Rebel News Podcast - April 27, 2019


“It's bad enough that Notre Dame burned on Macron's watch ‘by accident.’ But what if it was terrorism？”


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In the wake of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, Ezra Levant asks the question: What caused it to burn down? And why is the government refusing to admit that it's a mystery? Is it because they don't know what happened? Or because they just don't care?

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00:00:00.000 Hey, Rebels, I asked some questions today about the Notre Dame Cathedral fire.
00:00:05.540 I have no idea what happened, and that in itself is a cause for concern.
00:00:09.700 Why don't we know what happened?
00:00:11.280 It's been almost two weeks.
00:00:13.160 But then again, when I think about it, we don't know what happened in the Mandalay Bay shooting,
00:00:17.980 the worst mass shooting in American history.
00:00:21.200 And that's been years.
00:00:22.520 Why is that?
00:00:23.860 I don't think it's because it's a mystery.
00:00:26.200 I think it's because someone's decided we shouldn't know.
00:00:29.240 I mean, I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I just want to ask questions.
00:00:32.320 Is that okay?
00:00:33.400 I hope you enjoy my monologue.
00:00:35.080 Hey, before I let you go, can you go to the rebel.media slash shows and become a premium subscriber?
00:00:41.640 It's eight bucks a month.
00:00:42.740 Helps us keep the lights on.
00:00:44.040 You get a video version of the show, and I'd love it if you saw the video here.
00:00:48.840 In fact, we play you a very important clip in French.
00:00:54.140 An interview with the chief architect of the cathedral, who for 13 years was in charge of fire suppression.
00:01:01.340 And you will only hear the French because the English is on the screen in captions.
00:01:07.800 So I got to tell you, this is one of those times where you got to have the video version.
00:01:12.680 So please go to the rebel.media slash shows.
00:01:15.020 It's eight bucks a month or 80 bucks for the whole year.
00:01:17.100 And you get to see the video.
00:01:18.840 You got to see this chief architect.
00:01:21.260 He explains the insanity of the theories of how this place burned.
00:01:26.240 And he's not some kook. 0.72
00:01:27.840 For 13 years, he was in charge of fire suppression.
00:01:30.100 Anyways, without further ado, here's my questions about the Notre Dame Cathedral.
00:01:34.960 You're listening to a Rebel Media Podcast.
00:01:38.220 Tonight, can I show you what the man in charge of fire protection at the Notre Dame Church said?
00:01:43.860 It's April 26th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
00:01:47.100 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:52.320 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:56.380 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:02:07.560 Do you know what caused the fire in the Notre Dame Cathedral?
00:02:11.420 I mean, do you know?
00:02:12.640 Or did you just hear some rumor and that's enough?
00:02:14.980 If you think you know, are you sure?
00:02:18.320 Now, I always tell our reporters here at The Rebel, there is no need for conspiracy theories.
00:02:22.980 The world is crazy enough as it is.
00:02:25.920 The truth is strange enough.
00:02:27.540 We don't need to invent conspiracy theories.
00:02:29.740 There are enough conspiracy facts.
00:02:32.080 My favorite example, I've been going on about it for almost 10 years.
00:02:35.540 I've been showing this campaign plan by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
00:02:40.160 They call it the Tar Sands Campaign.
00:02:43.020 And it was a detailed plan to destroy the oil sands, as you can see, by defaming them, by denormalizing, by suing them, by using Aboriginal people as cannon fodder. 0.98
00:02:52.340 This is from their plan.
00:02:53.380 And, of course, using Canadian front groups, including the one that was run by Gerald Butts, called the World Wildlife Fund.
00:02:59.580 So that is literally a conspiracy.
00:03:02.680 It's not a conspiracy theory.
00:03:04.160 They actually conspired.
00:03:05.760 I've been hollering about that for 10 years.
00:03:08.380 I think finally in the last month, really, the mainstream media started paying a tiny bit of attention to it.
00:03:13.400 But my point is, the world is crazy enough as it is, you do not need to make up dramas.
00:03:19.940 Occam's Razor, have you ever heard of that?
00:03:21.960 That's sort of a philosophical idea, very simple.
00:03:24.500 It's usually right.
00:03:25.320 It's an old rule of thumb that the simplest explanation is usually the right explanation.
00:03:30.880 And there's a variation on Occam's Razor that's useful for dealing with people, especially bureaucracies.
00:03:37.520 Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
00:03:43.400 As in, if someone is evil or someone is dumb, they're probably dumb.
00:03:48.000 But I'm afraid we live in an era of great deception where there is both malice and stupidity.
00:03:56.820 And the people we trust the most to tell us the truth no longer seem to do it.
00:04:02.140 Think of what we learned from the two-year, $50 million special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller.
00:04:08.140 For two years, everyone in a position of trust in society, the media especially, but every think tank, every pundit, every expert, every lawyer, every professor, the whole elite.
00:04:22.040 Daniel Pipes calls them the 5P professionals.
00:04:24.280 Press politicians, police, prosecutors, professors.
00:04:26.200 They all misled the world together with their conspiracy theory about Donald Trump and Russia.
00:04:32.020 They all said there was collusion.
00:04:33.860 They all actually said Donald Trump was working as an agent of Vladimir Putin.
00:04:39.200 It was so crazy.
00:04:40.500 But they literally, I mean, insane things like this cover of Time magazine implying that he's a spy.
00:04:47.200 And this conspiracy theory was reported seriously by all the media.
00:04:52.420 And more to the point, it was seriously said and stoked by the highest officials in Barack Obama's FBI and the national security establishment.
00:05:02.120 So, yeah, never suspect malice when plain old stupidity can answer it.
00:05:06.720 But here we now have proof delivered by Robert Mueller and his team of Democrats, by the way, that the whole thing was exactly what Donald Trump said it was from the beginning, a hoax, a witch hunt.
00:05:17.980 Mueller exonerated Trump.
00:05:19.940 How can we trust the people who for two years told us a lie?
00:05:23.700 How can we trust the people we need to trust?
00:05:27.240 Who's watching the watchmen?
00:05:28.420 But those cops and FBI and secret this and media that, they lied to us for two years about the most important thing in the world, I think.
00:05:37.380 Wouldn't it be insane if the president of the United States were actually a Russian spy? 0.66
00:05:41.980 That would be the greatest scandal and problem since the Second World War, I think.
00:05:48.280 If only all those experts would have cared as much about real collusion with Russia, like Hillary Clinton selling America's uranium to a Russian company.
00:05:56.340 Or just this weirdness.
00:05:59.040 This is my last election.
00:06:00.780 After my election, I have more flexibility.
00:06:04.800 I transmit this information to Levy, Miranda's that.
00:06:10.440 They didn't know the mic was still on.
00:06:12.740 That's Obama saying, I'll have more flexibility after the election.
00:06:15.780 That's actual collusion there.
00:06:17.900 So, that's the problem we're in now.
00:06:19.460 A time of low trust in our institutions.
00:06:23.180 Well-deserved low trust, I hasten to add.
00:06:25.840 There are plenty of reasons, good reasons, not to trust big government or big tech or big media or big business.
00:06:34.060 And by the way, they're all merged these days, aren't they?
00:06:36.480 Facebook, Amazon, they're all quasi-governmental in their own way.
00:06:40.020 Why would you trust them?
00:06:42.280 Especially when they have a business stake or a personal stake in so many questions, you have to trust them about.
00:06:47.180 So, back to my first question.
00:06:49.280 It's been a couple weeks now.
00:06:50.340 Do you know what happened in that fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral?
00:06:55.560 Within hours, before the fire was out, the establishment had their explanation.
00:07:01.440 No terrorism.
00:07:03.080 Look at this dispatch from the Associated Press.
00:07:05.660 Look at the time stamp there, 11.15 p.m.
00:07:08.420 So, the fire's still going.
00:07:10.320 And look, 11.15 p.m.
00:07:12.060 The Paris prosecutor's office says investigators are treating the blaze that destroyed part of Notre Dame as an accident for now.
00:07:20.620 The prosecutor's office said late Monday they have ruled out arson in Monday's fire, including possible terror-related motives for starting the blaze.
00:07:29.100 Prosecutors say Paris police will conduct an investigation into involuntary destruction caused by fire.
00:07:35.880 Really? So, they're only investigating it as an involuntary accident.
00:07:43.080 And they made that decision about what they're going to look into before they looked into anything.
00:07:48.380 Before the investigation was done, they sort of said what they're going to look for, only one thing.
00:07:53.260 Shouldn't you normally investigate first, investigate the fire, and follow the facts wherever they lead?
00:07:59.280 And shouldn't you wait until the investigation is over before announcing what you're looking for, what caused it?
00:08:06.340 An involuntary accident.
00:08:08.180 Shouldn't you announce it after?
00:08:09.520 Like, check the facts first, make the announcement after?
00:08:13.240 I mean, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, and I'm not an arson investigator.
00:08:16.180 I'm not a cop. I'm not a fireman.
00:08:17.580 But normally, you ask questions first to get the answer later.
00:08:20.100 Well, the New York Times itself, again, right then on the night of the fire, they were pretty sure they knew what caused it.
00:08:29.160 Construction workers with their welding torches.
00:08:33.140 Let me quote from the New York Times, finest newspaper in the world.
00:08:36.880 Glenn Corbett, an associate professor of fire science at John Jay College in New York, said,
00:08:42.620 Construction work and renovations had long been a dangerous combination.
00:08:47.140 There's a history of churches and synagogues and other houses of worship falling victim to construction fires, he said,
00:08:54.360 adding that one of the reasons for the peril was the proximity of open flames on torches, sparks from welders,
00:09:00.200 and other hazards on scaffolding to other flammable materials.
00:09:05.500 That's amazing. Glenn Corbett, he was literally in New York City.
00:09:10.240 I think that's where the college is.
00:09:12.000 And he knew what caused the fire in Paris.
00:09:15.420 It was still burning.
00:09:17.920 But he knew it was welders in New York.
00:09:22.120 All right.
00:09:22.680 So that's all we need to know, right?
00:09:25.040 The fact that another major cathedral was recently torched, that obviously was irrelevant.
00:09:32.020 Saint-Solpice was the name of that one you're looking at.
00:09:35.400 The fact that more than 800 churches a year, in fact, in France are torched or vandalized.
00:09:41.320 Hey, guys, that's definitely not what's going on here.
00:09:44.700 The associate professor of fire science told you that.
00:09:48.180 The fact that Notre Dame itself was the target of a foiled ISIS terrorist plot a couple years ago, that's irrelevant.
00:09:56.100 And if you mention it, it's Islamophobic.
00:09:58.400 Shut up. 0.95
00:09:59.080 This was the work of welders.
00:10:00.480 That's what someone in New York said.
00:10:01.800 Everyone knew it.
00:10:04.380 Even before the fire was out.
00:10:06.920 Even before the investigations began.
00:10:10.540 And if you even ask questions, you're just a conspiracy theorist.
00:10:13.100 Not the people coming up with banal theories before the facts, because that's a good kind of conspiracy theory.
00:10:19.420 They're just coming up with helpful suggestions.
00:10:21.160 All right.
00:10:21.500 Okay.
00:10:21.720 Well, it's been almost two weeks.
00:10:23.120 So what did we learn?
00:10:26.160 And I say that because I'm actually curious, because one of the most beautiful things in the world was burned before our very eyes.
00:10:32.500 It would be like watching the Mona Lisa be burned.
00:10:36.100 And that church burned so quickly.
00:10:37.860 Have you ever tried to light a log on fire in your campfire, in your fireplace?
00:10:43.640 I don't mean the kindling.
00:10:44.960 I don't mean the stuff that just goes really quick.
00:10:46.600 I mean a mighty oak beam, one foot by one foot thick.
00:10:53.860 That, by the way, that hard wood is 800 years old.
00:10:57.080 It's so hard.
00:10:58.800 It's practically petrified.
00:11:00.460 It's almost a millennium old.
00:11:02.380 Have you ever tried to light a beam of wood like that on fire?
00:11:07.860 Now, I am not an expert about fire, but I think I need an explanation of how the greatest symbol of Western civilization, of Christendom, in all of France, suddenly burst into flames.
00:11:18.480 And so quickly that the whole thing was consumed so quickly.
00:11:22.960 Those mighty oaks.
00:11:24.100 I'm curious.
00:11:25.360 I don't know a thing about wood and fire, but I just, I don't feel like I've been answered well.
00:11:32.360 Here's a theory.
00:11:33.180 This is on CBS News, so you know it's right.
00:11:37.440 These are the 60 Minutes guys.
00:11:39.580 A computer glitch caused it.
00:11:43.160 A glitch caused it.
00:11:44.200 A glitch, eh?
00:11:45.280 A glitch.
00:11:46.680 A glitch.
00:11:47.940 A glitch.
00:11:48.860 I can't stop saying that word now.
00:11:51.040 Imagine accepting that as an explanation.
00:11:53.940 Ezra, you're coming home.
00:11:55.220 Your shirt's half undone.
00:11:57.620 You smell like booze.
00:11:58.400 What happened?
00:11:59.800 Oh, it's just a glitch.
00:12:00.920 Shut up. 0.95
00:12:01.980 Like a glitch.
00:12:03.320 Ezra, you failed your exam again.
00:12:05.040 Oh, it's just a glitch.
00:12:06.760 Ezra, you didn't take out the garbage again.
00:12:08.560 It's just a glitch, people.
00:12:11.260 Could you imagine using that as an excuse for why a fire burned the church?
00:12:15.280 It was a glitch.
00:12:17.160 I got to borrow that from CBS.
00:12:20.600 I should tell you that glitch is a very special word.
00:12:23.360 We're not talking about a mere thingamabob or a thingamajig.
00:12:27.420 This isn't a doohickey or a whatchamacallit.
00:12:29.580 But people, you're wondering why the greatest church in France burned.
00:12:34.760 It's a glitch.
00:12:35.560 So shut up, you Islamophobe.
00:12:37.900 Okay.
00:12:38.900 All right.
00:12:39.420 That explains it.
00:12:41.080 And not just anybody.
00:12:41.920 It's a computer glitch.
00:12:43.460 Maybe we should call our IT guy.
00:12:45.600 You know, the guy who fixes our Wi-Fi.
00:12:46.940 Maybe he can explain.
00:12:47.980 Here's NBC on the scene, on the ground.
00:12:53.540 They're in Paris the morning after.
00:12:55.420 Listen up.
00:12:56.360 NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel is there.
00:12:59.160 He's been covering the story since it started yesterday.
00:13:02.520 Richard, let's start first with cause of the fire.
00:13:06.240 The fire department has suspected that it was this renovation that was taking place up high in the beams.
00:13:12.120 What more have they said about that today?
00:13:13.760 So they have ruled out arson.
00:13:17.940 They have ruled out terrorism.
00:13:19.560 They say they are treating this as an accident.
00:13:22.100 And investigators have already begun to question some of the construction workers who were working on this renovation project.
00:13:29.220 They are concerned that something may have gone wrong there, that there could have been a loose flame.
00:13:33.600 Architects are also now on the site studying to see how much structural damage there actually was.
00:13:39.720 All right.
00:13:42.200 Pretty quick to rule out arson of terrorism and to suggest it was construction.
00:13:48.040 And they were asking questions of construction workers if one of them caused the computer glitch or something.
00:13:54.780 All right.
00:13:56.680 Now, here's a reputable newspaper in France.
00:14:00.160 I think it's reputable.
00:14:02.260 Interviewing one of the construction companies that was indeed doing renovations.
00:14:05.860 Now, I'll show you the French first, and then I'll read you an English translation.
00:14:09.620 So here's the French.
00:14:11.920 Le Journal du Dimanche, which means the Sunday Journal.
00:14:15.320 Let me read now.
00:14:16.500 This is from the Renovations Company.
00:14:22.100 The safety procedures on the Notre Dame de Paris construction site, quote, have been respected, said one of the leaders of the scaffolding of the cathedral on BFM TV Tuesday.
00:14:31.100 So this is a newspaper quoting an appearance by him on TV.
00:14:35.940 The day after the fire that ravaged the building, quote, all I can tell you right now is that at the start of the fire, absolutely none of the employees of my company was present on site, said Julien Le Bras, adding that all employees of his company, Europe Escafodage, participate in the inquiry without any reservation.
00:14:53.300 Okay, I thought it was a construction fire, but he says his people weren't working then.
00:15:01.340 I thought it was a computer glitch.
00:15:04.440 But then I learned it wasn't just one fire that started.
00:15:10.040 The fire was started in two places.
00:15:12.760 It was two, I think.
00:15:13.980 Let me quote.
00:15:14.900 Let me quote.
00:15:15.780 This is from NBC.
00:15:18.200 Sorry, CBS.
00:15:18.740 Michel Picot of the Friends of Notre Dame, a U.S.-based foundation dedicated to fundraising for the cathedral's reconstruction efforts, said the entire roof was destroyed.
00:15:30.580 Okay, we knew that.
00:15:31.860 The fire started up near the rooftop, while another fire started in the north bell tower, Picot told NBC News.
00:15:42.880 All damage seems to be up high and did not go into the lower part of the church or touched the organ or stained glass windows.
00:15:50.440 Yeah, sorry, this is NBC.
00:15:52.000 Okay, what are the odds, eh?
00:15:54.900 That you have not one fire, but two fires started at the same time in different parts of the church.
00:16:03.040 Is that even accurate?
00:16:05.020 The guy who was quoted there was the boss of the reconstruction fund, so maybe he knows.
00:16:10.140 I don't know.
00:16:10.960 Sure sounds like a glitch, though.
00:16:12.880 That's a glitch.
00:16:14.700 That's right.
00:16:15.000 You're eating cookies again.
00:16:15.960 I thought you were on a diet.
00:16:17.580 Yeah, it's just a glitch.
00:16:20.740 Here's a man who was the chief architect at the church for 13 years.
00:16:24.680 So this guy, his job was keep the church safe.
00:16:28.660 He was in charge of structural integrity, electricity, fire detection.
00:16:34.700 Listen to him.
00:16:35.320 So this, listen to him talk about the wiring, the glitches.
00:16:39.900 Listen to him talk about fire detection.
00:16:42.880 He says that they had at least two fire men in the church itself at all times, night and day.
00:16:53.320 So this isn't just some guy.
00:16:57.040 This is the boss.
00:16:59.360 This isn't me, a know-nothing, who keeps having glitches.
00:17:03.380 This is the chief architect of the cathedral, obsessed with its safety, who knows every staircase, every stone, every timber in the building.
00:17:10.220 Take a look at this.
00:17:11.400 You say, this type of wood, it doesn't burn like that?
00:17:14.520 No.
00:17:15.560 You know, Duchesne, who has 800 years, it's very hard.
00:17:20.260 I'll try to burn it.
00:17:21.260 Well, I've never tried.
00:17:22.560 But Duchesne, you've never tried.
00:17:23.840 Duchesne, it's not easy at all.
00:17:26.580 There's a lot of small wood to arrive.
00:17:28.160 I don't know if there's a lot of wood.
00:17:29.360 No, I've never tried to say, I think, no, that's a lot of stupéfie.
00:17:32.800 And where you lead this reflection?
00:17:34.520 A quelle hypothesis it leads you?
00:17:35.620 I don't have an hypothesis that I could say.
00:17:41.360 Quelle hypothesis on pourrait dire?
00:17:43.300 Que ça a été vite.
00:17:48.780 Qu'on aurait pu faire autre chose pour que ça n'aille pas aussi vite.
00:17:53.120 Moi, je me perds en conjecture.
00:17:55.300 Vous savez, on a fait à Notre-Dame, juste avant que je prenne ma retraite, c'est-à-dire dans les années 2010,
00:18:00.820 on a remis à plat toute l'installation électrique de Notre-Dame.
00:18:03.780 Donc, il n'y a pas de possibilité de court-circuit.
00:18:06.640 On a remis à plat, et aux normes contemporaines, même en allant très loin,
00:18:11.920 toute la détection et protection incendie de la cathédrale,
00:18:15.080 avec des éléments de témoins de mesure, d'aspiration, etc., etc.,
00:18:20.360 qui permettaient de détecter un départ de feu.
00:18:23.620 Vous avez en bas de la cathédrale, deux hommes en permanence,
00:18:26.540 qui sont là jour et nuit, et qui sont là pour aller voir dès qu'il y a une alerte,
00:18:30.980 et appeler les pompiers dès que le doute est levé.
00:18:34.840 Ils sont là en permanence ?
00:18:35.760 En permanence, oui.
00:18:37.220 Pour être d'avoir une défaillance de mécanisme d'alerte, impossible ?
00:18:41.560 Tout est possible.
00:18:42.900 Tout est possible.
00:18:44.080 Moi, je vois mal, parce que, bon, ça a été un travail colossal.
00:18:48.300 Et puis, vous savez, c'est comme dans tous ces chantiers de monuments historiques,
00:18:51.320 surtout à Notre-Dame,
00:18:52.020 on a un encadrement technique, normatif, de contrôle, etc., etc.,
00:18:56.820 qui est considérable, qu'on ne voit nulle part ailleurs,
00:18:59.420 mais qui est considérable.
00:19:00.180 Donc là, je veux dire que je suis quand même assez stupéfait.
00:19:03.140 Et pendant les 13 années où vous avez été l'architecte en chef du bâtiment,
00:19:06.880 vous n'avez pas eu connaissance de départ de feu ?
00:19:10.720 Ça n'est jamais arrivé ?
00:19:11.800 Non.
00:19:11.960 13 years, il y a été obsédé avec des fiers à la place.
00:19:19.580 13 years.
00:19:21.520 Je ne sais pas ce qui a été fait.
00:19:24.840 Et je ne pense pas que vous avez été.
00:19:29.160 Et je ne pense pas que vous avez été.
00:19:30.600 Je ne pense pas que ce soit un peu comme ça.
00:19:33.680 Other que l'on a fait avec la politique.
00:19:37.180 Comme je dis, c'est un symbol de Christendom.
00:19:38.820 En France, a city perceived by Islamic terrorism.
00:19:43.740 Et le Notre-Dame itself was specifically targeted before by terrorists,
00:19:48.300 by ISIS, just a couple of years ago.
00:19:51.940 And maybe that construction boss that I quoted in a journal de Dumanche
00:19:55.480 from his TV appearance, maybe he was lying.
00:19:58.700 Maybe he didn't know his men were there.
00:20:02.300 Maybe it was something else.
00:20:04.660 Welding at night.
00:20:06.340 I don't know.
00:20:07.280 In two different places.
00:20:09.720 Who managed to get mighty oaks blazing without anyone noticing?
00:20:16.120 Without the two firemen, without the detection?
00:20:18.920 Two on-location fire wardens didn't see it.
00:20:22.360 Maybe it was a glitch.
00:20:26.440 I'm confused, but I'm an ignoramus.
00:20:28.440 I don't know anything about this stuff.
00:20:29.840 But that architect of the cathedral for 13 years?
00:20:32.380 He said he was stunned.
00:20:35.880 He said he was stunned.
00:20:37.920 If he can be stunned, can I be stunned?
00:20:40.400 But the problem here is the people who we have to rely on for the truth.
00:20:48.100 They are liars.
00:20:51.100 Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, his popularity was as low as 23% recently.
00:20:56.080 I think it's bounced back up to 28%.
00:20:59.280 Oh, he's thrilled that only 72% of French people despise him.
00:21:04.360 He's got a big comeback going on right now.
00:21:06.340 It's bad enough that France's greatest treasure burned on his watch by accident.
00:21:11.740 It's a big glitch.
00:21:12.720 What happened at work today, honey?
00:21:14.380 It's just a glitch.
00:21:15.480 But if it were a terrorist, and if that terrorist were known to French police authorities, as most terrorists in Europe seem to be,
00:21:26.400 they're already being watched impotently by authorities,
00:21:29.520 well, that would finish Macron, wouldn't it?
00:21:31.740 Then it wouldn't be an international emotion of sorrow that so many people feel.
00:21:37.540 It would be an emotion of rage.
00:21:40.580 If there were evidence that terrorism did this,
00:21:43.580 it would not only show that Macron failed to stop the fire.
00:21:47.780 It would question other things, too.
00:21:50.240 Why did he not stop the terrorists if he was known to believe?
00:21:54.720 It would question immigration and policing in France in general.
00:21:57.840 Macron would do anything to avoid that.
00:21:59.680 He would be gone immediately.
00:22:00.600 He couldn't survive that.
00:22:02.540 He would do anything in the world, don't you think, to avoid that coming out?
00:22:07.620 Now, that's just pure speculation on my part.
00:22:09.780 The architect didn't really speculate, did he?
00:22:13.580 He just said he had conjecture, but none that he would say aloud.
00:22:16.740 Maybe there will be a convincing report, one written after all the facts are in,
00:22:22.940 not all those theories beforehand, one that clears up what facts I've mentioned above
00:22:29.580 were rumors and gossip and outright lies, and which were true.
00:22:33.220 Was it welding?
00:22:34.220 Was it construction workers, or were they not there?
00:22:36.500 Was it a glitch?
00:22:37.780 Was it really two fires?
00:22:38.860 But really, I'm not sure anyone would believe Emmanuel Macron anymore, no matter what he
00:22:45.320 said.
00:22:45.540 Look, I still don't know why that man in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Hotel a couple years
00:22:50.960 ago shot down at a crowd below, murdering 58 people at a music concert, wounding more
00:22:56.500 than 400 people.
00:22:59.280 Do you know what happened there in the city with more closed-circuit surveillance cameras
00:23:03.660 than possibly any other place in America?
00:23:06.060 Do you know what happened in Las Vegas?
00:23:08.400 Has anyone ever said?
00:23:13.000 I think one of my jobs is to be curious and skeptical, to ask questions, who, what, where,
00:23:18.680 why, when, to push back on answers that seem a little bit off.
00:23:22.320 Sorry, we had a glitch, guys.
00:23:23.560 All right, it's time to head home for the weekend.
00:23:28.060 Guys, it's a glitch.
00:23:29.340 You can let go of the front page now.
00:23:31.180 Glitch.
00:23:33.640 Not a lot of journalists seem to push back these days.
00:23:35.900 Well, actually, they do, when they hate the subject of Donald Trump.
00:23:38.560 Donald Trump cannot tell you that water is wet without CNN saying, well, actually, ice
00:23:47.740 is water, and it's not wet.
00:23:50.120 Gotcha, liar.
00:23:51.760 Orange man bad. 0.78
00:23:52.720 So journalists are super skeptical when it's their enemies, like Donald Trump.
00:23:57.340 But here they seem to be unskeptical, anti-skeptical, completely incurious, to the extreme.
00:24:05.740 Oh, it's a glitch, guys.
00:24:07.860 Because they know that there's a possibility here that this was arson or terrorism.
00:24:13.340 So they are delighted to accept any answer whatsoever.
00:24:16.400 That architect was on TV.
00:24:18.340 That was a live broadcast.
00:24:19.800 I don't know if you saw en direct.
00:24:20.940 That means live in French.
00:24:21.920 I wonder if that would have gone to air if it wasn't live.
00:24:24.960 I'm not a conspiracy theorist.
00:24:27.900 I want the facts.
00:24:28.880 I really do.
00:24:29.780 I love when the facts disabuse me of a speculation.
00:24:34.720 I am sad it was a fire, but I suppose I'd rather it was an accidental fire.
00:24:41.320 Not that any fire there was acceptable.
00:24:44.800 The fire was a horror and a tragedy and a loss and a moral blow.
00:24:47.920 But if Macron has covered up its true nature, then that is far, far worse for everyone because
00:24:53.640 it proves what every conspiracy theorist would think.
00:24:58.920 That you can never trust your own government or authorities.
00:25:02.540 That the government is actually your enemy and you are its enemy and you must doubt everything
00:25:07.580 they say.
00:25:08.240 That would be a terrible fact if that were true.
00:25:11.960 That is not healthy.
00:25:13.040 We need, I think, a few good journalists to ask a few good questions.
00:25:16.980 Trouble is, they've all been chasing imaginary Russians around the world these past two years. 0.97
00:25:22.860 Wow, France burns.
00:25:25.200 If you wonder what I think, I don't know what to think.
00:25:27.300 I'm not resolved on it.
00:25:28.720 That's what I'm saying.
00:25:29.380 It's crazy that we don't know the answers.
00:25:31.100 But if the answer is finally given to us by Emmanuel Macron, I've got to tell you, I
00:25:35.580 don't think I'm going to believe him.
00:25:37.280 Would you?
00:25:39.160 Stay with us for more.
00:25:43.040 Welcome back.
00:25:54.820 Well, I want to show you a clip.
00:25:56.540 There's a little bit of bad language here, but mostly it's super gross.
00:26:00.540 So if you have a weak constitution, you might want to look away for the next minute or so.
00:26:05.500 I want to show you something that happened in London, England at an environmentalist protest called Extinction Rebellion.
00:26:13.820 Get ready to be grossed out.
00:26:17.220 Extinction Rebellion.
00:26:19.300 Oh, God.
00:26:20.040 The whole area absolutely stinks of a smell that you've probably smelled before.
00:26:27.940 The homeless smell.
00:26:29.580 You know, that sort of uriny, sweat, BO thing.
00:26:35.280 It's really quite disgusting here.
00:26:37.720 And probably a danger to public health.
00:26:41.080 I just want to show you this.
00:26:43.960 I hope you're not eating your breakfast as well.
00:26:45.920 This is their combustible toilet.
00:26:47.960 I really don't want to open the door.
00:26:50.020 But there's like a suspicious sort of leakage that is feeding this, let's call it a lake of piss.
00:27:00.840 That is like quite literally 100% concentrated piss.
00:27:05.140 And it stinks and it's disgusting.
00:27:09.240 Now, I agree with him that everything he saw there was disgusting, but I thought he was actually cruel to the genuine homeless people who often have physical or mental disabilities or simply can't help their situation.
00:27:20.940 I'm not joking around when I say that is an unfair comparison to hobos or the homeless, because the people at that super gross environmental event were largely wealthy middle class or upper class kids who were doing this on purpose, who were being super gross as some sort of moral statement.
00:27:42.840 And I think that was my only criticism with what we saw there.
00:27:46.260 Our own Janice Hankinson went to this same environmentalist event and asked some really simple questions and got some silly answers. 0.98
00:27:56.760 Here she is asking someone, how are you supposed to travel to Australia if you can't fly?
00:28:01.840 Take a look.
00:28:04.020 To go on holiday to Austria or say Australia, because I want to go and visit some family.
00:28:09.620 How do I get there?
00:28:10.700 By train.
00:28:12.720 By train, people.
00:28:14.420 Duh.
00:28:14.720 Take the train to Australia.
00:28:16.460 I don't even understand that answer.
00:28:18.320 But helping me figure out what the Extinction Rebellion is and who's behind it, who's financing it.
00:28:24.900 And if it made any difference other than having a bunch of people live sort of gross for a day.
00:28:29.740 We're joined now by our friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com, who was on the West Coast, hopefully not surrounded by super gross environmentalists.
00:28:37.940 Great to see you again, Mark.
00:28:40.140 Very good.
00:28:40.720 Happy to be here, Ezra.
00:28:41.620 Thank you.
00:28:42.020 Yes, I'm in Seattle, Washington.
00:28:43.300 But it's a beautiful city.
00:28:45.000 There's a lot of environmentalism there, too.
00:28:47.260 It's also a high-tech city, and people love to be wealthy in Seattle.
00:28:51.640 One of the things that gets me about the environmentalist credo is they want us to move backwards in time, in my view, to where things that were gross in the world,
00:29:02.340 like for millennia, people wanted to get away from gross things.
00:29:07.100 That's why we invented fridges so food didn't rot.
00:29:10.460 That's why we dealt with garbage in landfills so it wasn't just on the street.
00:29:15.180 That's why we had proper plumbing and sewage and sanitation.
00:29:18.340 To me, not flushing, which is an environmental thing, sorting your garbage and composting it in your backyard, not showering for a day.
00:29:29.580 All these things are gross.
00:29:31.920 They're regressive.
00:29:32.680 They're getting back to an unhealthy, unhappy era in human existence that, for millennia, humans tried to move away from.
00:29:40.380 Here you've got a bunch of rich kids in London living gross as if anyone in medieval ages wouldn't give anything to live in our hygienic, safe, healthy, modern, industrialized society today.
00:29:54.600 Yeah, actually, in my sequel that I'm working on to the film Climate Hustle, I actually feature a Hollywood component that's exactly what you're talking about.
00:30:04.380 Actress Drew Barrymore of, you know, E.T. fame and a whole bunch of other movies went to Bhutan and all these other poor developing world nations with other Hollywood celebrities.
00:30:15.140 They flew there. And in the documentary footage, she is bragging about how she went and took a poo in the woods and how it was awesome and there was no modern plumbing and sanitation.
00:30:25.700 And they were just all laughing and they were going to go take, you know, number two in the woods.
00:30:29.600 They look at this as though glorifying it, as you're mentioning here, they're glorifying gross, primitive behavior as and they're extolling the virtues of lack of development, of lack of fossil fuels.
00:30:42.140 This is at the same time enjoying all the benefits. And I think you mentioned this is the these are the children of the well-to-do kids who, in many cases, went to nice private boarding schools who now have taken up their cause with the Extinction Rebellion and are doing things like gluing their breasts to Goldman Sachs in London, bare breasts on the I guess on the side of the building.
00:31:03.360 And the police had to come in there. The lady did that yesterday. 1.00
00:31:06.360 They are doing the most outrageous stunts they can think of. They're trying to disrupt everything.
00:31:11.840 But you're right. It's an absolute glorification of primitiveness, if we can say that.
00:31:17.500 Yeah. And we just saw some imagery of protesters there, all of them wearing or using fossil fuels.
00:31:23.580 I mean, the majority of artificial, a lot of outside clothing.
00:31:28.660 Look at that. That banner is made of vinyl, that wheelchair. 1.00
00:31:31.640 I don't know what that is, but I see metal, vinyl, plastic.
00:31:37.200 None of this possible without hydrocarbons, fossil fuels, industry.
00:31:44.480 I don't know who's behind this.
00:31:47.580 I see, of course, that children of the corn girl, Greta Thunberg, I think from I think she's from Sweden.
00:31:55.880 I since learned since we last talked about her, I said I found her creepy and cult like.
00:32:00.700 Like, I realize now that I may have been more mean than I thought I was because I learned that she has had mental illness or other.
00:32:09.980 She was suicidal for a while.
00:32:12.800 She had mental health issues. 0.97
00:32:14.560 She was and her parents were boasting about this.
00:32:17.860 She's clearly being controlled by them.
00:32:20.020 I sort of mocked her weirdness and her cult like nature.
00:32:23.420 But I now know that she was suicidal and this is part of her mental health problems.
00:32:27.640 I don't think it's funny at all for a young girl to be turned into an eco weapon of doom when she's clearly mentally ill. 0.54
00:32:36.120 Yeah. In fact, it started out originally her protests sort of like, hey, we need to call it action.
00:32:42.280 We need to get government to act.
00:32:43.520 But in the last few months, as she's gained celebrity and her movement is gone in the United States, March 15th, we had the kids climate strike.
00:32:50.500 She's gotten, as you're saying, the word creepy, more and more doomsday like and saying more and more dark, disturbing, weird things about the climate and about essentially there being no hope.
00:33:04.020 And the kids, why should they be in school when they have no future?
00:33:06.800 Because, you know, there's no future because we're not listening to the world's best scientists at the United Nations.
00:33:11.740 Yeah. And I've heard I think she's got some form of autism as well.
00:33:15.700 So you're describing her. So she's well funded. 0.93
00:33:19.560 She's her parents are PR. I think her mom is a PR agent. 1.00
00:33:23.740 And this whole movement that she's gone is not some spontaneous little movement of a teenage girl who cares about the climate.
00:33:30.860 This was a contrived, plotted, planned, orchestrated effort, and it's paid off spectacularly for them.
00:33:39.740 She is now the face of the climate movement, internationally, certainly more.
00:33:44.940 And she's also up for a Nobel Prize now.
00:33:50.180 People are openly talking where she could win the Nobel Prize for skipping school to talk about doomsday.
00:33:56.000 You know, children of tender years, I don't think, should be weaponized for politics.
00:34:01.720 I think it's super gross.
00:34:02.980 I mean, we all sort of cringe a little bit when we see some of those super insanely obsessive pageant mums, 1.00
00:34:10.360 you know, who dress up their tiny little girls in adult style makeup and go absolutely nuts with pageants. 0.99
00:34:18.060 And we say, whoa, calm down. It's just a girl. 0.99
00:34:20.500 But at least all that is, is do a dance, do a song and dress pretty.
00:34:24.960 This is actually the opposite.
00:34:27.240 This is be an apocalyptic doom.
00:34:31.680 You know, she said, what's the point in going to school if we're all going to die?
00:34:35.700 That's not just a metaphor.
00:34:37.260 Apparently, she believed that.
00:34:39.580 She said that I have no point in living.
00:34:41.860 And when you have kids talking to kids in a semi-suicidal way, I think that's bordering on child abuse.
00:34:48.400 If I heard that some teenager was going to my kids' schools to talk about how she doesn't think there's any point in living or going to school,
00:34:57.220 I'd say keep that weirdo away from my kids.
00:34:59.600 Or actually, I'd say keep that tool of her weirdo parents and their funding marketing scheme away from my kids. 1.00
00:35:06.860 And she clearly couldn't or wouldn't do any of this on her own if she didn't have a team of adults orchestrating it behind the scenes. 0.83
00:35:14.580 No, in fact, she's been asked very specific questions about renewable energy and the climate.
00:35:20.320 And she falls back on, hey, I'm just a kid.
00:35:22.880 I don't know the answers to these.
00:35:24.460 And to which the answer is, yes, exactly.
00:35:27.000 So why are you going around talking about the world's finest scientists and we have no future?
00:35:30.780 Again, just the typical, so they're trying to have it both ways.
00:35:34.760 But there's a funny incident with this Extinction Rebellion in London yesterday where they went up to the head of the UK party and there was a journalist with them.
00:35:44.360 And these boys were going off about, you know, we need to do this, we need to do that.
00:35:48.920 And the interview went awry and they turned on these protesters and started asking where they went to school.
00:35:54.820 They called them Posh Boys, a journalist named Katie Hopkins.
00:35:58.240 Well, we know Katie.
00:35:59.340 She was with the rebel.
00:36:00.160 Here, let's play a clip of that.
00:36:01.460 Yeah, I don't know if you know, Mark, but Katie did a lot of journalism for us in the past.
00:36:06.220 We have that clip.
00:36:07.180 Let's just play it here for a minute.
00:36:08.920 It's vintage Katie Hopkins turning the tables. 0.63
00:36:12.720 Okay, I mean, it's a long clip.
00:36:13.740 We'll just play a minute of it.
00:36:14.860 Take a look at this.
00:36:17.140 There's this perception I have where I live, and it's a place called the rest of the UK, that climate protesters are massively overprivileged and kind of posh kids.
00:36:26.000 And you seem to be falling straight into that for me.
00:36:28.760 Okay.
00:36:29.200 So can you explain to me why it is that it seems to be almost a luxury of the privileged that live in London to dictate to the rest of us what we should and shouldn't be allowed to do?
00:36:38.340 It feels that way.
00:36:40.300 No, I'm just asking you about this idea of privilege.
00:36:42.900 So, like, your hero and pinup, Greta, is actually a very privileged individual with privileged parents.
00:36:48.780 You, it sounds to me, are a privileged individual.
00:36:51.400 Can I just check where you went to school?
00:36:53.740 No, it's actually...
00:36:54.180 Can I ask where you went to school?
00:36:55.420 Absolutely not.
00:36:55.960 Did you go to a nice boarding school?
00:36:57.520 Does it matter?
00:36:58.200 Yeah, I'm just asking...
00:36:59.400 You've been asking Gerard a lot of questions, and I've only asked you one.
00:37:03.260 Yes, I've only asked you one question.
00:37:05.220 I just want one answer.
00:37:06.340 Just before we move forward, I just want one answer to one question, and I'm just asking, where is it you went to school?
00:37:12.640 So one question, Gerard's just answered.
00:37:15.400 Gerard has just answered 15 of your questions very politely.
00:37:19.240 About climate change and about the ecological practice.
00:37:19.900 He's trying to bring my background in.
00:37:21.040 It goes on for a bit, but you can see he does not want to say how fancy he is, because it's true.
00:37:27.920 I want to tell you an anecdote, if I may.
00:37:30.300 When I was with the Sun News Network, I went to British Columbia for an anti-pipeline protest,
00:37:35.100 and it was the largest environmental protest I've ever been to in my life.
00:37:38.320 I think there were close to 1,000 people there.
00:37:41.200 For sure, there were 800.
00:37:42.940 And it was right downtown amongst the gleaming towers of Vancouver.
00:37:46.940 And Mark, I don't know if you know Vancouver well.
00:37:49.760 It's not far away from where you are now.
00:37:51.680 It has an enormous Asian population.
00:37:54.120 Lots of Chinese Canadians, lots of Indo-Canadians.
00:37:57.020 I think it's actually a majority-minority city now.
00:38:00.620 And I was at this protest.
00:38:02.420 This was about four years ago.
00:38:04.320 Five years ago.
00:38:05.860 And out of 800 people, I saw only two visible minorities who were Asian.
00:38:14.520 So I went up and I asked them, and one of them was actually an Australian Chinese guy
00:38:18.760 who was visiting Vancouver and said, I just came to see what the fuss was about.
00:38:22.180 And I can't remember what the other person told me.
00:38:23.800 To have 800 people in Vancouver, and only two of them are Asian,
00:38:31.460 that's almost statistically impossible.
00:38:34.580 And it goes to, I think, a white, liberal, snobbery, pseudo-religion, superstition. 0.52
00:38:44.240 I think, I mean, you can come up with your own theory,
00:38:47.300 but I think Katie Hopkins is on to something there where this is a dilettante project. 0.98
00:38:53.320 You've got your fancy car, your cottage, your boat, your vacations.
00:38:56.980 You're jetting to Bhutan, like you mentioned before.
00:38:59.360 But then once a year, you virtue signal, and you tell everybody how awesome you are
00:39:03.880 because you're trying to make the little people pay a carbon tax.
00:39:08.360 Yes.
00:39:09.520 When the environmental movement is actually self-aware of this,
00:39:14.540 they've actually openly talked about they have a race problem.
00:39:17.200 They have a minority problem. 1.00
00:39:18.680 They are literally a lily-white community of wealthy white environmentalists.
00:39:24.440 And the whole climate movement, I've had scientists,
00:39:26.120 one of them is Dr. Dennis Rancourt of Ottawa, a physicist,
00:39:30.340 who's talked about it being essentially global warming
00:39:33.120 as a condition of the white upper middle class.
00:39:35.980 It's their perceived tragedy, their perceived catastrophe,
00:39:40.020 and they're trying to impose it on the rest of the world.
00:39:43.040 And if you look at places like Africa and Asia,
00:39:45.720 where the one billion people don't have the running water and electricity,
00:39:48.760 they're worried about survival and development.
00:39:51.420 They're not worried about levels of carbon dioxide in the environment,
00:39:55.400 but the environmentalists got around that now
00:39:58.120 because they're offering them massive amounts of funding to their leaders
00:40:01.660 to pay them off to join the treaties and stuff.
00:40:04.440 But you're absolutely right.
00:40:05.860 Hopkins is right.
00:40:06.660 These are privileged, mostly white, wealthy individuals with great connections.
00:40:11.200 That's what the modern environmental movement is all about.
00:40:14.180 I want to leave you with one more theory.
00:40:15.560 And, of course, it's just conjecture on my part.
00:40:17.840 I, of course, admire Chinese Canadians very much,
00:40:19.880 especially the work ethic, the family values, the patriotism.
00:40:24.420 There's so many great things about Chinese Canadians.
00:40:26.140 I love Vancouver.
00:40:27.460 My theory is this.
00:40:29.020 A lot of the Chinese Canadians are first generation,
00:40:31.780 and their parents would say to the kids,
00:40:35.400 are you crazy?
00:40:36.860 You're going to that ridiculous rally?
00:40:38.880 Study.
00:40:39.920 Become an engineer.
00:40:41.020 Become a doctor.
00:40:41.920 Become a lawyer.
00:40:42.700 Make a success for yourself.
00:40:43.660 We didn't leave China or India to come to Canada
00:40:47.060 to have you go to some stupid anti-energy protest.
00:40:51.020 Like, I think the family that's still the new immigrant mentality 1.00
00:40:55.180 would say, are you crazy?
00:40:58.060 We're here to make a success in life, not to be an anti-success.
00:41:02.960 But my fear, Mark, is that the next generation, 1.00
00:41:06.480 so these young Chinese Canadian kids whose parents are, you know, tiger moms, 0.98
00:41:11.080 saying, don't fool around, get your degree, be great.
00:41:14.840 My worry is that their kids, who will grow up in wealth and luxury,
00:41:19.700 will be just as self-hating and liberal as the white, posh kid
00:41:25.620 we saw there on the street in London.
00:41:27.000 That's my theory.
00:41:27.720 I'm worried that that smart work ethic that you see amongst Asian Canadians 1.00
00:41:31.420 will be gone in a generation,
00:41:33.500 and the next generation will be Trudeau loving millennials.
00:41:35.780 Well, I think, you know, there's always the older generation 0.98
00:41:40.660 complaining about the young,
00:41:41.980 but I do think there's a thing in Chinese culture
00:41:44.520 that I think will stick there.
00:41:45.960 There is a work ethic, I think, that you can just see and excel,
00:41:51.500 I mean, in the Asian community,
00:41:53.300 but you don't see many Asian environmental protests.
00:41:55.540 You don't see them being disruptive.
00:41:57.340 One of the things about the Extinction Rebellion out here
00:41:59.680 among these white, wealthy individuals,
00:42:02.160 or the posh boys, as Hopkins calls them,
00:42:04.140 is they're openly bragging about how they want to cause economic disruption
00:42:09.340 as much as possible.
00:42:10.520 That's the only way they can get the attention of the government.
00:42:12.740 That's why they're trying to shut down the financial centers. 0.99
00:42:15.260 That's why they're trying to shut down airports, shut down highways. 1.00
00:42:18.280 They're doing everything they can to be as obnoxious
00:42:20.840 and in your face as possible,
00:42:22.420 and they're loving all the attention they're getting.
00:42:25.460 And I don't know, I mean, again,
00:42:26.940 this is going to come down to,
00:42:28.200 is the police going to crack down?
00:42:30.340 Why are the police allowing disruptions in the financial centers
00:42:33.800 or at airports?
00:42:35.200 How far are they going to be allowed to go with this message?
00:42:38.500 And how long are kids going to be allowed to skip school?
00:42:41.440 These excused absences that they're promoting for this.
00:42:45.120 And again, even if you believe the climate catastrophe,
00:42:47.400 what they're advocating for,
00:42:48.940 they're advocating for the overthrow of capitalism.
00:42:50.940 That's now, you know, George Monbiot and others,
00:42:52.760 they're just openly using those phrases now.
00:42:55.120 People like AOC in the United States
00:42:57.660 and Naomi Klein of Canada.
00:42:59.560 So it's going to be very interesting to see
00:43:02.860 what kind of official response is going to be
00:43:05.320 as they just, they're going to continue to ramp this up
00:43:07.540 because they're loving it.
00:43:08.440 The school protests, Extinction Rebellion,
00:43:10.520 they're actually achieving their goals right now.
00:43:12.940 They're doing a great job disrupting.
00:43:16.260 Well, I think the answer to why they're getting away with it
00:43:18.240 is the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,
00:43:20.680 is a hardcore leftist who finds common cause with them.
00:43:24.440 The mayor of Manchester is no better.
00:43:25.820 Well, Mark Morano, great to see you
00:43:27.860 and thanks for bringing us the common sense.
00:43:30.900 I think that there is an inexhaustible supply
00:43:35.300 of stupidity on the left
00:43:36.860 and an inexhaustible supply of lobbying money behind it.
00:43:42.280 So I don't think we're going to see
00:43:43.400 the end of this craziness anytime soon.
00:43:45.340 I know you'll be there to help us understand it.
00:43:46.920 Thank you.
00:43:48.540 All right. Thank you, Ed.
00:43:49.680 All right. There you have it.
00:43:50.560 Mark Morano.
00:43:51.700 He's the boss of ClimateDepot.com.
00:43:53.740 Stay with us. Your letters to me next.
00:44:06.960 Hey, welcome back.
00:44:07.800 I'm a monologue yesterday about Tommy Robinson
00:44:09.280 launching his campaign for MEP,
00:44:11.900 a member of the European Parliament.
00:44:13.060 Paul writes,
00:44:14.260 Tommy's election would be great.
00:44:15.320 It would make it harder to silence him.
00:44:16.880 I'd love to see that happen.
00:44:17.960 Yeah, I tell you already,
00:44:20.140 I mean, today I noticed that his campaign Twitter account
00:44:22.400 was just suspended by Twitter
00:44:23.840 with no notice or warning.
00:44:25.980 And that's sort of crazy when you think about it
00:44:28.380 because that is foreign meddling.
00:44:30.320 Twitter is based in San Francisco.
00:44:31.920 He's running the UK.
00:44:33.340 In an election, I mean,
00:44:34.600 Tommy is a duly registered candidate.
00:44:36.780 You don't have to like him or support him,
00:44:38.300 but he's a candidate.
00:44:39.760 And a company called Twitter
00:44:41.460 is silencing candidates it doesn't like.
00:44:44.500 Expect a lot more of that.
00:44:47.820 Robert writes,
00:44:49.160 with people like Farage and Robinson
00:44:50.560 in the EU Parliament,
00:44:51.940 the EU is going to be sorry
00:44:52.920 they extended the Brexit deadline.
00:44:54.960 Yeah, I think so.
00:44:56.040 I think it is an absolute certainty
00:44:57.720 that Nigel Farage will be in Parliament.
00:45:00.380 He might sweep the whole place.
00:45:02.100 I hope UKIP gets some folks in.
00:45:04.680 I think it would be great
00:45:05.640 to have that Count Dankula on.
00:45:07.000 He's such a character.
00:45:08.740 And he's so irreverent.
00:45:10.320 That's what I like about him.
00:45:12.480 And I like Jared Batten, too.
00:45:15.400 Michael writes,
00:45:16.420 I think you should set up a system
00:45:17.520 that allows people to give someone
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00:45:21.740 That's a great idea.
00:45:23.140 It's a great idea.
00:45:23.900 You know, we're relaunching our website.
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00:45:27.160 we have some exciting news about that.
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00:45:58.960 Well, folks, that's it.
00:45:59.840 What a busy week it's been.
00:46:01.140 I look forward to seeing you again
00:46:02.280 on Monday.
00:46:03.300 Until then,
00:46:03.880 on behalf of all of us here
00:46:04.940 at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:46:05.900 see you at home.
00:46:07.000 Good night.
00:46:07.760 And keep fighting for freedom.
00:46:08.740 Good night.
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00:46:12.200 Good night.
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00:46:14.660 We'll be right back.