Rebel News Podcast - August 16, 2022


EZRA LEVANT | What does Trudeau think about a foreign-funded campaign of mischief and vandalism that supports Vladimir Putin? I’ll show you.


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What does Justin Trudeau think about a foreign-funded campaign of mischief and vandalism that supports Vladimir Putin? I ll show you tonight on The Ezra Levant Show with Ezra Levant. Ezra Levant is a Canadian journalist and host of the show Rebel News Plus.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I got some questions about a protest in Vancouver that not only supports
00:00:05.600 Vladimir Putin indirectly, but does what the truckers do. They're blocking roads.
00:00:11.800 How do you think the police and Trudeau reacted? Well, spoiler alert, this was an environmental
00:00:18.140 protest, so you can probably guess. I'll show you images from that protest and I'll show you
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00:01:00.960 Tonight, what does Justin Trudeau think about a foreign-funded campaign of mischief
00:01:22.060 and vandalism that supports Vladimir Putin? I'll show you. It's August 15th and this is
00:01:28.220 the Ezra Levant Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug.
00:01:44.940 I've been covering left-wing protests for decades. I've covered anti-pipeline protests in Vancouver,
00:01:51.660 anti-pipeline protests in Ontario. One of my favorite protests to cover was the Occupy Toronto
00:01:57.640 protests in that city because it was so obviously artificial and fake. If you recall, Occupy Wall
00:02:03.420 Street was a left-wing anti-capitalist movement, but they actually had one good argument. Why were
00:02:08.840 the so-called capitalists of the big banks on Wall Street bailed out by taxpayers after the financial
00:02:16.480 crash of 2008? Their solution was worse, by the way. They wanted socialism, but they had a good
00:02:21.940 question. The fact that one of Wall Street's richest oligarchs, George Soros, was bankrolling
00:02:28.080 the anti-Wall Street thugs was a delicious irony. But in Canada, it was just weird because, as you may
00:02:36.340 recall, not a single Canadian bank failed in the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, it was the unionized
00:02:43.660 automobile sector, Canadian subsidiaries of U.S. megacorporations. They're the ones who got the
00:02:49.420 massive taxpayer funding. But for some reason, the left-wing protesters weren't directed at them. But
00:02:54.620 you must admit, it's weird to protest the bailout of failing banks in a country where no banks actually
00:03:03.560 failed. It was fake, fake, fake. Here's some of what I saw at that phony event.
00:03:10.900 Dave, how many G20 anarchists are here today? Dave, are you the proud face of the environmental movement?
00:03:40.900 Well, that was back when my life was simpler. I was a journalist for the Sun News Network.
00:03:47.560 I wasn't a boss. I was a working journalist. These days, I spend too much time in the office managing
00:03:53.200 the 60 or 70 people who work for Rebel News. So I don't do as much in-the-field journalism as I used
00:03:58.480 to do or as I'd like to do. My solace is that we have an amazing team that collectively does 10 times
00:04:04.260 more than I ever could do as one person. I mean, just for example, here's the lovely Alexa Lavoie at a
00:04:10.060 protest the other day.
00:04:11.240 I'm trying to make you record.
00:04:12.920 You have to ask me questions. I'm not concerned. If you want to go, you can.
00:04:17.620 You can't touch my microphone.
00:04:20.200 But stop putting me in the face of the people who tell me no.
00:04:24.060 You're coming to me. Don't touch my microphone.
00:04:27.360 Stop putting me in the face of the people who don't want to talk. What do you do?
00:04:31.720 I just ask you why you come here. Why are you coming here?
00:04:34.900 I'm talking to other people. Do you understand? Do you have the consentement?
00:04:37.900 Yes. When people talk to me, it's the consentement.
00:04:40.900 Hey! We're going to go from far away, right?
00:04:44.900 We're going to continue. We're going to continue because some people are not happy.
00:04:48.900 And so we have some people who try to intervene, but I'm just here for asking questions and see
00:04:55.720 the other side of the story of the people. But it seems like people are not agreeing with that.
00:05:01.720 They say that I should not be there and I'm not welcome. And how I should, like,
00:05:07.880 I'm able to sleep at night. But I'm just here to ask simple questions to them.
00:05:12.040 I didn't like the fact that the protesters were so aggressive towards her. And I'm reminded of our
00:05:17.320 duty to provide security to our journalists, a regrettable duty, as Trudeau has normalized
00:05:22.360 hostility towards us by setting an example of having his own personal bodyguards beat us up.
00:05:27.480 What are you doing? Get off me. Hey, I can. Hey, this is assault. I'm on a side. What is this?
00:05:36.760 I'm on a sidewalk. I am on a sidewalk. What is this? You cannot touch me. Not rushing or working.
00:05:48.200 Hey. Hey. Are you kidding? Are you kidding? I told you. What is this? You can't. Am I under arrest?
00:06:01.400 Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest? Because otherwise you have no right.
00:06:07.720 I hate watching that. But my point is I've been covered, covering oil and gas and pipeline and
00:06:13.880 mining and anti-capitalist protests for almost two decades. That's how old I am. And one of the most
00:06:19.720 eye-opening things for me was that I saw the same professional protesters at each one. I got to know
00:06:26.280 them by name even. I'd see the same guy at an anti-mining protest and then at the Occupy Toronto
00:06:33.560 protest. And then the same people were out in Hamilton in an anti-pipeline protest. And then
00:06:38.520 the same people were at an Idle No More protest. Same people. Same leaders. Now, the leaders knew a
00:06:43.880 little bit about what they were doing, but the rent-a-mob did not. Some of them were literally
00:06:48.120 street people who were paid 50 bucks to hold the sign for the day. 50 bucks and a hot lunch.
00:06:52.760 They didn't have a drop of politics in them at all. Some of them were mentally ill people 0.99
00:06:58.760 being used as cannon fodder. It's very sad. I remember one young woman, Trish Mills was her name.
00:07:03.640 I still remember her. She had a blog about her deep mental illness. It made me extremely sad
00:07:10.040 to read about it and then to see how the environmentalists took advantage of her,
00:07:14.120 egged her on to commit the crimes. She was the one who got charged and convicted and punished 0.99
00:07:19.320 while the bosses didn't get themselves in trouble. They literally used marginalized and damaged and
00:07:26.360 mentally ill people as their weapons to commit political crimes for fundraising. It made me sad
00:07:32.600 and mad, not just at the environmentalists, but at the media party who obviously that saw the same
00:07:37.240 things I saw. That all these many events were organized by the same professional organizers.
00:07:42.760 None of them were organic. Most of the participants were clueless about their mission. They were just
00:07:49.000 doing what they were instructed to do. How different from, oh, say the truckers. The trucker convoy was
00:07:55.400 authentic, organic, real people. And if you actually stop to ask any one of them why they were doing what
00:08:00.520 they were doing, oh, they would tell you at great length. No one put them up to it. They had some leaders,
00:08:07.000 but I call them more symbolic or spiritual leaders like Tamara Leach. Yes, there were millions of 0.67
00:08:12.440 dollars raised to pay for the truckers, but you'll recall very little of any of it actually flowed.
00:08:17.320 They were seized by GoFundMe, then seized by the government. And when that wasn't enough,
00:08:21.480 they actually seized the bank accounts of hundreds of peaceful protesters without court process. So it was
00:08:27.320 the opposite of a bought and paid for campaign. It was penalized and punished. There were endless crimes
00:08:34.760 committed in the shanty towns of Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Toronto. I saw it with my own eyes. 0.99
00:08:40.040 The drugs down there, there were weapons, marginalized people, and of course there was crime, including 0.99
00:08:46.360 sexual assault, including rape. Such a light police touch though, if any. Compare that to the heavy-handed
00:08:55.480 arrest and jailing of Tamara Leach for inciting mischief or literally deploying the Mounties on horseback to
00:09:03.480 stomp peaceful protesters. You'd never see that against George Soros' occupied Toronto rabble. I
00:09:10.440 wonder why. So I tell you all this to tell you that there's nothing new under the sun. These protesters
00:09:17.560 on the left are and have always been an artificial creation. Black Lives Matter too, an American
00:09:24.680 phenomenon that is being grafted onto Canada. But we abolished slavery 250 years ago here, or at least
00:09:31.480 the slave trade and soon the slavery itself. There was so little slavery here to begin with actually.
00:09:38.280 There were actually more Canadian slaves who were indigenous people enslaved by other indigenous
00:09:43.880 tribes than there were white slave owners. Did you know that? Did you know that the total
00:09:49.080 black population of Toronto at the time of the slave trade when it was abolished
00:09:54.200 was 16 people? Not 1600, just 16. We were the good guys in Canada. We were the place that runaway slaves 0.86
00:10:04.040 in the United States ran towards. We're a place where black lives have always mattered.
00:10:10.680 This is an attempt to graft a foreign grievance narrative onto our own country. Why was Trudeau
00:10:17.960 taking a knee? For what exactly? We abolished the slave trade almost 250 years ago, but here's my news 0.69
00:10:24.440 today. I told you all that background to remind you that paid foreign-funded instigators are normal,
00:10:30.360 even if the media party hides it all. But look at this example of another boring left-wing stunt,
00:10:36.440 but it hits a little different this time. Take a look at this. Video. Protesters just poured molasses
00:10:44.200 all over the Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver. The new group says plans to block traffic and bridges
00:10:50.040 this week too. So let me stop there. So vandalism, mischief, more than happened during the entire
00:10:57.400 Trucker Congo, by the way. There was a national media meltdown when someone merely put a sign in the
00:11:03.560 hands of that Terry Fox statue. That was called desecration. That was called vandalism because
00:11:09.320 that was literally all they had against the truckers. Here you have vandalism and trespass and mischief and
00:11:14.920 a promise to block roads, including ambulances and fire trucks and people going to work and people picking
00:11:23.480 up their kids. Everyone's business. And where's the emergencies act? Where are the riot police? Where are
00:11:31.240 the bank account seizures? I'm kidding. That's only for Trucker peaceful protesters, not for Justin Trudeau's
00:11:38.840 allies. I'll read a little more. This is from Thursday. A protester climbed up a ladder and poured molasses over the
00:11:46.120 Gastown Steam Clock as part of an anti-fracking demonstration. Stopped fracking around. A new civil
00:11:52.760 disobedience group launched its anti-fracking campaign in Vancouver on Wednesday, August 10th
00:11:57.400 morning just after 10 a.m., pouring molasses over the tourist attraction at the corner of Cambium
00:12:01.720 Water Streets. The group says the thick syrup represents fracked oil and the demonstration will
00:12:08.760 possibly involve arrests for its non-violent civil disobedience. Taylor, stop for a minute and
00:12:15.240 acknowledge how lame this is. How stupid, how pitiful. I mean, it really is the stupidest protest I've ever
00:12:22.040 seen and I've seen stupid. Our timekeeper is pouring molasses on the steam clock.
00:12:34.040 This molasses sweet smelling symbolizes oil and gas, which is not only poisoning this world,
00:12:44.600 there are greater monuments that are scheduled for demolition by oil and gas. Entire communities and
00:12:51.000 ecosystems are at risk by the unrivaled oil and gas industry.
00:12:55.640 I'm embarrassed for them, really. Here's a bunch of cops just milling around. Now, let me be clear,
00:13:04.040 I don't want jackboots. I don't want police stomping their horses on anyone. I don't want them being shot at
00:13:11.560 like Trudeau's cops shot our reporter Alexa Lavoie. But I think, I don't know, giving these folks a ticket is
00:13:17.240 probably appropriate. Charging them with mischief, making them go to answer before a judge, and
00:13:23.640 maybe that judge would sentence them to 30 hours of cleaning up messes and sweeping up garbage in 0.98
00:13:29.240 the Gastown area. That seems proportionate to me. Maybe not even a criminal record, a conditional
00:13:34.600 discharge if they just spent 30 hours cleaning up the streets that they mucked up. That seems like
00:13:39.880 proportional justice in the public interest, doesn't it? Now, do you really believe that
00:13:45.560 Stop Fracking Around is a new group? Or do you think it's just the same old losers with a new name?
00:13:52.360 Well, the left-wing website that reported this news was happy to include a link to the website of
00:13:57.480 this group, which I clicked on. And yeah, it's the same old losers, professional protesters. You can
00:14:04.520 see their contact person, Brent Eichler. He's a perpetual protester and, you know, frankly,
00:14:10.120 good for him. He seems mainly peaceful. I haven't done a lot of digging. Pouring molasses over a public
00:14:16.360 square, making it gross and dirty. That literally does sound like the definition of the word mischief,
00:14:21.080 right? The same charge that Tamara Leach has spent nearly 50 days in prison for, right? 1.00
00:14:26.760 They talk about Eichler a bit. Activist Brent Eichler, formerly of Extinction Rebellion's Vancouver
00:14:32.360 chapter and the Save Old Growth campaigns, spoke to Vancouver is awesome from the scene of the
00:14:37.480 protest. We want the people who are flying here from all over the world to see the demonstration,
00:14:43.080 he said. Around 11 a.m., Eichler said roughly 20 Vancouver police officers were at the scene and
00:14:49.400 the demonstrator who climbed the ladder would likely be arrested for refusing to come down.
00:14:53.960 I actually don't think that's a crime. While some of the protesters are Extinction Rebellion members
00:14:58.440 or were part of the Save Old Growth campaign, Eichler underscored that this is a
00:15:02.200 brand new group that is specifically trying to get the Canadian government to end fracking,
00:15:06.520 including the immediate cancellation of the coastal gas link pipeline.
00:15:12.520 So these are foreign-funded activists. I mentioned Extinction Rebellion. That's who this guy is
00:15:17.880 or some of these supporters are. That's a multi-million dollar UK-based extremist group.
00:15:23.240 That's not grassroots. It's funded by billionaires like Eileen Getty. 1.00
00:15:27.400 Foreign-funded activists paid to do stupid mischief in Canada. Isn't that what they shut down GoFundMe 0.99
00:15:34.760 and Give, Send, Go for when it was the truckers? And this, Stop Fracking Around is planning another
00:15:42.040 rally on August 15th at 9 a.m. at City Hall, where they will be joined by members of the Witsud and
00:15:46.600 First Nation for a larger demonstration that will likely involve blocking intersections and
00:15:51.720 bridges. And indeed that happened. Our friend Drea Humphrey was on the scene. She tells me that they
00:15:59.400 did indeed block the roads and they also swarmed Drea. Well, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on,
00:16:06.040 hang on. When the truckers did that, didn't they seize their bank accounts? When the truckers did that,
00:16:10.920 didn't they declare an emergency when the truckers did that? Didn't they seize, stomp, arrests?
00:16:21.240 So just another wacky day in Vancouver, isn't it? But isn't it a little bit different now?
00:16:29.320 Isn't blocking roads now, even in a stupid way like they do in Vancouver,
00:16:34.200 well, didn't Justin Trudeau and David Lamedi and Marco Mendocino said that these are high crimes,
00:16:38.840 tantamount to treason. That's what Trudeau said. Don't we call on the cops? Don't we throw people
00:16:44.360 in prison now? Don't we seize bank accounts now? Now, I don't want it to be that way.
00:16:49.480 This really is just mischief. But there won't be a single ticket issue now. Will there be?
00:16:56.600 And what are they protesting? Natural gas. Haven't we learned about natural gas this year,
00:17:01.720 as in Russia's stranglehold on natural gas supply to Europe not only funds its war on Ukraine,
00:17:07.880 but prevents Germany and other European countries from really doing anything about it? Germany can't
00:17:13.240 put sanctions on Russia. They have to be careful Russia doesn't put sanctions on them by cutting
00:17:18.360 off gas to them. Does Vladimir Putin want natural gas exports from Canada to the world? He does not.
00:17:27.320 These protesters are literally running errands for Vladimir Putin and silence from the media,
00:17:32.440 who will denounce anyone and everyone that they don't like as being Russian agents except for the
00:17:37.800 people actually helping Putin here. Another day in Vancouver's paradise. Just the same BS, but it proves
00:17:45.720 nothing they said about the truckers being an economic or criminal threat was true.
00:17:51.480 Nothing they said about their concern about Russia's power was true.
00:17:55.080 It was always just an excuse to attack their political enemies.
00:18:02.200 Stay with us for more with the rebel's newest recruit.
00:18:05.080 You might recognize the young lady next to me. She was one of our three
00:18:21.240 terrific journalists who went to the Netherlands to report on the Farmer Rebellion. A few weeks ago,
00:18:27.800 we had our UK reporter Louis Brackpool there, as well as Lincoln Jay from here in Toronto. But Katie
00:18:33.720 Davis Court came all the way from Seattle, Washington to spend some time with us, did great journalism on
00:18:39.560 the ground. And I am so delighted to announce that Katie is joining Rebel News full-time, based in
00:18:46.120 Seattle, but traveling around the USA and even the world. And today is her first day. So she's here at
00:18:53.320 our Rebel World headquarters to sort of meet the team and say hi to everybody. Great to see you in person.
00:18:57.640 You too. It's great to be here. I'm so excited to join the team. We have a lot of work to do,
00:19:01.640 and I can't wait to get started. Well, you have been very courageous. I don't know if all our viewers
00:19:07.400 know, but being in Seattle, you really are at ground zero for the Antifa wars. Seattle, Portland,
00:19:14.360 which is not too far away in Oregon. Those, those are beautiful cities. Like they're gorgeous. They're
00:19:20.520 some of the best places to live in terms of natural beauty and economically strong. But there is this
00:19:26.040 disastrous, hard left, violent undercurrent in both of those cities, isn't there?
00:19:31.640 There absolutely is. And it's underreported. So when Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the riots of 2020,
00:19:38.680 they overthrew a six block radius of Seattle. It was hardly reported on by our local news in Seattle.
00:19:45.000 And so that's when I kind of started getting my start. I started out as an independent reporter a
00:19:49.640 little bit before the riots started because there wasn't a focus on the desecration of the city of
00:19:56.600 Seattle by the hands of the progressive policies that have been enacted. And I said, why is there
00:20:01.160 only one side being shared? So I went out and I started reporting the other side of the story,
00:20:05.560 like what Rebel News does. And it is not being shared. So I'm excited to continue my work there.
00:20:14.600 Well, the fact that you had that contrarianism, that you were not afraid to tell the story that
00:20:20.520 the mainstream weren't is impressive. That's the essential character element to be a rebel.
00:20:26.280 Are you willing to stand apart from the crowd? But physically, to film Antifa, I mean, they are by
00:20:34.600 definition violent. They, by definition, believe in shock tactics. They hide their identities.
00:20:43.640 They have the style, the black walk where they're indistinguishable. They all dress in black from
00:20:48.600 head to toe. They are violent. They burnt cities and they would hurt you if they could. Now,
00:20:54.840 you were very wise about how you went about it. But in my mind, it takes a little bit of courage to
00:20:59.320 stand down what is really the brown shirts of our age. Oh, I absolutely agree. And so when I started
00:21:06.600 going out there in the beginning, they would they like to attack reporters because they consider people out
00:21:12.680 there with phones as cops. They think that cameras are cops. So they hate the police and
00:21:21.000 reporters go and they don't want their crimes to be filmed. So they I've actually been attacked by
00:21:26.120 them a few times, not any violent assaults, but they use intimidate intimidation tactics to silence
00:21:32.920 who they believe is their opposition. So not only have they physically assaulted me, but they have
00:21:39.800 come to my apartment and they know where I live. They have slashed my tires multiple times and they
00:21:46.360 have put flyers of me around my city. They put flyers of my own family members around my city,
00:21:52.360 all to try to intimidate me to not report on their actions. And I just think that it is insane that
00:22:01.000 our city council, the Seattle City Council actually kind of supports them. They are pro Antifa. They
00:22:07.400 are still using the phrase that, you know, Antifa is that is an anti-fascist group. You know,
00:22:13.080 there's no they're very fascist. You just look at the definition of that word. They act like fascists.
00:22:18.520 Yeah, they are. Huh. You know, I didn't know all those details. I didn't know about the pamphleting.
00:22:23.400 I didn't know the slashed tires. Now, you're careful and you stand in a place. But, you know,
00:22:30.040 one of the things that we take pride in here, and I told you this on the phone the other day,
00:22:34.200 is that we provide security for our reporters in situations where we think there's a risk. So,
00:22:41.320 you know, you were brave and maybe you were a little bit lucky. And I don't want to take away
00:22:46.520 your bravery at all. But for you to go out in the world and do the challenging journalism you do,
00:22:51.480 I think it behooves us to give you some physical support because they have no compunction about
00:22:58.280 hitting anyone, let alone hitting a woman. Right. You know, what I think the rest of us would recoil at,
00:23:04.840 they see you as an enemy and the ends justify the means. So I think it's important to protect you
00:23:10.520 as we protect our other journalists. Yeah. So you really made a name for yourself in the
00:23:15.560 Pacific Northwest, but you also travel around the United States. And tell us, you know, I saw your
00:23:22.040 reports, but give me your sense of how it was covering a political movement in another country.
00:23:27.160 I take it that you, like me, don't have a particular collection to the Netherlands. So,
00:23:31.960 you know, the Dutch language and the politics is as new to you as it is to me. But I think you guys
00:23:37.640 figured it out pretty well and did some good coverage. What was it like out there?
00:23:40.760 Yeah. So it was definitely challenging. And I think for me, the most eye-opening part was how
00:23:47.000 educated the people from the Netherlands are about the World Economic Forum and the Great Reset. And they
00:23:53.080 all knew what was happening on a larger scale behind the scenes. If I were to ask people about the Great
00:23:58.920 Reset or the World Economic Forum in the United States, I think hardly anyone would know what
00:24:05.560 they even were. Yeah. So the fact that these policies, that the World Economic Forum is actively
00:24:10.600 imposing these policies on the people, the Dutch people, and they are fighting back against it.
00:24:17.640 You ought to go, this is going to, this isn't just going to happen in the Netherlands. It's going to be
00:24:22.440 happening on a global scale. So how do you educate the people? And that's why I think it's so important
00:24:28.040 that Rebel News went out there to share this important story. It is, it was definitely a
00:24:32.920 challenging experience. I've never reported internationally before. So figuring out leads,
00:24:40.840 who to talk to. I know Lewis and Lincoln and I did a great job trying to figure out where the protests
00:24:47.800 were. There wasn't one central location. Yeah, because it was very organic and popping up like
00:24:52.200 whack-a-mole. It was. And so the country is pretty small. So we would be, we would wake up super early,
00:24:58.280 drive to one protest, try to cover it, get a new lead. Let's check this out. It was great. And I think
00:25:04.280 that we all did a great job sharing the story and the documentary that you guys are putting out is
00:25:10.360 excellent. And I think everyone should watch it. Well, I think you guys did do a great job and the viewers,
00:25:15.160 the viewership and on, um, both on video and even on Twitter, uh, you Lincoln and Lewis were almost
00:25:22.520 the only voices in the English language telling the story of the Netherlands around the world.
00:25:27.480 And what's interesting to me is how the government journalists, and there's a lot of government
00:25:31.880 journalists in the Netherlands. I think most journalists there either work directly for the
00:25:36.920 government or are subsidized by the government. You can see how they sort of circled the wagons and said,
00:25:41.720 who are these, uh, foreign journalists who are not under the same control that we are?
00:25:47.480 How dare they describe a different narrative in English to the rest of the world? It was fascinating
00:25:53.240 that Dutch journalists were more concerned about your reporting in a different point of view than
00:25:59.560 they were about covering the news itself. I thought that was very telling and very, very scary.
00:26:03.560 Yeah, you're absolutely right. So they would rather, uh, report on the foreign reporters than the issues
00:26:10.040 that are facing the Dutch people, which according to polls, it was about 85% are standing with the
00:26:17.480 farmers. So for the media to be against them and not, but that's how I took it. The media seems to be
00:26:23.320 more against the farmers than they are for them. And so when they're against that, they're against the
00:26:28.040 people and they're kind of acting as the political arm of the prime minister.
00:26:31.880 I think you're right. I mean, one of the conceits of journalists is they speak truth to power.
00:26:36.840 They're the David versus Goliath. They're the Aaron Brockovich taking on the big company. But in
00:26:41.880 reality, I think journalists serve power. And instead of holding the powerful to account,
00:26:46.680 they were trying to hold you to account. They're trying to hold the farmers to account,
00:26:50.360 which is an inversion. They're supposed to take on the toughest, biggest, baddest people,
00:26:54.680 but they serve the toughest, biggest, baddest people. It's so upside down. I like your style.
00:26:59.080 I like the fact that you had high energy. You worked very hard for a solid week. I don't think
00:27:04.280 you took, you know, you slept at night, but that was about it. I'm looking forward to you joining the
00:27:08.440 rebel team. And there's so many adventures that we have in mind already, not just in America,
00:27:12.680 because there's a lot of stories there, but even doing things that we like to do. We have a tradition
00:27:17.480 of going, for example, to the global warming conferences that the United Nations
00:27:21.720 host. Yeah. And our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed has been to almost all of those since our company was
00:27:27.800 born. The next global warming conference by the UN is in Egypt. Wow. Which is going to be interesting
00:27:33.720 because I can tell you right now they're going to be using air conditioning in the desert.
00:27:37.560 Of course they will be. And I can tell you right now that they'll be flying in private jets. So
00:27:41.480 I hope you can join our squad going there. There's so many fascinating events around the world. And now
00:27:48.760 that flying is slowly opening up again, I think you're going to do some great journalism. So welcome
00:27:54.520 aboard. I can't wait. Thank you so much for having me. Well, we're just delighted. And I know our viewers
00:27:59.400 are going to come to wait for your videos every day, just like so many of the citizen journalists.
00:28:06.840 I love the story that you started as a citizen journalist, just doing what the mainstream
00:28:11.800 media wouldn't do. And that is the story of Rebel News. So I think you are, you've been a rebel even
00:28:16.680 longer than you knew. I think so too. Well, it's great to have her. There she is, Katie Davis Court,
00:28:22.280 based in Seattle. She's here in our world headquarters for a couple of days, just meeting the team
00:28:27.080 and seeing how we do things. And you'll see her back out on the streets. That's where the news is.
00:28:31.480 We have lots of opinions. I share them with you nightly here from the studio, but
00:28:35.080 the news is on the street and it's around the world. And Katie will help bring it to you. Stay with us.
00:28:39.880 More ahead.
00:28:40.360 Well, everybody, it's great to be back in the chair. I'm always grateful to my friend David Menzies for
00:28:56.600 spotting me off. I was doing a little bit of traveling. You know, I'm taking some time this
00:29:00.280 summer to go out and visit some of our rebel supporters in different cities. As you know,
00:29:05.880 I've sort of been on Trudeau's no-fly list like millions of other Canadians for a year. So I'm
00:29:11.320 slowly getting out and about during the summertime to say hi to folks, even to say hi to my own family.
00:29:16.680 I visited my folks in Calgary the other day. So I'm going to keep doing shows as often as possible
00:29:23.400 this summer. But typically I will miss Friday, which is a great opportunity for other people at
00:29:30.600 Rebel News to have a seat in the chair and try things out, whether it's David Menzies or Sheila
00:29:34.600 Gunn-Reed. I will be here for some Fridays, but others I am going to try and continue my journey.
00:29:39.880 I'm meeting with our strongest supporters in different cities, and hopefully that includes you.
00:29:45.880 That's our show for today. What do you think about Katie? I am very excited to have her on the team.
00:29:49.960 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home,
00:29:53.240 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.
00:29:55.480 Sleep easy tonight, Nabisco, Kellogg's, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hershey's, and Pillsbury.
00:30:01.400 Breathe a sigh of relief, PlayStation, Microsoft, and Apple. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus,
00:30:08.120 you guys are off the hook too. Because the stark rise in lifestyle-related illnesses stemming from
00:30:13.160 childhood obesity and a Western sedentary lifestyle, well, experts say it's not your fault,
00:30:18.680 and it's not your bouncing baby butterballs fault either. It's not the fault of the junk
00:30:22.920 food companies or the lockdowns or tech companies either. If you're fat and if your kids are fat,
00:30:29.240 well, good news, you get to blame it on climate change.
00:30:31.800 My talk at the table is a new study showing how climate change, specifically higher temperatures,
00:30:36.680 is making our children more inactive and more obese. The study published in a journal temperature
00:30:43.080 found today's children are 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their age.
00:30:49.000 Look at this. We'll read it from the hill. But this story was published in just about
00:30:53.320 every single mainstream media outlet last week for about three insufferable days straight.
00:30:59.720 Warm and global temperatures fueled by climate change are making children less physically fit
00:31:04.840 and more obese than ever, a new study has found. A less active lifestyle caused by higher temperatures
00:31:13.000 is putting kids at greater risk of suffering from heat-related health problems, including dehydration,
00:31:18.920 heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke, according to the study published in the journal
00:31:23.240 Temperature on Friday. As the world warms, children are the least fit they have ever been.
00:31:29.640 Author Shonda Morrison, an environmental exercise physiologist, what on earth is that,
00:31:34.920 at Slovenia's university said in a statement. I mean, this completely disregards that in the winter,
00:31:40.680 us Canadians, at least anecdotally, get fat because we're forced to stay inside and do nothing
00:31:46.600 just to survive because it's too cold, but okay. However, these science-y types have been pushing
00:31:51.640 this nonsense since about 2008, that it's just too hot outside for people to be active,
00:31:57.000 which will then prompt them to sit in the basement and eat, craft dinner, and play video games,
00:32:03.160 which might make sense if you look at the nine billion people on the face of the earth through a very
00:32:08.280 narrow western world view. The western world is experiencing increasing rates of obesity,
00:32:13.880 but parts of the world where it is much warmer, much, much warmer, they don't have the same obesity
00:32:19.320 and illnesses that sedentary processed food eating westerners have. It's not climate change,
00:32:24.520 it's lifestyle, but anything to pass the blame away from personal failures and bad choices, I guess.
00:32:31.000 Obesity is the real public health crisis. Now, I said I first saw this idea about obesity being
00:32:38.200 caused by climate change in 2008, but it appears as though about every six months some self-described
00:32:45.320 reputable medical or scientific organization publishes a study on this, and heavy, heavy on
00:32:50.600 the air quotes when I say medical or scientific. For example, this one is from earth.org. Boiled down,
00:32:56.040 it says that since children are getting fatter, and since these people have decided that climate
00:33:00.840 change is definitely happening and it's human induced, one must be directly correlated to the
00:33:06.040 other. Probably has absolutely nothing to do with the complete inversion of the food pyramid and all
00:33:11.400 those processed carbohydrates that kids take in out of convenience or necessity these days. And this
00:33:17.960 article from WebMD poses the chicken or the egg question, but again for this ridiculous topic.
00:33:24.760 You see, obesity is going to make climate change worse. Or will climate change make obesity worse?
00:33:30.520 Or is this just a snake eating its tail and I should probably just get out of its way and let it happen
00:33:34.680 and enjoy the uncomplicated view from over here where I love single-use plastics, burning my garbage
00:33:40.280 and eating way too much steak. And let me be clear, I'm not making fun of obese kids or obese people. I
00:33:46.680 feel terrible for them and I'm angry at the decision makers who led society down this path,
00:33:51.880 damning our young people to an existence inside a body that doesn't do what they need it to do.
00:33:57.640 Society has failed kids on this issue, on many issues. We feed them garbage, we make them lazy,
00:34:03.160 we make them depressed, we make them anxious, we make them shut-ins, and we addicted them to technology
00:34:09.080 which reinforces all the other problems of depression, anxiety, hermetism, and grabbing garbage
00:34:14.680 food in between video games and Instagram reels. And we did it all the same way we did these last two
00:34:20.600 years. The last two years, we let big pharma influence us. The last 50 years, we let big
00:34:26.600 processed food do it. Big food influenced the government long before big pharma ever did.
00:34:32.760 And boy, is it ever handy for those responsible for all of this mess to have the weather be the
00:34:38.280 scapegoat for what they've done to our kids? For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.