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June 23, 2023 - David Icke
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What is normal anymore? Canada is killing its own citizens - Gareth Icke Tonight Talks To Brett Schm
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You may well have missed it, but this month, like every other month, is Pride Month.
A time when people of all walks of life can come together in celebration of being different and wave their rainbow flags.
Or else.
As I say, you may have missed it.
Doesn't get much coverage these days.
The celebration of pride started in 1970 in the United States, and like most things that come out of America, quickly spread around the world.
And at the beginning, I have no doubt, it was an organic movement in most cases.
A marginalized and maligned minority standing up and saying, this is me.
I'm going to choose to celebrate it.
I'm not going to apologise for it.
But roll forward 50 years and it's no longer a choice.
Celebrate me or die a swift, yet unmerciful, cancellation.
If you don't take your kids out onto the taxpayer-funded rainbow-painted streets to cheer on a fat lad in a gimp mask, you're a bigot, love.
Multinational corporations have all jumped on the bandwagon, of course, all trying to outdo each other with who-can-virtue-signal-the-most-insincere-platitude stakes.
Corporations don't care about LGBT people any more than they care about non-LGBT people.
They care about the bottom line, shareholders' pockets, and the secretary's new diamond-encrusted, don't-tell-my-wife-about-what-happened-at-the-Christmas-party, necklace.
They care about the Benjamins.
And not playing along with pride would be a big no-no for the self-appointed Alphabet Police and the woke Pitchfork Mob.
And so the companies, the corporations, they all push the rainbow.
They paint it on their trucks, they place the lanyards around the necks of their staff, and they update their Twitter avatars to show their loyalty to the uniformity of uniqueness.
Now, if someone isn't choosing to celebrate something, but instead feels intimidated into submission, is that really the inclusive, non-oppressive society that we're meant to be striving for?
It reminds me of the Thursday 8pm clap, where the masses, they all just happened to choose to come outside and applaud the golden calf of the NHS.
It reminds me of that because they didn't choose, in the large part, to come out and clap.
They were told to, by the media, because it would make them virtuous.
And if they didn't, then all the neighbours eagerly craning their necks to see which front door didn't have an excited seal on it would be soon taken to Facebook to attack and bemoan the selfish family in the neighbourhood.
I'm all for you do you, hun.
That's my rule, really.
You do you, hun, as long as you aren't impacting others negatively.
Then you go live your best life.
And that used to be a liberal way of thinking, but no longer.
It's you do as I say, hun, or we'll cancel your ass.
That's the new loving liberal lingo.
And this whole new wave alphabet mafia hijacked pride, flag obsession, it's not for me.
And there's three simple reasons why.
One, leave the kids out of it.
Young children do not need to know about gender ideology and sexual preferences.
They don't need that drummed into their still-forming ears at every opportunity.
Whenever they step into school, pick up a modern-day children's book or step into the supermarket.
The beauty of childhood is the carefree innocence of it.
They'll have plenty of time to figure out themselves and their place in this growingly turbulent and confusing world later.
But for now, allow them the brief joy of weightlessness.
Let them be kids.
Two, it's just another way to get everyone to identify with a label, to minimalise their character and their very existence into one single letter in an ever-expanding acronym that reads like an eye test or a Welsh railway station.
To identify as that rather than one's unique soul.
A soul capable of anything and everything.
It's reduced to a T or a B or a Z. And three, if your sexual preferences, gender identification or political allegiances, because they almost certainly align, are the most interesting thing about you to the point where it's your sole purpose and identity that you present to the world, then I'm sorry, but they've got you right where they want you.
All infinite possibility rolled into one proper boring bastard.
I'm a left-handed pansexual atheist with a Labour Party membership.
Cool.
I'm Gareth.
I'm joined now from Canada by Brett Schmidt.
Brett suffers from a brain disease called NF2.
And as a result of that, the Canadian medical system has repeatedly offered him the option of assisted dying.
That's extraordinary to me.
Brett, welcome to the show.
Thanks for coming on.
First of all, what is NF2 and what does a brain illness like that entail for you?
NF2 is a neurological condition.
Essentially, there's a lack of a Merlin gene, it's called.
What ends up happening is your central nervous system then can create tumors pretty much anywhere along your central nervous system, which usually manifest either in your brain or your spine.
In my case, I have both.
Yeah, it's a rare disease.
It's considered incurable.
Typically, it manifests in younger people.
Mine, they said, was a genetic mutation.
So, yeah, just luck of the draw, I guess.
So how did you go from having this illness to then suddenly, you know, I'm assuming you would be having treatment, to then all of a sudden go, well actually, have you thought about assisted dying?
That's extraordinary to me.
Yeah, what happens with the, because it's a disease of the central nervous system, the tumors can grow anywhere, anytime, and the speed that they grow It varies with everyone, right?
So, I was diagnosed in 2015.
I had my initial surgery.
I have two tumors, one on each side.
They're called acoustic neuromas that affect my inner ear and my nervous system.
It affects my balance and whatnot.
So, I knew at that time that I had these other tumors in my brain.
I think there's five now.
And there's one on my frontal lobe that in January of 2021, I had an MRI done and it was still five millimeters.
It hadn't grown because they're called meningiomas and they're characterized that they don't grow very quickly.
In my case, because it was the pandemic, the job that I was doing, I was managing a A rather large four and a half, five billion dollar development, land development project.
And they didn't hire anybody.
So I was doing everything myself.
So I was covering five positions.
So I was doing about 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
Wow.
And the stress ended up in July.
Then I had an MRI done and they had told me that's when, oh, this thing had grown from five millimeters to 25 millimeters, which they said was Highly unusual.
So, you know, and I asked him, you know, was it stress or, you know, what would cause it?
I find with my doctors, they don't really want to touch it.
Not a lot of them know anything about NF2 to begin with.
There's only one person in Canada that deals with NF2.
So, when I deal with them, what they basically explain to me now is that They're not treating my NF2, they're treating the symptoms of my NF2.
So in July of 21, I found out this tumor was 25 millimeters and by November, they were doing follow-up with me.
I'd lost my job at that point because of other circumstances.
With the tumor, they basically just kept telling me, well, you know what?
Let's get you in here.
We'll get you, you know, poke, poke.
And I kept saying, well, why do I need a poke, poke?
And when I said no, I didn't want to get a poke, poke, then it became, oh, you know what?
Your surgery is elective surgery.
It's not a priority anymore.
So then they put it off from November to August.
I ended up waiting because of that.
And at that time, I was trying to get disability benefits.
And I had asked my doctors to sign this paperwork, and they refused to.
They refused to based on the fact that you weren't vaccinated then, basically.
That's what I'm assuming you mean by poke poke.
Yeah, yeah.
They didn't say it flat out, but to have an oncologist and a neurosurgeon tell you both, they told me flat out that they had absolutely no idea that I was experiencing negative symptoms from five brain tumors.
I couldn't understand their thought process.
So, I called the cancer clinic to ask if I could get a copy of my records.
Of course, they didn't have a copy of my records, but then the lady on the phone was like, oh, but I do have some good news for you.
You qualify for the federal government's MADE program.
I've heard rumors that people had opted in early.
The government is, the Prime Minister of the government is offering bonus money for families and I'm going, like I had no idea what MAID was at that time.
Then I went and looked it up and that's when you start to realise that... It's extraordinary.
Brett, I'm trying to get over the use of the term, I've got some good news.
From the lady on the phone.
I've got some good news.
So I've got some good news.
We can end your life and, extra bonus, Justin Trudeau will give your family some money if you decide to end your life early.
That's basically what she said, isn't it?
Essentially, yes.
And what I had found out later was that this extra money that she was referring to, it's BS that they're spreading to people.
People can look it up.
If you go look it up online, they're leading people to believe that if you choose Maid, your life insurance will pay out.
That's not true.
When I looked into it more, the people that have taken the option got no life insurance.
So, I mean, they make it sound like because this is a government thing, oh, your insurance company is going to pay out.
I mean, they don't.
So, it's just more lies that they're spreading to people.
And when I actually called probably about eight or nine different lawyers, And, and was told flat out by lawyers that, uh, even like the disability thing that doctors are not allowed or not required.
There's no rule that requires them to sign.
All I was trying to get from them was a confirmation of my diagnosis and, and they're not required to provide that.
So to me, I mean, the scam, I, like I was paying, I think it was $350 a month for short and long-term disability.
At the job that I was working for two and a half years.
So, you know, I mean, do the math on that.
I mean, there's $10,000 that I paid into a disability program that had I known that it would require, you know, doctors aren't required to sign to make a confirmation for you.
Like, what a scam.
Yeah, you could have put that money into a bank account for yourself for the future in case you needed it, rather than just handing it over.
Absolutely, yeah.
I mean, I've been self-employed my entire life.
I only took a job because of my condition.
You know, because my wife, in terms of financial stability and all that stuff, because when I was diagnosed in 2015, I was self-employed.
And quite honestly, since the The Liberals took power in 2015.
I've seen my wages, my annual salary go from $250,000, $300,000 a year to $100,000 a year in that amount of time.
$300,000 a year to $100,000 a year in that amount of time.
Like, and I, cause I work in land development.
That is crazy.
there.
In terms of this MAID program, this law that they've passed, what kind of numbers of people are we talking now in the last couple of years that have, you know, had their lives ended?
Because I was reading something where it was big numbers and actually there was considerable numbers of people that weren't actually terminally ill at all.
No, that's what gets me is that you don't have to have A terminal illness and the numbers that I've seen and found are in.
Going back to like 2016.
That that year, I think what I read was 900 people had participated in the made program to 2020-21 that that year in the neighborhood of.
that year in the neighborhood of 10 to 11,000.
So, I mean, that's an increase of...
Yeah.
And I read one story in British Columbia here where a mom had called for wellness for her son because he was having her son had a history of mental health issues and he was put into the hospital.
And because he was like 22, 23, they were basically told her that they're not required to talk to her about his his care.
Uh, and it was literally like a week and she got noticed that her son was dead.
And because he went into the hospital, uh, they, you know, and all you, what you need is two signatures from a doctor, from doctors to sign off on made, and then you can be gone.
So they, they, they make it sound that what they, the picture that they paint is of You know, where I actually just saw a TV spot where some in Montreal, there's a funeral home that has now added a wing for me.
It's extreme.
They had this they had a family on that was like, yeah, it was our dad had emphysema or something.
So we, you know, we went there and it was, you know, it was like seven hundred or a thousand dollars.
And it's one stop shop.
Like, I mean, that's disgusting.
So disgusting.
I bet the doctors as well that aren't signing your form will happily be the same doctors, I'm sure, that are signing these made forms and, you know, no doubt getting a bit of money in the pocket for it.
For you personally, Brett, and your current situation in terms of trying to, you know, get disability or whatever, you've got a GoFundMe, haven't you, or an equivalent of that?
Yeah, I ended up setting up a a give-send-goal. I hadn't intended on doing that.
Thank you.
And even right now, I'm struggling trying to find... I want to get back to work.
I just have stuff I need to get finished up.
Gareth, I had my surgery in August of 2022 and it's June now and I still haven't seen a doctor.
Zero and none.
What is the GiveSendGo?
What is it?
So we can put that on the screen for people watching.
I can get it off you afterwards, Brett, that's fine, and I can put that, we'll put that on the screen for you, mate.
Thanks.
But isn't that crazy that they, they took this out of the front of my brain, and when I ask to see somebody for mental health or anything, they twist it and do the, what do you need this for?
I don't know, I haven't had brain surgery before.
I don't know what normal is.
Sorry, it just... No, no, no, not at all, honestly.
It's the shit that they do this to people because it's not right, like, to mess with people's heads and make them feel like they're doing something wrong when you... I mean, I'm 56 years old, I've never...
I haven't done like protests or I haven't had been arrested, been in any trouble or anything.
I've always done what I'm supposed to do.
And my thank you is, oh, by the way, yeah, we'll just kill you.
It's extraordinary, Brett.
It's extraordinary, mate.
But we'll put that GoFundMe on the page so that people watching this can, you know, they can donate anything, whatever.
It all adds up, obviously, to help towards your, you know, ability to obviously pay, you know, mortgages and feed yourself and your family.
But thank you so much for talking to us, Brett.
I understand it's hella emotional to talk, so I really appreciate you taking the time to do that, mate.
Thanks, Seb.
I appreciate it.
I'm sorry.
No, no, Brett, mate.
Honestly, thank you so much, mate.
Thank you.
That's all for this week.
Thank you all for tuning in.
Chile have reintroduced masks for school children due to an apparent rise in influenza and RSV cases.
See, Covid was a Trojan horse in so many ways.
It paved the way for lockdowns, UBIs, pandemic treaties and the like.
But it also normalised mask wearing in many quarters.
And that was always the idea.
See, a mask does nothing to stop anything.
Anyway, but it does dehumanize.
It takes away one's individuality, and it denies them the ability to breathe properly, which affects cognitive function, of course.
Ticking a few boxes on the docile and compliant population bucket list there.
I'm out walking all the time, and I see people now, in the middle of nowhere, covering their faces, even in the blistering Derbyshire heat.
I always nod politely and then walk off shaking my head.
Just what level of psychological damage have we allowed to be done to us?
All in the name, apparently, of a virus.
And that psychological damage and need for thought instructions is rolling on in other areas too.
They managed to get you to deny yourself oxygen and now they're getting you to cheer on World War 3 and the sabotaging of our own food and energy supplies.
That's quite a trick to pull off.
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