A hardcore left-wing communist candidate who only came to America a few years ago, born overseas, is now leading the race to be the next mayor of New York City. I ll tell you all about it, but first, consider becoming a subscriber to Rebel News Plus. It s 8 bucks a month, you get all our shows in video and the satisfaction of supporting Rebel News.
00:01:53.980We are approaching the dawn of a new era in New York City.
00:01:58.860We are turning the page on the corrupt politics of the past that made this the most expensive city in the United States of America.
00:02:07.100Today, I am filled with gratitude for the more than 50,000 volunteers that have powered this campaign for the last eight months, for the tens of thousands more who have already cast their ballots.
00:02:21.660And I'm filled with conviction that we will win this race.
00:02:27.460We've shown that by focusing on the issues of working in middle class New Yorkers across this city, that by listening instead of lecturing, that by creating a politics of no translation, New Yorkers will join you in your fight for a new city.
00:02:44.040What we offer is a way to sustain this city that I so deeply love.
00:02:50.000What we offer is a vision to keep New Yorkers in the place that they call home and an antidote to the Trump administration and the hatred and the division that it skews.
00:03:00.340We are showing people that hope is not something that is naive.
00:03:05.540It is, in fact, righteous when it is built upon a plan and a vision.
00:03:10.140We are showing New York City that a better day is possible.
00:03:16.100And today is the first of many of them.
00:07:49.120I think Eric Adams would likely have been challenged in the primary, so he did a Bloomberg and became an independent
00:07:56.560and was planning to run for re-election as an independent.
00:07:59.480So in step to the Democratic primary the other day, the former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, he's 67 years old, compared to Zoran's 33 years old.
00:08:12.480And Cuomo sure feels like the establishment personified.
00:08:15.780I mean, I don't know if you remember, but his father, Mario Cuomo, was governor about 40 years ago,
00:08:20.580and Andrew Cuomo himself was governor for about a decade, too.
00:08:23.680I mean, he's moderate as New Yorkers go.
00:08:56.380So you see everyone from Bill and Hillary Clinton on down are endorsing him.
00:09:00.560They see he's the next AOC, but more likely to be a leader of a movement, not just a backbench pundit, which is sort of what AOC has turned into.
00:09:10.420Now, Andrew Cuomo says he might run as an independent.
00:09:27.580He was the founder of sort of the street paramilitary anti-crime force called the Guardian Angels, famous for being in those New York City subway cars when there was so much crime.
00:09:37.860So you could potentially see three centrist candidates against Zoran, Eric Adams, the ex-cop mayor who is black, Andrew Cuomo, the former governor who is Italian, and Curtis Sliwa, the activist.
00:09:52.040And I mentioned the ethnicity because that is part of New York politics.
00:09:55.460Those three candidates would all split the vote on the right.
00:10:00.740And if that happens, I think it's almost a certainty that Zoran will win the general election on November 4th.
00:10:08.040Now, normally, who's running for mayor is not much concern outside the city involved.
00:10:12.160And even then, it's not that much, it's not that momentous a position.
00:10:16.120But that's not actually true for some cities that are more like countries in terms of their size and importance.
00:10:21.920I mean, the New York City Police Department is larger than most countries' armies, and it's a counterterrorism force.
00:10:31.420So in many ways, being the mayor of New York is really like being the president of a small but important country, and it's not even small economically.
00:10:40.180London, England, that mayor, Sadiq Khan, is one of the most powerful politicians in the UK, certainly more so than, say, the conservative leader of the opposition there.
00:10:49.600Sadiq Khan is a hard left-wing extremist who has spent his life as a sympathizer for Islamic terrorism.
00:10:56.240And so he turns a blind eye to the anti-Semitic crime wave in his city, just like they do in Toronto.
00:11:00.800But he's much more than just an Islamist.
00:11:03.360He's built a coalition with white left-wingers in the UK, including the old communist fringe, government sector unions, environmentalists, and LGBTQ extremists.
00:11:14.260London leads the way in things like environmental spyware.
00:11:17.640They have this system that combines surveillance cameras and 15-minute cities so that if you dare to drive when and where the government says you can't drive at that time, you're sent a fine.
00:11:29.340It's like photo radar, except you've done nothing wrong except for driving at all.
00:11:33.440These 15-minute cities are called ULES, ultra-low-emission zones, as if they'll somehow counteract China building a coal-fired power plant every week.
00:11:45.060But really, it's all about controlling people, whatever the excuse is.
00:11:48.260Censorship, environment, they don't care.
00:12:42.020You ladies, down on the deck, have some of that.
00:12:45.360Boys ain't messing around around here.
00:12:47.320Boys ain't messing around around here.
00:12:49.300Anyways, so Sadiq Khan of London, he's presided over an incredible crime wave where knives are the weapon of choice, where petty lawlessness is ubiquitous.
00:12:58.400I mean, don't walk down the street holding your cell phone because someone might snatch it on a bike going by.
00:13:04.600Antisemitism is, of course, normalized, just like in Toronto.
00:13:07.320I mean, you can't blame everything on Sadiq Khan.
00:13:10.160He's not in charge of mass immigration.
00:13:12.140That's at the feet of both the current Labour government and the Conservative government that ran the UK for 14 years before that.
00:13:21.180There's no doubt that mass immigration to London, which is now a majority-minority city, is why such a radical has won and why a truly conservative indigenous British person will likely never be elected again.
00:13:34.500It's the same story in Toronto, of course.
00:13:37.280I mean, Olivia Chow would have been unthinkable a generation ago.
00:13:40.840I hesitate to use the word communist to describe her and Sadiq Khan because it seems so overheated, like I'm trying to insult them or something.
00:13:47.880But I think it actually really is an accurate descriptor.
00:13:51.200Crime, homelessness, Islamic extremists on the street, crazy taxes, absurd anti-car regulations, LGBTQ kookiness.
00:14:00.900I think this video sums up her politics perfectly.
00:14:05.560Here's her police force giving Toronto homeowners advice on how to respond to the new crime wave of home invasion robberies in Toronto, where foreign gangs break into your house to get the keys to your fancy cars to steal them.
00:14:19.320This is Olivia Chow's failed state called Toronto.
00:14:21.560To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door.
00:14:27.320Because they're breaking into your home to steal your car.
00:14:37.420You don't want your car stolen to begin with.
00:14:39.480But if your car is stolen and you have to use the subway in Toronto, both Toronto and New York force you into an even more dangerous situation, there's subways.
00:15:56.760It's just destroyed by left-wing politics.
00:15:58.960Well, next up, perhaps the greatest city in the world, New York City, city of 9-11, where two jets hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists flew into the World Trade Center, killing thousands.
00:16:55.500Now, New York appears set to elect a mayor who, by some measures, is on the same side as those terrorists. Now, I don't say that merely because he's Muslim. There are moderate Muslims and there are tolerant Muslims, of course. Mamdani is an avidly anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorist candidate. I mean, the day after Hamas terrorists massacred more than a thousand Jews and took hundreds hostage, here's what Mamdani said. No mention of Hamas or terrorism.
00:17:54.640What a joke that is. I mean, he does come by it honestly though. Here's his dad, an extremist professor at Columbia University, saying Israel as a country must be dismantled.
00:18:08.120The Palestinian challenge is to persuade the Jewish population of Israel and the world that, just as in South Africa, the long-term security of a Jewish homeland in historic Palestine requires the dismantling of the Jewish state.
00:18:25.500The South African lesson for Palestine is that historic Palestine can be a homeland for Jews, but not for Jews only. Jews can have a homeland in historic Palestine, but not a state.
00:18:40.220I can only imagine what he would have said after 9-11. And this is from someone in New York City, the place of 9-11. I'm not going to focus solely or even mainly on his pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic extremism.
00:18:53.620Again, he's running for mayor, not running for president, though it wouldn't surprise me if one day he does run for higher office.
00:18:59.680He's for rent freezes. Basically, four years of no rent increases, which will kill any construction of apartments. Why would you build an apartment if you can't recoup your costs?
00:19:11.700He's for free public transit. You know, just throw another taxpayer bale of $100 bills on the fire. He's for universal childcare. He's gone full communist on this next one. He's for city-owned grocery stores.
00:19:26.440What would those be like? I mean, in New York City, if you've ever been to Manhattan, there's a bodega. There's like a small grocery store, convenience store that often has prepared foods on every block.
00:19:38.100They're independently run, typically. What would a government-owned grocery store be like?
00:19:44.540Imagine if the Department of Motor Vehicles and the post office and the TSA airport security ran a grocery store. I think that's what it would look like.
00:19:52.960What do you think the prices would be like at such a store? But that's not the point. See, the point is the socialism itself. The point is to attack the capitalist grocers.
00:20:03.000And the point is to get lots of government jobs for his friends. Speaking of which, he proposes to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour.
00:20:10.340Hmm, really? And will this be in your grocery store? Cashiers, bag boy, you know, people, bus boys. Get ready for a lot more of stores with self-checkouts and a lot more automated restaurants and the like.
00:20:26.340If you're making people pay $30 US per hour minimum wage for entry-level jobs, those entry-level jobs will be replaced by robots or by illegal immigrants who work under the table.
00:20:39.260And, of course, his central plank is to stop the enforcement of immigration laws. He's no dummy. He needs the socialist vote for sure, but he really, really needs the foreign vote.
00:20:50.280But that all sounds good to new immigrants, to illegals, to socialists. And Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley sage, he was the founder of PayPal, he made this excellent point a few years ago.
00:21:03.800It's a terrifying point. He said this about 2020 when Bernie Sanders was, his name was floated.
00:21:08.520Why are so many young New Yorkers and young people everywhere, why are they socialists now? Like, other than just it's cool, is there a reason? Take a listen to his explanation. It's a couple minutes, but take a look.
00:21:20.660And there is a problem that we have. You know, we don't have a very well-functioning capitalist society. You know, there's a generational problem where it is difficult for young people to acquire capital.
00:21:33.300And, you know, I'd say there's sort of two, if I had to give sort of, and that's, you know, the young people that are supporting Bernie Sanders.
00:21:40.840And we, and, you know, the sort of the two simple political things that, you know, one should really think about are the runaway student debt in colleges.
00:21:49.840You know, it's $300 billion in student debt in 2000s, up to $1.7 trillion today. And if you start your life in debt that can never be discharged in bankruptcy, you know, it'll be much harder to accumulate capital, and you might be less friendly to capitalism.
00:22:06.180So that's, that's a, that is a big problem. And, you know, I think, I don't think we should socialize the student debt, but we should deal with it in a non-socialist way.
00:22:15.020We should internalize the costs onto the universities. We should redo the bankruptcy laws. Yes, you can discharge the student debt.
00:22:21.420And when you discharge it, it's the college that gave you a bad education that gets, that gets stuck with a bill.
00:22:27.620That's, there's a sort of a non-socialist alternative. And, and then, and then, you know, I think the other, the other basic problem of, of a lack of capital or inequality is that it's very hard for people to get onto the, onto the housing ladder.
00:22:44.600You know, the main way that the people in the middle class in this country accumulate capital is through owning real estate, through owning your house.
00:22:52.900And, and if it, if through a series of urban zoning laws and bad planning and impossibility of building things, it has become impossible for people to get onto, onto that.
00:23:04.560And if you could find ways for, for people to own more houses, you would have much less of these sort of millennial craze socialism.
00:23:12.380So I think, I think, you know, we should, we should try to understand where it's coming from. We should, we need, we need to try to, try to solve it.
00:23:19.940But, but, but, you know, at the end of the day, I think it will be pretty weak because it's mainly a critique.
00:23:26.480It's a critique of, of bad institutions. And if, if, if Sanders becomes serious, I think it'll be, it'll be as scary as Corbyn was in the UK.
00:23:34.780And obviously, you know, we'll, we'll be talking about the post office and the DMV and it'll just be ridiculous.
00:23:40.560So a lot of wisdom in there. Young people in the States borrow a lot of money to get useless university degrees.
00:23:46.720And if you go to these fancy schools like Columbia or Harvard, you could end up with a hundred thousand, $200,000 in debt for a degree that's sort of useless.
00:23:56.740And that debt follows them around forever. It's not the kind of debt that gets wiped out in a bankruptcy.
00:24:01.780Peter Thiel says the universities themselves should be forced to eat that debt.
00:24:07.720They're the ones who are pumping out the useless degrees, but his point about not being able to afford a home is very important, not just for college educated people, but for any young people.
00:24:19.440And it applies in Canada too, where student debt isn't as big a problem.
00:24:24.500Peter Thiel didn't mention the big driver of high housing prices, immigration.
00:24:30.280So in New York City, you have all of this vanity degrees that saddle young people with debt and no chance of buying a home, no good jobs, people having a tough time.
00:24:43.000So of course, if you're shut out of the capitalist economy, you don't care about capitalism.
00:24:47.580You sort of hate it. Of course you want free stuff, even if you never actually get it.
00:24:52.440In fact, even if you never actually get it, you like the fact that the capitalists are getting punched in the teeth.
00:24:58.200It's not like you're going to pay for any of this.
00:25:00.680And those liberal white women who voted for Zoran to get a bit of excitement for voting for someone who's exotic and Islamist that speaks very good English.
00:25:09.180I'm not sure if Zoran himself is an Islamist.
00:25:11.460I'm not sure his wife does not wear a burqa, for example, but I think he sees the political uses of it.
00:25:17.080Because we want this one thing, in this country, in this country, if we want equality, respect, those things are not given.
00:25:29.580And the way that we win them is at the ballot box.
00:25:34.760So this June 24th, in a city with a million Muslims, in a city with 200,000 of them registered as Democrats, I ask that we tell everyone to vote.
00:25:52.740The anti-Semitism works in both camps, doesn't it?
00:25:55.560The one thing that Peter Thiel gets wrong, I think, is that when this becomes a disaster, when New York City lapses back to its worst state, like in the 1970s, he thinks people will back away.
00:26:09.040He was talking about Bernie Sanders back then, but I think it applies to Zoran or Kamala Harris or whomever.
00:26:14.200The idea that things get so bad and then they snap back, the pendulum swings back.
00:27:33.520They love the end of the shenanigans, the wokeness.
00:27:36.080So all these good folks, typically entrepreneurial folks, conservative folks, with each passing year, they're moving from New York, from California to better places in the U.S.
00:27:47.140And so what happens is the remaining people in New York and California will become more concentrated in their political malaise.
00:27:54.640Sure, you're always going to have the public sector workers, but you're going to have fewer and fewer makers taking care of all those takers because those who could have fought to save New York instead chose to look after themselves.
00:28:08.920Leave for greener pastures with their family.
00:28:10.680New York has a lot of staying power, that's for sure, but no city is forever, especially if you replace its people with other people.
00:28:21.160I mean, the future of New York is a crime-ridden, you know, socialist paradise.
00:28:27.020It might sound awful to you and me, but someone from Pakistan might say it's the best they could ever dream of, and they love it just fine.
00:28:35.000Now, it's possible to stop Zoran in the next few months, but I sort of doubt it.
00:28:41.220I mean, I told you what's happening electorally.
00:29:10.700Up next, a couple of fascinating interviews done by my friends Lincoln Jay and Ephraim Monsanto when they were in Northern Ireland last week.
00:29:19.600As you know, I was on the cruise, so I couldn't go, but they went.
00:29:22.740I've never been to Northern Ireland before.
00:29:24.600That's, of course, part of the United Kingdom.
00:29:26.440It's the six counties on the north part of the island of Ireland.
00:34:24.940The rioting is not what I'm talking about.
00:34:26.740It was people power and people saying, we're going to march on this area and we want to make sure that these people are not in this area when we get down there.
00:34:35.360They were gone from the area by the time the march got down there.
00:34:38.040But again, obviously, like all this happens in these situations, the police come in, then skirmishers start with the police and then the rioting starts and it gets out of control.
00:34:46.300But again, the rioting was not, there's been a lot worse rioting in this area in the past few years than there was in Ballymena, you know, because it's been kind of sectarian rioting.
00:34:57.500Even though the peace process is, you still have kids that will come together, you know, for a scrap.
00:35:02.600But so in terms of why we're showing you this and why this is important, this shows how divided this community was and how it's come together.
00:35:11.020And actually, instead of the community being driven apart by what happened in Ballymena, and this is really unique, came wholly together.
00:35:20.200And there is no divide between Protestant and Catholic in that town now.
00:35:23.400And that, you know, they still have cultural differences.
00:35:25.380The Catholics would cast themselves as Irish and the Protestants would cast themselves as British.
00:35:28.460But on the issue of mass, uncontrolled, illegal migration into their town that's caused them so many social issues and so many issues in terms of health care and school places.
00:35:43.640One of the people I was talking to said that one of the schools in Ballymena, which is a pretty much, you know, the most British town you can probably get to in Northern Ireland.
00:35:55.740One of the schools in that town, 60% of the pupils don't speak English.
00:36:02.400Right, we're here in what's known as the Shankill Memorial Garden.
00:36:07.180And the reason why they've brought you here is that this place is very, very symbolic to what's known as the Northern Ireland Peace Process.
00:36:16.000Just across the road where I've already taken you.
00:36:19.920On the 23rd of October in 1993, before the peace process began, there was a bomb just across the road there.
00:36:29.840Now, in this area, it was a sectarian divide between ourselves here on the Shankill Road, the Falls Road, and just up this way.
00:36:41.820There was more sectarian divides where there was peace walls.
00:36:45.440Now, you have a people here within this general Belfast area who want to align with Ireland.
00:36:53.060And here on the Unionist side, we want to remain part of the United Kingdom.
00:36:58.540And that's the reason why the divide actually occurred.
00:37:03.180Now, people were really so patriotic about what they believed in that they ended up fighting with each other.
00:37:14.300You know, people would have been fighting to stay aligned with Ireland.
00:37:17.140People would have been fighting to stay aligned with the United Kingdom.
00:37:20.120And it ended up in 1969 in a bitter sectarian campaign, which lasted for 30 years.
00:37:30.080Now, in the early days, 1972, I'm giving you an overview here.
00:37:34.780They say that 1972 was probably one of the most brutal years in the history of the Troubles.
00:37:45.160I'm going to transport you till 1993 and what happened just across the road here in a happening known as the Shankill Bomb.
00:37:55.080On the 23rd of October, 1993, people from the Ardorn area, they came with a bomb in a car just across the road here behind us into a place called Berlin Street.
00:38:08.160They get out of the car with a holdall with a bomb in it.
00:38:11.200They walked around past a church that is here in the corner where there was young BB guys standing, you know, a boys' brigade.
00:38:20.760They were on their way to a football match.
00:38:23.040They walked up a few shops and they placed the bomb inside a fish shop.
00:38:28.860They sold fish and shellfish and so on.
00:38:32.080Now, it is later learned that that bomb was doctored in some way by whom we do not know.
00:38:41.300But there is a suggestion that that bomb went off prematurely.
00:38:45.440And it killed not only the guys who were transported the bomb, but it killed nine innocent men, women and children.
00:38:54.380Now, when I say nine innocent men, women and children, I mean nine innocent men, women and children that were in no way involved in the sectarian conflict which existed here for years.
00:39:08.220Now, as a person, I stood on that bomb site 15 minutes after that bomb went off.
00:39:15.200And what I witnessed and what I seen, I will remember from now till the day I die.
00:39:20.920I mean, I witnessed body parts strewn all over the road.
00:39:26.560I witnessed people carrying mutilated bodies out of that rubble.
00:39:31.700And as a person who would have supported remaining in the United Kingdom and who had a deep hatred for the people on the other side of that peace wall.
00:39:41.900Well, you know, I began to change my mind about what was going on in terms of the fighting, the bombing and the shooting.
00:39:48.920And I began to realise that this isn't the facting the people who are involved in the fighting.
00:39:55.820This isn't the facting, you know, the paramilitaries on the Republican side or the paramilitaries on the loyalist side.
00:40:17.560Because that warning factions were recognising no boundaries on the depths that they were prepared to stoop to get one over on the other community.
00:40:26.700And only innocent men, women and children were the people that actually suffered.
00:40:32.220Now, this creates a perfect segue into what is happening in our country today.
00:40:39.860Well, we don't want to see another repeat of what happened in this country in 1993.
00:40:46.440Now, I was listening to Ezra on one of his podcasts just a few days ago.
00:40:51.360And Ezra was 100% right whenever he said that if there is a place not to place people that is capable of causing trouble and causing fighting and creating community tensions,
00:41:06.200if there's a place not to place them, it is Northern Ireland.
00:41:11.000Because we are trying to reconcile with another community on the other side of that divide, which we showed you earlier.
00:41:19.100And now what you have is that you have a situation in where that there is another happening in this country,
00:41:29.560where there is other trouble happening in this country.
00:41:32.600And there's the potential for more of that to happen in where, well, if I'm honest, brutally honest,
00:41:39.720it could pull both sections of that divide into standing up for their communities.
00:41:46.420And what happens to the years of work for the so-called peace process that has been, you know, worked at and, you know, attempted to reconcile those two warring factions?
00:41:58.060Now, that's something to remember about what's happening in this country.
00:42:02.040You know, I am at a loss why a government, why those that are meant, or they're putting power to serve and protect us.
00:42:12.600They say that they, that the peace process has sank or sank.
00:42:16.660They say that, but yet they're happy enough to put people into our communities, into the nationalist communities,
00:42:25.560which could create that tinderbox situation here in Northern Ireland once again.