Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel News invades New Zealand

00:00:00.000 tonight rebel news invades new zealand it's august 25th and this is the ezra levant show

00:00:05.720 shame on you you sensorious bug

00:00:12.080 hello from beautiful new zealand i've never been here before it's a very long journey i've been

00:00:25.220 traveling a little bit we went to maui for the wildfire story and i think we made a difference

00:00:30.380 we reported the news at a website called the truth about maui.com a ton of views i think we

00:00:35.880 did some real journalism and i'm also very proud of the fact that our rebel viewers crowdfunded

00:00:40.560 25 000 actually even more than that for one of the non-fema citizen-led relief camps there i think

00:00:48.520 that was a really good trip to do and i i think it's something citizen journalists are good at

00:00:53.460 now new zealand is a small country quite far away from anywhere else it's it's even far away from

00:00:59.320 australia i grew up thinking they were right next to each other no it's it's a four-hour flight from

00:01:04.520 melbourne to new zealand that that's quite a distance it's about five million people and

00:01:09.760 they're great but they're at the edge of the world so we don't think about them that much

00:01:14.740 over recent years jacinda ardern the prime minister who resigned not that long ago made headlines though

00:01:22.480 for being one of the most strident leftist extremist globalists and it won't surprise you to know that

00:01:28.520 she's cut from the same cloth as justin trudeau being a young leader at the world economic forum

00:01:34.260 she was also the head of the socialist international youth which tells you a little something about her

00:01:39.860 she took an extremely heavy hand during the lockdowns of the pandemic you really using it as an

00:01:46.460 excuse to throttle freedoms in this country and the most terrifying part was her insistence on

00:01:52.400 censorship and we'll talk a little bit more about that soon well one of the things that i i think was

00:01:58.280 a proof of the authoritarianism in this country that took root under jacinda ardern was when our australian

00:02:05.140 chief correspondent avi amini wanted to come here just to talk not to make a fuss well to make a rhetorical

00:02:12.660 fuss maybe but certainly nothing dangerous and ardern's government illegally banned him from coming

00:02:19.540 in like he was some sort of terrorist you know i didn't believe they were going to succeed in having

00:02:24.420 me banned in a free western democracy but hey i gave too much credit to jacinda ardern's new zealand

00:02:33.820 jacinda ardern her government her ministry have banned a journalist a journalist by the way that has

00:02:39.420 traveled the world on the same australian passport but for some reason are not good enough to enter

00:02:46.060 new zealand i understand that it is solely for immigration and it's not something i had any

00:02:51.180 awareness of until i saw some commentary online in new zealand the country that follows the same

00:02:56.300 liberal freedom of speech and has the same heritage that we have in canada or they have in australia

00:03:04.580 it's the uk heritage of freedom and the right to dissent and the right to criticize government

00:03:09.580 because we were able to crowdfund uh lawyers we challenged that and avi was allowed in and so we're

00:03:18.320 in new zealand for the book launch of avi's new autobiography it's a symbolic taking of the turf

00:03:25.620 now there's a lot of interesting folks in new zealand and just like avi has told the story of australia

00:03:33.100 for australians but it was also of interest to people around the world i think the same

00:03:38.000 is true in some ways for new zealand too what i mean by that is of course new zealanders need

00:03:44.060 the other side of the story they need a more robust debate they need more points of view allowed in new

00:03:49.720 zealand jacinda ardern's authoritarianism certainly proved that but i think some of the things they're

00:03:55.840 doing in new zealand absolute cracking down on private firearms ownership extreme cracking down

00:04:02.980 on censorship official government misinformation and disinformation campaigns to see what's

00:04:10.960 happening in new zealand as a kind of laboratory for what the globalists want to export around the

00:04:16.280 world for example there's something called the christ church call named after christ church new

00:04:21.600 zealand that's a fancy way of saying a global censorship regime that isn't a theory that is a plan

00:04:30.160 and it came from new zealand and if we're not careful it'll take root around the world justin

00:04:34.780 trudeau has mentioned it several times and his intent on enforcing it and he is by the way through

00:04:41.280 various internet regulation bills c11 c18 uh uh the withdrawn bill c36 that he says he'll reintroduce and

00:04:48.540 the yet introduced uh online harms act so what i'm saying is new zealand may seem very far away

00:04:55.140 and it may have a very small population you know literally 0.1 percent not even 0.1 percent of the

00:05:04.320 world's population is in new zealand but it doesn't take a big place to be a laboratory of bad ideas

00:05:11.260 in a moment we're going to talk to our friend abhi amini who has done important journalism in australia

00:05:17.320 and is here in new zealand to rev things up and over the course of the next couple of days we're in

00:05:22.680 auckland today we're going to wellington which is the other large city in new zealand we're going to do

00:05:28.660 that in support of abhi's book and then we're going to go back to australia and do a book event in

00:05:33.660 melbourne and then i'm coming home i've been away for too long but we want to catch up on what's going

00:05:38.320 on in this part of the world we also want to say hello to and meet with budding citizen journalists

00:05:44.460 here behind enemy lines look it's not that bad but abhi makes the point that it's heading that way

00:05:51.560 when he arrived in the country he wore a shirt that said kia ora which is a friendly maori way of

00:05:57.520 saying how do you good on you good day mate kia ora north korea take a look at this fun video

00:06:03.140 that abhi made when he stepped out of the terminal in new zealand proving that they couldn't keep a 0.98

00:06:10.300 good man down take a look

00:06:11.260 kia ora north korea i am finally here in auckland even though the communist party tried their very best

00:06:26.580 to stop me with the cover of their state board and paid for mainstream media thank you to the new

00:06:33.500 zealand herald promoting my book for the rest of you that are saying still left in this country

00:06:38.920 make sure to come on friday night in auckland or saturday in wellington rebelfromthestart.com there

00:06:46.080 are still some tickets left i believe rebelfromthestart.com i'd love to see you all there

00:06:51.380 the smell of victory so we're gonna meet other citizen journalists in new zealand maybe we'll make

00:06:59.980 friends with them and maybe we'll even get some new zealanders to give us updates from time to time

00:07:04.880 i think that abhi has shown that the rebel news crowdfunding citizen journalism model can work in

00:07:11.680 other places beside canada and wouldn't it be fun if we had a voice and a footprint here in new zealand

00:07:17.780 too stay with us coming up next the man of the hour abhi amini

00:07:22.560 well the reason we are in new zealand today is the same reason why rebel news is in australia

00:07:40.740 it really shows the difference one person can make and i'm talking about one of my favorite reporters

00:07:46.060 i've ever met abhi amini who's our chief australian correspondent i call him a one-man army because

00:07:51.640 he really is abhi it's great to see you good to see you mate um i appreciate it very kind

00:07:56.180 well it's true and i think it's a combination of charisma and confidence a self-deprecating sense

00:08:02.040 of humor you're quick on your feet and you love the action you got a nose for news and and you've

00:08:07.520 really built rebel news up in australia and now we're invading north korea or new zealand it's sort

00:08:12.880 of fun it is i listen i'm loving it and i think the the you know the people the way they're taking

00:08:18.520 in new zealand they need this they need this in new zealand more than anywhere on the planet more

00:08:23.580 than australia i think because you see how far new zealand went even in covid and some of the

00:08:28.180 legislation and the laws that are here are so far ahead than all of us even in australia and canada

00:08:34.160 you know i remember when jacinda ardern who just finished her term as the prime minister

00:08:38.460 early in covid she actually said at a real press conference this is not an accident she didn't

00:08:44.800 retracted later she said trust us for all the news will we're your sole source of truth here

00:08:50.760 let watch her say it in her own words this is real people new zealanders must prepare but do not panic

00:08:58.360 prepare and and when you see those messages remember that unless you hear it from us um it is not the

00:09:06.020 truth and i really ask people just visit um covid19.govt.nz it has all of the up-to-date

00:09:13.600 information and we will continue to provide everything you need to know the fact that the

00:09:19.020 rest of the media the rest of the establishment the rest of the society said okay is terrifying and

00:09:25.040 you know she's no longer pm but she's gone on to i think she's at harvard now heading up a global 0.55

00:09:30.620 censorship project it's exactly she is she like i said they try and test everything in new zealand 0.93

00:09:37.180 so of course they want the person who successfully did it here remember she's the one it's her office

00:09:42.880 that banned me for coming for the propensity to incite people with opposing views and i feel like

00:09:50.820 i'm actually kicking myself that the book the front cover i should have it in quotations as you know

00:09:55.880 this is what they say about me because gosh i wear that as with pride i have a propensity of

00:10:00.720 inciting people with opposing views but they say that they said that the government here the

00:10:05.140 jacindar durn government at the time said that as if that's a bad thing you know i mean new zealand

00:10:10.420 is part of the commonwealth and it has the traditions of free speech and debate and civil society i mean

00:10:16.300 it's a wonderful i've never been here before it's it's lovely people lovely place and i don't know why

00:10:22.480 maybe because it's small so it's not as noticed but it really became i mean obviously it's nowhere

00:10:29.360 near the actual north korea but boy are the trends going in the wrong direction and they stopped you

00:10:35.220 because they wanted the unanimity of thought they were afraid that if you came there you would light

00:10:39.580 a bunch of candles your candle would light a bunch of candles and there are some other citizen

00:10:44.820 journalists in this country but they don't have as much oomph as you have or as we have in canada

00:10:50.980 and you know maybe new zealand doesn't matter five million people it's off the beaten path

00:10:57.140 but it matters for the people who live here and like you say it's a laboratory for bad ideas that

00:11:02.620 are spread around the world i care about new zealand i i hope we can do something about it i'd argue that

00:11:08.220 it matters for all of us because everything that happens here comes to firstly australia or next door

00:11:13.380 and it affects it's a domino effect it affects all of us and i think that they need it they need it for

00:11:19.720 them as much as we need it for us for new zealand to be to really bring the battleground here now the

00:11:25.900 reason we're here in particular is your new book and what a great way to start your book tour then in

00:11:31.680 the country that banned you it's sort of like uh planting the flag and retaking the turf and and

00:11:38.020 you've got a lot of people coming out to see you tell us about the event uh tell us a little bit

00:11:43.780 about your book first of all but also tell us about the event you've chosen a church with a large

00:11:48.280 maori congregation as the venue for the auckland event give me a minute on the book and then a minute

00:11:56.440 on why you chose the maori church well as you know people have said a lot of things about me over the

00:12:02.620 years that i've worked with you you've known the truth but i've never been a lot of it i wasn't even

00:12:06.480 able to to talk about publicly myself so this was my first opportunity to tell those whether you're a

00:12:11.740 hater whether you're a lover with whatever you are if you care enough to listen to what they say

00:12:16.800 about me here's the opportunity for you to hear about me from me my story and i love the title rebel

00:12:22.820 from the start it's true you really were it definitely is and the reason why we chose that

00:12:28.020 that that um venue because i know you said that new zealand is nothing like the real north korea which

00:12:33.380 is true but you know what i have more respect for the north korean government than i do for the

00:12:37.940 for the government here why because north korea at least they're honest about what they're doing

00:12:42.740 here they pretend to be for freedom and democracy yet they're banning people for the propensity

00:12:47.320 to incite people with opposing views um and i chose that particular church because we know

00:12:53.100 the minute that it's announced and we heard we hold hold those um cards close to our chest

00:12:58.200 not on this particular church we weren't worried that they were going to pull out because they're not

00:13:02.680 scared that's cancel proof they're cancel proof they they've they're rebels they're rebels they've

00:13:08.440 through the lockdowns these were some of the people that were at the forefront of that fight and

00:13:11.960 they've copped every smear in the book so there was no way to to to scare them into cancelling it for

00:13:17.900 that and they're also big tough men so there's no way to scare them out of protest or intimidate

00:13:23.080 them so i chose that location here in in in auckland and i'm really glad we did because i think

00:13:28.920 you know what um rebels stick by rebels because that's the only way you win these fights as you

00:13:34.980 know together against uh the big global that's that's what it is remember justin i don't like

00:13:41.220 just like justin trudeau is part of the young global leadership that they're all wef puppets

00:13:46.040 well and and they don't like you because they saw the journalists you've gone to wef twice now

00:13:51.320 world economic forum last time we were there together that was a wonderful uh journalistic mission

00:13:55.660 um let me ask you one last question it's a little speculative and and maybe you don't want to

00:14:00.600 uh predict the future but you know there's a lot of new zealanders who are really rooting for you

00:14:06.780 because this country needs to hear the other side of the story this country needs a debate especially

00:14:11.540 after the suffocation of jacinda ardern but there are those in the establishment media there are those

00:14:18.440 in establishment politics and there are even i don't know about antifa but activists for sure who would

00:14:24.000 try and stop you and if they couldn't stop you from coming into the country and if they couldn't 0.96

00:14:27.740 stop you from getting into this church with a large maori congregation are you worried that there's going

00:14:32.760 to be i mean i don't even want to say it because i don't want to manifest it but are you worried about

00:14:37.580 some physical protests or god forbid even worse when you're here look you just look at what happened

00:14:44.080 to posy parker who's a a little blonde woman who was standing for women's right and yeah she was a 1.00

00:14:49.560 challenger to transgenderism right exactly and she came in she was holding an event where you let 0.97

00:14:55.080 women speak about what their concerns are about issues today and she was violently chased out of 1.00

00:15:01.560 the country violently chased out of the country and if they would do that to a young woman they would

00:15:05.340 have no compunction doing that to you yes and so i i it is a concern we have to be vigilant and you

00:15:12.060 have you got a bodyguard with you which is good we've brought a bodyguard with us the whole time

00:15:15.680 because we we're not going to take any chance we're not going to let them intimidate us chase

00:15:19.640 us out of the country because our mission here is to stay we're not going to we're not going to

00:15:24.160 cower we're not going to run we're going to we're going to stay and fight for new zealanders as we are

00:15:28.960 for the rest of the world well avi i meant what i said earlier you have probably made more difference

00:15:34.980 pound for pound than anyone else in our company because you really were a lonely voice in the beginning

00:15:40.560 in australia you met some other friends along the way roxon farnando we're making friends here

00:15:45.140 in new zealand cam slater um uh chantel baker so there are little green shoots so you know the

00:15:53.300 lone blade of grass maybe it'll become a lot of blades of grass it shows that if you have the

00:16:00.640 courage and if you know what you believe in and you're willing just to try and if you fail get back

00:16:05.660 up and try again i think you've made a lot of difference and not just for australians everywhere i go

00:16:11.560 people say how's that avi doing what's up with avi oh i like that avi guy i think it's your character

00:16:18.120 and my favorite thing about you frankly and i need more of it myself is a self-deprecating sense of

00:16:24.180 humor because when you make fun of yourself everyone laughs with you and i i think uh we're very lucky to

00:16:28.860 have you on the team avi i appreciate it ezra and look i gotta just say this jacinda ardern may have

00:16:34.920 banned me a year ago but guess who's here and who's not well amen to that we'll we'll leave it

00:16:40.700 there talking with avi amini on the glorious beaches of auckland new zealand

00:16:46.160 well that's our show for today i'm over my jet lag i've caught up with the team

00:17:01.600 we're going to have a great event here i'm really uh interested in new zealand and the similarities

00:17:07.180 and the differences but let me tell you one of the differences i don't know if you can see behind me

00:17:10.540 that uh that island it looks slightly cone shaped because it is that is a volcano new zealand

00:17:19.200 there's a there's dozens of volcanoes around here that volcano is extremely recent just 600 years ago

00:17:27.580 that volcano emerged from the water and 600 years ago that sounds like a very long time ago

00:17:32.760 well in the course of geological history that's a blink of an eye so there are live volcanoes around

00:17:40.720 this area i think it's fascinating 600 years obviously trees have grown on top of it and you can actually

00:17:47.000 get out there but that's one of the fascinating things about auckland and new zealand that i've

00:17:52.260 discovered i'm gonna come back with to you with more news on monday news on how our events went

00:17:59.380 did the ruffians in the new zealand version of antifa show up to try and stop us was there some

00:18:05.980 sort of god forbid was there a conflict i don't know because they don't like alternative points of

00:18:11.700 view here well when i say they i mean the establishment ordinary people love it so i'm going to come back to

00:18:17.100 you with more news next week then i'm back to canada and home until then on behalf of all of us at rebel

00:18:25.020 news whether it's in auckland new zealand vancouver canada toronto or anywhere around the world to you at

00:18:30.220 home good night and keep fighting for freedom

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Rebel News Podcast - August 26, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Rebel News invades New Zealand

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