Rebel News Podcast - January 19, 2021


Joe Biden’s first act as president could be cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline


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Joe Biden threatens to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline on his very first day on the job, a move that would be a direct attack on U.S. energy independence and a direct assault on global warming and climate change.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today I tell you the scary but not surprising news that Joe Biden is threatening
00:00:07.660 to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline his very first day on the job. I don't know if that's possible
00:00:14.560 given that the pipeline actually crosses the Canada-U.S. border already, but we'll see what
00:00:19.800 comes of it. One thing I'm pretty sure we'll see is Justin Trudeau smiling quietly and Aaron O'Toole
00:00:26.340 being only slightly less useless. That's ahead. Can I invite you to become a subscriber to what we
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00:00:56.340 Tonight, Joe Biden's first act as president could be the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:01:10.940 If you dub the Trudeau is smiling, it's January 18th and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:17.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:20.780 There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to
00:01:26.460 the government of a wire publisher is because it's my bloody right to do so.
00:01:35.680 Look at this. It's a photo of a briefing note for what Joe Biden apparently intends to do on his
00:01:42.920 very first day in office. It's a symbolic day. The whole first week is symbolic, actually.
00:01:49.020 You might recall that when Trump was in his first week, he ripped up the Trans-Pacific Partnership
00:01:55.220 trade deal. He gave the green light to various oil and gas projects, pipelines mainly, including the
00:02:01.740 Keystone XL pipeline. Well, no surprise, Biden is reversing so many signature symbolic Trump
00:02:08.560 initiatives, at least the ones he thinks he can do without Congress's approval. You see, a U.S.
00:02:13.980 president can do a lot of things just through executive orders. And of course, they can be undone.
00:02:19.000 in the same way. So look at that wording. Inauguration day and four crises. They're telling
00:02:26.500 you that there are four emergencies going on. They want you in a perpetual state of panic
00:02:31.220 and crisis. They want a permanent state of emergency so they continue operating in an extreme manner
00:02:37.780 that would not otherwise be tolerated by Americans. It's what they're doing up here in Canada too.
00:02:43.000 So there is no climate crisis. And by the left's own measure, the pandemic lockdown has flattened
00:02:51.200 oil and gas use and demand and emissions. But it's a crisis. Never let a crisis go to waste. So
00:02:57.580 look at what is written there. Rejoin the Paris Agreement. Of course, the Democrats love the United
00:03:03.360 Nations and global warming scheme there, most of all. Announce date for U.S. hosted Leaders Climate
00:03:10.460 Summit. I can't tell you how excited Trudeau must be. He might even shave his beard and put down the
00:03:15.880 bong and have a shower and straighten up before going down. He's got his mojo back. He's outlasted 0.80
00:03:21.740 Trump. And third, roll back Trump enviro actions via executive orders, including rescinding Keystone
00:03:29.640 Excel pipeline permit. And why not? Obama killed it with a word. Trump revived it with a word. Now Biden
00:03:37.380 seeks to kill it with a word. That pipeline was first proposed, I think, back in 2008,
00:03:42.800 more than a dozen years ago. I wonder how it's going to work, though, given that the pipe already
00:03:48.660 crosses the border. They built it. They finished that last spring. Here's a video of that moment.
00:03:56.120 My name's Samantha Fernandez, and I'm the project manager for the Keystone XL border crossing pipeline.
00:04:01.000 I think it is a huge achievement to have the opportunity to be able to build KXL.
00:04:06.780 The day we crossed the border between U.S. and Canada was a brutally cold day. It was probably
00:04:12.380 nine degrees with 50 mile an hour winds. And it was a monumental time for everybody. It was really
00:04:19.980 exciting time for both Barnard and TC Energy for us to be able to achieve that milestone. It was one of
00:04:27.080 the most significant wars we've ever done in TC Energy's history. So I guess that's one difference
00:04:32.420 between Obama's executive order nixing it and Trump's executive order reviving it. And now
00:04:36.980 it's actually built. What would removing a permit look like? Are you going to ban oil from being put
00:04:44.100 in it and crossing the border? I've got to think that a lot of people would reject that. Not just the
00:04:50.540 company that would surely sue under the U.S. MCA trade deal, but the unions building the pipeline
00:04:57.320 and local politicians along the route, Democrat or Republican, the pipeline will be the largest
00:05:03.840 property taxpayer in many of the counties through which it goes. Such a direct attack on U.S. energy
00:05:10.000 independence benefits OPEC. But then again, after China, the country most excited about Joe Biden
00:05:17.320 winning is surely Iran. They've got lots of oil and they would like to sell it to America
00:05:21.940 instead of Canadian oil going south. Here's the socialist Bernie Sanders celebrating.
00:05:28.720 The Keystone pipeline is and always has been a disaster. I'm delighted that Joe Biden will
00:05:33.180 cancel the Keystone permit on his first day in office. With all the major crises facing America,
00:05:37.900 we must never lose sight of the most existential threat facing our planet, climate change.
00:05:42.420 Yeah, but they're just going to swap it out for Venezuelan oil. And they're a socialist
00:05:46.320 dictatorship. Yes, yes, that's the point. Bernie Sanders probably prefers all oil from OPEC
00:05:52.320 countries. Major rival Russia, perhaps. As shocking and bizarre as it sounds, Bernie Sanders actually
00:05:58.140 went on his honeymoon to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. I'm not talking about after the fall
00:06:04.860 of the Berlin Wall. It was during the height of the Cold War, Bernie Sanders went to Russia for his
00:06:10.560 honeymoon. He truly loved the Soviet Union. He participated in propaganda films. How about
00:06:16.520 Justin Trudeau? Justin Trudeau claims he supports the pipeline, but I don't believe him. Remember,
00:06:22.360 his right-hand man, Gerald Butts, said it wasn't about this route or that route. It's about getting
00:06:26.800 off oil altogether. Here's Gerald Butts on the Northern Gateway pipeline.
00:06:30.520 Truth be told, we don't think there ought to be a carbon-based energy industry by the middle of this
00:06:35.200 century. That's our policy in Canada, and it's our policy all over the world. You can choose to fight
00:06:40.560 this fight on locking us into a high-carbon economy for five decades. I think that's a very reasonable
00:06:48.300 perspective to take. In fact, it's one we do take. We think that the oil sands have been expanded too
00:06:56.780 rapidly without a serious plan for environmental remediation in the first place. That's why we
00:07:03.980 don't think it's up to us to decide whether there should be another route for a pipeline, because
00:07:09.420 the real alternative is not an alternative route. It's an alternative economy. Butts and Trudeau killed
00:07:16.400 off three Canadian pipeline alternatives, Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Trans Mountain. Keystone
00:07:22.400 Excel was the last one. Well, mission accomplished. I've said time and time again, and you're all tired
00:07:28.700 of hearing me say it, you can't make a choice between what's good for the environment and what's good
00:07:33.240 for the economy. We can't shut down the oil sands tomorrow. We need to phase them out. We need to
00:07:40.500 manage the transition off of our dependence on fossil fuels. Trudeau hates Alberta, and he hates the West,
00:07:46.320 and he hates oil. Not his own use of oil, but any of it made in Canada. He's fine with the OPEC stuff,
00:07:52.680 as you may know. Trudeau does not tax oil from OPEC. It doesn't get dinged with the carbon tax when it
00:07:59.580 arrives here from Saudi Arabia in tanker ships. Only Canadian oil gets taxed that way. But if you
00:08:05.580 think Trudeau is bad, here's Stephen Gilboa, a convicted criminal, convicted of a crime for a
00:08:12.240 Greenpeace stunt. Trudeau appointed him to cabinet. Look at this. The guy's an anti-Keystone Excel
00:08:19.740 maniac. He's been opposing the pipeline since 2013. He must be loving it today. So where's the
00:08:28.320 opposition? Aaron O'Toole put out a four-sentence statement on the subject. I checked, and the
00:08:34.600 conservative energy critic didn't have a word to say. Do you know who the conservative energy
00:08:38.580 critic is? If you don't, I'm not going to tell you because I just want you to think about how
00:08:42.840 incredible that is, that you don't know the name of the conservative party's critic for energy,
00:08:46.200 or their environment critic, or health critic, or foreign affairs critic, or defense critic.
00:08:51.500 And it's not because you don't follow the news. You probably follow the news more than 99% of people
00:08:56.180 do. It's because the conservative party is hiding, scared of its own shadow. Here's Aaron O'Toole just
00:09:02.020 last month. Conservatives know that protecting our environment is critical. We agree with the goal
00:09:09.520 of reaching net zero by 2050. Let's protect our environment and natural spaces. Pretty sure you
00:09:16.940 can't get to net zero emissions in 29 years. That's where 2050 is. Without shutting down oil and gas and
00:09:25.240 fossil fuels. Well, at least the Toronto Star is happy with Aaron O'Toole. Conservatives have ignored the
00:09:32.780 climate crisis at their peril. And party insiders say Aaron O'Toole knows it. Now, Jason Kenney was
00:09:39.300 the first out of the gates last night with a reply to the CBC and report. They're the ones who broke
00:09:44.640 the report about Joe Biden. It's a good letter from Kenney, very substantive. And it points out that
00:09:50.700 Joe Biden's own climate plan contemplates America using oil for many decades to come. Biden is simply
00:09:57.080 choosing OPEC oil over a NATO ally. I mean, it makes good points. Kenney is gentle with Trudeau in his
00:10:04.080 letter. I think that means Kenney believes Trudeau can still be an ally in this. Well, you saw those
00:10:11.260 clips of Trudeau and Butts. Do you really think it's going to help? I guess Kenney thinks may as well
00:10:15.920 try. I like the last line in Kenney's letter. He says, should the incoming U.S. administration
00:10:21.020 abrogate the Keystone XL permit? Alberta will work with TC Energy to use all legal avenues available.
00:10:27.080 To protect its interest in this project. Hopefully that would work. I would have to think a judge
00:10:33.040 looking at a $10 billion project nearly done, already permitted, already crossing the border,
00:10:39.420 would be pretty skeptical about just ripping it up. I'd have to think the union workers would have
00:10:44.380 some words about this too to their Democrat allies. But there is nothing that a U.S. president
00:10:49.140 can't do in a situation like this if he's prepared to pay a fine or compensation for what is
00:10:55.160 essentially expropriation. That's really what it would be. Would Biden pay $10 billion or even $20
00:11:00.900 billion to TC? They're not even called TransCanada anymore. To destroy the pipeline? Sure he would.
00:11:07.680 I mean, they're throwing around trillions of dollars these days to destroy the most iconic
00:11:11.820 oil sands pipeline? Money's no object to these people. Hey, all of you dainty conservatives,
00:11:18.100 the ones who don't like the fact that Donald Trump would sometimes swear and Donald Trump would
00:11:23.820 sometimes say mean things? How do you like your Joe Biden now? Do you miss Trump yet? Profanity and
00:11:31.180 all? We've just been talking about oil. Look at what else is on that leaked memo for the first day.
00:11:38.160 A national mask law. Whole of government racial effort announcement and executive order. Send 0.56
00:11:48.320 immigration bill to Congress. They're going to legalize 11 million aliens who will all vote Democrat.
00:11:55.700 Muslim ban executive order. Terminating border wall. It's all coming, but hey, at least Joe Biden
00:12:02.360 won't make any dumb tweets, so at least the anti-Trumpers will have that to hold on.
00:12:08.160 So, stay with us for the next day.
00:12:22.160 Don't become Nazis! Don't become Nazis!
00:12:26.160 Your orders are correct!
00:12:28.160 Vaccine! Shame! Shame!
00:12:31.160 What are you doing then? Shame! Shame!
00:12:33.160 This is an assault! This is assault!
00:12:36.160 Move back! Move back! Move back! Move back! Move back!
00:12:46.160 I was on public property!
00:12:48.160 And then their kids are going to grow up and remember them!
00:12:52.160 They threw the Charter of Rights out the window.
00:12:59.160 And we're not vandalized stuff or burning stuff or anything like that or mom and pop place where these buggers do and they get away with it.
00:13:05.160 Steve Berkley will be arrested!
00:13:07.160 Steve Berkley will be arrested!
00:13:08.160 All crime is up! We stand on fire!
00:13:12.160 All crime is up! We stand on fire!
00:13:13.160 All crime is over again!
00:13:15.160 Time to leave the area!
00:13:17.160 The world is too much!
00:13:19.160 The world is too much!
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00:13:23.160 No more lockdown!
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00:13:38.160 One of those are trying to right to protest!
00:13:41.160 Don't let Trump!
00:13:42.160 Don't let Trump!
00:13:44.160 They were just doing their job!
00:13:46.160 Don't do those kinds of things!
00:13:47.160 Have a conscience!
00:13:49.160 Well, that is footage from downtown Toronto this Saturday.
00:13:55.160 A peaceful protest was smashed by Toronto police.
00:14:01.160 Even though, I say again, it was peaceful.
00:14:03.160 What a difference between that and the reception that the Black Lives Matter protesters got. 0.57
00:14:10.160 You'll see here Toronto police literally taking a knee.
00:14:13.160 As Churchill said about the Hun, as he called them,
00:14:17.160 they're either at your feet or at your throat.
00:14:20.160 That's what Churchill said.
00:14:21.160 I don't want to be too dramatic, but it seems like John Tory's police have the same approach to peaceful protest.
00:14:28.160 David Menzies was there.
00:14:29.160 David, nice to see you.
00:14:30.160 What was it like there this weekend?
00:14:32.160 Well, you know what?
00:14:33.160 My spidey senses were tingling, Ezra, because going back to, I believe it was April 26th,
00:14:37.160 was the first Yahoo Nation lockdown protest.
00:14:41.160 Everything has been going, well, far from the police clamping down.
00:14:47.160 We've even seen the police escort the march up the streets, blocking off intersections,
00:14:52.160 like they even had a permit or what have you.
00:14:54.160 But that Saturday, my spidey senses were tingling, like I said,
00:14:58.160 because in the morning the Toronto Police Service issued a tweet and it basically,
00:15:03.160 I won't read the whole thing, but the key element was participating in large gatherings,
00:15:08.160 including protests, is not just in contravention of these orders, the emergency orders,
00:15:14.160 but also puts attendees and the broader community at risk.
00:15:18.160 And like you said, there was no asterisk in that sentence.
00:15:22.160 If it's a racial injustice protest, like Black Lives Matter, Afro-Indigenous Rising,
00:15:27.160 it says protest, period.
00:15:29.160 And then John Tory, our illustrious Mayor, Ezra, he tweeted out that morning,
00:15:33.160 stay home, full stop.
00:15:36.160 So I got, I thought, something's in the air.
00:15:39.160 And I'm so happy to have colleagues that on their own free time, we didn't have one,
00:15:44.160 we didn't have two or three, but we had four cameramen there.
00:15:48.160 I had my little iPhone as well.
00:15:50.160 And we got this exclusive footage.
00:15:52.160 And I say exclusive, Ezra, because the mainstream media, they sat this one out.
00:15:57.160 How could they?
00:15:58.160 How is this not a story?
00:15:59.160 Well, if anything, they would be cheering on the violation of civil liberties.
00:16:03.160 I want to play you a clip.
00:16:05.160 There's a lot of things that were visually appalling.
00:16:07.160 An old lady being assaulted.
00:16:10.160 A man with disabled legs being pounced on.
00:16:14.160 A lot of people being pounded to the pavement.
00:16:17.160 Completely unnecessary.
00:16:19.160 They were not doing anything violent.
00:16:20.160 But perhaps even more terrifying was this statement by police.
00:16:25.160 Take a listen.
00:16:26.160 Police are dispersed from this area, ladies and gentlemen.
00:16:31.160 We're out to be dispersed from this area.
00:16:34.160 Time to go home.
00:16:36.160 The protest is over and done.
00:16:38.160 Time to leave the area.
00:16:40.160 Time to disperse from this area, folks.
00:16:43.160 The protest is over and done.
00:16:47.160 You know, in a police state, the police do get to say when a protest is,
00:16:53.160 Yes.
00:16:54.160 And go.
00:16:55.160 And cut. 0.99
00:16:56.160 You're done.
00:16:57.160 That's not how it works in a democracy.
00:16:59.160 You're allowed to protest.
00:17:00.160 And in fact, part of protesting, perhaps even the main part,
00:17:04.160 is protesting when the authorities don't want you to protest.
00:17:07.160 Otherwise, it's not a protest.
00:17:08.160 It's a cheerleading squad.
00:17:10.160 Absolutely.
00:17:11.160 I'm happy you mentioned cheerleading because I said that on camera
00:17:14.160 when they were making that pronouncement.
00:17:17.160 One of the officers with a bullhorn said,
00:17:19.160 This is your two-minute warning.
00:17:21.160 And I thought, Is this the end of the fourth quarter in an NFL game?
00:17:25.160 What?
00:17:26.160 There's a clock ticking down?
00:17:28.160 No, it was outrageous.
00:17:29.160 And I thought, what happened to, you know, just a week ago,
00:17:33.160 Ezra, we premiered our Nathan Phillips Square dossier
00:17:36.160 where we revealed the city was spying on us for covering an illegal,
00:17:41.160 not a protest, an encampment.
00:17:43.160 You know, nobody with the anti-lockdown site erected tents
00:17:48.160 and got cooking stuff out and defecated and urinated on the square,
00:17:52.160 but the people of Afro-Indigenous Rising did.
00:17:55.160 And when I confronted the mayor, maybe we have a clip of that in November,
00:18:00.160 why he saw us as the, I guess, instigators to violence for just being on the square
00:18:06.160 and was taking a blind eye to the protesters or the campers
00:18:12.160 who are breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act,
00:18:15.160 he said words to the effect that everybody has the right to peacefully protest.
00:18:19.160 Well, what happened from November till now?
00:18:21.160 Yeah, let's take a look at John Tory.
00:18:23.160 I call him Canada's worst mayor and I know people in Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton,
00:18:28.160 you know, and other places will disagree with me.
00:18:31.160 But really, here's John Tory lying through his mask.
00:18:34.160 Hey, Mayor Tory, how you doing? Dave Menzies.
00:18:37.160 Just wondering, why is it illegal to practice journalism in Toronto
00:18:41.160 and Nathan Phillips Square, yet you can have illegal occupiers
00:18:45.160 occupy the square for three weeks straight,
00:18:47.160 you can have our parks turned over to thugs.
00:18:50.160 Why is that, Mr. Mayor?
00:18:51.160 Well, I don't accept any of your assertions about people that are, you know,
00:18:56.160 homeless and in need of some support.
00:18:57.160 And I have no idea what you're talking about in terms of people
00:18:59.160 not being able to be journalists in Nathan Phillips Square.
00:19:01.160 It's a square that is open to the people and it's open to journalists
00:19:04.160 and all citizens of the city and I'm proud of that.
00:19:06.160 Well, Mr. Mayor, you know that your own security force at Nathan Phillips Square in June
00:19:10.160 were trespassing us for the egregious practice of practicing journalism,
00:19:15.160 yet you had a group of violent people called Afro-Indigenous Rising occupying the square.
00:19:21.160 You must know this, Mr. Mayor, they were there for three whole weeks
00:19:24.160 and they were breaking 11 sections of the Trespass Act
00:19:27.160 and yet the police and the security were coming after us for covering this.
00:19:32.160 Now, why is that?
00:19:34.160 I can't speak to how the security people dealt with you.
00:19:37.160 I don't direct what they do, but I will say to you that, you know,
00:19:41.160 unlike you who wants to sort of foment confrontation,
00:19:44.160 the people left the square peacefully that were there for a period of time.
00:19:48.160 They were engaged in a protest and they left and they went somewhere else.
00:19:51.160 And so, to me, that is the way things are supposed to work in the country
00:19:54.160 where people can protest and then they can eventually leave public property.
00:19:57.160 And that's what happened.
00:19:58.160 And I can't speak to what happened to you because I'm totally unfamiliar with it.
00:20:01.160 But I certainly can't accept your characterization of the people
00:20:04.160 who were engaged in a legitimate protest for a period of time in Nathan Phillips Square.
00:20:08.160 Well, Mayor Tory, I can send you the video footage that we shot.
00:20:11.160 We had over a million views of it.
00:20:13.160 And then when they did leave, they illegally occupied Dufferin Grove Park for several weeks.
00:20:18.160 So, are you serious? The police actually said two-minute warning.
00:20:21.160 Did they actually say that?
00:20:22.160 I believe the words were, you have two minutes.
00:20:25.160 Two minutes, but they kept extending it, you know, because nobody was moving.
00:20:29.160 This was early on, Ezra, around afternoon, I would say.
00:20:34.160 Normally, these protests are from noon till 2, but they started cracking down even before the protest,
00:20:39.160 which is why I was glad I got down there about 11.20.
00:20:43.160 And, you know, I just want to make another mention, too, since you're talking about Canada's worst mayor, John Tory.
00:20:50.160 Whoa, what a hell of a benchmark that is, given all so many of the other jokers.
00:20:54.160 Remember when Rod Phillips, the former finance minister, got caught in St. Barts?
00:20:59.160 The home, I think, according to Condé Nasté, of the best beach in the world.
00:21:04.160 Nothing but the best for Mr. Phillips.
00:21:06.160 And pretended to be doing these fireside chats from his writing.
00:21:10.160 Here's what John Tory said verbatim.
00:21:12.160 I don't know if we have this clip or not, but this is what he said.
00:21:15.160 I think people who know me also know I especially stand by my friends when they make mistakes and when they're in trouble.
00:21:23.160 You have to do that. It's not about the actions. It is about the person.
00:21:29.160 In other words, hey, if you're a friend of mine, I'll protect you.
00:21:33.160 Yeah, like it's a racket. Here, I think we do have that video.
00:21:37.160 Okay.
00:21:38.160 Comments this morning about Minister Phillips calling it a mistake.
00:21:41.160 Wondering if your personal feelings might be affecting you here.
00:21:44.160 Would you not be really angry to learn that a counselor defied public health advice by yourself and Dr. de Villa
00:21:51.160 and just went off on vacation and didn't tell anyone?
00:21:54.160 Minister Phillips made a mistake, a serious mistake.
00:21:58.160 He's been chastised by the Premier for that.
00:22:00.160 He has admitted his own deep regret at making that mistake.
00:22:04.160 I have acknowledged that it was a mistake.
00:22:06.160 It's a very regrettable series of events.
00:22:08.160 But I think people who know me also know that, you know, I especially stand by my friends
00:22:14.160 when they make mistakes and when they're in trouble because I just think that you have to do that.
00:22:19.160 It's not about the actions. It's about the person.
00:22:22.160 He's a human being and he made a mistake and he'll pay a price for that.
00:22:26.160 But I think, you know, now it's in the Premier's hands and he'll deal with it.
00:22:31.160 He and Mr. Phillips will deal with it as they see fit.
00:22:33.160 You know, one of the things that separates a dictatorship from a democracy or a constitutional authority
00:22:40.160 is the rule of law as opposed to the rule of man.
00:22:43.160 The police don't go up to someone and say, are you a friend of the mayor?
00:22:46.160 Are you a friend of the mayor? Okay, no problem.
00:22:48.160 Are you a friend of the mayor? No, you're an enemy of his.
00:22:50.160 All right, handcuffs.
00:22:52.160 It applies to Rod Phillips.
00:22:53.160 It applies to Black Lives Matter or these anti-lockdown protesters.
00:22:57.160 I mean, the extreme policing of Adamson Barbecue, who dared to defy the mayor, I think policing is terrible.
00:23:07.160 And I think the worst thing that I saw this Saturday from downtown Toronto was police reaching in the crowd,
00:23:14.160 grabbing people, plucking them out and pummeling them.
00:23:18.160 a little bit of that.
00:23:24.160 I've already been injured by you.
00:23:26.160 I've already been assaulted by you.
00:23:28.160 My ribs are blue.
00:23:29.160 My ribs are blue.
00:23:30.160 Do not.
00:23:31.160 Do not.
00:23:32.160 Do not.
00:23:47.160 Oh, Oh, oh.
00:23:49.160 Oh! 0.60
00:23:58.160 That reminds me of the G20 policing a few years back in Toronto.
00:24:06.400 A policing disaster, mass violations of civil liberties,
00:24:11.060 bizarre police tactics of kettling.
00:24:13.520 I think that Toronto is out of control again.
00:24:17.100 And you might have this mild-mannered, bland, vanilla mayor, 0.95
00:24:21.260 but it actually is a deceptive cover.
00:24:24.120 He's an abusive man when it comes to violence.
00:24:27.160 You know, that decision, Ezra, and I saw it all throughout the day
00:24:31.420 when police were determining who they were going to arrest and ticket,
00:24:36.160 and it was so arbitrary, and it wasn't based on them, you know, being called a slur.
00:24:41.800 It wasn't based on any kind of illegal activity.
00:24:44.340 It was almost reminiscent of me, given who some of the victims were,
00:24:47.780 such as literally a little old lady, a grandmother carrying a cross.
00:24:52.220 It was like a herd of lions, you know, in the savannah,
00:24:54.720 and they're looking at the antelope, and they go,
00:24:56.360 well, those big bruises, we can never outrun them.
00:24:58.860 Oh, there's someone that's weak.
00:25:00.340 There's someone that's old.
00:25:01.680 That's where we'll go.
00:25:02.660 That's what it seemed like to me.
00:25:04.420 And they were picking out the easiest targets to manhandle,
00:25:08.520 and that's appalling.
00:25:09.640 It shouldn't be that way.
00:25:10.840 The protest is over and done.
00:25:13.500 Yeah, we don't, in a free country,
00:25:15.520 you don't take instructions from police about when you protest over and done.
00:25:19.700 Look at this.
00:25:20.060 They specifically went after this lady giving a speech. 0.80
00:25:24.320 So she was doing nothing different than anyone else
00:25:26.520 other than expressing an opinion that the cops didn't like.
00:25:29.600 Take a look.
00:25:30.400 I do not consent.
00:25:31.760 I am.
00:25:32.560 No, I do not.
00:25:33.700 No.
00:25:35.520 No.
00:25:36.960 If you touch me, it's assault.
00:25:38.960 If you touch me, you are committing assault.
00:25:41.780 You invite.
00:25:42.540 This is assault.
00:25:43.280 And they went after her equipment, too.
00:25:54.940 That's right.
00:25:55.280 That's Kellyanne Wolfe, that's right, of the Hugs Over Mass people. 0.93
00:25:59.180 You know, and it's amazing, too, Ezra,
00:26:01.320 when the sun was setting and the line was moving,
00:26:05.140 so they were forcing them off Yonge-Dundas Square,
00:26:07.620 off the sidewalk, off the road, onto the other side,
00:26:11.500 the west side of Yonge Street,
00:26:13.480 I was standing on this concrete bench,
00:26:16.280 and I was chronicling it,
00:26:17.440 and this was the other goofy thing.
00:26:18.960 I don't know if we caught the audio or not.
00:26:20.740 I think we did.
00:26:21.820 But an officer was saying,
00:26:23.740 move along, you've got to move.
00:26:24.900 And I said, look, I'm not part of the protest.
00:26:26.880 I'm media.
00:26:27.580 I'm covering it.
00:26:28.120 And a female officer said, 1.00
00:26:29.800 oh, we know who you are.
00:26:31.360 And she said this, Ezra.
00:26:33.660 But maybe if you leave, everybody will leave, too.
00:26:37.360 Like I'm the Pied Piper of Hamlin.
00:26:39.520 I wish I had that power.
00:26:41.640 Oh, the rebel news reporter's gone.
00:26:43.420 May as well go now.
00:26:44.340 Both, let's get in the subway.
00:26:45.920 I mean, it was crazy.
00:26:47.200 Like, I'm supposed to do the dirty work.
00:26:49.340 Well, it shows that they have lost the consent of the people.
00:26:53.840 Yeah.
00:26:53.920 One of the principles of modern policing outlined by, you know, the Bobbies,
00:27:00.700 like they're named after, you know, modern policing,
00:27:06.460 it was never this way centuries ago.
00:27:08.560 Correct.
00:27:09.480 Professional, independent, nonpartisan policing with a light touch,
00:27:14.160 suitable for a civil liberties-loving jurisdiction.
00:27:17.220 It was developed in the UK.
00:27:18.460 And the essence of it is you must have the support of the people.
00:27:23.320 You must have them willingly obeying the laws almost all the time
00:27:27.440 so that when force is needed, they are there with you
00:27:30.880 because they agree that something, so you are their hand.
00:27:34.460 And the anecdote you just told me about the lady cop saying,
00:27:37.980 well, maybe if you told them they'd leave,
00:27:39.600 shows that the police have lost the consent of the policed.
00:27:43.700 They have lost the moral authority.
00:27:47.660 And as a backhanded compliment, or a fronthanded compliment,
00:27:53.420 they show that you have the moral authority.
00:27:56.840 And I think that that police officer should think about what she said
00:28:01.940 and think about why it is that people are disrespecting her authority.
00:28:07.220 She's wearing a police uniform.
00:28:08.500 She has a badge.
00:28:09.660 She is a representative of the city, a representative of the law.
00:28:13.120 And yet people defy her to her face.
00:28:16.260 Is it because they are criminals?
00:28:18.660 No.
00:28:19.320 Is it because they are naturally violent?
00:28:21.500 No, there was no violence.
00:28:23.060 It's because they no longer feel that she is a police officer
00:28:26.840 of the people for the law.
00:28:28.700 They regard her as a political gang member.
00:28:31.520 And she should think more about that, but I doubt she will.
00:28:34.100 You know, that's an amazing analysis.
00:28:36.200 And you might be right on the nail with that one, Ezra.
00:28:39.840 I just want to go back to your original premise.
00:28:41.840 And it's the idea that police, during the summer when there were the Black Lives Matter protests
00:28:48.720 of far greater numbers, were not only not discouraging it or giving tickets,
00:28:54.380 but like you said, they were taking the knee, including the chief of police,
00:28:57.520 which I think led to his resignation.
00:28:59.740 He lost the confidence of his other officers.
00:29:02.500 Because what is the chief taking a knee for?
00:29:04.380 You're taking a knee against yourself, just like the prime minister did.
00:29:07.080 When we go out to the likes of a John Tory or a Doug Ford, and we ask them,
00:29:13.420 how is that protest approved?
00:29:16.560 It's got the good housekeeping seal of approval on it, but the anti-lockdown protest,
00:29:20.980 this is like a gathering of modern-day typhoid Marys.
00:29:25.560 Is it that this Wuhan virus is so super intelligent, it realizes that the protest for racial injustice, 0.92
00:29:32.520 we're not going to infect those people.
00:29:35.280 Ooh, anti-lockdown people, what kind of yahoos are that? 1.00
00:29:38.720 And it'll go after that.
00:29:39.920 If that's the case, then, Ezra, we are dealing with the most super intelligent virus in the history of mankind,
00:29:46.340 and I think we're doomed.
00:29:48.840 Well, Occam's Razor says the simplest explanation is often the best explanation.
00:29:53.240 We could be dealing with the smartest virus in the history of viruses,
00:29:57.380 or perhaps Occam's Razor would say a simpler option is that we're dealing with the dumbest political class
00:30:04.760 in the history of politicians.
00:30:06.220 That, to me, is more likely.
00:30:07.900 David, great to see you.
00:30:08.840 Congratulations on your courageous work on the streets.
00:30:11.500 I was so proud to see you, as well as four other rebel staff out there.
00:30:15.760 We didn't even direct anyone to go.
00:30:17.160 Everyone just knew that was where the news was.
00:30:19.120 Thank you so much.
00:30:19.740 And like I said, Ezra, there was no other media outlet there,
00:30:22.300 even though Citi TV is literally meters away from young Dundas.
00:30:26.460 Folks, if you want to help us, as you know, we provide lawyers,
00:30:29.380 civil liberties lawyers, to anyone who gets a lockdown ticket.
00:30:33.180 If you got a ticket, go to fightthefinest.com.
00:30:35.600 If you didn't get a ticket, go to fightthefinest.com,
00:30:38.420 because we crowdfund the legal bills, and they're getting large, but we'll keep fighting.
00:30:42.540 All right, stay with us.
00:30:49.740 Hey, welcome back.
00:30:55.960 On my monologue on Friday, Bruce writes,
00:30:58.740 Today Trump, tomorrow the world.
00:31:00.280 I hope these tech censors overplay their hand, 0.74
00:31:01.960 and other countries block their platforms in favor of their own national ones.
00:31:06.280 You know what?
00:31:06.860 I wouldn't be surprised if India does that. 0.99
00:31:08.900 They're a real tech headquarters.
00:31:10.920 Boy, it sure sounds like Mexico wants to do that.
00:31:13.740 Even Germany.
00:31:14.720 Those are all pretty serious places when you get right down to it,
00:31:17.520 especially Germany and India.
00:31:18.480 But Canada, I read in the Globe and Mail today,
00:31:23.420 Canada's going the other way.
00:31:24.940 Canada's hopping on the censorship bandwagon.
00:31:27.800 I'm worried because, I mean, come on.
00:31:29.760 Who do you think they're going to target first?
00:31:32.320 Jerry writes,
00:31:33.420 Yes, we've been asleep for too long.
00:31:35.720 It's time to wake up to what's really happening to us.
00:31:38.040 Media has lied to us, and big tech has denied us our right to free speech.
00:31:41.520 However, it's our own fault,
00:31:43.260 because when we sign up, there's an agreement we are supposed to read
00:31:46.300 before we become a member.
00:31:49.380 You're talking about the terms of service.
00:31:51.340 I'd say a few things about that.
00:31:52.680 First of all, if a company is going to be immune from lawsuits under a U.S. law called
00:31:59.280 the Communications Decency Act, they can't act like a publisher.
00:32:03.860 The whole reason why people don't sue Twitter, Google, YouTube every day
00:32:07.260 is because of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,
00:32:10.820 which says that web companies are treated like bulletin boards where anyone can put something
00:32:16.320 on it.
00:32:16.660 So if there's something really mean on the bulletin board, you can't sue the bulletin board
00:32:20.420 itself.
00:32:21.460 Sort of like if someone's talking on a pay phone, you can't sue the pay phone company
00:32:26.020 for what the person says if you're a neutral platform.
00:32:29.060 But I put it to you that the way these tech companies are operating, they're not neutral
00:32:33.380 platforms, and thus they can be held liable.
00:32:37.020 I'll probably tell you this story tomorrow, but there's a major lawsuit against Twitter
00:32:41.080 that succeeded in its first round in B.C. just last week.
00:32:45.020 So I'll tell you more about that.
00:32:46.340 Paul writes,
00:32:48.980 Big tech will be seen as a security issue in any country, as well as their own globalist
00:32:53.200 masters.
00:32:54.440 They are the ultimate useful idiots.
00:32:55.780 Useful idiots are seen as potential counter-revolutionaries by the people they put in power.
00:33:01.320 Yeah, well, I mean, look, Russia has its own version of Facebook called VK, I think.
00:33:06.440 China obviously bans Western apps and has their own versions.
00:33:10.120 TikTok came, well, it is from there.
00:33:12.660 I would rather have 200 different social media apps to choose from rather than three
00:33:19.800 or four controlled by the same clique in Silicon Valley.
00:33:24.020 I think we need competition, and I think it's being abusive, this monopoly, and I think we
00:33:29.860 need a trust bust like Teddy Roosevelt did to the big oil companies.
00:33:35.700 Trouble is, I think Joe Biden loves the oligarchs because they're on his side.
00:33:39.540 Anyways, big days ahead.
00:33:42.360 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,
00:33:45.940 good night.
00:33:47.100 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:33:48.020 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:33:55.240 Keep fighting for freedom.
00:33:55.940 We'll be right back.
00:34:04.880 Just let us know.
00:34:04.900 We'll be right back.
00:34:05.380 We'll be right back.
00:34:07.020 We'll be right back.
00:34:08.960 We'll be right back.
00:34:09.260 We'll be right back.
00:34:09.400 We'll be right back.
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