What's the difference between MAGA and America First? And why has the phrase Christ is King become a political slogan? I ll give you my thoughts as a Canadian watching America. And then we ll talk to Sheila Gunn-Reed down in Brazil covering the UN Global Warming Conference.
00:06:35.860Trump is doing all the things you could ever ask him to do, including a lot more you probably never think of.
00:06:40.860I mean, just this week, he called on Congress to release all the Jeffrey Epstein files.
00:06:46.560Here in Canada, conservatives, by contrast, have a lot to campaign on.
00:06:51.480Same in the United Kingdom, same in Ireland, same in France, same in Netherlands and Brazil and all the places that are still laboring under the leftist globalist ideology.
00:06:59.880But it's tougher to be a tough guy pundit in America when Donald Trump and the government that he runs, I mean, you love to critique the government.
00:09:06.700And they're going to bring in more legal immigrants than ever before.
00:09:10.720And if you think there's some silver lining that we're going to get jobs in the Trump admin, maybe it's bad, but we're going to get in and fix it.
00:10:29.940And that's why it's filled with Groypers.
00:10:31.920That's why your whole crew, that's why the people around you, that's why your chapter presidents, that's why your attendees, they're all Groypers.
00:10:42.060So whether you choose to confront me or not over the honor of your Turning Point USA, it's immaterial to me.
00:10:59.740I'm not sure how much conservatives or Republicans should listen to someone who has always hated Trump and Republicans and conservatives and Christians.
00:11:10.140Oh, and then there's just his Hitler stuff.
00:12:06.720If we're going to say Hitler bad, then I'm going to say Churchill bad, and I'm going to say Roosevelt bad, and I'm going to say they're all bad.
00:12:12.800But if we look at him as a product of his time in that moment, you know, we have to judge him with those things in mind.
00:12:25.120And, of course, Candace Owens is against Trump, too.
00:12:28.300Not surprising, since she was always a Democrat.
00:12:30.860The worst thing is that Tucker Carlson, once the leading conservative commentator in America, he has totally flipped.
00:12:38.320And he's a very good debater, and he has a strong list of contacts from 30 years in the business.
00:12:45.280And he's got a 30-year history of being outstanding.
00:12:48.780So his reputation, his goodwill, and his name have brung along millions of people who would normally turn off the TV when someone would praise Venezuela or praise Iran to them.
00:13:41.420Sex changes for transgenderism are banned.
00:13:44.100And it's one of the very few countries in the entire hemisphere with those policies.
00:13:48.880It is on social policy, not defending the regime, just saying, one of the most conservative countries in North or South or Central America.
00:14:00.420Only El Salvador really comes close, which is much smaller, of course.
00:14:03.980And by the way, the U.S.-backed opposition leader, who would take Maduro's place if he were taken out, is, of course, pretty eager to get gay marriage in Venezuela.
00:14:15.420So to those of you who thought this whole project was Globo Homo, not crazy, actually.
00:14:20.600He is obsequious to foreign dictators and American enemies, but he's rough with American heroes like Ted Cruz.
00:14:28.040Growing up in Sunday school, I was taught from the Bible, those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed.
00:14:37.220And from my perspective, I want to be on the blessing side of things.
00:14:40.060Of those who bless the government of Israel?
00:14:42.600Those who bless Israel is what it says.
00:14:44.120It doesn't say the government of it, it says the nation of Israel.
00:15:54.160Yeah, Tucker never actually did get back to Fuentes on that.
00:15:57.300Can you imagine calling Fuentes a supporter of Hitler and Stalin?
00:16:01.280Can you imagine calling him a conservative or a Christian?
00:16:03.800My point is, it's demoralizing out there when some of the biggest microphones in the United States conservative side start aiming at Trump.
00:16:13.240Like I say, many were never for Trump in the first place or never conservative to begin with.
00:16:17.480I'm not quite sure how people call them right wing.
00:16:20.020But now they're just going at Trump and, bizarrely, the Jews.
00:16:25.320Mass immigration to the West has brought Islam to the West, including radical Islam, including acute terrorism attacks at worst and slow burn anti-Semitism and cultural changes like rape gangs.
00:16:38.660Because I'm pretty sure the Jews, a small population that's well assimilated and peaceful isn't the civilizational problem that we have to face now.
00:16:46.780There's no doubt that some of this is real sentiment, but there's also no doubt that much of this is bought and paid for.
00:16:55.440I mean, the dictator of Qatar paid $200,000 to get on Tucker's show.
00:17:00.740We know that because he actually registered that payment with the U.S. government, as he was legally required to do.
00:17:07.180But many other forms of payments are not disclosable.
00:17:10.640More and more, I see pundits showing photos of them being wined and dined in Qatar for a meet and greet, where some payment is surely discussed.
00:17:33.260And they're concerned about polls that show a strikingly large number of Muslims would like to see it supplant civil law in the countries in which they live.
00:17:49.240I don't know of a single Gulf country where it's illegal to proselytize on behalf of another religion.
00:17:53.560I think that in every Muslim majority country in the world, non-Muslims are treated, have fewer rights.
00:18:00.360And you can tell when you go to a place like Abu Dhabi or Riyadh, like, oh, man, I hope we don't ever wind up with a society like this with a rape rate of zero where you leave your keys in your Lamborghini and don't ever worry about it being stolen.
00:18:13.080So you often hear people say, well, Sharia is intolerant.
00:18:39.960Oh, boy, I hope we don't wind up with that.
00:18:41.640But I've seen a bunch of polls like this that show that the attitudes of faithful Muslims are not Western at all and that they include a tolerance of violence you don't find among, say, Presbyterians or Jews.
00:19:18.540Today, I took a hard vote as a Christian who supports Israel.
00:19:22.760I voted no to the additional funding to Israel's defense.
00:19:27.100This comes after the Republican-controlled House voted for $3.8 billion for Israel's defense, weapons, and replenishment of the Iron Dome.
00:19:38.560This $3.8 billion is sitting on Chuck Schumer's desk.
00:19:43.600And he and the Democrats in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, the majority leader in the Senate for Republicans, refused to pass this bill.
00:19:53.080These bills, $3.8 billion that could go directly to Israel's defense.
00:19:58.880The whole propaganda machine that has been spoon-fed to Christians, whether it's in the pew of the church or Bible study or coming through the television or through their politicians' mouths, that we have to do everything for Israel.
00:20:14.960That's the only way we're going to go to heaven.
00:20:45.500It seems that anyone who is disaffected by Trump immediately turns into a pro-Qatar, anti-Israel activist.
00:20:53.080And unfortunately, a lot of the time, anti-Israel quickly blurs into just hating Jews.
00:21:00.160I see that Russia's version of the CBC called RT, or Russia Today, is celebrating this grassroots war against Trump, publicizing any little case of some Instagram influencer coming out against Trump.
00:21:13.060On Friday, President Trump turned on his top ally in Congress, Marjorie Taylor Greene, after she stood firm in her demand for the files related to alleged sex trafficker and potential Israeli spy, Jeffrey Epstein.
00:21:24.960While Trump not only obstructed them, but actually said they didn't exist for months, another 20,000 emails have been leaked relating to the case of Jeffrey Epstein, a Jewish man with ties to Mossad that ran a pedophilic blackmail operation on his private island.
00:21:38.360The reason that this is so monumentally damning is because Trump was supposed to be the archetypal figure opposed to the establishment.
00:21:45.820MAGA was the movement committed to destroying corruption, draining the swamp, and exposing these elitists that we always knew were trafficking and sexually exploiting children.
00:21:55.560We elected Trump to expose things like Pizzagate and to put pedophiles in jail.
00:21:59.980Under Trump, Epstein was arrested for sex trafficking minors, and under Trump's jurisdiction, all of these files suddenly didn't exist, and Epstein mysteriously killed himself.
00:22:08.880Uncovering that Trump is involved in this is the deepest level of betrayal, because the Epstein case is the peak archetypal story that epitomizes all of the corruption that Trump swore to fight against.
00:22:19.580For years now, we've been told that these files didn't exist by our presidents, by our Congress, and by the Department of Justice.
00:22:26.320The Epstein controversy is forcing Republicans to choose sides.
00:22:29.320You've got APAC congressmen like Troy Neils and Randy Fine standing with Trump, and America First grassroots patriots like MTG, Thomas Massey, Nick and Tucker standing with the American people.
00:23:39.700And I'm far more concerned about that than I am about even non-white people or mass migration.
00:23:46.640These people that are communing with demons and engaging in this sort of witchcraft and stuff, and these people that are suppressing the name Christ and suppressing Christianity, they must be absolutely annihilated when we take power.
00:24:11.880But the troll right, I don't even want to call it the right, has some powerful phrases that they use, or more accurately, abuse, or use to trick people.
00:24:21.820I'd like to talk a little bit about a few of them.
00:24:38.200It's so simple, almost cliche, but what a powerful slogan.
00:24:41.000It so obviously wasn't the American government mindset during the Obama years on everything from military matters to diplomacy to the border to trade deals.
00:24:50.800America was losing or just letting others win.
00:24:54.340Trump brought back pride to America and confidence and pizzazz like Reagan did in 1980 after Jimmy Carter's malaise.
00:25:02.500Now, I don't think anyone is trying to hijack the phrase MAGA, since it really translates into Trumpism.
00:25:09.100It's so meshed with Trump's own personality, his personal style and pace.
00:25:14.400I don't think anyone can steal that phrase away from Trump, which is exactly the point of that video that Russia Today loved.
00:25:21.560They want Americans to switch off of MAGA and on to America first.
00:25:55.220From this day forward, the foreign policy of the United States shall champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first.
00:26:31.440Trump hates the UN and environmentalism.
00:26:33.600There are literally dozens of policies that Trump has proposed, going back decades, really, that fall under America first.
00:26:40.180I mean, you could dig up old videos of him in the 80s talking about it.
00:26:45.140But those on the troll right are trying to use America first to attack Trump, which is sort of weird and crazy.
00:26:52.540Like I say, other than the seven B-2 bomber strikes and shooting at these narco-terrorist drug boats, Trump hasn't entangled America in foreign wars.
00:27:04.800In fact, I'm a bit nervous about how some of his peace deals look like with the former terrorists running Syria or even his plans to pacify Gaza.
00:27:25.820Without it, they warn hundreds of thousands of Americans will die, especially if Trump bombs Iran's nuclear facility.
00:27:33.220How is the U.S. military, do you think, having spent your life in it, leading troops in combat and at the Pentagon, positioned to respond to war with Iran right now?
00:27:40.760Are we in a strong position or not, in your view?
00:27:42.820No, I don't think we're in a strong position.
00:27:44.340I think we're probably at the weakest point in our recent history.
00:27:46.840I think you've got to look at the realities of new weapon systems, new capabilities.
00:27:51.600The United States Navy, if it's going to preserve its capability at sea, is probably going to be compelled to operate somewheres north and west of Sicily.
00:27:57.920If it comes within closer range, then it falls into this envelope where the Iranians can strike it.
00:28:02.600And as I said before, we have to assume the Russians will come into this.
00:28:05.140Once you move into the eastern Mediterranean, you are vulnerable to the Kinshaw missiles and other missiles, cruise missiles and hypersonic missiles that the Russians have.
00:28:11.020This makes it very difficult to fly strikes in support of the Israeli Defense Force against Hezbollah, because now you're flying a very long distance.
00:28:17.200You deliver your ordinance. You have to land in Israel in order to refuel.
00:28:20.060Israel is going to operate under a hail, if not a rainstorm, of missiles and rockets, making it very, very dangerous to do so.
00:28:25.380So our naval power, while substantial, may not have the desired impact on the ground that we would like.
00:28:30.040Yeah, no, Iran didn't even shoot a firecracker back at America.
00:29:21.780Not to mention many Muslim countries like Turkey and Qatar.
00:29:26.700Qatar actually has the biggest U.S. base in the region, which costs the U.S. about $10 billion a year.
00:29:33.060Basically, the American Air Force is defending Qatar.
00:29:37.100Not quite sure why, not quite sure who agreed to that, but that's how it is.
00:29:41.580Israel does not have a U.S. base there.
00:29:43.560They do get about $3 billion a year in annual military aid, which Netanyahu has just announced he'd like to phase out.
00:29:50.540I haven't heard Qatar or Germany or Japan or Korea talk about phasing out the U.S. military bases in their countries.
00:29:58.320But I just don't buy it when the anti-Semitic troll right says America fights Israel's wars.
00:30:03.100In fact, the last 25 years of wars haven't been Israel's wars.
00:30:08.140They've been Muslim wars, not Jewish wars, Iraq, Kuwait, fighting ISIS, Kosovo, Somalia, Libya.
00:30:18.240There are even U.S. troops in Syria right now.
00:30:22.920But my point about America first is that it's not America only, which some of the troll right are using.
00:30:29.180Because if America isn't going to have a footprint around the world anymore.
00:30:33.380I mean, by the way, I'm not advocating that America withdraw from the world.
00:30:36.720I'm just pointing out that Israel does not have an American base.
00:30:39.520And the $3 billion a year to Israel sounds like a lot, but it is a sliver of a fraction of what America spends in other bases like Turkey and Qatar.
00:30:48.860If America doesn't want a base around the world, that's fine.
00:31:09.520I mentioned the U.S. deal with Malaysia a moment ago designed to push out the Chinese and grab the rare earth minerals so China doesn't get them.
00:31:18.180Trump wants America to protect Christians in Nigeria, Africa.
00:31:21.760And I think he really means to do it to protect Christians.
00:31:50.840You could have a worldview against all of this, by the way, against all U.S. foreign aid and against all U.S. military bases around the world, against many of these deals I've mentioned.
00:32:00.820And that's a principled position to take.
00:32:03.960You could call it isolationist, libertarian, whatever.
00:32:06.260I mean, it's not quite principled when Israel is the only beneficiary you're talking about.
00:32:13.140But if you are, for America alone, which is a fair position, you should be ready to accept that China will fill the vacuum.
00:32:58.060But going back 200 years ago, the U.S. military projected its might around the world, not to be a globo cop, but to protect the interests of the U.S.
00:33:08.280200 years ago, more than 200 years ago, 225 years ago, the U.S. Navy was fighting the Barbary pirates off of the Libyan coast to stop the Muslim slave traders who were raiding American ships.
00:33:26.580Thomas Jefferson was fine with those battles.
00:33:30.260It was halfway around the world, but it was protecting American interests.
00:33:33.660So America first, of course, sounds great.
00:35:50.680In fact, I think the whole world depends on that because Christianity depends on that.
00:35:55.320And the safety and prosperity of the world, in my view, depends on Christianity.
00:35:58.920But if I may, and maybe it's a bit dangerous for me to weigh in here, for much of the troll right, the Nick Fuentes Nazi right, saying Christ is king isn't a description of one's humility or one's submission to God.
00:36:15.660It's sort of a test of the other guy, a probe of the other guy to see if they'll agree and who gets to best the other guy.
00:36:24.380I mean, it's sort of crazy that such an anti-Christian pagan as Nick Fuentes, who idolizes Stalin and Hitler, has the temerity to even use the phrase.
00:36:49.400And when people like that use the phrase Christ is king, they're not saying it as a statement of their own faith, but as a kind of trump card, if you pardon the pun.
00:37:00.660There are some true Christians for whom Christ is king is how they live.
00:37:04.940But I see too many on the troll right, just saying that as a talking point.
00:37:17.620They put politics and punditry and arguing ahead of everything, especially ahead of Christianity.
00:37:24.860I don't say Christ is king because I'm not Christian.
00:37:27.460But as you know, Rebel News tries to follow Judeo-Christian values, and an important part of our editorial mission at Rebel is to support Christians and to fight for Christians when they're under attack.
00:37:38.760Whether that's in Iraq, where, as you know, we crowdfunded $200,000 to help rescue Christian families and get them out of there from the threat of ISIS.
00:37:49.420Or here in Canada, where we help defend many Christian churches that were targeted during the COVID lockdowns, like Arthur Pavlovsky in Calgary, but also a dozen churches from coast to coast.
00:37:59.720I mention all this because there is a huge battle going on online, MAGA, America first, America only, Christ is king.
00:38:07.720And it's gaining momentum because it's being fueled by online robots, fake accounts, obviously administered by foreign actors.
00:38:16.880I'm not just talking about Russia today, which is very public about it.
00:38:20.440I'm talking about Qatar's massive influence operation in America.
00:38:25.040Almost $100 billion across Congress, colleges, think tanks, and corporations.
00:40:45.460Well, that's because you don't have a TikTok account, and you're not on other apps aimed at teens and 20-somethings.
00:40:52.820I even see high schoolers flipping sides, being groomed online to hate Trump, to hate America, to support Qatar, to despise Israel, to give China and Russia a pass.
00:41:08.120I see it starting to splash over into Canada, too.
00:41:11.480And as a pro-Christian, pro-Trump Canadian Jew, I feel that part of our editorial mission at Rebel News is to push back against it and to stand for the national interest, the Canadian interest, and to stand up for harmony between Christians and Jews, and to love the United States, not to hate it, either as the troll right does or as the Mark Carney liberals do.
00:41:34.960You know, we have here for a decade at Rebel News, you know, we've covered more attacks on churches than any other news outlet in Canada.
00:41:43.940We've crowdfunded more legal defenses for churches and pastors than anyone else.
00:41:48.700And I don't know if you remember, but we even once crowdfunded to put a new roof on a church on an Indian reserve.
00:41:56.340I believe in America first for Americans, Canada first for Canadians, and I agree with my Christian friends that they ought to believe that Christ is King, and they ought to live that way, more importantly.
00:42:08.880I don't believe in the splittest information operation that has been unleashed on our teenagers and college students, and unfortunately, we'll have to do as much battle on the troll right as we have typically done on the woke left.
00:42:58.060Joining us now from Brazil is our intrepid reporter, our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, who will explain what is she doing halfway around the world.
00:43:20.780They call it the gateway to the Amazon.
00:43:22.720It's sort of where the Amazon meets the ocean.
00:43:25.640And this is where they chose to hold the United Nations Climate Change Conference this year.
00:43:29.560Now, some places of the city are very, very nice, but some places of the city are very, very, I'm going to be polite, not nice.
00:43:40.260And there's a real stark contrast with how the haves and the have-nots live in this city.
00:43:47.140And that's one of the things that the United Nations, and I think by extension the media accredited by the United Nations normally, don't want to talk about.
00:43:56.840Yeah, and by not nice, I think what you mean is it's just poor, extremely poor.
00:44:02.840This is one of the most, I think the word that they use is favelized cities in the world.
00:44:12.440Favelas are, you know, the United Nations World Economic Forum dream of you'll own nothing and be happy.
00:44:20.540And that's really how 60-plus percent of this city lives, where it's just sort of clapboard housing with found materials on land they're squatting on with no hookups to any sort of sanitation service and maybe, maybe electricity.
00:44:39.800Sixty percent of the people in this city of 2.5 million live that way, and it is evident all around you.
00:44:46.140You know, what we think about Bjorn Lomborg, a Scandinavian economist who calls himself the skeptical environmentalist, and he has been banging on his drum for probably 30 years, making the same excellent point, which is if you had $100 billion, and these days you should probably say if you had a trillion dollars to make the environment better for people, you wouldn't spend it on carbon dioxide, colorless, odorless, you know,
00:45:15.400non-toxic gas that I'm exhaling as I breathe and plants inhale for photosynthesis, you would work on sanitation, clean water, electric lights, you would work on things, basic poverty remediation, clean air, clean soil, clean water.
00:45:33.340And the irony of having this conference in this slum, while the private jet crew come in to talk about parts per million of CO2, it couldn't be more bizarre, the contrast.
00:45:48.120You know, just walking around the city, frankly, it angers me, because I see the sheer amount of money spent on this conference and beautifying parts, parts of the city to obscure what's really happening here.
00:46:03.100As we said in an email we sent out earlier to say, it's a mirage.
00:46:08.060It angers me, because I think, look, and I realize I'm going to sound like a bleeding heart socialist, but I'm definitely not.
00:46:15.260But the sheer amount of money spent on this conference, where the world's environmentalists circumnavigate the globe to take a selfie at a conference, while the people around them are really suffering with abject poverty and a government that's failing them,
00:46:30.800it angers me, it angers me, 4% of the wastewater in this city is treated, only 20% of the houses are even hooked up to sewage.
00:46:41.960The streets, when it rains here, and it rains a lot here, they run brown with turds, and nobody should have to live that way when they're spending money on environmentalist conferences.
00:46:54.440Wow. I saw some of your video clips. I won't play all of them at full length here. For folks who want to see your work, we have a special compilation page at rebelun.com.
00:47:06.860But I just want to play a little bit about, and I don't want to emphasize it because it's gross.
00:47:12.080I want to emphasize it because it shows there are real environmental issues that go straight to health, quality of life, and those are being ignored.
00:47:22.360So the jet set crew can talk about parts per billion of CO2. Here's a clip that you published over the weekend. Take a look.
00:47:29.980Sheila Gunner-Reed for Rebel News. I'm here in Belem, Brazil. I'm here covering the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
00:47:37.400You might call it COP30. That's what they say in the UN parlance. But really, it's the gathering of the hypocrites, and it happens every single year.
00:47:45.980Now, right now, I'm standing in one of the first revitalization projects that the city of Belem underwent.
00:47:52.920It's called Nova Doka. That's the park name. It's a long, linear park, and it goes along a canal.
00:48:00.420Now, the canal is one of those untreated sewage canals, but the city has done its best to disguise it by planting flowers in the untreated sewage.
00:48:12.020And just in time for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, the sewage is actually claiming the lives of the flowers.
00:48:20.800It's called Nova Doka, but I'm calling it Fart Park.
00:48:24.020We were in this park initially on the lookout for the infamous fiberglass trees that were made by a Brazilian artist and erected in place of the trees that were slashed down to create the facility for the Climate Change Conference and the highway through the Amazon for the Climate Change Conference.
00:48:46.740I think roughly $5 million Canadian were spent on the fiberglass trees.
00:48:51.280I have yet to find them. I will, though, before I go home.
00:48:54.000Instead, I found what they're calling an eco-tree.
00:48:57.360Again, because they cut down a bunch of trees in the place of the real trees.
00:49:03.420They've erected these rebar structures and then put fast-growing vines up the structure, again, in lieu of actual trees.
00:49:13.360And let me remind you, we are in the Amazon rainforest.
00:49:18.440Look, people who watch my work know that I am by no means an animal rights activist.
00:49:24.560I realize that animals and humans are all part of the circle of life.
00:49:29.720And, of course, you know, I eat animals.
00:49:31.840But there was something very tragic and heartbreaking about seeing these little birds plucking around in the raw, untreated sewage in a park that is here to mask the environmental damage that took place for the environmentalists to have their week-long party.
00:49:49.640You know, it's not just that they're, you know, it's so weird that you said they're at the mouth of the Amazon, and yet they're chopping down so many trees to put a road through.
00:50:02.360I mean, the whole, you know, global warming is we've got to protect the Amazon or whatever, even though the Amazon is the greatest consumer of carbon dioxide, needs carbon dioxide.
00:50:12.640Tell me about the road that was hacked through the Amazon just for this conference.
00:50:19.400And tell me if they make it – tell me about some of the rules in place to stop reporters from knowing about this road.
00:50:27.100You know, it's actually really difficult to find the road.
00:50:31.060It took us some time, and we had to get creative.
00:50:33.720But the road roughly translates to Freedom Highway, but you're definitely not free to go looking for it or to report on it.
00:50:42.660It's a 13-kilometer stretch of highway through environmentally sensitive portions of the Amazon rainforest, and it was first tabled as a project in 2012.
00:50:55.940They said, you know what, we probably shouldn't be doing this.
00:50:58.520But when they were worried about the traffic congestion around having 55,000 delegates – that's just delegates.
00:51:05.020That's not the environmental activists and busybodies who fly in.
00:51:08.060I think it's probably half as many more that fly in for the conference.
00:51:12.600They were worried about the traffic congestion.
00:51:14.480So they thought, let's advance this project where they carve a highway through the rainforest.
00:51:21.160And look, before we get too deep into this, I'm pro-highway.
00:51:24.420I think highways can be built responsibly.
00:51:28.440But this is – you know, when they're telling me that my summer road trip is the problem while okaying a highway through the rainforest, that doesn't make any sense to me.
00:51:39.640Now, we went looking for this highway.
00:51:42.800You can sort of kind of see where it might be on a map.
00:51:46.720And we had – you know, a year ago, other media outlets had satellite footage of it and drone footage.
00:53:29.200What's behind me is what's called Avienda Liberdade.
00:53:32.700Now, that means Freedom Highway, but it is the highway, the 13-kilometer highway, that the government cut through the rainforest to alleviate the traffic, if you can believe that, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
00:53:48.380Now, this highway was first proposed in 2012, but it was put on the shelf back then because they said cutting a highway through the Amazon rainforest would be too environmentally precarious.
00:53:59.840But it's not environmentally precarious when the world's elites need a shortcut to their climate change conference.
00:54:07.020We would love to show you what this highway looks like from above as it carves its way through the Amazon rainforest, but we can't.
00:54:13.520And that's not because we don't have the equipment.
00:54:15.340We brought a drone with us, but because this project is so embarrassing to the government, they are not allowing drones to go up.
00:54:25.000In fact, last night in the city, we met a man who works security on this highway, and he said part of his job is shooting the drones down.
00:54:34.120So we could put our drone up, but we would never get the footage because we would never have the drone ever again.
00:54:44.600But cutting a highway through the rainforest, it could be problematic.
00:54:48.520But it's the least problematic thing I saw in the Amazon today because right beside this highway construction site is, I think, what they might deem a resort,
00:54:58.680but the stench of garbage piled up here in the 32-degree heat was horrific.
00:56:13.140But as far as the Canadian journalists, they're just repeaters.
00:56:16.820And they're sitting in the comfort of the air conditioning in the UN complex while we're outside telling the real stories of the city around us.
00:56:27.840I remember when Donald Trump was first elected, and that put sort of – it was like a funereal mood over this place because, you know, I remember Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015.
00:56:43.220The first thing he went to was the Paris Global Warming Summit.
00:57:27.100Are we back to the funeral procession where everyone down there knows that, sure, they can do their deals and lobbying and get their contracts, but it's not going to be the glorious utopia that they once thought?
00:57:40.460You know, I was in Marrakesh right after Donald Trump got elected, and he said he was going to tear up the Paris Agreement.
00:57:48.420And that was sort of hanging in the air like a cloud when I was there.
00:57:52.700Now, I will tell you that this doesn't seem funerary, but I think they've learned something here at the United Nations Climate Change Conference.
00:58:02.460In fact, I think they're building on that post-Donald Trump getting elected the first time censorship, and they're incorporating that into what they're doing here now.
00:58:13.540They know that that's how they win the information battle is by censoring people like me, skeptics of, you know, the taxes, change the weather mantra.
00:58:22.820And the Canadian government has signed on to basically a climate change misinformation decree and where, you know, skeptical journalists should be censored and pro-climate change journalists should be rewarded for their coverage.
00:58:44.100And that's what's coming out of this United Nations Climate Change Conference.
00:58:49.240So we're seeing them learning by censoring the internet.
00:58:56.600They're making sure that the information that we put out there, you know, firsthand journalism, they're making sure that if they had their way, it wouldn't see the light of day.
00:59:07.380Well, Brazil is a real battleground over censorship.
00:59:09.720I was there about a year ago with our colleague Efron Monsanto to cover a huge rally.
00:59:15.360I think there were 200,000 people there who were rallying for free speech after a judge banned Twitter, or now called X, from the entire country.
00:59:25.800Every single account was banned because Twitter was reporting things that this judge didn't like about politics.
00:59:33.560So Brazil really is a front line in the censorship information wars.
00:59:37.400And it's such a huge country population-wise that it is a great prize.