Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ One of Canada's richest monopolies begs for more taxpayer bailouts

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Interesting show today, if I do say so myself. I want to talk about Bell

00:00:04.800 Canada Enterprises, one of the biggest companies in Canada, one of the oldest companies too.

00:00:08.960 It's worth about $52 billion. Did you know that they're begging for your tax dollars

00:00:13.720 as a subsidy from Trudeau? I'll give you the super gross details, but first let me invite

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00:00:37.580 All right, here's today's show.

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00:00:45.500 Tonight, one of Canada's richest monopolies begs for more taxpayer bailouts. It's really

00:01:00.740 gross. It's August 4th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:04.780 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:15.500 Let me read a gorgeous headline to you. It's just too much. It's from the Globe and 0.81

00:01:23.800 Mail. BCE's CEO calls for government assistance for struggling media sector.

00:01:32.620 In case you don't know, BCE stands for Bell Canada Enterprises, one of the oldest and richest

00:01:38.780 companies in Canada. I checked, and as of today, it's worth $52 billion on the stock market.

00:01:47.580 Here's the stock price chart. You can see they made a killing during the pandemic lockdowns. Of

00:01:53.620 course they did. When you were locked in your homes, not allowed to go to work or school or

00:01:58.140 a restaurant or sports or whatever, you couldn't go to funerals or weddings, what could you do

00:02:02.540 but sit at home and watch TV on cable from Bell? They made billions off the lockdowns, and it was

00:02:10.480 not surprising to learn afterwards that Trudeau actually paid the big TV stations, including

00:02:16.680 CTV, which is owned by Bell, paid about $104 million to promote their lockdown propaganda. So

00:02:24.080 that was pretty cozy. Trudeau locks Canadians in their homes, shutting down any real-life social

00:02:29.940 interactions, forcing you to go online for any human contact. And surprise, the big internet

00:02:35.060 and cable and cell phone company made billions of dollars off it and supports the lockdowns with

00:02:40.160 a vicious vengeance against anyone who dared to call for freedom instead. Look at that stock chart,

00:02:45.360 though. It's not as shocking as the big pharma companies, but it's close. So anyway, it's this

00:02:51.100 big monopoly company that got rich off the lockdowns. They're begging for help, not trying to earn their

00:02:57.080 wealth from their customers, trying to coax it out of Trudeau, because apparently $100 million

00:03:01.520 to promote the lockdowns, that's already been spent. Let me read a little bit from the story.

00:03:07.700 BCE's chief executive officers calling on Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications

00:03:13.480 regular to help the country's media sector cope with a challenging advertising market and competition

00:03:19.500 from foreign giants. Bell Canada is a giant itself, though. I read their most recent annual report.

00:03:25.700 Look at page 81 on their report. $24 billion in revenue last year. $69 billion in assets. That's up

00:03:34.820 $9 billion in two years. Like I say, they literally made $9 billion off the lockdown. They are profiteers,

00:03:42.140 just like Pfizer is. Oh, and they also happen to own, besides a swath of TV stations and cable companies

00:03:49.520 and cell phones. Well, they own a chunk of some major sports teams. They own the Toronto Maple Leafs,

00:03:55.060 the Toronto Raptors. They own huge sports arenas. They're billionaires who employ pampered millionaire

00:04:02.080 athletes. These are the people who charge $300, $400, $500 for a ticket to see a ball game.

00:04:08.520 And they're begging for handouts from the government, which means, of course, from you,

00:04:11.980 taxpayers. Let me read a little more. During a conference call Thursday to discuss the Montreal-based

00:04:16.840 company's second quarter results, Mirko Bibich said, more needs to be done by the CRTC faster

00:04:23.380 to ease the pressures on the industry. Quote, the ecosystem in Canada is under severe stress

00:04:28.760 and requires urgent government assistance, Mr. Bibich said, as BCE reported, higher second quarter

00:04:34.620 revenue, but a steep drop in profit owing to higher expenses. So hang on. So they're wringing more money

00:04:41.540 than ever out of Canadians, but they're just spending so much that taxpayers have to fix that.

00:04:47.280 Otherwise, these billionaires might have to take, you know, not even a pay cut, but maybe a slightly

00:04:51.780 smaller bonus. It's amazing to watch these predators, who are rich mainly because they have a protected

00:04:57.740 cell phone and cable monopoly, claim to be the little guy. When massive U.S. companies with global scale

00:05:04.980 and global footprints are having extreme difficulty contending with the difficult advertising markets,

00:05:10.000 you have to ask how Canadian broadcasters are expected to navigate them with such an unfair

00:05:15.320 regulatory playing field. He added, got it, got it. They have, they literally have a monopoly. 0.80

00:05:21.280 You're not allowed to set up a cell phone company in Canada without government permission,

00:05:24.820 but they're, they're being treated unfairly. Hey, how about poor Bell customers like me?

00:05:31.600 Take a look at this. Here's an independent international review of cell phone prices in every country,

00:05:37.660 including prices for data. Look at the different charts. Canada is literally the worst country in

00:05:45.880 the world for how customers are treated. We pay the most for cell phone data and coverage in the world

00:05:53.120 and we get the least because companies like BCE hoover it up without competition. You cannot have

00:06:00.840 American competitors up here because BCE lobbies to keep them out. They need more government money,

00:06:07.620 a.k.a. money from you. They really don't care about anything other than money, of course.

00:06:12.580 Look at this. In June, BCE's Bell Media filed an application asking the CRTC to waive local news and

00:06:21.740 Canadian programming requirements for its television stations. Got it. So they want CTV and their other

00:06:26.980 propaganda stations to not have to publish Canadian stories. They want to, I don't know, publish America's

00:06:32.560 Got Talent or the Barbie movie or whatever. But they still want a monopoly. Oh, and they just laid off

00:06:38.000 1,300 people in their news division. But can they please have more taxpayer money for Canadian content?

00:06:45.040 The company announced back in June that it was eliminating roughly 1,300 positions as part of a

00:06:50.940 significant reorganization. It expects to see the financial benefits in the second half of the year.

00:06:56.500 Okay, so they fired 1,300 people and they think they're going to see the benefit of that soon

00:07:01.860 because they paid them out, but they're still begging? They're so gross, but it's a perfect fit 0.95

00:07:06.820 for Trudeau, isn't it? And look at the sucking up. Mr. Bibbitt said he's encouraged that the federal 0.99

00:07:13.280 government is, quote, trying to help out on the news side of things with Bill C-18, the Online News Act,

00:07:18.320 and that the industry is, quote, pushing back against the very aggressive moves by Meta and Google.

00:07:23.340 The tech giants have announced plans to block news content for Canadians in response to Bill C-18,

00:07:28.520 which forces them to pay media organizations for that content. Meta has already begun rolling out

00:07:34.200 the change. Except for the Globe and Mail is lying there, and I'm sure BCE is lying too.

00:07:39.840 Facebook and Google are not being forced to pay for content. They're being forced to pay for even

00:07:45.140 putting a link to that content. Like, you know, when you do a Google search, it gives you a list

00:07:50.480 of websites to fit your description. It shows you the first sentence or two, and then it links.

00:07:55.260 So you go to those sites. Google would have to pay the companies that show up in those links for the

00:08:00.200 privilege of linking to them. That's not paying for content. That's paying for linking to someone,

00:08:04.780 which the companies love. It's how the whole internet works. It's so stupid to pay to link to

00:08:10.800 someone. Bell knows it's stupid. Globe and Mail knows it's stupid. Trudeau knows it's stupid. 1.00

00:08:15.960 They're all pretending that it's a thing because they're all in on it. Bell, the Globe, the liberals, 1.00

00:08:21.220 everyone, they're all in on it, just like they were all in on the pandemic feast, making billions.

00:08:29.220 See, I went through BCE's annual report, as I told you. The word profit appears seven times,

00:08:34.740 which seems a bit shy for a company that had a whopping 42.2% profit margin before interest taxes

00:08:43.440 and depreciation. A 42% profit margin? Of course, because they have a near monopoly on cell phones

00:08:51.120 and cable plans, and they're begging for more. Seems shy to only mention the word profit seven times,

00:08:57.640 but the letters ESG are in their annual report 64 times. What's that? Well, here's how they explain

00:09:05.440 it. Our environmental, social, and government's ESG objectives, which include, without limitation,

00:09:11.480 our objectives concerning diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, DEIB. Our targeted reductions

00:09:18.800 in the level of our greenhouse gas GHG emissions, including, without limitation, our plans to be

00:09:23.780 carbon neutral for our operational GHG emissions, starting in 2025. So they're basically implementing

00:09:29.940 Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party platform within their company. They also mention the word climate

00:09:35.660 36 times, and greenhouse gases, or GHGs, 49 times. Bell isn't really a company, you see.

00:09:44.220 They're an oligarchy. They're connected to the government. They're protected by government

00:09:48.120 monopoly rules. They keep out foreign competitors. They're fat and rich and lazy and uncompetitive,

00:09:53.780 the worst in the world for cell phone pricing. Did you know that you, as a Canadian, have the worst 1.00

00:09:59.340 cell phone plan in the world? But boy, is Bell Canada good at woke politics? Not so good at running

00:10:07.780 a cell phone company. I read through the report. I saw six mentions of Bill C-11 in their annual report

00:10:13.740 too. That's Trudeau's plan to censor the internet. Bell loves it because it'll keep out their competition. 0.91

00:10:19.000 I already mentioned C-18. That's Trudeau's plan to tax Facebook and Google. That got five mentions.

00:10:25.560 BCE loves that too because they think they're going to get the dough. Bell Canada is as atrocious in real

00:10:32.000 life as they are when you try and deal with their cell phone customer service or table bill customer

00:10:37.460 service. They're the worst. And I'll bet you $52 billion that Trudeau is going to give them more

00:10:43.940 of your money. Stay with us for more.

00:10:58.940 Shocking news, but not surprising. Two members of the U.S. Navy, one with very high security clearance,

00:11:06.400 have been charged with espionage. They're allegedly spying for the People's Republic of China.

00:11:12.700 China. Joining us now to talk about this story is our friend Gordon Chang, who is an expert in

00:11:18.340 China-American relations. You can follow him on Twitter at Gordon G. Chang. Gordon, this is an

00:11:23.620 interesting story. What facts do we know? And of course, these are just allegations not yet proven

00:11:28.400 in court, but they sound like pretty serious allegations. Yeah. The Justice Department wouldn't

00:11:35.180 bring charges unless it had the goods on these guys. And, you know, there are two sailors. One of them

00:11:40.980 gave information about the plans of ships. The other one was, I think, even more concerning

00:11:48.400 because he gave plans on radar in Okinawa, which is going to be a place of great consequence. If there's

00:11:58.920 a war, that war will be fought in the first hours in Okinawa. And so what this is is something of vital

00:12:07.240 interest to China. Now, of course, these are just allegations, but it appears, as in prior cases,

00:12:13.860 that these allegations are true.

00:12:17.400 One of the things that's interesting, and I was reading some of the coverage in ABC News,

00:12:22.720 was that these spies were allegedly paid a sum of money, in one case $5,000, in another case about

00:12:29.320 $15,000. What struck me was how small those amounts of money are. I mean, I suppose that's

00:12:35.860 not really the point, but I mean, the secrets and the technology and the information took millions or

00:12:41.940 billions to create, I suppose. And the fact that that could be stolen through industrial and military

00:12:47.700 sabotage for, you know, a rounding error, that was astonishing. I suppose there was some ideological

00:12:55.500 or national motivation, too. I mean, I guess it's not just the cash, I suppose. What do you think?

00:13:03.660 Yeah, I don't think cash is a motivating factor in most of these cases. Got to remember that these are

00:13:09.780 two ethnic Chinese. And what's going on here is that Beijing, I'm sure, told them, look, if you

00:13:17.380 don't cooperate, we are going to make life very difficult for your relatives still back in China. 0.99

00:13:22.440 Or they made the nationalist pitch. So money, I don't think really was a major factor. And you're

00:13:28.440 right, it's not a large amount in either case. But I don't think that, you know, I think Beijing was

00:13:34.980 using coercion more than anything else.

00:13:37.340 You know, that's a fascinating way to look at it. And, and of course, there's no good

00:13:41.900 explanation. There's no good excuse for this. But if someone was being blackmailed, if someone's

00:13:47.480 family was being threatened back home, I suppose that that that's a different motivation than if

00:13:52.620 they were willing, you know, underminers of the United States. We know, for example, that freedom

00:13:58.700 oriented activists in North America, whether they're Falun Gong or Hong Kong activists or Tibetan

00:14:03.680 or whatever, their relatives back home are threatened. So I suppose really, until we start

00:14:10.120 to reduce the reach of China into society in the UK, Canada, United States, Australia, that

00:14:19.160 problem is not going to go away, especially with more and more immigration. I imagine a lot 1.00

00:14:23.840 of these folks just want to join American or Canadian life. But it's the Chinese Communist 0.99

00:14:28.680 Party that pull them into these intrigues. Yes. Well, communist China is forcing Chinese 0.99

00:14:35.560 Americans and others to choose, you know, are they loyal to China? Or are they loyal to the United

00:14:40.360 States? And other Americans have a right to know. This is not racist. We know that China's campaign

00:14:47.320 against Chinese Americans is comprehensive, it's coercive. And as we see here, it looks very successful. 1.00

00:14:54.920 So what we're going to have to do as a society is a couple things. One of them is we're going to have

00:14:59.640 to have this national conversation about the loyalty of Chinese Americans. As much as we don't want to

00:15:05.240 do that, we're going to absolutely have to do that because it's an issue of national survival. And the

00:15:10.360 other thing is we're going to have to eliminate the reach of the Communist Party in the United States

00:15:16.200 and elsewhere by removing CCP agents, which means closing their consulates, closing their state

00:15:25.080 banks, their state enterprises, Confucius Institutes, Confucius classrooms, you name it,

00:15:31.800 we have to eliminate their presence from the United States. 0.99

00:15:35.960 You know, it's funny, you mentioned the Confucius Institute, which, of course, is a

00:15:39.640 Chinese Communist Party directed influence operation, often on university campuses,

00:15:45.320 influence, but also surveillance. In Canada, as I know you know, Gordon, there's recently come

00:15:52.120 a lot of revelations about the Chinese government's influence in the Liberal Party all the way up to

00:15:56.120 the Prime Minister and his brother. And it was astonishing to me, and to many other Canadians,

00:16:01.880 that Canada's Prime Minister appointed what he called a special rapporteur to get to the bottom of it.

00:16:08.760 But that man he appointed, David Johnston, was a backer of the Confucius Institute, was deeply enmeshed

00:16:18.200 with Xi Jinping and his family, sent his own family, like his, he was the president of a university in

00:16:24.680 an earlier career. He could have sent his kids to any university in the world. He sent them to Chinese 1.00

00:16:29.240 universities, not necessarily for the education, but for the connections. He chose basically the Confucius

00:16:34.840 Institute's key connection in Canada to investigate Chinese influence. It was really quite incredible.

00:16:41.560 That just came to mind when you mentioned the Confucius Institute.

00:16:44.200 Yes. And the thing that is extremely distressing about Justin Trudeau is that he has been fighting

00:16:52.280 people who have been trying to expose the Communist Party's influence in national elections. And he's

00:16:58.680 still making a big struggle out of this. So that really says something that China actually has bought

00:17:05.400 the Prime Minister of Canada. It's a tough thing to say, but the point is, you know, Justin Trudeau's

00:17:12.760 actions are extremely disturbing. You know, there's more reports all the time, including that China has 0.81

00:17:20.760 sort of infiltrated the Chinese language media within Canada. And that's obviously true. A lot of Chinese 0.99

00:17:26.840 Canadians use social media apps from mainland China. One of the things that we've heard in Canada

00:17:34.840 is that people who feel the most victimized are the Chinese diaspora in Canada who are being ignored

00:17:42.680 by Trudeau, who are being victimized. I think one of the ways to fight back is to platform these people.

00:17:48.920 What I mean by that is give them a chance to say, that's not us, help us resist it. Because

00:17:55.080 frankly, if it's white folks saying China is a threat, I don't think it packs the same punch as

00:18:01.240 if a Chinese Canadian or Chinese American says it. Because frankly, the embassies up here,

00:18:06.840 they play the message track, oh, you're just being racist. And they're tapping into that liberal

00:18:12.040 instinct not to be racist. Yeah. And China's diplomats reinforce that message. So for instance,

00:18:18.680 the former Chinese ambassador to Canada, Lu Xiaoyi is a bad actor. And he was specifically trying to 0.99

00:18:28.120 race bait. He was trying to divide Canadians based on their race. And I mean, if I were the prime

00:18:34.040 minister of Canada, I would have expelled him and other diplomats immediately. This is just unacceptable.

00:18:40.440 And unfortunately, you know, China tries this stuff like police stations and all the rest, 0.98

00:18:45.720 because it gets away with it. And there now has to be zero tolerance for the violation of

00:18:51.000 Canadian or American sovereignty by China. You know, one of the things I'm proud of in the 0.86

00:18:56.040 last month or so, Rebel News has brought aboard a China affairs reporter who looks deeply into these

00:19:03.840 Chinese language apps, where a lot of this discussion is happening. It's not happening

00:19:07.880 in the pages of the Globe and Mail. It's not happening in the English language at all.

00:19:11.880 That's where the battle is being fought in the WeChat apps and places like that. Hey,

00:19:16.120 let me ask you something. You mentioned twice about the consulates and really starting to push back.

00:19:23.480 You know, I think it's been a diplomatic tradition for a long time to have sort of a tit for tat.

00:19:27.880 During the Cold War, if America would expel some Soviets, the USSR would expel some American diplomats.

00:19:35.680 Just out of parity, it seemed like that was a diplomatic norm. And so if the United States or

00:19:42.800 Canada started to shut down consulates over here, I would imagine that China, I'm just guessing,

00:19:49.040 would do the same to our diplomatic efforts over there. And I suppose that's just something that

00:19:55.360 has to be managed and planned is a decoupling. Is the answer to remove our diplomats almost first

00:20:03.040 so that China can't hold that over us? What do you think?

00:20:07.040 China is an extremely dangerous place right now for foreigners. Xi Jinping is stirring up xenophobia,

00:20:13.360 and we know where this leads, because we've seen this many times in Chinese history. So as a defensive

00:20:20.160 measure, I think that foreign countries should be closing their diplomatic compounds out of protection

00:20:25.840 of their diplomats and their dependents. Also, for various reasons, and this gets complex, but

00:20:33.600 Americans and others should not be doing business in China. And so therefore, if we don't extend

00:20:41.360 diplomatic protection to them, then they'll leave. That'll be an additional incentive for them to go.

00:20:47.280 So actually, I don't care if China engages in tit for tat moves of closing our consulates. Remember,

00:20:56.000 we closed the Houston consulate of China. China closed one of our consulates. And a lot of people

00:21:02.800 were upset about that, but I thought that was a good thing. I think we should be closing China's 1.00

00:21:07.120 remaining four consulates in the US, and let them close our four consulates. Let them close our embassy.

00:21:13.360 Because for various reasons, it is just wrong, not only strategically, but morally to be doing

00:21:19.680 business in a genocidal state, the state that is using the proceeds of investment and trade

00:21:24.880 to build its military, which is configured to kill Americans. Now, in Canada, public opinion has really

00:21:31.840 swung against the Communist Party of China. I think public opinion is very friendly towards Chinese

00:21:37.760 Canadians. I think the Chinese Canadian community is large and peaceful and prosperous. And I mean,

00:21:46.320 listen, I'm not Chinese, so I don't know if there's anti-Chinese bigotry, but I don't sense it

00:21:51.440 widely. I think there's a lot of warm feelings towards Chinese immigrants who, by the way,

00:21:56.880 have been in this country for more than this century, helped build our national railway, which was really

00:22:01.200 one of the key infrastructures of our country. So I think Canadians are able to distinguish between

00:22:06.880 Chinese Canadians and the malign influence of the CCP. In Canadian polls, the antipathy towards

00:22:14.800 China, I think, is higher than almost anywhere else in the world. The only place I've seen that has 0.99

00:22:20.240 more distrust of China is Sweden, for some reason. I haven't looked at the polls in the last month or

00:22:25.040 so. But I think the grassroots Canadians are way ahead of the political leadership. Can I ask what

00:22:30.640 it's like in the US? I know you're based there and you follow things very carefully. Is the American

00:22:36.640 people as skeptical of the CCP as Canadians have become? Americans have become increasingly skeptical

00:22:44.400 of China's communist regime. And part of it is because of the COVID crisis. Because there's a feeling

00:22:52.480 that China was grossly irresponsible with regard to COVID. I actually think that they deliberately 1.00

00:22:57.120 spread it beyond their borders, because they lied about transmissibility and other things. But the

00:23:02.320 point is, COVID did change America's views on China. And those changes, I think, are not going to be

00:23:10.880 reversed in a very long time, at least as long as the Communist Party is ruling China. Now, among the elites

00:23:17.200 in the United States, we still have the Henry Kissinger's of New York, and we got Goldman Sachs and Walmart and

00:23:26.080 all the rest of it. But nonetheless, even among the elites, there's a change. And part of it is because

00:23:33.760 China has been attacking foreign business. People don't want to go to China. It is having an effect on

00:23:39.840 even elite opinion. And I suppose that spy balloon, that was such a startling, slow motion,

00:23:50.160 educational moment. And I think a lot of, I mean, remember, it came through Canada first.

00:23:56.320 And I think a lot of people said, why is no one taking action? It was, it was in real time,

00:24:03.040 the frustration, I felt it in Canada, it must have been intense in America. And I think people started

00:24:08.560 to say, is our military, is our political leadership in some way compromised? How could that be allowed?

00:24:14.880 How did the balloon, the spy balloon factor, is it a large factor? Do people think about that still,

00:24:21.280 or have they forgotten about it? No, I think, I think it's in the back of people's minds. They

00:24:25.840 haven't forgotten about it. By the way, it entered North American aerospace in Alaska.

00:24:30.960 Right, right. It was Alaska then, you're right.

00:24:33.280 And then it transversed Western Canada and then entered the lower 48 states. But to your point,

00:24:40.960 which is a critical one, there is reporting in the United States that this, first of all,

00:24:47.120 the balloon entered territorial US airspace on January 28th. It was not until the fourth day of

00:24:53.360 the incursion into North America did the Pentagon notify President Biden. That, to me, is inexplicable.

00:25:02.880 And it shows a failure of the senior leadership of the American military. Now, I believe that that

00:25:10.560 reporting is credible. You know, I have no way to substantiate it. But the point is that there was a

00:25:17.840 failure of the American NORAD, and as well as the Defense Secretary, as well as the Chairman of the Joint

00:25:27.200 Chiefs of Staff. And now, that's not to excuse Biden, because Biden made mistakes as well, which

00:25:34.480 were grievous. But the point is that there is a real problems in the Pentagon.

00:25:40.080 Yeah, you're so right. You know, I think of NORAD, I think of the old Soviet threat, 0.99

00:25:44.240 flying the bombers over the Arctic. It's unusual to think of NORAD as being on watch for Chinese

00:25:52.080 balloons. But it's absolutely true. And if I recall, it was only when people on the ground in those

00:25:59.200 Pacific Northwestern states started observing with their own eyes that the US authorities acknowledged

00:26:06.480 it. So even though the president had been informed, it wasn't really made public until

00:26:11.600 ordinary Americans spotted it with their plain sight.

00:26:13.920 Yeah, it was a guy in Montana, who brought it to the local newspaper. And then, you know,

00:26:21.040 the Biden administration was obviously trying to cover this up. And, you know, and then Biden called

00:26:26.160 it, quote, this silly balloon. Really, what it was is, and this is, you know, 0.51

00:26:33.280 it's surveyed our nuclear weapons sites. It's trying to apparently, people believe trying to

00:26:38.240 figure out if they could disrupt command and control. But the most frightening thing about

00:26:42.640 this really is it showed China's utter disrespect for the United States, which means that there's 0.86

00:26:48.880 been a breakdown in deterrence, which means when you look at in the context of other things,

00:26:54.880 this is a really dangerous moment in history.

00:26:57.360 You are so right about that. I mean, that is such a provocative move, unthinkable under

00:27:02.800 Donald Trump, I would say. Well, Gordon, it's great to catch up with you. I really appreciate

00:27:07.680 your insight. And folks, when Gordon is on the show, we learn so much. And I encourage you to

00:27:12.400 follow him on Twitter. Follow him at Gordon G. Chang. I guess it's now called X platform,

00:27:19.120 but I still know it as Twitter. Thanks, my friend. Always a pleasure to talk with you.

00:27:22.960 Yeah, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

00:27:25.760 That's right. That's right. Well, you're still a must follow for me at Gordon G. Chang.

00:27:30.560 Take care, my friend. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:27:42.320 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me. Snurp says,

00:27:46.080 nailed it. They're simply cowards hiding behind a mask and numbers. Let's hope these cowards get what 1.00

00:27:50.640 they deserve. You're talking about my visit to Portland, Oregon. I was only there for not even one 0.98

00:27:55.680 day, but I was so glad I went, first of all, to see Andy Ngo and give him some personal moral

00:28:01.040 support. I gave him a handshake and a hug. He's such a good guy. They really, I don't know,

00:28:06.480 to have the courage to sue bullies when they beat you up. Most people wouldn't have that courage.

00:28:10.880 They would just go away. I am very proud of him, and he's an independent journalist,

00:28:15.600 and I was really glad to be there, by the way. Alaska 3300 says, when they came to Alaska during

00:28:22.080 the riots, Alaskans and business owners stood outside their businesses with guns and told them,

00:28:26.960 you won't be breaking windows here, boys. They ran away like whipped pups. Portland allows these 0.72

00:28:32.560 punks to do whatever they want. You know, I was thinking about exactly that when I saw that terrible

00:28:36.640 closed circuit TV footage of Andy Ngo, who's not a big guy, being chased down the streets by four,

00:28:43.360 and then eight, and then ten men. They are bullies and thugs who hide their faces. They're cowards. 0.88

00:28:50.640 The only way for one smallish guy to fight against ten thugs, if the police are not there, 0.96

00:28:58.320 and the police make a point of not being there, is if you have the right to bear arms to save your

00:29:02.640 life. That's the moral of your story from Alaska. Joseph PK4878 says, the only way to deal with these

00:29:09.440 hapless thugs who could only win a fight with a hundred of them in a group on their own,

00:29:12.640 their mosquitoes, is to unmask them on site. Get those face masks off and let them be dealt with 0.98

00:29:17.440 in the open. Seriously, start tearing off masks. You're exactly right. And that's why I hated the

00:29:23.120 masking of COVID. It's one of many reasons I hated it, is it allowed people to do nefarious things

00:29:28.960 and sort of get away with it, like to go into a bank or a jewelry store with a mask on. You would

00:29:33.680 never be allowed to do that before, but COVID made that okay. What's our show for today? Until

00:29:40.560 Monday, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:29:44.240 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:29:47.360 Monday, on behalf of the old Petey B.

00:29:59.040 Godfather, who is a part of my house with a heavens, is that we will protect them,

00:30:00.160 and be very close to the pastor that is России.

00:30:02.320 In the meantime, weelet, on behalf of all of us here at that meeting.

00:30:04.080 Yeah, so I wanted to enjoy spring exercises.

00:30:06.160 We are hearing которую, if you are with a ballad, we are with confidence,

Rebel News Podcast - August 05, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ One of Canada's richest monopolies begs for more taxpayer bailouts

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