Western Standard - Carney prepares for economic warfare, against the West

00:00:00.000 China's killing our canola.

00:00:02.360 Forty-five billion dollars gone.

00:00:05.480 Western farmers bleed.

00:00:07.980 Mark Carney?

00:00:09.860 Silent.

00:00:11.260 Made millions off Beijing's dime.

00:00:14.300 He won't fight.

00:00:15.840 He's Beijing's banker, not our prime minister.

00:00:30.000 Liberal leader Mark Carney just opened another front in the Canada-U.S. trade war.

00:00:52.900 Western Canada.

00:00:54.400 Before the Liberals swapped out Justin Trudeau for Mark Carney,

00:00:57.440 the former Prime Minister, made clear that he was willing to consider an export tax against

00:01:02.480 Alberta oil and Saskatchewan potash and uranium, perhaps even British Columbia light natural gas.

00:01:08.800 But Trudeau was a dead man walking, and what he said mattered little when he had just one colour

00:01:13.840 full sock out the door. But at a campaign stop yesterday, his replacement Mark Carney put a

00:01:19.600 federal embargo against Alberta and Saskatchewan exports right back on the table. Curiously,

00:01:26.320 nobody has mentioned an export tax against say i don't know ontario autos or quebec airplanes

00:01:32.080 of course they haven't those are the industries most at threat from u.s tariffs and they also

00:01:37.360 happen to be in the place places with the votes that will decide if canada has a liberal or

00:01:41.520 conservative government on april 29th carney is leaning into a tried and true liberal strategy

00:01:48.960 screw the west we'll take the rest it's been used many times before but never so successfully and

00:01:55.120 and divisively as in 1980, when Trudeau I ran on a platform of controlling Alberta's oil for the

00:02:01.360 benefit of eastern industrial and consumer interests. It culminated in the National Energy

00:02:06.300 Program, which sent Alberta into an economic depression. Ever since, Albertans, and Westerners 0.88

00:02:12.720 more broadly, have sought to aggressively elbow our way into better democratic representation,

00:02:17.860 like with the Reform Party, or to firewall off predatory federal intrusions, like the Alberta

00:02:24.060 sovereignty act mark carney is hinting strongly that he will use the west's economic drivers

00:02:30.780 like natural resource extraction to prop up those in the east it's the ugliest manifestation of 1.00

00:02:35.980 so-called team canada and it could work as it has before pier poliev would be put in the

00:02:42.380 uncomfortable position of having to defend the freedom of the west to export its products

00:02:46.540 while sounding less militant than carney and protecting the interests of the east

00:02:51.340 Whatever the cost to Westerners, Kearney would be able to position himself as the defender of Canada,

00:02:56.360 at least as the more valuable voting blocs in the East might see it.

00:03:00.520 If our Eastern neighbours were to endorse such a plan,

00:03:03.520 it would be a democratic mandate to wage open war against the West's primary industries.

00:03:09.800 And Westerners should treat it as such.

00:03:13.320 Westerners should not accept it, no matter how Easterners vote.

00:03:17.020 They are free to vote for whatever confiscatory, economically suicidal, and illiterate plan they wish.

00:03:24.160 But we, Westerners, are under no obligation to accept it.

00:03:27.900 The oil, gas, potash, and uranium in Western Canada do not belong to the federal government.

00:03:34.100 It belongs to Westerners, and it should accept no further federal overreach to control them.

00:03:40.120 Further compromise and appeasement of Ottawa is pointless.

00:03:44.060 We compromised with Pierre Trudeau to protect our resources in the 1982 constitutional amendment.

00:03:49.180 We compromised to appease Quebec nationalism and special status in the 1980s and 90s.

00:03:54.700 We compromised our reform party era demands for equal senate representation in the name of building

00:04:00.060 a pan-Canadian conservative coalition. We accepted, however unwillingly, the carbon tax,

00:04:05.660 the west coast tanker ban, emissions and production caps, and no more pipelines legislation of just

00:04:10.940 the last decade and we did it all while paying far more into canada than we ever got out westerners

00:04:17.420 have compromised without end for national unity and prosperity somewhere along the way our

00:04:22.860 interests should count for something the prosperity and freedom of westerners should not be mere

00:04:28.140 collateral to the interests of others an export tax on western products amounts to a federal embargo

00:04:35.420 of western exports that's something that only a hostile foreign power does like the british

00:04:40.780 blockade of boston harbor after the boston tea party if ottawa imposed any export embargo on

00:04:47.580 western products to the united states we must respond with an immediate export embargo of our

00:04:53.420 own against ottawa and if ottawa persists in waging an economic war against the west

00:04:59.180 we will have to consider more drastic measures won't we we're gonna change things up a little

00:05:06.700 bit today canada is going through a federal election right now but just uh weeks ago

00:05:13.300 germany had a federal election and yeah regular viewers will know that i'm i pay a bit more

00:05:20.280 attention to uh to german politics than the average alberton uh but it's it's very important

00:05:25.580 What's happening in Europe is much of what is happening here in Canada right now, and in some cases, what we can expect to happen, because they are further down the road on some of these fronts in terms of destroying rational energy policy, in terms of mass migration and what that's doing to the demographics of Western and Central European countries.

00:05:51.600 it's very important so i'm going to ask you to follow along with me and unplug from the canadian

00:05:56.960 election for just a few minutes because i've got a really interesting guest with us today

00:06:01.320 we're going to have on christine anderson now she's the member of a member of the european 0.98

00:06:06.280 parliament uh with the afd the alternative for germany or alternative for deutschland

00:06:13.380 she is from hesse which for those of you who don't know is the province or lander in germany

00:06:20.200 that encompasses frankfurt uh beautiful city i'm sure most of you have probably just stopped at the

00:06:24.840 airport but you should get out and stretch your legs from time to time when you're there

00:06:28.440 um so uh we're going to bring in her in right now uh guten abend and uh willkommen frau anderson 1.00

00:06:36.120 uh via the uh western standard uh yeah thanks for having me we're very glad to have you um

00:06:46.120 So, you've actually got some background with Canada. We're going to get to there in a bit. We're going to work our way through.

00:06:52.720 So Germans just had a federal election or Bund to elect a new Bundestag, essentially the German version of the House of Commons.

00:07:09.200 And the AFD was pretty much unanimously considered the big winner to a lesser extent.

00:07:16.880 the Union, which is the kind of sister parties of the CDU, CSU, and maybe even Die Linke a bit,

00:07:24.240 who significantly increased their vote share. That's the, for lack of a better term, the

00:07:30.080 Communist Party. Yeah. You know, I don't want to name call because your party gets name called as

00:07:35.120 well. But I think they're pretty, they're very openly Marxist party. They're quite unashamed of

00:07:39.780 it. Germans voted significantly to the right. One of the biggest wins of the right in the history 0.93

00:07:50.040 of the Federal Republic, I think it's very fair to say. First place was the, what's generally

00:07:55.860 described as the traditional Conservative Party, and the CDU, CSU, for most of its history, I think

00:08:00.860 would fairly be described as that. It moved very significantly to the left, particularly under

00:08:07.320 Angela Merkel's chancellorship, which opened up space among more traditional conservatives for

00:08:12.500 the AFD. AFD is a new party that came out of the Eurozone debt crisis and then evolved taking on

00:08:18.320 the mass migration issues when Angela Merkel threw open the borders to Germany and to Europe.

00:08:24.600 CDU came in first here. Let's actually put up the election results graphic here,

00:08:29.100 just so people get a sense here. Let's put that up, John. So you'll see there the first place

00:08:33.920 party is the cdu or union uh which is the ever so barely conservative party but still has i think a

00:08:42.500 lot of uh residual support from its tradition of being a conservative party in germany second place

00:08:47.640 was the uh afd alternative for deutschland uh which is a more robustly conservative party it's

00:08:54.760 it's made up of libertarians uh conservatives nationalists it's uh it's it's a mix of things

00:09:01.520 as most parties are. And for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,

00:09:07.820 the Social Democrats, the SPD, fell to third place. Now, Germans voted for a significant turn

00:09:18.420 to the right. The big issue, I think it's fair to say, Christine, was migration. People wanted

00:09:23.280 very decisive action on migration. There were an endless stream of terrorist attacks

00:09:30.520 in uh in in Germany even during the election campaign itself uh it's it was the issue that

00:09:39.780 people were voting for um but there's a weird unwritten unofficial rule in Germany uh called

00:09:47.320 the uh the Braunmauer uh translates roughly as firewall meaning to keep the so-called I'm putting

00:09:55.660 in quotes, far right out of any governing coalition, or even relying on its votes to

00:10:00.640 pass a bill or a motion or anything. We'll get into how fair or appropriate the label of far

00:10:06.860 right is in a little bit here. But this means that even though Germans voted for an ostensibly

00:10:12.740 center-right conservative party, and a further right conservative party, for lack of a better

00:10:19.640 term, a clear majority of Germans voted for that, and they have a clear majority in the Bundestag,

00:10:24.060 They're not going to actually get that, even though it's a clear majority of seats. They're going to get the Union barely center-right party with the SPD Social Democrats, a center-left-to-left party. What is this doing in Germany when Germans vote very clearly, decisively for a very big change in direction and not much seems to actually be changing?

00:10:49.520 Well, yeah, that's just the problem. So most of the voters in Germany, they feel completely betrayed. Because looking at the election results, the majority of the German people actually voted for a blue and black coalition, meaning the Christian Democrats, and my party, the AFD, but they're not getting that.

00:11:13.160 And so it's not only the biggest betrayal of the German voters, it's also the fastest betrayal.

00:11:22.920 So not 24 hours after the results had come in, the president of the Christian Democrats,

00:11:32.160 he already kind of backstabbed what he kind of went back on what he had promised,

00:11:38.180 that he would significantly reduce mass migration,

00:11:41.860 which actually is an invasion at this point,

00:11:44.760 by promising that he would close the borders.

00:11:49.940 And like I said, 24 hours after the results had come in,

00:11:54.920 he was standing there, was like,

00:11:56.660 well, no one ever spoke of closing up the borders, right?

00:12:00.200 So that was like the first betrayal.

00:12:02.960 And migration, it really is the big issue

00:12:05.900 within Germany right now.

00:12:07.740 You already mentioned all of the terror attacks we are having, but it's not just, you know, the big, huge ones.

00:12:14.800 We're talking about there's two brutal gang rapes every single day in Germany, two.

00:12:24.400 And this is not, then we're not talking about the rapes that only have one perpetrator, right?

00:12:29.600 So two brutal gang rapes every single day in Germany.

00:12:32.960 Plus, we have like these random knife attacks.

00:12:36.080 and these they're no longer happening on a daily basis they're happening on an hourly basis so just

00:12:43.600 anywhere in germany you know if you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time you might fall victim

00:12:48.400 to some you know well the majority they'll claim to have you know psychological problems so you

00:12:56.640 fall victim to just a random knife attack so um this is going on so migration really was a big

00:13:02.500 issue. And he betrayed the people, you know, by now saying, well, no one ever spoke of closing

00:13:08.960 the borders. The second thing they did, which was even more despicable, is the fact, so now all of

00:13:17.360 a sudden they realized after that visit of Zelensky in the White House and that Donald Trump, how he

00:13:23.100 was not BSing around with Zelensky and pretty much, you know, told everyone, look, you either, you

00:13:30.600 get to the table and you negotiate a peace deal or there isn't going to be any support from the

00:13:35.800 u.s anymore um so now all of a sudden they started realizing here oh my god you know we are no longer

00:13:42.040 able to to defend ourselves yeah why are you not able to why are we no longer able to defend

00:13:47.080 ourselves very simple uh in the last decades um any young man who had you know any aspiration

00:13:53.800 of joining the army whether it be in a setting where it's mandatory we have to

00:13:57.960 to serve a certain amount of time or voluntary.

00:14:03.400 I mean, they were stigmatized.

00:14:05.240 They were called names like murderers

00:14:07.060 and, you know, all of this going on.

00:14:09.440 So, and it was like, yeah,

00:14:13.340 defense, self-defense of our nations

00:14:15.820 that was frowned upon.

00:14:17.360 So now we are in this situation.

00:14:19.180 Now they're realizing, oh, shoot,

00:14:21.160 Donald Trump is no longer footing the bill

00:14:22.900 or the American people, I should say,

00:14:24.920 might no longer foot the bill for our defense

00:14:27.800 So now we have to do something. Right. So and then they realized that the newly elected Bundestag, if they were to come up with an amount to, you know, prop up our our defense spending, they can't because the Constitution prohibits that right now.

00:14:47.640 they pulled in a ceiling uh as uh how deep germany can go into additional debt so and they

00:14:54.840 figured this is not going to work out so but then looking at well we need to change the constitution

00:15:00.040 but then they realized with a newly elected bundestag they wouldn't have the the required

00:15:06.000 two-third majority and so just uh if i understand what happened is before the new bundestag is sworn

00:15:12.440 in exactly there's a there's a lame duck uh bundestag and it's not really supposed to do

00:15:17.800 anything other than uh essentially minding the shop but in an unprecedented way they changed

00:15:23.160 the constitution before the new bundestag is sworn in post-election that's that's that's what

00:15:28.280 happened right right so the the new one was already elected but it hadn't been summoned yet

00:15:35.480 so they decided to call to summon the old on this tag who had clearly not been elected

00:15:43.080 in the way it is composed and they changed the constitution um so they can have additional debt

00:15:52.200 uh and up to wait for it 1.5 trillion euros yeah this is only for germany right and uh

00:16:04.920 and frederick um merits the uh presumed next chancellor a very almost certainly next chancellor

00:16:12.040 he ran against that literally days earlier right like he was against that in his own election and

00:16:16.840 then yeah throughout democracy to do it with the left-wing parties that was one of his major uh

00:16:23.880 campaigning points right we need to reduce the debt the debt and the ceiling we pulled in

00:16:28.760 uh so we can't have any more additional debt he he campaigned on that he was gonna not touch it

00:16:35.800 but here we are right and that happened with like a week after uh the election results came in so 0.86

00:16:44.280 yeah the german people they feel betrayed and um so but what this idiot also did and i'm 0.99

00:16:52.440 specifically speaking about friedrich mertz and yes i'm calling him a complete idiot um what he 0.99

00:16:58.280 also did during campaigning he made it very clear to everyone that that is actually one of the 0.96

00:17:05.560 promises he kept um he will not even speak to my party no matter what the outcome he will not speak

00:17:12.760 to us so i want to talk i want to sorry so he he told the social democrats and the green party

00:17:23.080 that look you know uh i'm pretty much at your mercy you can you know demand whatever you want

00:17:29.880 from me and i will have to do it because i want to become chancellor and that's what they did

00:17:35.880 that's exactly what they did so that's what i want to ask about here with the uh the bon

00:17:40.520 brown mawa the firewall uh there were some cracks that it's not broken but there were some cracks

00:17:47.000 in the firewall uh right before the election on some migration reform bills where merits was trying

00:17:53.080 to take a more

00:17:55.260 anti-mass migration

00:17:56.980 pose, which very clearly seems

00:17:59.120 to be for electoral purposes now

00:18:00.860 since he's gone back on it immediately, but

00:18:03.000 he had put forward a bill

00:18:04.220 limiting mass migration,

00:18:07.700 you know, at least steps in the right

00:18:09.100 direction, not far enough, but

00:18:10.620 steps in the right direction.

00:18:12.820 The SPD and the other

00:18:14.980 left parties were obviously

00:18:16.920 against it. AFD was

00:18:19.060 willing to support it, the Bundestag,

00:18:20.960 and he

00:18:22.220 he passed it at least one of the two i believe yes uh with support of the afd and that was

00:18:28.400 considered scandalous um and he oh yeah but he was willing to do it um yes well so if i want you

00:18:36.160 to open the election right that was yeah right right before the election but he said he would

00:18:40.220 never form a coalition government with the afd but that that was still a crack in the in the

00:18:44.660 firewall because even that was against the rule the so-called rules of it right right um so what

00:18:49.500 happened here was um so since he was campaigning right and since he wanted to become chancellor

00:18:54.300 and since he needed to come in first in that election that's what he actually did he proposed

00:18:59.440 to the Bundestag um to two items um dealing with restricting uh immigration and uh so the first one

00:19:09.540 uh actually passed in the Bundestag right and um so it was like all hell broke loose right there

00:19:17.140 was talks about he had opened the the gate to hell because he accepted our votes you know to

00:19:23.700 pass this this piece of it wasn't the legislation it was some other kind of piece uh dealing with

00:19:29.860 that um so he opened the the the gates to hell now and you know we're just gonna i don't know

00:19:37.560 disappear from the planet he was called nazi and then all of a sudden there was this astroturfing

00:19:43.680 protesting going on again right thousands and thousands of people taken to the streets now not

00:19:50.400 only protesting afd they were protesting the christian democrats because they had dared to

00:19:56.920 even a table something like this in the bundestag and uh so they they um uh blockaded there was a

00:20:05.060 in front of the headquarters of that party uh they were literally hunting uh politicians from

00:20:11.320 christian democrats down right and then he cracked again right it was like well yeah no we didn't

00:20:17.080 might quite mean it like that so then when the legislation was actually supposed to to uh uh

00:20:23.160 get voted on in the bundestag he cracked right so and that that was not passed there were a lot of

00:20:29.480 um members of the christian democrats that didn't even vote for their own proposal just so it

00:20:34.600 wouldn't pass right so but that like i said that was right before the election right so and people

00:20:41.000 were like oh well he's saying the right stuff now he's doing the right stuff now yeah let's

00:20:45.560 all vote for him let's all vote for him right so we try to tell the people this he's just putting

00:20:51.400 on a show you will see right after the the election he is not going to remember any of that

00:20:58.360 and that's what we're seeing so i want to switch gears a bit back to the election results itself

00:21:04.520 uh we're gonna put up a map of the election results now the map the map you see is not a map

00:21:12.600 from uh 1982 uh showing uh west germany the federal republic and east germany the the gdr

00:21:20.840 uh that is the election map from just a few weeks ago uh you'll see everyone can see on the map

00:21:28.440 The black is the union, the nominally conservative party,

00:21:34.500 dominating West Germany, the former smaller parts of the Federal Republic.

00:21:41.100 And in the blue is the AFD, completely dominating in the former eastern provinces of Germany,

00:21:50.400 the former communist east.

00:21:52.320 And you see a tiny few specks of red for the Social Democrats, SPD, and green for the Green Party.

00:21:58.440 uh there's a pretty stark uh geographical divide uh you know we often see not uniformly but often

00:22:08.380 in the former communist uh countries of europe uh they're voting for more nationalist more

00:22:15.720 uh more right-leaning parties in the former communist areas uh and and we're seeing that

00:22:23.320 even within Germany itself, almost an internal border there.

00:22:27.400 And there's also a huge generational divide.

00:22:31.220 Young people, particularly young men, voted AFD.

00:22:36.460 Did very well with young women as well,

00:22:38.280 although young women skewed to Die Linke, the former communist party.

00:22:42.680 So there's kind of two big divides I was observing

00:22:46.540 in the breakdown of the German election I'd like you to speak to.

00:22:49.880 One is the East-West divide, CDU-AFD, actually three divides, generationally, young people voting AFD, older people voting for union and the leftist parties, and among young men and young women, young men skewing AFD, young women skewing Die Linke, which translates literally as the left.

00:23:15.860 Those are kind of the three big divides I've observed from the election results.

00:23:19.880 Do you maybe want to speak to those three?

00:23:22.520 Yeah.

00:23:23.040 So just looking at the map, right, you clearly see what the majority of the people voted for.

00:23:28.940 They voted for a coalition between the Christian Democrats and the AFD.

00:23:34.700 What they're getting, however, is yet again green and left policy.

00:23:41.500 That's what they're getting.

00:23:43.000 So like I said, big betrayal.

00:23:44.860 Well, on that divide that you touched upon, as far as the divide between East and West is concerned, there is a very good reason for that. 1.00

00:23:56.080 So in the eastern German parts of Germany, the former GDR, they have lived through communism.

00:24:06.800 They have lived through totalitarianism and they recognize the signs.

00:24:12.080 They have they're very sensitive to these censorship that's going on and how things are framed in the media.

00:24:21.060 They learned how to read a newspaper. It's not important what the newspaper says.

00:24:26.560 The more important part is what doesn't it say? And, you know, how do you need to read to be able to read between the lines?

00:24:33.540 So they are recognizing all of that. And what they are seeing is it bears all of the hallmarks of the Soviet totalitarianism that they lived under in the communist regime, right? Whereas in the West, I usually, I mean, I was born and raised in Western Germany myself, but I usually refer to us, we are just spoiled, rotten brats.

00:24:58.180 We no longer put any value on freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

00:25:03.140 For some reason, we seem to have forgotten that it wasn't that one fine day the sky opened up and boom, you know, it fell down and there it was.

00:25:14.360 No, it had to be fought for.

00:25:16.380 Our fathers and forefathers had to wrestle it from the former elites.

00:25:20.960 And they literally spilled their blood over making sure that we, as their children and children's children, would enjoy freedom, democracy and the rule of law.

00:25:32.020 So and now we're just sitting here and we are so utterly afraid of being called right wing extremists, you know, Nazis, whatever, that we would not even dare to to to act in our best interest on on our, you know, on our behalf.

00:25:51.080 Just kind of like how they went down in Great Britain with the gang rapes, right?

00:25:58.220 The authorities knew that there were Pakistani men, you know, by the hundreds, I don't know,

00:26:04.860 raping thousands and thousands of British girls. 0.90

00:26:07.800 But no one said anything because they were afraid of being called racist.

00:26:12.340 So this is how this kind of works.

00:26:14.120 But nevertheless, the German people, they actually voted for a right conservative policy, but they're not getting that.

00:26:23.680 So as far as the divide, the younger people is concerned.

00:26:28.920 That was actually kind of surprising.

00:26:32.100 I will have to admit that.

00:26:34.180 Considering they all went through school, right, the indoctrination going on there,

00:26:38.160 just the same as it is in Canada or in the United States

00:26:40.540 or anywhere else in the world,

00:26:42.160 in the Western democracies specifically.

00:26:46.040 So that was kind of surprising.

00:26:47.820 But the thing is this, these young people, 0.67

00:26:52.120 they see what the policies of the last decade

00:26:56.700 have done to our homeland. 0.62

00:27:00.080 They're seeing it in school every day.

00:27:03.160 There is schools where, you know,

00:27:05.320 the german students are in a minority especially when when you look at the the under eight year

00:27:11.800 olds we are in a minority already and they're seeing that they're seeing all of the problems

00:27:18.200 it brings they're being bullied they're being beaten up they're whatever you know so they're

00:27:23.800 seeing this and uh they don't want this they do not and that's why they voted the way they did

00:27:30.440 the in the the funny thing about this is so it's actually hilarious um the left and the green they

00:27:37.320 for years they've been working on lowering their voting age to 16 um because they figured you know

00:27:44.600 that's pretty funny yeah they will vote for for the the left and the green party right so and

00:27:49.880 they actually did lower the voting age for the eu elections so for the eu election did not go well

00:27:57.000 the 16 year olds you know get to war and ever since we had the eu elections and this trend was

00:28:03.000 already visible right that we i mean in germany there is parts where we actually came in first

00:28:09.560 with a 16 to 7 16 and 17 year olds and the younger the younger people so guess what there is no talk

00:28:17.160 about lowering the vote voting age anymore they dropped that as as fast as they could they don't

00:28:23.160 even mention that anymore well they're all for democracy when the people are voting for them

00:28:27.880 um exactly so i want to come to touch on some of the things you were talking about in your

00:28:33.640 response there uh you came to canada in 2023 uh kind of in the fallout uh you know as covet is

00:28:42.760 kind of uh wind winding down uh you know you you have been quite uh vocal on some of those issues

00:28:48.360 including many of the authoritarian actions taken by the Trudeau Liberal government here

00:28:53.740 and our provincial governments.

00:28:57.440 I'm proud to say in Alberta, we were the only place in Canada

00:29:00.100 that literally overthrew its government because of COVID.

00:29:03.760 But you had come, and there was significant controversy in the media around it.

00:29:09.440 You were pictured in a photo with three federal Conservative MPs.

00:29:13.980 It was denounced by the Liberals, by the Socialist NDP party we've got here, by the media, and then eventually even by the Conservative leader, Pierre Polyev, as racist, right-wing extremist.

00:29:30.780 uh now most canadians know very little about your party the afd um they maybe know slightly more

00:29:39.140 because the election just took place and afd made big global news but they still know very little

00:29:43.540 about it but the media in canada and across the world seem to have adopted the language used

00:29:51.260 in german media just saying far right or uh far right extremist uh rekt uh stress 0.83

00:29:58.640 i butchered that one um but right-wing extremist uh racist fascist uh you know all the traditional

00:30:07.740 insults get thrown at anybody to the right of a liberal generally um the german media uses that 0.68

00:30:13.900 language to describe your party um and the rest of the media outside of germany that know almost

00:30:19.900 nothing about the afd just said well if the german establishment media says that i guess we're going

00:30:24.600 to use that language too um what why do you think it is because i i with with maybe a few differences

00:30:35.180 here and there i don't think there's a huge difference between say the afd of today and say

00:30:41.340 helmet cole's cdu of of 30 years ago there's some differences uh in some ways he was more right wing

00:30:47.680 than the AFD. But, you know, it's not, it doesn't appear to be wildly outside the mainstream of

00:30:58.160 German politics. It's just that the CDU kind of gave up its place as the main party of the right.

00:31:05.860 So, you know, why do you think it is that the German media attach the right-wing extremist

00:31:13.860 and racist label to your party um i mean i think it's fairly described as a nationalist party that

00:31:19.860 term probably has less of a pejorative connotation in english than in german but yeah uh i think it's

00:31:25.860 i would describe it as a nationalist party but i would say that's a good thing um why do you think

00:31:30.900 you know but you know these those harsher labels like racist fascist extremist get attached to

00:31:36.180 your party and what do you think you know you and your party can do to to shake that um there

00:31:43.140 actually isn't anything we can do to shake this um because i mean you know our program if you read

00:31:48.940 our program and you're right it is um it actually resembles the program that the christian democrats

00:31:54.860 that is the former conservative party here in germany they came in first in the last elections

00:31:59.680 and it pretty much resembles their their program um what has happened however is there has been a

00:32:07.320 traumatic shift to the left in the last decades um i mean even with the christian democrats and

00:32:14.540 angela merkel i mean she must have been the best green chancellor germany ever had

00:32:19.840 for those of you don't know germany never had a green chancellor but the angela merkel from

00:32:26.900 the christian democrats she was in fact a green chancellor she um gave up on every single principle

00:32:34.360 that the christian democrats um still held at that point right so she tore down all the the

00:32:42.000 nuclear power plants she ripped open our borders wide open and now we have the marriage for all 1.00

00:32:48.040 and you know that slippery slope now we have the self self id for the transgender uh confused i

00:32:55.740 want to call them um so they can just self id so she pretty much relinquished any kind of holy

00:33:03.600 crown they still held in the Christian Democrats.

00:33:07.620 So with this shift to the left, you know, any kind of reasonable policy, any kind of

00:33:17.360 common sense even, appears to be now totally out there, you know, like extreme, whatever.

00:33:25.260 So on top of that, the majority of the people in public media in Germany, they are predominantly from the green and the left party.

00:33:38.180 So no wonder there is no media pluralism anymore.

00:33:42.340 I mean, I remember when I grew up, you know, if you read in the newspapers, they're all covered kind of like the same story.

00:33:49.660 But they had different angles, different perspectives, different conclusions.

00:33:54.060 They highlighted, may have highlighted, you know, different aspects of it.

00:33:58.800 So you had a wide variety, you know, when you read like, let's say, four or five different

00:34:04.720 newspapers, you actually got a full picture and you could make up your own mind what might

00:34:09.920 actually be the truth.

00:34:11.940 Nowadays, you can read any newspaper you want.

00:34:14.780 You can read a hundred newspapers.

00:34:16.800 It says the same thing in every single newspaper down to the word.

00:34:22.620 They don't even change the word anymore.

00:34:25.000 So whatever newspaper you open, you will find the very same article, right?

00:34:29.460 Kind of like the same thing we've seen, or even with the media in the United States or in Canada.

00:34:35.940 During the COVID years, they all repeated the same lines.

00:34:40.720 No one is safe until everyone is safe.

00:34:42.780 Stay home.

00:34:43.900 We have to save granny.

00:34:46.260 The mRNA injections are safe and effective.

00:34:50.220 Build back better.

00:34:51.140 Remember? Then it's a threat to our democracy. The same lines everywhere. They're literally reading from the same script. So with the public media in Germany, it's by the way, it's funded by the German people. They call it democracy contribution, right? 0.65

00:35:16.280 so but we have the same thing here yeah yeah we are paying to be lied to we are paying to be

00:35:23.900 gaslighted we are paying to be manipulated and we are paying to be frowned upon stigmatized

00:35:31.300 ostracized called names that's actually what the german people are paying for because that's what 0.99

00:35:36.700 they're seeing every day in the in the public media and on on tv uh the the legacy media this

00:35:43.720 is how insane this is at this at the time but the thing is this like i said it's not only happening

00:35:49.980 in germany it's happening in every single western democracy like i said they were literally reading

00:35:56.180 from the same script and these attacks on freedom democracy and the rule of law we are seeing this

00:36:03.080 everywhere whether it's germany france italy great britain canada the united states australian

00:36:09.960 news every we are seeing it everywhere and this is really frightening because the point is this

00:36:16.680 you know had there been one or two or three states going rogue somehow you know falling off the trail

00:36:22.360 and uh betraying civil rights and fundamental rights and all of that um eventually the people

00:36:30.280 would have had the hope eventually you know the world community is going to step in and put a stop

00:36:34.920 to it. But who do you think is going to bail us out? No one. If they're all in lockstep, if they're

00:36:41.160 all doing the same thing, there isn't going to be anyone coming around to bail us out this time. 0.52

00:36:48.080 We're screwed completely. So it's up to the people. They need to understand what is happening,

00:36:54.720 and not just in their country, but in every single Western democracy. And they need to step up and

00:37:00.320 And they need to make their voices heard and need to protest because otherwise, if they succeed and we do slip in a fully blown totalitarian regime, considering the technological means they have at their disposal nowadays, we are not talking about 70 years of Soviet Union.

00:37:20.580 We're not talking about 40 years of GDR. We will then be talking about a very, very long time if we'll be able to overcome it at any point. I don't even I don't even think that is that is possible. So we really need to get our we really need to get on this and we need to fight this already.

00:37:43.980 Well, that's very much why I wanted to speak to you was because I see Europe and Germany as very much a canary in the coal mine. 0.77

00:37:53.260 Germans, at least in large measure, I think, woke up to the danger they are facing in the election they had.

00:37:59.040 Not that it seems to have done any good because the same people will largely remain in power regardless of the election.

00:38:04.860 but uh i very much appreciate uh you joining uh joining us today uh uh frau anderson and uh

00:38:13.740 actually i've always wondered anderson is not a very german name it sounds very english you

00:38:17.580 must you must have some english roots right no it's my married name ah okay well uh thank you

00:38:25.580 very much for joining us i think it's uh been very insightful into what's taking place in germany

00:38:29.500 taking place in germany uh right now and very relevant to canadians going through uh through

00:38:34.300 through their own election uh as we speak uh thank you very much for joining us today

00:38:40.380 uh thank you so much for having me i enjoyed it

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Western Standard - March 29, 2025

Carney prepares for economic warfare, against the West

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