Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ The PR campaign for the latest virus just dropped — I’m not impressed

00:00:00.120 Hello, my friends. You may have heard of a Greek letter called Omicron.

00:00:04.740 That's the new terrifying name for the latest scariant, or variant, of the virus.

00:00:10.880 They skipped over another Greek letter because it sounds too much like the name of the president of China.

00:00:16.380 So there's no politics here, folks. Don't worry about it.

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00:00:54.980 All right, here's today's show.

00:00:57.700 Tonight, the PR campaign for the latest virus just dropped.

00:01:16.520 I'm not impressed.

00:01:18.060 It's November 29th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:20.580 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:27.060 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:31.140 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:36.980 You know what PhD stands for, right?

00:01:45.140 Pilot, higher, and deeper. 0.76

00:01:47.760 I'm kidding. Sort of.

00:01:49.620 But it's mostly true.

00:01:51.360 PhD actually stands for Philosophiae Doctor.

00:01:56.100 Or Doctor of Philosophy in Latin.

00:01:57.780 There are brilliant PhDs.

00:02:00.360 If someone has a PhD in physics or math, that is one seriously smart person.

00:02:06.240 But these days, I'm sorry, you can get a PhD in anything.

00:02:10.120 I noticed that Jill Biden, the first lady, insists on being called doctor. 0.99

00:02:15.600 I looked up Jill Biden's doctoral thesis.

00:02:18.260 She's not an MD.

00:02:19.460 She's not a medical doctor.

00:02:21.520 Her PhD is in education.

00:02:23.380 I started reading her doctoral dissertation, her thesis, and I felt like I was reading a high school paper.

00:02:31.420 I know I'm going down a tangent here.

00:02:33.900 My monologue today is actually about the new Omicron variety of the virus.

00:02:39.020 Just in time to justify shutting down the world for Christmas.

00:02:42.360 Just in time to justify child vaccinations.

00:02:45.400 Just in time to make sure Pfizer makes its quarterly financial projections.

00:02:50.640 But here it is.

00:02:51.640 You've really got to let me read to you from Dr. Jill Biden's doctoral thesis.

00:02:57.080 It's called Student Retention at the Community College, Meeting Students' Needs.

00:03:02.920 I'm going to literally read to you from the beginning.

00:03:05.520 I want to show you what can get you a PhD in America these days.

00:03:09.500 I'm sure it's worse than Canada.

00:03:10.940 I'm not going to read the whole 80-page paper to you plus footnotes.

00:03:14.400 I want to read about a page of it to show you why you should never be impressed with a PhD

00:03:18.220 until you understand, are they an Albert Einstein PhD or, I don't know, a gender studies PhD?

00:03:26.500 Seriously.

00:03:27.420 Let me read just for one minute.

00:03:29.900 I'm not going to read the whole thing.

00:03:30.900 The community college classroom is unlike any other classroom in America.

00:03:38.400 Diversity rather than homogeneity is the norm. 0.88

00:03:41.860 In an average-sized class of 20 students at Delaware Tech, for example,

00:03:45.940 most of the seats will be filled with young students who have just graduated from high school.

00:03:51.060 The majority of these will be female. 0.87

00:03:54.120 At least five seats will be filled with middle-aged men and women who have lost their jobs due to downsizing and or outsourcing.

00:04:01.360 One or two seats will be filled with students who have graduated from a GED program.

00:04:06.540 Some seats will hold older women whose children have just entered college. 0.99

00:04:10.740 Now these women are taking the opportunity to earn college degrees themselves. 1.00

00:04:15.720 Three-quarters of the class will be Caucasian.

00:04:18.000 One-quarter of the class will be African-American.

00:04:19.680 One seat will hold a Latino, and the remaining seats will be filled with students of Asian descent or non-resident aliens.

00:04:26.520 At least one-quarter of the students will have children.

00:04:29.040 Most of them will be single mothers. 0.73

00:04:31.040 Some will be the first in their families to attend college.

00:04:33.960 Few will have taken honors courses in high school,

00:04:36.400 while many will have taken remedial courses, special education, or vocational training.

00:04:41.240 Almost two-thirds will be part-time students,

00:04:43.400 with the remaining one-third attending college on a full-time basis.

00:04:48.000 It goes on like that.

00:04:49.220 It just sort of blather, chit-chat like that for 80 pages.

00:04:54.740 That'll get you a PhD.

00:04:55.880 Let me read to you how this ends.

00:04:57.360 The voices of students, faculty, and advisors have been heard and recorded in this executive position paper.

00:05:06.060 Several themes regarding students' needs have emerged.

00:05:09.060 In the area of academia, faculty, students, and advisors all feel that students are underprepared for college.

00:05:15.500 A mandatory study skills course would help to remedy that problem.

00:05:19.940 In addition, better advisement must be implemented and practiced.

00:05:23.720 In the social realm, students need a place to gather in order to align themselves with other students and their institution.

00:05:31.380 In the psychological area, a psychologist must be hired to administer educational testing and offer counseling.

00:05:39.540 A wellness center could complete the holistic approach to meeting students' needs.

00:05:44.000 Delaware Tech has the capacity to be so much better than it is presently.

00:05:49.260 The key to student retention is a coordinated, cohesive effort by administration, faculty, staff, and students.

00:05:54.700 A student retention plan requires diligence and effort, but most of all, leadership.

00:06:01.060 That's the end of it.

00:06:04.520 And I can tell you that 79 pages in between was pretty much the same.

00:06:09.440 Imagine getting a PhD for that.

00:06:13.020 I'm sorry, you cannot have the same accreditation.

00:06:15.680 PhD.

00:06:17.080 Apply to Albert Einstein.

00:06:18.820 And to that, you just can't.

00:06:21.800 My point is, beware of experts, especially if someone says something like this.

00:06:27.120 So if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about.

00:06:32.760 But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there.

00:06:39.060 So it's easy to criticize.

00:06:41.140 But they're really criticizing science because I represent science.

00:06:46.960 You represent science, do you?

00:06:49.360 You do.

00:06:49.940 You are science personified.

00:06:52.180 I don't think that's how science works.

00:06:53.520 I think that's how a cult works, or a superstition, or a political campaign, but it is not science.

00:07:00.100 As Dr. Richard Feynman, a PhD who won a Nobel Prize in physics, by the way, for his PhD,

00:07:06.280 he said science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.

00:07:11.100 If someone says you can't criticize them, they are saying they do not believe in science.

00:07:16.840 In fact, he says that maybe people who criticize him ought to go to jail.

00:07:21.660 This is Fauci, the opposite of science.

00:07:24.560 Take a listen.

00:07:25.480 Senator Cruz told the attorney general you should be prosecuted.

00:07:28.640 Yeah.

00:07:30.640 I'd have to laugh at that.

00:07:33.580 I should be prosecuted.

00:07:35.700 What happened on January 6th, Senator?

00:07:37.740 So what do these PhDs say, these experts, who say you can't criticize them?

00:07:46.740 They say there is a new variant of the virus, and they've named it Omicron.

00:07:52.800 That's a Greek letter.

00:07:55.000 There was the Delta variant.

00:07:56.720 That's the Greek letter for D.

00:07:58.760 And like all viruses, they change, they mutate.

00:08:01.800 And what's odd is that they're still providing vaccines based on the first variant.

00:08:06.280 I find that odd, but they've moved through the Greek alphabet.

00:08:09.900 And the next letter was supposed to be Xi, which in English is spelled X-I.

00:08:18.940 But of course, X-I is also how you spell in English the name of the president of China,

00:08:25.260 even though he pronounced it Xi.

00:08:26.780 So X-I is a Greek letter, but it's also the name of the Chinese president.

00:08:32.060 So the experts, the scientists who aren't allowed to criticize, the PhD people,

00:08:38.080 they literally decided to skip the letter Xi because it would embarrass the president of China,

00:08:44.280 the country from which the virus came.

00:08:47.920 So this Omicron virus, what a laugh, was announced.

00:08:52.640 And almost immediately, it was found everywhere.

00:08:55.340 I wonder how that was even possible.

00:08:57.780 Again, I'm sorry to ask questions.

00:08:59.500 I'm more of a Feynman-style thinker than a Fauci-style thinker. 0.88

00:09:04.360 I ask questions, even if they're dumb questions,

00:09:06.620 because I think that's what journalism is about, asking questions, and science too, really.

00:09:11.280 So how did doctors around the world suddenly know that they had this Omicron scarient all at once?

00:09:17.320 Seriously, how did they know?

00:09:19.720 Did they have a special test to find it?

00:09:21.440 What was the test?

00:09:23.000 Or did they just decide that it was Omicron?

00:09:25.520 I'm open to an answer, by the way.

00:09:27.980 It's just quite something that this all went from announcement to fashion trend in about 48 hours.

00:09:34.340 Don't be left out.

00:09:35.180 Say you've got Omicron too.

00:09:36.800 Not just that, but politicians went into full panic mode immediately, altogether, almost as if on cue.

00:09:41.780 Israel, one of the most locked down and vaccinated places in the world, it's so vaxxed that if you only have two doses, 0.99

00:09:50.100 you're considered to be a dirty, unvaxxed person.

00:09:53.340 Israel has announced they are banning every single person from every single country around the world. 0.99

00:09:58.540 You can't fly to Israel.

00:09:59.560 Forget about the tourism industry.

00:10:01.500 Forget about people making pilgrimages in the Holy Land, or even just vacations.

00:10:05.020 Just play to people visiting family, doing business.

00:10:07.100 Imagine locking down your entire country like it's a prison.

00:10:12.400 Wasn't being super vaxxed supposed to end these lockdowns?

00:10:15.580 Not make them more extreme?

00:10:17.380 What's going on?

00:10:19.380 Same thing with Canada.

00:10:20.740 Trudeau told us that it was super duper racist to ban people from China last year.

00:10:26.880 So did Theresa Tam.

00:10:29.140 In 2020, they said anyone who was worried about the virus at all was really racist.

00:10:32.640 Now they're banning African countries from flying to Canada.

00:10:37.500 How does that work?

00:10:40.080 Of course, there is still a way for people from Africa to come to Canada.

00:10:44.520 Don't worry.

00:10:45.880 Just walk across Roxham Road.

00:10:48.320 Our own reporter Alexa Lavoie was there the other day.

00:10:51.400 And there is literally no one guarding the road.

00:10:54.340 If you are caught, you're released back into the country.

00:10:57.560 No two-week lockdown for you.

00:10:59.120 Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, he panicked like a cushion that bears the imprint of whoever

00:11:05.700 last sat upon him.

00:11:06.660 He called for more masks.

00:11:10.340 How does that even make sense?

00:11:11.560 Aren't the vaccines supposed to do it?

00:11:14.760 The measures that we're taking today, including on our borders and on face masks, are temporary

00:11:21.380 and precautionary.

00:11:23.020 And we will review them in three weeks.

00:11:27.220 At that point, we should have much greater information about the continuing effectiveness

00:11:33.120 of our vaccines.

00:11:34.520 I very much hope that we will find that we continue to be in a strong position and we

00:11:42.280 can lift these measures again.

00:11:44.360 But right now, this is the responsible course of action to slow down the seeding and the

00:11:50.060 spread of this new variant and to maximise our defences so that we protect the gains we've

00:11:58.300 worked for so hard and so that we can continue to save lives.

00:12:02.220 Joe Biden banned flights from Africa, too, but he waited until the weekend was over.

00:12:07.120 I guess that's science.

00:12:09.580 I mean, the virus was fine to come to America on Sunday, but not on Monday.

00:12:14.480 That's science.

00:12:15.760 Fauci was very excited by all this.

00:12:17.760 I mean, there are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet.

00:12:21.700 This could go on for quite a while.

00:12:23.780 But the thing is, the South Africans who discovered this new Omicron variant, they say it's actually

00:12:31.160 pretty easy going for a virus.

00:12:32.860 Here, listen to them.

00:12:33.860 Looking at the mildness of the symptoms that we are seeing, currently, there's no reason

00:12:40.440 for panicking as we don't see severely ill patients.

00:12:45.600 I also checked with the hospitals, some of the hospitals in my area, and one of the biggest

00:12:52.420 hospitals, they only have one patient currently that's COVID positive on a ventilator, and they

00:12:58.120 don't even know whether it's COVID, you know, it's Delta or whether it is Omicron related.

00:13:03.940 We acknowledge that it might change going forward.

00:13:07.100 But the hype that's been created currently out there in the media and worldwide doesn't

00:13:16.280 correlate with the clinical picture, and it doesn't warrant to just cut us off from any

00:13:26.480 traveling and ban South Africa as if we are the villains in the whole process. 0.51

00:13:32.320 It should not be like that.

00:13:34.400 Okay, that's encouraging.

00:13:35.460 I mean, they're not that worried, but they're a bit surprised that they're being banned from

00:13:40.900 traveling anywhere in the world.

00:13:43.400 The Democrats in the United States went nuts when Donald Trump bans people from several 0.79

00:13:48.440 terrorist-affiliated Muslim countries. 0.94

00:13:51.300 They called that a Muslim ban. 0.99

00:13:53.500 They went nuts when Trump banned flights from China. 0.85

00:13:57.460 They called that xenophobia. 0.97

00:14:00.700 Joe Biden called it racist to ban people from China, but now he's banning black people from 0.97

00:14:05.080 Africa. 0.92

00:14:06.340 I don't get it.

00:14:07.140 I like what Scott Adams had to say.

00:14:10.440 He said, is it too soon to call Omicron a vaccination?

00:14:15.320 Fact check.

00:14:16.360 Mild symptoms after getting it, followed by immunity.

00:14:19.440 Yeah, that sort of is.

00:14:21.300 There's something to that.

00:14:23.240 Natural immunity from a variant that doesn't make you very sick.

00:14:26.880 I think that's good news for Africa. 1.00

00:14:30.500 Bad news for Pfizer, which I think is why there has to be this fuss for Pfizer, not just

00:14:35.840 to sell vaccines into Africa, but to sell them to young children here in North America

00:14:40.160 and to Europe, too, and to get the boosters.

00:14:43.040 Kids as young as five now.

00:14:44.580 Well, it really will never end until we make it end.

00:14:50.420 Here's, what, 100,000 people in Michigan who decided they're done being scared by the

00:14:55.720 latest scariant.

00:14:56.800 They went to a football game instead.

00:14:58.020 That sounds more fun.

00:14:58.820 If that game were in Florida, though, there'd be nonstop condemnations of the governor,

00:15:04.420 but Michigan's governor is a Democrat, not a Republican.

00:15:08.920 In fact, Florida has the lowest rate of the virus these days, even though it has a very

00:15:12.860 old population.

00:15:14.460 It's had the lightest touch in government policies.

00:15:16.740 I wonder if there's a connection.

00:15:18.820 So which way is this all going to go?

00:15:20.440 The Fauci-Fizer way?

00:15:22.540 Perpetual cycles of fear and lockdowns?

00:15:24.860 Then teasing a little freedom, and then repeat?

00:15:28.820 Or the Florida way?

00:15:31.120 In Canada, I fear for the worst, because we don't have anyone in authority standing up, 0.90

00:15:37.180 not a soul, certainly not our cowardly conservative party.

00:15:43.420 I fear we're going the way of Ireland. 0.99

00:15:46.120 Just look at this poster.

00:15:48.280 Look at it carefully.

00:15:50.220 They say you need to get all of your boosters up to date on an ongoing basis, so there's no

00:15:55.620 end.

00:15:55.940 They say privileges will be granted to fully vaccinated people only.

00:16:00.600 Privileges.

00:16:01.280 You have no rights anymore.

00:16:03.260 It's all privileges.

00:16:05.060 And in case you've missed it, they have a helpful picture.

00:16:09.920 Six syringes and two check marks.

00:16:13.320 You have to keep filling it in.

00:16:15.720 Like, I don't know, when you used to get a card at a coffee shop, or the Subway sandwiches,

00:16:20.940 buy five, get a sixth for free, collect all your points.

00:16:27.600 They're doing that.

00:16:29.020 Six boosters.

00:16:31.100 It will never end, my friends, until you end it.

00:16:35.100 I think it starts by not being afraid, personally.

00:16:39.900 Like those Michiganders. 1.00

00:16:41.440 They went out for football.

00:16:42.360 They weren't afraid.

00:16:42.920 I think it continues by not being part of the mania.

00:16:46.880 Not being part of the enforcement.

00:16:49.040 Not actively agreeing or accepting this.

00:16:51.580 I think it means not becoming antagonistic, not looking for a conflict, but not being passive

00:16:59.000 in the face of conflict, either.

00:17:00.580 Not being a part of the evil.

00:17:03.400 Maybe even once in a while, saying something about it.

00:17:09.160 Stay with us for more.

00:17:10.240 Well, you know, the game show called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Regis Philbin, was one

00:17:28.220 of the early hosts.

00:17:28.920 It was popular for a while, and it implies that being a millionaire is something pretty

00:17:33.880 special.

00:17:34.680 But what happens with hyperinflation when you literally have, as has been seen in Weimar,

00:17:41.520 Germany, or in Venezuela, or other places, what when you have actual million-dollar bills?

00:17:48.620 In some places in Africa, money was so devalued that they weighed it.

00:17:53.320 They literally put it on a scale.

00:17:56.080 They had to lop off six zeros to make sense of it.

00:17:59.660 Even Israel, for a while, had hyperinflation.

00:18:02.520 So, who wants to be a millionaire?

00:18:04.880 Well, the answer is, not me, if a millionaire only buys you a can of Coke.

00:18:10.880 Joining us now via Skype from Winnipeg is our friend Spencer Fernando, the boss of SpencerFernando.com.

00:18:18.080 Spencer, I'm not saying we're on the brink of hyperinflation, but my God, all the elements

00:18:24.100 are aligning for that to happen.

00:18:26.180 But why don't you tell me what the warning signs are for the kind of inflation Canada

00:18:32.340 is experiencing and could be about to experience?

00:18:37.980 Well, yeah.

00:18:38.640 One thing to watch out for is when you see, you know, a period of when the economy should

00:18:44.600 be doing very badly, and then the government starts printing a bunch of money and distributing

00:18:48.800 it everywhere.

00:18:49.340 You'll actually see the economy look like it's doing very well for a short period of

00:18:53.180 time.

00:18:54.180 And part of the reason is people start to feel like, okay, you know, it looks like the

00:18:57.840 value of my money is kind of eroding, right?

00:18:59.840 So, I better spend it as quickly as I can, because the longer I wait, you know, the less

00:19:04.520 it's worth.

00:19:05.520 So, you'll see a large surge in spending, and it looks like the economy is booming.

00:19:10.380 There's a lot of consumption.

00:19:11.420 Lots of things are happening.

00:19:12.960 And then, obviously, that ends up leading to some serious problems, because once that initial

00:19:17.620 burst of spending goes away, you're left to see what the economy looks like.

00:19:22.120 And so, I think I'd be very, you know, wary of the Liberals trying to do that, trying to

00:19:25.500 make it look like the economy is going to be very well.

00:19:28.100 It's distributing square, thinking that's going to turn out.

00:19:31.460 I think one of the things that worries a lot of Canadians, at least in big cities like Toronto

00:19:37.000 and Vancouver and other cities to a smaller extent, is the cost of housing.

00:19:42.420 And I think that there's two problems here.

00:19:44.660 First of all, if you have inflation, interest rates could be going up.

00:19:50.500 And at the same time, the price of housing is going up, you know, just in terms of absolute

00:19:56.240 dollar amounts.

00:19:57.800 I suppose that could be a benefit to someone who owns their own home, I suppose.

00:20:03.480 I don't know how that plays out.

00:20:05.580 If interest rates start going up and money starts becoming less valuable, I think that

00:20:10.240 could put people underwater, right?

00:20:11.600 Is that how that works?

00:20:12.320 People can no longer afford to pay their mortgages and they get in a pickle?

00:20:17.220 Well, yeah.

00:20:17.800 I mean, you have a lot of people also who borrowed against the value of their home.

00:20:21.140 A lot of people have used, they've, you know, borrowed, they've gone into debt and then tried

00:20:25.620 to invest in the housing market, right?

00:20:27.220 And so, if home values start to decline, then people get in real trouble.

00:20:31.440 The other problem, too, of course, is that, you know, it's a sign of serious inflation

00:20:35.900 problems when you see something like housing surge so much in a year, right?

00:20:39.300 Because what you're not really seeing, it's not that houses are really getting more valuable.

00:20:42.760 It's that each individual unit of money is getting much less value.

00:20:46.400 So, houses are, you know, they're fixed assets.

00:20:48.580 You can't just create a whole bunch of houses in one year and massively inflate the housing

00:20:52.560 supply.

00:20:53.400 So, it's something that's relatively stable in supply year over year.

00:20:57.200 And that's how you can tell that money is declining in value very dramatically.

00:21:00.640 I mean, they're trying to tell people the inflation rate is, what, 4.7%, but housing is up, what,

00:21:05.540 30% in a year?

00:21:07.140 And in a year when the economy should have been struggling, right?

00:21:09.720 I mean, we're not talking about it's been an economic boom for years, so we're expecting

00:21:13.860 housing prices to be very high.

00:21:16.780 In a normal market, you would have expected housing to have been down over the past two

00:21:20.960 years, and obviously, that's not what happened.

00:21:22.820 So, I think that's another warning sign of inflation and massive money printing is that things that are

00:21:27.360 fixed in quantity, or at least relatively stable in quantity, start going up dramatically in

00:21:32.820 price.

00:21:33.700 I want to point to a chart.

00:21:35.220 I'm looking at your latest essay, The Throne Speech, Justin Trudeau's brilliant plan to

00:21:39.980 fix surging inflation by spending a bunch of money.

00:21:43.200 Of course, that's like putting out a fire by spraying it with kerosene.

00:21:46.480 But you've got a chart on there.

00:21:48.240 The source of the data is Bloomberg.

00:21:50.500 It's from Crescat Capital, LLC.

00:21:53.800 And it shows, it's entitled Central Bank Assets Growth, Balance Sheet Assets to Nominal GDP.

00:22:03.100 And I don't want to get too technical, but the reason this chart is interesting to me

00:22:07.300 is it shows what other banks around the world are doing, what the U.S. Federal Reserve is

00:22:12.180 doing, what Japan is doing, what the Europeans are doing.

00:22:15.320 So, it's, you know, are we, if we're going mad, well, is the whole world going mad too?

00:22:20.540 Are we at least with the herd?

00:22:23.220 I mean, a lot of countries did some pretty dramatic things to get through the year of

00:22:27.780 the pandemic, but we're pretty much through that now.

00:22:31.920 And this graph shows that Canada is triple, quadruple, quintuple as insane, out-of-control

00:22:43.180 printing money as basically anybody else.

00:22:46.420 It's like, we really, like, when I started off by talking about Weimar Germany or Argentina,

00:22:50.320 those are the worst cases in the world for inflation.

00:22:55.720 This chart is bloody terrifying.

00:22:58.540 It looks like something that Argentina would do.

00:23:02.300 Yeah, I mean, the U.S. is probably catching up under the Biden administration, right?

00:23:06.800 I mean, I think it was Kamala Harris said, oh, the $1.2 trillion infrastructure program cost

00:23:13.280 taxpayers, the penny of the cent, right?

00:23:17.000 Obviously, people are going to pay for it one way or another.

00:23:19.940 But, yeah, I mean, the printing of money in Canada is excessive.

00:23:24.080 And in addition, you look at the pandemic support programs, those are supposed to be emergency

00:23:29.520 programs.

00:23:30.280 The publics have extended some of them again.

00:23:31.980 So every time there's a problem in the country, they seem to just think, okay, we'll just

00:23:38.540 pour money and throw money at the problem.

00:23:42.060 And if you keep doing that, obviously, you keep valuing your goods.

00:23:44.840 You have more money, at least in fewer goods.

00:23:47.260 So obviously, the price of goods is going to go up.

00:23:49.620 And I think that's something people really need to understand about inflation.

00:23:52.520 You know, people feel like, oh, if businesses are raising prices on them, that's not really

00:23:56.400 what's happening, that your money is being robbed of value, your time and your effort is

00:24:00.740 being robbed of value, your purchasing power is being taken away from you.

00:24:04.400 And then when you go to buy something, it looks like the price has gone up because your money

00:24:09.200 is not worth as much.

00:24:10.300 So I think people really need to understand that.

00:24:12.200 You know, governments obviously want people to blame all the evil capitalists, the big

00:24:16.200 businesses are punishing everybody with price increases.

00:24:19.360 But really, it's the government that's causing the problem.

00:24:22.580 So, I mean, I'm not looking to you for financial advice.

00:24:25.340 Yes, I know that's not your profession, but it sounds like you're sort of bearish on the

00:24:30.700 Canadian dollar.

00:24:32.180 Do you think that people are going to flee these currencies which are manipulatable by

00:24:38.220 politicians into something like Bitcoin?

00:24:41.880 I mean, the criticism of Bitcoin is, well, what's beneath it?

00:24:44.460 How can you trust it?

00:24:45.580 What does it represent?

00:24:46.720 Can it be pumped up by, you know, manipulations?

00:24:51.860 Every one of those criticisms I've just listed, I think, could be said about Canadian currency

00:24:57.500 too, and even worse.

00:24:59.020 Do you think people are going to get out of Canadian dollars and try and get into things

00:25:04.100 that governments can't meddle with, like Bitcoin?

00:25:07.580 Yeah, I certainly think you're going to see a lot more of that.

00:25:09.960 I mean, you know, people talk about Bitcoin, you know, who controls it?

00:25:13.280 Well, that's kind of the idea, right?

00:25:14.640 Nobody controls it directly.

00:25:16.360 There's no central authority that decides, you know, to manipulate Bitcoin, right?

00:25:20.840 I mean, there can only be 21 million of them, you know, ever.

00:25:24.560 So it's got scarcity, just like gold.

00:25:26.900 Gold is in some ways less scarce because you can still find more of it.

00:25:30.120 But the supply of gold doesn't go up that much.

00:25:32.100 And so that's what's interesting.

00:25:33.100 You see, people are going to look at things like gold, silver, Bitcoin, all things that

00:25:37.000 are relatively stable in value or stable in supply.

00:25:40.640 And that's how you can really see how your money is being eroded.

00:25:43.960 And you talk about, you know, who can manipulate currency.

00:25:46.220 I mean, there's an unlimited potential supply of Canadian dollars.

00:25:50.100 It can be created at the whim of, you know, the head of the Bank of Canada.

00:25:54.160 And it can be created, or at least there can be pressure for it to be created by governments

00:25:59.600 like the Trudeau government just running massive deficits.

00:26:02.260 And then the Bank of Canada often feels obliged to, you know, finance those deficits.

00:26:06.480 So people are worried about manipulation.

00:26:08.940 Yeah, you should be worried about the Canadian dollar, worried about central banks and fiat

00:26:13.380 currency.

00:26:14.220 I wouldn't be worried about crypto being manipulated.

00:26:16.320 I'd worry about our supposedly sound and responsible governments, you know, screwing over the value

00:26:22.680 of money.

00:26:24.100 Yeah, and never forget that George Soros made one of his most spectacular fortunes by betting

00:26:30.580 against the British pound and breaking the Bank of England.

00:26:33.740 Very terrifying.

00:26:34.740 It wouldn't surprise me that vultures like that are circling.

00:26:37.060 That was how he made his big breakthrough.

00:26:38.880 Now he's got even more capital at his disposal.

00:26:42.060 Well, I will try and understand this file more in the months ahead because I get the

00:26:45.360 feeling that we are returning to that dark 70s feeling of stagflation, stagnating economy,

00:26:54.100 inflation, malaise in foreign policy.

00:26:56.800 It is unhappy.

00:26:58.280 It's a reminder of Pierre Trudeau, Jimmy Carter days, and I'm afraid we're re-entering them.

00:27:03.700 Spencer, it's great to see you again.

00:27:04.720 Thanks for your time today.

00:27:05.600 Yeah, no problem.

00:27:07.380 All right.

00:27:07.720 There you have it.

00:27:08.120 Spencer Fernando from spencerfernando.com.

00:27:10.680 I really encourage you to sign up on his website for his regular email.

00:27:15.020 Stay with us.

00:27:15.700 More ahead.

00:27:16.100 Hey, welcome back.

00:27:29.380 Your letters.

00:27:29.940 Fortu Nisko says, where is the court's opinion that provided the legal reasoning that the

00:27:37.040 quarantine hotels are not actual places of confinement?

00:27:40.560 Would like to read it all.

00:27:42.720 Well, it was the ruling by no one less than the chief judge of the federal court of appeal.

00:27:47.400 So if you go to the federal court website and you can search for it, the plaintiff included Rebel News and Kian Bextear, employee at the time.

00:27:58.620 So if you go to the federal court of Canada and then click on decisions, you can search for it.

00:28:07.000 I think the key word to search for would be Rebel or Kian. 0.99

00:28:10.060 And in the ruling, the judge said it's not a detention at all, let alone a detention that we have to just that we can justify.

00:28:20.560 You know, the charter works.

00:28:21.980 It's sort of a two step process.

00:28:23.920 The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees us a list of freedoms.

00:28:27.660 But there's that wiggle room that says you can infringe them if you meet certain tests.

00:28:35.440 So step one is, did the government infringe your freedom?

00:28:40.960 Step two is, was that infringement reasonably justifiable in a free and democratic society?

00:28:48.200 That's the wording.

00:28:49.920 So normally, everything the government does to you is a kind of infringement.

00:28:54.820 The battle is, is it reasonable in a free and democratic society?

00:29:00.260 The judge in that court case said, it's not even an infringement.

00:29:04.900 It's not even a detention.

00:29:06.920 We don't even have to justify it because it's not a detention.

00:29:10.680 I find that madness.

00:29:11.820 And I should tell you that we're appealing.

00:29:14.960 Char West says, congrats to Rebel News once again.

00:29:18.940 No one works harder for the freedom of speech than your media outlet.

00:29:22.640 Thank you.

00:29:23.100 Thank you to the judge from Canadians.

00:29:26.780 I was very pleased with that.

00:29:28.780 We had excellent lawyers in the court.

00:29:30.740 And you do have to give credit to the three men themselves who are under enormous pressure

00:29:35.380 from the government, from police, from the community.

00:29:40.320 And it's men like that.

00:29:42.420 And obviously, women who are battling too, our key lawyer for Arthur Pawlowski is a great lawyer 0.93

00:29:48.500 from Calgary named Sarah Miller.

00:29:50.340 It is rare to have that kind of courage to dissent.

00:29:53.240 And we've got a lot of friends like that.

00:29:56.180 Baltazar Gapka says, funny, for the first time in history, the ineffectiveness of a medicine

00:30:02.100 is being blamed on those who refuse to take it.

00:30:05.740 Yeah, you're talking about vaccines.

00:30:07.380 I'm just boggled by Israel. 0.99

00:30:11.340 I mean, I've been to Israel a few times.

00:30:12.600 I'm Jewish myself.

00:30:13.320 I have some affinity for the country.

00:30:15.180 And they've super jabbed that place.

00:30:18.300 It's got to be one of the most vaccinated places in the world.

00:30:20.740 And now the Omicron virus is named.

00:30:23.580 And it's specifically mild.

00:30:26.240 And they lock the whole place down.

00:30:28.220 I don't know what's going on in Israel.

00:30:29.780 It makes me very uncomfortable as someone who's affectionate towards that country.

00:30:33.760 And I see similar overreactions all around the world.

00:30:37.800 It's almost as if the worse the vaccines perform, the more they're being forced on people.

00:30:43.420 It's almost as if the timing here was to buttress calls for more jabs against children in Canada.

00:30:49.060 That's how I feel Trudeau's reaction is.

00:30:51.520 I don't know.

00:30:51.980 I don't think you're allowed to ask those questions anymore, are you?

00:30:55.740 Or Anthony Fauci will say you're attacking science itself.

00:31:00.080 Well, that's our show for the day.

00:31:01.160 It's great to be back.

00:31:01.820 Nice to see you again.

00:31:03.340 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.

00:31:07.320 Good night.

00:31:08.440 Keep fighting for freedom.

00:31:10.020 And let me leave you with a video from the United Kingdom,

00:31:12.820 where our own Louis Brackwell interviews someone from within their health system.

00:31:17.940 Take a look at this.

00:31:18.680 What would be your message to other nurses, doctors, or any other worker from the NHS who feel like they can't speak out about this subject?

00:31:29.340 What would be your message?

00:31:30.360 Start speaking out.

00:31:31.780 Start forming groups and support networks.

00:31:34.220 Having considered the consultation responses, the advice of my officials and NHS leaders, including the chief executive of the NHS,

00:31:48.400 I have concluded that all those working in the NHS and social care will have to be vaccinated.

00:31:55.740 I encourage NHS workers and care workers who do not want to get the vaccine to reach out and tell your story.

00:32:04.580 Your anonymity is extremely protected with us at Rebel News.

00:32:09.940 So please get in touch and enjoy the report.

00:32:13.220 So in recent light of the vaccination regulations for NHS workers, where potentially over 100,000 workers from the NHS won't be allowed to keep their jobs by April 2022,

00:32:29.240 this regulation is going to be affecting lots and lots of different types of NHS workers.

00:32:35.000 I have with me an occupational therapist who works at the NHS to give their side of the story.

00:32:44.360 Thank you very much for taking the time out to speak to me today.

00:32:48.040 It's really great to have you on.

00:32:50.560 First question, how are you feeling about this regulation and how is this going to impact you?

00:32:56.080 I'm very looking down at the moment and I felt like this was coming for a long time, especially since they announced it for the care workers.

00:33:04.180 I thought NHS would definitely be next.

00:33:07.640 So I have been expecting it, but that doesn't make it any easier to face.

00:33:11.800 I actually work in the community rather than a hospital.

00:33:15.660 So I kind of see things from a different side.

00:33:18.340 But as of today, I am no longer allowed to go into care homes.

00:33:22.360 So that is really affecting my job, my team.

00:33:26.920 There's actually a couple of us in my team who don't want the vaccination for different reasons.

00:33:33.780 And obviously we're a very small team, so that is really going to impact community service.

00:33:38.380 I don't know what to do because obviously my own personal mental health is being negatively affected by this.

00:33:45.580 I feel like they're almost using this over the winter to get through what's probably going to be a really difficult winter,

00:33:51.840 which it always is, and then potentially face this happening for when things close and down a bit.

00:33:57.380 I'm guessing there's many of your colleagues who are in fear of speaking out.

00:34:01.760 Is that correct?

00:34:02.720 Yeah.

00:34:03.240 I know a couple of people who are in a similar situation to me, but it's really hard to kind of,

00:34:08.840 especially in my NHS, find people who are similar to me.

00:34:14.400 I can't exactly kind of put anything out on the trust email to say how we get a group together or anything.

00:34:20.820 So that's hard.

00:34:22.280 So there's only like a person in my team who's in a similar position and friends who I've previously worked with or went to uni with.

00:34:29.460 I'm guessing there's no union or any sort of protection that would be far in your corner for this.

00:34:34.520 No, so I'm part of UNISIN and I believe that UNISIN hasn't been great throughout the whole care workers situation.

00:34:42.320 But I do know that they can't lose 100,000 staff.

00:34:45.420 So the NHS will just fall to its knees and that's the thing, is that the government's intention.

00:34:52.100 Do they want to privatise it through the back door essentially without it being as obvious?

00:34:56.840 I don't know.

00:34:57.200 We obviously had a brief discussion about nurses being used over the winter period when it's obviously the NHS's busiest time.

00:35:05.820 Do you feel used and do your colleagues feel completely used?

00:35:09.760 I feel used, yes, because I know that I am a good worker.

00:35:13.320 I've always, I've never taken a nick with my daughter.

00:35:16.180 I've always, you know, I know I'm a good worker, which is what really annoys me to be honest.

00:35:21.900 And I am thinking about going off on sick leave at some point because I don't want to be used.

00:35:29.420 I don't want to be taken for a ride essentially.

00:35:32.840 I know a couple of colleagues in the same position are going to do the same, which essentially is similarly to your next death in a poor position.

00:35:41.760 But I don't want to produce it like that as a human being.

00:35:44.580 I think mental health is definitely more important than a job at the end of the day.

00:35:49.180 And what would be your message to other nurses, doctors or any other worker from the NHS who feel like they can't speak out about this subject?

00:35:59.660 What would be your message?

00:36:00.680 Start speaking out, start forming groups and support networks and hold the lines actually, just wait that out.

00:36:08.140 Could you explain to me the situation about waiting lists?

00:36:11.440 I know we had a previous conversation about this off camera.

00:36:14.700 Could you please give your verdict on the seriousness of this situation?

00:36:18.860 Yeah, it was a serious situation in pre-pandemic.

00:36:23.360 Our community therapy waiting list was about 60 to 70 patients.

00:36:29.380 When the pandemic kicked off, we were told to start seeing community patients.

00:36:34.000 And we were kind of on standby for the hospital.

00:36:37.580 We were never needed.

00:36:39.220 We were sat on a phone line for six months.

00:36:41.940 Didn't really do a lot.

00:36:42.960 I kind of picked up a bit of a fuss and said, look, I don't feel I'm being utilised.

00:36:47.760 There's a very place that should be out there in the community, seeing patients.

00:36:51.320 I know it's kind of pushed back.

00:36:53.480 And eventually we just started our community patients again.

00:36:57.300 And now we've got a waiting list of over 300 patients.

00:37:01.100 A lot of these patients have deteriorated on their mental health because a lot of them are scared to leave in the house.

00:37:10.120 For six months, they didn't leave the house.

00:37:12.220 Their mobility has reduced.

00:37:14.080 It's had a massive impact on patients like elderly people's abilities to function.

00:37:20.220 And these waiting lists are just going to keep increasing and increasing.

00:37:23.840 So to then say, oh, we're going to fire 100,000 staff if they don't have the data, doesn't make sense.

00:37:28.880 And to me, that's going to impact patient safety massively.

00:37:32.740 And the question really is, is it sustainable?

00:37:35.940 No.

00:37:36.800 No.

00:37:37.280 If that many people are zapped or leave the jobs in the next few months, then the NHS is going to completely fail, which is really sad.

00:37:50.220 Thank you very much.

00:38:20.220 Thank you.

00:38:21.220 Thank you.

00:38:22.220 Thank you.

00:38:23.220 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - November 30, 2021

EZRA LEVANT ｜ The PR campaign for the latest virus just dropped — I’m not impressed

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