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We go up north of the border to Canada to talk to Ezra Levant, who has a disturbing story about the

U.S.

Navy

having some research group at the University of Arkansas

look for Canadian extremists.

Why?

I mean, shouldn't you concentrate on China?

And they found rebelnews.com and the lies that were said in this report, who's paying for this?

Us.

Why are they looking into media in Canada?

We'd like some answers.

That's on today's program.

Also, Ted Cruz drops by.

He's on his way to the border.

We talked to him about that.

Some disturbing stuff with HR1, which is the new voting bill.

And also

gun control.

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We have Senator Tent Cruz on with us now.

We have several topics we want to hit.

But I have to start with this.

A reporter asked him yesterday, could you please wear a mask?

And here's what he said.

Yeah, when I'm talking to the TV camera, I'm not going to wear a mask.

And all of us have been immunized.

So

you're welcome to step away if you like.

The whole point of a vaccine, CDC guidance is what we're following.

Yeah.

Good for you.

Ted Cruz, welcome to the program.

How are you, Ted?

Glenn, good morning.

Good to be with you.

Thank you.

I want to talk to you about the border.

We now have confirmation that

it's not only the Dallas Convention Center, but they are now storing people in Pecos,

Texas, Midland, Carrizo Springs,

two Texas military bases, plus 1,400 are going to be housed now at the San Diego Convention Center.

What's happening, Ted?

It is an absolute crisis at the border, and it's getting worse and worse every day.

They have.

Go ahead.

That's the direct result of political decisions made by Joe Biden and his administration.

They caused this crisis, and their political decisions continue to make it worse.

Do you think, I mean, honestly, I was talking to a farmer the other day, and when he saw what the president and his administration did with the farm relief bill and said, hey, we're going to give it to black farmers and minority farmers and not necessarily white, he said, Glenn, I just, there's no other way for me to view that other than intentional divisiveness.

He said, there's

nothing more divisive than that, especially for a community of farmers where everybody is helping each other.

Everybody's on the same side.

It doesn't decide.

It doesn't matter what color you are.

The same thing here.

Is this just sheer incompetence?

Or

did they know this was going to happen and they did it anyway?

It's something worse than that, which is it's rabid partisanship that blinds them to everything else.

This administration is driven by the hard left, The agendas set by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and AOC.

And their view on the border is they support open borders.

They view ICE, you know, Kamala Harris said ICE law enforcement are the equivalent of KKK or stormtroopers.

That's their view.

And so Joe Biden got elected president.

As soon as he gets sworn in, in his first week, he halted construction of the border wall.

He reinstituted the failed policy of catch and release.

So now when we catch an illegal immigrant, we let them go.

We give them a court date sometime in the future, and we know a whole lot of them are never coming back to be seen again.

And most indefensibly, he ended the Remain in Mexico policy.

Now what is the Remain in Mexico policy?

It was a big foreign policy victory of the Trump administration, where President Trump negotiated with Mexico, and Mexico agreed that illegal immigrants from Central America who had applied for asylum in the United States would remain in Mexico while the cases proceeded.

And it was working, and it was lowering the numbers dramatically.

And the Biden administration is so ideological they didn't care.

And they've produced, we are already seeing right now, the highest number of illegal immigrants in 20 years on the southern border.

And HHS has in their custody 11,551 children.

And that's just

HHS.

They said, you know, Ted, you and I were down at the border years ago under Obama, and you and I both know, and I called Chuck Todd myself and said, hey, you've got to look into this.

They were not interested in the, quote, cages that were holding children.

Now they're not interested again.

In fact, they're making

the argument that this is humanitarian.

This is the right thing to do to keep them in cages.

That is exactly right.

For four years of the Trump presidency, Democrats and the media talked every day about kids in cages.

What they ignored is that Barack Obama built the cages.

You and I both went to those cages during the Obama administration.

They utterly ignored that.

And now Joe Biden is making the cages bigger and they're more full.

And I'll tell you, it is truly a catastrophe.

You take a facility like the Donna facility in South Texas.

The Donna facility has a capacity of 250 people.

It was built to house 250 detainees.

It currently has nearly 4,000 people.

Oh, my gosh.

That is over 1,500% in excess of its capacity.

And so there's a reason why the Biden administration is trying to hide it.

You know, I'm flying down to the border tonight, and I'm bringing 18 senators down to the border to see firsthand what's happening.

The Biden administration is refusing to allow press to join us.

Fox News wanted to embed with us.

ABC News wanted to embed with us.

And the Biden administration has a total press blackout.

They won't allow reporters in.

And, Glenn, their justification is laughable on its face.

They say the reason they won't allow reporters in is because reporters might have COVID.

And so one cameraman, a pool cameraman, they say, nope, too big a COVID risk.

We can't let the guy with the camera in.

And it's because they want to hide the absolute disaster they've created.

Ted, bring your phone.

Can you bring your phone in there?

I'm going to bring my phone and we'll see what they do.

I expect some fireworks because the Biden administration is desperately trying to cover this up.

By the way, we went and looked.

So I've been down to the border in the Trump administration.

They allowed media in and cameras in.

I've been down to the border in the Obama administration.

They allowed media in and cameras in.

By the way, George W.

Bush, they allowed media and cameras in to the facilities then.

Bill Clinton, they allowed media in.

It is only Joe Biden that engages in this cover-up.

And right now, I think too many of the press are still being docile and defenders of him

while they're.

And they're making arguments that are facially absurd.

You want to talk about COVID-19?

Glenn, I'm going to give you a stunning statistic.

Of the illegal immigrants that are being released in Harlingen, Texas, they are testing positive for COVID-19 at a rate seven times higher than the U.S.

population.

And they're just releasing these people.

They're letting them go.

Many of them, they're not even testing.

I mean, it is the reports, and I'm going to go see it tonight and tomorrow, but the reports are that the kids are packed in so tight that they're sleeping on their sides because they can't even

lay down flat.

And that, in the midst of a pandemic, is the direct result of the decisions Joe Biden has made.

And these kids, little boys, little girls who are being handed over to human traffickers, these guys are violent criminals.

They're physically assaulting these children.

They're sexually assaulting these children.

And it is not humane.

It is not compassionate to adopt policies that result in

tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of little boys and little girls being abused by human traffickers.

Ted, I'd love to have you on tomorrow.

I don't know what your plan is, but after you see the camp, we'd love to have you back on.

We'll definitely do it.

Okay.

Real quick, I have to ask you two more questions.

First of all, you said H.R.1, this is a quote, the most dangerous bill this committee has ever considered.

Yes.

So this bill,

which many of us are calling the Corrupt Politicians Act, is designed to entrench and keep corrupt politicians in office forever.

It's designed to keep Democratic control of the federal government for the next 100 years.

How do they do that?

It's a total federal takeover of all of our elections.

Absolutely unconstitutional.

It's completely unconstitutional, but it's also deliberately dangerous.

It invites and creates massive voter fraud.

How does it do it?

It repeals virtually every state voter integrity law.

So, for example, 29 states require voter ID.

The Corrupt Politicians Act repeals all of those laws.

It says it's illegal to require ID to vote.

That's an invitation to fraud, and it's intended to be that.

It requires universal mail-in voting, which is another wide opportunity for fraud, and it requires ballot harvesting.

31 states prohibit ballot harvesting, which is where you have paid political operatives going, say, to a nursing home and collecting hundreds of ballots, many from people who may no longer be competent to make those decisions.

And it invites fraud.

If you have someone from the DNC and, gosh, you know, grandpa votes the wrong way and votes Republican, they can just throw that ballot in the trash and only mail in the Democratic ones.

Not only that,

it mandates immediate registration of essentially everyone, anyone who interacts with the government.

So if you get a welfare check, if you get an unemployment check, if you get a driver's license, if you attend a public college or university, you're automatically registered to vote.

They know that will result in registering millions of illegal aliens, not just a couple, but millions.

And that is because the Democrats want millions of illegal aliens to vote.

And on top of that, it mandates, it strikes down all the state laws restricting criminals from voting, restricting felons from voting.

It says the instant anyone gets out of prison, they're entitled to vote no matter what the state law is.

And I guess the Democrats have made the decision that if millions of illegal immigrants and millions of criminals are able to vote, they're going to vote for Democrats, and that's going to keep them in power.

So this is a dangerous bill.

They've already said that they're spinning it as the Republicans are just trying to take away your right to vote.

That's how they're spinning it.

And they're starting to talk about the filibuster.

Now we have,

I view it as a threat from the president

to the Senate to pass these

common sense gun reforms.

I mean,

is it unreasonable to think that they'll take away the filibuster and that they are coming for all of the guns?

I think there is a very serious risk on both of those.

The filibuster right now, as you know, we have a 50-50 Senate.

If all of the Democrats stand together, they can end the filibuster.

Right now, it takes 60 votes to pass legislation, but if all the Democrats stand together, they can do it.

48 of them have already said they will.

There are only two Democrats who even claim they will oppose it.

It is Joe Manchin from West Virginia and Kirsten Sinema from Arizona.

I'll tell you, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are raining down a world of hurt.

I can tell you, I've served in the Senate nine years with Joe Manchin.

He's a very nice man.

He's very affable and likable.

In nine years, he has never once stood up to Chuck Schumer on any issue that mattered when he was the deciding vote.

And so the pattern we've seen from him is he finds some cute way to say he didn't give in, but let Schumer do exactly what he wants.

And I think there's a real risk of that on the filibuster.

And if they do that, their number one priority is the Corrupt Politicians Act, because that keeps them in power forever.

But you better believe packing the U.S.

Supreme Court is right behind that.

Making D.C.

a state is right behind that.

And coming after our guns, as you know, Glenn, when Joe Biden was asked, if you win, does that mean you're coming after the guns?

And his answer was, bingo.

That's what they intend to do.

Thank you, Ted Cruz.

Senator Ted Cruz from the great state of Texas.

We'll talk to you tomorrow after you've visited the cages and can tell us really what's going on down at the border.

Thank you so much, Ted.

Thank you.

God bless you.

You bet.

Senator Ted Cruz.

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Ali.

Anyway, Alyssa.

What is this?

It's Ahmed Al-Allawi Alyssa.

I love that.

Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

The press wants you to know he's a loner.

He's a lone wolf.

He just lived in his family's basement, never had a girlfriend.

Yusami Al Musa, Alyssa's brother-in-law, said that the shooter lived in the basement of his family's home there in Colorado, never had a lot of friends.

He said, every time I visited with my wife's family, he would always sit away from everyone else, not saying anything to anyone.

It was really strange.

He was a loner, just sitting to the side, not with us.

He works with his family and his brothers, uh, but there were never any girlfriends and not many friends.

Oh, man,

even his mother said this when he was arrested for the massacre.

This is what his mother said:

he has a reputation of being stupid, not smart.

Can you imagine your mom saying that about you?

Yeah, my son, what a dummy.

Uh, he's not like a proper Muslim.

I don't even know what kind of Muslim he was.

He didn't go to the mosque I go to.

Just odd coming from a mom.

That's your first statement?

Really?

Well, I think, though, when your son has murdered 10 people, probably the best thing you can do is make him not responsible for it because he's dumb or he's got an illness or whatever the case may be.

I mean, that's your sort of backup reasoning.

And certainly you don't want to blame it on your faith.

So you're you're going to say he wasn't a good Muslim.

Your first thing is, I mean, think about the parents.

So, they're always like, We didn't see this coming.

We have no idea.

Not, yep, he's been known to be a dummy for a long time.

People might think, maybe the parenting was an issue here.

Hey, dummy, get back into the basement.

Now,

we know that he is a Muslim.

However, Twitter has said that calling him a white Christian terrorist

quote, doesn't violate its misinformation policies.

Twitter told Newsweek that characterizing accused mass murderer Ahmed Alawi

as a white Christian terrorist does not violate its misinformation policies even though he is from Syria and has been identified as a Muslim.

Prior to the suspect's identity being made public, the magazine said numerous Twitter users assumed the suspect was white and characterized the massacre as another example of racial injustice and white supremacy in the United States.

And lo and behold, that white supremacy narrative blew up in all of the Twitter users' faces.

Some users have deleted their tweets calling him white.

Others have defended their claims saying they were based on his skin color rather than his

ethnicity.

Newsweek put the misleading posts to Twitter.

Social network has been accused of left-wing bias and anti-Christian prejudice.

But they said, no,

we're not taking any action on these.

They're not in violation of the Twitter rules.

We will not take action on every instance of misinformation.

Currently, our misinformation rules cover COVID-19 misinformation, synthetic and manipulated media, and civic integrity.

So you call a guy,

you know, a white mass murderer, a white Christian, even though he's a Syrian Muslim.

That's not important.

No.

That's not important misinformation.

So the cops went and they visited his home.

He was living in an $800,000 home in the basement.

And

we're starting to get a real look at this guy.

Clearly he was mentally ill.

He surrendered, you know, when he surrendered, he's like, I surrender, I surrender, and I'm naked.

Because he really was in his underpants.

The

police have no other, no idea why he stripped down.

But apparently he just, he was standing there and he started taking off his clothes to his underwear.

And then he was like, I'm naked.

I surrender.

Maybe because he thought

that I want them to see that,

you know, I'm not

carrying a weapon.

Which it's odd.

I do after a shooting.

But maybe he didn't want to necessarily be just shot.

Curry.

He wanted to be able to surrender for some reason.

Now, according to police,

Alyssa, when he was 17, blacked out and violently assaulted a classmate who had called him a terrorist.

The report says Alyssa attacked another student who had said,

he said, was bullying him.

He beat him and left him with a red and swollen face and his eye partially closed.

The report claims that Kimros, the other guy, was crying and throwing up when his father arrived and threatened to press charges.

Alyssa said he couldn't take being bullied anymore, so he blacked out and rushed him.

I blacked out and rushed him.

Really?

He claimed that Kinrose had called him a racist name, called him a terrorist, even took a video of him and put it on Snapchat.

He was charged with a misdemeanor

for

the attack.

Apparently, he got bullied a lot in high school.

So, you know, there you go.

There's the white culture for you.

One of the, he was on a wrestling team.

One of the wrestlers said he was violent and scary to be around.

He

apparently, in his senior year, they had wrestle-offs to see who would make varsity and he lost his match, but he quit the team and yelled out in the wrestling room that he was going to kill everybody.

And nobody did anything

about it.

You know, I don't know how that happens.

How is that happening?

The guy is violent.

He threatens his classmates.

I'm going to kill everyone.

Your kid that eats their peanut butter sandwich into the shape of a gun,

they go to jail.

But this guy, how is this happening?

It happened again.

That's the story in Florida.

Now, he was 17 years old at the time.

He's

not 17 now.

But

nothing to see here.

Nothing to see see here.

Lindsey Graham said the majority of the Senate will reject Biden's assault weapons ban, but I'm not sure.

And I don't think that this is

the majority of the Senate will.

That's interesting.

I guess what, all 50 Republicans and Joe Manchin is a majority?

Yeah, maybe.

And of course, Joe Manchin, not exactly reliable, as Ted Cruz just pointed out on this program.

No.

And I think this is coming out of order, though.

Let me tell you the story that I think,

you know, if you don't see this, you are truly blind.

And

I,

you know, I'm a religious nutjob, so what do I know?

But I can only describe what is happening in our country and our world as evil.

The forces of evil have been unleashed.

And

everything is under attack.

This isn't just about America.

This is is about the Western Judeo-Christian way of life.

This is about everything on the line that the West has done.

And

it is a really well-thought-out

plan

that has been in operation for a very long time.

And I think that, you know, it's like,

Look at how fast everything has happened

in the last 67 days.

Look how fast things have happened.

You already are questioning your military now, aren't you?

You're questioning your military.

Whatever side you're on, you're questioning the brass

if you're a conservative, and you're questioning the average soldier if you're a liberal.

The military was the last thing that we had that we counted on, that we believed was not political, and they've politicized it.

So much so that in about 10 minutes, you're going to hear from a guy who testified in front of Congress what they are doing in our military.

It is terrifying how they are accusing our military of being complete nutjobs.

They needed to make sure that the military, they could wash people out of the military that are from red states.

This is my theory.

I don't have anything to, no evidence of this other than, you know, I just don't believe in this series of coincidence.

You know, it's much easier to explain if somebody was sitting back and watching

and

planning all of this.

They've done too much too fast for this just to be happenstance.

So they come in, we have the January 6th deal, and what do they do?

The FBI comes out with a report saying this is the biggest concern we have.

Really?

Not Antifa, but that collection of people.

Really?

The military is now suspect.

And it's pretty much everyone who voted Republican is an extremist.

You're a white supremacist Christian extremist.

Well, that's demonizing half the country.

How?

Why would you do that?

Well, then you have a shooting.

You have a crazy guy who shoots up the salon, and what do they say?

It's a right-wing extremist.

When he wasn't, A, he was nuts.

Second of all, he even said, no, this had to do with sex addiction.

Okay.

But it didn't matter.

Why?

The narrative that was important to them at this time was that you were convinced, and not you, because you're the target, that half the country is convinced that those people who live in the crazy red states are just that.

They're racist and they're crazy and they're afraid they're going to lose their power and they are all gun nuts and they're going to shoot us all up.

When this guy comes out and he's Syrian and a Muslim, what do they do?

They immediately pivot to don't pay attention to the guy, pay attention to the gun, which they didn't do last week.

Because they haven't cemented in the left's mind entirely that everybody who votes differently is a terrorist.

So they have to paint everyone who is against HR1,

against open borders.

They have to paint these people as crazy and dangerous.

That was going to take some time.

They've been thrown off their game.

I don't think they were planning on hitting guns this soon.

First year, absolutely.

When the time came, you bet.

But I don't think they were done

focusing America on how bad things are, these right-wing extremists.

That's how they needed to paint us to silence us and also paint us to get us to give up guns.

or go to war or be rounded up by, you know, sheriffs all around, those people who won't give up guns.

They need us to respond in

violent ways.

And when we don't, they just make it up anyway.

You mentioned something, I think it was yesterday or the day before, that this wasn't necessarily the event that puts this over the line.

They still need a crystal clear-cut-like event.

Correct.

Can you say that?

Yeah, they need a Las Vegas.

But they need a Las Vegas where the motive is clear.

And

they need a January 6th.

And everything they do

fosters that kind of feeling in a lot of people.

They are taking away, they're operating as if they have a mandate when they don't have a mandate.

This is a clear election where you like moderate.

You know what I mean?

You come together, you work together.

That's the way it would be.

They're operating as if this is a mandate, and then they're calling everyone who disagrees with them racist, but they've gone an extra step, a dangerous extremist.

That's Patriot Act talk.

Because I was reminded today that after Sandy Hook, you remember the push for gun control after Sandy Hook?

The Democrats had 58 senators when they tried that and couldn't get it through.

58.

But it doesn't matter.

It's thrown them off the game, but it doesn't matter.

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Rebelnews.com.

Very controversial up in Canada because...

Canada is a socialist country and they don't really have, they don't have the rights that we have here.

And

Rebel News is kind of like the Blaze,

the Canadian version of the Blaze.

I consider a sister organizations.

And it's run by Ezra Levant, and he is a brilliant...

Ezra, you were a lawyer, right, by trade?

Yeah, I was.

But

I did a dabble in politics.

But I think journalism, as they say, is upstream from politics.

Culture is upstream from politics.

And politicians can only do what they can do in the environment.

And,

you know, we have to help shape that environment, help people think things through.

I don't think we're that radical.

I mean, in the United States,

we're being called moderate conservative.

Correct.

I mean, we're sympathetic to Trump.

We're skeptical of the Democrats.

But look, we're Canadian.

We've got that sensibility.

I was shocked, Glenn, when out of the blue eye, I get this tip.

from Arkansas.

That's pretty far away from Canada.

And it was the strangest strangest thing.

I almost didn't believe it.

We followed the tip and we discovered through Freedom of Information documents that the U.S.

Navy, the United States Navy, had hired a defense contractor in Little Rock, Arkansas to work up what they called a cyber forensic analysis.

of my little news company.

Now, I happen to love the U.S.

Navy.

I think it's a great force for freedom.

And I mean, I'm no expert, but I think it's the big threat is the Chinese PLA Navy, People's Liberation.

They got

their fourth aircraft carrier.

Now, that

I mean...

Sure, the U.S.

Navy

might have some problems with China, but we're talking rebelnews.com.

I don't even have a canoe, my friend.

Like,

I am the least nautical person.

I'm from a landlocked place called Alberta.

It's like I'm from Nebraska.

There's no boats where I'm from.

I saw the evidence.

I saw the report for the U.S.

Navy on you.

And the paperwork is astonishing because they don't have anything right.

And

they are truly painting you as a danger.

Yeah, and I didn't understand.

Look, I've had no interactions in my life with the U.S.

Navy.

I've never been to Arkansas, although I'd like to.

It looks very pretty.

So what are they doing going after me?

And it made me think, well, remember how the British intelligence sort of did some of the heavy lifting against the Trump campaign?

They did some spying in those early days.

And so I thought, well, maybe there's a Canadian angle.

And sure enough, this same defense contractor at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock sold the same dossier, if I could use that word, to the Canadian Armed Forces Special Operations Command.

So again, Canada has some challenges.

I don't think we're a military challenge.

I'm a Canadian citizen.

We follow the law.

I mean,

we're conservative, but I think you're right.

We are sort of in the same part of the spectrum as the Blaze.

I don't even know if this is legal.

It's probably legal for the U.S.

Navy to spy on me because I'm not an American.

Although it seems weird to me that I'm their big enemy.

I don't know if it's legal for Justin Trudeau to have his army spy on me.

That probably isn't right.

But it makes me think, okay, I discovered this almost by accident.

I did some access to information requests, some Freedom of Information requests.

I got some more.

The University of Arkansas's defense contractor, they're stonewalling.

They don't want to show us how this whole thing started.

They gave us a few scraps.

But I want to know who ordered this, what was their mission or their mandate, what was the backup like, how did this even happen that a Canadian news site became a target of the U.S.

Navy?

I'm really, really curious how that was set in motion.

It doesn't make any sense at all.

The two things

I could think of is:

is the Canadian,

somebody in the Canadian military or Justin Trudeau's office or whatever, are they

getting favors done

for them by our military, and in exchange, are they investigating people like us in Canada and

can share the information here in the United States?

But it's not, it's disturbing because it is not even accurate information.

Explain some of the inaccuracies here because it's pretty significant.

Sure.

And I mean, we all have heard the joke that, you know, what's an oxymoron?

Jumbo, shrimp, right right right military intelligence I never liked that joke about military intelligence because I thought no military intelligence those are the those are the smart guys who you know crack the codes and and counterterrorism if this is the state of U.S.

military intelligence you guys are in trouble because I mean

first of all they say we're a U.S.

operation no we're not we love America we talk about America but we're based up here in Canada they say that you know sometimes we have

what are called micro sites or vanity sites.

So for example, we have a civil liberties campaign.

We talked about this the other day called fight the fines.com.

So if anyone gets a lockdown ticket, we crowdfund a civil liberties lawyer.

So we just, instead of me saying, hey, go to rebelnews.com slash fight underscore the, like instead of remembering, I just remember fightthefines.com.

So we have a bunch of these, I call them vanity sites, but they're just forwarding to different pages on our website so I don't have to remember a hundred different URLs.

That's all they are.

The same is on every one.

And you do, it's like when you come out with a news story

and like this, it's you know, Canadian

U.S.

Navy spies or whatever it would be.

So it's easy for people to find it, and it is, it would all be directing back to rebel, rebelnews.com.

It would be part of that.

Yeah, it's totally normal.

Governments do it too, by the way.

So, for example, in the story we're talking about, I took all the spy stuff we got and I put it on a page and I gave it a nickname, really, stopspyingonus.com, just so I can remember it for radio interviews.

So, if you were to go to stopspyingonus.com, it'll actually forward you to a rebel news story about this case, and you can see all these documents for yourself, and you can make your own judgments.

So, what, and the reason I tell you that is because

this this defense contractor said, no, no, no, by using vanity URLs,

these are deep fakes designed to deceive people.

And the craziest thing is, they said one of our goals is to get people to vote for Canada's Socialist Party.

There's a guy named Jagneet Singh who runs our Socialist Party up here.

We disagree with him strenuously.

I mean, he's a nice guy personally, but he's like he is far left.

He's like.

Bernie Sanders.

Yeah, exactly.

He's like the Bernie Sanders of Canada.

The theory that the U.S.

Navy's defense contractor cooked up was that Rebel News, and I've been a conservative my whole life since I was a boy, I've been right-wing, that my secret mission is to meddle in the Canadian election to get people to vote socialist.

And I'm just thinking, dude, have they ever watched a single one of my, that would be like saying Glenn Beck's secret agenda is to get Bernie Sanders into the White House.

They've just, have you ever turned on the show?

But I was thinking, why would they write such kooky stuff?

Why would they say we're American, not Canadian?

Why would they say that our vanity URLs, which is really a big nothing, are a deep fake?

They use that word, deep fake.

We know what deep fake sorry.

Those are those forgery videos that like Tom Cruise.

I mean, they're spooky.

We don't do that.

I don't know how to do that.

That's not what we do.

And why would they say we're trying to meddle in the election to get the socialists elected?

And I have a theory that they're trying to say Rebel Use is like one of those Russian troll farms or something so they can use some national security rationale to sweep us off the internet or even just to go to YouTube, Google, Facebook, Twitter and say, guys, you've got a Russian troll farm.

They're meddling in the election.

They're deep fakes, American-based.

They're trying to

interfere.

You've got to shut them down.

So I think it wasn't actually

real spying because it takes five minutes to know we're in Canada.

It takes five minutes to know we don't like the socialist candidate.

I think they were trying to cook up some dossier that they could use to get us knocked off the internet.

I don't find that

a stretch.

of imagination.

I don't know why this has happened,

but I think it's interesting that it happened in the United States and apparently commissioned by the U.S.

Navy.

That doesn't make any sense at all.

You know, one of the things that one of our presidents that I know you know,

Eisenhower, spoke about in his farewell address was

everybody remembers in America that he was warning about the vast

military-industrial complex.

But what the warning was, it was not just about how these people are going to be now in bed with government and huge dollars are going to be there.

He also talked research and science and educational

units, you know, or colleges.

And he warned that when you have this kind of money at stake, that people will come up with things not because they're curious, but because the government wants it.

And I'm wondering if this isn't a clear right way, or I mean,

military-industrial complex kind of

action coming true is somebody wanting this information in Canada,

and they're doing favors, and we're doing favors, and

they've hired a company that they know will give them the answer that they're looking for.

Yeah, and you make a good point.

You know, I found it odd that the University of Arkansas in Little Rock was involved.

I mean,

aren't you supposed to be teaching kids

what you're doing?

But this is exactly what Eisenhower warned of.

Yeah.

And part of me thought, like I mentioned before, how they got so many facts so wrong, and they were so

crazy in their language.

These are deep fakes.

And I thought to myself, maybe

they're just trying to create a demand for more studies that they get paid for.

I have no idea how much they were paid, if it was 10 grand or 100 grand or who knows?

I don't know.

Our tax dollars went to pay for it.

Well, the U.S.

Navy is a huge budget.

I think it's $161 billion.

So there's a lot of, you know, a lot of money to be in their building.

Yeah.

And so this little defense contractor in Little Rock, and I've left them a message, by the way.

I've asked them some questions.

I called up the spy master of the U.S.

Navy because her phone number is on one of these documents.

I just left her a message and I sent her an email.

And I mean, listen, I just want to talk.

And frankly, they can ask me questions.

They can ask me if I'm a Canadian.

They can ask me if I'm trying to create a revolution or something.

Like you would think,

if you're spying on a guy and he wants to talk to you, talk to him.

No, they're hiding from me.

I think that there's a chance that this is just a money-making,

self-perpetuating, you know, empire-building thing.

And maybe the admirals don't quite know what deep fakes are and what vanity URLs are.

And so if you use lots of scary words, admirals who maybe, you know, the most they do on the internet is look at photos of their grandkids on Facebook, maybe they're bamboozling Admirals.

I'm just guessing here, and scaring them so that the money keeps flowing.

It's just a theory because, I mean, I see three theories.

One is we're conservative, so smash us.

That's a theory.

One is it's a favor for the Canadian government because maybe if the U.S.

government spies on us, it's not illegal, whereas if the Canadian government spied on their own citizens, it is.

But there's also that military-industrial complex, just self-perpetuating, you know, busy work,

build up a budget.

If I was the Chinese Navy, I would be laughing so hard at this.

They're building their fourth aircraft carrier.

They're going deeper and deeper into the blue sea.

I am scared of the Chinese Navy.

That's not me being dramatic.

That is the rising military power.

And I would just wish the u.s navy which i admire would stop focusing on my little website i would focus on the bad guy i will um

i'll i'll have our producers look into this as well have you called the university of arkansas little rock

yeah well i mean i i actually hired a lawyer because you need some standing in arkansas to do a freedom of information request and i'm not an art i'm not from arkansas so we we hired a local law firm and they've gone back and forth about ten times and the university of Arkansas is stonewalling and I think they don't want to hand over the defense contract.

They don't want to show

who commission this.

We have some of the

emails back and forth from

the University of

Arkansas, Little Rock, somebody, Neat.

Is it Nitton?

Nitten, yeah, Nitton Agrawal.

He's the boss of this little defense contractor.

They're staff at the university and they take defense contracts, which is exactly what Eisenhower talked about.

Yeah, it is.

And basically, he took a contract from the U.S.

Navy on us, and then he seems to have sold the same work a second time to the Canadian government.

I've put in access to information requests in about six different places.

I think we're going to have to go to court in Arkansas because they don't want to give it up.

I wonder if

we can help you, because this involves our tax dollars, and we should be able to get a Freedom of Information Act because we're American citizens on this one.

We're going to look into this one, Ezra, and anything further that you have on it, let us know.

Because if they're doing it to you, who's doing it to us?