Rebel News Podcast - The CBC is an enemy of the people. These three stories prove it.

00:00:00.000 Folks, today's podcast is about three CBC stories that are unrelated, but if you look at the three

00:00:06.980 together, you see a pattern. A pattern of Liberal Party or NDP Party propaganda. It's not real

00:00:13.560 journalism. Such weird spin. One of them on immigration, one of them on global warming,

00:00:18.540 and one of them a seven-reporter attack on Jason Kinney. I've never seen seven reporters

00:00:23.540 cover a story before in Canada View. I should tell you that the Globe and Mail story that

00:00:29.700 busted Justin Trudeau and Jody Wilson-Raybould. That was written by three reporters. What do you

00:00:35.160 think the CBC put seven reporters on? Well, listen, and you're about to hear. Hey, can you do me a

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00:01:16.680 for the whole year. Without further to do, here's my assessment of the state of the art

00:01:22.700 Canada's state broadcaster. Tonight, three stories by the CBC state broadcaster prove

00:01:33.160 that it is indeed an enemy of the people. I'll show you. It's March 27th, and this is

00:01:39.260 The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:42.260 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:46.160 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:50.240 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody

00:01:55.100 right to do so.

00:02:01.300 I want to show you three crazy stories that the CBC ran in the course of the past 24 hours

00:02:06.600 or so. They show a pattern, and I want to tell you what that pattern means and why it's

00:02:11.740 important. But first, you do realize that the CBC's news division is larger than every other media

00:02:18.180 company in Canada combined, right? How do you think that near monopoly distorts our understanding

00:02:24.080 of the world, especially political issues that Justin Trudeau, the CBC's boss, has a stake in?

00:02:29.960 I acknowledge that there are other media companies in Canada, too. On television, there's CTV

00:02:34.820 and Global. There is some private radio left in Canada, too, and though they're all dying,

00:02:40.280 there are some newspapers and maybe two news magazines left in the country. But the TV

00:02:44.860 and the radio stations are all heavily regulated by the government, the CRTC. And the media companies

00:02:51.220 who own TV and radio stations often are in the cell phone and cable business, which are even

00:02:57.720 more highly regulated. So, for example, Global TV. It's owned by the same company that owns Freedom

00:03:03.480 Mobile, the Canadian cell phone company, and Shaw, the cable company. CTV is owned by Bell,

00:03:10.940 the cable and cell phone company. So they're all highly regulated, not just on the TV and radio part

00:03:15.440 of the business, but the other parts of their business. And now, of course, all the newspapers

00:03:19.740 in the country are going to be bailed out by Trudeau. So they will be subject to scrutiny. And that's just

00:03:24.920 on the ownership and high-level corporate level. On the individual reporter level, as you know,

00:03:30.440 there have been thousands of layoffs in the media in the past 10 years, as Facebook and Google devour

00:03:35.440 all the advertising money and the legacy media die. So those papers are either going to go out of

00:03:41.280 business or maybe, if they're lucky, find some billionaire patron to treat them as some sort

00:03:46.960 of a play thing, like Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire who owns the New York Times, does.

00:03:52.300 Or Jeff Bezos, the Amazon.com billionaire who owns the Washington Post. But for the average reporter

00:03:58.220 in Canada, being laid off or having their newspaper just close altogether is a very real prospect.

00:04:05.720 And the reason I mention that in the same breath as these other things is that journalists are

00:04:10.580 always operating with one eye on the CBC as their backup plan. So although the CBC state broadcaster

00:04:16.940 is already bigger than all other news media combined, its influence is even bigger than that

00:04:23.340 because journalists at the Toronto Star and the National Post and the Calgary Herald and every

00:04:28.540 tiny little paper is all, they're all thinking, if I get laid off next week, I'll have to apply

00:04:34.000 it to the CBC because it'll never go out of business because of its annual $1.5 billion bailout from

00:04:39.680 Trudeau. So I'd better be careful not to color outside the lines editorially.

00:04:44.540 I'll make sure I support Omar Cotter like the CBC does, that I oppose Donald Trump like the CBC does,

00:04:51.920 that I support the carbon tax and the theory of man-made global warming like the CBC does,

00:04:56.200 and I'll never get too tough on left-wing heroes, whether it's Elizabeth May or Justin Trudeau or

00:05:02.700 Rachel Notley or even foreign left-wing heroes like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or George Soros.

00:05:08.240 So even while they're still working at a private media company, journalists are already polishing

00:05:13.080 their resumes for the CBC or even to go to work directly for some left-wing government spin

00:05:19.740 doctor. More than a dozen reporters in Alberta, including some who covered the 2015 Alberta

00:05:25.080 provincial election, went to work for Rachel Notley after she won. They probably got a huge raise,

00:05:31.880 tons of benefits and a shorter workday out of it, and don't think they weren't pulling their punches

00:05:35.620 during the campaign to make sure they'd get those rewards afterwards. So that's all a lengthy

00:05:41.800 preamble to my story today. Just by chance, I came across three stories in the past day or so,

00:05:47.140 and they all just sort of clicked as a pattern. The first one I came across in a tweet from Ahmed

00:05:52.500 Hassan, the Somali migrant who has himself now become Canada's immigration minister.

00:05:58.560 As Canada ages, he wrote on Twitter,

00:06:02.460 immigration expected to keep Alberta's workforce strong

00:06:06.020 for decades. And then he adds, why immigration matters.

00:06:11.900 And of course, it links to a CBC story.

00:06:14.980 And I'll show you that story.

00:06:16.600 Is Alberta's

00:06:17.720 workforce strong right now?

00:06:20.860 Is a question that's raised.

00:06:22.440 And is immigration what's going to keep it strong in the future?

00:06:26.220 Is 0.88

00:06:26.480 the unemployment situation in Alberta a reason for immigration?

00:06:30.360 Is that what's going to fix things there?

00:06:32.740 Those are really weird questions for anything that knows anything, anyone who knows anything

00:06:38.280 about Alberta. Let's take a look at the story. This is a story he linked to in the tweet.

00:06:42.440 As Canada ages, immigration expected to keep Alberta's workforce strong for decades. 0.86

00:06:46.480 Now you know, as Ahmed Hassan apparently doesn't,

00:06:51.800 that Alberta has the highest unemployment rate west of the Atlantic, right?

00:06:55.200 It's got a higher unemployment rate than Quebec, right?

00:06:57.180 You know that Calgary is the city in Canada with the highest unemployment rate in the entire

00:07:02.500 country. You know that, right? Ahmed Hassan doesn't.

00:07:06.580 And it's, they're not unemployed because they lack skills training,

00:07:09.920 or they need to learn how to code, or whatever the buzzwords are from know-nothings like Justin

00:07:14.340 Truro. In fact, as you may know, and I know this because I'm from there, and it's something

00:07:18.600 Calgarians boast about, Calgary, city with the highest unemployment in Canada,

00:07:22.340 has the highest level of post-secondary education in the land. These are unemployed

00:07:28.540 skilled trades, unemployed college and university grads. They're not unemployed because they're

00:07:34.240 useless. They're unemployed because the government is useless. The government, federally, provincially, 1.00

00:07:39.880 has blocked the most valuable industry in Canada, the oil and gas industry, by cancelling and vetoing

00:07:44.840 pipelines to take out the oil and gas to market. Let me read a bit from the stupid story. 0.99

00:07:49.200 There have been plenty of warnings about the looming impacts of Canada's aging labor force, 0.99

00:07:55.640 but a new report suggests the working population in Alberta will remain relatively young and become

00:08:00.200 increasingly diverse in the coming decades. What? Aging workforce? Again, I happen to know,

00:08:07.920 because I'm from there, Alberta has the youngest workforce in Canada. And diverse, I mean, maybe,

00:08:15.180 but what's that got to do with anything other than some leftist fetish? Blocking the pipelines doesn't

00:08:20.560 just put white people or aboriginal people or visible minorities out of work. It puts everyone 1.00

00:08:26.320 out of work. What a weird story. Perfect CBC. No wonder Ahmed Hassan tweeted it. I'll read some more.

00:08:32.020 This gets really weird. Alberta's two largest cities already enjoy the highest labor force

00:08:37.280 participation rate among major population centers across the country. According to the Statistics Canada

00:08:43.240 report released late last week, the rate is defined as the percentage of people late 15 and over

00:08:47.520 who are working or looking for work. Alberta's rate was around 72% in 2017. That's projected to dip

00:08:56.880 slightly to 71% by 2036. The national rate, meanwhile, is expected to fall as low as 62% by then.

00:09:04.680 This is largely the result of population aging as the large cohort of baby boomers 0.54

00:09:08.800 enters their retirement years, Statistics Canada said in a release. So just take a moment and just

00:09:14.700 for a second. So that means 72 or 71% of adults in Alberta are either working or trying to find work.

00:09:21.560 That's almost 10% more than the rest of the country where people just don't work as much. They think

00:09:26.300 they retire, they go on unemployment, they choose to become homemakers, whatever. They're just not

00:09:31.400 working. My point is, even though unemployment is the highest in Calgary, that hasn't made Calgarians

00:09:37.620 giving up, give up trying to find work. All they need is for Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau and

00:09:44.200 BC's premier to get out of the way and let the pipelines be built. There are about 200,000

00:09:48.180 Albertans just ready to go. Skills, willingness, still looking, still optimistic, everything.

00:09:54.200 It's just sad that you've got this great labor pool, so well trained, and no jobs because of stupid 1.00

00:10:00.280 politicians. Alberta has massive unemployment because of Justin Trudeau's cabinet, including 1.00

00:10:06.960 Ahmed Hassan. Alberta has skilled oil patch workers. New immigrants from, I don't know, 1.00

00:10:13.480 Somalia or Syria or Afghanistan or Pakistan, these are some of Trudeau's favorite countries

00:10:20.080 when you measure by recent immigration, they don't actually have oil sands skills. Sorry.

00:10:26.460 They don't do a lot of fracking over there in Pakistan. So they're not really going to fill

00:10:31.700 those high-skilled jobs if they ever come back. Probably 200,000 or so people who were last laid

00:10:38.160 off by those oil and gas companies are going to be the first to be rehired again. And I'm not going

00:10:43.000 to read the rest of this story to you. It's just so weird. It's such a forced story. It's such a work

00:10:48.460 of fiction. It makes no sense at all. In fact, hey Albertans, things are going so great over there

00:10:54.280 jobs-wise, we'll bring huge immigration with less skills to keep it going. It just doesn't make any 1.00

00:11:03.500 sense. But Ahmed Hassan used it as a proof point that we need more immigration to Alberta. Story number

00:11:10.360 two. A tweet by Catherine McKenna, another cabinet minister. Doctors and medical professionals

00:11:18.480 understand fighting climate change benefits our environment, our economy, and our health,

00:11:23.420 while climate change is the greatest health threat of the century, climate action is the

00:11:28.860 greatest health opportunity. I'm sorry. I feel dumber just reading that to you. I apologize.

00:11:36.140 And of course that tweet links to another CBC story. Do you think it's a bit odd that CBC's main use

00:11:42.020 is to publish opinions of liberal cabinet ministers, especially bizarre claims that even other liberal

00:11:47.840 media like CTV or Global just probably wouldn't even say with a straight face. Is climate change

00:11:52.520 really the greatest health threat of the century? You should say millennium.

00:11:59.700 Catherine McKenna is a social justice warrior who deliberately talks like a Kardashian. 1.00

00:12:05.400 So I'm not sure I'm going to trust her on anything science-y. I don't much trust the United Nations either

00:12:11.960 or their department called the World Health Organization, but I probably trust the World Health Organization

00:12:16.360 on health things a little more than I trust McKenna. Here's what they have to say on that question.

00:12:23.400 In about 30 seconds, I found this page, the top 10 causes of death. And you can see this was from last

00:12:28.420 spring and published in the last 12 months. Let me read a bit. Now, I'm going to get a little science-y here,

00:12:33.780 but I'm guessing you're probably going to welcome that to flush the stupid out of your system after I just 1.00

00:12:40.480 read that McKenna tweet to you. Again, I apologize for that. So let me read a little bit from the World Health 0.98

00:12:44.460 Organization. Of the 56.9 million deaths worldwide in 2016, more than half, 54%, were due to the top 10

00:12:51.700 causes. I practice pronouncing that word. I can't really say it. Ischemic heart disease. I can't say

00:12:59.340 that word. And stroke are the world's biggest killers, accounting for a combined 15.2 million deaths

00:13:05.460 in 2016. These diseases have remained the leading cause of death globally in the last 15 years.

00:13:10.520 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, claimed 3 million lives in 2016, while lung cancer,

00:13:17.680 along with trachea and bronchus cancers, caused 1.7 million deaths. Diabetes killed 1.6 million

00:13:23.340 people in 2016, up from less than 1 million in 2000. I think that means we're eating more sugar and fat.

00:13:29.780 Deaths due to dementia is more than doubled between 2000 and 2016, making it the fifth leading cause of

00:13:35.420 global deaths in 2016 compared to 14th in 2000. I think that's because people are living longer,

00:13:41.720 poor people are living longer. Anyway, so heart attacks are number one. Strokes, lung disease,

00:13:46.880 diabetes, dementia. You can see the whole chart if you're curious. Road injuries are on there. You see

00:13:52.960 that near the bottom in green. And even diarrhea. I know that sounds sort of gross, but in poor parts

00:13:58.220 of the world, absolutely. Lots of footnotes and proof on the World Health Organization website.

00:14:05.040 I think they're probably pretty accurate. I don't think there's a lot of angles in lying about how

00:14:09.940 many people die from this or that disease. But Catherine McKenna just told you they're all going

00:14:15.660 to die because of global warming. It's the number one cause of death or something. And her proof,

00:14:21.520 of course, is a CBC propaganda. So let's read a bit about CBC propaganda,

00:14:25.280 but not too much lest we get stupid again. Fighting climate change, just part of being a doctor, 0.99

00:14:31.780 says Yellowknife physician in Saskatoon. Let me read underneath. It says doctor calls climate change

00:14:37.820 a public health crisis that needs urgent treatment. Yeah, no. Fighting climate change isn't part of

00:14:45.360 being a doctor, you quack. That's called politics. But look at that horrible picture just short there

00:14:51.260 again. This was the picture on the website. Just in case you need to see how bad carbon dioxide and

00:14:56.100 greenhouse gases are in Canada. Look at that picture. But wait, hang on. That's not even Canada, is it?

00:15:03.560 And that white and gray stuff in the sky, that's not carbon dioxide. Let me read the caption there.

00:15:07.300 Okay. Steam rises from the Neuerath and Niederhausen coal-fired power plants in Burgheim, Germany,

00:15:18.240 Europe's largest carbon dioxide source. Oh, so that's a picture from Germany, not Canada. But the CBC uses that

00:15:31.500 in their propaganda piece about Canada. And that's not even carbon dioxide in the sky. Of course not.

00:15:37.760 Carbon dioxide is invisible. That's not even smoke, though, or smog. That's steam. And by the way,

00:15:44.760 other than steam, that picture actually looks sort of beautiful, doesn't it? The environment,

00:15:52.880 lush green fields, happy little lambs. And at a clear blue sky, once you look past the steam,

00:15:59.460 which obviously dissipates, which is what steam does. So it's a propaganda fail on about three

00:16:05.740 levels using that photograph. But let me read a bit more about this doctor who has made a diagnosis.

00:16:12.140 The planet has a fever. Mother Earth is in digestion, people. Mother Nature has a tummy ache. 1.00

00:16:19.600 I'm a doctor. That's not medicine, folks. That's quackery. Published by the CBC in the service of their

00:16:27.940 master, the liberal government. No wonder Catherine McKenna quoted it. Let me read a little bit from the story.

00:16:33.280 Dr. Courtney Howard, an emergency room physician in Yellowknife, spends half her time fighting climate change,

00:16:38.440 which she says is a public health crisis. Oh, really?

00:16:41.380 So in the emergency rooms in Yellowknife, is that what's coming in the door? Doctor,

00:16:48.280 stat, we have a patient here who has come down with a sickness. Another one, what? Well,

00:16:53.520 global warming-itis, doctor. It's the new plague. Yeah, let me read some more. As the planet warms,

00:17:00.040 our risks of becoming sick increase, Howard said, due to things like Lyme disease spreading north and

00:17:05.720 droughts, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Really? It's a fact. So warmth kills more people

00:17:13.540 than cold does? I dispute that the Earth is warming in any measurable way. Satellite measurements show

00:17:21.380 that the barely perceptible warming of the last century or so went on an 18-year hiatus. It just

00:17:27.780 stopped, according to the UN itself. But put that aside. If warm climates truly are worse than cold

00:17:34.320 climates, why are there only 20,000 people who live in Yellowknife? But the top 10 cities in the

00:17:40.980 world, measured by population, are in warm climates. Even in the tropics, massive cities with literally

00:17:48.100 tens of millions of people. In fact, all the big cities are near the equator. Why is life so barren in

00:17:56.380 the Arctic? There's no trees up there. Once you get past the tree line, well, I've been up to Tuktayukduk and

00:18:02.700 up to Inovic. There's no trees. Because the permafrost, the ground is frozen solid forever. So no roots can

00:18:11.500 go down. Food has to be shipped in. There's very little life in the north. Whereas life explodes, it

00:18:18.960 teems in the tropics. The sheer variety of plants and animals and, of course, people. Only a kook, an 0.87

00:18:27.460 extremely political emergency room doctor pretending to be a climate scientist would say that cold is better

00:18:34.100 for life than warmth. It won't surprise you to learn that 20 times more people die each year from cold

00:18:43.000 than from heat. Less political parts of the CBC even acknowledges much. Look at this. Look at this story. All the

00:18:50.480 death from cold snaps, especially of homeless people. But let me read to you from this genius.

00:19:01.280 There's wildfires in the west. The drought here and the severe cold this winter. Tornadoes in Ottawa.

00:19:09.000 Heat-related deaths in Quebec. Howard told Laisha Grabinski on CBC's Saskatoon Morning.

00:19:15.760 I feel like climate change is landing with Canadians in a new way in their bodies. It's not just a CO2

00:19:24.640 chemical on a graph anymore. Hey guys, is that sciency? Is that doctor talk there? Hey guys,

00:19:33.320 climate change is landing in a new way in your body. Show me on the doll where the climate change touched

00:19:41.200 you. How much junk science quackery can one doctor spout before it's, you know, a malpractice issue?

00:19:50.080 That's so embarrassing. No CBC reporter even put their byline on it. It's written anonymously. No one 0.90

00:19:58.700 wanted to sign this crap. I wonder if it was even written by the CBC or someone in Catherine McKenna's 0.99

00:20:05.080 office and just sent to the CBC and they were told to publish it. It's a state broadcaster after all.

00:20:10.940 But let me show you my favorite CBC moment of all. I told you I have three stories.

00:20:15.240 The third is this story about Jason Kenney and every poll in the province says that Kenney is

00:20:22.220 about to absolutely crush Rachel Notley and the NDP in next month's election in Alberta. Just a wipeout.

00:20:28.140 I think I predicted the other day that out of 87 electoral districts, 87 MLAs, the NDP will hold

00:20:34.300 20. I think that might even be optimistic. It's going to be a blowout. Now I have my quarrels with

00:20:40.220 Jason Kenney. I think he's too politically correct these days. I think he submits to the mean kids in

00:20:44.780 the media party too much. I think he throws overboard his candidates at the first whiff of controversy.

00:20:49.780 He lets the CBC make decisions for him. I think he's too dainty about all that. And he's bad-mouthed

00:20:55.380 unemployed oil workers time and again telling them they protest too impolitely. I think his

00:21:02.000 shenanigans of secretly working with other fake candidates in his party's leadership race, I think

00:21:06.540 that looks dodgy and it looks undemocratic and just weird given how big a lead he has. Why is he even

00:21:11.660 doing it? But that said, all of those caveats and quarrels aside, he's going to fix a big problem

00:21:20.540 on April 16th, election day in Alberta. He's going to weed the garden pretty big time. He's going to

00:21:27.520 end the Alberta government's war on oil and gas. And maybe he'll help end the BC government's war

00:21:33.280 on oil again. And maybe he'll help end the Canadian government's war on oil and gas. It will be good

00:21:38.420 news despite his flaws. But look at this. This is the last of the three CBC stories I'm mentioning.

00:21:44.620 Left with fines, charges and shame, Calgary Political Insider alleges voter fraud in UCP

00:21:52.100 leadership campaign. Let me read the first few lines. Alberta's election commissioner has ruled

00:21:57.960 that Hardiel Mann made irregular political contributions and the Calgary Political Operative

00:22:02.580 alleges the existence of a plan to commit voter fraud in order to secure the election of Jason Kenney

00:22:08.980 as United Conservative Party leader, a controversy that's erupting in the midst of a provincial election.

00:22:15.620 So this is about the fake candidate who was running just to attack

00:22:19.100 Kenney's leadership rival, Brian Jean, and then he defected to support Kenney. Like I say,

00:22:24.800 it looks dodgy, but it's been in the news for weeks. I think it's gross, and I think a lot of

00:22:29.980 conservatives do too. But I don't think there is a single true conservative in all of Alberta who will

00:22:36.940 now say, well, Jason Kenney was tricky in internal party politics, so I think I'm going to stick with

00:22:45.480 the NDP destroyers and their carbon tax and their war on pipelines. Yeah, no, not one. Now if a law is

00:22:53.920 broken, let there be a charge and a trial. But the province is so desperate to get rid of Notley. It's like

00:22:58.960 Donald Trump once quipped. He could shoot someone in midtown Manhattan and his supporters would still vote for him. 0.88

00:23:05.140 Not because they like shooting, but because they know the stakes are so high, and the alternative

00:23:10.540 is so bad, and they need Trump to defeat the Democrat media complex. Same with Kenney. 0.73

00:23:16.460 Stupid background, backroom games, sure, but not stupid enough to let the NDP have one more second 1.00

00:23:25.340 of power. That is not my point today. We've already done a whole show on that subject. Let me tell you 1.00

00:23:31.160 my point today. Scroll down the entire story here. Look at how long this story is. Keep scrolling,

00:23:39.060 keep scrolling, keep scrolling, keep scrolling. This is what, is this like a book? This is a book,

00:23:44.100 a huge story. Keep going, keep going. Now look at this part, way at the bottom.

00:23:49.480 I'm going to read what you see on the screen there. This team from CBC Calgary has been

00:23:54.780 investigating allegations of wrongdoing in the UCP leadership campaign. Tips and correspondence

00:24:00.720 can be sent in confidence to Drew Anderson at cbc.ca, Carolyn Dunn at cbc.ca, Alison Dempster,

00:24:08.240 Brian Labby, Audrey Neveu, with files from Charles Rusnell and Janie Russell.

00:24:18.600 So, let me count that up. One, two, three. I think that was seven reporters.

00:24:25.220 Seven reporters! I'll say it's seven! I think that's more reporters than the whole rebel has in the

00:24:32.080 whole world. The CBC has put seven reporters on this story. Do you think the CBC has ever put

00:24:40.580 seven reporters on an NDP scandal? Not even a party scandal, a government scandal! No, we know that

00:24:48.200 they have not done that. In fact, the CBC has not uncovered a single scandal in four years of Rachel

00:24:53.640 Notley's NDP government, not because there have been no scandals. Our Sheila Gunn-Reed breaks a story

00:24:59.120 about a scandal every week about NDP, a major scandal she breaks once a month. It's why Sheila's books

00:25:05.780 about Rachel Notley are number one bestsellers. It's the only place to get the real news. Do you think the

00:25:11.440 CBC has seven reporters even looking into the SNC-Lavalin scandal of Justin Trudeau? Of course not. He pays their

00:25:20.900 paychecks. Funny how the CBC hasn't broken a single story about this whole SNC-Lavalin matter. It's all being done

00:25:27.800 primarily by the Globe and Mail. And of course, has there been seven reporters looking into, oh, get out of the

00:25:35.500 party politics for a minute, into the hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign lobby groups pouring into

00:25:41.880 Canada to attack the oil sands? Are you kidding? Of course not. Those three stories in the course of 24 hours.

00:25:50.420 There's one telling Albertans that the way to save them from massive unemployment is to bring in hundreds of

00:25:57.300 thousands of unqualified immigrants or something. I didn't quite get the point. The next was proof that global warming 1.00

00:26:05.300 is a sickness. And part of that proof is how cold this winter was. A doctor said it, so it's true. And now there's seven

00:26:15.200 reporters. The largest number I have actually ever seen on one story in Canadian history. I have never seen a story by any media

00:26:24.800 outlet in my 47 years. Maybe I've been watching the news for 30 years. Never in my life have I seen seven stories in seven

00:26:32.720 reporters on one story. Have you? No, you haven't. Trying anything, everything to derail the conservatives from retaking Alberta in the

00:26:41.260 election next month. That's the state broadcaster. You just can't believe a single word they say. They hate you. They lie

00:26:50.860 to you. They attack you. And then they send you the bill. Stay with us for more.

00:27:11.260 For Mr. President, I rise today to consider the Green New Deal with the seriousness it deserves. 0.99

00:27:24.780 This is, of course, a picture of former President Ronald Reagan naturally firing a machine gun while

00:27:31.720 riding on the back of a dinosaur. You'll notice a couple of important features here. First of all,

00:27:36.740 the rocket launcher strapped to President Reagan's back. And then the stirring, unmistakable patriotism

00:27:44.980 of the velociraptor holding up a tattered American flag, a symbol of all it means to be an American.

00:27:53.940 Now, critics might quibble with this depiction of the climactic battle of the Cold War,

00:28:00.180 because while awesome, in real life there was no climactic battle. There was no battle with or without

00:28:09.940 velociraptors. The Cold War, as we all know, was won without firing a shot. But that quibble actually

00:28:18.900 serves our purposes here today, Mr. President, because this image has as much to do with overcoming

00:28:25.140 communism in the 20th century as the Green New Deal has to do with overcoming climate change in the 21st.

00:28:36.500 For Mr. President, Republican Senator Mike Lee, in a speech, a very silly speech, I can't believe how

00:28:42.820 much of it I watched, actually. I think I watched about 10 minutes, eight minutes of it. He proceeded to 0.67

00:28:47.860 show Aquaman riding on the back of a seahorse. And he went on. And I must tell you, at first I thought,

00:28:55.940 this is very silly. And perhaps it's even beneath the dignity of the U.S. Senate, perhaps the greatest 0.57

00:29:02.660 deliberative chamber in the free world. But I think his point was, debating the Green New Deal proposed

00:29:12.340 by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others, is absurd to begin with. And perhaps his take on the matter

00:29:20.740 was borne out, because it was voted down 57 to 0. Not a single Democrat, even those who had promoted

00:29:31.860 the bill, voted in favor of it. It was very strange. And joining us now via Skype to talk about it is our

00:29:38.180 friend Mark Morano, the boss of ClimateDepot.com. Great to see you, Mark. I tell you, that was a

00:29:43.860 pretty awesome velociraptor carrying an American flag. And that was just pure patriotism. It was

00:29:49.540 very silly. But I think that was the point, wasn't it? Yes, it was. I mean, he nailed it exactly. 0.97

00:29:55.140 Essentially, Ronald Reagan was the importance of fighting communism. And the Green New Deal really

00:29:59.460 does represent the greatest threat we face now, which is the imposition of socialism. But it's actually

00:30:04.580 a hidden socialism, in a way, because they're trying to cloud it behind the urgency of global

00:30:09.460 warming. No time to debate it. We only have 10 years, 11 years. We have to pass this.

00:30:14.340 But Mike Lee also went on to talk about, you know, just stop worrying about global warming,

00:30:19.220 go get married, have kids, and forget about all this. I mean, really, he got to the heart of it so much

00:30:25.940 that AOC, Kasia Cortez came out today and attacked Mike Lee, saying that he was not 0.99

00:30:33.540 taking his job seriously in the United States Senate. I submit to you, he took his job deadly

00:30:39.060 serious and gave it all the seriousness that the Green New Deal deserved yesterday in that speech

00:30:44.420 and in that vote. Yeah, I mean, one of the, I mean, he had a bunch of big charts he put up on the easel

00:30:50.980 there. And one of them was talking about cow farts. And it was like, it was, I know that's,

00:30:57.220 and he was talking about banning airplanes. And he said, well, how would that work in Hawaii? And

00:31:02.660 that's when that Aquaman seahorse business came in. And it was very silly. I have to admit, 0.97

00:31:09.540 I couldn't stop watching it. It was so silly to see a senator refer to Aquaman and giant seahorses 0.61

00:31:16.260 and cow farts. But I think, I think he was showing how nutty this was. Because just a few weeks ago, 0.97

00:31:23.620 Mark, all these young guns of the Democratic Party, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

00:31:31.060 and half of the presidential candidates in the Democrats, and most of the media were treating

00:31:38.900 the Green New Deal as if it were a serious proposal. So I think his mockery of it was because

00:31:48.580 no one else had subjected it to any grown-up thinking. And in the end, not a single Democrat

00:31:55.460 was willing to vote for it, even though it was their own bill.

00:32:00.020 Yes. Now that was actually, Mitch McConnell, the GOP leader, we'll start with that,

00:32:04.100 did a very good plan. He basically was like, okay, every Democrat presidential candidate essentially

00:32:08.580 feels compelled as a litmus test to support this. All the Democrats seem to be just crazy. Now, 0.99

00:32:14.020 there are a few exceptions. There were actually four Democrats, I believe, that voted against it.

00:32:17.860 One was Senator Manchin of West Virginia. Senator from Alabama voted against it. Senator Angus King

00:32:24.500 voted against it. And one other. And that was, first of all, significant that four Democrats broke.

00:32:30.020 Beyond that, what McConnell was doing was just showing them up. He wanted to get them on record.

00:32:35.540 And the Democrats knew they don't want to be on record for something that's probably the most costly

00:32:40.260 legislation ever proposed in the history of man, in the history of the U.S., let alone that even if

00:32:46.580 you believed all the science claims and all their technological claims, it would make no difference

00:32:51.780 on global warming, even if we actually faced a catastrophe. So the cost-benefit analysis is just

00:32:57.620 failed spectacularly. Democrats weren't willing to put their vote on it. So they decided to come up with

00:33:02.980 this plan to vote present. So you had 43 Democrats voting present in order to avoid just being stuck

00:33:11.620 with a label when they run for office, re-election in the Senate in the next cycle, especially if the

00:33:18.340 public sentiment turns more severely against the Green New Deal, even in the Democratic Party.

00:33:23.220 They wanted to be protected. So that's what they did. It was a day of showmanship on Capitol Hill.

00:33:28.020 Mike Lee knew that. He was having fun. AOC is upset with him today. Mitch McConnell released a video,

00:33:34.660 actually, just a little couple hours ago, mocking the Democrats, talking about the urgency of this,

00:33:40.180 and then all voting present because they don't want to deal with it right now. So it was definitely a big

00:33:45.300 strategic win for the opponents of the Green New Deal yesterday in the United States Senate.

00:33:50.500 Yeah. I mean, I love the sound of that. It's a really smart branding exercise because the New Deal, 0.88

00:33:57.060 you know, I would say most millennials, frankly, don't know what that is, but they would vaguely,

00:34:01.780 oh, yeah, that was a great New Deal to really help working people out of the depression. The Green

00:34:08.020 New Deal. Well, that's what we need. I mean, but beyond that headline, it made no sense.

00:34:14.260 And it clearly wasn't thought through. That was voted down. I mean, as you pointed out,

00:34:21.300 not a single Democrat voted for it. Four Democrats voted against it. In other jurisdictions like Canada,

00:34:29.460 our parties to the left are not so disciplined. They would absolutely vote for the Green New Deal,

00:34:36.500 banning cow farts, banning airplanes. Even if they knew they would never have to

00:34:40.900 follow through, they would absolutely go all the way down the virtue signal and say,

00:34:47.380 yeah, I'm for that. I think, therefore, even Canadians who are laughing at this,

00:34:55.220 we have to have a little bit of jealousy that our Liberal and New Democrat parties 0.81

00:35:00.900 are not as sane as your Democrat party.

00:35:04.660 Yeah, you're saying our Democrats are smarter. Yes. Well, I think a lot of it here

00:35:12.340 is because there are so many swing districts. Out of those 43 Democrats, 30 probably could have

00:35:20.420 comfortably voted virtue signaling and not worried. People like Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein,

00:35:26.580 they're not going to lose their home states. However, there's a lot of swing state Democrats,

00:35:32.900 maybe a dozen or so that don't want to touch this. So in order to protect them,

00:35:37.460 the vast majority of Democrats came up with this plan. But you're right. It was a good plan,

00:35:41.300 because now in the next election cycle and 30 second ads, if you're in a fossil fuel energy place

00:35:47.860 that has fracking or coal, the Republican opponents can't say they supported or voted for

00:35:53.860 the Green New Deal. They can now say credibly, I didn't vote for it if the time comes. So it's just

00:35:59.140 politics as it goes here in DC. But interestingly, as we go forward, the real big news here is we have

00:36:05.940 now a strength in Donald Trump in many different ways beyond just the Mueller report. And Donald

00:36:12.820 Trump's having his big rally in Michigan tonight. This is huge. The media has been deflated. But what

00:36:17.940 it means now is Donald Trump essentially feels invincible. And it's coming at a perfect time,

00:36:23.060 Ezra, because we're looking at a presidential commission on climate change led by Dr. Will

00:36:28.180 Happer of Princeton, the man I wrote in my book about, the man I've been urging this administration

00:36:33.140 to put in charge. It looks like it may happen because Donald Trump now is feeling, you know,

00:36:38.340 the wind is at his back. The Republicans are all excited. This monkey's been lifted, the dark shadow of

00:36:44.500 this report. So the Green New Deal just might collide with this presidential commission on climate.

00:36:49.700 And that could be the biggest economic and climate story of the rest of 2019. That's what

00:36:56.100 I'm hoping for. It's still not official, but I'm hoping this commission comes together.

00:36:59.380 Well, give me one more minute on that. I mean, we started off with the jokey

00:37:03.540 Green New Deal, just because it was fun. But, you know, I'm an advocate for Canada's oil sands and for

00:37:10.740 fracking. That has been stopped by Canadian politics. While we were twiddling our thumbs,

00:37:16.420 the United States has become a net energy exporter. And I understand it's now actually a net crude oil

00:37:22.500 exporter, which I never thought was possible. And if it's not a net oil exporter on a constant basis now,

00:37:32.500 it surely will be in a year or so, according to the EPA and the Energy Information Administration.

00:37:42.740 They both predict that American production will continue to grow.

00:37:48.020 Yes, you're right. But the trend is there, even if it's not permanent for this year.

00:37:52.260 It's amazing. I mean, Donald Trump has unleashed and just stripped away with all these regulatory

00:37:58.900 and just sent a signal to the marketplace that it's OK to start new projects and you're not going

00:38:03.300 to be shut down. That's just that signal alone. Not even just the idea that he was willing to pull out

00:38:08.260 of Paris, the idea that he was willing to start tossing out the clean power plan,

00:38:12.980 so-called clean power plan that President Obama did, the climate plan from EPA.

00:38:16.900 That has unleashed it further. But interestingly enough, here's our problem. And I'm sure Canada

00:38:21.460 has the same thing. Because we've had milquetoast Republicans like George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush,

00:38:27.860 because we've had weak senators and congressmen, the United States has rubber-stamped the U.N. reports.

00:38:34.340 Even the Trump administration allowed a national climate assessment last year. What did that lead

00:38:38.900 to? We had a federal judge last week rule that you couldn't do oil drilling in a pipeline because

00:38:45.380 of the climate concerns based on the U.S. government has accepted. So in a way, I don't know how any

00:38:52.260 judge in America, including the Supreme Court, could allow energy development if the Trump administration

00:38:57.940 is allowing the IPCC and the national climate assessment, which it is based on, written by

00:39:02.740 environmental activists and Obama's climate negotiator, to stand as U.S. government accepted

00:39:08.820 scientific reports. So what President Trump is going to do is appoint a commission,

00:39:14.100 headed by Will Happer and possibly including people like Judith Curry and Richard Lindzen,

00:39:18.420 the climate scientists. And they're going to reexamine the basis for the U.N. and the national

00:39:23.460 climate assessment. And we are going to have, for the first time, an official government report

00:39:28.260 that we can base policy on, that cabinet members can say, well, as the Presidential Commission on

00:39:33.860 Climate reported, and finally have an official document that the government will accept that

00:39:39.860 different than the United Nations report. That will give us judicial hope with all these lawsuits,

00:39:45.300 children's lawsuits, oil drilling lawsuits, pipeline lawsuits, you name it. This is possibly the most

00:39:51.140 single greatest climate legacy that President Trump could do. It hasn't happened yet, and it's not

00:39:55.940 official, but it looks like a good probability it could happen here this year. Well, that's so

00:40:00.740 encouraging, Mark. And I remember two years ago, you and I talking about the appointment of Scott

00:40:06.020 Pruitt to be Trump's first EPA administrator. And we were so tickled pink by that. Now, he did not

00:40:13.380 stay in that position long. He was sort of drummed out of there by the hard left. But it did set a tone,

00:40:18.340 and I was, it was my favorite appointment, frankly. And from what you're, now, give me just 30 more

00:40:23.460 seconds on this Hafner. I'm sorry, I don't recall off the top of my head his biography. Can you tell

00:40:28.900 me why you're so excited about this potential choice of him? Give me, give our viewers a minute

00:40:34.020 on his background. Sure. Professor Will Happer, I actually, when I worked in the United States Senate

00:40:40.260 Environment and Public Works Committee, he was my first choice to come in 2009 to testify to Congress.

00:40:46.420 He has over 200 peer-reviewed papers. And he's one of the world's topmost experts on the physical

00:40:53.460 effect of the greenhouse effect. 200 peer-reviewed papers. And he testified,

00:40:58.100 and he's continued to know that we are in a CO2 famine right now, that carbon dioxide is at the

00:41:04.340 lowest levels, historically speaking, that we need more of it, that there is no climate crisis.

00:41:09.460 And he has got the credentials. He's got the backbone. And he's got the backing now of President

00:41:15.940 Donald Trump. If he gets in charge of this commission, they're going to re-examine the

00:41:20.500 whole physical basis of carbon dioxide being the control knob for the climate. And then this

00:41:26.980 commission, it could take six months or more, will release their reports. The United States

00:41:30.900 government could then have an official document to counter accepting all these UN reports and

00:41:36.740 national climate assessments. And we could actually, it could have so many mirror effects

00:41:41.380 when you have someone like Will Happer in charge of, you know, who's a, the one of the most strident

00:41:47.060 climate skeptics out there, it could have an effect from everything from NASA's nonsensical website,

00:41:53.060 citing the 97%, NOAA's website, EPA website, all of these claims, the boilerplate claims that we all see

00:42:00.180 over and over could actually be affected. And it would give the cabinet cover. Even Scott Pruitt went on

00:42:05.300 TV, he had to defend science. Not the best role for a cabinet member, but now every cabinet member

00:42:11.380 can say, well, as the Presidential Commission on Climate, it is the most important thing that

00:42:16.020 Donald Trump could do to his climate legacy. Isn't that amazing? Will Happer, I'll certainly

00:42:19.700 keep my eyes peeled. And it does not surprise me that you were the one to bring us this news,

00:42:25.380 because this is not news that the mainstream media would want. I just want to leave you with one

00:42:29.860 little fact about Canada. Mark, of course, your main focus is the United States and you and you go to

00:42:35.860 all the UN global warming conferences where our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed has gone now three times.

00:42:41.940 I want to let you know that while Donald Trump has signaled to American oil and gas and mining

00:42:47.380 that it's drill baby drill, in Canada we have before our parliament right now a bill called C-69

00:42:54.740 that would actually add so many more regulations to any industrial projects including oil sands,

00:43:01.140 pipelines, whatever. One of them, I'm not even kidding Mark, and this is me just telling you

00:43:05.140 something for your American friends, there would now be a gender analysis attached to any pipeline, 1.00

00:43:13.140 any large industrial project. I know you probably think I'm kidding, that is working its way through

00:43:18.420 our parliament right now, gender analysis. I hate to tell you that because that's just great news for 1.00

00:43:23.700 Americans. You'll get all the jobs and investment while we do gender analysis. Imagine if you're 1.00

00:43:29.060 an investor, you have to choose between Donald Trump's America or Justin Trudeau's Canada. Imagine

00:43:33.780 where you're going to put your bucks. Last word to you, my friend. Well, actually, I mean, it's funny

00:43:37.780 you should say that. My headline on Climate Depot right now, Ezra, is white people are blamed for the big 0.90

00:43:44.340 cyclone that hit Africa in, I believe it was Mozambique and a couple other countries. And the black 1.00

00:43:52.180 separatists, basically the group that's supporting the land grabs in South Africa,

00:43:56.340 is claiming that, quote, the white man's science supports the fact that these storms are hitting

00:44:01.700 Africa. So white people are creating global warming, which is impacting Africa. And it also goes back, 0.99

00:44:07.780 I actually have flashbacks to an article. I went to the UN summit in 2005 in Montreal, Canada,

00:44:12.980 and I interviewed a lady about climate gender justice. And the gist of it is,

00:44:17.540 men create global warming and women suffer the most. So this has been around for decades.

00:44:22.900 And now it's very sad and disheartening to hear that Canada's implementing this wacky,

00:44:27.860 insane kind of rhetoric that's been around for decades is now becoming law. And of course,

00:44:32.820 you have African countries now basically blaming the white man for creating global warming and then

00:44:38.500 making their storms worse, which, by the way, there's no science. Actually, the tropical cyclone

00:44:42.980 activity is on a downward trend. So they have no science to support that. But it has turned racial.

00:44:48.980 It has turned gender. I don't expect this to stop. That's the whole point of the Green New Deal. It's 0.99

00:44:54.020 to divide Americans, everything rich, poor, and everything down from our diets. You know,

00:45:01.300 you're a meat eater. You're going to be, we have the UN climate chief actually saying they're retired now,

00:45:06.100 Christina Figueres, meat eaters should be treated in restaurants the same way smokers are treated, 1.00

00:45:11.140 given their own section in the back and pushed out of the way because it's the one to be frowned 0.99

00:45:16.180 upon. So now you have all this. I mean, it's just it's identity politics and it's infiltrating it.

00:45:21.700 And that should be opposed. Hopefully there's some way Canadians can oppose what you're describing.

00:45:25.620 But once that takes root, you know, this is it's an ugly situation. Yeah. Well, I tell you,

00:45:32.340 I like getting the good news from you about the United States. And I'm commiserating with you a little

00:45:37.780 bit about the bad news we have up here. Maybe we'll change it in due course. But for now,

00:45:42.580 it's I'm I'm sorry to report. It's all bad news north of the border. Mark, keep up the fight down

00:45:47.940 there. I'm so encouraged by what you've told us about about this prospective presidential commission.

00:45:55.060 And maybe you can keep us updated as if it comes to fruit and as it goes along.

00:46:00.740 The media has gone nuts. They are attacking Professor Will Happer. They were attacking any of this,

00:46:05.620 any of the scientists who would be on it. There are op eds, New York Times. Everyone's

00:46:09.620 the media is beside themselves. This will be the first official major challenge to the United

00:46:14.900 Nations, an official government body that's ever occurred since the United Nations climate

00:46:19.060 panel started. So this is huge news. Well, thank you for sharing it with us,

00:46:22.660 our viewers, because I know it hasn't made the news here in Canada. And I'm going to keep my eye

00:46:27.060 peeled for Will Happer going forward. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. All right. There you have it.

00:46:32.260 Mark Morano from ClimateDepot.com. I believe he is literally the most plugged in observer,

00:46:40.660 critic and lay expert in global warming politics and science. And we're delighted to have him as a

00:46:48.420 regular guest on our show. And as you know, at these global warming conferences, Sheila Gunn-Reed always

00:46:54.340 connects with him on the ground and he becomes our sort of resident expert on the scene. So there's some

00:47:00.900 important news for you today about this prospective presidential commission. Stay with us. More ahead

00:47:06.020 on The Rebel.

00:47:18.740 Welcome back on my monologue yesterday about the New Zealand government's decision to ban

00:47:22.740 the manifesto of the terrorists responsible for the mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch.

00:47:26.900 David Heath writes, Well done, New Zealand. I want to read it now. Before banning it,

00:47:32.500 I couldn't be bothered with it. Well, that's the thing about banning. It's sort of reverse

00:47:36.980 psychology. You want to see what someone tells you you can't see. Isn't that the truth? Andy

00:47:42.980 Niemers writes, New Zealand has been the soft home of semi-commie indulgences for generations now,

00:47:48.660 and to blow their little bubble of being a western democratic state is being put to the test. Hello?

00:47:52.900 Well, look, I just thought it was really weird how... I give them credit. They call the guy the chief

00:48:00.340 censor. That's more honest than here in Canada where we call it the chief of the Human Rights

00:48:06.020 Commission. But you can't read it unless you answer their questions about who you are and pay them $102.

00:48:12.820 That is a picture, a snapshot of the future of the internet if social justice warriors get their way. 0.86

00:48:19.220 On my interview with Pardes Saleh about lawyer Michael Avenatti facing charges for alleged embezzlement

00:48:26.100 and extortion, Janet Masiello writes, He was on CNN and MSNBC 108 times in just a few months.

00:48:33.380 They were pushing him as the next democratic presidential candidate. Is anyone surprised?

00:48:38.500 Yeah, they will throw anything at Donald Trump and have for more than two years.

00:48:45.540 I think it's amazing. I have to say, I was surprised that Robert Mueller, with his team of

00:48:53.060 Democrats, there was no Republicans on his team. You went through the stats. He had 19 lawyers,

00:48:58.660 40 FBI and forensics and accountant staff. He had 60 people. They were all Democrats.

00:49:05.540 And they vindicated Trump. I am surprised by that. What a great rebuke of the media party,

00:49:11.140 as if you needed another rebuke of them. That's the thing. If you have a team like that,

00:49:16.100 that ran, I don't know, a political party, they would be voted out. If you had a team like that,

00:49:22.420 that ran a company and took the ground, they would probably go bankrupt. And if they did something

00:49:26.500 really wrong, they might be charged with securities fraud. But here you have that team in the media

00:49:32.020 getting it so wrong. And where's the consequences? They're still on TV calling themselves experts.

00:49:40.660 Susanna Simpson commented and said, I can't wait to get my Libranos mug. I'm taking it to work while

00:49:47.060 I wear my rebel media pin on my jacket. Make their heads spin. Susanna, I like your rebel patriotism.

00:49:52.260 And folks, I got to tell you that Libranos poster is gorgeous. It is truly a work of art. And I

00:50:00.340 believe it's a collector's item. And the reason I say that is because 15 years ago, when I was with

00:50:04.980 the Western Standard and we published the Libranos original, people had that on their wall for years.

00:50:11.540 I remember, I'm trying to remember the exact dates, but it was years later that I would still see that

00:50:17.700 poster on walls, people's offices, because it was so gorgeous. And may I encourage you to consider

00:50:24.260 going to thelibranos.com. And I'm only saying it because I think it's gorgeous.

00:50:30.100 You don't have to pay anything for the image. You can download it for free as your

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Rebel News Podcast - March 28, 2019

The CBC is an enemy of the people. These three stories prove it.

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