Rebel News Podcast - Is Jason Kenney is trying to lose and make Rachel Notley Alberta’s premier again？

00:00:00.000 Hello my friends, an incredible photograph, Jason Kenney and his health minister Tyler Shandro

00:00:04.540 having a private dinner party high above the little people. They're in a building nicknamed 0.65

00:00:11.000 the Sky Palace, white tablecloths, bottles of liquor, servants, breaking the rules for

00:00:17.460 restaurants down below. Restaurants can only have four people on a patio and there were more than

00:00:22.320 four at this secret patio, but it's not so secret anymore. I'll show you the photos

00:00:26.620 and tell you why I think this is the death knell for Alberta's Conservative Party. It makes me very sad.

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00:00:45.800 luxury and an obliviousness, a lack of self-knowledge to be living that luxury life while enforcing a

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00:01:33.420 Tonight, sometimes I feel like Jason Kenney is trying to lose and make Rachel Notley Alberta's

00:01:48.580 premier again. It's June 3rd, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

00:01:54.040 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:57.740 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:02:01.800 The only thing I have to say to the government of Hawaii Publishing is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:02:07.680 I've known Jason Kenney, the premier of Alberta, for most of my life. We became buddies when I was a law

00:02:17.860 student in Edmonton, and he was the head of the Taxpayers Federation in Alberta. Edmonton was a left

00:02:23.840 leaning town, always really has been. And we felt like we were battling on the same side. In 1997,

00:02:30.060 that's almost a quarter century ago, we both went to Ottawa at the same time. He went as a newly elected

00:02:36.640 MP, and I went as a staffer to the party leader at the time, Preston Manning, along with Raheem Jaffer,

00:02:43.300 also from Edmonton. We were part of a little team of youngsters called the Snack Pack, a funny riff on

00:02:49.100 the Liberal Party's Rat Pack. That's what Liberal MPs like Sheila Copps and John Nunziata and some of the

00:02:55.740 other youngsters had called themselves. I don't know if you can see this, but one day, the Ottawa Citizen did a fun

00:03:04.780 story on the Snack Pack, and they wanted me to pose for them while grilling some steaks on a barbecue. I said yes,

00:03:13.360 but I didn't actually have a barbecue, so I quickly ran out to buy one and assemble it quickly in time for the photo

00:03:21.480 shoot. That wasn't easy. Now, I was a single guy. I didn't actually have any groceries at home either,

00:03:27.480 so I walked across the street to a restaurant where I would hang out, and I asked if I could please get

00:03:33.140 some of their ingredients so I could, you know, make a story of how I'm such a barbecue. Anyways,

00:03:39.980 the story actually did give credit to the restaurant for the recipe. You can see there's Jason Kenney,

00:03:44.680 and there's me, and there's Raheem Jaffer, and it actually lists our weights, and we're all snackers

00:03:52.620 to this day. I guess my point is I've known Kenny for decades. I've seen him fight against overspending

00:03:57.760 as head of the Taxpayers Federation, and then against Ottawa bureaucracy as a cabinet minister

00:04:04.880 there under Steve Harper. And besides fighting against the size of government, I watched how he stood

00:04:10.700 up for religious freedom too, especially for persecuted Christians. I don't know if you remember,

00:04:15.640 but he actually set up an office of religious freedom to promote that around the world. He

00:04:19.820 criticized places like China and Pakistan for their abuse of Christians, and he set up a private refugee

00:04:25.960 program where Canadian churches could sponsor a Christian refugee to come over from, say, the Middle East

00:04:32.500 to escape persecution. So that's the Jason Kenney I've known for many years, and that was how he was as

00:04:39.520 premier, more or less, until pretty recently. Even when the pandemic caused other Canadian politicians

00:04:47.720 to go into panic, Kenney didn't. He didn't lock down as quickly, as widely, as deeply as places like

00:04:54.420 Ontario or Quebec or BC did. He held out, which I think is pretty much what Albertans wanted him to do.

00:05:00.780 But then something changed. I don't know what. Until one moment, Kenney had been the decider.

00:05:07.540 He listened to advisors, including from the public health bureaucracy, but he gave their advice a

00:05:14.340 certain weight, no less but no more than it was due. He balanced public health advice against other

00:05:21.240 concerns like, I don't know, other harms from the lockdowns, economic harm, mental health harm, and the

00:05:27.540 alleged positive effects of a lockdown, of which I am skeptical there are any. I mean, one of the things

00:05:33.940 Alberta has been better than the other provinces at doing is showing relevant health statistics,

00:05:39.240 not just talking about cases, which really means nothing, but real things like, is anyone actually

00:05:43.840 getting really sick? Is anyone dying? Okay, who is getting sick and dying?

00:05:50.060 Here's the Alberta government homepage on those stats. Average age of death, 80. Number of people in

00:05:57.300 intensive care in the whole province, 122. Just for your information, there are 106 acute care

00:06:04.120 hospitals in Alberta. So that's just about one ICU patient per hospital. So they get their own

00:06:10.880 hospital. Now, I feel bad for anyone in the hospital, but we're not about to be overwhelmed

00:06:16.740 here by a wave of sick people, thank goodness. Here's the best chart on their page, best in terms

00:06:22.740 of telling you what's really going on, the most informative. This tells you how many people who

00:06:27.480 died from the virus had these other serious conditions. You can see 85% had high blood

00:06:34.420 pressure, 53% had heart disease, 50% had kidney disease, 47% had dementia, etc. In fact, the vast

00:06:42.580 majority of people who died in Alberta, average age 80, had at least three of those serious diseases.

00:06:51.740 That puts things into context, doesn't it? If you're 80 years old, and you have three or four

00:06:57.700 or five serious diseases, you are at risk, that's for sure. So why would a premier of a province

00:07:04.580 shut down schools for kids, or restaurants for families, or rodeos for young people? Well, I don't

00:07:11.100 know. But there was a certain point where things just flipped. I don't know what it was that made

00:07:17.860 Kenny move from being the decider, who was pumping the brakes on the lockdowns, to being a rubber

00:07:23.680 stamper, stepping on the gas, just like other premiers have done. Until that moment, he was

00:07:30.280 the closest thing Canada had to a Ron DeSantis, taking common sense precautions, but not throwing

00:07:35.580 out the baby with the bath water. Then something flipped, and I don't know what, now he's a little

00:07:43.460 bit more like Doug Ford. And remember what Doug Ford said about who really makes the decisions?

00:07:48.600 Here's a video of that. I'm going to be very frank. There's no politician in this country

00:07:52.600 who's going to disagree with their chief medical officer. They just aren't going to do it. They

00:07:57.840 might as well throw a rope around their neck and jump off a bridge. They're done. I'm telling you 0.99

00:08:01.720 the facts. It's very simple. I don't know. What caused the flippening? Was it when a dozen of his

00:08:06.880 own senior staff and MLAs and cabinet ministers were caught going to luxury vacations over Christmas

00:08:12.560 in Vegas and Hawaii? Again, I've got nothing against vacations in Vegas and Hawaii. It's just

00:08:17.220 how do you do that, and how do you do it in secret, a secret guilty way? They all traveled. How do you do

00:08:23.800 that when you're telling mere citizens to stay at home, no luxury travel? I understand their excuse.

00:08:31.620 They say they wanted to get life back to normal. Okay, I get it. But why were they starting with

00:08:35.200 themselves rather than with ordinary citizens? Anyways, it was a big black eye, that whole

00:08:40.040 Aloha Gate. It looked luxurious. It looked like the rules were just for the little people. It was a big

00:08:45.340 landmine that Kenney stepped on, and he actually paid a pretty big price for it. Not only did he

00:08:50.820 lose cabinet ministers, but he lost his own chief of staff over it. That's a big deal. But that's the

00:08:57.480 thing. Your private face has to match your public face. As long as Kenney was keeping the province

00:09:03.300 open, resisting the public health deep state, I think he could morally justify living his own life,

00:09:10.620 having his staff live their own lives sanely. I think it was the contradiction that did him in.

00:09:16.820 And then they really started ratcheting up their lockdown. I don't know if that was driven by

00:09:21.860 Kenney himself, but the public health deep state sure loved it, and I think they frankly don't care

00:09:29.220 if Kenney does poorly. I'm talking about the various public health officers, the Alberta health

00:09:33.460 bureaucrats, whatever police forces they convinced to help them enforce their non-criminal laws.

00:09:40.400 I think that whole deep state started getting itchy. They wanted a war like there were in other

00:09:45.260 provinces. So they jailed Pastor James Coates for 35 days, maximum security prison.

00:09:50.440 And when he was out, they expropriated his church. And they hold it to this day with armed guards.

00:09:59.140 They literally arrested Pastor Arthur Pawlowski on the highway, in the middle of the street,

00:10:04.380 in the rain, cars whizzing by like he was a mob boss or something. They arrested Pastor Tim Stevens,

00:10:10.200 too, in front of his own family. Each of these pastors was jailed. I'm talking about maximum security

00:10:17.680 prisons in each case. They also jailed businessmen, too, like Chris Scott of the Whistle Stop Diner.

00:10:24.280 They gave tickets to that cowboy who had a rodeo. They just went nuts, which is weird because the

00:10:32.160 timing of their crackdown made no sense medically. Here's the chart of mortalities from the virus in

00:10:39.540 Alberta. I've shown you this before. You can see it was high over Christmas, aka flu season,

00:10:44.060 but it's fallen by, I don't know, 80, 90 percent then. So why the brutal enforcement now?

00:10:51.440 Why the jailing of pastors now? That can only be political. Pandemic's over. And Kenny and his

00:10:58.600 justice minister and his health minister were all fine with the lockdown, the crackdown.

00:11:02.460 I don't know. I don't know what changed. I don't know what happened. Maybe it was just political

00:11:09.360 theater to avoid the media party being mean to them, to avoid some other consequence. I don't

00:11:13.620 know. But something changed. I sense the senior politicians, Kenny and those around him, never

00:11:20.260 really believed in the lockdown because, would you look at this? These pictures were just published

00:11:26.620 yesterday. It's Jason Kenney and his health minister, Tyler Shandro, another senior staff

00:11:32.260 having a luxury white tablecloth dinner, bottles of wine and whiskey, servants on a patio roof of a

00:11:42.260 tower overlooking the city of Edmonton. What a glorious spring night. They're the masters of the

00:11:47.760 universe, living the high life. Except they were caught. See, in Alberta right now, you can't go to a

00:11:53.960 restaurant and have that many people sit together. Here are the official rules as of June 1st for

00:11:59.520 restaurants. Restaurants, outdoor patio dining for up to four household members per table or three

00:12:06.900 people if diners who live alone are with their two close contacts. Yeah, okay. Look at that picture

00:12:13.460 again. They are at an outdoor patio. They're each from different households. There's more than three

00:12:20.220 people there, more than four people there. And then, of course, there's the waiters, the servants.

00:12:25.720 What is that place, by the way? Is that some secret government restaurant? Looks like it. Table,

00:12:32.380 tablecloth, waiters, service, bottles of liquor. But it's in a government building. Is that a secret

00:12:38.460 government restaurant? Because no other restaurants are allowed in Alberta right now except, as I've described

00:12:44.620 above, no indoor restaurants, just patios with strict limits. So what is this place? Can I book a table

00:12:50.900 there? Or is it just for the bosses? Well, that is a very special restaurant. It's in a very special

00:13:00.440 building. Its nickname is the Sky Palace. Isn't that perfect? It's where the king and his court can look

00:13:08.600 at their kingdom. They're the master of all they survey. They maybe can look down with a telescope

00:13:14.720 to make sure the little people aren't gathering in groups of more than four while they do. That Sky 0.99

00:13:21.440 Palace, as it's called, was actually built under the tenure of Alison Redford, one of the least

00:13:27.100 successful premiers of Alberta, the shortest-lived premier who was actually elected in the dying days

00:13:34.620 of the Progressive Conservative Party about a decade ago. And one of the things that sealed her fate

00:13:39.380 was this Sky Palace. It was just so out of touch with the times and the temperament. It would have

00:13:45.300 had not just luxury offices, but an apartment for the premier and her family. It was a private

00:13:52.460 penthouse at the top of a skyscraper just for the premier, nearly three million bucks to renovate,

00:13:59.740 of tax dollars in a government building. And it was so shocking. It was the final proof that the PCs

00:14:06.980 had to go and that they were thinking of the government as their own property.

00:14:12.840 Surely a right-wing successor party like the United Conservative Party would know that. Surely the

00:14:18.180 former boss of the Alberta Tax Federation would know that. Surely in a time of high unemployment and

00:14:24.400 recession and lockdowns, that luxury Sky Palace would have been avoided, would have been padlocked,

00:14:30.440 never to be seen, never to be used, like a haunted house in a mansion, a room. We never go into that

00:14:35.700 wing. We never go into that room. Death lies there. But there it is, and there they were.

00:14:41.440 It reminds me of Animal Farm by George Orwell. I just reread that book this year. I recommend you do, too.

00:14:48.140 When the animals had their rebellion against the human farmers, they drove out the cruel farmer.

00:14:52.680 They had a series of rules, as you know. But as the pigs, the ruling class, became a bit too

00:14:58.540 comfortable as the new dictators, the rules were changed. One of them was a rule against drinking 0.97

00:15:04.800 alcohol. Let me quote from the book. Muriel, reading over the seven commandments to herself,

00:15:09.940 noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong. They had thought

00:15:17.160 the fifth commandment was, no animals shall drink alcohol. But there were two words that they had

00:15:23.100 forgotten. Actually, the commandment read, no animals shall drink alcohol to excess. Yeah, no, that wasn't

00:15:31.540 the original commandment. That's what the pigs changed it to. I don't know if you remember that book, 0.99

00:15:36.260 Animal Farm, but it ends when the pigs are having a meeting with a neighboring farmer over alcoholic

00:15:42.940 drinks and they're gambling and they're negotiating terrible things for the farm, the things they

00:15:48.360 rebelled against originally. And it became impossible to tell the pigs from the men anymore. Let me just 0.67

00:15:53.460 read the last sentences of the book. Twelve voices were shouting in anger and they were all alike. No

00:16:00.120 question now what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man 0.91

00:16:06.080 again and from man to pig and from pig to man again. But already it was impossible to say which was 0.77

00:16:12.740 which. That's the last sentence in the book, Animal Farm. And that's the thing, that image of all the

00:16:20.380 places, of all the things, the luxury, not just luxury, that luxury, that patio, that sky palace, that

00:16:29.180 building that caused the undoing of the PCs, that led in many ways to the creation of the new UCP

00:16:35.720 party. They made it necessary for the former Taxpayers Federation leader to come back from

00:16:40.880 Ottawa to Edmonton to liberate the province. That is the place they went for their luxury dinner

00:16:45.920 with liquor, with white linens, with servants looking over the city like kings. And the health

00:16:53.760 minister, Tyler Shandro, the one who ordered the arrest and jailing of the Christian pastors,

00:16:58.540 who ordered the arrest of Chris Scott for opening his diner in Mirror, Alberta. Tyler Shandro was at

00:17:04.340 this dinner party. Yeah, no, I'm so sorry. Because I've known Jason Kenney for most of my life and he

00:17:09.460 truly has been a conservative champion. But this bell cannot be unrung. The polls say he's going to

00:17:16.620 lose the next election, which is incredible. And those polls were taken before these photos were

00:17:21.760 published. He's going to make Rachel Notley the NDP premier again. I just think it's going to happen.

00:17:27.740 I never would have thought it. I never would have imagined them going to the sky palace. But really,

00:17:31.760 what's the sky palace when you're fine with jailing pastors for a month? If you can live with that,

00:17:40.440 you can live with this. I don't think they're going to be in government for long. The only question is,

00:17:46.200 will their own party walk with them into the next election? Stay with us for now.

00:18:01.760 Do you support the Prime Minister's decision to veto the Northern Gateway Pipeline, Mr. Carney?

00:18:13.620 I understand the veto of the Northern Gateway Pipeline. Do you support it?

00:18:19.480 Given both environmental and commercial reasons. Do you support it? I think it's sensible. I wasn't

00:18:26.060 involved in the decision, but I think it was the right decision. And yet your company has invested

00:18:30.360 billions of dollars in oil companies in both Brazil and the UAE to buy pipelines. You've bought

00:18:38.360 billions of dollars of pipelines as a company in the last five years. Do you support those investments?

00:18:45.460 Mr. Poliev, there is a global energy system. And one of the issues, I'm trying to explain a bit of

00:18:52.120 how the economy works. Thank you so much.

00:18:54.760 Well, it may help. One of the issues for this committee in thinking about a sustainable transition

00:19:01.820 is where is Canada's role in those as energy transitions from fossil fuels to renewables?

00:19:10.340 And in different jurisdictions, into different geography, it matters. It matters. And this is

00:19:15.920 a fundamental point. I'm sorry, this is a fundamental point. You're finally getting to a point

00:19:22.040 that is relevant to this committee's inquiry.

00:19:24.740 What you're saying is you oppose pipelines in Canada, but you support them in the UAE and in

00:19:30.520 Brazil. That's what you've actually said. There are specific pipelines. That's your double standard.

00:19:35.040 It is not a double standard. It is a double standard. No, it's not. You make billions of

00:19:38.880 dollars off foreign pipelines and you shut them down here at home, putting our people out of work.

00:19:43.100 That's my choice for leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Pauly of Grilling,

00:19:49.160 Mark Carney, the former banker in the UK, now coming back to Canada. I think he's going to throw

00:19:56.000 his hat into the ring pretty quick as a Trudeau liberal. I don't think Carney had ever been asked

00:20:00.840 tough questions before in his life. And I don't think he did a good job. He, of course, supports

00:20:07.700 shutting down pipelines in Canada in the name of climate, you see, but his company believes in

00:20:15.020 building pipelines for OPEC countries. Well, he's not the only one in that globalist world who hates,

00:20:21.440 hates, hates ethical oil in liberal democracies, but supports them in unfree or partially free

00:20:29.520 countries. I want to bring your attention to an article in one of my favorite go-to places for info on

00:20:36.880 climate and global warming. I'm talking about climatedepot.com. It was originally published

00:20:41.560 in Fox News. It's by DeRoy Murdoch, who has such a cheeky headline. He says,

00:20:47.440 is Joe Biden a Russian asset? Trump's hard-won energy independence is gone. And joining me now

00:20:55.640 to talk about this is the publisher of Climate Depot, our friend, Mark Morano. Mark, great to see

00:21:00.220 you. I know that DeRoy Murdoch means that sort of tongue in cheek, but really, if Joe Biden were,

00:21:06.000 a Russian asset, shutting down pipelines, stopping drilling in Alaska, long waiting lines for gas

00:21:14.960 stations across America, it would be tough to see the difference between Biden, who was under

00:21:19.600 the thrall of Putin and Russia, and the Biden we have in charge today. No, it wouldn't. And that's

00:21:26.100 a great, great headline and a great thing by Murdoch. I mean, that's exactly, they asked if Donald Trump

00:21:32.000 was involved in Russia collusion based on a joke about Hillary Clinton's email hacking. And that

00:21:37.800 started the whole investigation. And here we have actual, you know, this is actual work that Russians 0.87

00:21:44.000 couldn't have planted if they had an asset to do better work than this, to shut down American domestic 0.71

00:21:49.460 energy. And of course, Russia will be benefiting. And you could also say is he a Chinese asset on the same

00:21:55.440 level. Because as we're shutting down our domestic energy, we're going to be ramping up, of course,

00:22:01.220 all the rare earth mining and minerals for the solar and wind mandates. And of course, China is set. So

00:22:06.640 this has probably been the greatest six months for, well, actually, if you want to go 18 months,

00:22:12.480 since the start of the pandemic, that's probably the greatest time in China's history. And I'm talking 1.00

00:22:16.980 about China's long history. Never has China been more strengthened and their goals achieved in the

00:22:23.900 last 18 months with the global lockdowns and COVID. And now, you know, Joe Biden's election and

00:22:28.640 even more hammering of the United States. But Russia is also going to be benefiting greatly from these 0.81

00:22:34.900 policies. Yeah, I mean, I think it couldn't be clearer, Joe Biden approving the Nord Stream pipeline

00:22:41.580 that really makes Europe dependent on Gazprom, which is, of course, a strategic company. That's the

00:22:48.740 title. It's only 50% by the Kremlin, but strategic in that any foreign contracts it signs have to be

00:22:56.760 approved by the Kremlin. And historically, the Kremlin has turned on and off the gas to punish

00:23:03.840 customers for political. I mean, Ukraine is a perfect example. They shut off the gas several times

00:23:08.920 in the cold of winter. Pricing, if someone supports Russia politically, they get cheaper gas. If they

00:23:16.180 oppose Russia, it's more expensive gas. I'm not some conspiracy theorist about how Russia's evil,

00:23:21.460 Russia's evil. I don't think Russia is friendly. I think they're authoritarian and half free,

00:23:28.700 half unfree. But I can see what they're doing with Gazprom. Here's Joe Biden explaining why he

00:23:36.600 doesn't have a problem giving Nord Stream 2 pipeline the green light. Take a look.

00:23:41.380 Why have you decided to meet with President Putin? And why are you letting Germany and Russia to

00:23:48.020 continue building Nord Stream 2? Because it's almost completely clear, number one. The idea that

00:23:55.540 anything that, and it's not like I can allow Germany to do something now. I have been opposed to Nord Stream 2

00:24:03.340 in the beginning, but it only has, it's almost completed by the time I took this office. And

00:24:10.340 to go ahead and close sanctions now would, I think, be counterproductive in terms of our European

00:24:17.200 relations. They know how strongly I feel. And I hope we can work on how they handle it from this point.

00:24:26.460 Mark, I wish Joe Biden were as supportive of American pipelines and American jobs. And

00:24:32.240 I mean, the Keystone XL pipeline was nearly completed. Those are the reasons he's supporting

00:24:37.760 Russia's pipeline. How can he, like, is there no cognitive dissonance for a guy who supports

00:24:43.980 Russian pipelines, but shuts down American pipelines?

00:24:47.260 It just makes absolutely no strategic sense, economic sense, domestic energy strategy sense. It makes no

00:24:55.380 sense whatsoever. And even though the colonial pipeline, which I said was hacked, the Biden

00:24:59.840 administration was kind of like, oh, you know, that's up to them. You know, they weren't even

00:25:02.940 interested in helping a major pipeline or investigate who hacked them. And, you know, this is one state,

00:25:08.660 one legitimate function of the government is to actually investigate. But you're right,

00:25:12.440 allowing Russia to do this. I was in Poland actually three times for three separate United Nations 0.76

00:25:17.200 conferences over the last 15 years. The most recent one in Poland, we actually had an alternative UN

00:25:23.200 summit. And it was all about like what you're talking about, the Russians punishing people,

00:25:27.880 very similar to way in lockdown America, Canada, around the world. If you don't go along, you're

00:25:33.280 the ones that get punished with their policies and you get the extra thing, extra punishment from it.

00:25:39.340 But they, Poland does not want to give up their coal mines for the exact reason that they don't want

00:25:44.300 to have to rely more and more on Russian energy because they know what it's like. I don't know how Joe

00:25:49.900 Biden has this cognitive dissonance. You just wish that he would have the same energy,

00:25:54.460 domestic energy policy that he's giving, that he's allowing and pushing for Russia to have in

00:25:59.540 Europe. This is, it's, it's, it's crazy. But I think on a separate note, within six months of just

00:26:05.520 Joe Biden, everything President Trump had done is just being washed away. You know, we were the

00:26:11.340 world's largest oil and gas producer. We had the biggest, more energy exports and imports for the

00:26:18.940 first time since Harry Truman was president. We were sitting pretty. And then this comes along.

00:26:24.800 And as we hammer ourselves, we're opening up China and Russia and with, with, with the pipeline and,

00:26:30.200 and Europe, it's just an incredible thing how this is benefiting Russia.

00:26:33.740 Yeah. Just one more note on Russia. You know, I, I haven't looked at it in a while,

00:26:37.020 but I remember when I wrote my book, Ethical Oil and my follow-up Groundswell,

00:26:40.480 there was a map, I think it was from Izvestia, the Russian media outlet,

00:26:45.320 that, that showed all the different countries in Europe to which Gazprom sells gas.

00:26:51.180 And it shows the price. And you look at the map and said, there's no rhyme or reason here.

00:26:57.980 Some countries pay two, three times what others do. There, the, the, there was this one quirk

00:27:04.980 where a pipeline went through one country and then the next country it went through, same pipeline.

00:27:13.840 It was cheaper. So the gas was going further through a pipeline further. And how could it possibly

00:27:21.640 be cheaper for a further destination except through political manipulation? You would look at this map

00:27:27.360 and there was no way it made sense other than when you realize the politics immediately, the map makes

00:27:35.840 sense. And I just think it's incredible that something that's so blatantly politically, I mean,

00:27:41.220 I got no beef with Russia selling its gas. What do I care? Other than it is not a commercial tool.

00:27:47.020 It's a diplomatic military tool. And I don't, I've got to think Biden knows that. But then again,

00:27:52.780 his son, Hunter Biden was involved in all sorts of shenanigans with Russian and Ukrainian and, 0.83

00:27:59.660 and, and foreign energy oligarchs. Like he, Hunter Biden took a multimillion dollar payoff from the

00:28:07.140 wife of the former mayor of Moscow. What on earth is that about?

00:28:11.700 Yeah. I mean, and that, that's a whole other thing. Biden's also asked legitimate question.

00:28:18.060 Does Biden have a, a compromised family situation here? In fact, when Biden said at the debate with

00:28:23.500 Trump last fall, I personally have not benefited. Well, his personal bank account, well, his, he may

00:28:29.860 not personally have any way to show for it, but his family wealth has increased radically because of

00:28:35.400 what Hunter Biden was doing. But on this pipeline, the, the, the, the gas pound Nord Stream 2,

00:28:41.440 the environmentalists are the ones that should be outraged. The same environmentalists who cheered

00:28:46.100 Joe Biden shutting down Keystone are now, I think their estimate is 74% of the global warming benefit

00:28:53.640 is going to be wiped out because they're now pushing this. So it just goes to show you that

00:28:57.880 whenever you shut down, particularly Canada, United States, or, or Europe, our energy supplies,

00:29:04.680 and you're, all you're doing is you're raising emissions period. You're outsourcing it to people

00:29:08.820 without, uh, the same environmental standards. You know, that I know that, but this is just,

00:29:13.480 I don't know where this is going to end because three more years of this under a Biden presidency,

00:29:18.520 he can seriously hobble. They're not just going after these projects, you know, and not allowing

00:29:23.940 them. They're going after the financial structure behind it. So you can't even fund this. They won't

00:29:28.700 even be able to get bank loans. This is a form of Chinese social credit system. Now, if you own an

00:29:33.300 energy company, any kind of mining, any kind of energy exploration, you will now be considered,

00:29:38.960 you know, a, a, uh, a narrative wall in our society and you can't even get a private industry

00:29:44.120 to fund you. Huh? Hey, I want to talk about something else. One of my favorite cities these

00:29:48.640 days, even though I haven't been there in over a year because of the quarantine up here, uh, is Miami.

00:29:55.780 I mean, I, I love all of Florida because it's the free state. It's the great Ron DeSantis is the

00:30:01.660 governor. I love how he's fighting back against so many things, including big tech.

00:30:06.160 And, and I like that mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez. I like his style. He's upbeat. He seems

00:30:11.620 like he's supportive of the governor. He's Republican himself. Um, and I like the fact that he's future

00:30:17.020 thinking. I like the fact that he's into crypto. There's a lot of things I like about Miami. Uh,

00:30:22.160 and mainly it's jealousy because I'm trapped here in the anti-Miami Toronto, the most locked down

00:30:27.100 city in the world. But I see that, uh, one of my heroes, Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami

00:30:32.040 is participating, or at least they allege that he'll be participating in a conservative

00:30:40.160 climate rally. And that gives me the willies. Cause I know up here in Canada, our conservative

00:30:46.000 party has totally bought in to the carbon tax. They're calling it a carbon levy. And I've just

00:30:51.040 worried that when conservatives think they can buy the love of the left, if they just

00:30:56.420 give that green new deal light, I'm worried. It's a path that goes nowhere. Good. What do you have

00:31:03.280 to say about this conservative climate rally in Miami? First of all, I want to maybe burst your

00:31:08.680 bubble about the mayor of Miami. I never trusted the guy. He could talk a good game on some issues,

00:31:13.640 but here's two reasons why I didn't trust them. The COVID lockdowns and the COVID mask mandates.

00:31:18.320 He pandered to the mainstream media on that. I particularly even the mask mandates well

00:31:23.320 beyond that. He was not in line with governor DeSantis on that. So I didn't trust him. If he

00:31:27.800 wasn't, if he couldn't see through what was happening with COVID lockdowns and the mask mandates,

00:31:31.740 I was not able to trust him. And now of course, I've seen him do pandering interviews with mainstream

00:31:37.180 media about climate change in Miami. First of all, Miami is sinking subsidence, a natural process,

00:31:43.240 and it's always had king tides and other floods, and they try to tie that to climate change. So what

00:31:49.260 he's done now is he's tied up with these conservative, allegedly Republican climate groups,

00:31:53.900 one of them by Benjamin Bakke, who actually interviewed me for an hour recently. And I have

00:31:59.140 a 10 minute highlight reel of how that interview went. But essentially, Ezra, their message is,

00:32:04.160 Republicans believe climate is a problem. It needs a solution. And they want to come up with a

00:32:08.480 Green New Deal light with a, you know, some lesser proposal that the Democrats are, but it never

00:32:13.960 has historically worked. They've given over the framing. They've given over the messaging. They're

00:32:18.500 not challenging the narrative on any of this. They've given up on challenging any of the science.

00:32:23.120 And instead, it's a me too, not so fast Republican who eventually will turn into the me too.

00:32:28.740 And you cannot peddle a Green New Deal light because the people you're peddling it to aren't going to 0.98

00:32:33.380 think it's strong enough. But that's what the mayor of Miami has got himself into. But I'm not,

00:32:37.800 you know, I don't think much of him anyway, because he already proved himself

00:32:41.160 no good on the COVID lockdowns and mask mandates.

00:32:45.540 Well, I mean, I'm just thinking, again, I'm here in Toronto and summer is a lovely three weeks

00:32:52.120 long up here. We're in the middle of our three weeks. I'm kidding around. I mean, listen, it's

00:32:55.580 cold up here. And one of the reasons Canadians love Miami, there's a lot of Canadians on the East

00:33:00.340 Coast to go down to Miami on the West Coast, again, before the quarantines, people go to, I don't know,

00:33:05.580 Phoenix or whatever. It's the climate. You know, the fact that Miami has a gorgeous climate,

00:33:11.020 that's half the fun of the place. It seems a bit weird for the mayor of Miami to be

00:33:15.900 kvetching about the climate. Now, is this going to spread? Is this just some virtue signaling by a

00:33:21.400 few low level Republicans? Or is this something that's going to spread within the party like

00:33:27.260 is being done, unfortunately, up here in Canada in our Conservative Party?

00:33:30.920 Well, you know, I don't know. The House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, about a month ago,

00:33:36.520 came out and gave a speech on climate. And it was just atrocious talking all of their all of the

00:33:42.100 left and climate activists framing and climate's the problem. And they want to plant trees, which

00:33:46.980 is fine. But they're selling tree planting as though it's some kind of alternative to the Green

00:33:51.760 New Deal and will solve climate change. They want carbon capture, which again, Washington spends

00:33:57.080 money. I long ago gave up worrying about or trying to stop Washington from wasting money. They want

00:34:02.580 to spend money on carbon capture, fine. But this is where they're headed. And it's a package of just

00:34:09.180 virtue signaling things. But the problem is they're no longer challenging any aspect of the climate

00:34:14.340 narrative. And that's the problem with this whole thing. Again, I don't care if they spend money. I

00:34:18.640 don't care if they do boondoggle programs like carbon capture. But this is where we're headed. And a lot

00:34:24.440 of them support carbon taxes, a lot of these founders. And of course, they'll find some common

00:34:30.780 ground with the left on that. I always laugh because where libertarians go wrong, in my view,

00:34:36.640 politically, is they're most legislatively effective where they agree with liberals. So that's why they

00:34:43.800 can always get anti-police or pro-pornography or prostitution, drugs. They'll always be successful

00:34:50.780 in that area. But in other areas where they're with a disagreement, particularly economic issues,

00:34:54.800 they have no chance of success. And I think that's what we're finding with the Republican

00:34:58.940 climate movement, is it will have some success, but it's going to be all on the terms of the

00:35:03.860 climate activists.

00:35:05.040 Yeah, well, that's disappointing. Hopefully, we can get Mayor Suarez to talk more about crypto

00:35:09.620 and a little bit less about climate. And I'm glad that that governor is just doing better all the

00:35:16.120 time. Give me 30 seconds on that. I mean, listen, you follow these things more closely than I do.

00:35:21.660 You are an American. Do you like the looks of DeSantis for a possible 2024 candidacy?

00:35:28.860 You're asking me questions. These are good questions. I like DeSantis' views and policies.

00:35:33.180 Originally, he was a little weak on COVID, but then he immediately recovered and became the leader,

00:35:37.440 I think. However, he does have, you know, in terms of running for president, he comes off,

00:35:41.980 to me, a little bit too slick as a politician, a little bit too telegraphed. Christy Noem is

00:35:47.560 someone, but I'm worried she may have the Palin effect of just not enough gravitas behind her. 1.00

00:35:52.480 But she's another one. But DeSantis, you have to remember, if you're thinking of moving to

00:35:56.620 Florida, I always remind people, he won by one tenth of one percent, and he almost lost to an

00:36:00.620 Andrew Cuomo-like Democrat. So if that election had gone the other way, Florida would have been

00:36:05.660 locked down, similar to, you know, to New York and Michigan, possibly. But interestingly enough,

00:36:11.760 with the future of Florida, with all the New Yorkers and Northeastern people moving there,

00:36:17.780 it's possible it could go either way. But Trump did win handily in Florida. So that might be good

00:36:22.400 news. Maybe Florida has gotten even more conservative. But yeah, DeSantis is a great

00:36:26.020 option for 2024. Well, I'm glad to hear it. And there's some interesting names there. Well,

00:36:30.740 great to catch up with you, my friend. Thanks for the update, as always. And we'll keep in touch

00:36:34.420 with you and ClimateDepot.com. Thank you, Ezra. Appreciate it. All right. Cheers. See you later.

00:36:39.640 There you have it, Mark Morano. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:36:41.760 Hey, welcome back. On my show last night, Enzo writes, how are people still listening to Fauci?

00:36:59.260 Oh, still listening to him. He's treated as a secular saint. Although it was shocking to me

00:37:05.380 that his book, he's got a new book, just like Bonnie Henry, the public health officer of BC,

00:37:10.600 she managed time during this emergency to write a book about herself. Yeah. Sounds like a really

00:37:16.020 busy emergency. Fauci did too. But the book was yanked from Amazon and all the other distributors

00:37:21.700 yesterday. I wonder if there were just so many lies that were revealed by these emails. I think

00:37:26.280 he's being unpersonated. I'm only half kidding when I say there's a chance he'll be Jeffrey Epstein over

00:37:31.500 it. Jeffrey Epstein was in the middle of such scandals that global leaders, billionaires like Bill Gates,

00:37:39.300 his good friend, would have had an enormous interest in him not testifying. I don't think

00:37:44.860 there's that sexual element with Anthony Fauci. I think there's something far more grave.

00:37:50.800 The nature of the pandemic and the culpability of that Wuhan Institute for Virology. Yeah,

00:37:56.240 it would not shock me if Anthony Fauci was Jeffrey Epstein. And I know that sounds like a conspiracy

00:38:01.340 theory. It's not a theory. I'm just telling you it wouldn't surprise me if given what's come out about his

00:38:06.940 warnings he received about the Wuhan virus and given his role in funding gain-of-function research.

00:38:14.000 Wouldn't surprise me if Anthony Fauci did not live out the year.

00:38:18.200 Club writes, gain-of-function research is a politically correct term for

00:38:21.280 bioweapon research. Isn't that the truth? You know, I first heard gain-of-function,

00:38:26.960 I don't even know, like that's just such a generic, what does that mean?

00:38:30.260 You're exactly right. That's a fancy way of saying, let's make weapons out of viruses. 0.68

00:38:37.440 On a publication ban case, Andy writes, way to go rebel, fixing the broken system,

00:38:41.580 even for the people that hate you. Yeah, I mean, I still have to see the form of the ruling and we

00:38:47.080 still have to learn what we can or can't report. But I thought it was incredible that we were the only

00:38:52.840 media company in court asking for the clarity, asking for these publication bans to be pruned

00:38:59.820 back. And I think that says two things. First of all, the media party is probably broke. And second

00:39:06.920 of all, they don't actually care about holding power to account anymore because they've merged big

00:39:12.360 media and big tech and big government have really joined up. It's only the independent media you can

00:39:20.080 trust now. That's our show for today. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Number

00:39:25.380 World Headquarters, see you at home. Good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - June 04, 2021

Is Jason Kenney is trying to lose and make Rachel Notley Alberta’s premier again？

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