Rebel News Podcast - South Dakota shows us one way to handle foreign environmental extremists

00:00:00.040 Hello, my rebels. I've got an exciting story for you today. I learned a new word today, new phrase,

00:00:05.740 and I learned about it in a bill before the legislature in South Dakota. It's Senate Bill

00:00:13.080 189, and it creates the offensive riot boosting, and I'll just tell you what that means. It means

00:00:21.360 fancy pants out-of-state environmental extremists coming into a state to block pipelines. Well, 0.97

00:00:27.060 guess what? They are now on the hook in a very serious way in South Dakota. It is a great law.

00:00:33.200 I go through it in detail, and I say, we need a law like that up here in Canada. So, you know,

00:00:39.320 get your pens and paper out. You're going to learn a little something about riot boosting. Anywho,

00:00:44.380 that's the show for today, and I just want to say you really should watch it because I'm going to

00:00:47.800 show you some maps today, and I'm going to show you a ton of pictures of Kristi Noem, the governor of

00:00:55.740 South Dakota, hunting varmints and things. And I know it's just a richer experience than just

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00:01:31.300 to do, here is my audio only monologue about riot boosting. Tonight, the great state of South Dakota

00:01:44.220 shows us the way to handle foreign environmental extremists. It's March 5th, and this is the Ezra

00:01:50.180 Levant Show. Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know? There's

00:01:56.940 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer. The only thing I have to say to the

00:02:02.280 government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:02:12.240 North Dakota is a pretty big oil-producing state these days, and that's just happened in the past

00:02:18.420 decade or so. The Bakken geological formation, which you can see on this map, is a huge source

00:02:24.420 of oil. It's shale oil, so it's fracked, and it's amazing. I know this because it must be amazing

00:02:31.420 because Quebec chooses to import it by railway train from North Dakota instead of bringing in

00:02:39.080 Alberta or Saskatchewan oil by pipeline. As you can see on the map, the Bakken formation actually

00:02:45.940 extends well into Canada, and it's a pretty big deal up here too, but all the pipelines that would

00:02:52.560 have helped bring that Canadian Bakken oil to market may have been shut down. Energy East would

00:02:59.500 have been perfect, by the way. The Keystone XL pipeline too. Now, Obama vetoed that one, and then

00:03:06.680 an Obama judge slowed it down. It'll get back up in time, but in the meantime, like I say, there are

00:03:12.500 plenty of railways getting rich off moving Bakken fracked oil, including to Canada. It was Bakken oil

00:03:20.480 that blew up in Lac-Mégantic, by the way. I got nothing against North Dakota or Bakken or fracking

00:03:26.300 or even against railways. I got nothing against buying things from Americans. I'm envious of them 1.00

00:03:31.400 actually, and that's my point today. Why can't Saskatchewan sell its Bakken oil that we fracked

00:03:37.020 to Quebec? Because North Dakota, by the way, doesn't pay equalization payments to Quebec,

00:03:44.540 but Saskatchewan and Alberta do, but we can't sell our oil. And it's going to get worse. It's almost

00:03:50.440 like Trudeau is a lobbyist working for North Dakota. I played this clip for you yesterday.

00:03:56.680 It's Catherine McKenna boasting about Bill C-69 and all the new regulations that will apply to new

00:04:02.620 industrial projects, but only in Canada. None of these will be applied to foreign oil imports,

00:04:09.520 either from North Dakota or from Saudi Arabia. Remember this?

00:04:14.300 Project decisions will be based on science, evidence, and Indigenous traditional knowledge.

00:04:19.880 We're also taking a bigger picture look at the potential impacts of a proposed project.

00:04:24.500 Instead of just looking at the environmental impacts, we'll look at how a project could

00:04:28.620 affect our communities and health, jobs and the economy over the long term, and we'll also do

00:04:34.220 a gender-based analysis. Yeah, they're not doing a gender-based analysis on their oil imports, are

00:04:40.100 they? Yeah, so while Canada's oil and gas industry is bleeding, North Dakota's is actually setting new

00:04:46.600 records. 1.4 million barrels of oil per day. That's more than some OPEC countries. There aren't even a

00:04:58.500 million people living in North Dakota. Well, I'm jealous. What can I say? I'm jealous of North Dakota.

00:05:04.240 But there are some things we can learn from the Dakotas. And let me now turn my eye to South Dakota.

00:05:09.400 As you can see, the Bakken doesn't extend that far south, but another oil and gas deposit called the

00:05:15.220 Williston does. It's just a fraction of their northern sister state. It's not a big deal, except in one way.

00:05:21.940 Pipelines. They love building pipelines in South Dakota. They're like the opposite of us here in

00:05:28.520 Canada. They love being next to North Dakota. They're not jealous like we are in Canada, where

00:05:34.980 Quebec likes to take equalization payments from Western oil, but doesn't like to take the actual

00:05:39.880 oil. In South Dakota, I think they sort of brag about being next to North Dakota. And they really

00:05:45.280 play up how they're so connected. I like that solidarity. Now, obviously, they're getting rich

00:05:49.760 off it, too. But they're friends. And look at this map. That's the Dakota Access Pipeline.

00:05:57.040 So it's a big pipeline that takes North Dakota Bakken oil. And as you can see, it obviously goes

00:06:02.600 south through the state of South Dakota. And you see that yellow shape that straddles the border there?

00:06:10.480 That's the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. It's pretty big. That's where there were enormous 0.50

00:06:16.060 protests during the Obama years trying to stop a key pipeline called the Dakota Access Pipeline.

00:06:23.840 Huge protests, even larger than what we've seen in Canada, by the way. We actually haven't seen any

00:06:30.560 huge pipeline protests other than temporary hour-long parades in Burnaby and Vancouver. In Standing

00:06:37.860 Rock, it really was an army. Thousands of people. And they camped out for weeks with Obama's full

00:06:45.780 support, by the way. He basically canceled the pipeline that was a done deal regulatorily

00:06:52.160 by allowing violent protesters to stop it. It's like Trudeau does, really. And remember when our

00:06:58.820 friend, the filmmaker, fellow McAleer, actually went to Standing Rock? It was total lawlessness.

00:07:03.900 Remember this?

00:07:04.540 Can I see your press knife? I don't have it. The press place was closed.

00:07:09.980 Can we see your footage there? Sorry.

00:07:11.820 It's open now. Yeah, we're going to have security.

00:07:13.900 Are you with the, um, I mean, I'm with the press.

00:07:16.940 Hey, hey, hey, let go. Let go. Let go. Let go of that, sir. Let go. Sir, let go of that.

00:07:21.660 Let go. Let go. Let go. Let go. Let go. He's in the wrong place to ask that kind of stuff.

00:07:26.620 Let go of the microphone. Let go of the microphone. You've got to let go of the microphone. Let's go to

00:07:31.100 the press box. That's my property. Let go. Let go. Well, I guarantee you. I spoke to Mike.

00:07:34.780 This is not going to be filmed. This is not going to be filmed. This is not going to be filmed.

00:07:36.380 Yes. I have my own camera operate. Hey, wait a minute. Make sure, can you make sure his is

00:07:41.500 deleted? He's filming this right here. He's taking it with him. You guys don't have a press pass.

00:07:46.060 I don't, I have no. Uh, you can see there was a ton of people there. Most of those vehicles

00:07:53.180 had out of state license plates. There were no cops to be seen. I'll get back to that in a moment.

00:07:57.420 Anyways, that's how it was going to be. Um, they were going to block the pipeline,

00:08:02.380 just like they blocked pipelines up here. It was obviously funded by professional

00:08:05.580 environmentalist groups. Those were not local South Dakotans there. Um, just like in Canada,

00:08:11.980 most protesters weren't Dakotans. Most weren't Aboriginal. The same thing up here. Same thing. 0.99

00:08:17.420 Exactly. Uh, they were going to cut off the Bakken just like they've cut off the oil sands.

00:08:25.420 And then Donald Trump won the election. And in his first week as president, he signed an executive

00:08:31.260 order clearing those hippies out of the way, proceeding with the construction of the Dakota 1.00

00:08:35.740 access pipeline. And by the way, he revived the Keystone XL too. Although like I say,

00:08:39.820 an Obama judge has since delayed it. So that pipeline, the Dakota access pipeline,

00:08:44.380 the one I showed you on the map there with the yellow Indian reservation, that pipeline got built

00:08:49.580 immediately. By the way, Trump green lit it, as you can see here in January of 2017.

00:08:56.380 It was operational by June of 2017, five months later, less than five months. Let me read a great

00:09:06.300 little story from Forbes that was published on the first anniversary of the pipeline.

00:09:10.780 Whatever happened to the Dakota access pipeline? The Dakota access pipeline has much to celebrate

00:09:17.180 on its first year of service. This was written, um, June of 2018. For proponents, it shows once again

00:09:23.820 that oil can be safely transported in significant volumes. It also shows that the project created

00:09:29.580 nearly 10,000 jobs during construction, which pumped millions of dollars into local communities.

00:09:34.460 Landowners received $189 million in easement payments last year, while state and local

00:09:40.540 governments received a combined $55 million in property taxes. That's amazing. Just, I think

00:09:49.020 that's probably the largest property taxpayer in the state. I mean, obviously it's got a great safety

00:09:54.380 record. I mean, it's a state of the art pipeline built in 2017. And most importantly, it has allowed

00:10:01.660 North Dakota to become as big as an OPEC country. That could have been us. But we elected Justin

00:10:08.700 Trudeau. Again, I am so jealous of both South and North Dakota. And of course, taking all that oil

00:10:14.540 off of railways and putting it in a safe underground pipe, that's just smart. And it eases demand on the

00:10:21.500 railways. So that helps farmers who need to ship stuff on railways. So it's win, win, win all around.

00:10:26.700 Yes, I'm jealous. I wish that was us. I wish we had the Energy East pipeline to New Brunswick. I wish

00:10:33.180 we had the Northern Gateway pipeline to Kitimat. I wish we had Keystone XL going all the way down to

00:10:37.900 Texas. I wish we had the Trans Mountain extension. We've got none of that. We're missing our moment.

00:10:43.500 You know, America is not the world's largest oil producer. It's now a net exporter of oil. I never

00:10:48.220 thought I would see that in my life. It's happened in a couple of years. Pretty soon it just won't need

00:10:55.100 our oil sands. Thanks, Trudeau. But let me tell you something I just learned about South Dakota today.

00:11:05.420 Like I say, they have a tiny fraction of the oil and gas activity compared to the Northern,

00:11:11.260 the North Dakota. But they're not jealous. They like being part of the action. They like building

00:11:17.820 pipelines. They respect their Northern neighbors. They get some of the benefits too. But look at this.

00:11:22.460 This is my favorite news of the day. Look at this bill proposed by the new Republican governor of

00:11:30.700 South Dakota named Kristi Noem. It's Senate Bill 189, if you're keeping track. And I'll just read it.

00:11:38.460 For an act entitled, an act to establish a fund to receive civil recoveries to offset costs incurred by riot

00:11:49.180 boosting. To make a continuous appropriation, therefore, and to declare an emergency.

00:11:55.820 Riot boosting. Have you ever heard that term before? I haven't. It's exactly what it sounds like,

00:12:03.500 though. Let me read a little more. It's a pretty short bill. It's only three pages, this proposed law.

00:12:09.100 One page is practically all just definitions. They define riot. We all know what a riot is.

00:12:14.060 And then they define riot boosting. I love that word. Here, let me read about riot boosting.

00:12:22.060 In addition to any other liability or criminal penalty under law, a person is liable for riot boosting

00:12:31.660 jointly and severally with any other person to the state or a political subdivision in an action for

00:12:38.700 damages if the person participates in any riot and directs, advises, encourages or solicits any other

00:12:50.380 person participating in the riot to acts of force or violence. Does not personally participate in any

00:12:58.940 riot but directs, advises, encourages or solicits other persons participating in the riot to acts of

00:13:05.660 force or violence or upon the direction, advice, encouragement or solicitation of any other person

00:13:12.940 uses force or violence or makes any threat to use force or violence if accompanied by immediate

00:13:18.380 power of execution by three or more persons acting together and without authority of law. Okay.

00:13:23.500 Now, I think that's pretty plain English. It was a little bit repetitive, actually. First of all,

00:13:28.300 it says that riot boosting doesn't replace any existing crime. It creates a new offense. Second,

00:13:35.820 it says that riot boosting means if you whip up a riot, if you direct it, if you advise it, if you

00:13:40.460 encourage it, those are the words, you don't actually have to be a rioter yourself. You just have to incite it.

00:13:46.460 Or if you're part of it and there are three or more of you and you threaten violence and you have the

00:13:49.900 power to do to immediately do it, they're going to get you for riot boosting. So this is going

00:13:55.740 after the Gerald Butzes and the Sephora Berman to the world, the World Wildlife Funds, the Green 0.67

00:14:02.540 Pieces, the Sierra Clubs. This is going after that Standing Rock Reservation mass riot. Because all

00:14:09.820 of a sudden, riots aren't about fundraising opportunities for Greenpeace anymore. That's

00:14:13.900 what they do, right? They commit a crime and then they fundraise off. No, no, no, no. Now, under this riot

00:14:19.260 boosting law, if you're going to have some violent protest, it just became a horrible, horrible trap

00:14:26.860 for your environmental group. Penalties, offenses, legal troubles, huge fines. Let me read some more.

00:14:34.860 A person is subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state, South Dakota, for riot boosting that

00:14:43.740 results in a riot in this state, regardless of whether the person engages in riot boosting

00:14:48.780 personally or through any employee, agent, or subsidiary. Holy cow, how awesome is that? See,

00:14:56.460 the Tides Foundation is headquartered in San Francisco, as are many other eco-extremists.

00:15:01.340 Sephora Berman's group is in Washington State, I believe. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund obviously is

00:15:05.820 in New York. But now all of them are liable in South Dakota if they boost riots in South Dakota.

00:15:14.060 I love it. I'm going to read some more. It's a very short bill. I've almost read the whole thing to you.

00:15:18.460 The plaintiff in an action for riot boosting may recover both special and general damages,

00:15:24.780 reasonable attorney's fees, disbursements, other reasonable expenses incurred from prosecuting the

00:15:30.300 action, and punitive damages. A defendant who solicits or compensates any other person

00:15:37.260 to commit an unlawful act or to be arrested is subject to three times the sum that would compensate

00:15:45.020 for the detriment caused. Triple damages?

00:15:51.500 So if you do a million bucks worth of damage to a pipeline,

00:15:53.980 get ready to pay triple that. Three million. Yeah, Greenpeace can stay away. Just one more

00:16:02.220 quote. It's a short law. I've read almost the whole thing to you. There is established in the

00:16:07.180 state treasury the riot boosting recovery fund. Money in the fund may be used to pay any claim

00:16:14.860 for damages arising out of or in connection with a riot, or may be transferred to the pipeline

00:16:20.220 engagement activity coordination expenses fund. So companies can be compensated. I like that.

00:16:27.260 So I think this contemplates either a private prosecution from a pipeline company or the state

00:16:32.220 of South Dakota going after the bad guys and putting their cash in a piggy bank for anyone who was harmed.

00:16:39.340 How amazing is that? Hey, I have a very, very, very simple question for you. If you were Greenpeace,

00:16:45.900 if you were Zipporah Berman, if you were any of these hucksters on the hard left, would you do your

00:16:52.300 rioting in South Dakota anymore once this law is passed? Or would you go somewhere else without a riot

00:16:58.940 boosting law, like maybe Portland, Oregon? Yeah, exactly. That proposed law, that bill is the handiwork of

00:17:08.940 this woman, Kristi Noem, the amazing new governor of South Dakota. Smart, tough. I can't get enough of

00:17:19.180 these pictures of her hunting and weightlifting and shooting varmints because all I can imagine is how

00:17:28.700 in my daydreams, she would personally go out there and personally arrest and handcuff these soy latte 1.00

00:17:37.820 drinking vegetarian peaceniks with her bare hands and throw them into the clink, the hoose gal. Now, 0.99

00:17:46.300 maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just thinking of that great TV show called Man Tracker. Did you ever see

00:17:51.420 that one? Or that strong, silent type cowboy? He tracks down them city boys in the forest and

00:17:59.100 rounds them up. Except this gal's a governor, not a reality TV star. I wish we had a premier like she 1.00

00:18:06.780 is a governor. I wish we had riot boosting laws in Canada. I love saying that. Riot boosting. Maybe

00:18:14.060 Saskatchewan can pass a riot boosting law. Not that there's a lot of environmental protesters in

00:18:20.940 Saskatchewan. Maybe Alberta can too, once Rachel Notley is defenestrated next month. Maybe Doug Ford 0.78

00:18:27.500 should too. You know, I have personally witnessed with my own eyes sabotage by the Sierra Club

00:18:34.380 committed against the Line 9 oil pipeline owned by Enbridge near Hamilton. I was there,

00:18:39.740 this footage, I took it when I was at the Sun. And then there's the Rexton riot. I didn't take

00:18:48.140 this footage, but I did attend later on. This is the Rexton riots here. There's a Rexton riots in New

00:18:53.100 Brunswick a few years back, also whipped up by the Sierra Club. I have seen sabotage all over Ontario,

00:18:59.580 and the police do nothing because they don't have the riot boosting laws. Yet we might not have the

00:19:05.020 pipelines like South Dakota does, and that probably won't get us the pipelines. We probably have to

00:19:11.100 wait until Trudeau's gone. But there is no reason why self-respecting Canadian provinces on their own

00:19:16.220 can't pass riot boosting laws, just like my new superhero, Kristi Noem is doing in South Dakota.

00:19:25.100 Who knows? Maybe if we ask her nicely, she'd come up here and help us arrest that David Suzuki

00:19:33.420 and his band of dirty hippies, personally, consume for riot boosting. Hey, a felican dream. Stay with us for more. 1.00

00:19:43.260 Hey, welcome back. I want to show you, I mean, Twitter is so amazing. I watched in real time

00:20:03.260 as a woman smashed the historical world record for deadlifting 500 pounds. Let me show you the

00:20:13.820 tweet. I'll read it and then we'll play the video. It's by Zuby, a rapper who says, I keep hearing

00:20:20.060 about how biological men don't have any physical strength advantage over women in 2019. So watch me

00:20:26.460 destroy the British women's deadlift record without trying. P.S. I identified as a woman whilst lifting

00:20:35.820 the weight. Don't be a bigot. And then we'll click the video and show you.

00:20:39.420 That's 500 pounds. I should tell you that that same man, he's a man, if you didn't get the joke yet,

00:20:56.460 he's a man saying he's identifying as a woman. He went on to break every single women's weightlifting

00:21:03.580 record bench presses. He was lifting over 500 pounds and he was saying he was stunning and brave

00:21:10.940 throughout. He did it as a joke, but that's the thing. That joke has become reality in many sports

00:21:19.100 competitions. And joining us now via Skype from Montreal to talk about it is our friend Barbara

00:21:23.820 Kay, a columnist at the Post Millennial and National Post. Great to see you again, Barbara. That was a joke

00:21:28.860 by a rapper. That guy, Zuby. He's an amateur weightlifter. He's pretty good at it, obviously.

00:21:33.980 But he showed that he could be the number one weightlifter in the UK if he just lied about being

00:21:39.740 a woman. That lie is happening every day, though. It is. Unfortunately, in powerlifting, in weight 1.00

00:21:48.540 wrestling, running, cycling, all the individual sports, real women are losing out to men who identify as

00:21:58.540 women or who say they identify as women. These biological men would be middle of the pack or 0.55

00:22:05.340 nobody's in a men's contest, but they are on the podium with medals in a women's competition. And

00:22:15.100 our sports associations are saying that's okay because it's all about inclusion. Yeah. How ironic

00:22:21.420 that's truly Orwellian to say inclusion means driving women's out of women's sport. Let's put up on 0.98

00:22:25.980 the screen your article for the Post Millennial. Canadian sports experts embrace misogynistic

00:22:32.940 practices to please trans activists. And you can see there, it's just so obvious, you can see a

00:22:39.420 biological woman getting crushed in a sprint by a biological man who says, no, no, no, no, no, 0.99

00:22:46.060 no, no, I'm a girl. And if you don't agree I'm a girl, you're a bigot. This is happening throughout

00:22:51.740 Canada, isn't it? Yes, it's happening in Canada, in the United States. It's happening everywhere in

00:22:58.700 the West. And it will pretty soon, if it isn't already, come to a crisis point where either the

00:23:05.180 women athletes themselves, I saw one, I saw one tweet, I think it was somebody quoting a young girl

00:23:12.060 who said she was so discouraged and demoralized because in the tryouts she knew, she says, I won't

00:23:18.060 make it. I know who's trying out. So, you know, there were two people ahead of her, both biological

00:23:23.820 males. And so she knew she wasn't even going to get into the into the heats. So that girl is probably 1.00

00:23:28.540 going to leave that sport very discouraged. And to me, this is in the sporting world, what I consider

00:23:34.620 pretty criminal that she should, that a girl with talent skills obviously, you know, would have done 0.99

00:23:41.260 probably pretty well otherwise has actually been erased from the sport. Yeah. I mean, the whole

00:23:47.900 concept of sportsmanship, I mean, if it was win at all costs, if this was like a military mission

00:23:54.060 where you must succeed, you must do anything, sure, cheat, lie, do what I mean, there are still

00:23:59.420 laws of war. I mean, we're not terrorists, we're not pirates, but that's not what sport is. Sport is not

00:24:06.220 win at all costs, do whatever it takes, cheat. There are some places, some extreme areas of life

00:24:11.260 where that is appropriate. Not sport, sportsmanship, sportsmanlike. These are words we take out of sport

00:24:17.500 into the rest of life to mean a fair competition where the best person wins. Well, yeah. Go ahead.

00:24:24.860 That's the logo. That's the logo of the sporting world is literally play fair. And you know,

00:24:30.220 you've seen, look, we know what a big business sports is. We've seen the hundreds of thousands of fans

00:24:35.900 that go out to watch these games. People take sports extremely seriously. They pay big money.

00:24:41.340 And even in the amateur world, people will come out for junior, you know, for young people's leagues.

00:24:48.540 This is, they take it very, very seriously. And the one thing that drives them nuts is cheating,

00:24:52.780 right? I mean, you, someone cheats, people get hysterical because it's, it's, that's not what

00:24:59.580 they came for. And it's the one place left in the world where it is a level, supposedly a level

00:25:04.780 playing field. So this is where the rubber hits the road. I mean, really we have to deal with this

00:25:09.900 craziness or else we're, we're basically driving women out of sport. Yeah. And it's that pure 1.00

00:25:15.740 meritocracy where everyone knows the rules of the game. And if you can win under those rules,

00:25:21.020 people salute. It's one of my favorite things about the meritocracy of sport is how it integrated parts

00:25:27.020 of America because black athletes in a level playing field, no cheating, no biases could be

00:25:33.820 extremely successful. In fact, disproportionately successful in some sports because it was fair.

00:25:40.620 And here we're undoing the egalitarianism of sport. And by, I mean, everyone knows the rules.

00:25:48.300 Everyone's on the same playing field. Now show your courage, your endurance, your practice.

00:25:53.420 This just destroys that. That's not even sport anymore.

00:25:57.420 Yeah, you're right. And listen, categorization is what makes for a, for a level playing field.

00:26:03.820 For example, in the Para Olympics, which is of course for disabled athletes, there are something

00:26:10.620 like 36 categories. If you're in a wheelchair, if you're not in a wheelchair, if you have the use of

00:26:16.700 both your legs or one of your legs, you know, they, they break it down into, if you have the use of

00:26:21.660 your forearms, but not your whole arm. And, and so they make it very, very even so that you won't

00:26:27.580 have one disabled athlete who's less disabled than someone else competing against him. So why are we 0.71

00:26:33.420 not doing the same thing? I have no objection to their opening up two new categories, trans women

00:26:39.340 and trans men. I have no problem at all with that. And let trans women compete against trans women,

00:26:45.020 trans men compete against trans men. I mean, it would be foolish in a way because there'd be so few, 1.00

00:26:50.940 but that at least would level the playing field. Yeah. So, and I suspect you wouldn't have a lot

00:26:55.580 of people enter it because they're only entering it to win. This is an out to, to build on your

00:26:59.500 Paralympics analogy. It would be as if a fully abled, like a non-disabled athlete said, you know what, 0.95

00:27:06.860 I'm not winning, but I'm going to go compete in the Paralympics against those guys in wheelchairs. 1.00

00:27:13.740 And I'm going to crush her. It's, I mean, by the way, there are people that do identify as trans 1.00

00:27:18.940 abled. They actually, there are people that are able bodied that sit in wheelchairs because they

00:27:24.300 identify as disabled. And that is actually, maybe there's fewer of them than transgender people,

00:27:31.420 but that is a true, uh, kind of dysphoria. And they would not be allowed. I sure hope they 1.00

00:27:37.740 wouldn't be allowed into the Paralympics. Jeez. You know, when I think of this,

00:27:42.460 this is serious now because soon there will be no such thing as women's sport. I mean, uh, 1.00

00:27:48.700 this is coming younger and younger. Wouldn't surprise me soon if this hits high schools and

00:27:53.660 guys would joke like that Zuby, that rapper that we opened with lifting 500 pounds. He was doing it

00:27:59.420 as a prank to make a point as a joke. He wasn't actually entered into a contest. He was just at his

00:28:04.460 gym, as you can see. But how long before some 16 year old prankster guy says, you know, I'm not 0.51

00:28:11.020 really good enough to make, uh, the men's team, but I got to crush it against the girls. That's not, 0.69

00:28:15.580 that's not a hypothetical. Here's a story from the Daily Mail where the Australian women's national team

00:28:25.100 lost seven to zero to an under 15s boys team. So this is the best women in all of Australia.

00:28:34.060 And they lost seven zero to, to, to some young teenagers and I'm not blaming them. I'm not

00:28:38.300 laughing at them. I'm just saying that's biology. It's demonstrably. I mean, it's so demonstrable.

00:28:45.020 It's so obvious. Uh, when you get ideologues making the rules for sport, then you're in a very bad

00:28:52.700 place. And I was, uh, motivated to write that, uh, that piece because the Canadian center for ethics,

00:29:00.540 ethics in sport, a kind of ironic name, uh, just issued guidelines, uh, to be used in amateur sport,

00:29:08.060 uh, in universities and 56 universities have now taken on these guidelines as their operating manual

00:29:14.220 for trans sports or trans people in sports. Um, and they have reduced the, what, what were the

00:29:21.740 gate keeping, uh, kind of standards used to be that you, you know, you couldn't go into the sport

00:29:28.140 as a trans person, unless you had been on hormones for a year or two to show that you were really

00:29:33.580 committed to transitioning. Now, according to the Canadian center for ethics and sport,

00:29:37.980 uh, you are not even allowed to ask a person. If they say I identify as a woman, I am a woman,

00:29:43.820 I'm a girl. You're not even allowed to ask how long have you been in this position? And, uh,

00:29:50.300 can you offer some proof that you've been socially transitioning or are you on hormones? You're not

00:29:54.860 even allowed to ask if they're on hormones and they don't have to be on hormones in order to compete.

00:29:59.500 Not only that, but somebody is allowed to compete one season as their biological sex. If that, 0.66

00:30:06.460 maybe they're good in one sport as, as their biological sex. And then they're allowed the 0.67

00:30:11.020 next season to compete as the, as the sex they allegedly identify, uh, with so that they can

00:30:17.100 actually go back and forth. So, so what kind of a trans person, uh, is that? Well, that's a trans trans.

00:30:23.740 That's a trans trans. Don't you know? You know what? I'm not even kidding. Zuby, 1.00

00:30:27.740 that that's the name of that rapper who listed lifted 500 pounds at the very beginning of the

00:30:31.900 segment. According to what you've just described, the rules you've just described by the center for

00:30:36.860 ethics and sport, he could, he could show up and actually make that prank real without,

00:30:44.300 without getting his twig and berries cut off without going on any meds. He could really do what

00:30:50.140 he did there. That's insane. You know, Barbara, the, the, the TV show Seinfeld has been off the

00:30:55.660 air for, I don't know, 15 years or so, but I remember when Kramer, the goofy guy, uh, well,

00:31:02.060 let me let the clip do the talking. Here's a clip of Kramer, uh, foreshadowing the future of sport.

00:31:08.140 Take a look.

00:31:20.140 So Kramer, a 40 year old man, six feet tall, bravely dispatches a bunch of school children,

00:31:43.740 and he's so proud of himself. That's, that was a comedy. That was a fiction. That was a,

00:31:50.380 that was a lark. That was what an idiot that is the state of sport today. Now that was age,

00:31:57.180 but really there's no difference. Age, gender, weight category. Like you say, category that joke

00:32:03.100 is reality. Yeah. I mean, look, it's, I'm not saying that every single biological male, uh,

00:32:10.240 is going to win automatically, you know, any sport that he goes into that that's, that's not the case,

00:32:16.560 but the, but the case is that he, he had the odds of him doing much, much, much, much better than if,

00:32:23.520 if that biological male were competing against his genetic peers, uh, are, you know, very much enhanced.

00:32:31.360 And certainly the odds of getting a medal are very much enhanced. I, I don't understand, um,

00:32:39.920 how, and these, a lot of these people making these rules are men. Um, they're not the ones that are 0.50

00:32:46.880 being threatened. Male athletes don't have to worry about trans men taking away their medals,

00:32:52.480 uh, and they're making the rules for women. And they're saying inclusion, uh, they say they are

00:33:00.160 women. We're taking them at their word, but they're really saying we are privileging psychology,

00:33:05.840 feelings over, uh, physiology and, and the body. But sports is not about feelings. Sports is about

00:33:13.760 the human body and its limitations. And, uh, when you have an entire category, one whole species,

00:33:19.840 half the species, uh, is, is, is genetically one kind of human being and, and the other,

00:33:25.920 that's your categorization. That's what you start with. So, uh, this is just a travesty of justice for

00:33:31.680 women. Barbara, you've been very generous with your time, but I'd like to show one more image

00:33:36.000 because, uh, it's two overlapping bell curves. And I'm just going to keep this up on the screen for a

00:33:42.480 minute. So a bell curve is just a standard distribution and this is for height. So if you

00:33:48.560 have a thousand women, your average woman is, let's say five foot four or whatever it is. And if you have 1.00

00:33:55.920 a thousand men, let's say your average man is five foot nine or whatever. Now you're going to have 0.98

00:34:01.280 some distribution. That's what a bell curve is. As you can see, um, a couple of standard deviations

00:34:07.040 to the left, you have really short people and to the right, very tall ones. Put that up just for one

00:34:12.000 more second. Cause I want to show there are obviously some men, and this is for height, but this could apply

00:34:18.400 to strength, speed, whatever. Um, there are obviously some men have quote female height and 0.50

00:34:27.180 some women have male height. There are obviously some men shorter than some women and your average

00:34:32.260 woman isn't that much shorter than your average man. But remember, we're talking about sports. We're 0.99

00:34:37.660 talking about the elites. So we're talking about the top 1%, the top 1% of 1%, the best in the world.

00:34:44.240 So you're talking about people all the way over on the right hand side of the distribution.

00:34:48.980 And so go over to 185 centimeters high. This is in centimeters, apologies. So the number of women 1.00

00:34:55.520 who are six feet tall is so small compared to the number of men. How about six foot six? How about

00:35:03.560 seven feet tall? Seven feet tall is not even shockingly rare. It's not even rare in the NBA. I don't even

00:35:11.960 know if there's a seven foot tall woman in the world. So that's my point is that when you're

00:35:16.860 talking about ordinary differences between ordinary people, your average woman's a couple 1.00

00:35:20.780 inches shorter than your average man. Your average woman's a little bit less strong than your average 1.00

00:35:25.280 man. And like I say, there's some women who are stronger than men. But when you're talking about

00:35:29.200 the elites, the fastest runner, the strongest lifter, you're way, way, way over to the right on this

00:35:36.200 distribution. Do you see my point, Barbara, that it's not discrimination?

00:35:39.180 The fastest woman in the world isn't going to win against the fastest man. She's going to win 1.00

00:35:48.480 against the lowest 10% of men. She can beat the slowest 10% of men, but she can't get anywhere

00:35:57.580 near. Look, it's not just height. It's musculature. It's heart capacity. It's lung capacity.

00:36:04.720 And it's all those things combined. One athletic association, by the way, this was even quoted

00:36:12.020 by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport, even quoted one athletic association that admitted

00:36:18.180 that males in general have a 10 to 12% advantage of physical strength and speed over women. So

00:36:25.580 they actually admit it and then say, but it's not enough of an advantage to override the need for

00:36:36.240 inclusion. That's basically their stance is that it's more important to accommodate a psychological

00:36:44.980 need, a feeling, than the need to level the playing field for women. And that is so shocking to me

00:36:54.700 that I do not understand. I've been tweeting my article to the sport minister at Kirstie Duncan,

00:37:01.180 you know, several times and saying, do something about this, you know, because she would have the, 0.69

00:37:06.100 she would have the authority to take that set of guidelines and tear them up, which she should do.

00:37:11.160 Yeah. I got one last question. You've been very generous with your time and thanks for listening

00:37:14.500 to me go on about the two bell curves. Okay. That was important. How's this going to end? Because I

00:37:21.880 know, um, there's a, I mean, women's sport, we're, we're taught that women's sport, that women have,

00:37:29.240 you know, women can do it too, girls do it too, uh, women's league, girls league. It's great. I mean,

00:37:34.040 women have really only had full access to sport for only a few decades, if that's, I mean, the first 1.00

00:37:39.920 woman who ran the Boston marathon, that wasn't until only about 50 years ago. So the era of women 0.92

00:37:45.060 in sport has been very brief. I think it's coming to an end. I mean, how will moms and dads of girls,

00:37:54.920 how will they react when it's effectively women's sport? I mean, I'm not even talking about the elite 0.81

00:38:00.340 athletes. I'm talking about girls in high school, girls in college who just want to have a sport, 0.99

00:38:05.420 camaraderie, sportsmanship, physical exercise, team spirit. And then some loser guy says, oh yeah,

00:38:12.560 I'm one of the girls now. Oh, and by the way, I'm coming to your change room. How will this react?

00:38:17.320 Because so far I haven't seen a lot of reaction from the normals. Yeah. It's been almost like people

00:38:23.380 are paralyzed because they're so afraid of being called transphobic that they don't quite know how

00:38:29.120 to deal with this. But I think it's very encouraging that Martina Navratilova, arguably one of the

00:38:37.200 greatest athletes of all time, who was kicked off her group, Athlete Ally, this advocacy group for LGBT,

00:38:45.540 which by the way, is one of the consulting groups for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport.

00:38:49.580 They kicked her off the editorial board and they withdrew her ambassadorship because she said,

00:38:55.620 this is cheating. She said, it's cheating for biological males to be competing against women.

00:39:01.640 And I hope Martina will take up this cause and tell young athletes, you're not transphobic

00:39:10.120 if you're acting in your own interests. It's not up to you to make the world perfect for transgendered 0.93

00:39:19.100 people. It's not up to you to include these people at your sacrifice, with you sacrificing

00:39:28.120 your careers, your ambitions to their feeling or their psychological state. I mean, I really hope

00:39:36.280 she does this and I hope other athletes come on board too. Not just women athletes, men, male athletes

00:39:41.960 that understand that women are getting, you know, shafted here. And I think maybe if some big names 1.00

00:39:48.620 get together and start, you know, promoting this cause, that some sanity might return to these

00:39:55.400 associations. Permit me to tack on 60 more seconds and I'm sorry. I love to chat with you, Barbara,

00:40:01.500 and you make me think of so many things. I see in the news today that a largely Muslim school in the

00:40:09.520 United Kingdom has succeeded in banning the LGBTQ curriculum from the class. They simply had a protest,

00:40:18.360 and then they took all their kids out and the school board caved and no one called anyone a

00:40:24.560 homophobe because they're Muslim. And I think maybe that's where we'll see this is when some trans 0.98

00:40:32.080 athlete says, I'm joining the halal girls hijab team. And all the, all the Muslim men said,

00:40:40.980 ah, no, you ain't. And that maybe that's a strong enough counterforce. I mean, I literally today,

00:40:47.140 I saw this news about the school in the UK that said, all right, so much for the LGBTQ curriculum. 0.94

00:40:53.100 If they won't stand up for that LGBTQ curriculum against Islamic Sharia teaching, they're certainly 1.00

00:40:59.680 not going to, I think that's where the trans agenda. Well, you know, this whole thing, 1.00

00:41:05.700 intersectionality, uh, sometimes it's very hard to choose, you know, between your, uh, victim classes,

00:41:11.860 right? So, uh, but you're absolutely right. Nobody said boo about the fact that, you know,

00:41:18.200 nobody called them homophobic because they were Muslim. And, uh, as we know, uh, when Christians do 1.00

00:41:24.300 it, uh, they are called homophobic, but you, you know, you're right. This whole thing is about,

00:41:29.820 um, about victimhood and who's, who's got the rights and who's got, you know, an inclusion,

00:41:36.300 inclusion. Uh, you can't include everybody. Sometimes you have to make a choice. Sometimes

00:41:40.600 you have to choose the side you're on. And if it's women's sports, choose women. Yeah. That's 1.00

00:41:44.780 the message. Robert, you're great. Thanks for giving so much of your time. I love talking with

00:41:48.980 you. You're always writing the most interesting things. Let's put your column up on the screen just

00:41:52.320 for one more moment. It's published in the post millennial. The headline is Canadian sports

00:41:57.500 experts. Embrace misogynist practices to please trans activists. Barbara Craig, great to see you

00:42:03.620 again. Thanks, Ezra. All right. Stay with us more ahead on the rebel.

00:42:20.300 Hey, welcome back to my monologue yesterday about Canada being on the brink of a recession. Paul writes,

00:42:25.820 the Trudeau liberals have crippled the energy sector, botched trade negotiations, and sorry,

00:42:32.100 are pushing ahead with an idiotic carbon tax, have run up a mountain of debt, etc. The mainstream media

00:42:37.500 has been covering for them at every turn. So of course they're surprised. Yeah. And of course,

00:42:43.220 the strange thing about journalists is that their own industry, uh, I suppose we're in it too,

00:42:49.040 is utterly being crushed, not by the waxing and waning of the economic cycle, but by technological

00:42:56.760 change. Um, you don't have to get your news from the mainstream media anymore. You can go elsewhere,

00:43:02.540 either that's more convenient or that doesn't hate you like the mainstream media does. So yeah,

00:43:08.000 the funny thing about journalists is in some ways they're utterly disconnected with economic reality,

00:43:13.940 especially if you work for the state broadcaster. But also I, I find in my experience, journalists are

00:43:18.900 so illiterate and innumerate about economic matters. I mean, I think even most business writers

00:43:26.680 in journalism don't know anything about business. Um, so yeah, I think that part of it is to,

00:43:32.000 they're immune from things like a factory closing until of course they all get laid off

00:43:36.580 at Buzzfeed or vice. And I think that journalists like to pretend they're just

00:43:41.700 observers hovering over the world, not of it, not in it. So yeah, I, I just think mainstream media

00:43:48.300 journalists are overwhelmingly, um, inappropriate guides or warnings or canaries in the coal mine

00:43:56.260 for an economic recession. I think we're heading into one. Now, maybe I'm just a pessimist,

00:44:01.440 but what convinced me we're going into a recession was Donald Trump's Buy American executive order,

00:44:06.120 which by the way, no Canadian journalists have written about. So that just goes to my first

00:44:10.840 point. They're clueless. Harley writes, recession and 60 cent dollar are coming sooner rather than

00:44:17.080 later. Should be just in time for the election. Yeah, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. You know,

00:44:22.760 of course it's not about him. Of course it's about us. The economy is all of us. And, um, but again,

00:44:28.600 you know, I, I look at his inner circle there, they're sheltered from the economic reality of the

00:44:33.960 world. Most of Trudeau's cabinet have never had a real job in the private sector. Um, they're

00:44:39.480 full-time scammers like Maryam Moncef. They're full-time government hangers on like Catherine

00:44:44.660 McKenna, full-time lifelong politicians like, like Ralph Goodale. There's no actual private sector

00:44:51.560 entrepreneur. Even the women we've been talking about lately, Jody Wilson-Raybould, uh, Jane Philpott,

00:44:56.860 those are lifelong public sector types. So they just don't know, don't care about the private

00:45:03.700 sector. They're so insulated from it. You know, I've talked to you before about a test that Charles

00:45:09.640 Murray does. He says, how thick is your bubble? And what he means by that is, do you ever meet how

00:45:14.380 the other side goes? And I think, I think most people in the Trudeau caucus and the Trudeau cabinet

00:45:20.480 have never been on a factory floor other than maybe for a second at some solar scheme plant.

00:45:26.720 Like they, like, I don't think they know what real working people are like. Not, not that I'm 0.95

00:45:30.940 particularly working class. I mean, I'm, I'm in the media myself, but my point is that I think there's

00:45:37.000 such an isolation and an insulation. Um, there it's like, it's like those kids in the, you know,

00:45:43.180 the virus containment bubble, the bubble boy that never is allowed to, to go into the world. I really 0.96

00:45:48.340 think Trudeau lacks any connection to the real world. All political parties do generally, but I think

00:45:54.420 Trudeau's is the worst. All right, next letter. On my interview with Manny Monagrino on the

00:45:58.300 resignation of Jane Philpott and the SNC-Leveland scandal, Marjorie writes, why is it the women are 0.98

00:46:04.240 the ones standing by their principles and ethics and we have not heard from any of the men? Where

00:46:08.220 are they? There must be some liberal party who are ready to resign over the shenanigans of Justin

00:46:14.000 and his latest scandal. I'm still waiting for someone like Mark Garneau to lead a revolt.

00:46:17.480 Yeah. I don't know why Mark Garneau isn't, he's, he's a name that I would think of also. Um, I,

00:46:24.800 here's a theory. I think first of all, it just is a coincidence that the justice minister, the

00:46:30.940 attorney general herself is a woman. Um, so it's not like of all the people who fought back, it was a 0.99

00:46:36.780 woman. No, that the pressure was put on a woman and she had the courage to resist. And I think,

00:46:43.060 uh, my theory is that she was, that she had a lot of heart to heart talks with people

00:46:50.320 she could trust in Ottawa as a genuine friend. Now, you know, the saying, if you want a friend

00:46:55.660 in Ottawa, get a dog. But I think that, I think that some politicians actually have

00:47:01.680 heart to heart friends and I'm not, I'm not disparaging, but I, I'm not condescending. I'm

00:47:07.000 saying, I actually think that Jody Wilson-Raybould confided in Jane Philpott along the way here.

00:47:14.820 Right? Because they're both in cabinet so they can talk about cabinet confidences.

00:47:19.060 I think Jody Wilson-Raybould said, what do I do? What do I do with the bosses? Like, I think,

00:47:24.380 like, wouldn't you say, who can I possibly talk to? Well, you got to talk to someone who's also in

00:47:29.940 cabinet. Well, that's a small number. Okay. Maybe not that small. There's 30 of them, but you're not

00:47:34.180 going to talk to some airhead like Marianne Monsaf or some cult-like zombie follower like

00:47:39.520 Catherine McKenna. So maybe you talk to Jane Philpott, the, the other grownup who, again,

00:47:44.260 maybe they're friends because they're women. But I think, I think that Jane Philpott and Jody

00:47:49.780 Wilson-Raybould had been talking about this for months. And I think Jane Philpott knows a lot more

00:47:56.840 about the scandal than we realize. And I think she saw, oh, Trudeau's just going to brazen this out.

00:48:03.060 This is so bad. It's getting worse. I'm sick of this. And I know what they've done. And they're

00:48:07.240 lying. And she, she, she just said enough of that. So I think it might be a coincidence that

00:48:13.400 they're women. I share your disappointment in Mark Garneau. But look, most politicians are just 1.00

00:48:21.000 politicians. They're looking for the odds. If the odds turn against Trudeau, if he looks like he's

00:48:25.520 going to fall, watch for everybody to abandon ship other than the ultimate cult leaders, like,

00:48:30.160 or cult followers, like I put Catherine McKenna in that category. Um, yeah, it's a, it's a little

00:48:37.120 bit disappointing that there haven't been more. Betty writes, what will Gerald Butts say on Wednesday?

00:48:42.840 Will he testify that all Canadians, and especially Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott are Nazis?

00:48:48.240 Yeah, that's what makes it tough. Because, uh, Trudeau's a privileged white male and Gerald Butts is a

00:48:53.900 privileged white male. They're both from Montreal. They're both, uh, elites. It's a little bit tough for them

00:48:58.500 to play the male feminist card against two women, or the race card. I'm not sure if Jane Philpott is 1.00

00:49:03.880 Aboriginal. I'm not sure. I know, obviously, Jody Wilson-Raybould is. So, yeah, what are they going 1.00

00:49:08.160 to do? Um, and of course, they were star candidates in their own way. And they were both recruited by

00:49:14.720 Trudeau and Butts in there directly. So, yeah, I don't know how they're going to do it. And here's

00:49:19.180 the thing. Um, I think that, as I mentioned, both Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott know a lot

00:49:25.460 more than they have revealed. And if Gerald Butts lies, why wouldn't he lie? If he lies

00:49:34.540 and they have the proof of it, I think they're going to nuke him again. I think they're going

00:49:40.880 to nuke him again. And maybe someone else will quit if they say, oh, you're still not coming

00:49:44.120 clean. Anyways, we'll find out soon enough tomorrow, right? Walter writes, I commented on

00:49:50.620 the CBC website on the article about Jane Philpott resigning. They disabled my comment. All I stated

00:49:55.080 was, Ezra Levant was right about Trudeau all along. Unbelievable. And here's a screenshot.

00:50:02.680 You can see it there. It says content disabled. You can see the CBC headline at the top,

00:50:08.520 Jane Philpott resigns from cabinet. You can see the comments below. And you can see Walter Craig says,

00:50:13.700 Ezra Levant was right about Trudeau all along. You can see that content was disabled. Now,

00:50:18.220 I understand disabling content if it's profane, if there's swears in it, maybe if it's spam,

00:50:23.940 like a commercial ad for something, if it's very abusive, or even if it's off topic.

00:50:29.820 But the CBC is literally going through its comment section. Imagine that. So they're hiring

00:50:34.020 someone. The CBC is taking your tax dollars to hire someone to go through the comments. Okay,

00:50:40.860 get rid of any F words, get rid of any profanity, get rid of any junk spam, but also get rid of anyone

00:50:47.220 who thinks Ezra's good. Just get rid of them. Holy moly, thin skin. Hey guys, if you give me 1.5

00:50:56.620 billion dollars a year, I'd be too happy rolling around like Scrooge McDuck in the 1.5 bill to care

00:51:06.380 if you said, you know, Ezra, one of your critics is right. Okay, man, you can be right. And I'll have

00:51:13.160 the 1.5 bill. That's what I'd say if the rules were reversed. Imagine how panicky, thin skin, 1.00

00:51:19.360 hypersensitive, just paranoid you are. If you can't let a Canadian citizen, a taxpayer who helps

00:51:26.460 fund their 1.5 billion, if you can't even let them say, you know, Ezra's right. Censor him. Oh my gosh.

00:51:34.560 I think they're in a panic. Well, folks, that's our show for today. What do you think about riot

00:51:37.740 boosting? What do you think about kristinoma? I'm too excited about both, I admit it. But boy,

00:51:42.940 wouldn't it be great to get one of those laws here in Canada. Until tomorrow, on behalf of all

00:51:46.840 us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - March 06, 2019

South Dakota shows us one way to handle foreign environmental extremists

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