toronto, not actually too far from our studio, and journalists

00:01:31.300 were invited to RSVP. And I thought, well, what the heck? I'm pretty sure they're going to block me,

00:01:36.780 but I just wrote a one-line email RSVPing. And I was absolutely shocked to receive an email back

00:01:43.220 saying, all right, you're confirmed. See you tomorrow. Here's the location. And that's another

00:01:48.740 interesting thing is that when the notice went out about this press conference by the cabinet ministers,

00:01:54.880 they said you will be told the location when you confirm. So I thought, wow, this is near my office.

00:02:02.580 I'm confirmed. I'm going to go because I have a few questions for Yara Sachs, an atrocious liberal 1.00

00:02:08.840 cabinet minister. Her official job is to be Trudeau's drug pusher. And by that, I mean she's the pro-drug

00:02:15.480 legalization cabinet minister. Absolutely disastrous. Nobody believes in that policy,

00:02:21.560 not even the drug addicts themselves. The ones who speak candidly say, please help me get out of this

00:02:26.840 mess. Don't subsidize keeping me here. But wouldn't you know it, as we were on our way,

00:02:32.220 I was going, my colleague David Menzies, a videographer, Lincoln Jay, as we were headed towards

00:02:36.980 the zone, we all got emails at the same time saying, canceled, canceled. Well, I didn't feel like

00:02:43.460 being canceled. That's quite rude, don't you think, to invite someone to a party. They confirm

00:02:47.980 everything is tickety-boo. And then just moments beforehand, you cancel. Well, she can't handle

00:02:53.260 Rebel News. But let me show you how it went. And I don't know. I think there's a larger story here.

00:03:01.860 I'll show it to you in a second because I went down there. I did the first part and then I had to leave

00:03:05.800 to come back here. But David did the second part. And I want to say that David Menzies, and if I

00:03:13.340 can say the same about myself, the questions we generally ask politicians, they're real questions.

00:03:18.720 But do you remember when we asked questions, when Avi Yamini and I asked questions of Albert

00:03:23.360 Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer? Here's just a quick snippet of that to refresh your memory.

00:03:28.460 Mr. Bourla, can I ask you, when did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission?

00:03:34.260 How long did you know that without saying it publicly?

00:03:37.140 Thank you very much.

00:03:37.840 Why don't you answer that question? I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn't stop

00:03:43.220 transmission. But why did you keep it secret?

00:03:47.700 You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%. But we now know that the vaccines

00:03:54.760 do not stop transmission. Why did you keep that secret?

00:03:58.760 Have a nice day.

00:03:59.940 I won't have a nice day until I know the answer.

00:04:02.480 Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?

00:04:09.920 Is it time to apologize to the world, sir, to give refunds back to the countries that

00:04:14.660 poured all their money into your vaccine that doesn't work, your ineffective vaccine?

00:04:19.160 Yeah, you have a little bit around here.

00:04:20.860 Are you not ashamed of what you've done in the last couple of years?

00:04:23.660 Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?

00:04:26.180 I remember to this day some of the questions I asked Bourla.

00:04:28.940 I asked him when he knew that the vaccine didn't actually stop the transmission of the

00:04:33.640 virus. It's a pretty basic question, very factual, wouldn't you say?

00:04:37.400 I asked him about the fact that Pfizer paid, at that point, what was the largest fine in

00:04:43.580 American history for deceitful advertising. I asked him about that. 0.90

00:04:49.080 I don't know. We asked some real questions. We had a few snarky questions, too. But those

00:04:53.340 are questions that you would think the president of Pfizer could answer. He could give a technical

00:04:57.760 answer. I mean, surely they weren't the first time he had heard them, but he just refused to

00:05:01.860 answer them. And I think that made him look very guilty. Same thing goes with Yara Sachs.

00:05:07.960 You don't have to be a pro-Rebel fan. You don't have to like Rebel to be able to handle

00:05:13.160 questions from Rebel News. And let me put it to you this way. If you can't handle questions from

00:05:17.380 Rebel News, maybe you're not fit to be part of a cabinet. And by the way, if you recall,

00:05:22.980 she was one of the cabinet ministers who went all the way to the Middle East to meet with the

00:05:27.400 terrorist leader, Mahmoud Abbas. She had no problem meeting with an actual terrorist leader,

00:05:33.060 but she can't answer a couple of fairly straightforward questions from Rebel News.

00:05:38.540 I think that you should have to, not have, not be forced to, but if you are unable to answer prickly

00:05:45.620 questions, don't go into public life. And yet, without further ado, here is our visit to Yara Sachs,

00:05:52.980 and her press conference that was canceled. Take a look.

00:05:59.440 Ezra Levant here for Rebel News. I am in a mall, a nondescript mall, where Yara Sachs,

00:06:07.600 perhaps the second stupidest cabinet minister in Trudeau's cabinet, had an event. And can you 0.98

00:06:13.460 believe it? She invited me. What are the odds? So I accepted the invitation immediately to come,

00:06:20.220 and so did my colleague David Menzies and others. And we were on our way here this morning when we

00:06:25.420 got the rudest email saying that the media invitation that we had received and answered

00:06:30.820 and were confirmed, that the whole thing was canceled. Well, that doesn't sound very friendly.

00:06:36.900 It's sort of like being invited to someone's Christmas party and then later being disinvited.

00:06:41.860 That's downright rude. Not the sort of thing you'd expect from a cabinet minister who met

00:06:48.660 with Mahmoud Abbas, the arch-terrorist leader. I guess what I mean by that is she's more scared

00:06:54.640 of Rebel News asking her questions than she is of a terrorist leader. We were parked outside here

00:07:01.940 for about half an hour, and we had my colleague David Menzies and Lincoln Jay outside, but she

00:07:08.680 pulled up in a little red mini, and she's sneaking in a door, and the door slammed shut behind her. 1.00

00:07:14.940 Here, take a look at the footage captured by my colleague Lincoln Jay.

00:07:18.380 She's a sneaky one that Yara sacks, but in some ways I can't blame her. When she allowed herself 0.97

00:07:33.300 to be scrutinized, not by the media, but by her own citizens, her own voters, a few weeks ago at the

00:07:41.000 Pride of Israel town hall meeting, she was roundly booed and heckled. It was astonishing. I think there

00:07:47.480 were about four or five hundred people there, and half of them were shouting her down. Remember this?

00:07:52.040 Please join me in welcoming Yara Sacks to share her thoughts.

00:08:00.740 Once again, I'm asking you to rise above it, put your sides down, or leave the room.

00:08:10.720 So that's her own voters, but just a couple of days ago, she went to, uh, I don't know, 0.57

00:08:18.100 some picnic, and the other side, the pro-Hamas types heard about her, and she got it from both 0.56

00:08:24.500 sides. Did you see this footage just from a couple of days ago?

00:08:27.060 You continue to remain silent. You have the opportunity to agree with you and your central

00:08:32.420 residents and constituents who are concerned about your silence and complicity in this genocide.

00:08:37.480 Your hands! Blood on your hands! Blood on your hands! Blood on your hands! 0.99

00:08:45.860 Blood on your hands!

00:08:46.860 I'm sorry, just for 10 months, Yara, 10 months even calling, emailing, showing up to your office.

00:08:53.780 Members of the York Center community have been calling, emailing, and showing up to her office daily.

00:09:00.540 Yeah, it's tough being Yara Sacks. It's tough being a liberal in Canada these days, because,

00:09:05.100 especially on foreign affairs, they'll say different things to different audiences. What I mean by that

00:09:10.300 is Yara Sacks will pretend to the Jewish community that she's in solidarity with them,

00:09:14.780 but then pretend, when she's with the liberal Hamas caucus, that she's in solidarity with Gaza.

00:09:20.220 You can't really have it both ways. Yara Sacks has some very specific questions, though,

00:09:25.980 that she refused to answer. Remember a few weeks ago, when my buddy David Menzies

00:09:30.620 was granted accreditation to another event she had? It did not go well for Yara Sacks. Take a look.

00:09:37.420 Good morning. David Menzies with Rebel News. My question is for Minister Sacks.

00:09:41.980 Why did you travel to the Middle East to shake hands with Mahmoud Abbas,

00:09:45.660 a terrorist who runs a pay-for-slay scheme?

00:09:49.660 Okay, so we're just going to be doing questions just strictly related to today's announcement.

00:09:54.060 I think this is a more important issue, given the state of the world, than what's happening now.

00:09:58.940 And the Minister has avoided these questions. Also, Minister, do you think it's a good idea that

00:10:04.300 your government is planning on bringing thousands of Gazans into our country? These are people even 1.00

00:10:10.940 Arab Middle East nations won't take in. Given what we've seen in the streets of Canada for the last 1.00

00:10:17.340 eight months of people chanting for genocide? Surely you, as a Canadian-Israeli Jew,

00:10:23.820 you should have some skin in the game. What do you say to this decision?

00:10:27.500 Well, I'm waiting for your answer. I know. We appreciate you're allowed to

00:10:35.260 state your question. But I think that, I don't know if there's going to be a response today,

00:10:40.780 but we really appreciate you coming. Ms. Sacks, I again ask you, why did you go to the

00:10:45.100 Middle East to shake hands with a terrorist, especially post-October 7th? Why were you even 0.55

00:10:50.380 in the Middle East? You're not the Prime Minister. You're not the Foreign Affairs Minister.

00:10:53.660 Mr. Sacks, your government invoked the Emergencies Act to shut down a peaceful protest in Ottawa.

00:11:00.460 You froze bank accounts of Canadians. We have chants of genocide and violence

00:11:06.380 in the streets of Canada. Why aren't you doing anything about that?

00:11:09.260 Let me emphasize something about what David did there.

00:11:13.100 Is that his questions were put politely. David's a polite person by nature. He always says,

00:11:18.140 Miss or ma'am. He doesn't swear. He doesn't get physical in any way. He just does old school

00:11:25.820 journalism. It's so rare to see it. We are sometimes startled by it. David Menzies asked real questions,

00:11:32.060 and Yara Sacks is incapable of answering them. Did you see her sneak in the back like some sort of 1.00

00:11:39.340 fugitive? It was actually quite undignified and beneath the station of a cabinet minister. I should tell

00:11:45.820 you, if she was scooting around outside, she must have seen our glorious truck with the 0.71

00:11:52.540 FireSacks.com billboard action on it. You know, of course, it's always going to be possible for a

00:12:00.700 sneaky liberal to sneak into a building and sneak out if they're dedicated enough to it. And I admit

00:12:07.260 that she got by us, although Lincoln spotted her. But I don't think that's a way to be a political

00:12:12.700 candidates. I mean, you're basically acknowledging that the public hates you. But I don't think that's

00:12:17.820 the way to be a cabinet minister either. Some of the folks from the social services agency behind me

00:12:23.180 were a little bit frustrated that our being here caused the minister to delay as she circled around

00:12:28.860 to sneak in. And I absolutely sympathize with them for this reason. A grown-up, a responsible adult who

00:12:36.780 is ready for the burdens of being a cabinet minister should have the mental, physical, and courage

00:12:43.900 abilities to take a question or two, even from critical media. What I mean by that is,

00:12:49.500 you saw David's questions. They must have an answer. She must have thought about the answers.

00:12:55.180 Ministers have legions of staff briefing them every day about what the issues of the day are and giving

00:13:01.180 suggested lines. She's not a private person. She's a public person, a powerful person. And part of her 1.00

00:13:08.060 job as cabinet minister is to answer legitimate questions from the public. That's my way of saying

00:13:14.380 that if she were more courageous, if she were more worthy of the position she's been entrusted with,

00:13:21.980 she would walk right in these doors, heard a question or two from me or David Menzies,

00:13:26.860 answered them without whatever answer she has, and walked right in to continue her event. 1.00

00:13:33.820 But I think she lacks the moral fiber to be able to do that. She lacks the confidence in her own 0.71

00:13:39.340 position. I think she genuinely is the kind of politician who will read whatever is put in front 1.00

00:13:45.740 of her. I have a tiny bit of sympathy for her because it's so pitiful to watch when she was booed in 0.75

00:13:53.020 her own community for a second. It sounded like she was going to cry. But there's no crying when

00:13:58.300 you're in the cabinet. Your job is to be on par with the other cabinet ministers, to go toe to toe

00:14:04.700 with people around the world. What I think she demonstrated is that she will spend more time

00:14:11.340 with a terrorist like Mahmoud Abbas. She will show more courtesy to a terrorist like Mahmoud Abbas 0.82

00:14:17.340 than she will to her own citizens. I'm a voter in her riding, by the way, or legitimate journalistic

00:14:23.580 questions such as those put by my colleague David. Now, I actually don't want to bring any discredit

00:14:30.220 to this worthy social services agency behind me. And they're not the reason we're here. We're here

00:14:37.580 because your RSX invited us to be here. And then when she saw our names RSVPing, she canceled in a panic.

00:14:45.340 I am looking to, looking forward to the voters of York Center indeed firing Yara Sachs.

00:14:53.500 Well, that's the first half. Here's the second half that David took over for me.

00:14:57.740 Well, folks, about an hour and a half ago, my boss, Ezra Levin, he had to

00:15:02.380 hustle back to the office for some important business. So my cameraman, Lincoln Jay and I,

00:15:07.580 we stayed behind to catch Yara Sachs and ask her some questions. But wouldn't you know it,

00:15:15.740 she once again snuck out this time. We were not fortunate enough to catch her.

00:15:22.620 But what does that say? I mean, this is supposed to be a parliamentarian. Why don't you just face the

00:15:30.620 music? Yeah, maybe our questions are impolite. Maybe they're insensitive. But you should have

00:15:39.500 a backbone. You should have the intestinal fortitude to take these kinds of questions

00:15:46.140 from the media. Yeah, I know Yara Sachs is probably used to softballs from the CBC and whatnot. 1.00

00:15:53.660 But we want to ask real questions. And what questions would they be? Well,

00:15:57.500 as our truck was demonstrating, what was the reason for Yara Sachs going to Ramallah

00:16:04.060 and shaking hands with Mahmoud Abbas? This is a guy that runs a pay for slay operation,

00:16:11.100 i.e. killing Israeli. You're going to get a check. If you die trying, no problem. Your family gets paid 1.00

00:16:16.380 out. And of all people to get cuddly with this terrorist, a Canadian Israeli Jewish woman? 1.00

00:16:26.780 Are you kidding me? And especially since she's not the prime minister, she's not the foreign affairs 0.95

00:16:33.580 minister. What in blue hell was she doing there in the first place? Another question, and it pertains to

00:16:41.340 this disastrous press conference that was quasi canceled. I mean, they said it was canceled, but

00:16:48.540 you know, they snuck Yara Sachs in. Is this how you're going to play out the remainder of your term?

00:16:55.820 You're going to be acting like some scared little mouse, just afraid of the independent press,

00:17:03.740 the glare of the camera, the sound of insensitive questions. That is pathetic. 1.00

00:17:11.500 And another thing I wanted to ask her, remember her most infamous statement, I think, in the House of 0.99

00:17:17.180 Commons, that honk honk is an acronym for Heil Hitler. Do you remember that? Let's throw to a clip of 0.58

00:17:25.100 Yara Sachs in action. How much vitriol do we have to see of honk honk, which is an acronym for

00:17:32.380 Hail Hitler. Do we need to see by these protesters on social media? Well, first of all, Ms. Sachs,

00:17:39.740 I want to educate you. A sonic outburst is not an acronym. An acronym is a combination of individual

00:17:50.300 letters that spell out a word, you know, like NASA. So you don't even know what an acronym is. But where

00:17:56.860 did you get that information? I mean, your government seems obsessed with misinformation

00:18:03.260 and disinformation. And somehow you came up with the crackpot idea that a car honking its horn twice

00:18:11.100 is Heil Hitler. Please don't go downtown during rush hour. You will see Nazis galore on the streets of 0.64

00:18:17.740 Hogtown. Let me tell you. But in any event, folks, we did give it the good old college try. We wanted to

00:18:24.620 pose these questions and others to Yara Sachs. But Yara Sachs, at the end of the day, and I don't

00:18:32.220 care where you sit in the political spectrum, Yara Sachs is a coward. She is a scaredy cat that will 1.00

00:18:41.660 not face the music. Let me ask you, if you live in York Centre, is this who you want to be,

00:18:49.260 your member of parliament? Well, what do you think? Here's what I think. And I said this to the local

00:18:54.380 social services group that said, hey, how come you're here? And I said, look, we have nothing

00:18:58.300 against you guys. It's the politician that's coming to talk to you. She invited us here. 0.99

00:19:04.140 And I said she makes, I forget exactly how much cabinet ministers make. I think she makes more

00:19:08.780 than a quarter million dollars a year. And part of her job description, by the way,

00:19:13.820 is talking to the press. We know that because she has an enormous staff designed to talk to the press. 1.00

00:19:19.820 So it's actually her duty, her obligation, to engage with the public and answer questions.

00:19:25.580 And the fact that she's a coward about it, well, I think she's not fit for purpose.

00:19:30.540 All right. Up next, our friend Mark Morano talking about Elon Musk. Stay with us. 0.98

00:19:35.900 Well, as I keep telling you, because I keep thinking about it, when I was in Davos,

00:19:52.060 Switzerland last January for the World Economic Forum, and when you're just on the streets and

00:19:56.300 you overhear people and you read what people are saying, the number one person they were talking

00:20:01.100 about was a guy who was not there, obviously. I'm referring to Donald Trump because his plans would

00:20:07.020 change the international order, politics, economics. He would smash a lot of the United

00:20:12.460 Nations and EU powers. He would absolutely be a bull in a China shop. But the number two 0.53

00:20:18.700 word that they kept saying was Elon Musk, because they knew that Elon Musk was a disruptor in his own

00:20:25.180 way, very specifically on the flow of information. The theme at last year's Davos get together,

00:20:32.380 there were several themes. One of them was misinformation and disinformation, which is a

00:20:36.620 way of saying opinions they don't like. I, as the left has grown to hate Elon Musk, I have grown

00:20:43.340 to love him. I believe that he is the single most important force in free speech in the world right

00:20:49.100 now. I think that's obvious. Who else is there even in the running? By making Twitter, or X as it's now

00:20:57.340 called, a free speech zone, he has allowed people to take control of the narrative and not simply

00:21:02.780 regurgitate what is shown to them through the narrow focus of the mainstream. He has brought back

00:21:10.460 from the dead people who were cancelled and banned. You don't have to like them, but people like my old

00:21:16.140 friend Alex Jones, who never did anything, never said anything illegal. He was just annoying to the

00:21:23.260 left and so he was banned to bring him back and others like Tommy Robinson. And so I have become

00:21:29.500 quite fond of Elon Musk and I love to see what he's doing and I'm delighted to see how don't give a

00:21:35.260 damn he is when he's fighting with people like Keir Starmer, the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

00:21:39.580 And I hold on to the fact that although he is in the electric car business, I don't think he's a 0.99

00:21:47.420 radical environmentalist. In fact, he claims that he himself has never sought government handouts. It

00:21:54.220 was his rivals at GM and other places that called for them. And I think just judging by his words,

00:22:00.700 he is a fairly free market oriented guy. That said, in a recent enormous conversation that he had on

00:22:10.140 Twitter with Donald Trump, basically inviting Trump back onto the platform, he talked with Trump about

00:22:17.180 carbon dioxide and I think he said things that people like myself and our guests today know are

00:22:25.340 scientifically off a bit. And I hate to ever say that I'm in a position to try to correct Elon Musk.

00:22:31.980 The man is a whole quantum, you know, several standard deviations smarter and brighter than I ever

00:22:40.460 will be. But every once in a while, even a genius can get it wrong. And joining me now to talk about

00:22:44.940 this is our friend Mark Morano, who probably knows more about global warming than more than anybody else,

00:22:50.620 really. And he joins us now via Zoom. Mark, great to see you. I'm sure like me, you've come to admire

00:22:57.100 Elon Musk for the many things he's done to fight back against the censorship regime. But I think he

00:23:03.740 got something a little bit wrong in his conversation with Donald Trump, didn't he?

00:23:07.740 Yes, he did. Oh, just first of all, just Elon Musk, just to respond to what you were saying.

00:23:12.780 He's a complicated figure and I didn't like him until probably 2021, 22, when he started

00:23:19.980 speaking out on COVID. I never liked him because he did in the past, 2010, 2012, he would say a lot

00:23:27.020 of the standard global warming alarmism comments. If you go back and look at that, he definitely

00:23:32.780 pushed his business model and he had no problem allowing the climate fear mongering to help the

00:23:38.300 sales of the EV. He's also got government contracts with defense contracts. He's also got Neuralink,

00:23:46.060 brain stuff, which is kind of fascinating at the same time, but could also be misused.

00:23:51.100 But he really came into as an advocate for free speech, as an advocate for free markets,

00:23:56.300 as an advocate against the COVID tyranny. He won me over. But I still have, I guess you could say,

00:24:01.740 a natural historical distrust of him. And I think you should, because he's just a man,

00:24:07.020 flesh and bone. He's not a saint. He's not an angel. Like all of us, he has his flaws and he's

00:24:11.420 not perfect. So I tell you, I hear exactly what you're saying. You keep going. I interrupted.

00:24:18.620 Well, so when he said his comment about the CO2 causing headaches when they hit 1,000 parts per

00:24:24.940 million, we're currently at about 428 parts per million. And he's worried that if we get up to

00:24:31.500 3,000 parts per million, people are going to start having headaches. It's going to be bad for public health.

00:24:37.100 And even at one point when he was, he also advocates currently for a carbon tax, which is

00:24:42.540 kind of bizarre. But I think what he does here, he's got an increasingly larger foot in team reality.

00:24:50.380 And I mean, team reality, when it comes to COVID free speech, against the great reset,

00:24:55.980 but he still has a foot. Maybe it's maybe only a few toes in this climate fear promotion,

00:25:01.260 because that's his historic business model when it comes to EVs.

00:25:05.020 So I don't know where he's getting his source. When he came out for a carbon tax in July, he had a

00:25:08.860 chart, unsourced, and I've asked around scientists and others, no one can find the source, of some

00:25:15.020 chart claiming 1,000 can start headaches when you get to levels of CO2.

00:25:18.940 I know that's not true. I mean, I happen to know that your breath is 40,000 parts per million CO2.

00:25:27.340 And you wouldn't necessarily want to re-breathe someone else's breath all day.

00:25:32.780 But the idea that we aren't in situations where the CO2 is 1,000 or 2,000 parts per million all the time,

00:25:39.980 we don't even notice it.

00:25:41.100 No, you don't. And that's what I was just about to say. So I think he's saying these things because

00:25:46.140 he still, he just can't let go completely. Now, what he said, you know, in my book,

00:25:50.860 Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, I had a whole section. Scientists like Will Happer,

00:25:54.860 200 peer-reviewed studies, considered the foremost expert on greenhouse gases,

00:25:58.780 has said the idea that CO2 is any kind of pollution is scientific nonsense. Richard Lindzen,

00:26:04.300 who I quote in the book, says you can go up to as high as 5,000 parts per million. That's

00:26:08.460 considered safe on submarine space stations. And our own Federal Occupational Safety Health

00:26:15.100 Administration says you can have 5,000 CO2 for eight hours with no problem whatsoever. And what's

00:26:23.100 interesting about this is this is all known and you can go much higher. As you mentioned, humans

00:26:27.580 inhale oxygen, we exhale carbon dioxide. What's fascinating about this, if you go back to COVID,

00:26:33.740 those are people who wore masks during COVID. And I just had to cite this study. This is from

00:26:39.100 British, I believe British Medical Journal, but it's infectious diseases talking about carbon

00:26:44.700 dioxide increases with face masks. And the concentrations with a mask, a KN95 mask when you're

00:26:51.420 breathing, CO2 concentrations of up to 26,000 parts per million. So anyone out there, and they're

00:26:57.100 usually the same people worried about carbon dioxide and telling you to wear a mask for a virus,

00:27:02.300 you are putting up almost 30,000 parts per million in your breath when you're walking around with that

00:27:07.580 mask on because you're exhaling your exhale, to put it mildly. And it gets even deeper. There's actually

00:27:15.260 even more deep analysis of this. And if you go to Climate Depot, I get into it. I don't want to go into

00:27:20.460 all of it right now. But essentially, it's a sign that the more CO2 in the air is usually a good sign

00:27:27.660 because it means the air is ventilating and you're moving. The higher the CO2 in an indoor air quality

00:27:34.460 is an indication that you need better ventilation. But it's not the CO2 that's causing problems. It's

00:27:40.060 other things in the air that we're breathing in. And this is, again, acknowledged by the federal

00:27:44.460 government, acknowledged by science journals, acknowledged by climate scientists. It's not

00:27:49.020 in dispute. Even the climate alarmists don't make this claim. So I don't know where Elon Musk

00:27:53.740 got this stat from on headaches and 1,000. But when it happened, we had a geologist who was at a

00:27:59.260 school conference, and he did a meeting, actually a portable meter in his briefcase. He took a

00:28:04.460 measurement and it was like 1,200 parts per million or 1,500 in the school conference with all these

00:28:09.340 children. And I asked, are any of the kids reporting headaches? And he said, yeah, yeah,

00:28:13.900 drop it over like flies, he said sarcastically. But there's just no there there. And that was a

00:28:18.860 bizarre thing for Elon Musk to say. But I do think it's because not only his business model,

00:28:24.540 but I still think he's surrounded. Like some of the people who work for Twitter are from the

00:28:28.380 World Economic Forum. So he's probably aware that he's got to have at least, if not a whole foot

00:28:33.980 in the climate promotion of the climate crisis, he's got to have at least many toes into it. And

00:28:39.580 I think that's where this 1,000 parts per million science-free claim from Elon Musk occurred.

00:28:45.180 You know, the world of science is infinite. You know, even a narrow field of study, biology,

00:28:52.540 chemistry, physics. There's no one man, even a genius, who can know everything about everything.

00:28:58.940 The man's a rocket scientist and an electric car scientist. And you mentioned some of his activities.

00:29:06.780 We can forgive a man for not knowing the details on your own exhalation, etc. I'm not overly worried

00:29:14.060 about it. In fact, my favorite thing about Elon Musk, I think it's my favorite thing about Twitter,

00:29:18.540 at least, is how easy it is now to fact check whomever. And the people get the right to fact check.

00:29:26.220 It's called community notes. And ordinary people get to rebut and vote on rebuttals that are tacked on

00:29:33.740 to anyone's Twitter posts. In the past, you had to be able to convince the New York Times or the

00:29:39.100 Washington Post or the CBC that they made a mistake, convince them to make a correction,

00:29:45.100 and they were often grudging and mealy-mouthed and they didn't want to lose face. Now, you don't need

00:29:51.420 their permission to make a community note stuck right on their post. And it's wonderful. And Elon

00:29:57.980 Musk himself has been the target of some of these community notes. And I mean, so the fact that a guy

00:30:05.260 gets things wrong doesn't make me alarmed, necessarily, especially if he is so dedicated to

00:30:11.820 proving, to correcting errors. I maintain my admiration for him, even though on this issue,

00:30:18.220 he got it wrong. And you give us some reasons why he may have it wrong. Let me raise one other thing

00:30:23.580 that is a back of mind worry for me about Musk. And that is, he has a lot of exposure in China.

00:30:31.100 And, you know, if you're doing a lot of business in China, billions of dollars of business in China,

00:30:36.220 you're there all the time. There's a lot of things that could go wrong, ranging from them spying on

00:30:40.620 you, trying to set you up in some way, perhaps, stealing your industrial secrets, but also stopping

00:30:48.220 you from speaking truth to power about various subjects, whether it's their crackdown on religious

00:30:53.180 minorities, their military expansionism. So actually, if you ask me what my number one worry about

00:30:59.020 Elon Musk is, it's not that he might be a global warmist. I really don't think he is.

00:31:04.620 It's that he could be at risk for his exposure to China.

00:31:10.220 Yes. And his, you know, contracts with Tesla. And the thing about this whole

00:31:16.540 Chinese thing is the whole EV market, he really, to win me over even more, I would like to see Elon

00:31:21.740 Musk vocally speak out bluntly about, you know, stopping any gas-powered car bans, which he has,

00:31:28.700 but he's still gentle with it. And he needs to start talking about owning up about what's happening

00:31:34.380 with him using China for cheap labor. And the same with all of the big tech firms.

00:31:39.580 I think we're at a point now where, you know, I don't know how much is myth versus reality with

00:31:45.740 Teddy Roosevelt as the trust buster and breaking up monopolies. But we're at a point now where a

00:31:50.460 candidate should run for office, at least in the United States, saying, I'm going to break up Google.

00:31:55.420 It's a monopoly. It's evil. It's suppressing freedom. It's suppressing economic competition.

00:31:59.980 It's the classic. I'm going to break up everything from Facebook, but particularly Google for the

00:32:04.860 search engine, go after even Apple. And I think this is what we need to start doing. And I think

00:32:10.540 Elon Musk is coming along. Now, he still has one foot. When I say this, he wants people to think,

00:32:17.820 yeah, we still have to get off fossil fuels, but not anytime soon. There's no crisis, but let's work.

00:32:23.340 So he's still, if you listen to the nuances of what he said. Now, Trump actually made the argument

00:32:27.900 back that EVs are not even, there's no business model for EVs because Trump is very blunt about

00:32:33.340 ending all the subsidies and mandates and going out, you know, and ending that for the automakers,

00:32:39.100 which again, Elon's okay with. So that's a good sign. But I don't know. I'd like to see more of

00:32:44.700 Elon talk about China. And I understand as a businessman, you got to go where the cheap labor is. And

00:32:49.820 obviously that's China. But at some point, we need to figure out a way that the whole world

00:32:56.300 isn't going to be groveling to China. And on EVs, we are. If we go down this path, even voluntarily,

00:33:02.700 China is going to be the global number one automaker and a monopoly on EVs for obvious

00:33:07.500 reasons. No one can say no because of the cheap labor. 0.90

00:33:09.820 Yeah. It was interesting. Just a few days ago, the American-ness of various automobiles was ranked.

00:33:17.340 How much of a Ford F-150 is made in America? And by America, they mean America and Canada,

00:33:22.860 because of course the auto-packed, the cars moved back and forth between Detroit and Windsor.

00:33:28.220 And I was slightly surprised to learn that Teslas are the most American-made vehicles in the market,

00:33:36.700 more than a Ford F-150, more than anything from Tesla or the others. And so I thought that was

00:33:46.620 encouraging. And the fact that Elon Musk was proud of that, again, made me feel good. I think he's more

00:33:51.180 It's true. Yeah. That's a whole different level of, I guess, definitions.

00:33:57.900 Right. It's just like, where did you make the mirror? Where did you make this panel?

00:34:01.660 Yes. And they're assembled in America, the American plant, but all the components and of course,

00:34:05.980 all the mining. So you get into much more nuance and there's all kinds of ways to present that

00:34:11.500 information. But overall, it's going to be, you know, I mean, we're headed globally to China being

00:34:17.580 the global superpower. It's terrifying. There's no, I mean, yeah, there's no, there's no way out of it

00:34:23.660 in our current trajectory. We need a radical shift. Yeah. Well, listen, great to catch up. And I'm glad that

00:34:29.820 we're having this candid conversation about a man we both admire. And it's a reminder not to put all

00:34:35.260 your faith in one man. Even the Bible says that, put not your trust in princes. And we can admire

00:34:41.420 him. He is a force for good. I believe he is the most important force for freedom of speech this

00:34:47.500 generation. He is. He deserves a medal of freedom. Yeah. But he'll never get it. Well, he might if Trump

00:34:53.340 wins, actually. Mark, great to catch up with you. Thanks for everything. Thank you, Ezra. Appreciate it.

00:34:58.380 There you have it. Mark Morano. He's the boss of ClimateDepot.com. Stay with us. Your letters to me

00:35:04.180 next. Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Kimberly says, I've always backed Danielle Smith and felt she

00:35:22.340 was really well grounded. I was shocked on her stance on immigration. And it makes me question

00:35:28.640 her now. This will shake her support. Yeah. You know what? I mean, I think you know that I've known

00:35:34.160 Danielle Smith since we were in university together. And I find she's very curious, very open-minded.

00:35:40.500 But every once in a while, a touch too open-minded, if I may. And if there's a novel or clever argument,

00:35:47.960 she might sort of be wooed by it perhaps too quickly. And I think that's what happened when

00:35:53.280 someone said, hey, let's double the population. Well, you're not doubling the population with

00:35:59.200 scientists and doctors and engineers. We can see what doubling the population in Canada looks like.

00:36:06.800 It's millions of low-skill, culturally misfit, military-age migrant men. That's what doubling 1.00

00:36:15.460 the population looks like. Sean C. says, apart from the other issues pertaining to this topic,

00:36:22.260 why is it that we're afraid to say that this country is losing its cultural identity due to

00:36:26.680 mass immigration? Is an opinion illegal now too? Well, to answer your question, that opinion is

00:36:33.000 illegal in the United Kingdom. We've been watching as hundreds of people have been arrested,

00:36:38.660 prosecuted, and jailed in the UK, not just for violent physical riots. And by the way, I think

00:36:44.760 rioters should be jailed. But people who simply tweet opinions, tweet memes, even put things on

00:36:51.180 social media just to tell their own friends. We've seen these people sent to prison. So to answer your

00:36:56.300 question, yeah, having an opinion can lead you to jail. On that somber note, let me call it quits for

00:37:04.060 the day and look forward to seeing you on Monday. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel

00:37:08.900 World Headquarters to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - August 16, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Minister Ya'ara Saks cancels speaking engagement after Rebel News received invite

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