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Jan. 30, 2024 - Viva & Barnes
01:15:04
Canada's Political Prisoners! E. Jean Carroll's Crackpot Jackpot Tour! Viva Frei Live!
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While the Conservative leader is muzzling his own caucus and putting himself first, we'll keep putting Canadian.
The Honourable Leader of the Opposition.
This one is just too easy.
He walked into it.
He had to muzzle a member from Newfoundland who called for an end to his leadership, joining another senator who did the same.
Because they understand that their constituents are literally starving and unable to heat their homes because the Prime Minister is quadrupling the carbon tax, doubling housing costs, and giving the worst inflation in 40 years.
Why won't he listen to, instead of intimidating, his member for Newfoundland and put his leadership up to a review for the public?
The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
Mr. Speaker, over the course of the fall, we have announced projects on housing that are going to create half a million new homes across this country.
How can you not hate this guy?
We're making sure that we're moving forward on the priorities that are facing Canadians.
In terms of standing up for his caucus, the leader across the way will not even mention the fact that the person sitting three seats to his left sat dined with a far-right conservative German politician and wants to abolish the United Nations.
Is abolishing the United Nations now the official position of the Conservative Party of Canada?
Can you believe?
Can you believe the balls on this guy?
Will not even mention the fact that the person sitting three seats to his left sat dined with a far-right conservative German politician and wants to abolish the United Nations.
Is abolishing the United Nations now the official position of the Conservative Party of Canada?
We're gonna shut that down.
Give me one second to find the screen that I have somewhere in the backdrop.
That is still playing the video.
Oh, lordy.
I hear two videos in the background.
Okay, hold on a second.
Let me just find out where these are coming from.
Okay, there's one here.
Close it.
Okay, now there's one left.
No, there's not.
I got it.
Woo!
Everybody, good morning.
I'm not done with that particular clip yet.
Can you believe he's talking about...
Leslyn Lewis.
No, I didn't get it.
There's another window somewhere in the backdrop.
Hold on.
Right here.
Okay, boom.
He's talking about Leslyn Lewis, who happens to be a black politician.
The race would have nothing to do with this if it weren't for Justin Trudeau being a racist, misogynist, absolute hypocrite.
In all of this, he's criticizing Leslie Lewis for having dined with Christine Anderson, who I believe he's referring to when he talks about the far-right conservative politician.
This is literally the man that literally gave a literal standing ovation to a literal Nazi in the House of Parliament, and he has the balls, he has the shameless audacity...
To accuse her to criticize Lesley Lewis for dining with Christine Anderson.
Call Christine what you will.
And I didn't like it when Pierre Poiliev told her to go back to her country with her hate.
It takes a serious amount of lack of insight and just audacity to criticize Lesley Lewis for dining with an elected official from Europe when he gave a standing ovation to a Nazi...
In Parliament.
But if anybody has ever forgotten about this, hold on.
I gotta play this.
Just gotta remember, remind everybody.
Remind everybody.
A Nazi.
We've got a Nazi in the house, people.
against the Russians and continues to support the troops today.
Even at his age of 98. We still have a once...
Ovation, Peter.
Oh, by the way, I can see.
If you look closely, you'll see Justin.
Peter, right there.
Bada-bing, bada-boom, right there.
Oh, I'm pointing at my screen.
That's him right there, I believe.
Oh, yeah, right next to Zielinski.
His name is Yaroslav Hunker.
I'm playing this to get to the apology.
I was going to say he's in the gallery, but I think you beat me, too.
Obviously it's extremely upsetting that this happened.
The speaker has acknowledged his mistake and has apologized.
But this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians.
I should be embarrassed that this idiot gave a standing ovation to a Nazi.
This idiot didn't understand that if you fought the Russians in World War II, you were with the Nazis.
I'm not ashamed.
I'm ashamed of you.
I think particularly of Jewish MPs and all members of the Jewish community across the country are celebrating, commemorating Yom Kippur today.
I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine as we do.
I can't even finish it.
Go to hell, Justin Trudeau.
Oh, we pushed back against Russian disinformation because you gave an ovation to a Nazi and now you have the balls to criticize Leslie Lewis for having lunch with Christine Anderson, who, by no one's account, is a far-right anything.
All right.
Good morning.
Link is up there, people.
We've got two guests today.
I've got Jason Levine and Mocha Bezirgan.
Well, he's going to tell me.
I say Bezirgan, but I think by the looks of it, it's Bezirgan.
He's from Rebel News.
He's a journalist there.
He's awesome.
We're going to talk about the Canadian political prisoners.
And, you know, as I tell Justin Trudeau to go to hell at the end of this, because we're going to, the guests, after we're done with the Canadian stuff, I'm going to tackle the, what was it called?
It's called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate.
I've made the list, people.
These mother efforts.
I didn't make the list for digital hate.
I made the list for alleged climate denialism.
Dumb SO...
I'm sorry, I'm swearing a lot and it's not even noon yet.
Okay, so we're going to talk about Canada's political prisoners.
The recent sentence yesterday of a salary to 10 months in jail.
A bunch of other stuff that's going on in Canada with two great journalists.
Jason Levine is independent.
Mocha is with Rebel and they're both awesome.
But before we get there, son of a beasting, hold on one second.
I think I remember the thing that I forgot to do now.
Hold on, show more.
No, I did hit it.
I did hit it.
Okay, fine.
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The big wigs, by the way, there's a good expression back in the olden day, like when people were losing their hair, I think in England, and they would put on wigs, and it was a sign of opulence to have the bigger wigs, so they called the wealthy people, the elites, the big wigs.
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Now I'm going to remove that.
And the link is in the description as well.
All right.
Well, that's the good news.
Let's get to the bad news, people.
We had our white pill last week with the Emergencies Act being declared unlawful by a federal court.
They vow to...
They vow to...
Oh, you know what?
Hold on.
I'm going to bring this up.
Chris Banks, you're wrong.
I actually do drink it, specifically because...
Do y 'all know about my IBS?
Whatever.
I've been told I have IBS.
This is good to build up the good gut biome.
And it's a healthy drink.
And when I go for a jog and I come back and I want to rehydrate and re-nutrient, I do it.
Taste it.
It's delicious.
Period.
That's not in here.
Okay, anyways, that's it.
Enough of this.
We're going to bring in the guests.
Jason Levine, Mocha Bezirgan.
He's going to tell me how to pronounce it.
Okay, Jason, I'm coming in with you first.
Mocha, I'm coming in with you now.
I'll go on the bottom so that when I bring up a comment, it will...
We're gonna see how our audio is going.
Let's start with Mocha and I'll do the audio check when I go to locals.
Mocha, introduce everybody to who you are if they don't already know you.
I'm Mocha Bezergyan and I'm with Media Bezergyan and I've been doing journalism since last year independently and yesterday we were in Lethbridge covering the trial of James Savory.
Who is now in prison for 10 months, who has been sentenced.
And yeah.
All right.
Mocha and Jason, tell everybody who you are and I'll get the audio levels going good.
I'm Jason Levine.
I'm also an independent journalist here in Alberta.
I was sitting beside Mocha as we were covering the sentencing.
Mocha and I have been covering a lot of the coup situation and basically every matter in Lethbridge.
And MOCA is also covering a lot of the stuff in Calgary, including Arthur Polosky and other matters.
And MOCA, yeah, he's one of the only accredited independent journalists in Alberta, of all of Alberta, who actually has the permission from the courts to act as an accredited media in the court.
I'm working on that myself.
I'm a couple of weeks away from that.
But MOCA is the only Alberta accredited media that is covering this.
So I guess the question is going to be like where we start.
We're going to start with the most recent.
Everybody knows about the Emergencies Act being declared unlawful by Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley last week.
People thought this was going to be the beginning of the tide turning, and then we get into the sentencing of James Sowery yesterday.
That was in Lethbridge?
Was it the Lethbridge Courthouse?
Correct.
The same courtroom, even, that we go for the Cootspans, so courtroom six.
That's going to be a very popular room for the next few months.
All right.
Someone says, Viva, I'm low, and the others are loud, so I'll tweak up my audio a little bit.
Okay, look, I talked about Sauri yesterday briefly, and I was watching his interview with Grizzly _Patriot.
Who wants to field it and tell us what's been going on?
He was found guilty in May of this year.
Mocha, you want to get going?
You know, give us the rundown?
Sure.
Basically, a jury of his peers found him guilty of assault with a weapon and dangerous driving.
And Sauri maintains his innocence.
He says, why would I plead guilty for something that I didn't do?
And basically, he ran over a pylon, a traffic cone, when he was leaving the protest area on the highway at an RCMP checkpoint, where there was a police officer there who apparently had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit, although the judge acknowledges that Savory did not attempt to hit the RCMP officer.
He still ruled on the sentencing based on even scaring an officer to think that he's going to hit him was criminal enough and he decided that it should be denounced and a message needs to be sent to like-minded individuals that you cannot use your weapon, you cannot use your vehicle as a weapon to scare police officers.
So that was basically what happened yesterday.
And now he was not in jail up to this point for two years.
And he says he had an incompetent lawyer that led to him being found guilty.
And now he is a competent lawyer.
He has trust in his lawyer and he's going to appeal it.
But basically, I didn't know that I was interviewing him for the last time yesterday during the break.
That he was having his last cigarette.
He was drinking his last Tim Hortons coffee before we went back to the courthouse and he was taken away by sheriffs in tears.
So we're going to back this up two years now.
So the facts, as I understand it, is he's driving a big rig.
He's bringing wood into the Coutts, you know, to the Coutts blockade or to the Coutts protest.
He brought some firewood in to help people stay warm as they're protesting.
And on the way out...
What did they do?
Did they set up a blockade to stop and ticket people?
Or what was the purpose of the blockade?
So he spent five days at the protest.
He brought his back truck down.
And he was a supporter and did bring supplies, yes.
And he left February 14th.
So that's a very important date.
That's the date the EA was invoked.
And he left around noon or so to go home.
He was going home to go back to his family.
And on his way out, he reached a checkpoint, number 14, on the northbound lanes.
And I believe it was to let people know not to come back.
Maybe that's why they were stopping people to let them know.
But it wasn't a clearly displayed checkpoint.
It was just off to the left.
There was one officer because all the other officers were on the southbound lane waiting for somebody with guns was the police message at that time.
So this officer was alone by themselves.
It wasn't a clearly marked checkpoint.
There were pylons in a police officer's vehicle, but just a single officer who kind of came out of nowhere at the last second to wave at James, who thought it was a...
He clipped a pylon on the left-hand side.
Didn't touch the vehicle.
Didn't touch the officer.
No honking.
No yelling.
No screaming.
No nothing like that.
He just clipped a pylon as he went by.
They pulled him over.
Arrested him.
And yes, he was out on bail.
And for two years we've been fighting this and he lost a jury trial.
Okay, and that was the next question.
So he had a jury trial.
Lost it.
Did either of you attend the jury trial?
Mocha, were you there for that one?
No, I was not.
Yeah, this was a blackout period, Viva.
Mocha and I kind of came a little bit later as people learned about all this, because there was a blackout for media, even on James Sowery, not just the Kutzpen.
But we've been covering it ever since that point.
All right.
And so the bulk of the accusation is that he went through a checkpoint, clipped a pylon, which scared the police officer.
From what I understand, did the police officer give a victim impact statement where he said he's still scared of big trucks?
That was after the conviction.
That was after the sentencing.
So he gets convicted.
He's still out since May after the conviction.
He's announced, and I believe he's filed the paperwork to appeal the conviction, but was sentenced yesterday to 10 months.
Both of you were there.
Someone's got to tell us about the victim impact statement that the police officer I think it was very emotional.
Where the officer was saying he can't sleep at night, it impacted his family life, his work, that he was traumatized, he was shaken after the event, that he cried uncontrollably, etc., etc.
It took a tool on his mental health, everything.
I'm not trying to laugh at this.
I don't know, maybe he is that sensitive of a police officer, in which case he probably chose the wrong profession.
But this literally...
Not literally, but this is quite analogous to the victim impact statements of the January 6th police officer, Capitol Police officers, gave about how they're perpetually traumatized, etc.
Except there, you know, there was actual violence, whether or not it was instigated, provoked, whatever.
This cop, who barely escaped a pylon, clipped off a truck, was talking about how he's traumatized and has difficulty doing his job as a result of this incident.
Correct.
That was part of the victim impact statement that caused the audience in the galley to kind of snicker and giggle because he was talking about how he is afraid to pull over large...
I don't know if that means much to anybody that's watching,
but they left us Do either of you know if, during any testimony, this cop was ever asked if he has ever drawn his gun in the line of duty?
Don't know about that one.
No, I don't know about that testimony, if it exists.
All right.
I mean, it's funny, but it's not funny.
It's absolute political rubbish.
The judge?
Who is the judge in this case?
Or is the judge?
Yeah, I don't have his name.
Mocha, did you catch his name?
I'll give you his name in a minute.
I have it here.
I'm curious.
So, they give victim...
He gets victim impact statements, but James Sowery also gets...
What do they call them?
Not letters of recommendation, but character reference letters.
So he gets character reference letters.
For everybody who knows, now you've seen it last night, this is a middle-aged man, father of two kids, no criminal record, single father of two kids, no criminal record, no violations while he was out on his bail for the last two years.
Gets a bunch of reference letter, character letters, and gets sentenced to 10 months, which was on the upper end, the cram was looking for 12 months.
Correct.
Correct.
And the judge also let us all know that he could have gone from 8 months to 60 months for this particular sentencing.
So he did drop it from 12 down to 10. But I also want to highlight something.
He has a very clean record.
But the only thing that the Crown was able to bring up that may have made James look a little bit bad was he shared some Facebook posts.
He shared a post that had a Canadian flag that had a pylon on top.
So don't do that anymore, folks.
And he shared a video where someone crushed a pylon.
Violently, no rhetoric, no offensive language at all, just a crushing of a pylon.
And those became aggravating factors for a sentencing, as the judge explained to us.
Why?
Because he's online minimizing this man's trauma?
Yeah, it was used as a show of no remorse.
That's how it was classified.
The judge that was presiding over the case was Justice Glenn Polman.
Sentencing that the jury delivered, so he had to give a...
Sorry, yeah, the decision that the jury delivered, so he had to give a sentencing reflected on aggravating and mitigating factors.
And as the mitigating factors were being listed, I was thinking, okay, well, he's going to get some house arrest, probably.
That was the direction it was going, I felt like.
But then, as the sentencing...
After the aggravating factors, the sentencing come, and as the judge was reading the sentencing, we had two sheriffs on each side, and they both stand up, and Savoy stood up slowly as well, and one of the sheriff had their hand on their telecommunication device.
Yeah, like almost ready to call for backup.
The other officer there both faced towards the gallery.
And, you know, it was an intense moment where everyone was gasping.
And after the judge delivered the sentencing, he immediately left the courtroom and everyone was like, this is injustice.
We love you, James.
And James turned around with tears in his eyes.
You had people crying, leaving the courthouse in tears.
It was a, you know, very emotional day.
I'm gonna I'm gonna bring this up because I mean if they had played this Let's skip to the punchline you hit two cones Those could have been people could have been guests at her wedding They were cones It's it's um, it's a sick joke.
I mean you try to find some humor in it.
It's a sick bloody joke ten months in jail He's appealed the decision.
Does he get, or I mean, do we know if he's gonna get released on bail pending appeal?
Because if he goes to jail for 10 months, by the time his appeal comes around, he'll be out.
Well, he's still fundraising for that appeal, and if he is able to file it, then yes, he would be out pending appeal.
The earliest that that could be happening is within two weeks or so, so he's definitely going to stay in there for two weeks.
But if he's able to get that appeal filed, and that appeal is being filed, Viva, on incompetent representation, and we can certainly get into some of the challenges around his representation, but it is being filed for that.
Before you even do that, what's the fundraiser?
James Sowery Appeal.
So what we can do is we can send you the link, but it's on GiveSendGo.
If you type in Sowery, you'll find it.
Send it to me in private chat and I'll share it right now.
Tell us, let's get into the ineffective representation because that's a very, very tough thing to...
I mean, I say it's tough unless it's egregious.
What are the examples?
What are the allegations of ineffective representation from his first counsel?
Well, one of the examples is the reconstructed staged photo that was used and brought in as admissible evidence.
So the Crown never had a picture at the time or shortly after.
So what they did is they recreated a picture, which had the officer in a certain position, the cones in a certain position, and the vehicle in a certain position.
The challenge with that particular one is James actually has an official original photo.
He did take a photo as he was driving up to the checkpoint.
So he does have a photo of the actual layout.
And it doesn't match the reenactment one, nor was that challenged by his lawyer, nor did they try and bring in his photo.
So his lawyer allowed a reenactment to supersede the original, and it doesn't accurately reflect the scene.
And it's important because where the officer was standing is quite important to this particular situation.
But that's just one of the examples of what I would believe is gross misrepresentation by the lawyer.
Okay.
Yeah, and then there's a few more.
There was no objections, there was no challenges, and there's also possibly some searching that was done that wasn't done properly.
And yeah, I don't want to go too much into it because it's still being filed, but the main one that sticks in my mind is this photograph that the jury saw, which didn't accurately represent the scene at all.
But James has an accurate representation that was not used.
All right, that's outrageous.
That's James Sowery.
He's one of, how many individuals within the Coutts umbrella have been charged?
There's 13?
13 or 15. That number, because you also can include Pearson.
So Joanne Pearson, who's already finished her matter, so she could be included as well.
And there's quite a few, actually.
So I think we're up to 15. Is he the first one now to have been sentenced?
Sentenced and jailed, yes.
So the coups, man, they're still pre-trial.
We haven't reached that yet, but we're headed in that direction.
What was the judge's name again?
The judge's name was Justice Glenn Pearlman.
And basically this sentencing sends shivers to the rest of the protesters who have ongoing trials because they have seen that they are out to get them.
They were out to send a message to like-minded individuals.
So they are worried that they will also be made an example of.
And, you know, I asked an individual, I said, it seems like the number of people in prison is not going down.
I'm trying to see who appointed Justice Pullman.
Can't find that too quickly.
Yeah, well, you got the four who are still in jail for the conspiracy to commit homicide on remand, pre-trial detention.
Now you've got one post-conviction.
Who else of these coots have stood trial and are awaiting sentencing?
And who is still awaiting trial?
Well, I think Arthur Polosky would be one to mention, but he has been sent in the time served, so he's filing his appeal.
I got word on Saturday that his appeal has been accepted, so it's going to be going in front of a panel of three judges to find out what the next stage is.
But in September, Arthur Polosky will be...
He has his appeal scheduled for September.
And I think those are the main ones for the coups directly related to Milk River or coups that has been sentenced or their trials are complete.
Mok, is there anybody missing there?
Also, we have, yeah, three individuals who were charged with mischief over 5,000 and they have ongoing legal battles.
And one of the individuals who gave me interview expressing that The court systems are corrupt, that there is no justice in this country.
Apparently Crown contacted his lawyer and said that they're going to use this video as evidence against him.
Oh wow, already.
He was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon.
No, he was convicted of assault with a weapon and dangerous driving.
Okay, so that answers the question for...
For the people out there.
No, but Pawlowski, we've covered Pawlowski.
I've had him on, you know, I had him on a while back and after, I think it was post-sentence, but he was sentenced to whatever it was, eight months, but it was already time served because they had already locked him up for however, and it was time and a half or time served pre-trial.
So he didn't go to jail.
Everybody yesterday was like, oh, okay, so time served.
Except no, because, um, salary was out on bail for the last years.
He didn't, he didn't stay, he was in jail for eight hours, not for, not for weeks or months on end.
That's correct.
And some of the aggravating factors that got listed off, not many mitigating from the judge other than the reference letters and character reference, but some of the aggravating ones that I found...
Peculiar was he actually said because of the five-day involvement, it was a politically charged event.
He used that as an aggravating factor against James.
He also talked about how the manual transmission is an aggravating factor because each gear shift would be an intent to change gears.
Now keep in mind James is maintaining his innocence here.
He was gearing up to go home.
He had no idea he had to stop.
He was going to go through and go home.
But the judge did talk how the manual transmission is an aggravating factor.
If I could stop you, there's not any relevant detail.
Did I understand that there are 18 gears on these pickup trucks?
On these big rigs?
I don't know that answer, but several.
There's several gears.
So the idea of gearing up is that when you get ready to go cruise, you get into a high gear and you're not expecting to downshift unexpectedly.
Correct.
And the testimony from James and the officer confirmed that there was gearing up and then that was used as an aggravating factor when doing the sentencing.
Let me see here.
Most today's 18-wheelers have 10 forward and two reverse drive gears.
So 10. It's quite a lot.
Okay, keep going with the aggravating factors because these are mind-blowing.
Yeah, so he also talked about the room on the right-hand side of the vehicle as an aggravating factor had he just been 12 to 24 inches to the right.
No cone, maybe no stop.
He may have gotten a failure to appear, but because he was a little bit to the left, hit a cone, that was used.
The cone itself was used as evidence of how close he was to the police officer because they were laid out on the road.
But that's really all I have.
The only other aggravating factor was the speed was determined to be between 60 and 85 kilometers an hour.
From the testimony of James and the officer.
That's the range the judge cited.
And then the last part was the lack of remorse.
Even though it's not supposed to be an aggravating factor, the judge was very clear.
He's not using it as aggravating factor because it could still be maintained by someone with innocence.
But the judge did bring it up several times.
That remorse, the lack of remorse, was something he was considering.
That's outrageous.
All right.
Mocha, what else?
Well, we actually have footage from that time right after it happened.
A vehicle who was passing by the same checkpoint recording the crashed cone and salary being pulled over a few miles later.
So I just sent that link to you.
Maybe you would be if you want to show.
It's after minute three, Mark.
I can't.
I still haven't been able to get back into my Facebook and I don't really care.
Okay.
This is at the time.
Yeah.
That's the RCMP car on the left.
See, that's the cone on the left.
Crash.
That's the cone.
It's not one of the big four-foot cylindrical cones.
This is a freaking high school gym cone.
Yeah.
Correct.
And as you can see, it doesn't look like a checkpoint.
It'll just have a couple cones in the car.
There's nobody stopping you.
No stop sign, no nothing.
And this was not entered as evidence in this video.
Keep us posted what he said because we've been hearing rumors that just rumors that they are going to invoke the War Act, the Emergency War Act, whatever it's called.
That's the cone that they suspect was run over by the truck because the truck went to the left to try to get around the cop.
Yes.
Well, not to get around a cop, just to pass through.
I know that he had a conference about business.
Okay.
I actually...
Sorry, yeah, where should I go from here?
And if you go, like, five minutes further, you will see him being pulled over by multiple police cars.
Five minutes further as in eight minutes or at five minutes?
Yes.
Around that time, yeah.
Maybe further.
Why does the audio keep going down here?
Let's see here.
Not...
Maybe previews, actually.
There he is.
Yeah, yeah.
There you go.
That's his truck.
Freedom.
Well, I mean, he rode Freedom on it.
That's the rallying call of the far right, according to CBC.
So that's when he got pulled over.
Yeah.
So he's not running.
He's pulled over.
He thought he was going home, so they pulled him over, and he pulled over.
That's amazing.
You go from that to 10 months in jail.
Mm-hmm.
All right, Mocha, anything else in this video?
That's all.
Okay.
Now I'm going to just look up one thing, because I thought...
Let me see here.
Big cylinder...
Cones Montreal.
I thought it was like the big...
These ones is what I thought the cone was.
Present.
Not the stupid little high school penny cones like these.
Right.
These cost $900.
Now I understand why they rent them for $2 a day.
Like one of the big cones.
Okay, so it wasn't even a big cone.
It was a small cone.
Alright.
Yeah, and as you saw that checkpoint, it doesn't look like a checkpoint.
It may be multiple officers, hands up to stop, maybe, but it was just a vehicle with some cones.
So from James' perspective, there's nothing stopping him.
So he didn't ram, as Jason Kennedy said, ram a barrier.
That was some of the rhetoric that we got out from this incident.
And I certainly didn't see a need to stop.
There's no stop sign even.
So from James' perspective, it would be confusing.
I can see how he continued to go.
And it's also daylight, too, so it's not like he was in the middle of the night or trying to scare anybody.
He was going home.
Okay, I mean, it's not going to make sense to anybody out there.
I mean, it'll make sense to Americans who have witnessed the January 6th convictions and the excessive sentences years, 17 years to, you know, members of the Proud Boys.
Ten months for that, and he's appealing.
Okay, is there anything else as relates to James Sowery in particular that we need to know?
Well, he did provide an apology to the officer, and he did acknowledge that the officer himself would have been harmed from his perspective, but his apology didn't tackle his role, because again, he's maintaining his innocence, and he was not willing to give a fake apology or give fake testimony in order to help himself.
He was probably aware that, you know, just apologizing, even if he didn't mean it, might have been helpful for the sentencing.
But again, he's maintaining his innocence all the way through.
I think one thing important to mention is that his defense was asking for 12 to 18 months in house prison so that he could be with his family and maintain his farm that otherwise would be out of control if he's not there.
And this is where the judge said, yeah, in certain conditions this is okay, but in this condition we need to send a message to denounce this action.
They chose prison, not house arrest.
It's unbelievable.
I'm going to add to the stage.
This is his Give, Send, Go fundraiser.
Yes.
He's got to get to a quarter of a million, and he's at $11,000.
Yes.
I'll share the link here again in the chat.
That's the latest victim of the political persecutions in Canada.
100%.
And he has a daughter, a 16, son 10. He's been a great father.
There's been no issues with custody.
Everything about James says model citizen, except for this incident he's accused of.
Nothing before, nothing since.
And even the way he handled himself yesterday in court was astonishing and amazing to see.
He was a gentleman.
He stood up, put his hands behind and left.
In cuffs.
I don't know if they cuffed him immediately.
No, but the room, the door's right there.
They just opened the door.
We're used to that door because that's where Chris Carbert and Lysak and the rest will come through when they're in shackles.
But yeah, they were ready to have him ushered out quickly.
Let me see what Peter Biker says.
James Sowery flipped the script when he decided to defend his innocence via jury.
Bad bet in retrospect, but his trial sure highlights the presumptiveness.
Of the average Canadian, doesn't it, guilt?
Well, I mean, everybody's convinced that these were all murderers and racists and bigots to begin with.
And tell us what else is going on in Lethbridge.
You had Chris Carbet, for those who don't know, colloquially of the Coutts Four, but these are the four men accused of conspiracy to commit homicide who've been in jail now for 716 days?
15, 16, 17 days.
We're getting up there now for sure.
Yeah, Chris Carbet.
Carbert's bail was denied, so we know this by now.
And the next court date is going to be February 5th, where we're starting the pretrial.
There's five weeks of pretrial scheduled right now and five weeks of trial starting late May scheduled right now as well.
So we're making arrangements, Mocha and I, to be down there for 10 weeks to cover all of this for you.
Are you there with your family, Jason?
I will be.
I'll be taking my trailer, and we found a lovely couple who invited us into their home, so we'll be able to keep the expenses down.
But yeah, I'll be taking my family down, and we'll come back up on the weekends to take care of the property.
And Mocha, you look too young to have kids.
No, I don't have kids.
I just have a girlfriend that I need to be back to, otherwise she gets angry.
So I'm not going to be able to stay at Lethbridge.
I need to go back and forth to our...
But I spoke with Carbert yesterday, and...
You know, I said, look, it must be very tough for you.
You know, you got your bail denied.
And he said, yeah, the first week after the denial, it was very tough.
But now I'm used to it.
You know, if I'm going to have to wait five more months, so be it.
I've been here forever.
And yeah.
Now, let me tell you about our Saturday, Viva.
We had the fundraiser Saturday, and there was a slow roll convoy down to the coots.
This happened two years in a row now.
No problems, no issues, nothing.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depends who you're asking, the RCMP was...
Heavily, heavily involved in that convoy.
There's a helicopter.
Over 50 police cars were counted.
They had a big show of presence for sure.
And I assure you, Viva, they spent more on doing that than it was the fundraiser.
They even had the helicopter above the fundraiser for a while.
Whether it was for intimidation or whatnot, not even a bumper got scratched during the convoy.
The second time now, second year in a row.
They had tactical vehicles too.
Yeah, special teams from Edmonton were down.
So they've definitely spent a lot of money showing their blue and reds all over Alberta during Saturday.
I love it.
I mean, there's going to be Americans watching this who are looking at two of the most politest, soft-spoken Canadians with the typical Canadian accents, talking about what the government is doing up there as it relates to peaceful protest.
And they've got to be saying, holy shit, we all thought Canada was...
A nice, free, polite society, and we've now seen it's become a tyrannical, polite society, maybe because of the politeness and the subservience to authority.
So Chris Carbert is one of the four who's in Remand.
There's Lysak, there's Tony, I forget his last, I mean, I don't forget, but I lose the last name.
Tony's last name?
Olenek.
Olenek, and the fourth one?
Jerry Morin.
Now, their trial is scheduled for this coming, what is it, March, April, May?
Late May, the trial starts, but pre-trial continues February 5th.
Okay, now, are there trials all together, or are they having separate trials?
Excellent question.
So currently, they're all together because they are fighting a conspiracy to commit murder charge, which does have them all tried together.
However, Tony Olenek had a...
Change with his lawyer.
So his lawyer has departed.
That happened on December 10th, right before the pretrial was supposed to continue.
And that has now left him self-represented.
So Tony is now self-represented at this stage.
And this is after $670,000 was spent by Tony's family to defend him.
So he's now proceeding without a lawyer.
And there may be a desire by the rest of the lawyers to start to separate the men.
and a different way to tackle this trial.
I don't have information on actual separation yet, if anything's been filed, but I know the conversation's there because it's concerned around the represented nature of a Tony Olenek at this stage.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, I heard that it's been, you know, people have been trying to discourage Tony from self-representing and, you know, everyone even.
You know, I don't know if it would break the publication ban, but basically, let's say everyone tried to discourage him to self-representing.
And the idea would be, if it's nothing more than legal aid, because even if, well, I mean, I don't know if he's entitled to legal aid, because I don't know what his net worth or revenue is.
Revenue is probably zero, but the idea would be, even if it's just get legal aid, get legal aid so the legal aid can piggyback off the other lawyer's work, you're not going to be able to do it yourself as an individual.
Well, in Alberta, legal aid isn't like everywhere else.
Alberta, you pay for things.
So even legal aid is just a loan.
It's not free legal.
So he would qualify, but the judge did offer him legal aid, made that option available.
Other lawyers stepped forward and said, we can find and refer lawyers.
But no, Tony was adamant that at this stage, he has lost faith in the justice system.
He's lost faith in the lawyers and he's preparing himself to go forward alone.
Alright, so they got their five-week trial.
The five-week pretrial pertains to what?
Who can answer that?
Disclosure applications.
There's a lot of problems still there.
Not completed yet.
And there's some other applications for...
I'm not sure if they're going to separate or not, but most of them are disclosure applications because they're not getting information out of their crown.
All right.
And Jordan rule applications?
Because we're now going to be, by the time they get to trial, it's going to be May.
We're going to add another four months to the 700 days.
It's going to be 30, 60, 120.
They're going to be up to 840 some odd days.
Is there a pending Jordan application to dismiss the charges outright?
No.
So I don't think they're even going to go that route.
So the Jordan deadline for most of them should be in August, but Tony, it might be in October because he had a delay for two months for his change in representation.
So his Jordan date may move a bit because you do subtract the defense delays, and for Tony, that would be one.
But right now, Viva, I know that we would like to see them out, but if they do a B...
11B application, which is commonly known as the Jordan application.
There's no retribution or accountability.
It's basically an agreement with the Crown to just stay and walk away.
So they wouldn't be able to sue or hold the government accountable.
There'd be no vindication.
I'm sure you know what the press would do with that particular thing.
I'm not I wouldn't ever hold my breath or give any reasonable prospect of any form of lawsuit for malicious prosecution after all of this so they'll be lucky if what they get is their freedom and not you know, whatever time served.
It will be a tough decision, no doubt.
I'm sure everybody wants them out and put this behind them, but ideally the trial continues and we start getting the truth from the Crown and we see what...
It truly is.
And what we believe it is, is there's no evidence to have these gentlemen here.
So I do expect a jury trial will find them not guilty on the major charges, but they might split the difference being a jury.
We'll see what they do with the minor charges, like mischief.
All right.
Mocha, what else do you guys have to say about this?
Well, one thing that from my experience yesterday, people are angry that no media is showing up, either independent or mainstream media.
Global News did show up, but they showed up after everyone left the courthouse.
And, you know, it's been month after month, week after week, where, you know, now we don't even have the accredited media rows, designated accredited media rows.
You know, people were putting their jackets on there because no media would show up month after month.
And now they removed that.
For example, Chris Carbert's bail hearing.
There was not a single media there.
Not even watching from online.
It's interesting.
Now that you mention it, I've just put it in.
Let me see if I go to news, if I get any different.
You get only two results out from Global News and CTV News as far as MSM goes.
CBC, no.
CBC's most recent article seems to be at least in the search engine.
The guilty protester guilty is conviction.
Yeah, that would be the verdict, not the sentence scene.
Even if you go to All, you get Global, CTV News, and then scroll down.
MOCA, you're there.
MOCA, yep.
MSN has a little piece.
Ground News, MOCA, iHeartRadio.
And then CBC is back down to March 2023.
That's unreal.
Yeah.
I mean, you'd think they'd be proud of it, regardless.
They're going to scare people out of protesting.
They should be happy with themselves.
They just don't want any attention on James.
Maybe likely to...
Hurt his appeal chances.
If he has attention and people hear about this, there'll be donations to get him an appeal.
So maybe that's kind of maybe the strategy there.
No attention might help them avoid an appeal.
Wow.
There was no attention on Sovereign.
No attention on the Convoy that happened three days ago.
No attention on the Coutts for trial, pretrial.
Outrageous.
All right, now, and what else are you guys going to be working on?
I mean, Jason, this is going to be full-time for the next little while.
What else are we looking at in Canada that maybe the Americans should know about?
Detective Helen Gruse.
So February 14th, 15th, or 16th, we're not sure of the date yet, but she'll be returning to get some more dates.
They had not allowed...
Don't presume everybody knows who Detective Helen Gruse is.
Detective Helen Gruse is a former, or, I mean, I guess she's on leave now?
No, no, no, they just put her in a different department.
She's still full-time.
So she's an RCMP officer who is investigating her...
Position at the time was...
It's like child protection.
I'm going to forget the word.
What was her exact?
So SACA for the Ottawa Police Services.
So she was in the Child Assault and Sexual Abuse Division.
So this is a division that covers child assault, including SIDS.
So it was really within her purview to investigate this.
And it was the Ottawa Police Services, not the RCMP.
Okay, so OPS.
She's the Child Protection Unit.
She's investigating bad things happening to kids, like untimely deaths.
In the context of her functions...
As an investigator, she starts looking into cases of SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.
And in the context of her investigations into that, she inquires into the jab status of some of the parents.
You'll get into the details.
It is discovered that she's doing this, and then she is disciplined and transferred.
Give us the details there.
Yeah, yeah.
And actually, this one, we got a lot of information last time when I was in Ottawa for the hearing of this one.
What I found really interesting, Viva, is there was nine.
Sudden deaths, a cluster of them, which we heard testimony, which was three to four times more than normal.
She went and looked into each of the matters.
There's a standard SIDS questionnaire that existed pre-COVID, because every time there's a SIDS death, they have a standard questionnaire that they go through.
On that questionnaire is vaccination status of mother and child.
Again, pre-COVID, vaccination was a concern for SIDS, whether the mother or the child had a vaccination recently was a questionnaire question.
Which was removed for these nine that was not answered for these nine.
So when she was going through the paperwork to see what was going on, she noticed these were all empty.
She went and asked one of the fathers the status to complete the questionnaire.
Bada boom, bada bang.
They removed her from the office and started this hearing against her, and she's now fighting for her career.
Self-funded, no help from the police association, which should be funding it, and no help from any other...
Organizations like CCF or Democracy Fund.
And this is a disciplinary hearing that the Ottawa Police Services are initiating and pursuing against her.
So she's defending against...
What was the charge against her as they labeled it?
Sorry, I don't have that right now.
It's a disciplinary action for not following the order.
And the order was no COVID inquiry.
Don't talk about it.
And I'm going to go Google it up.
Mocha, you're following this as well?
I'm not following this.
I have other stories that I'm working on.
Before we get to those then.
So the latest, I'll get the charge.
It was like disrespecting or disparaging conduct.
I'll get it for Groose.
What is the latest coming out of Groose?
She's now well into her disciplinary hearing.
So what are the latest bombshells that were revealed?
Well, there's an application for judicial review.
There's an application for non-suit.
The hearing officer, which is a retired superintendent from the auto police services who's doing the hearing, refused to hear the application for non-suit, refused to hear an application for abusive process, and then that refusal of the application of abusive process itself triggered another abusive process application because that itself was abusive process.
It's getting messy.
It's getting messy.
She was denied all.
We're still expert witnesses, but we were able to hear from a grandfather of one of the children during the last time we had the hearing, and we did hear from a previous Ottawa Police Services officer who testified that not only did Helen Bruce do the right thing, it's required of her to do what she did, but yet the Ottawa Police Services are fighting her.
February 14th, 15th, or 16th, we're not sure the date yet.
There will be another hearing where, unfortunately, Viva, it's going to be a one-day hearing just to hear when the next dates will be for her.
But the defense asked to do it remotely to save some costs for Helen because the Alberta lawyers, Blair Eckert and Bathsheba Vandenberg, didn't want to have to travel for them.
Got denied.
Even that got denied.
So they're going to have to travel to...
It's a scheduling conference.
I mean, basically is what it is.
It is, correct.
And now the hearing officer is forcing the defense to physically be there to hear the result of a schedule.
This is just to increase the cost.
It's absurd.
It's punitive, patently punitive.
And by the way, it was bringing, quote, discredit upon the reputation of Ottawa Police Services.
That's what she's charged with.
Sure.
Now, I think the good news about this is, as we all heard, that the Mosley decision, that these kids came out, that was also Blair Eckert and Bathsheba Vandenberg.
So those were the lawyers on that one.
So now these are well, truly tested lawyers who are going to be fighting for Helen as well.
And they now have a decision from the federal court that the...
Here an officer is going to have to review and realize that he's...
And they made comments, Viva, and it was disparaging because even the prosecutor, Vanessa Stewart, made comments that these are just Alberta lawyers.
They don't know what they're doing in Ontario.
Well, they're a little bit more than Alberta lawyers.
Have federal court experience and a victory that Canada could be proud of.
So she's definitely got the good lawyers who's going to be assisting her on this one.
But you can imagine, Viva, how good they are and they're still running into problems like this with this hearing officer.
I expect this to go to appeals as the next step.
There's no way she's going to be found innocent in any way for non-liable and they're likely going to try and take her job.
So there'll be appeals on this one too.
This is a...
This is a satirical response here.
Satirical comment.
Okay, fascinating.
Mocha, what are you working on?
Well, I'm working on P3 corruption cases.
So last month, I reported on the Regina bypass scandal, where the Crown aggregate was used illegally and given to a French giant, construction giant, for free, and then the government bought it back.
The aggregate that it already gave for free, for half a billion dollars.
And at the time, Infrastructure Minister Aymerjit Sohi was involved in this.
His cousin, sorry, his middle brother, Harkesh Sohi, was facilitating the trucking for this operation.
And so he did not disclose this conflict of interest in his conflict of interest disclosures.
Report, half an hour long investigative report, I would encourage people to watch.
And the next story I'm working on also concerns Americans because I'm working on a P3 project called the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project, which connects Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan.
It's an international bridge that was pitched by Harper in 2012 as a billion-dollar project.
That is now ending up costing almost $7 billion.
So how did we get there?
I will explain in the report also a few details.
Canada is paying everything.
99.9% of the cost is on Canada, including building a U.S. compound for border agency, highway interchange, the entire bridge, everything.
While the Ambassador Bridge...
Privately owned American company, they offered to build a second bridge with their own money for a billion dollars.
So there would be no burden on taxpayers, but no.
Canadian government wanted to build it by themselves, despite Americans not pitching in.
I'm going to take a guess.
I'd be curious to know who the contractors are and what relation or connections they might have.
Going back to the joke from the beginning, you know those cones.
They rent out those cones for like $2.50 a day per cone.
It's a very, very lucrative business for the cone owners.
Gentlemen.
Yeah, go for it, Jason.
I do have some good news, though, because we had an announcement on my show prior to this just a couple hours ago.
So Vincent Gersey and Edward Cornell, these are the two plaintiffs from the Mosley decision.
They're the two gentlemen that had standing and was able to advance that matter forward with the help of the JCCF and others.
Those two gentlemen have now announced this morning...
A new project.
It's called the Accountability Project.
So there's a bunch of police officers, judges, lawyers, and a whole bunch of people getting together now under the Accountability Project to file a class action lawsuit against any harm and damages that arose during that period of time when the EA was invoked.
So the accountability stage is now starting on this one now.
And we're very excited to find out that Blair Eckert and Bathsheba Vandenberg are also going to be part of the accountability project to move this forward.
And we're going to have people like Leighton Gray.
I'm not sure if you met this gentleman yet, but he was the lawyer for the Ingram decision here in Alberta.
King's Council are going to be working on a whole bunch of more lawsuits.
So Canada has now kicked in to 2024, started early with accountability.
So the accountability project is TP...
T-A-P-CAN.org, so theaccountabilityprojectcan.org.
It's coming soon, but they're asking for whistleblowers, and they're asking for people to come forward now, because it's time.
And they're going to be using any money that they get when they fight this lawsuit to go ahead and fund additional projects going forward from the Accountability Project.
All right.
Fantastic.
Gentlemen, I'm going to carry on the show, but over on Rumble and talk about stuff that's not related to the Canadian stuff.
Although...
I guess...
No, part of it is related to the...
Did you see Clyde Do Something's video today?
Right, they're targeting podcasters.
We've made the list, people, and I'm happy to be on it.
It's a better...
I love it.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate.
They're making lists, and they're putting people...
Am I on that list?
I haven't seen it yet.
I didn't notice you there.
I'm going to go back and do a little control mess.
Oh, shucks.
Lex Friedman Clips is there.
Joe Rogan Experience Clips is there.
Clyde DoSomething is there.
Peter Stossel is there.
There's a number.
I mean, I don't know all of them by any means, but there's a number of good names to be on that list, and I'd rather be on that list than on the board of directors of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Gentlemen, where can people find you on my end who don't know where to find you?
For me, go ahead, Mocha.
Oh, you could find me on Twitter, Mocha Bezergan, or you could find me on...
You could find my news articles, my publications at mediabezergan.com.
So you can see my name is right here.
Bezergan is B-E-Z-I-R-G-A-N.
Bezergan.
That's right.
So mediabezergan.com or you could find me on Twitter, Mocha Bezergan.
Thank you.
Yeah, and you can find me, the best way to find me is theleveneshow.com.
I have all my socials linked there, past episodes and future episodes coming up.
Tomorrow I have Leighton Gray and Ken Drysdale, along with your brother, Daniel, will be joining me tomorrow to talk about the NCI and some of the other stuff going on here in Canada.
NCI National Citizens Inquiry, Daniel Freiheit, my brother, Lion Advocacy on Twitter.
Mocha, Jason, thank you.
Come back.
I mean, we'll do this just periodic updates, but this is the one that needs to be done.
And I don't know how it works with the shared stream, but I'm going to remove YouTube and go over to Rumble exclusively.
The link is here.
And if anybody...
You guys aren't on Locals yet, eh?
I am.
I do have Locals.
So on mine, you can go ahead and click the join and you can hit my Locals from Rumble.
There's my Locals for anybody who wants to go watch over there because we're going to have the exclusive after-after party, after Rumble.
Gentlemen, thank you very much.
Keep on keeping on and keep on doing what you're doing because, you know, you guys, Global puts out a one piece but you're following it in detail and if everybody wants to know what's going on in Canada, you two are the ones to follow.
And God bless you, Viva, for giving us this time and keeping the tension on here.
We had Tucker Carlson come up and bring attention to the Cootsmen, Elon Musk, and now Danielle Smith herself is talking about them.
So thank you very much for all your efforts as well, Viva.
We appreciate it.
I'm allowed to ask.
It's my pleasure.
It's my pleasure to put on blast what deserves to be put on blast, for good and for bad, and you guys are for good.
Thank you.
All right, gentlemen, have a good day.
Bye.
You too.
All right, so that's it.
Now, I don't know how this works.
What I'm going to do...
58 minutes into it, or I mean, ordinarily we would cut earlier on YouTube, but I say the funny stuff, not the fun stuff, because this is interesting, it's just not funny.
It's actually tragic.
It's the fall of a country.
It's the fall of the West, because this is not unique to Canada.
I mean, the fact that this is analogous to the shit that's happening with the January Sixers is an indication that this is happening to the West.
It is the normalization of tyranny of the West.
Oh, remember all those things that you considered freedoms, God-given rights?
They were privileges that the government can snatch away at the switch of a finger.
Virus?
Rights gone.
Weather?
Climate?
Rights gone.
Oh, okay, so we're going to end on YouTube right now, and we're going to go over to Rumble.
Viva Fra and Rumble, and we're going to go over to Locals after.
So let me just hit remove.
Come on over to Rumble.
And I'll see you there in 5, 4, 3. I cut early.
I cut early.
Now we're live on Rumble in Local Zone.
Let me see what's going on here.
Oh, lordy.
So the news of the day.
Look, we're not going to get into what seems to be the breaking of World War...
Three?
Starting?
I need to dig into that a little more before we talk about it.
But I'm sitting here this morning and I get tagged in a tweet from a guy named Clyde Do Something who's got a great podcast coming out of Canada.
And he says, Viva, we've made the list.
Look at this.
Hold on.
I'll get you a portion of his video.
I have to bring it up here.
Okay, how do I do this?
It's on YouTube.
So I'm going to go here.
I'm gonna bring it up so we'll just watch a couple minutes and I'll give you the link so you can go watch it in its entirety.
What is this?
What are these ads?
That's right, people.
I still pay for it.
I don't pay for ad blocker.
Alright, skip it.
The alarmist narrative is cracking and, well, they're cracking down on those who are reporting on it.
And some of their tactics are pretty dirty.
It's what we call the wrap-up smear.
Clyde's got a good introduction.
He's got a good voice.
Now, before we get into today's report, I want to do a land acknowledgement.
I am reporting on the lands once occupied by dinosaurs.
Okay, this guy's got a good sense of humor.
Majestic creatures used to roam these lands.
And since we're doing acknowledgements, why don't we go all the way back?
He's got a climate change graffiti on his thing.
The Unite, or two, that's the whole idea of...
It's like Holocaust.
Things have been happening to the climate for thousands, millions, hundreds of millions of years on Earth, and nobody's denying any of this stuff, but a lot of people are saying, well, is the alarmism adequate?
Countering digital hate.
The whole point of this is to try to, of course, demonetize people out there that are speaking against their opinion of this.
Okay, we're going to stop it there.
I'm going to give everybody the link so that I don't steal so much of it that nobody needs to go watch it.
You should all go watch it.
Clyde is awesome.
Okay, here's the link.
I'm going to pull up the document because it's actually amazing.
You find out you've made a list.
They don't even have the courtesy of emailing you.
Hey, Aviva, we put you on a list.
Do you want to maybe talk to us about it?
Here, look at this.
Let's bring it over here.
We're going to pull up the PDF.
Right here.
Look at this.
It's an amazing thing.
Whenever you see these things, the anti-hate network, you know damn well they are the hate network.
What is it?
Canadian Anti-Hate Network.
Khan!
You know that they are the ones, the purveyors of the hate.
Here you got the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Why the hell would they have anything to do with the climate, you might ask?
Good question.
New Climate Denial.
If you deny climate change, you are as bad as a Holocaust denier.
You should be criminalized, you should be demonized, and you should be demonized.
How social media platforms and content producers profit by spreading new forms of climate denial?
I'd like to ask for concrete examples of what climate denial I've ever professed.
We all agree, humans pollute, pollution is bad.
So what we really should do, we should outsource all of our pollution to the countries that have the most amount of pollution, the least amount of ethical mining, and we should cripple our own economies because that's what you do.
When you want to help the environment, if you think that we are polluting, is you want to go bankrupt the 1.5% emitter countries and outsource your pollution to the 30-some-odd percent emitter countries, like, you know, China and India.
That's what you want to do.
And I'm the one out there with digital hate.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation through innovative research, smear campaigns, public campaigns, smear campaigns, and policy advocacy.
Blackmail.
Our mission is to protect human rights and civil liberties online.
Well, the first thing you might want to do, talk to the people who you put on lists.
You're on the list, yeah.
Social media platforms have changed the way we communicate, build and maintain relationships, set social standards.
I don't give a speech.
At Center for the Digital Hate, we have developed a deep understanding of the online harm landscape, showing how easily hate actors and disinformation spreaders exploit the digital platforms and search engines that promote and profit their content.
Will I be guilty of hate if I tell the Center for Digital Hate to go fuck themselves?
I mean, is that going to be hate?
If I tell you to go to hell, you disgusting propagandists, is that hate?
Or is that just a rational, logical response to this smear campaign and attempt to go after what they think are the livelihoods of people who differ ideologically from them?
Can't go to hell fast enough.
We'll find out where they get their funding from.
Private enterprise.
We are fighting for better online spaces that promote truth, democracy, and are safe for all?
Here's an idea.
You want...
Safe for not having your fifis hurt?
Stay off the internet.
You know what I find not safe?
Being put on a list and not being told that I'm on a list.
Being demonized and smeared without it even being brought to my attention so that I can retort to it.
But let me retort.
Center for digital hate.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Center for countering digital hate.
Now, you know what?
What is it called here?
The Center for countering digital hate.
We're just going to go for the Center for digital hate.
Anyhow, so the bottom line, let's go to, oh, no, how do I do this?
Oh, what did I just do?
Here, select recommendations.
You got one, two.
Here we go, the recommendations.
This is from Clyde's highlighting.
Climate denial has evolved and social media platforms are failing to keep up with the new denial narratives.
While the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel On climate change has recognized the threat of disinformation in the climate crisis.
Oh, really?
The evolution of climate denial narratives is still an understudied phenomenon.
In 2021, YouTube's parent company, Google, promised to stop monetizing climate denial content.
87. Remember this footnote, 87. Just earlier this year, YouTube's spokesman.
Spokesman?
Assorted that you...
Did they just presume this guy's gender?
Holy shit.
That sounds very hateful.
Center for hate.
Asserted that YouTube would demonetize climate change denial content.
Google has failed to keep its promise on old denial narratives, according to our research.
Furthermore, Google's current policy against the monetization of climate denial urgently needs updating to address the new denial.
Or runs the risk of being even more ineffective.
Alright.
Oh my goodness.
What was footnote 87?
Let's just go to Viva.
Okay, so we're here.
I made it.
I made the list.
Is this footnote 87?
Oh, this is the appendix.
List of YouTube channels.
The following table collates all 96 YouTube channels from which we gathered a data set of text transcripts of videos used for our analysis.
So they're investigating people without even announcing that they're investigating them?
Pretty sure certain jurisdictions have laws against this.
Maybe.
A full explanation of how this list of channels was used in our analysis is available at Appendix 1. Okay, here we go.
So you got ADH TV.
Never heard of them.
I'm just going to go through these.
American Enterprise Institute.
Andrew Klavan.
Klavan!
Andrew Lawrence.
Anonymous.
Okay, let's just keep...
Let's go down here.
You got Blaze TV who's there.
Oh, they're climate deniers.
Okay, interesting.
Let's just see who else is on this.
Clyde, do something!
Bada bing, bada boom.
Oh, Jason Levine wants to know if he made it.
We'll see if he made it.
Epoch TV.
Of course.
FreedomWorks.
Okay, George Christensen.
Glenn Beck!
Heritage for America.
Oh my god, this is amazing.
Human rights.
Okay, independent studio.
John Stossel, right there.
Oh, Jordan Peterson.
He made the list.
That's going to get him in trouble with the order of psychologists.
You made the list.
You have to go do the retraining, yeah, so that you get taken off the list.
Kim Iverson.
Lex Clips.
Let me see who else we got here.
Okay, we're doing good.
Newsmax, obviously.
Paul Joseph Rotzen, obviously.
PragerU.
Oh.
Powerful JRE.
That's Joe Rogan Experience.
Reclaim the media.
Oh, Sean Atwood.
He made it.
Okay, that's nice.
These are people that I know.
Suspicious.
Okay, what was it?
Krigler.
Global.
Jay Martin.
Lumen.
Realignment.
DC Shorts.
Timcast!
We're in good company, people.
Tony Heller.
I know I know Tony Heller.
Trigonometry made the list.
Viva Fry made the list.
What I love is these idiots are actually just diverting traffic to my channel.
579,000 subscribers.
It's not bad.
So that's it.
They're the scum of the earth, and they know exactly what they're doing.
It's the wrap-up smear, by the way.
Now you're going to get other outlets citing their appendix to demonize people.
So you're going to have fake news reporting on fake rubbish like this to do their full wrap-up smear and say, look, I'm not making it up.
I'm just citing that source over there that said that...
Am I a new climate denier or an old one?
I don't know.
Let me just see if they answered my question from earlier today.
Because I said it's very nice, you know, call me whatever you want.
I love fishing.
I love the environment.
More than people might even know, but I think they do know that.
The question I had for the Center for Digital Hates, we'll see if they answered.
Here, let's bring it up here.
We made the list, people.
Here, Center for Digital Hates.
Okay, bam.
Center for Countering Digital Hate is making lists.
Hey, whatever you are, you are the hate.
But thank you for the publicity and linking to my YouTube channel.
I'm actually quite proud to be in the company of Joe Rogan, Lex Veed, and Clyde Do Something, John Stossel, and others.
Be well.
By the way, also questions a very few climate activists can answer.
What charges the EV batteries?
I mean, this is the most simplest one.
This is new climate denialism, or it's just you guys are idiots and you don't understand.
What you're measuring by way of footprint.
Nice!
You've got your beautiful Tesla.
You've got your Volt EV.
What charges the battery?
Oh, hydroelectricity.
Not everywhere.
Not in California.
What charges the battery?
Could it be coal burning plants?
Just throwing that out there.
It's amazing.
California can't even manage its current electrical grid.
Rolling blackouts.
And they want all EV cars by 2035 to be sharing that same grid that is currently incapable of dealing with current electrical demands without everyone having an EV that they hook up to it?
Oh my goodness.
What charges the cars?
More subtle questions.
How do the cars get from overseas to here?
Where do the mineral...
Oh, damn it, I have a typo.
Where do the mineral come from?
Ask Viva.
He's a Russian spy.
That's why he says, where do mineral come from?
Where do the batteries go after use?
Where do the wind turbine blades go after use?
Because they're not compostable.
They're not recyclable.
They're not biodegradable.
Where do they go after the use?
Which countries are the biggest polluters?
These idiots say, all right, we're going to be environmentally friendly and we're going to reduce our carbon footprint, so we're not going to drill for oil at home.
We're not going to drill for minerals at home.
And then we need oil and we need gas, so we're going to go, you know...
Hand in hat.
Hat in hand to Venezuela, Saudi Arabia.
Can you give us some of your nice, you know, criminal oil?
I'm sure that they dig it up and they're environmentally friendly when they do this.
Those EV batteries, your electrical car that you haven't thought about where it gets charged once you get it.
Where do you think those minerals came from?
You ever seen pictures of what lithium mines look like in African countries, South America?
I don't know where they are.
Have you ever seen what they look like?
You're outsourcing your pollution to make yourself feel better and look better.
You're the climate denial.
You're the climate destroyers.
You're the biggest idiots on the face of the planet.
And you're going to label those who ask the obvious logical questions?
Have you measured the respective carbon footprints?
Assume that we even operate on that basis.
It's great.
We've gone from plastic straws to paper straws.
Have we done a measurement in all of this?
I keep asking questions.
Those shitty paper straws dissolve in your mouth when you're eating them.
They have black dye on the outside.
Have we looked at the health impact of...
Swallowing whatever bleach, whatever shit goes into those straws on the human side.
On the just objective environmental side, have we done a thorough analysis of the cost benefit from an environmental perspective of making the plastic straws and recycling them or being more environmentally aware of the manufacturing versus what goes into making the paper straws?
Like, they don't come from nowhere.
This is a discussion I had with someone like...
Paper plates.
Oh, it's such a waste to use paper plates.
Let's just use regular cutlery and we'll put it in the washing machine.
All right.
Electricity to run the washing machine.
Detergents to clean the dishes.
Hot water to heat it up.
Manufacturing the washing machine.
I'm not saying that people should live off paper plates.
But there's a calculation that I don't think people think about.
Oh, well, I could reuse it tomorrow.
True.
But there's an entire process that goes into reusing it tomorrow.
The manufacturing the machine, getting it overseas on the vessels, the vessels which are the greatest contributors to carbon emissions for anybody who thinks that that's the be-all and end-all.
Running the water, using electricity, the detergent, the phosphates.
Oh, but at least I get to reuse it.
Okay, I get to recharge my battery.
Okay, what goes into that?
Say, Bosch.
Let me see what's going on in the chat here.
So we made the digital hate, but that's not where it ends, by the way.
Because we're going to talk about something else that's funny.
Anyways, I guess we can all go let the Center for Countering Digital Hate know what we think of the wonderful free publicity for Canada's most...
I'm a hateful person.
My ass.
I've just hit my limit in terms of putting up with bullshit.
Oh, right.
I've got to pee, but I'll hold it in.
All right, well, there was actually only one more topic.
We're going to go over to Locals afterwards, and we're going to have our wonderful after party.
And I'm thinking, I said I was not going to go past 1 o 'clock because Robert Barnes is going to be live with the Duran at 1 o 'clock.
And I almost forgot.
I'm like, okay, I told my wife I'm going to go live at noon.
She's like, didn't you say you weren't going to go live at the same time Barnes was going to be live?
I was like, yeah.
And if I didn't have you as the better half of my brain, I would have done it, and I would have been saying, I'm an idiot.
No memory.
So maybe we're going to save the E. Jean Carroll rant and rave for vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Let me see what else I had in the backdrop for the news of the day.
I think that might do it.
I'm on with the unusual suspects tomorrow again.
Probably go live at some point tomorrow, and I'll probably go do a car vlog after this.
I'm going to bring up one tweet from Alex Jones before we leave.
Oh, I'm still getting comments.
Oh, no, I was getting comments from the Facebook feed from a little while ago.
Alex Jones, people.
I didn't understand why everyone was like, I didn't understand what people were flipping out about the Taylor Swift kissing her boyfriend after the football game, people saying the game is fixed.
I don't care for those types of sports in the first place.
I've long lost any interest in watching sports games, except for darts.
I love darts.
I've given up on golf.
I love bowling.
And I love poker, but I don't get to watch enough poker.
My New Year's resolution of 2017 was to play more poker, and I have never gotten around to that.
Alex Jones put out a good analysis of the Taylor Swift shit that's sweeping the internet.
I've seen so many tweets about it and couldn't care less about it.
Her music is decent.
I once did a Viva Fry Spartan race to the song Shake It Off.
This was before the world went batshit crazy.
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