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In this episode of The Glenn Beck Program, Glenn talks to Avi Yemeni, bureau chief for Rebel News in Australia, about the worst lockdown in the world, the latest updates on Afghanistan, and what's going on in Australia.
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all right welcome to the program we have a big update today very important update on
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afghanistan we talk about what's happening in australia with the lockdowns and a little
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football as well which i i watched a little bit because my son's playing football now and so he's
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watching it um i didn't think it was as bad as it has been in the last couple of years everybody
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says it's really bad i mean the nb nfl is is not that bad baseball is better than basketball
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basketball is legitimately intolerable and the nba is intolerable it's basically just a democratic arm
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that occasionally dribbles which is strange because that's exactly how we would describe
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joe biden which we also talk about in today's podcast
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you're listening to the best of the glenn beck program
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what's going on in australia is truly bizarre truly bizarre they have the longest and the harshest
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lockdown in the world uh nobody's going in or out of the country you can't shop uh they're killing dogs
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so nobody comes and picks them up and tries to rescue them it is bizarre what is going on
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we wanted to talk to um avi yemi uh yemeni he is the australian uh bureau chief for rebel news
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uh former israeli defense force marksman turned citizen journalist and he has been watching this
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and asking the the tough questions in australia avi is in australia now hello avi how are you
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good day glenn how you going it's uh good to talk to you avi first of all tell us what is
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what's happening because we in the united states are looking at this and thinking that
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those in australia and frankly new zealand have gone insane what's happening
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i don't think i could describe it any better i think um we've normalized it here it's um it was
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interesting just a probably a week ago people were sending around these photos of of one of the uh
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covert camps that we have in the northern territories and i had cousins in israel send me are you really
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have you really got these covert camps um with aerial shots of it and i said yeah you realize nobody in
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australia even blinks at that idea anymore because that's you know 2020 that's not even 2021
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we are in lockdown i'm in a city in melbourne this is the most lockdown city in the world we're just
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about to hit the that um the the most lockdown the most amount of days in lockdown we're in the
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sixth lockdown right now we're in the sixth week of the sixth seventh day snap lockdown and a lockdown
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lockdown here is uh unlike what you guys experience in most of the states here it is lockdown you
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can't go more than 5k from your house there's a curfew can't go more than 5k from your house
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five kilometers from your house you cannot leave without your papers you've got to you've got to be an
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authorized worker as media if i leave to go to work um i have to carry those papers and if i'm not
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carrying them i risk a five thousand dollar fine
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okay so but your idea in australia is to i mean you've only had a thousand deaths so it's remarkable
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but your idea is that we're just going to stay in until we have zero zero sickness which is insanity
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absolutely they've been chasing zero from the beginning and the fact is now zero is unsustainable
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you can't achieve it anymore um they've had the delta strain in new south wales they're getting over
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you know 1500 cases i think today um in melbourne where we've in in new south wales they tried
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they have more of a conservative government i'm using that term loosely here but um conservative for
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australia and they tried to lock down less um now in in victoria in melbourne where i am
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they love to lock down one it's like a race to lock down one case in states you know with six million
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citizens if you get one case of corona they lock down for five days but yeah you know we had zero
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cases on one day the next day we had eight cases they locked down for that snap lockdown and here we are
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six weeks uh into it and i think today we had about 500 cases so it's it's growing um that that zero
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nobody's talking about at least in the states in the states that that are uh currently in lockdown
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they're not they're not chasing those zeros anymore but um in the other states where they don't have any
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cases they've become a nation unto themselves we cannot you know i can't travel i'm i'm i'm a dual
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citizen australian israeli my mom my grandma a lot of my family's in israel i haven't seen them for
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two years i cannot get there as a dual citizen uh to visit my own family now that may be shocking
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to you to hear but you know what's even more shocking i can't go and visit family and friends
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in other states because they've built these um barriers between them where you just cannot
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get in you know what do you mean they've built these barriers between them physical barriers
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in some places yes physical barriers um and in others uh not so much it's quite interesting
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actually looking at from a political perspective is that those that were very much anti the rhetoric of
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of trump and the border wall seem to be the first to build these well it's your labor your left-wing
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governments that just ran to um building in queensland so queensland new south wales you actually have
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barriers that the labor government um has put up there and it's just a symbolic i guess uh you know
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showing that they're doing something it's it's seriously politicized the entire thing at the expense
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of the australian people so um we've we've greatly misjudged um the australians we've always thought that
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they were very much like americans but there is not a libertarian spirit uh that exists in australia
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am i correct on that i still have hope i still have hope um but yes i would say it's quite sad to
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see what happened i guess i guess it was more predictable than i would have thought if you look
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back in 1996 it was the conservatives that gave up the guns in australia so i guess it's not such a
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surprise that what are we now in 2021 um people are just rolling over and and willing to give up
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every single civil liberty to chase a zero chance of death from a virus so so what is it it's a bit
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so they have these ideas well the ones that the people were sending me photos of was just a code it's
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it's a covert quarantine camp um where they've just it's it's a big facility and they're building
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them around the country now so you know in melbourne they're building them they've been using hotel
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uh facilities which they've just had problem after problem with um the cases coming out so now they're
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building uh you know big covet camps for people returning from uh overseas so right now our borders
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are shut you can it is very hard to get in and out of the country you need certain exemptions unless
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you're rich and famous it is hard to get in and out of australia um so the idea is that once the
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population is a 70 to 80 percent vaccinated double vaccinated or by that point who knows what number
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vaccination they're going to be talking about but whatever the fully vaccinated means at that point
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then they can open the borders and uh anybody traveling in from overseas would uh i imagine
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have to stay at these quarters again we don't know everything keeps changing the the the goalposts
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keep moving every every uh everything we aim for and we achieve and we reach then suddenly oh that's
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not good enough because the virus got far worse since the last time we spoke there was a um
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um um audio that i heard a video that was that was going viral around uh around america where
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you had somebody in the ministry of health saying uh we're going to vaccinate you know uh this number
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of children at the stadium and parents are not a not allowed uh to attend did that happen is that true
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you're just taking children i don't know what the audio is but uh these days i would not be surprised
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now they're talking about the push for uh so now they're pushing for 12 and above in schools i don't
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think at this point it's not against parent that the will of the parents i haven't seen anything like
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that but i wouldn't be surprised at this point they're trying to mandate it everywhere um and coerce
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everyone into having the vaccine including children right now until 12 but uh i've heard today
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uh so-called health experts saying that we should be pushing under 12 as well and i don't think any of
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them are uh any of the vaccines have been approved for under 12 but it doesn't seem to stop these madmen
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who have been given who are just high on power that's the problem you've got health bureaucrats
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who are just enjoying the power trip and it's gone on for we're coming up to two years soon
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and it's got to stop i don't know how much more australians can put up with this but it is scary
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it is scary to think to see it happen and unfold and you know we look a couple of years ago we were so
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free and we would have never expected that um these kind of these kind of restrictions could sustain
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more than that for first 14 days to flatten the curve i would if you would have asked me in those
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first 14 days i would have thought there was no chance but here we are and i think um yeah i'm hopeful
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that there is a bit of libertarian spirit and people stand up and um realize that they've been
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taken for a ride but it is scary how many people have you heard what the planet i mean once you open
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this up uh you're going to get travelers and you're going to get sick i mean you just can't
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do this um it's you know your problem yeah they won't let you in glenn because you make too much
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sense too much common sense you know what i mean has anyone asked that i mean at some point you're
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going to open it up and at some point you're going to then have very little immunity to whatever it is
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at that time i think they've been they've been so focused on policing people's thoughts policing
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people's actions you know some of the people that stood up and they did have that spirit you mentioned
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before a lot of them are in jail right now okay i don't know if you guys experience that there are
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people i know personally that have gone to jail for these crimes called incitement for inciting people
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to stand up for their freedom i saw a guy i saw a guy on a horse that looked like braveheart where he
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was saying cross the border they can't all arrest us now freedom i think he's probably in jail i know
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i know what you're talking about and that is at that border that i was i mentioned earlier where they
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did resurrect um the labor government did put up a barrier but what is happening is in australia and
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i think americans um you guys need to take heed of what's happening here because guess what we are
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physically ahead in time we are i don't know what time it is it's 11 21 p.m for me today on monday so
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i'm ahead of you so just look into the future see what's happening in australia and do not let it happen
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to the states because uh one day i want to come back and visit you when i'm allowed out of this country and
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i hope that it's the same america that i love and remember and um yeah avi please stay in touch
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with us um i appreciate um you letting us know what's going on and and uh telling us what you know
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what the real situation is because we're looking at this from far going wait that can't be happening
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um not in australia it is yeah it's sad it is the truth it is what's happening and uh i appreciate
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your voice and appreciate the more voices that stand up and speak it's weird because just before
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this all took place i was in hong kong for rebel news and i was reporting from the front lines there
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in the protest and i remember just thinking yes get let's get more of the world to you know shine a
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light what's happening here on there it is i can't believe what is unfolding on these beautiful
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streets of hong kong and now i'm here today in melbourne australia and some of those some of
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the protests that i see here and i report on are far more dangerous for me as a journalist than
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it was for me then in hong kong so i have to i have to take a quick break but avi just give me 30
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seconds are there going to be any small businesses that survive this in australia i i feel like the
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plan is to kill them all oh my god and they may succeed avi yemeni he is the australian bureau chief
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of rebel news from australia thank you so much for staying up so you could be on the program with us
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you're listening to the best of the glenbeck program
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welcome to monday it's the 13th of september and uh i wished that i was going to get on the air
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and tell you something today that is i mean will be made into a movie probably long after we're dead
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and our names will be changed to protect the actual people that actually did stuff
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um but it is a movie what's going on right now is is one of the most amazing things i have ever
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personally witnessed and it is the evacuation of americans those who helped us christians that are
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dying women that are under incredible conditions i i see things that i can't show you i see things i i
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i see the pleadings from people who are in safe houses please don't forget us i see what they're being
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if i die today my entire life will have been worth it for what you have helped get done
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was three to five thousand people and we thought that would be
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because we don't want anyone this program and everything is monitored closely
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but i will tell you that the number is bigger than five thousand people
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i i i was told that if it didn't happen this weekend a window is closing and that window has not yet closed
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unfortunately there are dark forces still at play
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there are dark forces still at play in our own white house and in our own state department
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and i have again spoken to many people over the weekend