Rebel News Podcast - December 02, 2021


EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trudeau's CBC state broadcaster decides that there are 18 words you shouldn't say anymore

Topics
first world problem Vaccine Mandates & protests in Italy
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Ezra Justin Trudeau Brie Dale Priscilla Kisun Huang Rex Murphy Jaskara Consulting Abraham Lincoln Conrad Black Joseph Smith Stephanie Jinx Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Harry Potter Alfonso Liberty Mark Twain Mark Lozano Ryan Long Mississauga Shakespeare and 9 more
EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m worried about our freedom to say what we mean online. I’ll give you two new facts to consider. EZRA LEVANT ｜ Germany falls backwards and announces a fascist new policy towards an “unclean” minority

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Ezra Levant is back with a new segment on the Ezra Levant Show, and he's here to talk about it. First, Ezra explains why he doesn't read the National Post anymore. Then, he talks about the new ban on the use of 18 words, and why he thinks it's a good idea to ban them.

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, Trudeau's CBC State broadcaster decides that there are 18 words you shouldn't say anymore.
00:00:06.480 It's December 1st, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:11.060 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:00:14.840 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:00:18.920 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:00:30.000 I don't read the National Post newspaper that much anymore.
00:00:32.960 They take $140,000 a week from Justin Trudeau, and it shows.
00:00:37.460 I should tell you, they look down their nose at us, at least some of them do,
00:00:41.540 but they've been stealing our stuff for years, literally going on the Internet,
00:00:45.900 taking our Rebel News videos and our pictures, taking our logo off of them,
00:00:50.880 putting their logo on them, and then publishing it and selling ads on it.
00:00:56.520 It's their own work.
00:00:57.820 I finally sued them for doing that, and they admitted in court to everything,
00:01:02.360 and they actually apologized, so I let them go.
00:01:04.800 Here's their letter, confessing, really, and apologizing.
00:01:09.200 I just thought that whole thing was weird.
00:01:11.420 They say they don't like our work, but they like our work enough to steal it and claim it as their work.
00:01:17.660 It's pretty weird, isn't it?
00:01:19.060 I think that's unethical, and they pretty much admitted to everything we said they did.
00:01:23.980 I still like Conrad Black, of course, and Rex Murphy, of course.
00:01:28.680 Maybe those are two reasons to keep reading the National Post.
00:01:32.940 Most of the rest of the time, it's the same as any other media party newspaper.
00:01:37.000 Never forget, the majority of reporters at the National Post signed a petition
00:01:41.360 to fire Rex Murphy from the newspaper because he dared to say in an opinion column
00:01:47.460 that in his opinion, Canada is not inherently racist. 0.66
00:01:53.360 So, the majority of the people writing for that newspaper are like as kooky as 0.98
00:01:59.640 NDP or Green Party extremists cancel culture losers. 0.99
00:02:03.340 That's a fact.
00:02:05.480 It goes to the old rule, personnel is policy.
00:02:08.320 If you are a conservative newspaper, but you hire a bunch of cancel culture woke leftists,
00:02:14.580 year after year, sorry, you're not going to be a conservative newspaper very long.
00:02:19.940 I hope Rex Murphy and Conrad Black live to be 120,
00:02:22.800 but the National Post is doomed by its own hiring decisions.
00:02:26.980 What a shame.
00:02:27.380 That all said, it's a long preamble, but I have to give that Trudeau bailout newspaper credit today
00:02:35.900 because the National Post actually nailed it today.
00:02:39.300 Here's their front page.
00:02:40.360 Take a look.
00:02:42.520 Look at that story in the middle.
00:02:44.820 CBC's brainstorm of first world problems is to blindside everyday English by savaging us as intolerant
00:02:51.340 if we use a blacklist of allegedly tone-deaf words that we shouldn't grandfather into the lexicon.
00:02:57.060 How lame.
00:02:59.200 Now, that's a bit of a weird sentence, isn't it?
00:03:00.900 It's like, you know that phrase, the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog?
00:03:05.180 Do you know that?
00:03:06.060 That's a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet.
00:03:09.220 So, it's fun and it's to practice typing, right?
00:03:11.980 Well, that weird sentence on the front page of the National Post, as you can sort of tell in red,
00:03:18.360 uses 10 of the 18 words the CBC says should be banned.
00:03:24.200 Seriously, that's the story.
00:03:26.320 Here's the tweet by CBC News.
00:03:28.240 I love that part in CBC News.
00:03:30.660 This is the news, people.
00:03:32.740 This is not opinion.
00:03:33.920 This is news.
00:03:37.960 Have you ever casually used the terms spirit animal, first world problem, or spooky?
00:03:43.120 It might be time to rethink your use of these phrases and remove them from your daily lingo.
00:03:50.740 I swear I thought that was a joke, something from a satirical website like the Babylon Bee.
00:03:55.660 It is a joke, but the joke's on you.
00:03:57.760 You pay $1.5 billion a year for this.
00:04:00.340 That's the joke.
00:04:01.540 But how depressing to see the reactions to that tweet.
00:04:04.980 All the CBC journalists across the country started saying,
00:04:07.520 Oh, okay, I've got my new marching orders now.
00:04:10.480 I mean, here's Trudeau's CBC propagandist assigned to Saskatchewan.
00:04:16.540 She says, I didn't know about some of these.
00:04:19.360 Got any thoughts?
00:04:21.940 Yeah, Stephanie, this might be one of those things that you leave for the Toronto office.
00:04:28.020 There might be some really hip cafes in downtown Toronto near the CBC headquarters
00:04:33.440 where only triple-vaxxed people go and they're required to sip their coffees through a mask.
00:04:39.400 Where this kind of thinking is normal, Stephanie, I don't think it's going to fly in Tisdale.
00:04:46.240 Here's another CBC hack who says,
00:04:49.660 Great work here by Priskesh, highlighting an important truth.
00:04:55.440 Words, how they're used, matter.
00:04:58.720 So this is an important truth, guys.
00:05:00.760 This is the truth.
00:05:01.880 It's not an opinion.
00:05:02.680 It's the truth.
00:05:04.340 Here's another one.
00:05:05.660 This is the worst of all.
00:05:07.300 They don't actually say anything other than the headline, words and phrases you may want to think twice about using.
00:05:12.580 But this is the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission.
00:05:16.480 This is a government agency that prosecutes people for hurting feelings.
00:05:19.680 So obviously they're really excited about a new thing to get offended about.
00:05:24.520 They have a new list of banned words.
00:05:27.680 Here's the story itself on the CBC homepage.
00:05:30.840 Historical, cultural context important for phrases like grandfathered in and spirit animal.
00:05:38.980 I'll read a little bit.
00:05:42.820 It's written by Priscilla Kisun Huang.
00:05:46.600 And her biography, I'll just read this before reading the article, says,
00:05:50.120 Priscilla Kisun Huang is a reporter with CBC News based in Ottawa. 0.71
00:05:54.580 She's worked with the investigative unit, CBC Toronto and CBC North in Yellowknife, White Horse and Iqaluit.
00:06:02.880 She is a master of journalism from Carleton University. 0.97
00:06:08.780 Oh, my God, what a racist. 0.99
00:06:10.540 White horse, yellow knife. 1.00
00:06:14.960 That's even more racist. 0.95
00:06:16.420 And seriously, master.
00:06:19.420 She's a master of journalism.
00:06:21.440 You know what a master is, right?
00:06:23.180 Doesn't she know the word master was the word used for people who had slaves?
00:06:28.500 Is she a slave master? 1.00
00:06:30.560 I'm so triggered.
00:06:32.620 Am I doing that right? 0.97
00:06:34.720 So only she gets to be that crazy. 1.00
00:06:37.860 I want to say something.
00:06:40.120 Yesterday we talked about how people who come to Canada, come to America, sometimes come for freedom.
00:06:45.480 And sometimes just come because it's better, perhaps financially, than where they came from.
00:06:51.260 I think Priscilla was born in Canada, but she is of Korean heritage.
00:06:58.160 The nation is cut in half, where the north half of Korea is under totalitarian Orwellian slavery.
00:07:09.120 It is calling for word police and thought police.
00:07:13.460 It makes me terribly sad that a Korean Canadian is doing that. 1.00
00:07:17.300 It would be like if a Soviet emigrated Canada or America. 0.67
00:07:20.460 And I mean someone whose parents fled tyranny.
00:07:23.200 Maybe they were in the gulag if the kids became enthralled with Marxism at University of Canada
00:07:28.300 and started becoming word police tyrants like back in Stalin's day.
00:07:32.560 It's how I feel when I see anti-Israel Jews.
00:07:36.180 It just makes me sad.
00:07:38.820 So let's go through this article.
00:07:41.860 Have you ever casually used the terms spirit animal, first world problem, or spooky?
00:07:46.940 It might be time to rethink your use of these phrases and remove them from your daily lingo.
00:07:54.620 It's a news story, guys.
00:07:56.320 CBC News.
00:07:57.920 This is news.
00:08:00.500 CBC Ottawa compiled a small list of words submitted by readers and some of our journalists who are black, indigenous, and people of color.
00:08:08.880 So there's no more racism towards, say, the Irish or Italians or Jews.
00:08:16.620 Were they allowed to make contributions to this list, too?
00:08:18.900 I mean, I didn't know when I was young that the word paddy wagon is derogatory towards the Irish.
00:08:25.940 I just didn't know.
00:08:27.940 Now I know.
00:08:29.480 Apparently the CBC doesn't know it yet either,
00:08:32.480 since a quick search of their website shows 22 articles where they use that slur.
00:08:36.820 But of course, just white Irishmen, who cares about them? 1.00
00:08:43.520 The word redneck can sometimes be used by people to describe themselves, 0.95
00:08:47.760 like when black people use the N-word themselves to take ownership of it, take the power away. 0.92
00:08:54.940 Here's nearly 200 hits on the CBC's website of the term redneck. 0.91
00:08:59.300 And no, when Trudeau's state broadcaster publishes that word from Toronto,
00:09:03.980 it is not always in a loving way, is it?
00:09:07.800 But who cares? 0.98
00:09:09.880 White people aren't allowed. 1.00
00:09:11.420 They're not involved. 0.98
00:09:12.520 You saw it for yourself.
00:09:13.920 By the way, this is what they do in Ottawa's CBC.
00:09:17.760 The country is in a terrible crisis.
00:09:20.220 Parliament barely even meets anymore.
00:09:22.020 Most government is done by executive order,
00:09:24.860 often by health bureaucrats no one's ever heard of before.
00:09:27.680 National unity is a mess.
00:09:29.560 Inflation.
00:09:30.540 Floods washing out B.C.
00:09:32.160 Highways.
00:09:33.020 Crime, of course.
00:09:34.020 Housing prices.
00:09:35.660 There are one or two stories that you might think, oh, I don't know,
00:09:38.300 CBC's that reporters at CBC News in Ottawa would care about if they're in the news business.
00:09:43.980 But while the world burns outside their window, they're busy making lists of words they don't like.
00:09:51.020 I'm serious.
00:09:51.720 CBC News.
00:09:54.500 But it gets better.
00:09:56.080 Apparently some experts got involved because, you know, there's experts and hurt feelings.
00:10:00.860 We ran some of the words by anti-racism and language experts who said some of these phrases can be hurtful to various groups of people for their historical and cultural context.
00:10:13.700 Experts got it.
00:10:14.720 What is an anti-racism expert?
00:10:17.300 In my experience, it's often a racism expert.
00:10:21.420 Someone whose job is to spread division and hatred and bickering and foster disunity and to train new immigrants to Canada to think that we are an unwelcoming place even though we just welcome them. 0.99
00:10:33.460 Being an English speaker doesn't entail that you necessarily know the racist etymology automatically, said A.E. Taniguchi, a linguist and an associate language studies professor with the University of Toronto, Mississauga, in an email to CBC.
00:10:51.580 Etymology is the study of the origins of words and the way their meanings change over time.
00:10:56.760 The fact that you said it, oblivious to the etymology, doesn't automatically make you a bad person.
00:11:05.020 What you do once you find out a word is racist, sexist, or ableist etymology carries more importance, she explained.
00:11:15.220 Who's A.E. Taniguchi?
00:11:17.960 Have you ever heard of her?
00:11:19.460 She's here to tell you that you aren't necessarily racist, sexist, or ableist, but if you don't immediately agree with her to stop using words she doesn't like after she tells you what she thinks they mean, you will turn into a racist, sexist, or ableist.
00:11:36.720 It's like the five-second rule when you drop food on the ground. 0.97
00:11:39.880 Well, you've got five seconds to stop saying words she doesn't like or then you'll be a racist, sexist, ableist.
00:11:46.800 I had never heard of this professor. 0.84
00:11:48.400 I found her Twitter account pretty quickly, though.
00:11:51.780 It's sort of what you'd expect someone with her pronouns in her bio, who tweets pictures about knitting for her cats.
00:12:00.140 I'm not making that up.
00:12:01.480 That just makes me laugh.
00:12:02.700 That's so on the nose.
00:12:03.780 But I noticed that she immigrated to Canada and she actually grew up in Japan.
00:12:09.660 Now, I've got to tell you, I really like Japan.
00:12:11.240 I admire so many things about it.
00:12:13.560 I think it's a very civilized country.
00:12:15.180 But I don't think it's really controversial to say that it's, I'm sorry, it's pretty racist.
00:12:26.000 It allows nearly zero immigration.
00:12:28.880 It has an ethnic superiority complex towards many people, including other people in Asia. 0.68
00:12:33.940 That's just part of its culture.
00:12:35.900 I don't think I'm being mean by observing that.
00:12:38.780 I'm not going to even get into the rape of Nanking or anything horrific or the supremacism that launched Japan into a terrible war. 0.59
00:12:46.680 Like I say, I truly admire Japan, but it's just a bit much for someone who came to Canada from a 99.9% racially homogenous country that literally accepted 47 refugees last year. 1.00
00:13:06.020 47, not 47,000.
00:13:07.620 And it's just a bit much for someone from Japan to come here to tell us we're racist when we say the word blacklist.
00:13:17.900 I'm not picking on her for being Japanese. 1.00
00:13:20.360 I'm picking on her for being a total bloody hypocrite. 1.00
00:13:23.980 And maybe just a teeny tiny chance of it here. 0.99
00:13:26.940 I mean, just guessing here.
00:13:28.800 Maybe she's a racist herself. 1.00
00:13:30.480 I mean, they have a superiority complex over there in Japan.
00:13:35.560 I don't know if that's her.
00:13:36.700 She feels quite at home lecturing Canadians about our racism.
00:13:41.180 Perhaps it's because she feels an ethnic superiority to us.
00:13:43.740 I don't know.
00:13:44.160 I've never met her.
00:13:45.220 She looks like a kook in her social media. 1.00
00:13:49.300 She's never met me either, though. 0.79
00:13:51.120 But she says I'm sexist for saying the word grandfathered or whatever. 0.87
00:13:56.580 And, hey, even if you think they're crazy, there's a lot more of them. 0.99
00:14:02.340 So maybe you're the crazy one? 0.99
00:14:05.620 I'll read some more. 0.99
00:14:07.520 Anti-racism trainer Jaskara agrees.
00:14:13.480 It's not so much about political correctness.
00:14:15.320 Oh, sure it is.
00:14:16.420 I think it's about the empirical accuracy.
00:14:18.660 And if somebody really calls us out on a particular word, we need to stop and say,
00:14:22.840 it's not about me, said Kara, who runs Ottawa-based Jaskara Consulting and coaches people and
00:14:30.620 organizations on inclusion and diversity.
00:14:32.780 I'm sure she does.
00:14:34.460 She's all for inclusion except for language and people she doesn't like.
00:14:39.860 But look at this next line. 0.93
00:14:41.540 This is from a black man. 0.56
00:14:42.720 But I put it to you. 0.92
00:14:43.780 This could be said by a white Klansman. 0.97
00:14:46.960 Let me quote, blackmail, blacklist, and black sheep. 0.96
00:14:53.120 The issue here is that these are all negative terms, said Joseph Smith, an anti-racism trainer
00:14:59.140 and educator.
00:15:00.580 It connotes evil, distrust, lack of intelligence, ignorance, a lack of beauty, the absence of 0.99
00:15:06.060 white. 0.98
00:15:07.200 This lowering of blackness on the spectrum with regards to value was developed further 0.93
00:15:12.160 in the wake of the transatlantic slave trade.
00:15:14.280 But it also predates that, explains Smith.
00:15:19.000 Can I ask a question? 0.99
00:15:22.740 Are you crazy? 1.00
00:15:24.660 A black hole. 0.99
00:15:27.060 It's not negative.
00:15:28.640 That's its color because it absorbs all the light.
00:15:31.360 Black sheep.
00:15:32.340 That's the color of a sheep. 0.90
00:15:36.000 You know what we call someone who thinks black is negative? 0.86
00:15:40.060 We call that person a racist.
00:15:42.300 It reminds me of this wonderful sketch by comedian Ryan Long.
00:15:47.640 I'm going to play the whole thing.
00:15:49.460 This is a perfect video.
00:15:52.720 Take a look.
00:15:53.180 When me and Brad first met, I didn't think we'd get along, but it turns out we kind of
00:15:57.040 agree on everything.
00:15:57.920 Your racial identity is the most important thing.
00:15:59.940 Everything should be looked at through the lens of race. 0.98
00:16:01.640 Jinx, you owe me a Coke. 1.00
00:16:02.600 Damn. 0.99
00:16:02.980 We both have a lot of opinions about people of color, even though we barely know any. 0.99
00:16:06.060 I say colored people, but as long as we're classifying them, we both think minorities
00:16:09.660 are a united group who think the same and act the same.
00:16:12.060 And both the same.
00:16:12.960 You don't want to lose your black card.
00:16:14.180 Sorry, I don't know.
00:16:14.740 I just think we should roll back discrimination law so we can hire based on race again.
00:16:17.880 Jinx, now you owe me a Coke. 0.78
00:16:19.380 Hey, tell them what you told me yesterday. 0.64
00:16:20.900 White actors should only do voices for white cartoon characters. 0.98
00:16:23.740 I've been saying that for years.
00:16:24.580 Stick to your own.
00:16:25.380 Us white people, we have so much privilege.
00:16:27.420 I agree.
00:16:27.980 It is a privilege to be white. 0.85
00:16:29.280 Ask him about interracial dating. 0.92
00:16:30.680 All I said is that black men who date white women have internalized racism, and white men 0.97
00:16:34.580 that date ethnic women are fetishizing them. 1.00
00:16:36.460 Guys against interracial dating now.
00:16:37.920 Like, am I being pranked?
00:16:38.940 Did Boomer put you up to this?
00:16:40.960 Ugh, you know that taco place is white-owned? 1.00
00:16:42.800 White people should be making white foods, like cramped macaroni and cheese. 1.00
00:16:45.720 No seasoning. 0.98
00:16:46.320 Not even salt.
00:16:47.180 It's like he's a mind reader.
00:16:48.140 I mean, I've been pushing for segregation forever, and my man does what?
00:16:51.000 I created an improv comedy show exclusively for ethnic people.
00:16:53.900 Guy segregates comedy.
00:16:55.120 On my birthday, white people need to stop wearing dreadlocks, and they need to stop appropriating 0.99
00:16:59.220 black people's music. 0.97
00:17:00.220 Shaved heads and country music, the way God intended. 1.00
00:17:02.740 You know all white people are racist. 0.99
00:17:04.260 I'm listening. 1.00
00:17:05.240 Even if you have a black wife or a black friend group, you're still really racist. 0.99
00:17:08.880 You know we just kicked a guy out of the organization for having a black girlfriend? 0.99
00:17:11.180 But if you can promise me he's still really racist, we'll consider letting him back in. 0.99
00:17:14.820 Black people should only shop at black businesses. 1.00
00:17:17.080 I guess the only thing we really disagree about is I think white people are the root of all 1.00
00:17:20.240 evil. 0.99
00:17:20.700 But what did I tell you, though? 0.98
00:17:21.680 If we can narrow that down to a certain group of tiny-headed white people, I think we can 1.00
00:17:25.140 come to an understanding. 0.89
00:17:26.620 Technically, I don't consider Jewish people white because-
00:17:28.600 Neither do I.
00:17:29.520 Isn't that perfect?
00:17:34.020 This article on the CBC goes on and on and on and on and on.
00:17:38.380 You know what phrase they hate?
00:17:40.160 You're going to laugh.
00:17:41.640 First world problem.
00:17:43.680 People have slowly moved away from using the term third world to describe low-income countries,
00:17:49.020 says Kalra.
00:17:49.800 But the phrase first world problem is still used to convey that something is an issue only
00:17:54.440 to those who live in a country with privilege and wealth.
00:17:58.060 It can be classist, she said.
00:18:01.040 When we're saying first world, we're putting them at the top. 1.00
00:18:04.800 What does it convey, she said.
00:18:06.700 Why do we have to use these prefixes, which kind of dehumanize some country or some human
00:18:12.140 being or a group?
00:18:13.080 No, it's a sign that you're too rich and too privileged and too pampered, and you have
00:18:19.800 a fake job as a diversity coach, and you have such luxury and such ease in your life
00:18:24.300 that you can spend time talking about things like this, that you can actually get a degree
00:18:29.780 in this, that you can get a job with the state broadcaster in their news department, and
00:18:34.920 instead of reporting news as your country burns down, you and your friends can come up
00:18:38.880 with fake problems in the freest, least racist country in the world.
00:18:43.280 I love that these pampered academics claim that they care about classism, as if they
00:18:48.640 would even tolerate for one second a genuine working class person of any race. 0.85
00:18:53.900 Have you ever met a real person?
00:18:55.680 Have you ever been to a factory?
00:18:57.280 Have you ever gone to a bar?
00:18:58.620 And I don't mean a bar where they charge $20 for a gin and tonic.
00:19:02.680 I'm talking a real bar.
00:19:03.660 You know, real people use words like blacksmith and manitoba.
00:19:09.400 They even sometimes tell offensive jokes.
00:19:12.180 Don't tell me you're not classist.
00:19:14.940 This story goes on for pages.
00:19:16.840 I'm not going to read anymore.
00:19:17.820 It's too long.
00:19:18.600 I know that it's, look at the bottom there, it's part of a series called Being Black in
00:19:23.620 Canada.
00:19:24.220 And who better to tell us what it's like to be black in Canada than a Korean-Canadian
00:19:29.120 academic interviewing a Japanese immigrant academic.
00:19:33.520 That's really speaking to the streets of the inner city, isn't it?
00:19:37.320 Oops.
00:19:38.040 Sorry.
00:19:38.440 Not allowed to say inner city.
00:19:40.760 Let me read from the story.
00:19:42.440 Ghettos and inner cities were typically seen to be places where less refined people lived,
00:19:47.880 the people who weren't up to date culturally, development-wise, he said. 0.98
00:19:51.780 No, you wicked liar.
00:19:55.360 It actually just means the inner city, which is different from the suburbs. 0.97
00:19:59.400 The inner city is where apartments and condos are.
00:20:02.980 The burbs are often where houses with yards are.
00:20:06.100 So single people, poor people, young people are in the inner city, including many new immigrants 1.00
00:20:11.700 who haven't climbed the economic ladder yet.
00:20:13.920 If you won't even say inner city, you probably won't fix the problems of the inner city.
00:20:21.260 You know, I remember talking to a wonderful professor of English from, I think it was
00:20:25.100 the University of Oregon in Eugene.
00:20:28.360 And he was a black man himself, an accomplished author, award-winning.
00:20:32.260 And he was talking to me about calls to ban the book Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
00:20:38.100 because there are some words in there that are today considered unacceptably racist.
00:20:43.840 I know that's surely true about one of the greatest pro-black books of all time, 0.98
00:20:48.960 one of my favorite books I've ever read.
00:20:51.640 It's called Uncle Tom's Cabin.
00:20:54.660 You got to read it.
00:20:55.280 It's a big book, but it's a great book.
00:20:56.860 It's an anti-slavery book that sold so many copies.
00:21:00.460 It sold 300,000 copies in the United States when that country just had 30 million people.
00:21:07.340 That was the Harry Potter of its day.
00:21:09.200 So many people read that book that when Abraham Lincoln met the author, a woman named Harriet
00:21:14.840 Beecher Stowe, he said to her, I think I've told you this before, he said, so this is the
00:21:19.960 little lady who made this big war. 1.00
00:21:23.120 It's talking about the Civil War because this book galvanized people against slavery.
00:21:26.780 Look, that book has many bad words in it too.
00:21:30.660 It was written 150 years ago.
00:21:32.460 And that book helped emancipate the slaves, Ask Abraham Lincoln.
00:21:35.960 But that professor, we were talking about whether the right word was black or African-American
00:21:42.440 or Afro-American or person of color or colored person.
00:21:46.400 And I was yielding to him.
00:21:47.680 I wanted to hear what he thought.
00:21:50.440 And he said, I remember, I got to try and find that old video.
00:21:53.240 This was at Sun News.
00:21:54.140 He said, you can use any word you like.
00:21:56.760 And then he said, you can use the word sir. 0.97
00:22:01.840 But if you don't actually fix any of the problems affecting black Americans, you're nothing but 1.00
00:22:06.460 a dilettante. 0.99
00:22:07.180 You don't actually care.
00:22:08.860 In fact, it's hiding the fact you don't care.
00:22:11.060 And he was bloody right.
00:22:13.020 He was right.
00:22:14.400 You know, the CBC is worse than that, though.
00:22:17.100 They want to sow the seeds of racism and division.
00:22:20.720 They claim to be anti-racists.
00:22:23.040 They're actually the racists.
00:22:24.620 They claim to want to heal.
00:22:26.980 They actually tear apart.
00:22:28.540 If Canada were a racist hotbed, people wouldn't be streaming here in record, unrelenting numbers,
00:22:35.800 legally and illegally. 0.97
00:22:37.300 I admit there are some racists, like our blackface prime ministers, true. 1.00
00:22:42.680 But those are anomalies. 0.90
00:22:45.140 These hucksters at the CBC, including people who come here from truly awful places, but then 1.00
00:22:52.240 call us the awful ones, they're the racists. 0.96
00:22:56.680 They're the dividers. 1.00
00:22:59.080 They're the bigots.
00:23:00.900 Let me close with this.
00:23:02.040 This is from Orwell's book, 1984.
00:23:05.080 You ought to read it again.
00:23:06.980 And you'll remember what it's actually about.
00:23:09.000 It's about a lot of things.
00:23:09.980 It's about a mad world.
00:23:11.200 But one of the tools of the madness and the control isn't just the TV screens that watched
00:23:17.560 you.
00:23:18.360 Wasn't that a premonition?
00:23:19.840 It's not just the informants that ratted on you.
00:23:22.400 It was the language itself.
00:23:23.860 They called it new speak that replaced English, that removes words from the language so you
00:23:31.040 couldn't think thoughts.
00:23:32.300 Let me read a little bit from 1984.
00:23:33.980 I'm just going to read a little bit.
00:23:34.720 By 2050, earlier probably, all real knowledge of old speak, that's what they call it English,
00:23:43.420 will have disappeared.
00:23:45.020 The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed.
00:23:48.600 Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, they'll exist only in new speak versions.
00:23:54.500 Not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used
00:23:59.720 to be.
00:24:00.080 Even the literature of the party will change.
00:24:03.220 Even the slogans will change.
00:24:05.080 How could you have a slogan like, freedom is slavery, when the concept of freedom has
00:24:09.660 been abolished?
00:24:11.400 The whole climate of thought will be different.
00:24:14.860 In fact, there will be no thought.
00:24:17.240 As we understand it now, orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
00:24:23.240 Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. 0.99
00:24:26.420 Oh my God, that is coming true. 0.80
00:24:28.460 So yeah, I got to tell you, I'm not going to stop saying words because some Trudeau racist
00:24:35.200 at the CBC State Broadcaster tells me to.
00:24:39.260 And I hope you don't either.
00:24:41.880 Stay with us for more.
00:24:42.920 That is astonishing.
00:25:07.340 A massive crowd in Rome, Italy, in the Circus Maximus, a place where people have gone for
00:25:14.840 thousands of years, actually.
00:25:17.800 However, the New York Times, their man in Rome, he summed it up this way, protests against
00:25:23.340 Italy's health paths.
00:25:25.760 Fizzle.
00:25:26.320 If that was a fizzle, I can only imagine what it takes to impress the New York Times.
00:25:33.660 But I think they're more about shaping the opinion of its readers rather than informing
00:25:40.160 them with the news.
00:25:41.700 We're happy to go live to Rome via Skype to talk to Brie Dale, who writes for the Epoch
00:25:48.980 Times in that city.
00:25:50.060 We've spoken to Brie before.
00:25:52.240 Brie, I'm glad you're there to tell the other side of the story because if one were to rely
00:25:56.440 on the mainstream media or what I sometimes call the media party, I think they're more
00:26:00.880 interested in the narrative than actually reporting on things.
00:26:03.940 How is the population of Italy responding to their vaccine mandates?
00:26:09.760 Can you tell our viewers a little bit, first of all, how many protesters and what is their
00:26:15.960 nature?
00:26:17.540 And second of all, what are they protesting against?
00:26:21.080 What is the vaccine passport, which they call the, I guess, the green pass over there?
00:26:27.300 What's that like?
00:26:29.500 So Ezra, you know, that particular protest, Italian news sources have said that over 4,000
00:26:35.940 individuals were in Circus Maximus that day.
00:26:40.080 And, you know, what's incredible is to see that despite protests up and down in Italy,
00:26:47.040 despite massive protests, because of really green pass mandates, vaccination mandates throughout
00:26:58.100 Italy, including for working spaces, for medical professionals, for the military,
00:27:05.940 for police, and even to be able to enter a restaurant, a gym, a place of worship, these
00:27:16.280 things are being essential now to being able to have this freedom.
00:27:22.360 And people are pushing back.
00:27:24.240 Even people who have received the vaccination are now saying that this is not fair.
00:27:29.300 And, Ezra, part of that reason is simply because the universal health care here in Italy was
00:27:36.880 very slow in the vaccine rollout.
00:27:39.220 And so many people who wanted the vaccine were not able to get the vaccine before mandates
00:27:44.060 started this past year, including the green pass, Ezra.
00:27:48.920 Now, you were telling me before we turn on the camera that even the poor are not allowed on 0.98
00:27:56.100 public transit if they're not jabbed.
00:27:58.860 So if you don't have a car, and, you know, not everyone does, and if the most marginalized
00:28:04.180 people, they have to either get jabbed, they're forced to, or they have to pay some sort of
00:28:09.460 fee or fine.
00:28:10.440 Can you explain that?
00:28:12.500 Right.
00:28:13.060 So this new mandate that has just come out, which is called the super green pass, it will
00:28:19.540 be done in the 6th of December, I believe, indicates that unless you are either having
00:28:26.220 the vaccine or you've had COVID and how they have that ability and that knowledge is that,
00:28:34.040 again, universal health care, the government has access to those records and that those
00:28:39.260 records are digitalized.
00:28:40.900 And so if people have not received the vaccine or who haven't had COVID, and this includes
00:28:48.940 now, you know, it was with the original green pass, you had the ability to get the nasal
00:28:54.980 swab test within 72 hours and have a green pass.
00:28:57.900 Now it's no longer the case with the super green pass.
00:29:01.640 You're not going to be able to access a lot of this mass transit.
00:29:06.180 What that does to the poor is it marginalizes them.
00:29:09.420 Again, many people simply haven't had the access to get their vaccines, even though this is
00:29:16.560 universal health care.
00:29:17.660 We did see a video of a woman, an elderly woman, a few months ago trying to access a hospital.
00:29:24.320 She had yet to receive her vaccine and she was not permitted to go into the hospital, Ezra.
00:29:29.600 So we are seeing this pushback by people who have the vaccine saying, look, we should still
00:29:37.120 have the rights to our own bodies and we should have the right to be able to work.
00:29:41.980 And we've seen that also at the ports, Ezra.
00:29:45.260 You know, I find it incredible that Austria in particular has gone so far down the road
00:29:55.740 of forced vaccines.
00:29:57.480 And I'm not comparing Austrians today to the Nazis of 80 years ago, but it was there that 1.00
00:30:06.340 it happened.
00:30:06.900 That was the episode that's where Hitler was born. 0.97
00:30:09.280 And it was in reaction to some of the horrific crimes of the Nazis that the so-called Nuremberg 0.78
00:30:15.880 Code of Medical Ethics was developed.
00:30:18.960 It was the Nazi doctors were put on trial.
00:30:22.020 And that's where we developed the ideas of free and informed consent before you engage
00:30:27.000 in any medical tests or trials or injections.
00:30:30.400 And it's shocking to me to see Austria revert to forced jabs. 0.73
00:30:37.000 But more than that, the police type enforcement of demanding people show their papers, of literally
00:30:42.920 running people in the streets.
00:30:44.960 And I mean, maybe it's because I'm over here in North America.
00:30:47.280 It just looks so like if you were to write that as a Hollywood script, the the agent would
00:30:52.800 say, no, that's too on the nose.
00:30:54.300 You would never have fascism come back in Austria.
00:30:57.600 And I feel the same way when you describe certain things in Italy.
00:31:03.120 Italy, 80 years ago, had a fascist leader, too, Mussolini.
00:31:08.460 And he was not he did not reach the depths of depravity of the Nazis, thank God. 0.87
00:31:14.200 But but this authoritarian instinct to see it come back in Italy, Austria, Germany, I find
00:31:22.320 very disconcerting.
00:31:23.880 And does no one else see the historical parallels?
00:31:27.600 Um, it's it's very much in front of people.
00:31:30.900 Uh, the Stasi has been, um, has been referenced a few times.
00:31:35.740 Um, you know, one of one of the big issues of the propaganda and and people are seeing it
00:31:41.120 within the media and holding them account.
00:31:42.780 But really, social media has really kept this alive.
00:31:46.340 And, um, you know, it's not just Austria, it's Germany that has now also taken up, um, this,
00:31:53.420 uh, draconian and draconian measures, you know, and and we're seeing this also being proposed
00:32:00.140 in certain regions in Italy.
00:32:01.800 Um, but people are pushing back Ezra and, um, you know, it just, it just reminds us, uh,
00:32:08.000 that, uh, when you provide power to the government, um, because of fear, uh, it's very hard to get
00:32:15.080 that power back, um, unless people in mass, uh, call for it.
00:32:19.800 So we are seeing that happen throughout Italy, uh, and we've seen it now happen in Germany
00:32:24.800 and Austria is where, uh, as well as people are, people are rising up and they're not
00:32:29.380 anti-vaxxers that should, that should be made note.
00:32:31.940 Not all of these people are anti-vaxxers.
00:32:34.480 Very few are, um, they are anti-mandate and government overreach.
00:32:39.380 Yeah.
00:32:39.520 It's incredible.
00:32:40.120 I referred to the New York times earlier, um, that same article referred to the anti forced,
00:32:46.380 uh, anti, uh, COVID pass, anti, uh, mandate people as the neo-fascists, uh, which I think
00:32:53.200 is gaslighting.
00:32:54.040 I mean, the people forcing medical procedures using the power of the state.
00:32:58.660 I mean, I, I don't know if I would call them neo-fascists just yet, but imagine calling 0.96
00:33:03.380 the civil libertarians against that neo-fascists.
00:33:06.580 It's just incredible.
00:33:07.580 Well, let me ask you this.
00:33:09.020 I sense it in the United States, a lot of people are just getting tired of it.
00:33:13.420 And there's, I think America is falling into two real different camps.
00:33:17.520 You have the, the states that love being free, Texas, Florida, you know, college football
00:33:24.980 games with a hundred thousand people.
00:33:26.380 So you have people who are clearly saying we're done.
00:33:29.380 It's never coming back.
00:33:30.820 And then you have other jurisdictions in America where they seem to love masks.
00:33:36.140 They seem as like some sort of amulet.
00:33:38.480 They love boosters.
00:33:40.120 They can hardly wait to get their kids, but at least there's another side of the
00:33:43.360 story in America.
00:33:44.880 How is Europe is, is it a monolithic group think, or are there people, not just political
00:33:52.960 activists, but normal people saying, no, we're done with this now.
00:33:58.400 Clearly it looks like people are, are getting tired of fear mongering.
00:34:03.320 It's just to what level in the United States.
00:34:06.140 It does seem that people still want to hold their, their representatives accountable, where
00:34:13.220 it does seem more like the, the, those who are in leadership positions in Europe think
00:34:19.020 that people are there to serve them.
00:34:20.820 Um, and there is that dichotomy.
00:34:22.340 Um, you know, one of the things, Ezra, that I was talking with a bar owner today, whose
00:34:27.340 bar is going to have to be closed due to mandates for Christmas and the first of the year.
00:34:33.320 Um, you know, they have looked to the United States as, uh, for the last few years in leadership.
00:34:39.500 And, um, they have said, where is the United States in, in ending all of this?
00:34:44.680 This is, you know, 15 days to slow the spread has now gone to 88 months.
00:34:49.300 Um, you know, what are, what are we supposed to do with this?
00:34:53.440 And, and so they are, they're calling, they're looking to the United States for the leadership
00:34:58.040 and they're seeing the, um, the, the data coming out of the free state, such as in Florida.
00:35:03.980 Hmm. Well, it's incredible. And I certainly hope Italy remains free. Brie Dale of the Epoch 0.98
00:35:09.740 Times. Great to see you again. Thanks for your time tonight.
00:35:12.900 Thank you. My pleasure, Ezra.
00:35:14.440 Right on. Stay with us. More ahead.
00:35:29.460 Hey, welcome back to your viewer feedback. Alfonso Liberty says,
00:35:32.560 Well, I hope so. Um, you know, February is not too far away. I know there are some alternatives
00:35:49.480 out there, but they haven't really caught on in a ferocious way. And here's what's on my mind about
00:35:55.040 that. Part of the fun of being on Twitter or Facebook is that you're in the grand marketplace
00:36:03.020 of ideas, the public square. You're not off in a corner to use a banned word from the CBC. You're
00:36:09.680 not off in a ghetto. You're not just recirculating your ideas amongst your own echo chamber. You're
00:36:17.220 engaging with the other side. There's debates. That's what's sort of fun about it and dangerous
00:36:21.620 about Twitter is the banter, the trolling each other, the flame wars, as they're called.
00:36:27.300 So I think that Trump's social media site will be every Trumpist, every pro-Trump activist in America
00:36:36.200 and a lot of leftist reporters joining just to see any offensive comments and putting that on Trump.
00:36:43.500 You're not going to get non-Trump people in there. You're not going to certainly get liberals or leftists
00:36:49.280 in there other than as trolls. So, I mean, sure, it's good if you're marketing things,
00:36:55.960 marketing things, let's say, to people on the right, but it's not that true national conversation
00:37:01.820 where you have different points of view. That's why it would make me sad if we would be sacked from
00:37:07.700 YouTube and sacked from Twitter altogether, because I do want to talk to people who aren't on my side
00:37:14.220 already. I want to try and convince them. It's just a shame that Twitter, YouTube, Facebook,
00:37:19.400 et cetera, are pushing us off. We're not leaving on our own. Mark Lozen said, gone from made in China 0.98
00:37:26.940 to owned by China. Isn't that the truth? There's, you know, that could be applying to half the stories
00:37:32.140 we talk about these days. Very frustrating. Judy 101 says, prior to COVID, you've always heard of
00:37:39.420 foreign investment was a good thing, yet everyone was warned this was the process of selling off
00:37:45.800 our natural resources and country. This was all predicted and ignored. Well, we're so reliant on
00:37:52.620 China for so many things, especially for certain minerals, but really one of the things that struck
00:37:58.940 me was that 90% of our pharmaceuticals are actually manufactured in China. Did you know that?
00:38:04.760 Odds are, if you're taking a medicine, a pill, even a vitamin, it is made in China. 1.00
00:38:14.040 That could be a quality control issue, but I think it's more a strategic issue.
00:38:18.300 Do you really want your sworn military geopolitical enemy to have control of essential industries like
00:38:25.140 that? Well, that's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World
00:38:30.820 Headquarters, to you at home, good night. Keep fighting for freedom. And let me leave you with
00:38:35.080 a video by Tamara Ugolini. Hundreds of Canadians gathering for an underground prohibition speakeasy
00:38:43.280 style COVID science conference in the greater Toronto area. This is what we've come to, folks. Take a look.
00:38:51.200 I'm Tamara Ugolini for Rebel News. And adjacent to me, there is a private panelist discussion
00:38:56.720 taking place here at an undisclosed location in the greater Toronto area. The privacy of the venue,
00:39:03.780 all attendees, including some of the academics that comprise of the panelists, well, their privacy
00:39:10.280 is being upheld. And so I am not able to bring you the full scope of the event that's happening
00:39:15.400 here at this location today. All attendees have been instructed to turn off their GPS, put their
00:39:22.580 their phones on airplane mode, or better yet, turn their phones off completely. And there is to be
00:39:28.880 no posting on social media, either before, during, or after the event. There are plain closed police and
00:39:37.000 private security ensuring the physical safety of everyone present here today. And the whole thing
00:39:43.560 is really just straight up prohibition style. That's the reality that we are living here in Canada
00:39:50.180 as critical thinkers in 2021. What this event is about is questioning the narrative, sharing
00:39:58.320 evidence-based research, advocating for our right to body sovereignty, and the right to be free from
00:40:05.420 non-consensual medical treatment. But overall, it's also to connect. It's to show people in real time,
00:40:14.480 in person, that they are not alone in questioning, just questioning,
00:40:18.700 and listening to your intuition that something doesn't seem right here, that the government's
00:40:23.820 response to the pandemic isn't adding up. The state of emergency is in question, and the ethical
00:40:31.220 violations that have come as a result of rolling lockdowns and knee-jerk reactions, despite mounting
00:40:37.600 evidence showing their harms. This event is intended to bring people hope, to know that there are others
00:40:45.260 like you out there that want to connect in-person, unmasked, and not socially distanced. Topics of
00:40:53.820 discussion ranged from dissection of legalese around the Charter of Rights, the Bill of Rights,
00:40:58.620 and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. Other speakers included medical professionals and
00:41:05.520 academics that have lost their jobs due to alleged non-compliance with indiscriminate and
00:41:11.700 unconstitutional mandates. One epidemiologist with former experience at the Public Health Agency of
00:41:17.700 Canada, he spoke of the five pillars of outbreak response, and how that's been ignored, and the
00:41:24.260 general collaboration of esteemed individuals and the general population. They're working to create new
00:41:30.740 institutions and innovative systems of education, healthcare, and information sharing, because it's
00:41:36.260 becoming clearer and clearer that we're not going to change or come back from the narrative that is
00:41:41.860 being imposed on us without our consent. You know that new normal that everyone talks about? So what
00:41:48.420 the people at this conference and in this room behind me today are doing is connecting to move forward out
00:41:55.140 of this grotesque mess without using a risky experimentally rushed drug. They're doing it in a way that's
00:42:01.700 inclusive, utilizes evidence-based best practices, is open and transparent, with debate and information
00:42:08.580 sharing. Because if not you, then who? And if not now, then when? For Rebel News, I'm Tamara Ugolini.
00:42:19.780 I traveled in inclement weather for three hours both ways to attend this five-hour event with my nursing
00:42:27.620 eight-month-old. This is the kind of on-the-ground reporting that you won't find anywhere else. To
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