Rebel News Podcast - The Ezra Levant Show： Some scientists are now claiming vaccine-hesitant people are more dangerous drivers

00:00:00.000 Tonight, are you unvaccinated? Well, a new study suggests that you're probably a really bad driver

00:00:22.420 to, oh, give me a break. It's Thursday, December 15th, 2022. I'm David Menzies, and this is the Ezra

00:00:31.900 Levent Show. Shame on you, you censorious bug. Well, folks, there are so many indicators out there

00:00:50.420 that suggest things are starting to return to normal now that the very worst of the COVID-19

00:00:58.140 pandemic is behind us. Fewer people are wearing masks. Social distancing isn't really a thing

00:01:04.500 anymore. All those silly directional arrows on the floors of retail stores, well, they have more or

00:01:10.740 less disappeared. And by the way, did all of that signage nonsense ever work in reducing COVID-19

00:01:17.420 transmission in the first place? But I digress. For the other day, I visited my friendly neighborhood

00:01:23.460 Petro-Canada gas station and could barely believe my eyes. Those intrusive plastic shields had been

00:01:30.200 removed from the counter, and the guy behind the counter was not masked up as if he was about to,

00:01:37.440 you know, perform a surgical procedure as opposed to cashing me out. Hallelujah. Because I don't know

00:01:44.780 about you folks, but in the past two years, trying to have a conversation through reams of PPE

00:01:51.400 impediments from plastic shields to fabric face diapers, well, kind of resembled the sort of

00:01:58.520 discussion the Peanuts gang has with their teacher. Anyway, these days, it's beginning to look a lot like

00:02:09.840 Christmas, the 2019 edition that is, and that's a jolly good thing indeed. But hold on to your horses,

00:02:19.240 folks, because when it comes to the quest for normalcy, we're not quite there yet. That's because

00:02:27.960 the vilification and demonization of the unvaccinated continues unabated, at least in certain circles.

00:02:35.940 Case in point, a new study from some Sunnybrook Research Institute scientists was just released.

00:02:44.000 And get this, the study suggests that those who have an underlying hesitancy to get vaccinated against

00:02:52.340 COVID-19 are the same people who are essentially bad drivers and that they get into traffic accidents.

00:03:01.800 I swear, folks, I'm not making this up. The Sunnybrook shysters are basically stating that if you

00:03:08.660 don't get jabbed with the COVID-19 vaccine, well, your motoring skills are equivalent to those of

00:03:15.720 Toontes the driving cat. Remember that little kitty? 0.89

00:03:19.740 Toontes the driving cat. See? See, I told you he could drive. Toontes, look out!

00:03:30.340 Well, obviously, Toontes the driving cat isn't vaccinated either now, is he? By the way,

00:03:49.240 are we vaccinating cats and dogs yet? I mean, that would make a whole new profit stream for Big Pharma,

00:03:56.780 aided and abetted by their cheerleaders in the mainstream media.

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00:04:19.620 But instead of this Sunnybrook study paper being used to line a birdcage, this propaganda was actually

00:04:26.840 published in the American Journal of Medicine. And here are some of the details.

00:04:34.080 Using a population-based approach, the study included over 10 million adults and more than 6,000

00:04:42.920 traffic crashes throughout Ontario. Dr. Donald Rettelmeyer, the principal investigator and senior

00:04:51.380 scientist at Sunnybrook, stated, quote,

00:04:54.060 We identified adults who had or had not received a COVID vaccine and followed each person for a traffic

00:05:02.960 crash requiring emergency care, end quote.

00:05:07.120 First of all, does that not seem a little weird or downright creepy to you, this business of following

00:05:14.660 up on car crash victims and checking on their vaccination status? And by the way, aren't we in

00:05:21.740 a health care crisis right now, you know, with certain hospitals at standing room only capacity?

00:05:28.580 And yet there are some health care professionals who have enough time on their hands to cook up

00:05:34.460 weird science papers? I mean, come on, guys, get back to the ER or at least get back to your song

00:05:41.420 and dance routines.

00:05:42.540 I do my head tall, check my nails, baby, how you feeling?

00:06:07.380 Head tall, check my nails, baby, how you feeling?

00:06:10.800 Wow, isn't that special? I guess if the nurses are dancing these days, I wonder if the dancers down 1.00

00:06:19.600 at the Zanzibar or the House of Lancaster are providing nursing services. If so, finally,

00:06:28.360 I now have a valid reason to patronize a strip club. But I digress. The study also found unvaccinated 0.98

00:06:37.160 adults accounted for 1,682 traffic crashes, 25%, equal to a 72% increased relative risk compared

00:06:48.600 to those who were vaccinated. The increased traffic risk was more than the risk associated

00:06:55.620 with diabetes or dementia, and second only to the relative risk associated with a history

00:07:03.140 of alcohol misuse. Wow, I'd hate to see the accident stats for those afflicted with diabetes

00:07:10.740 and dementia and alcoholism. And worst of all, they happen to be, gasp, unvaccinated too.

00:07:19.500 Oh, give me a break. Here's another statement from Dr. Frankenstein, or sorry, I mean Dr. Rettelmeyer.

00:07:25.660 Quote, our study demonstrated traffic risks were 50 to 70% more frequent for adults who had not

00:07:34.420 been vaccinated compared to those who had. This does not mean COVID-19 vaccination directly prevents

00:07:42.920 traffic crashes. Instead, it suggests that adults who do not follow public health advice may also

00:07:51.160 neglect the rules of the road, end quote. Oh, man. I'm so glad Dr. Rettelmeyer clarified that getting

00:07:59.320 jabbed with the COVID-19 vaccine doesn't turn a bad driver into a good driver. You know, kind of like

00:08:06.160 how being bitten by a radioactive spider might give you superpowers a la Peter Parker.

00:08:12.740 By the way, for what it's worth, folks, when it comes to getting jabbed with the COVID-19 vaccine,

00:08:21.800 I think I'd rather get bitten by a radioactive arachnid, even if it doesn't give me super strength

00:08:29.020 and spidey senses. But back to the study, I think this is a textbook example of that which is known as

00:08:38.520 jumping to conclusions. Again, check out the preponderance of weasel words, i.e., the study

00:08:45.980 suggests that adults who do not follow public health advice may also neglect the rules of the

00:08:54.400 road. I'm sorry, but using the words suggest and may, well, that hardly makes for a definitive

00:09:00.880 scientific conclusion, wouldn't you say? And check out this whopper, quote,

00:09:05.520 the authors recommend that individuals who hesitate to take the COVID-19 vaccine reflect on their

00:09:14.040 choices and recognize how such decisions have repercussions in ways they do not imagine.

00:09:22.680 Strategies to avoid a traffic crash include obeying the speed limit, minimizing distractions,

00:09:30.120 and never driving drunk, end quote. Well, there you have it, my fellow members of Club Unvaccinated,

00:09:38.340 because you chose not to get injected with an experimental vaccine that does not work. Well,

00:09:46.960 that means when you get behind the wheel, you likely have a lead foot and you might even be as

00:09:53.080 drunk as a skunk and you are prone to distractions, whatever that means. Yeah, these doctors are basically

00:10:00.100 suggesting that the unvaccinated are all variations of that classic Saturday Night Live character

00:10:08.320 unfrozen caveman lawyer. Your world frightens and confuses me. Sometimes the honking horns of your

00:10:17.620 traffic make me want to get out of my BMW and run off into the hills or whatever. Sometimes when I get a

00:10:28.660 message on my fax machine, I wonder, did little demons get inside and type it? I don't know.

00:10:36.200 My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. Yes, my unvaxed friends, you are all so frightened

00:10:44.380 and confused. Oh, but the good doctor isn't done yet, says Redelmeyer, quote,

00:10:51.400 We don't want unvaccinated people to feel persecuted and are not suggesting they stop driving. Instead,

00:10:59.960 we suggest they drive a bit more carefully. Physicians counseling patients who decline COVID-19

00:11:08.740 vaccination could consider safety reminders so their patients do not become traffic statistics,

00:11:18.160 end quote. Holy moly, does it get any more condescending than that? Oh, and I'm sure family

00:11:26.000 doctors are really going to embrace Redelmeyer's advice and more from physician to, oh, I don't know,

00:11:32.840 a new age version of Elmer the safety elephant next time an unvaxed patient drops by.

00:11:40.140 Sorry, I bumped into you, Elmer. I guess I didn't watch where I was going.

00:11:44.120 You must always watch where you're going. Then you won't get hurt in traffic.

00:11:48.520 I'll remember that, Elmer. Good.

00:11:51.340 Say, whatever happened to Elmer the safety elephant? Oh yeah, I think he got cancelled in

00:11:57.000 favour of drag queen's story time. Anyway, talk about conflating the truth, which is to say it seems 0.78

00:12:05.520 to me that the quacks behind this study use two completely separate ideas or sets of information 0.61

00:12:13.960 that are factually unrelated to deliver a conclusion that is both flawed and dishonest.

00:12:22.440 I'll give you an example of conflation. Jim Smith likes to drink champagne. Adolf Hitler also liked 0.70

00:12:30.220 to drink champagne. Conclusion, Jim Smith is a Nazi. Indeed, I'd love to see the empirical evidence that

00:12:39.180 went into this Sunnybrook study, if it even exists, that is. You see, I think these doctors

00:12:46.000 began this study with a predestined conclusion that they were going to make the unvaccinated come 1.00

00:12:54.420 across as so stupid they'd be unable to competently drive a motor vehicle. It's equal parts preposterous 1.00

00:13:04.000 and egregious, and I would also argue it's immoral and unethical. And how will this so-called data

00:13:11.320 be put to use when it comes to penalising the unvaccinated? For example, how long will it be before, say,

00:13:18.560 car insurance companies demand to know the vax status of their clients? And if you're unvaccinated,

00:13:26.300 well, guess what? That will be an extra 7% increase, sir, on your premium because there's now evidence

00:13:35.200 to prove that you are a bigger risk when it comes to your driving ability. Oh, I know it sounds

00:13:42.320 outrageous, folks, but given what we have witnessed these past two years, would this come as a surprise

00:13:50.020 to you? Not for me. Enough is enough already. At the height of COVID-19, the unvaccinated were always 1.00

00:13:59.480 demonised and vilified and treated as second-class citizens. We saw the introduction of medical

00:14:07.200 apartheid. The last thing we need now is for doctors with too much time on their hands to continue the 0.75

00:14:16.080 demonization and vilification of the unvaccinated as COVID-19 mercifully enters its extinction event.

00:14:37.320 Well, you might recall when I first talked about Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter and Twitter's

00:14:43.040 knee-jerk reaction to it, which was a hard no. I went through the board of directors of Twitter,

00:14:49.500 as it then was, and I noted that there really weren't people who knew about tech or who knew

00:14:56.040 about media, but there were a lot of people who could be called the deep state. I used that phrase,

00:15:03.060 people who were experts in foreign affairs and national security and spying and intelligence. Of

00:15:09.720 course, there were foreign personalities. The Saudis, of course, have always owned a large 0.99

00:15:15.680 stake in Twitter. And it was my thesis back then, and I wasn't alone, but I remember calling it early,

00:15:22.660 that Elon Musk understood, or at least I thought he understood, that he was buying not a free speech

00:15:30.980 organ, but rather a censorship organ. That its value was not that it gave people a voice, but that it

00:15:36.500 actually filtered that voice in the interests of the deep state that controlled it the same way that

00:15:43.060 the Chinese-based app TikTok, well, you could call it a free speech app, but it actually is an app that

00:15:50.360 puts out and takes in information that serves the Chinese government. And so it is that as Elon Musk

00:15:58.640 has taken over Twitter and replaced that external board of directors and now runs the place himself,

00:16:05.560 and only now that we learn who was running Twitter on the inside, do we see that the deep state was

00:16:12.000 not just at the board of director level, it was hardwired throughout the organization in censorship

00:16:17.360 functions. And joining me now to talk about this is the author of this outstanding new piece in the

00:16:23.540 New York Post. The headline is Inside Revolving Door Between Democrat, Deep State, and Big Tech. I'm

00:16:32.160 talking about Benjamin Weingarten, one of our favorite U.S. commentators. He joins us now via Skype.

00:16:37.220 Ben, great to see you again. I wasn't completely serious when I said that Twitter was an organ in

00:16:44.980 the deep state, but I looked at all these directors of Twitter. I thought, these people do not know

00:16:50.060 about tech. These are not young, hip, tech-savvy people that you might find in an IT startup.

00:16:58.180 These are people who care about shaping the information battlefield in Ukraine. These are

00:17:06.640 the people who are interested in promoting, you know, a certain globalist agenda or a certain,

00:17:13.640 and I might agree with that agenda from time to time, for example, a pro-American foreign policy,

00:17:18.980 but they didn't give a hoot about free speech. They were in the information business

00:17:23.860 with their own message, not to be an empty platform. That's what I saw back then. Your

00:17:29.440 story today proves that's actually how the place was run.

00:17:34.680 Yeah, and I think to add to your argument, not only was it, in effect, a censorship platform,

00:17:40.920 but also, in effect, a platform for surveillance, hoovering up information on individuals,

00:17:46.240 as well as controlling the information that people could access. And I think what you see in terms of

00:17:53.460 the idea of this being something of a captured entity of the deep state is that we ought to stop

00:18:00.540 thinking of, in some respects, there being a real distinction between the administrative state

00:18:07.020 writ large, and in this case, when it comes to particularly these strategically significant

00:18:11.300 areas of communication or tech infrastructure with the national security agencies, that there's

00:18:16.880 very little distinction and red lines drawn between the big tech companies themselves,

00:18:23.960 the national security state, and then, of course, the national security state stenographers in the

00:18:30.060 legacy media companies. And all of these elements are brought together when it comes to the suppression

00:18:37.160 of the Hunter Biden laptop story, but it cuts across a whole slew of issues. And if there's one thing that the

00:18:43.880 Twitter files have exposed, that I think is more significant, and quite frankly, disturbing,

00:18:50.960 than any other, it's that there was censorship and suppression by proxy here, First Amendment

00:18:59.000 violations by proxy, where you have the national security apparatus clearly coordinating with Twitter,

00:19:04.760 and by the way, other platforms as well, including Facebook, for that matter. When it came to censoring

00:19:12.000 and suppressing a whole slew of content across a wide variety of areas. And of course, we know this with

00:19:18.840 respect to the Chinese coronavirus, we know this with respect to election integrity in the post 2020

00:19:24.880 election period, but it also happened prior to that period. And what I raise in this piece, as you mentioned, is the

00:19:32.520 idea that personnel is policy here. And in the form of a Jim Baker, for example, you have the

00:19:39.360 personification of this lack of distinction, this blurring of lines between the security state

00:19:46.200 and big tech, because you have the he someone who was the FBI general counsel during the heat of Russia

00:19:53.280 gate, during some of its most important frauds foisted on us by our national security apparatus.

00:19:58.680 And then he finds himself as the deputy general counsel within Twitter calling the shots on suppressing the

00:20:04.320 Hunter Biden story. So on the one hand, effectively running an information operation and worse against

00:20:09.440 President Trump, while inside the deep state, and then running an information operation also against

00:20:14.880 Trump and protective of Biden outside of the deep state on the putatively private sector side.

00:20:21.200 And that's one individual among many. And when it comes to the Hunter Biden story, one story among a whole

00:20:27.040 slew of them, where we've seen reportage in recent months of this coordination between the deep state and big tech.

00:20:33.520 Yeah, what's so incredible is, I mean, seriously, the top lawyer at the FBI, then becomes the deputy top lawyer

00:20:40.260 at Twitter, just, it couldn't be more transparent or brazen. But what's unbelievable to me is that he survived

00:20:47.760 Elon Musk's takeover. And when Elon Musk started airing out the dirty laundry in what have been dubbed the Twitter

00:20:54.540 files, giving internal Twitter documents to, I would say, ideologically neutral or even left-leaning

00:21:02.300 reporters like Matt Taibbi and Barry Weiss, who certainly could not be called right wing.

00:21:08.700 James Baker was still there. He was vetting what was given to the, so even when Elon Musk said,

00:21:15.660 we're going to have, we're going to audit ourselves, we're going to air it all out. James Baker was still

00:21:19.740 inside Twitter. Only he was deciding what would be aired out. He was later sacked. But it's incredible

00:21:26.140 to me that he was still a stowaway in Elon Musk's Twitter. But he's not alone. I'm reading your article

00:21:34.140 here in the New York Post. Jeff Carlton, an intelligence analyst for the CIA and FBI. That's what this was.

00:21:43.660 I mean, I think the real economic value of Twitter was not the ads it would sell or things like that.

00:21:52.620 It was exactly what you say. It was an information asset. It's what the CIA always dreamed about.

00:21:59.820 Not only did they collect everything that people look at, but everything they chat about in their

00:22:04.860 internal direct messages. And then finally, what they would push out as propaganda, what they would

00:22:12.060 choose would be a trending story or what they would throttle. So it never could trend. You know, you

00:22:19.420 mentioned other tech companies. I mean, of course, Twitter is the one we're focused on right now

00:22:25.180 because of Elon Musk's takeover of it. But Andy Stone, the communications director for Facebook,

00:22:34.620 used to be a Democrat. Flack, obviously. Jay Carney, who was well known as Barack Obama's communications

00:22:40.300 director, went over to Amazon. No problem. Just slide right in there. We learned that Anthony

00:22:46.060 Fauci's daughter was at Twitter. No problem. Like, it's not even a revolving door because that

00:22:52.220 says there's a door. There's just no door. This is an adjacent hotel room that the door has taken

00:22:59.740 off the hinges. They just go back and forth. I think what's most dangerous about this

00:23:05.820 doorless relationship between these putatively separate sectors, the public and the private sector,

00:23:13.180 is that here you have collusion, coordination, what I would call a conspiracy to violate our first

00:23:20.460 freedom, the First Amendment, and particularly on political speech, which the First Amendment

00:23:25.340 expressly is focused on, at least as the courts have arbitrated over it. And here you have suppression

00:23:34.540 of that speech on which every other liberty ultimately relies. And as you note, there is this

00:23:43.260 easy, frictionless relationship between Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley. And I think Silicon Valley

00:23:50.060 would probably get there anyway were Democratic Party made men and women not able to slip right 0.99

00:23:57.420 through the front door effortlessly into these various functions. But I think what's perhaps most

00:24:03.820 disturbing about it is, as happens in tyrannies, it's always on the basis of national security or

00:24:11.100 public health and safety that these rampant violations of our rights are justified. Obviously,

00:24:18.700 we saw that with the coronavirus. We also see this with election integrity. It's really important to note,

00:24:23.900 and this is one of the more chilling lines I've come across in this burgeoning war on wrong thing that

00:24:29.980 the national security state has served as the tip of the spear of SISA, which is an agency within the

00:24:36.700 Department of Homeland Security, which is focused on securing critical infrastructure, including election

00:24:43.660 infrastructure. The head of SISA, the director of SISA, has said that perhaps the most important

00:24:49.500 infrastructure of all is our, and I'm quoting directly here, cognitive infrastructure.

00:24:55.420 So think about what that implies. If it's the job of a DHS sub-agency to protect cognitive

00:25:03.180 infrastructure, and as she sees it and as she has articulated, that implies an obligation of the

00:25:11.100 government to counter, quote unquote, mis, dis, and malinformation. That is to run roughshod over the

00:25:19.340 first amendment. And SISA is one of the agencies that was in the room during these regular meetings that we now

00:25:25.500 know about between big tech and the various national security agencies as well. And SISA also played a

00:25:33.100 substantial role in this election integrity partnership apparatus that we've learned about through the likes of

00:25:39.660 progressive publications, by the way, like The Intercept, who have shown that the national security state was filtering through

00:25:47.100 these requests to censor and suppress information and accounts via this third party cutout, which referred these

00:25:53.500 requests onto the big tech companies and allowed them to violate the first amendment, again, by proxy. So there's the

00:26:01.100 personnel as policy issue here, there is the seamless ties between the deep state and big tech. And then there's the

00:26:09.980 pernicious way that they're justifying these massive violations, which ultimately undermine every single

00:26:16.060 other liberty that we cherish so deeply in America, or at least that we used to.

00:26:21.260 You know, I can understand and maybe even in some cases, except the United States deploying unconstitutional

00:26:30.860 means to target foreign regimes. I don't think that foreign regimes or foreign citizens necessarily have rights

00:26:38.380 under the American Constitution. I could be wrong on that. But what irks me is that the CIA and the FBI

00:26:45.020 colonized Twitter to deploy it against the American people, to stop what American people see,

00:26:53.020 to stop what they say, to spy on them, and to alter the American election. Now, if TikTok is a weaponized

00:27:00.940 arm of the People's Liberation Army, and if, I forget what it's called, VK, I think, or something like that,

00:27:07.660 just a Russian version of Facebook. If every country has its own social media,

00:27:14.380 maybe the idea of Twitter being weaponized against foreign agents is something I could abide if it was

00:27:19.820 limited to that. But it seems like the chief enemy of this deep state was Americans, and more precisely,

00:27:26.940 Republican Americans, and even more precisely, Donald Trump. And it really was, I don't know,

00:27:36.380 it was nothing like a publisher and a free speech place. It was the opposite of it. The whole purpose of

00:27:43.660 it was as a spying tool. I think it's amazing that Elon Musk bought it and is airing that out. It wouldn't

00:27:50.940 surprise me if there are still other moles left in Twitter. I mean, it's a big place. I don't know if we'll 1.00

00:27:57.660 ever know everything that was said and done in that place. As a Canadian, I'm very curious what our Justin Trudeau

00:28:04.380 did and said to Twitter to get them, for example, to hamstring Rebel News. I'm sure he tried. Why

00:28:11.420 wouldn't he? He is a close working relationship with U.S. Democrats. He shares their censorious

00:28:18.700 tone. I'm sure Twitter Canada was just as liberal as Twitter in the United States. I wonder how much of

00:28:25.020 this was done all around the world. And it reminds me that when Twitter nuked Donald Trump's Twitter

00:28:31.340 account, the Mexican president, Angela Merkel of Germany, I think President Macron of France,

00:28:38.380 they didn't cheer, even though each of them had their beefs with Trump. They all said this is an

00:28:43.740 outrageous stretch by a tech company to censor a leader of a sovereign country. The world said,

00:28:51.740 oh my God, what's going on? Because they could see that this was a form of hegemony or a form of

00:28:58.380 imperialism by whoever was sitting in Twitter's executive offices. I don't know. I think that

00:29:03.420 we've just seen the tip of the iceberg here. Well, and that those world leaders took a more liberal

00:29:09.180 perspective in the classical sense than Twitter's internal speech police, I think tells you everything

00:29:14.940 you need to know about the character and the nature of the folks serving at senior levels.

00:29:20.620 Moles within Twitter. Also important to note, and I think your point is very well taken on this, 0.97

00:29:25.820 about moles within Twitter. The fact that James Baker continued to work there for as long as he did

00:29:32.060 after the acquisition is incredibly disturbing because as you noted, he may well have been

00:29:37.260 responsible and Elon Musk has sort of intimated this. He clearly was vetting information and perhaps

00:29:43.340 deleted it or scrubbed it. And that's significant because Matt Taibbi himself in one of the early

00:29:51.020 dumps of Twitter files noted that we didn't really find smoking guns with respect to what government

00:29:56.540 officials were doing and saying and directing Twitter. Well, if Jim Baker was on the inside

00:30:02.300 overseeing what was leaked out, do you think he might have had an interest in suppressing that sort

00:30:09.580 of information? And so what other information is being suppressed? And then also to your point,

00:30:14.380 this goes well beyond Twitter to a whole slew of tech companies because we've seen reportage to indicate

00:30:20.140 that the government was meeting, national security agencies were meeting with a whole slew of big

00:30:25.420 tech companies in the run-up to the election. And the context for this is really important here.

00:30:30.460 Obviously, the big tech companies play a substantial role in the dissemination of information vital in

00:30:38.380 a campaign. But beyond that, I always go back to that Molly Ball article in 2021 in Time Magazine

00:30:46.140 on this bipartisan conspiracy, that's her word, conspiracy, or cabal to quote-unquote fortify the

00:30:53.260 election. And within that article, there's a line where she talks about the fact that this powerful,

00:30:58.140 well-funded cabal worked hand in hand, including to control the flow of information going into

00:31:04.940 that election. That's precisely what occurred at Twitter, and I suspect it's precisely what occurred

00:31:10.540 across all areas of the information battle space in America and abroad.

00:31:16.460 You know, Ben, I'm 50 years old now. I felt motivated about political matters and injustices

00:31:23.980 ever since I was a teenager. And most of the time, I'm only modestly successful at persuading

00:31:30.700 things or moving the world. And I think that's how it should be. The world should be a very difficult

00:31:35.180 thing to change. I think that's proper. But in my 50 years, there have been a few moments where

00:31:43.820 I've had an explosive success. And I managed to get a message out and people to hear what I thought was

00:31:52.380 a scandalous injustice. And I finally had my platform, whether it was on a huge TV station or

00:31:59.420 a successful campaign of some sort. And I finally had that moment of truth that I had been working for,

00:32:05.020 maybe for years, Ben. And I was able to say what I wanted to say, unvarnished, unlimited, and

00:32:12.940 and nothing. And I couldn't blame anyone because I was successful. I was able to say what I wanted to

00:32:19.980 say. And the world didn't change, Ben. And it's a humbling reminder that not everyone cares about the

00:32:27.260 world as you do. And if they do care, it's hard to change the world. And I don't know,

00:32:34.220 that's sort of a personal way of saying, Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter and his revelations

00:32:40.220 that every conspiracy theory was correct. They really were censoring things. It really was hand

00:32:46.220 in glove with the FBI and the CIA. And they really were everything we had. And now here's the proof of

00:32:53.740 it. And even the proof of it has more skullduggery. And this is my point. So this is the perfect moment.

00:33:00.060 It's almost impossible to think, Ben, that there was someone who would spend $44 billion to get the

00:33:06.940 truth. Like that's what I mean by a once in a lifetime truth telling moment. Will it ever again,

00:33:12.620 has it ever before happened that someone mustered $44 billion just to find the truth? It's unthinkable.

00:33:17.980 And here it is. Ta-da. Voila. Everything here that we have alleged, it's proof. QED. Ta-da.

00:33:29.180 And nothing. And nothing. Our state broadcaster here, the CBC, I typed in Twitter. And the only story

00:33:39.900 they had over the last month was that Elon Musk got booed at a Jay Chappelle comedy show in California.

00:33:46.220 That was the only thing they thought was newsworthy coming out of Twitter this past month,

00:33:50.540 just in case you didn't know, Ben. The New York Times, the Washington Post, they're all saying,

00:33:55.580 oh, this is a nothing burger. So this is one of those moments where you have a perfect moment of truth.

00:34:01.980 And I ask you, will anything bloody well change, Ben?

00:34:07.900 Well, and we've had a couple of others too, like with respect to Russiagate,

00:34:11.420 and with the Hunter Biden laptop story, will anything change? More and more, I think marginally,

00:34:19.820 more and more people continue to see the mask being removed, that it is a rigged deck in the sense of

00:34:29.580 every single powerful institution, whether organically or conspiratorially, because quite

00:34:34.940 frankly, it could all be organic, the way these people operate and what their worldview is,

00:34:40.060 do really work together to protect their power, their privilege, their fiefdoms, and to crush dissenters.

00:34:47.740 And as the dissent grows, so too does the ratcheting up of the totalitarian kind of means by which

00:34:55.020 they try to counter it. So I think the worse these actors perform, that's a testament, I think,

00:35:02.140 to the strength of the opposition. So that's somewhat comforting. There's also a question of,

00:35:07.980 does the extent to which they engage in all sorts of these in these activities, and they get exposed,

00:35:12.700 and that these activities keep getting more and more malicious and unhinged,

00:35:16.540 does that suggest a weakness or a strength on their side? And I think that's an important question

00:35:21.660 to always consider. But I also do share your demoralization that it takes one billionaire with

00:35:26.940 $44 billion to buy what he himself has admitted is essentially a crime scene. It's crickets,

00:35:33.340 of course, from a media that is in and of itself implicated in all of this, and so has a vested interest

00:35:39.580 in suppressing it. And all they want to talk about is how Elon Musk paid $44 billion to increase hate speech.

00:35:45.900 And thus, that provides even further justification for worse censorship. And by the way, what censorship

00:35:50.620 is going on right now? What kind of conversations are going on right this minute between national

00:35:54.860 security agencies and the various big tech companies? There's far more to find out. Thank

00:36:00.380 God, some eyes have been open to it. And for that, whatever Elon Musk's failings, it's been a,

00:36:06.140 and not just a national public service, it's been a global public service, this acquisition.

00:36:10.700 Well, and I still hold out some hope. I think it, it is a source of hope. But, you know,

00:36:16.620 you can be the richest man in the world, one of the smartest men in the world, one of the most

00:36:19.900 successful men in the world. But there's always someone or something bigger, the deep state is

00:36:25.580 larger than anything. And sometimes they use means that, I mean, a similar jaw dropping,

00:36:36.300 eye opening, red pill moment, as the kids would say, was the whole Jeffrey Epstein affair.

00:36:41.980 And what came of that? I mean, other than Bill Gates, his wife divorcing him, do we know who the,

00:36:49.420 who the predators were? I don't know. These are difficult things to talk about because you're

00:36:55.020 called a conspiracy theorist for even chewing them over. But then when the facts come out,

00:37:01.580 the response from the regime media is, oh, that's old news. We already knew that. No,

00:37:06.780 you denied it until this moment. You called it a conspiracy theory until this moment. Now you're

00:37:11.420 saying it's old news, so you can skip the part where we talk about it. Anyway, Ben, I don't mean

00:37:15.420 to be so pessimistic. I loved your piece in the National Post. I'd encourage everyone to read it.

00:37:19.500 I am starting to get nightmares. I've seen so many pictures of a half-naked Hunter Biden. But even that

00:37:26.380 in itself, I mean, just the scrutiny that was put on the Trump sons, on Donald Trump Jr., on Eric and

00:37:33.260 like just all the lads and all the accusations that they were profiteering some way off their

00:37:37.980 dad's presidency, I don't think there was any evidence furnished of it. And here you have the

00:37:43.020 first son with no business skills, with no success in life, getting multimillion dollar or even billion

00:37:49.900 dollar contracts from communist China, from Russia, from Ukraine, with no discernible benefit to the

00:37:56.700 payer other than influencing his father. And it's, oh, well, leave him alone. You're picking on someone

00:38:01.180 with substance abuse issues. It's just incredible. That's the world we live in. And hopefully the

00:38:06.380 truth is interesting enough to overcome. Ben, I appreciate you writing the truth in the New York

00:38:11.100 Post and I appreciate you joining us here as you always do. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

00:38:15.500 All right. There you have it, Ben Weingarten. These are tough things to talk about. I find them

00:38:19.340 somewhat demoralizing. Stay with us. More ahead.

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00:39:59.420 It is commonplace for those who have received their third, fourth, fifth doses

00:40:05.820 to get COVID, even if they've been vaccinated. Surely you can all see that the current strategy

00:40:12.060 is not doing what it was purported to do. So here we are more than a year later,

00:40:17.420 our healthcare system on the brink of collapse and the healthcare worker injection mandate continues

00:40:23.500 to be in effect. Despite the vast amount of evidence discrediting the validity of the order,

00:40:31.020 despite every other province in this country and many countries around the world acknowledging this

00:40:37.740 approach is neither scientifically sound nor effective. Despite the tens of thousands of COVID-related

00:40:45.660 sick calls all of our health authorities have received after the non-vaccinated healthcare

00:40:51.340 workers were fired and thus not spreading COVID in the workplace. So again, perhaps someone here

00:40:59.340 can enlighten me as to what is different in BC. In this email, I shared under PHSA's whistleblower policy

00:41:07.340 some of the alarming red flags I noticed related to COVID while working as a nurse for PHSA.

00:41:12.860 Namely, the huge discrepancy in adverse vaccine reactions occurring versus those being reported

00:41:19.820 to the public. In this email, an abundance of credible resources were included. I have yet to receive a

00:41:26.540 response from a single one of you. The public health measures, including but not limited to the

00:41:31.900 experimental COVID injection that you have facilitated, promoted and mandated are causing significant

00:41:38.860 morbidity and mortality in this province. In Pfizer's own post-market trial data in the first three months,

00:41:47.500 ending February 28, 2021, their own data reported several pages of adverse reactions, including over 1200 deaths.

00:41:58.860 Myocarditis, among other cardiac issues, severe neurological issues, and a horrific rate of fetal

00:42:06.220 demise in mothers who discovered they were pregnant when they received the injection.

00:42:12.700 The increased all-cause mortality and decreased live births have been impacted globally at rates

00:42:18.940 never been seen before, not even close to it. Our healthcare system was already failing before COVID.

00:42:25.740 It is now on the brink of irreparable dysfunction. I, as a nurse, one of the many thousands,

00:42:33.420 am now on welfare and lining up at the food bank every two weeks because you continue to uphold

00:42:41.100 a mandate that is not scientifically sound ethical, moral or lawful. I have reviewed your information

00:42:51.900 and I am confident in the evidence the province is using. I will leave. Shame on all of you for not

00:42:59.420 looking into this. There will come a point in time and it's becoming more and more obvious.

00:43:04.860 This is Aurora Bisson Montpetit. Now tell us how you were working as a nurse before these mandates. 0.99

00:43:12.940 So initially I was working at 811, the nurses hotline, which is under HealthLink BC. And during this time,

00:43:22.540 people would call in and after the vaccine was rolled out, I would get call after call after call of

00:43:30.540 adverse reactions from people who had recently received the vaccine. I was obviously very

00:43:36.380 concerned about it. I wasn't surprised because I'd been looking into this for quite some time.

00:43:41.740 I had initially tried to raise this concern to my manager and was brushed off.

00:43:48.140 I left HealthLink BC, I think it was around May, June maybe. And then I transferred to

00:43:56.060 Children's Hospital in July and that's where I was fired from was Children's Hospital working in

00:44:01.260 adolescent inpatient mental health, which as we all know, what this has done to the mental health

00:44:07.660 of everybody and to see it happening to the kids in this province has been absolutely horrendous.

00:44:13.420 So I want to flashback just a bit to what you said there. You're getting these calls about these

00:44:16.860 adverse reactions to this safe and effective jab that we were all told about. And then flash forward some

00:44:22.940 months later and you're told you better get this or you lose your job. I have very little patience

00:44:27.500 for people who aren't immunized in healthcare. What was that like? It was horrendous to say the least.

00:44:37.260 I knew it was coming. I was hoping obviously like many of us that things would change before that point.

00:44:43.740 It was the week before the mandates actually came into effect and my manager approached me while I was at

00:44:51.980 work and said, you know, you know what's happening. What are you planning to do? And I said, well,

00:44:58.060 I'm not providing you with my personal private medical information. And she said, well, I already

00:45:03.580 know you're not vaccinated. So a complete breach of my private medical information.

00:45:08.460 Yeah. I think that was something we still haven't completely grasped. Now, one of the questions that

00:45:15.100 people have been asking, including myself over the past months, is how many nurses or doctors or what

00:45:21.820 have you have been laid off without paid or terminated? I recently interviewed another

00:45:29.260 nurse, a former ER nurse who is also not helping save lives right now, thanks to these mandates. 0.88

00:45:34.620 She did a freedom of information request to get that number as it pertains to the nurses.

00:45:39.260 Let's just play a clip of that. I had to be very specific. So I use the dates from November 30th,

00:45:45.100 2021 until June 30th, 2022. So one of the questions I asked for how many just specifically nurses were 0.97

00:45:53.980 terminated due to the COVID mandates. And so up until June 30th, there were just over 2000 that were

00:46:03.420 terminated. There has been more that have been terminated since then, as they come back from leaves.

00:46:09.660 And this does not actually cover the numbers that left on early retirement. And so the union actually

00:46:18.060 reimburses nurses $200 on their license fees. We have to pay $700 a year for that. And the union

00:46:25.340 reimburses $200. This year, as compared to last year, there were 4,000 less reimbursements. And

00:46:31.580 we sort of look at that as the early retirements, as most of the terminated did keep their licenses.

00:46:36.540 So we're looking at probably six to 8,000 less nurses in the system than last year. I also asked

00:46:44.300 how many COVID sick calls there were. So when you are scheduled for a shift and you can't make it,

00:46:49.580 you have to phone into this phone line and it gives you options as to why you aren't going to

00:46:55.180 be able to make your shift. Illness was one. And then when COVID happened, they actually differentiated

00:47:01.500 between COVID illness and regular illness. So in the six months, November 30th to June 30th,

00:47:07.980 and only four health authorities, because Island Health didn't differentiate for some reason,

00:47:13.420 there were over 20,000 COVID sick calls in double vaccinated nurses. This is just the nurses. I'm not

00:47:19.100 talking about any other healthcare. So 20,000 COVID sick calls. So what you have now is nurses who are

00:47:26.220 sick with COVID and then you've taken out healthy nurses. And then we ran into critical staffing

00:47:31.900 shortages because there was nobody able to cover all of these nurses. So the COVID sick calls, the

00:47:38.860 terminated. And then interestingly enough, I did ask for numbers of nurses last year versus numbers of

00:47:46.220 nurses this year. Now, each of the health authorities brought up that we, there was actually a couple

00:47:52.620 hundred more in each health authority of nurses, which I found interesting until I realized that

00:47:59.020 COVID funding from the federal government actually enabled them to hire back a lot of retired nurses

00:48:07.820 for COVID immunizations, contact tracing. And so there was a lot of nurses that were brought on for that,

00:48:14.060 but not necessarily in the front lines. Now, I found it interesting that Adrian Dick said that he

00:48:20.300 has added 38,000 healthcare workers to our healthcare system. And I would like him to produce the evidence

00:48:27.020 for that because that is not what I found. So thousands of nurses, mind you, this is while 1.00

00:48:33.260 BC's healthcare system is completely in shambles. It was already on its last legs before COVID and now

00:48:39.020 it's desperately understaffed. But something Corrine Maury pointed out and you actually pointed out in that

00:48:45.740 meeting was that there were the sick calls after you guys were out of the system. What was that about?

00:48:51.580 Yeah. So after we were no longer allowed to work, there have been tens of thousands of COVID-related

00:48:57.980 sick calls. There's a, there's a, it's called the URL line in which employees call in and say why

00:49:05.740 they're sick, how many days they're going to be off. So the province has the data and the numbers saying

00:49:11.100 how many people, and they break it down into regular sickness, COVID-related sickness. So they

00:49:15.660 have all the numbers of how many COVID-related sick calls, how many times these people have been

00:49:21.260 calling in. So we weren't the ones spreading COVID in the workplace. It was all the nurses and healthcare

00:49:27.180 workers who were still at work. You demonize those like me stating that we were a threat to patients,

00:49:33.740 the public and the healthcare system. While you hypocritically ask nurses with active COVID illness

00:49:41.020 to continue working in the healthcare system. Somehow magically vaccinated nurses who are sick 0.97

00:49:46.700 are not a risk to others, but non-vaccinated nurses who are healthy are a risk. Kudos to you. I mean,

00:49:53.180 the way you handled yourself was so good. You were just by yourself, but boy, you were mighty. And I don't

00:49:59.820 know what was going through their heads when they were listening to you. What's happened since then?

00:50:04.300 Did you get any solid answers? No, I still have not received a reply from any of them.

00:50:13.980 I've sent several emails over the last year. The investigation summary in which I mentioned during

00:50:21.580 the video, I haven't received a single reply from any of them, which is obviously very concerning.

00:50:27.500 It's very interesting because there's a number of lawyers that are actually on the board and the

00:50:31.820 executive, and some of them are actually allegedly human rights specialists. So I find that very

00:50:40.700 concerning, hypocritical, ironic. Well, human rights only matter if the government said so, right?

00:50:47.020 Now, I also reached out from Rebel News to try to get some of the answers to the questions that you

00:50:51.900 asked. I have not heard back at this point in time, but if I do in a reasonable matter, I will go

00:50:57.180 ahead and update the written article for this report, which you can find in the description below.

00:51:02.940 Thank you so much, Aurora, for being on Rebel News. Thank you, Drea.

00:51:07.020 Till the next report, I'm Drea Humphrey with Rebel News.

Rebel News Podcast - December 15, 2022

The Ezra Levant Show： Some scientists are now claiming vaccine-hesitant people are more dangerous drivers

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