Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Media Party has decided to kill Pierre Poilievre. The good news is, I think he knows that.

00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. An interesting show today, if I may say so.

00:00:03.980 Pierre Polyev, the would-be leader of the Conservative Party,

00:00:07.100 criticizes a journalist anonymously, doesn't say her name.

00:00:10.980 She reveals herself and criticizes him back five times.

00:00:15.200 And then dozens of media party journalists come out of the woodwork on her side. 0.50

00:00:19.880 I'm loving every minute of it.

00:00:22.140 The more they hate Pierre Polyev, the better.

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00:01:24.100 Tonight, the media party has decided to kill Pierre Polyev.

00:01:34.200 The good news is, I think he knows that.

00:01:37.940 It's July 11th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:41.460 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:46.920 Perhaps the most humiliating political act by a Canadian conservative politician in the past decade

00:02:01.380 was when Andrew Scheer, then the leader of the Conservatives, kept going on the CBC, including being interviewed by Rosemary Barton when the CBC and Barton in particular had just launched a lawsuit against him.

00:02:18.140 Let me say that again, because if you don't know this already, you will find it stunning, as you should in the 2019 election, in the middle of the election, in the middle of the election, the CBC, the state broadcaster, and Rosemary Barton, their top Ottawa reporter at the time,

00:02:32.600 they literally went to court to sue the Conservative Party of Canada right in the middle of the election that they were covering, and they didn't stop covering it.

00:02:40.840 So while they were covering the Conservatives, talking to the Conservatives, pretending to treat them fairly and objectively,

00:02:47.040 they were actually behind the scenes meeting with lawyers, drafting and reviewing the lawsuit against the Conservatives,

00:02:53.440 and Andrew Scheer just smiled and submitted submissively, which is his specialty, even after they filed it.

00:03:00.060 I mean, have you no self-respect?

00:03:04.420 I guess we know the answer.

00:03:06.220 Aaron O'Toole was pretty much the same.

00:03:08.640 There was no indignity that the CBC or any other liberal media could do to him that would cause him to do anything other than smile and nod like a good little boy.

00:03:19.180 I mean, did they actually think, Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole, in the moment when it counted, that the CBC would, you know, be their friend,

00:03:26.560 that the Toronto Star might choose them over their dear Justin Trudeau?

00:03:31.340 Did they really think that maybe the CBC and the Globe and Mail actually liked them?

00:03:35.540 They liked me.

00:03:37.660 No, they don't, mate.

00:03:39.340 Just like, I don't know, if you go to a strip club and give the dancer a tip,

00:03:43.400 they'll pretend for a moment that they like you, but they don't really like you.

00:03:47.840 In fact, they probably despise you.

00:03:51.920 Newsflash, Conservatives, the media does not really like you.

00:03:56.360 I mean, look at this.

00:03:57.740 Look at this story in the Globe and Mail.

00:04:00.460 Trudeau mobbed by admirers at Stampede Pancake Breakfast.

00:04:05.180 Now, that's definition, that's dictionary definition, fake news.

00:04:11.020 In fact, it was not a Stampede event.

00:04:13.840 It was a private Liberal Party event held in a parking lot just for party stalwarts.

00:04:19.340 No one else was invited.

00:04:20.860 Here, listen to the first few moments of his speech.

00:04:22.640 You can actually hear a heckler call him a traitor several times at this love-in.

00:04:28.680 Take a look.

00:04:29.300 Great to see it here.

00:04:30.580 Great to see some of you ever say it.

00:04:33.340 So we have to be able to hear it.

00:04:35.460 I'm not going to hear it as some haters as well.

00:04:38.520 I know you're all lucky.

00:04:39.900 Yeah.

00:04:40.840 Mobbed by admirers at the Stampede.

00:04:43.340 Please stop lying.

00:04:44.340 That was a story for the Canadian press, which is a wire service.

00:04:48.880 So it was picked up by media across the country.

00:04:51.160 Look at all the different media that just reprinted the lies from that one reporter, Bill Graveland, through the Canadian press.

00:04:58.800 Now, the Globe and Mail was eventually embarrassed by this.

00:05:02.220 So they actually went back and changed the headline on their story.

00:05:06.300 As you can see, it now says, Trudeau references Ukraine, inflation, a Calgary stampede pancake breakfast.

00:05:13.960 Well, thanks.

00:05:14.880 After 99% of people who were going to read the article had already read the article.

00:05:18.900 Would you agree with me that this is the most important thing for a conservative candidate to know?

00:05:25.460 The media hates them.

00:05:27.660 A conservative knows instinctively that the Liberal Party of Canada doesn't like them.

00:05:31.920 You'd have to be pretty thick to miss that one.

00:05:33.880 But the media party claims it's not a political party.

00:05:37.360 They claim its objective is unbiased and objective journalism.

00:05:43.340 So they can use that neutrality to trick you.

00:05:46.860 You know the saying, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

00:05:53.320 The greatest trick left-wing activists ever pulled was convincing the world that they were not, in fact, activists, but fair and balanced journalists.

00:06:00.440 No, no.

00:06:01.680 Okay, now, you know that.

00:06:02.980 I know that.

00:06:04.660 I just want to remind you why Aaron O'Toole and Andrew Scheer lost.

00:06:08.380 And really, if you can't stand up to the news media in a campaign, what's to say you'd stand up to them once you were elected prime minister, if that were ever to happen?

00:06:18.320 Good riddance to those two.

00:06:20.520 And now Pierre Polyev comes to lead the party.

00:06:24.440 The race is not over yet, but I think it's easy to say Polyev will win. 0.76

00:06:28.920 He'd do the largest crowds.

00:06:30.020 He claims to have sold the most party memberships, over $300,000.

00:06:33.620 That could be puffery, but it's credible to me.

00:06:36.600 And his social media presence is large and strong.

00:06:39.940 You've got to love his little videos.

00:06:41.560 Did I show you this one he did about inflation?

00:06:44.060 Just can I take two minutes?

00:06:46.240 It's relevant to the story, actually.

00:06:47.920 Look at this video.

00:06:48.800 I love it.

00:06:49.320 So, just inflation has struck again.

00:06:51.820 We have the new inflation numbers up.

00:06:54.260 They're at a 40-year high, almost 8%.

00:06:57.200 Worst among the offending products is food.

00:07:00.920 Up, up, and away.

00:07:02.320 So, we're going to go find out how bad it is at my local grocer.

00:07:04.480 What can my bag of groceries tell you about inflation, or just inflation?

00:07:21.020 Numbers out today, 10% increase in food prices.

00:07:25.220 Let's go through the items and how much they've risen, one by one.

00:07:28.980 Eggs.

00:07:33.880 Tomatoes.

00:07:34.480 Lettuce.

00:07:42.040 Pasta.

00:07:42.880 I'm not going to try throwing this one up and down outside of the box.

00:07:50.840 Ground beef.

00:07:54.620 10% food price inflation in one year alone.

00:07:59.100 Why?

00:07:59.840 Trudeau has brought in a carbon tax that increases the cost for farmers and truckers

00:08:04.460 to produce and deliver the food that we eat.

00:08:06.800 Two, he's running monster deficits that he's paying for with printed money.

00:08:11.920 More dollars chasing fewer goods always equals higher prices for everything.

00:08:16.100 And three, government gatekeepers are driving up the cost of farmers to produce our foods and truckers to deliver, including the vaccine mandates, which means we have fewer truckers to deliver our food.

00:08:29.040 So what's the solution?

00:08:30.380 One, get rid of the Trudeau carbon tax to reduce the cost of everything.

00:08:35.180 Two, cap government spending through a pay-as-you-go law so that we can phase out the deficit and stop printing inflationary money.

00:08:42.380 And three, let's get rid of the government gatekeepers that are burdening our hard-working farmers so that they can produce affordable, safe food for all of us and get rid of all these mandates so our truckers can more affordably deliver that food to our local grocers.

00:08:57.940 That's just common sense.

00:09:01.280 Now, take back control of your life.

00:09:02.940 Let's make this the freest country on earth.

00:09:04.520 I thought that was great.

00:09:12.360 Over 100,000 views on Twitter alone, probably many more on YouTube and Facebook.

00:09:16.560 I didn't count.

00:09:17.680 Pollyup does these a lot. 1.00

00:09:18.780 They're clever and well done.

00:09:20.100 They're full of substance, though, aren't they?

00:09:22.300 They show he's a lively communicator, smart.

00:09:24.960 There's a sense of humor.

00:09:25.880 And he's the opposite of Trudeau, who, like Kamala Harris, insists on talking to you like you're a three-year-old.

00:09:34.960 So Pollyup goes straight to the people for free.

00:09:38.000 Those aren't paid ads, those little videos.

00:09:39.960 They're shared by real people, which is more valuable.

00:09:43.280 Pollyup has stopped going to Conservative Party of Canada debates.

00:09:46.840 Now, it's frustrating for journalists, including for me, but that's sort of the point.

00:09:50.300 Why bother having other candidates take pot shots at you? 0.73

00:09:53.480 And why bother letting the Rosemary Bartons of the world ask you fake gotcha questions? 0.99

00:09:59.340 I like those little videos that Pollyup does, but back to the media.

00:10:05.480 Pollyup has generally avoided them, and he has pushed back against them in a good way.

00:10:09.440 He's not as antagonistic or personally mean towards them as I've seen Maxime Bernier be,

00:10:14.980 but he's definitely tougher than any Conservative in recent memory, including Stephen Harper,

00:10:19.120 who had nine years to solve the CBC problem but didn't.

00:10:23.480 But here's what I'm so excited about today, and this is good news, and I'm not being sarcastic.

00:10:30.160 Came out of the blue a press release by Pierre Pollyup.

00:10:33.060 I didn't really understand what he was talking about.

00:10:35.280 He said,

00:10:35.760 And then a page long sentence.

00:10:53.500 Now, I'm going to read it, in part because it's long and I want to show you it's long.

00:10:58.760 It was about Pollyup walking with veteran James Topp, who walked across Canada to Ottawa in support of freedom.

00:11:07.060 It was part of the Trucker Rebellion.

00:11:08.460 I'm going to read it to you now, okay?

00:11:09.860 This is what he put out the other day.

00:11:11.260 Canadians' trust in the news media has reached an all-time low, and when we look at your coverage of these issues, it's easy to understand why.

00:11:19.160 Instead of just covering the news, unprofessional journalists like you try to set disingenuous traps to attack your opponents.

00:11:24.680 At every available opportunity, Pierre Pollyup has supported and will continue to support Canadians' right to restore their freedoms and take back control of their lives.

00:11:33.440 He has done this all while repeatedly calling for individuals who engage in illegal behavior to express heinous views to be held accountable for their actions.

00:11:44.020 Minister Pollyup has stated unequivocally that, quote,

00:11:46.360 Any and all racism is evil and must be stopped.

00:11:48.560 Since you insist on demonizing Canadians who dare to speak up against the Trudeau government, we can only assume that global news is content to be a liberal mouthpiece.

00:11:57.100 Minister Pollyup supported James Topp's singular cause of ending vaccine mandates so people can take back control of their lives.

00:12:03.780 Your tactic seems to be to demand, Pollyup, answer for all the words and deeds of not just everyone he has ever met, but also everyone they have ever met.

00:12:12.300 That amounts to guilt by multiple degrees of separation.

00:12:14.700 Mr. Pollyup meets and talks with thousands of people who meet and talk with thousands of people.

00:12:20.340 Each of those people is individually responsible for their own words and deeds.

00:12:23.880 For example, Mr. Pollyup has met with Justin Trudeau.

00:12:26.580 That does not make Mr. Pollyup responsible for Trudeau's many racist outbursts, including dressing up in racist costumes and mistreating visible minorities in his own party.

00:12:36.340 Mr. Pollyup will continue to stand up for everyday Canadians and won't apologize for doing so.

00:12:41.020 And what's a little bit weird there, you can tell, is it says you, you, you.

00:12:45.300 So this was written to a reporter, but put out on that Twitter feed without reference to the reporter, mentioned Global News.

00:12:51.200 It was a little unusual, wasn't that?

00:12:54.500 I read that and I wondered, who was he talking about?

00:12:58.380 He didn't say, but I liked it in that instead of answering the journalist, like a meek and submissive Andrew Scheer or Erin O'Toole would have done,

00:13:05.700 and he blasted her, even though he didn't mention her by name, which is slightly confusing to me.

00:13:10.320 I mean, why hide the identity? Why?

00:13:12.600 But no matter, soon enough, the journalist in question identified herself.

00:13:15.940 It's Rachel Gilmore of Global News.

00:13:17.720 We've talked about her before and her extreme bias. 0.90

00:13:20.780 And she said this in response to Pollyup.

00:13:22.760 She said, this statement, which I now realize was a yet-to-be-published press release, was sent to me in response to my request for comment two days ago.

00:13:31.720 If anyone is interested in the questions I asked his team, as well as the story itself, here's additional context.

00:13:37.940 And I'll just read it so you hear the whole story.

00:13:41.100 Pollyup's team sent this to me on Tuesday in response to my request for comment.

00:13:44.600 It read like a press release then.

00:13:47.900 I guess it was a press release.

00:13:50.300 Here are the questions I asked, which instead of answering, he replied to by calling me unprofessional.

00:13:54.860 Well, I think you are, sister.

00:13:57.840 Does Mr. Pollyup feel he has a responsibility to distance himself from movements that call for actions that violate Canadian law and the principles of our democracy?

00:14:06.300 Is that how you summarize the trucker rebellion?

00:14:08.980 Hey, did you ever ask Trudeau that about Black Lives Matter or Antifa?

00:14:17.160 Does he have concerns that his support of figures like Topp and his silence when Topp's ties to figures like McKenzie are revealed could be interpreted as endorsing such far-right views?

00:14:27.560 I don't even know who McKenzie is, but that really is what Pollyup said.

00:14:31.500 Multiple degrees of separation.

00:14:33.260 This is not journalism.

00:14:33.940 How does he respond to those criticizing his silence in relation to these far-right figureheads?

00:14:42.940 Does Mr. Pollyup condemn white supremacy and comments from Jeremy McKenzie, including that he'd like to watch gallows on Parliament Hill?

00:14:50.720 Now, you know that Pierre Pollyup's wife is a visible minority, right?

00:14:53.920 I've never had a politician publish an entire press release to call me unprofessional for asking questions, but I guess it's a first time for everything!

00:15:05.380 Now, are those fair questions?

00:15:07.100 No, they are not.

00:15:07.900 They're not real questions at all.

00:15:09.180 They're guilt by association, but they're just accusations with a question mark at the end of them.

00:15:13.440 Pollyup was literally just walking with a veteran on the street, and these questions were put to him.

00:15:19.580 Imagine a journalist playing that game with Justin Trudeau, with, say, Gian Gomeschi, the CBC liar who would punch girls in the face again and again on dates. 0.95

00:15:31.500 Or, frankly, Trudeau's former roommate, who was later convicted of being a sexual predator. 0.91

00:15:36.740 And, I mean, that's not really fair, but this sure is.

00:15:39.020 Trudeau and Jaspal Atwal, a convicted would-be assassin who tried to murder a cabinet minister in India while on vacation in B.C.

00:15:47.860 Trudeau actually took that convicted criminal with him back to India.

00:15:53.940 That's not even guilt by association.

00:15:55.660 That's why did you bring him?

00:15:58.740 So here's the story as it finally ran by Rachel Gilmore in Global News.

00:16:05.260 How close is too close to the far right?

00:16:07.580 Why some experts are worried about Canada's MPs.

00:16:10.900 That's not even a story.

00:16:12.160 It's a smear.

00:16:13.060 It's a fever dream in the media party.

00:16:14.940 Here's their style when reporting on liberals.

00:16:19.160 So I guess the first thing I should ask you is, are you feeling lucky?

00:16:22.480 The entire country wants to know.

00:16:25.240 What shampoo do you use?

00:16:28.380 What a disappointing answer this is going to be.

00:16:30.960 Whatever happens to be hanging around at the time.

00:16:34.640 Can you believe it?

00:16:35.480 It's so gross that the Conservative Party hired Tom Clark to moderate their leadership debate. 0.97

00:16:40.460 So gross.

00:16:40.900 Anyways, if it were Andrew Shearer or Aaron O'Toole, they would have responded to the smear with a sternly worded letter of apology to Global News.

00:16:50.760 But Polly have responded how I showed you with a letter saying he wasn't going to play their game.

00:16:55.700 Now, that is great news.

00:16:59.680 But even better is Global's hysterical reaction.

00:17:03.200 Now, I showed you Rachel Gilmore's reply. 0.97

00:17:06.300 But Gilmore is frankly just a silly partisan chatterbox, not a serious journalist. 0.92

00:17:11.160 She's not senior. 0.95

00:17:12.040 She's not well-known.

00:17:12.840 She's not well-respected.

00:17:14.300 A very junior person.

00:17:15.440 It's easy for a politician like Polly have to be at odds with her. 1.00

00:17:18.800 But what happened next is my favorite part of the story.

00:17:22.220 Absolutely the best part of the story.

00:17:24.360 All the media party came out to defend their gal.

00:17:28.720 I'm just going to read some of them.

00:17:30.000 TV host Cynthia Loyst.

00:17:32.140 This is terrifying, Canada.

00:17:34.280 Wake up.

00:17:35.600 Here's a Unifor activist.

00:17:37.340 The Unifor that controls most media in Canada, including global.

00:17:40.980 She said on Twitter, Pierre Polyev is going full Trump.

00:17:45.840 What kind of alternative universe are we living in when leadership candidates are cozying up to known alt-right figures and instead of denouncing hate, they attack journalists for asking valid questions.

00:17:57.000 I'm just going to read a bunch of these.

00:17:58.400 Here's another global news journalist on Twitter.

00:18:01.260 My colleague Rachel Gilmore is doing important work and you should follow her.

00:18:05.660 Yes, yes.

00:18:06.180 Very, very important work for the Liberal Party.

00:18:09.220 Here's another reporter.

00:18:10.160 Follow and support Rachel Gilmore.

00:18:12.760 Follow and support global news.

00:18:14.420 They always have and continue to ask important questions of a man who wants to be the prime minister.

00:18:18.960 Yeah, like what shampoo do you use?

00:18:21.000 Here's another reporter.

00:18:21.900 I'm just going through the reporters.

00:18:24.380 Perhaps we should all just ask Pierre Polyev these same questions.

00:18:28.580 Yeah, that's what you're doing, mate.

00:18:31.200 Here's another reporter.

00:18:32.100 Support Rachel Gilmore.

00:18:33.780 And here's another reporter.

00:18:36.120 The questions, all reasonable.

00:18:38.680 Sure they were.

00:18:39.480 Here's someone who works for the Hamilton Spectator and Toronto Star.

00:18:43.820 So Rachel Gilmore from Global asks important questions of the man who would be prime minister.

00:18:49.420 Instead of answering them, he says such questions are an attack and goes after Gilmore.

00:18:53.520 This is shades of the PPC, which often attacks reporters.

00:18:56.420 Keep on keeping on, Rachel.

00:19:01.380 She smoked them all out.

00:19:04.880 I mean, I'm going to stop there.

00:19:06.640 There are dozens.

00:19:07.560 They're not pretending that they're neutral or objective anymore, are they?

00:19:13.340 It's the media party versus the conservative party.

00:19:15.660 They're saying it.

00:19:16.500 They're admitting it.

00:19:17.120 It's like Rosemary Barton's disastrous lawsuit, which they lost, by the way.

00:19:21.340 But times 100 because they're all coming out.

00:19:23.640 They're all coming out to show their allegiance.

00:19:25.300 They're taking sides.

00:19:26.400 They're proving who they are.

00:19:28.020 There's no need to guess anymore.

00:19:29.740 They're not neutral like an umpire or a referee.

00:19:32.580 They're a player and they're telling you that.

00:19:34.480 They never come to challenge Trudeau this way. 1.00

00:19:36.920 Are you nuts? 0.94

00:19:37.640 He pays for their salary in many cases. 0.94

00:19:39.980 They never come to the aid of other reporters who are silenced like, oh, I don't know, Rebel News,

00:19:44.540 like our reporters who are not only banned from the parliamentary press gallery by Trudeau,

00:19:49.160 but are beat up or even shot like David Menzies and Alexa LaVoie.

00:19:53.140 Now, you see, it's because Rebel News is not part of their ideological movement,

00:20:19.080 so they don't care about this.

00:20:20.760 Now, I like what's going on here.

00:20:22.480 Peter Polyev pushed back a little, but anonymously, which was a little weird and a little weak,

00:20:27.160 but it was more than nothing.

00:20:29.620 And Global News' Rachel Gilmore went on the attack and the rest of the media from all companies,

00:20:36.760 because really, what's the difference between them?

00:20:38.940 They jumped in, too.

00:20:40.340 And here's why this is important and why this is good news.

00:20:44.620 It's good for the media to reveal themselves to the public, but it is better that they go to war

00:20:50.140 against Peter Polyev and that they hate each other.

00:20:52.700 And I mean hate on an emotional level.

00:20:56.700 That Polyev knows, in case he ever had a twinkle of a doubt, that they hate him and would kill him politically if they could. 0.96

00:21:05.480 That they would destroy him. 0.98

00:21:06.940 They want to destroy him. 0.96

00:21:07.900 They pledged to destroy him. 0.61

00:21:10.420 That he cannot go on their shows.

00:21:14.180 That he cannot woo them.

00:21:16.080 That he cannot win them over.

00:21:18.560 That every word they say to him is crooked, a trap, a trick, a lie, an entrapment.

00:21:23.160 He needs to know that, and he needs to be pushed away from them.

00:21:28.500 He needs to push back at them.

00:21:30.380 He needs to be separated from them.

00:21:31.940 He needs to not go to any cocktail receptions with them.

00:21:34.940 Not go out with them to the bar.

00:21:37.280 Not regard them as his friends.

00:21:38.840 He must know that they deeply despise him.

00:21:41.800 And the best he can ever hope to do is to avoid them and ignore them.

00:21:45.980 And that if they say something to him, that it is likely meant maliciously.

00:21:50.180 That, my friends, is the best and perhaps only way to ensure that Pierre Polyev keeps his beliefs intact.

00:21:59.260 Keeps his promises by absolutely burning any bridges of friendship and rapport with the media party.

00:22:04.580 For it is a false friendship and a false promise of support and love that made Andrew Scheer and Aaron O'Toole and every other sellout corrupt themselves.

00:22:15.680 I love Pierre Polyev's war against the media.

00:22:17.840 And more importantly, I love their declaration of war against him.

00:22:22.000 And I hope it only gets worse on both sides so he becomes numb to them, as most regular Canadians are numb to them, by the way.

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00:22:47.000 Hi, everyone.

00:22:48.000 Just a quick update for me.

00:22:50.000 I'm at the aftermath of the fire that broke out in this particular store called Picnic.

00:22:56.000 And as you know, Picnic is a company that is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

00:23:03.000 And there are speculations all out there suggesting so many different things.

00:23:08.000 The truth of the matter is we don't actually know what caused the fire.

00:23:11.000 Reports are saying, however, that it could be a battery because this grocery store or this Picnic grocery store uses electric vehicles to deliver groceries to citizens.

00:23:23.000 So that is the current speculation.

00:23:26.000 But I'm here at the scene and the devastation from the fire is unbelievable.

00:23:31.000 But remember, go to farmerrebellion.com.

00:23:35.000 It's very important you visit there.

00:23:37.000 We are currently updating everyone on the news that is happening to do with the Dutch farmer protests here in the Netherlands.

00:23:44.000 So please, farmerrebellion.com.

00:23:47.000 Visit there.

00:23:48.000 Keep yourselves updated.

00:23:49.000 Cheers.

00:23:50.000 Well, that is a video from our special project.

00:23:54.000 I don't know if you got an email from me over the weekend, but we have a team of three journalists in the Netherlands now.

00:24:01.000 And we're covering what we call the farmer rebellion.

00:24:05.000 We have a whole special website at farmerrebellion.com.

00:24:08.000 It's a compilation page of all our videos.

00:24:10.000 We've got three journalists over there because I think there's some connections or at least some thematic connections between the farmer rebellion in the Netherlands and the trucker rebellion in Canada.

00:24:23.000 In both cases, sort of grassroots, authentically, organically organized like it's not run by a political party.

00:24:31.000 It's just ordinary people saying we've had it with this globalist, top down, rights crushing government.

00:24:38.000 In the case of the truckers, it was forcing them to have vaccines to do their job as truckers in the Netherlands.

00:24:45.000 It's about shutting down their farms for some global warming or global pollution utopia scheme.

00:24:52.000 Very crazy.

00:24:54.000 And so we thought we'd better check it out because I simply do not trust the mainstream media as if the mainstream media were covering it at all other than perhaps to disparage it.

00:25:03.000 So we've got three journalists over there right now.

00:25:06.000 One from Canada, our friend Lincoln Jay, a freelancer joining us from the post-millennial who lives in Seattle.

00:25:13.000 Her name is Katie Davis Court.

00:25:15.000 And of course, our UK bureau chief, Lewis Brackpool, who joins us now via Skype from a lovely, lovely rural setting in the Netherlands.

00:25:27.000 Lewis, great to see. I'm jealous.

00:25:28.000 It looks like such a beautiful place you're in.

00:25:31.000 Tell me, first of all, where are you?

00:25:34.000 That's a great question.

00:25:36.000 I mean, I'll be honest, even if I did know where I was, I probably couldn't pronounce it.

00:25:40.000 So I don't want to even try and offend the Dutch people.

00:25:45.000 So I'll pass on that if you don't mind.

00:25:48.000 That's very true.

00:25:49.000 It's quite a unique language with unique sounds.

00:25:53.000 Yeah.

00:25:54.000 But you're based in Amsterdam and it's not a huge country, so you drive a couple hours.

00:25:59.000 And if I'm following your journeys, these protests are rather sporadic.

00:26:04.000 They come, they wait a few hours and then they go.

00:26:07.000 I saw, for example, you guys seeing a protest on a major highway where they broke out a barbecue and had like a barbecue in the middle of the highway for a few hours and they moved on.

00:26:17.000 You tell me, what's it like over there?

00:26:19.000 Who are these farmers and what are they protesting against?

00:26:23.000 Sure.

00:26:24.000 Well, to start with, this place, Netherlands, absolutely beautiful.

00:26:29.000 And everyone that we've spoken to has been so friendly and welcoming to us and the Rebel News team to come and report on these protests.

00:26:37.000 We've been heavily involved on the ground with farmers and supporters of the farmers who have simply had enough of this World Economic Forum policy.

00:26:49.000 I want to call it the tentacles of the World Economic Forum that are sort of investing Europe and the remainder of the world at the minute, where we actually met up with farmers and supporters recently.

00:27:00.000 One that you mentioned a blockade where we went on the A37, which is on its way to the German border.

00:27:08.000 And we followed this convoy and their plan was to block the traffic before heading into the German border.

00:27:16.000 And like you said, we were we blocked it.

00:27:19.000 Well, I say we they blocked it three times.

00:27:22.000 And on the third time, this was at night and they came prepared with duvets, with blankets and even with a set barbecue, which they started doing in the middle of the highway.

00:27:36.000 I've never seen anything before like that in my lifetime, but they are that passionate on supporting the farmers and this radical environmental policies that are really creeping in.

00:27:50.000 Hmm. You know, inflation is measured by a number of things with some bicyclists who just sped by you.

00:27:59.000 There's loads of bicycles here.

00:28:01.000 They love bicycles in Holland. It's almost it's almost a caricature. That's great. Good for.

00:28:06.000 Well, what a lovely place to bike that they spent and they're serious about it.

00:28:10.000 They went by quite a clip. Sorry to interrupt myself.

00:28:13.000 You know, inflation is typically a basket of goods.

00:28:17.000 And how much does it cost one month or one year compared to the next?

00:28:21.000 Obviously, gasoline is part of that basic foodstuffs, bread, milk, meat ahead of lettuce.

00:28:30.000 And because those are things you simply have to buy to live.

00:28:34.000 And the idea of artificially cracking down on farmers, taking farmland out of production, shutting down some of the most productive farms in Europe, in the world.

00:28:47.000 Like those those farmers in Holland are not marginal producers.

00:28:53.000 They are really one of the breadbaskets of Europe.

00:28:56.000 The idea of in the middle of a recession, sorry, in the middle of global inflation to take food out of production for some utopian environmental scheme is so diabolical.

00:29:09.000 It sounds like only something someone like Bill Gates would support it.

00:29:14.000 It almost sounds like it's deliberately evil or malicious.

00:29:18.000 Yeah, completely correct.

00:29:20.000 And it's hard to say or how to even say that it isn't almost by design, really, if I'm totally honest, because why would you do such a thing during a cost of living crisis?

00:29:34.000 A cost of food crisis and supply chain issues.

00:29:39.000 And they want to sort of take over 30 percent of the farmers land in order to combat nitrogen emissions, which I've never heard of that before, personally, and reducing fertilizers and all such things.

00:29:55.000 It's it's it's very it's strange.

00:29:58.000 But, you know, this is the World Economic Forum.

00:30:01.000 This is Mark Root, who's very in bed with these globalists who are looking to, of course, reset, as we know from their words.

00:30:11.000 And, yeah, it's a worrying time.

00:30:14.000 And the Dutch people are very much worried about not only the agricultural sector of the Netherlands, but their own livelihoods.

00:30:23.000 And of course, we know that there are some people that are still asleep, predominantly from the city areas.

00:30:29.000 But a lot of people in the rural areas are very awake to to what's going on.

00:30:34.000 Well, now, you've been in so many different places and I'm trying to keep up with you by going to the site.

00:30:40.000 And I joined you have a conference call twice a day with our team here in Canada.

00:30:45.000 So I think I know what you're up to.

00:30:47.000 But tell me, has there been one moment that was particularly interesting or particularly funny or or unusual that you'd like to share with viewers?

00:30:55.000 Was there a video clip that is was just a classic moment that you want to make sure our viewers see?

00:31:02.000 Yeah.

00:31:03.000 Well, definitely play the clip of the barbecue in the middle of the highway, because that is so unique.

00:31:09.000 I've never seen something like that.

00:31:10.000 Yeah.

00:31:11.000 Just, you know, we asked him, what is he making?

00:31:14.000 He said hamburgers and he had sausages on the side as well, making onions just in the middle of the highway, which is very unique.

00:31:23.000 Other other moments was Dutch farmers outside the provincial government building in a place called Leerwarden, which is in the Frisland area of Holland.

00:31:36.000 And they wanted to meet with local politicians to discuss their demands, but actually refused to give them time.

00:31:43.000 So they camped out outside of this provincial government building for two days and we went to meet them.

00:31:49.000 And we managed to get on film them talking backwards and forwards with the local politicians and said, if you do not meet our demands by Wednesday, he said, I think that the farmers will explode.

00:32:03.000 Is a quote from the, from the actual farmer.

00:32:06.000 So I think, I think there's still a lot more to come, if I'm totally honest.

00:32:11.000 All right, let's play a quick clip of that meeting that you just described. Here, take a look.

00:32:16.000 So you just had an exchange with the guys who, who are here at the government. Yeah.

00:32:33.000 Um, could you explain a bit to the viewers what the exchange was about and what has come to some sort of ultimatum here?

00:32:41.000 Uh, last week we were here, we have an exchange with the, uh, uh, politicians here, here.

00:32:47.000 They, the half of them didn't show up.

00:32:50.000 Right.

00:32:51.000 Now the man told it went a little bit wrong.

00:32:53.000 Right.

00:32:54.000 We came here yesterday, nobody showed up.

00:32:57.000 We're here today, nobody showed up.

00:33:00.000 We had only one chance left.

00:33:02.000 Next Wednesday, the 13th, then we go inside.

00:33:07.000 All the politicians has to be there, there, so we can make the point straight.

00:33:12.000 Right.

00:33:13.000 Because the, the, uh, that's the last day for the vacation for politicians.

00:33:17.000 Then they are two months gone.

00:33:19.000 Yeah.

00:33:20.000 And, um, and if the, if your demands are not met next Wednesday, if they don't give you the meeting, what do you think will happen?

00:33:28.000 I think the farmers will explode.

00:33:32.000 Right.

00:33:33.000 I think that that is gonna happen.

00:33:34.000 All right, Lewis, I know you're busy there.

00:33:36.000 You've got a lot of things going on.

00:33:37.000 In fact, I understand that you have an interview with an American news network called, uh, OAN, if I'm not mistaken.

00:33:44.000 I'm very glad to hear it.

00:33:46.000 Make sure you wave your rebel news flag.

00:33:48.000 But those are friendly guys at OAN and they're interested in these things.

00:33:51.000 They also followed our coverage during the trucker rebellion a few months ago.

00:33:55.000 Um, have you seen other journalists on the beat?

00:33:59.000 We know there was a Japanese journalist you guys bumped into, but have you seen anyone from the CBC or the BBC or the New York Times?

00:34:08.000 I mean, not, listen, it's a big country.

00:34:11.000 You wouldn't necessarily bump into them, but what do you make of the coverage so far of the farmer rebellion?

00:34:17.000 Is it, is it being given the coverage it deserves by the mainstream media?

00:34:23.000 Simple answer. No, uh, no, it hasn't. If I'm totally honest, the only other media outlet that has actually, uh, given some form of coverage is the Epoch Times, uh, that we've were around, but they didn't even ask questions to the farmers.

00:34:37.000 We were the only news outlet that stepped up and said, Hey, has the government actually given you a say?

00:34:43.000 Has the government actually been in contact with you? Because I believe, and I think a lot of people around the world believe this isn't just a local issue.

00:34:52.000 This is an international one. So, I mean, this is classic mainstream media. If they don't want you to see something, they won't show it.

00:35:00.000 Yeah. Well, the Epoch Times, I'm glad they're there. They, they're, uh, one of the good guys too. Um, and, and they're sort of contrarian, but you know, I fear that if all you got in the way of news was what the BBC or the CBC or the Toronto Star told you, you would not know what's truly going on.

00:35:18.000 And you would not know that these insane environmental policies, that's just all talk, talk, talk when they actually move from talk to action, it's devastating, not just to the economy and productivity, but to people's lives.

00:35:32.000 And that's one reason you guys are over there. It's, it's an interesting story. There's echoes of the trucker rebellion, but if it can happen in Holland, you're bloody well rights.

00:35:43.000 It can happen in Canada too, especially since our prime minister is so similar to their prime minister. They're both globalist, um, people who don't really care about local democratic sovereignty. Uh, they want to fit in with the jet set club.

00:35:59.000 I think that you're doing important work there. Give us one last word, uh, Lewis, uh, what do you plan to do in the next couple of days?

00:36:06.000 So because as you mentioned earlier, the protests are very sporadic around the country. We're keeping an eye and ears, uh, on the grounds to, uh, next protest that will be happening across the Netherlands, uh, especially in the Northern region, where it seems to be the most active in terms of protests.

00:36:26.000 So we're going to keep coverage over at farmer rebellion.com. So please, if you're watching, check out the website, go to there, you can help donate as well and keep our reports going. Uh, but we'll be constantly boots on the ground, going to all these different protests and speaking with the farmers to hear what they have to say because the mainstream media won't.

00:36:47.000 Right on Lewis. Well, I'm very jealous of that gorgeous countryside scene and it really is, um, a highway for bicycles. It's just such a hoot. And it's been many years since I've been in Holland, but that is a very Dutch thing. Take care of my friend. Give my regards to your colleagues, Katie and Lincoln and keep up the great reporting.

00:37:06.000 Thank you very much, Ezra. You take it easy.

00:37:09.000 All right. You too. There you have a Lewis Brackpool on the ground for us in Amsterdam or outside Amsterdam. The website is farmer rebellion.com. Stay with us more ahead.

00:37:31.000 Hey, what do you think about Lewis? Boy, that looked like a lot of fun. That little country pathway with the bikes whizzing by. I sort of wish I was there.

00:37:37.000 Trouble is I could fly there because unvaccinated people can get on planes in Canada again, but coming back to Canada, I'd be forced to a two week, uh, quarantine, which doesn't even make sense.

00:37:48.000 By the way, a year ago in Canada, quarantine, uh, for people, uh, was three days. Now it's 14 days. Contrudeau just wants to win his vendetta, be vengeful.

00:37:58.000 Um, I'm excited about Pierre Polyam. I like him. I like to see any journalists fighting with reporters and I'm glad that the conservative party is doing so.

00:38:06.000 And I, but like I said, much more importantly, I'm glad that the media party is declaring war on Polyev so publicly. I want them to hate him and vice versa.

00:38:16.000 That's the only chance we have of protecting him from them. That's our show for today until tomorrow.

00:38:22.000 On behalf of all of us here at rebel world headquarters, see you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:27.000 This is Lewis Brackpool for rebel news. And today I'm in an undisclosed location about to follow farmers and their supporters to the German border, where they plan to block the border between the Netherlands and Germany.

00:38:42.000 Now people are starting to turn up now waving the Netherlands flag upside down. As we know, it's a call to distress or if their country is in a kind of crisis, they would fly that upside down.

00:38:57.000 They also have the red bandanas, which show the support for the farmers. And there is a few people turned up already early and ready to hit the road to the German borders.

00:39:08.000 I'm going to be going around and asking people, why are they here? And why is this protest so important?

00:39:13.000 It's the WEF that was wants to have a whole world reset and we are the first one to pick out.

00:39:22.000 Do you think, do you think a lot of farmers know about the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset? 0.98

00:39:27.000 Yes, I know for sure because they already know that all the rules are bullshit.

00:39:33.000 Because I have a small child and I want her to know that it's the farmers that get the food on the table and the government is just wrong for doing this. 0.65

00:39:43.000 I think Europe is going to go down. Yes, and the civil war is going to start.

00:39:50.000 So we're currently sandwiched in a convoy of supporters for the farmers where they're making their way to the German border on the A37 with plans to, I believe, block the border.

00:40:14.000 Now you're probably wondering, how am I standing in the middle of a highway on the A37?

00:40:30.000 Let's take a look. Dutch farmer supporters have blocked it.

00:40:37.000 How do you feel, how do you think the Dutch government has treated the farmers?

00:40:46.000 No, they're not good. They're not good. It should be different.

00:40:52.000 Something needs to change? Yes, yes.

00:40:55.000 I think the farmers have to be more right.

00:40:59.000 They have to have more right. Yeah, they have to have more right.

00:41:02.000 So why are you here today specifically? We just want to go home. Yeah, we're stuck here. Yeah, by accident.

00:41:08.000 Yeah, by accident. We didn't know that this was going to happen. No, we didn't know.

00:41:12.000 We want to go home. But we understand. We understand.

00:41:17.000 If the police turn up to this blockade, what will happen? What is your next move?

00:41:25.000 It's what the police do. If they are, how do you say it, nice to us, we will talk with them.

00:41:32.000 But if they are going to fight with us, maybe we fight back. It's on to the police.

00:41:36.000 If they want to talk with us, then we talk and maybe we can go somewhere else.

00:41:41.000 But most of the time it's the police that go fight first.

00:41:45.000 I guess it's safe to say then that tensions are very high in the Netherlands right now?

00:41:49.000 Yes.

00:41:55.000 I think they're going to say that we can stay here for a little bit.

00:41:58.000 But he says it's dangerous behind the back of the queue.

00:42:03.000 Yes, because they're coming in with 110 speed. So it's dangerous.

00:42:09.000 And we said, yeah, then you have to put someone there with sirens on so they can see it.

00:42:14.000 Anything happens next then?

00:42:15.000 I don't know if we have to leave. I think we're going to leave because we don't want to fight.

00:42:19.000 We're just in peace with them and they're in peace with us. So it's okay.

00:42:23.000 There are good cops and there are bad cops and that's always, but they can always,

00:42:28.000 maybe these are the good cops and sometimes you have bad cops.

00:42:31.000 It's like how they come to us. If they come to us like this, then it's not good.

00:42:36.000 So we're heading back to the car now where we've been told that we are to follow a guy on the bike

00:42:42.000 where we were moving to another location.

00:42:46.000 The protesters are doing a slow drive across the highway. We're right in the thick of it.

00:42:59.000 And we're right at the front as well, to add. We have been driving for how long now?

00:43:05.000 Has it been 40 minutes?

00:43:07.000 We've been on the road in total following this convoy for probably the past two, three hours.

00:43:14.000 At this particular point since the last blockade, it's been about 40 minutes, I would say.

00:43:20.000 Yeah. And we've had cars pull up next to us, wave, beep, obviously waving the bandanas as well.

00:43:30.000 Waving back as well, which is cool. Thumbs up? Thumbs up? Comfy? Yeah. How long do you think you would stay here?

00:43:44.000 All night. All night? Fantastic.

00:44:00.000 Police have just arrived at the front of the blockade, so we're going to go and investigate and see what they're saying.

00:44:07.000 Of course, I don't know the Dutch language, so you might need to translate it.

00:44:11.000 But here we go. Let's keep the camera rolling and see what happens.

00:44:14.000 Could you explain what's happening right now?

00:44:17.000 We have to leave now. You have to leave?

00:44:19.000 Yes. We're going to come together with a group off the highway.

00:44:24.000 Okay. Yeah. Cool. So they shut it down? Yes.

00:44:27.000 How does that make you feel?

00:44:28.000 Sad, because they don't understand us. Right.

00:44:31.000 And that's very sad, but we've been here for a long time, and I think we made a good statement, and tomorrow we go again.

00:44:39.000 Tomorrow you go again? I don't stop until it's finished.

00:44:58.000 We've seen people preparing to stay here overnight, even though we've been told that this potentially is the final stop on the A37, the third blockade of the night.

00:45:15.000 But it goes to show they are prepared because they are so passionate because they want to support the farmers.

00:45:21.000 This has been Lewis Brackpool reporting for Rebel News in the Netherlands.

Rebel News Podcast - July 12, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The Media Party has decided to kill Pierre Poilievre. The good news is, I think he knows that.

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