Rebel News Podcast - July 29, 2026


EZRA LEVANT | Psychological warfare on aisle five: the hidden motives behind government grocers in NYC


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00:00:00.000 Tonight, what's going on? What's with the psychological warfare against us?
00:00:04.860 It's July 29th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:00:10.360 Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:00:22.260 Yesterday, I told you about the communist idea of a government-run grocery store in New York City,
00:00:28.160 or five of them that are planned, everything's going to be sold at 30% below cost. So it's going
00:00:34.840 to rely on tens or more likely hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies when they sell
00:00:42.000 steak and fish and eggs and milk below cost in an unlimited way. They're going to have to have
00:00:49.720 some limiting factor there. I mean, why wouldn't people just literally empty the store every day
00:00:54.420 just to resell it why wouldn't competing little grocery stores called bodegas of which there's
00:01:01.400 about 10 000 in them in new york city why wouldn't they just come clear out these government grocery
00:01:07.120 stores and sell the food at a regular price if you say i don't know even if you said there's a
00:01:13.040 limit of say five steaks per purchaser what if a family of four comes in mom dad two kids and each
00:01:20.420 one bought five, six, 20 stakes a visit. And maybe they come back every single day or several times
00:01:25.600 today. I mean, New Yorkers, I'm just brainstorming here. They're clever. They're competitive.
00:01:29.760 They're hustlers, certainly more so than the bureaucratic drones who will run these grocery
00:01:35.100 stores. But of course, those insiders, they're going to be in on it too, selling to friends and
00:01:40.180 family and people paying them cash. It's going to be corruption, or you could call it arbitrage
00:01:45.220 if you want to be fancy you can only break the laws of supply and demand for so long you can
00:01:51.100 only give away it's not completely free but if it's 30 below cost that's nuts by the way i see
00:01:58.880 that an industry association representing those small small groceries the bodegas is already
00:02:04.520 announcing that they plan to sue to stop this bizarre and unfair competition against them
00:02:10.140 so i told you about this at length yesterday i'm not going to spend a lot of time on again but
00:02:15.180 I also told you that it's a bit of a psyop, a bit of a psychological operation, because
00:02:20.180 the first of these stores won't be opened for years, literally years, according to the
00:02:26.460 plans I read yesterday.
00:02:27.840 I think there's a serious chance they'll be delayed, obviously, or maybe even canceled.
00:02:34.320 It's literally an endless money pit.
00:02:36.740 If you give away free stuff or 30% below cost, you know, you're going to run out of other
00:02:42.580 people's money eventually.
00:02:43.780 and when it happens it will look exactly like that prototype communist store they tried in
00:02:50.480 kansas remember i'm just going to play you a little bit of that video again take a look
00:02:54.400 it's clear this sun fresh at 31st and prospect is struggling this is the first section people
00:02:59.180 see when they come in there's barely any produce a lot of the coolers and shelves around the store
00:03:04.100 look the same way empty so shoppers have been asking us if the store isn't closing then where
00:03:10.340 Where's all the food? A
00:03:13.080 through the door and anyw
00:03:14.980 see products that need to
00:03:18.020 food or deli. There was a
00:03:20.820 was on life support. I co
00:03:23.660 now is damn near dead. Th 0.74
00:03:26.660 to people like Pat Clark
00:03:29.000 the store go through its
00:03:30.920 30 days ago, hell, we loo
00:03:34.100 again. The city owns the
00:03:36.060 center, a nonprofit opera
00:03:38.860 Public and private investments are in the millions of dollars for the center.
00:03:43.060 The nonprofit didn't respond to a request for comment.
00:03:45.440 I did ask the mayor's office if the city had plans to step in and consider additional funding.
00:03:49.900 The office responded, the city will work closely with store ownership and all neighborhood stakeholders
00:03:54.840 to support the long-term viability of the store based on normal revenues from customers and area consumers.
00:04:01.660 Where is the money at? I'm asking where the money is.
00:04:05.220 The shelves could indicate the future of the store.
00:04:07.460 come here look what's going on they also say a lot about how much patience people have left
00:04:13.440 let the store close everything on this lot start to fail then whose problem is it then
00:04:20.760 so these five stores in new york city are five years sorry not five years they're at least three
00:04:25.940 years away if they're going to happen at all and there will be five of these stores in all of new
00:04:30.660 york one in manhattan one in brooklyn etc i mean i guess they could plan to do more but
00:04:35.760 i don't even think all five will ever open so you're going to have these weird stores
00:04:40.960 one in each borough and they're going to sell out of the good stuff within an hour of opening
00:04:47.040 as people just hoover up the subsidized stuff i mean imagine the plans of new york's famous
00:04:52.780 mafia or gangs they're just they see a sucker and they just liberate them with money i think
00:04:59.440 these are going to utterly collapse they won't actually provide eight million new yorkers with
00:05:04.400 cheap food they couldn't they'll provide a few thousand people maybe total with cheap food and
00:05:10.020 a few hundred people are just going to get rich off it gaming the system i mean imagine the
00:05:14.440 department of motor vehicles remember that or the i mean alberta they don't have that anymore
00:05:18.900 or or the post office imagine people like that running a grocery store by the way canada's new
00:05:26.160 ndp leader avi lewis is copying ma'am danny except for he's proposing 300 million dollars a year
00:05:33.700 and 50 stores he's so proud of himself take a look at this video 92 percent of canadians believe
00:05:40.780 that monopolies are driving up prices we need a public auction for groceries to provide an
00:05:46.420 alternative that will bring prices down immediately for canadians we've been doing a lot of work on
00:05:50.600 this it'll cost us a bunch of money to set up for 300 million dollars a year we could have 50
00:05:56.860 publicly owned grocery stores offering food to canadians 30 percent less than galen weston
00:06:02.760 it's half of one percent of the defense budget people we can afford to do this it's a popular
00:06:07.960 solution now maybe they'll actually get these stores going i mean it could be throw enough
00:06:15.460 money at it and all that but i think the point of what mam danny is doing and so much of canadian
00:06:21.740 politics these days is not the actual stuff it's not the achievement it's not doing things
00:06:27.300 It's the psychology of it, the information operation, as I said, the PSYOP, the demoralization.
00:06:35.080 It's about changing what you think Canada is and who you are and your place in the country.
00:06:42.500 Mamdani much more than Avi Lewis, because Lewis is far away from power, but Mamdani is in power.
00:06:49.640 So the other day when Mamdani did a big State of the Union-style address, 0.86
00:06:54.340 it was on foreign policy to condemn Benjamin Netanyahu and the Jews, 0.87
00:06:59.660 which is a shocking turn of events for what was once the most pro-Israel,
00:07:04.420 pro-Jewish city in North America, with a million Jews living there.
00:07:08.700 Imagine the Jewish city condemning the Jews. 0.52
00:07:13.220 Here's a clip. 0.99
00:07:14.640 Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide. 0.92
00:07:18.760 against the palestinian people he is responsible for the killing of more than 73 000 people 0.89
00:07:24.680 for the maiming of tens of thousands of children as those who survive undergo amputation without
00:07:30.680 anesthesia for the targeting of neonatal hospitals and maternity care centers denying newborns even
00:07:37.240 the chance to live for the countless people he starved as he blocked food and humanitarian aid
00:07:41.880 from reaching them for the gunning down of hundreds of aid workers and journalists
00:07:46.280 And just last month, the UN confirmed that Palestinian children continue to be deliberately
00:07:52.040 targeted and killed by Israeli armed forces, more than eight months after the so-called
00:07:56.760 ceasefire.
00:07:57.760 The list goes on and on, all as we, as Americans, pay for the bombs that do the killing.
00:08:04.720 There is a reason the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
00:08:09.120 As human beings, we have spent generations building a shared understanding that there
00:08:13.040 are crimes so grave they offend all of humanity. Anyone, with their eyes, with their heart,
00:08:19.680 with their conscience, should recognize the devastation he has wrought and understand
00:08:24.560 that he belongs before a court of law. As I've said, I agree with the ICC
00:08:30.480 that Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes,
00:08:34.320 as I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My administration has reviewed every avenue available
00:08:41.200 under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute
00:08:44.640 the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here.
00:08:49.040 It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.
00:08:53.280 The federal government, however, does, and I call on them to join the ICC
00:08:57.760 and execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear.
00:09:01.200 Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City, nor is any other war criminal at large.
00:09:06.560 While we cannot end the genocide on our own, we can decide whether our silence
00:09:10.800 will become another weapon and we can examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and
00:09:16.740 dignity of all people that is my commitment to you so why would he do that like he has no foreign
00:09:24.340 policy power um so why did he do it well it's obviously psychological to change what you think
00:09:31.180 new york is and its future you don't think that could happen well i tell you constantinople has
00:09:37.180 changed, isn't it? It's no longer the largest Christian city in the world, is it? It's now
00:09:42.380 called Istanbul, and it's Muslim. These things can happen. Istanbul, I mean, Constantinople was a
00:09:49.940 Christian city for a thousand years. New York's, what, about 400 years old? Now, New York isn't just
00:09:57.160 known for Jews. It's known for other things. It's known for its Hollywood, sorry, its Broadway shows.
00:10:02.940 It's known for its great restaurants.
00:10:05.560 And it's really known for Wall Street, isn't it?
00:10:08.040 And when you think of New York, you think of those towers and the big banks and big deals.
00:10:12.840 You think of billionaires.
00:10:14.720 It's part of New York's identity, isn't it?
00:10:17.660 About a half a million people out of the eight and a half million people who live in New York,
00:10:22.960 about a half a million of them work in financial services and related industries, banks, insurance, hedge funds, whatever.
00:10:29.680 and the top dogs are billionaires and they make a lot of millionaires and all the taxes that all
00:10:36.940 of them pay floats the boat of this enormous welfare state but it's also part of new york's
00:10:43.320 ethos as the song goes if you can make it there you can make it anywhere it's part of the american
00:10:49.040 dream everyone out hustling in those streets thinks they can make it thinks they can get rich
00:10:54.500 You know, before Donald Trump was president, he was in so many rap songs.
00:11:00.740 He was in so many, you know, he was held up by a lot of poor people, in fact, who thought he was inspiring.
00:11:09.180 A lot of people are calling me about the Mac Miller rap song.
00:11:16.980 Yo, Ice, I did a concert in the White House.
00:11:20.240 And after that, me and Donald Trump hung out.
00:11:22.240 People's going off like Donald Trump gets chaps
00:11:24.440 Trump change, Trump change, Trump change, Trump change
00:11:29.840 I'm talking Donald Trump change, I'm talking Steve
00:11:32.120 And I'm talking, you know, he thinks Trump change
00:11:35.200 Let me in now, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, let me in now
00:11:39.500 Magnus, alcoholics, freaks, the remedy
00:11:41.140 I'm the young Donald Trump, is y'all hearing me?
00:11:43.880 Machiavelli returns, his God forgives and I don't
00:11:46.840 Resurrection of the real time to get richer than Trump
00:11:50.180 but i take over the world when i'm on my donald trump look at all this money ain't there some
00:11:56.740 the donald trump song just hit over 20 million that's not so bad i'm very proud of that
00:12:15.640 It's just look at him do it in business and now in politics. Sorry, liberal haters, but it's true
00:12:21.700 His name was dropped in rap songs as a kind of a goal or an inspiration. That's the New York spirit
00:12:28.640 Not anymore
00:12:31.540 Do you remember this weird bizarre personal attack on a particular billionaire named Ken Griffin? Take a look again
00:12:37.240 When I ran for mayor, I said I was gonna tax the rich
00:12:40.000 Well today, we're taxing the rich.
00:12:44.680 I'm thrilled to announce we've secured a pied-à-terre tax, the first in New York's
00:12:48.640 history.
00:12:49.640 This is an annual fee on luxury properties worth more than $5 million, whose owners do
00:12:53.560 not live full-time in the city.
00:12:55.440 Like for this penthouse, which hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin bought for $238 million.
00:13:01.280 This pied-à-terre tax is specifically designed for the richest of the rich, those who store
00:13:05.180 their wealth in New York City real estate, but who don't actually live here.
00:13:08.280 But even so, they're able to reap the huge financial rewards of owning property in, dare
00:13:12.220 I say, the greatest city in the world.
00:13:14.040 And most of the time, these units are sitting empty since, again, they don't actually live
00:13:18.280 here.
00:13:19.280 This is a fundamentally unfair system that hurts working New Yorkers.
00:13:22.680 Now it's coming to an end.
00:13:24.560 This tax will raise at least $500 million directly for the city.
00:13:28.520 It'll help fund things like free childcare, cleaner streets, and safer neighborhoods.
00:13:32.560 As mayor, I believe everyone has a role to play in contributing to our city.
00:13:36.720 some a little bit more than others happy tax day new york so griffin isn't particularly political
00:13:44.460 he's a huge philanthropist he's given away more than a billion dollars he's he's uh by the way
00:13:50.940 philanthropy that's a big new york thing too when you have billionaires they one of the ways they
00:13:55.840 compete with each other is who can outdo each other in terms of charity but this griffin was
00:14:00.960 stunned by that personal attack on him especially given the new assassination culture that's taken
00:14:08.700 over the democrat party i think he was stunned flabbergasted and he implied that he was
00:14:14.200 rethinking his company's future in or certainly their investments in new york and preferring
00:14:19.340 miami so where does that leave us at 350 park that leaves us with the fact that we went to miami and
00:14:27.780 revised our building plan to make it a bigger office building.
00:14:32.380 You're bailing?
00:14:34.380 So what do we do at 350 is still a point of discussion internally, but what is no longer
00:14:40.940 a point of discussion is that Miami is now, you know, when we moved from Chicago, there
00:14:46.760 was a debate between New York and Miami.
00:14:49.680 It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice.
00:14:54.360 I'll leave it at that.
00:14:55.380 It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice.
00:14:58.480 And now what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners, and principally my New York partners,
00:15:04.700 my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami.
00:15:09.220 Because we want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education,
00:15:18.060 that embraces personal freedom and liberty,
00:15:20.640 and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American dream.
00:15:25.580 The whole financial elite was shocked by that attack on Ken Griffin,
00:15:31.140 especially coming on the heels of the assassination of the CEO of that healthcare company,
00:15:35.480 allegedly by a socialist Antifa activist named Luigi Mangione.
00:15:40.840 But instead of recalibrating or rethinking his attacks, Mamdani doubled down.
00:15:45.680 just in the last few days he published a list of rich people and their addresses
00:15:53.500 and he says he's going to target them with a wealth tax and i've been thinking a little bit
00:16:00.060 more about eight that 18 lawyer advisory committee that he put together is for choosing judges i
00:16:05.820 think in a city where nearly 50 of the lawyers are jews putting together an 18 lawyer committee
00:16:13.860 without a single jew on it would be like putting together an nba team in new york without a single 0.99
00:16:21.280 black person on it it's just not possible that that would happen naturally if you saw an all 0.58
00:16:28.220 white basketball team in new york you would say that's racist not because they're white but because 0.97
00:16:36.880 whoever put it together must have kept out some talented black people so you've got a war against 0.98
00:16:43.020 Jews, war against bankers, war against CEOs, war against billionaires, war against norms 0.96
00:16:47.460 of capitalism and competition and the free market. And instead of blinking or dialing 0.96
00:16:52.540 it back, Ma'am, Danny is accelerating all this. I ask again, why? What's the goal? And
00:16:59.700 by the way, we have versions of all of that in Canada too. Toronto is the most obvious
00:17:02.940 example, especially with our pro-Hamas protesters and the police protection of them and the
00:17:08.480 violence against Jews and Jewish institutions, but not just in Toronto. I mean, I'm thinking
00:17:12.420 to places like Edmonton now too. So what is going on? I saw on Twitter, Jordan Schachtel said
00:17:18.920 something I thought was illuminating. He said, there's an interesting disconnect between the
00:17:24.320 super affluent class in New York City and their perception of what Mamdani wants. They think it's
00:17:31.200 some kind of negotiation or shakedown, but it's a total misread of what's obviously happening.
00:17:37.120 the mayor wants all of you to leave as soon as possible. He doesn't want to negotiate. He wants
00:17:44.920 to purge you from the city and remove your influence. And he's willing to make your life
00:17:50.380 very difficult if you stay. I think that's right. Mamdani is not a liberal. What I mean is he's not
00:17:57.180 something with whom you can have a disagreement over, let's say, the degree of something like
00:18:02.140 what the sales tax should be or what the policy should be on this or that you know it's not oh
00:18:08.320 we're just on the same spectrum just different points on the spectrum so it's about throwing out
00:18:12.660 the entire spectrum and it's about a revolution it's about using every single tool every single
00:18:20.300 power and lever he has and even ones that he doesn't have but mainly it's about demoralizing
00:18:27.360 people so they do so they do what ken griffin says he's thinking of doing which is to leave
00:18:32.640 imagine that ken griffin has poured his life and his fortune into that city but he's thinking of
00:18:40.860 leaving it now and i don't blame him why should he stay and fight and pay extraordinary taxes and
00:18:47.560 risk assassination and be hated by the mayor why doesn't he go somewhere where they love him
00:18:53.700 i think ken griffin will probably leave i think a lot of jews will probably leave it's unthinkable
00:19:01.140 but but why wouldn't they you know in toronto the jews are leaving for florida and other places
00:19:07.860 and i see the war on billionaires being focused on really canada's only tech success story called
00:19:13.740 shopify it's a quarter of a trillion dollar company and its leaders toby lutke and harley
00:19:20.020 Finkelstein, they're pro-freedom and they're anti-antisemitic. I think they're going to be
00:19:25.620 driven out too. I mean, they're proud Canadians, but that has its limits, I think. And all this
00:19:32.440 made me think of that old video, and I've shown you parts of it before. It's a video from Yuri
00:19:36.960 Besmanov. Remember that? He was a KGB agent who defected to the West during the Cold War.
00:19:45.220 And one of the things he did, he actually taught in Canada, believe it or not,
00:19:48.720 is he recorded a long interview in the 1980s when the Cold War was still bitterly contested.
00:19:54.760 Ronald Reagan was the president, but the end of the Cold War was not yet visible. And it was a
00:20:00.180 mighty conflict, the USA versus the USSR. And wokeness in the West hadn't been popularized.
00:20:06.220 You could see it putting roots into academia, but it was not ubiquitous in the media, not even in
00:20:11.900 hollywood yet mass immigration was still under control more or less i remember first encountering
00:20:19.500 this video not in the 1980s but i think i saw it around 20 years ago for the first time and honestly
00:20:24.880 i didn't really understand it because i couldn't see what was happening it all sounded so fantastical
00:20:30.740 so hypothetical so paranoid i didn't know what this kgb defector meant by demoralization
00:20:37.640 but that's what this is all about it's about alienating you from everything you know and love
00:20:44.760 about you making your home a place that you don't want to live in anymore it's about entering into
00:20:50.400 your mind and convincing you that your country is no longer yours it's owned by some guy named
00:20:56.340 nam danny what you think is true is no longer true and accepting your fate who is this olivia chow
00:21:03.880 who now is the boss of Toronto, who is half of the cabinet for Mark Carney, Carney himself.
00:21:12.500 I'm going to play five minutes of the video of Yuri Bezmanov. I know that's a long time,
00:21:16.180 but I hope you don't mind. I'd like you to watch it because I think he describes what's going on.
00:21:22.960 Here, here's five minutes. I promise I'll be back. Don't go away. We'll see you in five minutes.
00:21:27.240 Take a look.
00:21:27.580 It's a slow process, which we call either ideological subversion or active measures,
00:21:35.180 активные мероприятия, in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare.
00:21:40.340 What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American
00:21:46.400 to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information,
00:21:51.000 No one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
00:22:01.740 It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.
00:22:11.200 The first one being demoralization. It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.
00:22:16.900 Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy.
00:22:32.340 In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.
00:22:46.580 The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system.
00:23:01.660 You are stuck with them. You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind. Even if you expose them to authentic information, even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. 0.88
00:23:25.200 In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. 1.00
00:23:33.200 To get rid of society of these people, you need another 20 or 15 years to educate a new
00:23:40.320 generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor
00:23:50.240 and in the interests of the United States society.
00:23:54.640 And yet these people who've been programmed and, as you say, in place,
00:23:57.860 and who are favorable to an opening with the Soviet concept,
00:24:01.840 these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?
00:24:05.340 Most of them, yes.
00:24:06.840 Simply because the psychological shock,
00:24:10.620 when they will see in future what the beautiful society of equality
00:24:15.360 and social justice means in practice,
00:24:18.300 obviously they will revolt.
00:24:20.320 They will be very unhappy, frustrated people.
00:24:24.640 And the Marxist-Leninist regime does not tolerate these people.
00:24:29.960 Obviously, they will join the links of dissenters, dissidents.
00:24:35.240 Unlike in present United States, there will be no place for dissent in future Marxist-Leninist America.
00:24:42.680 Here you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg and filthy rich like Jane Fonda for being dissident, for criticizing your Pentagon. 0.62
00:24:53.140 in future these people will be simply squashed like cockroaches nobody is 0.71
00:24:58.580 going to pay them nothing for their beautiful noble ideas of equality this 0.96
00:25:03.400 they don't understand and it will be greatest shock for them of course the
00:25:08.160 demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already
00:25:13.020 for the last 25 years actually it's over fulfilled because demoralization now
00:25:19.300 reaches such areas where previously not even Comrade Andropov and all his
00:25:24.520 experts would would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done
00:25:30.880 by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned
00:25:35.580 before exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was
00:25:42.760 demoralized is unable to assess true information the facts tell nothing to him
00:25:49.840 even if I shower him with information with the authentic proof with documents
00:25:55.140 with pictures even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him
00:26:00.220 concentration camp he will refuse to believe it until he is going to receive 0.97
00:26:06.040 a kick in the in his fat bottom when the military boot crashes his then he will 0.95
00:26:12.040 understand but not before that that's the tragic of the situation of demoralization so basically 0.97
00:26:17.720 america is stuck with with demoralization and unless even if if you start right now here this
00:26:23.960 minute you start educating new generation of american it will still take you 15 to 20 years
00:26:29.320 to turn the tide of uh of ideological perception of reality uh back to normal normalcy and and
00:26:37.960 patriotism so yuri besvinov that kgb defector he died in 1993 so he would have lived to see the
00:26:45.640 fall of the soviet union and the brief hope that you know everyone there was sort of a euphoria
00:26:51.560 that maybe we had reached the end of history and we would now have perpetual peace besvinov didn't
00:26:56.840 live to see 9 11 or the rise of china i think he must have died fairly happy feeling vindicated i
00:27:05.240 wonder what he would have said about our current situation. I think I know, because in so many ways 0.78
00:27:12.180 it reflects the KGB's active measures of an infowar against the West. If he were somehow to 0.74
00:27:20.260 come back to life, I just don't think he'd be able to comprehend how deeply the West has been
00:27:24.780 plunged into demoralization and how far things have gone, in Europe especially, but in America
00:27:31.280 more importantly, they really are trying to conquer your mind. Stay with us for more on this.
00:27:47.120 Well, I can't believe it's become normalized, but literally every day there is a politically
00:27:52.500 motivated shooting in Toronto. And we have a word for politically motivated violence,
00:27:57.940 violence that's designed either to kill or to scare or to terrorize you and it's called terrorism i
00:28:04.520 mean a few days ago it was two jewish bakeries in toronto called kivas one was smashed the other
00:28:11.600 was shot at now luckily it wasn't when anyone was in there but it was gunfire the very next day
00:28:18.700 you had the u.s consulate shot at and the u.s consulate was shot at a few months ago in fact
00:28:24.180 it had a police car stationed outside of it when the second shooting happened. There was chase
00:28:30.000 given, but given that the runaway vehicle, the getaway vehicle went so fast, the Toronto police
00:28:36.620 called off the chase, citing danger. And then yesterday was the third attack, or maybe it was
00:28:44.060 Monday. I'm getting all my shootings mixed up. There was a Jewish owned armored car factory
00:28:50.060 that was shot at multiple times every single day i don't even think that last one the armored car
00:28:56.900 being shot up the armored car factor being shot up i don't even think it made the front page like
00:29:01.000 it's just normal now in toronto and i want to play for you a clip that uh of after the um consulate
00:29:10.200 shooting where the mayor of toronto olivia chow immediately said we've got a crackdown on these
00:29:15.620 American guns. Take a quick look at that. I played this clip for you the other day,
00:29:20.280 but there's something I didn't really notice the first time I played it. Take a look again.
00:29:23.800 This morning I spoke to the Minister of Public Safety and we pledged to continue to work closely 0.88
00:29:32.400 together to aid both moves the illegal American guns off our street and two to bring those that
00:29:44.560 are responsible to justice and prevent other shootings how did she know they were american
00:29:51.960 guns i mean the gun has not been seized there has been no arrests there's a manhunt on now
00:30:00.420 we don't have the gun so how did the mayor know that it was an american gun and that was the
00:30:07.840 problem well obviously she didn't know she made it up because she wants to transfer the
00:30:14.040 criticism and the skepticism and the accountability from the criminal to an inanimate object an
00:30:20.860 American gun and we all hate Americans right so I think that's just pure disinformation but that's
00:30:27.960 what a mayor would do when she has nothing else to say now Toronto has shootings like I say almost
00:30:33.280 every day I just saw a headline today that Peel region which is abuts Toronto the number of
00:30:40.220 shootings has doubled. There are new crimes and horrific crimes across the country, many of which
00:30:45.760 are not reported, many of which are not solved. I believe we're in a national crime wave, both of
00:30:51.840 regular crime and this new terrorism crime. Joining us now to talk about it is a former police officer
00:30:58.960 in the Toronto Police, a friend of the show, and someone who is a journalist in his own right. He
00:31:03.920 runs the McLean Chronicles on YouTube. Our friend Ross McLean joins us now. Ross, great to see you.
00:31:09.680 I know you have been quite concerned about the shootings and arson and other vandalism targeting the Jewish community in Toronto.
00:31:19.420 In fact, I saw you outside a very low-key synagogue that had no outward markings at all that it was a synagogue,
00:31:26.380 and it was shot at, which tells me that the bad guys have been doing some really technical research
00:31:32.380 because you wouldn't have known it was a synagogue, right?
00:31:34.880 And Ezra, you are on to it, and it's the part that I've been looking at.
00:31:41.320 This has become, to me, as a former police officer and as a close protection specialist,
00:31:49.480 I protected billionaires in Toronto.
00:31:52.380 I know all these areas.
00:31:53.760 I know many of the people that are fearful for their lives.
00:31:57.460 A message is being sent here.
00:31:59.400 As you point out, that little synagogue was next to the no one synagogue.
00:32:03.840 but who else knew it was really a synagogue right well that was someone who was picking an easy
00:32:09.340 target they didn't want to go right where the police car was right around the corner there's
00:32:13.880 a police car sitting at the more popular more known synagogue same thing with the american
00:32:19.460 consulate shooting the other day there was a marked police car sitting right in front of it
00:32:24.000 with a police officer there boom one shot and they run and then let me point out that shooting for
00:32:30.400 kiva's bagel shop right so i used to take clients there and i know some very uh wealthy investment
00:32:37.700 bankers who called me and they said ross you know who goes into that little bagel shop don't you
00:32:43.520 when you go in there on any given time you'll find someone in there worth 200 million there
00:32:48.940 150 million there 600 million over there they love to go into that bagel shop to sit down and
00:32:55.640 that's where they do their deals. That's a well-known thing within the community, but it's
00:33:01.220 not well-known anywhere else. So that target was picked. And the other thing is the armored car
00:33:08.200 company. I know something about that business. They also sell luxury armor-plated SUVs,
00:33:18.900 everything from Bentleys to Escalades to Mercedes to everything else. Once again,
00:33:24.420 two very rich clients who would be in Toronto. And I think what's happening is a very
00:33:30.160 specific message is being sent below the radar of the general public, but to the people who
00:33:36.800 are being threatened, they get it. And I don't think we're seeing enough being done about this
00:33:43.640 is in my opinion that's very interesting there's a kind of demoralization i think going on and and
00:33:50.840 i think the jewish community in toronto has always been very strong it's quite large 200 000 and i
00:33:56.280 think it was confident and it was free and i mean it didn't i mean i've lived in the city for about
00:34:02.040 a decade but i know for the longest time it felt comfortable peaceful it flourished and now i think
00:34:09.880 it's it's being overcome by fear and all the time you hear of people moving away from the city so
00:34:16.680 maybe what you're talking about is even if the gunshot i think in i think let's be candid the
00:34:22.040 gunshots have all been at night when most of these institutions it would have been safe to assume no
00:34:29.160 one was in there so i i think that um had i mean maybe that's also the time that it's easier to
00:34:37.880 run away you know come undetected and leave there's not that many people filming so it it may
00:34:43.960 be a strategic decision on the part of these terrorists i think they're terrorists and even
00:34:49.800 if the gunman is just a hired hand they would be orchestrated by a terrorist but i i don't know if
00:34:56.120 i see a reaction to it that's of a similar gravity like if we have a shooting every day
00:35:02.680 if they're hiring gangland gunmen who are sort of ideologically neutral but they're being
00:35:08.200 orchestrated by activists i just don't think that the the the police are doing
00:35:15.000 everything they can because they're just treating this as a regular crime but i think on the other
00:35:19.960 side is a foreign state that is doing something on the level of terrorism not just gangs what do you
00:35:26.040 think yeah well let's put this in sort of personal terms as i think the viewers could relate to it 0.87
00:35:31.400 this way because i think it is kind of obtuse to people imagine you just bought into a new town home
00:35:37.960 in a nice little subdivision a neighborhood your teenage kid comes back home black and blue had the 0.94
00:35:42.520 living crap kicked out of him by the local gang and they're all coming by screaming get out of 0.95
00:35:47.480 here don't live in this house whatever ah then your house gets shot up during the day when everybody's 1.00
00:35:52.600 away you come home bullets right through your door how are you going to feel how are you really going 0.96
00:35:59.000 to feel when that's happening to you so the way that this is going with the jewish community the 0.73
00:36:04.200 message is being sent and you're right it could still be these contractors right that we've seen
00:36:10.520 where they pay them online they don't know who it is they go they fire the shots and they go
00:36:15.560 and that's part of the demoralization like you talked about it's part of the driving out it's
00:36:20.520 part of the shutting up but then all they need to go to the next level is to get one true believer
00:36:26.600 there who's going to go do it and is going to actually work to kill somebody. And I personally
00:36:33.380 don't see that as being a bridge too far at all. I think everybody's on that bridge. It's not too
00:36:39.420 far. Yeah. And then there's one more thing, which is you're suggesting there might be someone who
00:36:44.480 takes a professional quote unquote approach to terrorism and is maybe a jihadist and isn't
00:36:50.100 worried about being caught. They want to blow themselves up in the fit of glory. But there's
00:36:54.160 also the thought of someone who has just a regular person not contracted to do anything not part of a
00:37:00.760 gang or a terrorist group who just is so whipped up by this that in an opportunistic basis he does
00:37:08.040 something stabs someone hits someone i mean we see encounters our our friend alexa lavoy in
00:37:13.380 montreal just the other day showed a woman screaming jews are not allowed in the park here's
00:37:19.460 quick clip of that from montreal in 2026 take a look
00:37:37.060 that's called intimidation yes yeah where's your neighborhood hey where is your neighborhood
00:37:43.540 i don't want to interact with you no the police is on their way doing what
00:37:48.260 we'll see we'll find out you think i'm not allowed with my dog in this park there is a clear sign
00:37:54.580 yes 20 feet away you know what say mind your own business but my kids my kids yeah were afraid to
00:38:02.820 go into this your kids are up because they don't even go to normal school so don't tell me what to
00:38:08.660 do i mean that's a woman who was just using her voice but we've also seen in montreal a visibly
00:38:16.020 jewish man attacked in front of his kids in public and i and you can say you know the authorities
00:38:21.380 often say mental illness really it's not mental illness it's a it's an ideology here's a clip of
00:38:27.160 that attack from a few months ago so you have gangland style contract killers you don't yet
00:38:42.860 have an ideological terrorist himself who doesn't care about getting away. But you are starting to
00:38:48.200 see some of these grassroots people who've been radicalized. And all of this has really ramped up
00:38:53.080 over the last three years. I mean, it's been sort of in the margins before that. But I don't know
00:38:59.240 has policing changed in a significant way in the last three years since the Hamas attack on
00:39:06.160 southern israel and israel's response has there been any change in how canadian police respond
00:39:13.360 to these kind of attacks well let me get to that i'll tie on to what you said first
00:39:19.460 it has happened here remember when the fbi once again tipped off the police about the jihadis the
00:39:26.860 isis jihadis in the markham hotel they were ready to go out that day and butcher people we've had
00:39:31.960 other people arrested just before they went and we're going to commit murders in the name of
00:39:36.820 terrorism in Toronto right so it happens we have them here just last week they arrested someone for
00:39:43.420 supporting terrorism that hasn't been fleshed out right we have them here that guy I met that guy
00:39:48.980 outside a synagogue he's his nickname on the street is Gerard and I talked to him and uh like he he
00:39:57.400 He hangs out outside synagogues and now he's charged with terrorism in support of Hamas.
00:40:02.080 I mean, that's that's terrifying that his hobby is to harass Jews and he's accused of terrorism.
00:40:10.180 Yeah. Now, let me go to the second half of your question. Has policing changed?
00:40:14.460 I dare say it has. It absolutely has in Toronto.
00:40:17.900 I have watched the reaction to the protests, the Hamas terror protests, which, by the way, now there's a nexus between these protests march.
00:40:27.400 marches, and Hamas because the police have charged that guy who you met, who was the face of those
00:40:35.520 protests, with supporting Hamas. So there is a nexus between terrorism and these protests.
00:40:42.280 Now, the police have not been arresting people, despite the fact there's criminal acts taking
00:40:48.060 place, everything from vandalism to threats to actual hate speech, to intimidation to harassment.
00:40:57.400 they're not making arrests and i i keep on hearing and i'd love to talk to the chief sometime about
00:41:03.560 this this story about our our role is to be neutral at these things there's no such thing
00:41:09.640 in law that says that in fact there's case law and there are court cases that say the police
00:41:15.000 have to arrest people who are breaking the law at protest which includes blocking roadways when
00:41:20.760 you're not supposed to be on there let alone harassing someone for two and a half years
00:41:25.400 straight in their neighborhood so the police have taken this hands-off approach which i in my humble
00:41:32.600 opinion i didn't ever think i'd see police do that and leadership do that that when i have my city
00:41:39.560 being called the anti-semitic capital of of the world just about right now that i would not want
00:41:45.160 that cleaned up yeah and uh olivia olivia's been no word there about it's the gun she wants out
00:41:52.520 Gee, Ezra, can a gun be anti-Semitic?
00:41:54.560 She wants to make it a gun rather than the person with the gun. 0.72
00:41:57.940 Yeah, exactly. 0.99
00:41:58.760 And she wants to distract. 1.00
00:42:00.120 This is America's problem.
00:42:01.680 No, it's Toronto's problem. 0.97
00:42:02.840 You know, you mentioned for years on end, the pro-Hamas protesters, right in a Jewish
00:42:08.400 residential neighborhood, Bathurst and Shepard is the intersection.
00:42:14.720 And just a week or two ago, I was in Ottawa when Tamara Leach, the leader of the peaceful
00:42:21.280 trucker convoy was back in a hearing. There were three prosecutors in the room 0.99
00:42:27.600 on a variation order for her sentence to allow her to work outside of Alberta and maybe even
00:42:34.100 outside of Canada. This is a huge investment of police and prosecutorial resources. It was the
00:42:40.080 longest mission of trial in Canadian history, I think like 50 days or something. And remember
00:42:45.380 the truckers themselves, there were court orders against their horn honking. Martial law,
00:42:51.140 etc so those were peaceful protesters and the court had no problem issuing an injunction because they 1.00
00:42:57.940 were honking and yet you have loud speaker powered hate right outside apartment buildings in a jewish
00:43:05.860 community and we're we're almost at three years now like the double standard i think i think we're
00:43:12.420 long past acknowledging the double standard there just every time the truckers are targeted again i
00:43:19.460 think um you know if only they've wore kefias or something if only they had said death to israel
00:43:27.440 uh they they you know martial law would never have been deployed i i don't know it just is so
00:43:33.100 starkly a double standard to me it seems yeah that's that's what i see that's what i see when
00:43:41.100 i was when i was a police officer like i said i never would have seen anything like this happen
00:43:44.620 in toronto wouldn't have stood for it but what we have now we hear from the police association said
00:43:51.580 well there seems to be orders from uh the chief why don't you talk to the chief about why uh why
00:43:56.820 the protests are going on the way they're going i remember remember olivia chow had it out with
00:44:01.280 the chief a little bit too when she said oh i understand there's a lawyer down at headquarters
00:44:05.800 who doesn't want to lay the charges right or is saying not to lay her charges and then the chief
00:44:10.480 He said, oh, no, no, there's no lawyer we're listening to there about not laying the charges.
00:44:14.320 The chief with his project Resolute have been, you can see the huge presence in different events in the communities.
00:44:24.420 And they're doing a good job.
00:44:28.180 Can they do more?
00:44:29.760 We are always open to improvement.
00:44:32.300 Because there are some who feel not that they've been passive, but they'd like to see more people arrested.
00:44:36.860 They just, if somebody pulls out a Hamas flag, then cops just have to go in there and yank them out.
00:44:41.920 Yeah, the chief have communicated to me, as you know, I can't direct the chief in terms of operation, but we can set policy.
00:44:52.120 And the chief have been saying that they have charged, he has made charges, but then it gets thrown out by the crown and they won't even accept it.
00:45:05.120 So you do all the work to do the charges, and then yet it doesn't go anywhere.
00:45:11.320 So at some point they said they have a lawyer at the police headquarters that looked at cases and said,
00:45:18.840 OK, there's no hope of you getting anywhere, so don't bother, which is why sometimes they don't do it.
00:45:25.500 Yesterday, the mayor of Toronto said effectively that there's a lawyer at police headquarters
00:45:30.680 who has advised police not to bother arresting people at pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protests
00:45:38.040 because there's no chance of the Crown actually booking this through to trial.
00:45:42.580 Is that actually the case?
00:45:44.780 Well, John, I appreciate the opportunity to impact what I know over the last 24 hours has been talked about.
00:45:50.540 But, you know, when I reflect on why I'm here in regards to that question,
00:45:55.200 you know, you've got to take a moment and pause and reflect on the pain in our community,
00:45:59.420 actually right now that's driving an incredible concern around hate crimes, in particular
00:46:04.980 anti-Semitism. And let me start by making one thing really clear that we have and will stand
00:46:11.380 shoulder to shoulder with all our communities, including our Jewish community, as we deal with
00:46:15.960 the anti-Semitism and the hate that we see in our city. And when the mayor says that there is a
00:46:22.320 lawyer who has advised, do not engage, do not arrest, is she in error? Well, listen, I don't
00:46:28.560 know where she's getting that narrative she says you yeah well we didn't have a discussion that
00:46:33.140 would suggest quite the way that's been framed so um you know no there is not yet yet the main
00:46:39.780 lawyer that was at toronto police she was very very high in the court of justice right and one
00:46:45.840 of the issues we have as we're in this two-tiered system as you talk about there is who do the
00:46:50.900 prosecutors decide to prosecute who did they decide not to prosecute you'll see all these
00:46:56.380 arrests that we're seeing for the pro-Hamas marches, if you will, when they clearly are
00:47:02.500 beyond the line, they're choosing not to prosecute. As you say, Tamara Leach, they're going to go to
00:47:08.460 the end of the earth to prosecute Tamara Leach. And there's supposed to be a prosecutor's book 1.00
00:47:13.200 that talks about whether something's in the public interest or not, that you continue doing it. You
00:47:18.480 continue spending the money. You continue using the court's time. And we don't have anybody
00:47:25.160 investigating this and looking at this i don't see the police board doing its job of looking
00:47:32.200 into what the chief's doing they didn't you know until recently i did an interview with david
00:47:38.600 benzes about it i i shamed the police for the way they let the the walk for israel go on the last
00:47:44.440 couple of years where they made jews go through a walk of hate and hate speech little children
00:47:51.320 yeah families yeah parents were sitting there with people waving bloody babies and screaming
00:47:56.440 at them yeah yeah you that is not free public expression yeah and they once we raised the
00:48:02.840 issue they did something yeah finally i'm not sure what it's going to take now you were really the
00:48:07.800 chief whistleblower on that hey i got one last question for you i mean um there's a local city
00:48:13.560 counselor who i've talked to a few times saying mike cole who says look these are not just regular
00:48:19.320 people they may look that way on the outside but they're being directed and funded by foreign
00:48:24.940 entities on a this is international stuff this is countries behind it um there's money behind it
00:48:33.020 there there are darker forces that we just can't see and he has said one of the things he says he
00:48:39.260 wants is he says look the toronto police is not equipped to take on the government of iran or to
00:48:44.340 take on, you know, a terrorist international force. We need help, he says, whether it's RCMP
00:48:52.120 or CSIS or OPP. And that sounds reasonable to me, but I'm not a cop or an ex-cop, obviously.
00:48:59.960 If there was something that could be done, what would it be? What should the city do? What should
00:49:07.080 the province do? What should police do or prosecutors? Is there one thing, if you were
00:49:11.980 in charge for a day, what change would you make? Or are we just going to have this like that movie
00:49:17.840 Groundhog Day where every single day it's the same thing? Another shooting and the politicians
00:49:22.100 say, oh, hate is not acceptable here. Well, it obviously is. What would you do if you were king
00:49:28.120 for a day? Yeah, my term for all of this, Ezra, is low tech ethnic organized crime. We have it 0.89
00:49:35.960 certainly with the pro Hamas crowd. We have it with the Indian crowd from human trafficking to 1.00
00:49:40.720 drug smuggling, to you name it. We have the extortions from the Indian gangs. It's all 1.00
00:49:48.500 organized and the police aren't set up for that. They don't have all these big projects and
00:49:52.480 police to spare for it. But you asked me what I would change. I would change the leadership
00:49:57.920 because this leadership is out of touch with what the problem is and how to fix it. There's limited
00:50:05.420 resources that police have and they are just wasting them by having police line up i dare
00:50:11.980 say it's probably costing us 60 million dollars a year to have toronto police escort these little
00:50:16.860 protests all over the place that's that's a lot of money and they need to decide that we are not
00:50:23.580 going to allow this and i need a i need a chief of police or or the premier or someone to stand up
00:50:30.060 and go up to the attorney general and say we want courts that are going to prosecute this
00:50:35.340 We want jails that we're going to put these people away because the other thing I'm starting to see and I'm smelling, it just started coming up the last 12 months, is a lot of the judges now are finding any little reason they can to throw out guys who have got drugs and loaded automatic handguns on them.
00:50:53.500 The one one guy was arrested for impaired and it came back. Well, I don't really think you smell alcohol in his breath, so I'm not letting the gun charges go through. Yeah, I'm like, what? Yeah, you will. You will crush my charter rights in a heartbeat and say it's OK for the good of society, but you're going to allow a criminal carrying a loaded automatic handgun in public to say, oh, well, you can't infringe on his or the rights that you stopped him for the wrong reason.
00:51:22.160 and the courts have to get together and the judges have to get their acts together.
00:51:27.440 That's where a lot of this comes from.
00:51:29.120 When there's no price to pay, the criminals are going to come out and play.
00:51:32.840 Yeah.
00:51:33.700 Ross, great to catch up with you.
00:51:35.080 We'll talk again soon, I hope.
00:51:36.640 Ross McLean of the McLean Chronicles on YouTube.
00:51:39.660 Keep an eye on it.
00:51:39.840 Thanks for having me, Ezra.
00:51:40.780 Right on.
00:51:41.400 Stay with us.
00:51:42.220 Your letters to me next.
00:51:52.160 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me about Mamdani's communist grocery plans.
00:51:57.280 Tony Salotti commented, New York voters are totally clueless. Well, I think it was a strange
00:52:03.220 coalition that got him elected. Remember, I think the most important thing was that the vote on the
00:52:07.680 right was split. You had an Italian-American candidate, Cuomo, who wanted to come back.
00:52:16.440 he was uh he was the governor who had a scandal and this was his comeback but you also had
00:52:23.240 curtis sliwa who was sort of the um you know the guardian angel street patrol guy splitting the
00:52:30.060 vote on the right so mamdani came up because of the math and a lot of his supporters were super
00:52:36.120 woke white liberals and of course he had an ethnic appeal including to the muslim vote
00:52:43.220 like it was just a classic coalition of the left but yeah uh they voted for a communist whether
00:52:50.240 they knew it or not i don't think they knew what they were getting into susan ashbrook ashbrook
00:52:56.340 said ezra you're correct there is no such thing as free lunch someone has to pay for what others
00:53:00.880 take for free i know from working in the industry that there are no 30 margins in the world of
00:53:05.420 groceries so other people's money will be forced to foot the bill it just doesn't work in the long
00:53:10.600 around yeah i mean you could theoretically i mean i'm just extending this out logically if you if you
00:53:19.140 put a billion dollars into it that would be devoured because how much food does all of new
00:53:25.500 york city and then new jersey and connecticut and go for how much money do they spend on food a year
00:53:32.160 well it's got to be billions so theoretically if you're subsidizing everything sold from the store
00:53:38.220 by pricing at 30 percent below the market you will you could pay billions of dollars because
00:53:46.380 you're just making people eat not for free but for 30 percent less than things it would be like
00:53:50.780 if one gas station in your entire city started selling gas for a dollar a liter not because 0.99
00:53:56.720 they have some secret way of making it cheap but if some idiot said oh i'm going to pay to keep it 0.98
00:54:02.700 cheap well everyone would just come and over consume that they would buy all they could that's 0.99
00:54:07.540 what Mamdani is doing. That's communism. And unfortunately, it's very popular these days. 0.74
00:54:14.680 Well, that's our show for the day. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at
00:54:18.640 Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:54:37.540 Thank you.