Will you give us the tools, so we can finish the job?

What is this discussion all about?! You want to give Ezra some money, you give Ezra some money. You don’t want to do it, you don’t do it! End of story. The last time I’ve check it was (still) a free enough country that anyone can do whatever he/she wants to do his/her own money.

LOL

So why’d you bring it up?

You: Rebel sucks compared to Prager U!
Me: No it doesn’t, in a quarter of the time, it’s almost matched Prager U in overall views and subscribers and has in the last month actually exceeded it in both.
You: …That was just one example!

I almost feel guilty whenever we have our little chats. It’s like you’re a deranged shooter trying to commit suicide by cop. You’re always begging to be taken out and you don’t even know it. lol

So anyways, Prager U doesn’t do what The Rebel does nor has it grown as fast as the Rebel. This type of crowd funding has allowed the Rebel to achieve what it has in such a short time. You may not like it, but the numbers speak for themselves. More views and subscribers than CBC News on YouTube and coming close on Prager U.

To stay in business? Nope, this is mostly just for capital costs not day to day stuff. Sorry Michael.

Nnaumbua Farrell,

Prager was ONE example.

There are many more – and they have never asked for money.

Rebel offices across Canada….LOL. Someone’s house doesn’t count as an office or studio. The Rebel can’t even pay for their own main REAL office./studio. They need handouts to stay in business, because they are getting NOTHING through advertising. No one gives a fuck to advertise here and probably view it as a negative towards their product.

I have looked at the numbers – The Rebel isn’t doing any better now than they were a year ago, as this clearly confirms.

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/therebel.media

I hope you won’t ignore the numbers.

Michael Mann… I mean “Jimmy Reece”, you still posting here?

“Michael Mann commented 9 months ago

Peter,

I am so sure that Hillary will be President – if I lose, I will admit I was wrong and I will never post here again.

But if I am right, you are never going to hear the end of it. You will not want to post here any longer – I promise you. "

http://www.therebel.media/nevertrump_conservative_president_hillary_clinton

Oh right, you’re a liar.

Any how, Prager U started on You Tube nearly 7.5 years ago. The Rebel nearly 2 years ago. In that time, The Rebel has achieved 74% of the number of Prager U’s subscribers and 80% of its number of total video views.

It has also, in the last 30 days, achieved 2.7 times more views and 1.3 times more subscribers sign ups than Prager U. It has also produced 26 times more videos (not including some of the Paywall videos) than Prager U.

http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/prageruniversity

http://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg

The Rebel also maintains offices and equipment across Canada, has employees in at least three countries, and sends reporters and crews around the World to cover UN climate change conferences, the European Migrant Crisis, BC Salmon farming protesters, Syrian migrants in Canadian Schools, UN Tobacco controls, and the Ohio State terrorist attack in addition to providing commentary.

Look at the numbers Michael… I mean “Jimmy.” They keep going up. You don’t matter.

Ezra wouldn’t have to beg for money if any company was willing to advertise here. I think it’s very telling that The Rebel can’t find ANY high profile advertisers – even ones that support conservative causes and they have to resort to cheap sponsored links and begging.

Ok so I’m another brick in the wall. I was reading the comments here and we sure could have used some of those wet blankets during the Fort McMurray fire (which was made so much worse by the NDP’s negligence) might not have grounds to lock them up but some insurance underwriters got humdinger grounds for lawsuit.

Hi REBEBELS I see they have added some more items for us to donate to. Here is what I suggest for the STUDIO COMPLEX If we REBELS contribute what we can say $60 or so we could call it
THE REBEL
HOME
FREE SPEECH

The rebel is counted as a commercial entity so they will not be able to get the cheaper deals available to us at home. As an example my wife has a remote office with 4 staff. They use 78gb a month just on web apps and voip phones. No streaming as this is blocked on the router. The rebel handling video will be way bigger than this. $400 bucks a month sound cheap to me.

Hi Guys. Wouldn’t it be better to get Canon 80D cameras because they are more modern than the 7D and they have tilt out screen so the presenter could use them solo on a tripod etc and see themselves talking to ensure they are in shot. They also support 4k etc. These are pretty much industry standard for vloggers now.

Fraser , when you do video streaming like TheRebel does, it takes a huge amount of bandwidth it has nothing to do with our domestic usage.

$400.00 BUCKS A MONTH SEEMS A LITTLE EXCESSIVE I HAVE ULTRA HIGH SPEED INTERNET SERVICE AND IT DOESN’T COST ME THAT MUCH
YOU WOULD THINK SOME INTERNET SUPPLIER WOULD STEP UP AND GIVE IT TO YOU FREE AND YOU COULD HAVE A BANNER TYPED OR SCROLD ACROSS THE BOTTOM OF YOUR SHOW. LIKE INTERNET SUPPLIED BY RODGER’S OR BELL OR COGECO OR WHO EVER MAYBE EVEN ANOTHER COMPANY LIKE EZRA’S PIZZA.

CBC is supposed to be the public broadcaster, not the most hip and happening innovation station or not the Liberal stooge station.

A public broadcaster is supposed to be for everyone, not just the Liberals or the fringe special interest groups.

If they’re only going to push Liberal views, they should only take tax dollars from Liberal supporters and give the rest of us a break. People get sick of the Liberal spin on every little news story.

YAH HOO SOMEONE STEPPED IN AND PAID FOR EZRA’S OFF CONGRATES

Frankly, I do not think you are diverse enough in your coverage. Your resolve cannot be questioned but your direction can vary a little more. As for the USA I notice not a single word about Hillary attacking the so called fake news. An opportunity to point out she did not even hint at the news stories concerning her several meltdowns during her campaign. She avoided doing so to prevent a backlash as those stories were credible. Divert your energies into the foolishness of the left wing and the rest will fall into place. The CBC will only be sold if Canada holds a referendum. To do that you need to embarrass the left wing and their flagrant misuse of what is suppose to be a non bias media outlet. I am sure that 70% of Canadians do not want the CBC to be a continual burden on the tax payer to satisfy a minority of left wing strategists.

Why do you always have to bring things back to the CBC? Just because the CBC is paid for by tax payers, is not a good argument in favor of the rebel. And since when have I ever spoken well of the CBC? Never.

But here is the hypocrisy. When the SUn was on its death bed, they actually went to the government to grovel for money in the form of getting forced into people’s homes. So don’t lecture me on the CBC being forced down our throats with our own tax dollars. If Ezra could get the tax payers to fund the rebel, he would.

I can get so much news on the internet for free that is not from the CBC. I see no reason to pay for the rebel. Besides, Ezra already earns money off the ads.

It appears that ANONYMOUS has failed to understand the difference between Governmental financial support and private financial support. The CBC is a government supported institution. The government takes money from it’s citizens whether that citizen agrees with how the government spends that money or provides support to institutions. In other words the citizen has money forcibly taken from him/her regardless of his/her opinion on the merits of the government’s (politician’s) choices on the use of that money.

The institution which obtains private financial support has to convince the provider of funding that the recipient will apply the funding to meet the stated objectives (which, presumably, the funder supports). That person is not told that he must support the institution’s objectives. That support is voluntary and can follow any means that encourages those who support its objectives to make financial contributions.

A beggar seeking financial support to buy food asks for donations to satisfy his/her objective. You have the choice to respond to that request however you want, provided that such response is not criminal. i.e. it is not lawful to physically assault the beggar for making the request. (Do not confuse being impolite with being unlawful.) It is lawful to say no or to make a contribution. The same applies when a charity makes a request for financial support, you have a choice to make a contribution or not. Under the current law you cannot be forced to make a contribution except that with some appeals for charitable funding have been supported by government (taxpayer) funds and, to the extent of your share of the taxpayer’s money, you have been forced to contribute to the cause. The same also applies to any person or company who seeks to obtain funds.

With respect to the current appeal for financial support by the Rebel, the contribution is purely voluntary. The appeal could have been for increased subscribers to their news service just as lawfully as asking for funding in the manner that has been made. Just as easily, they could have made an appeal for funds by other means such as becoming a shareholder or making a loan to them. Each method of raising funds involves different costs and obligations. (Raising funds by way of issuing shares or dealing with loans is expensive and more costly than the approach they have chosen). Presumably, the Rebel evaluated the costs of each alternative and made their choice accordingly while staying within the law.

If a potential provider of funds is not happy with the method of fund raising used they have a choice of not providing such funds. That person has no right to stop any other person from responding to the request, unless the person wishing to provide the funding is not lawfully competent to do so – generally someone who is not an adult under the law or whose legal capacity to do so is lawfully constrained. If funding is provided by a government (provincial and/or federal) it is paid, indirectly, by the taxpayer. The tax money received by the government is taken from the taxpayer, with or without the taxpayer’s consent. Therefore the taxpayer has no choice in whether his taxes are to be applied to this purpose which is why the government must be very careful about which projects it chooses to support with taxpayer’s money. The support of the news media by the government can be easily manipulated by the granting or withholding of funds with excuses for the funding changes being stated as having no relationship to the objectives that the institution actually does pursue. The managers of the taxpayer’s funds also use other techniques to manage the media such as denying a representative of the media of whose views they disapprove from attending events under their control whether media related or not. It is well known that the politicians (who control the spending of taxpayer’s moneys) have every excuse under the sun to deny the actual rational for their action and provide dubious rationale to support their decision/s.

I wish the Rebel all the best in their endeavors. I trust that they will do their best to apply the funds in accordance with their intent stated above. You might like to compare the performance of the current politicians in using or abusing the funds taken from taxpayers.

Why doesn’t Rebel news merge with Breitbart and call themselves Breitbart Canada? Let’s have one conservative news agency to take on CNN, MSNBC, CBC, Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, BBC and all the other fake news mainstream media?

Kevin Hare, you’ll get no backlash from me. Good luck and God speed.
(The Little Book of Joe’s Sh!t Life, available on Kobo, Kindle, soon on paperback)

I WAS JUST THINKING $40 BUCKS IS LESS THAN 1/2 A CARTON OF SMOKES IT’S ALSO LESS THAN A ROAST AND IS 1/2 OF YOUR INTERNET BILL AND LESS THAN A BOTTLE OF SINGLE MALT SCOTCH AND IT’S ONLY 8 SUPER MAX TICKETS
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I’m disappointed to see no big oil company or pipe line company has not taken the opportunity for some very cheap advertising to buy Ezra’s office.
Then maybe us REBELS will kick in. It would only take 250 REBELS to kick in $40.00 each then we could name the office " TAH HOO REBELS KICK ASS AGAIN" Remember only 250 Rebels have to kick in.
Tell me what you think I ready to kick in the first $40 buck

Dave, as a retired engineer who’s done a lot of recording and built a couple of studios I understand where you’re coming from. As a one-man show, I too manage to pull off great results using inexpensive, sometimes repurposed and often ageing equipment and software that I understand and maintain myself. But once your organization grows, not everybody on the team has the same technical skills as you do, and it becomes imperative to buy equipment and services that are high-end and up-to-date, last a long time, and are understood by everyone including those brought in at short notice. I trust The Rebel to make those choices and I’ll be contributing to this studio as I did to the previous one.

Anonymous said, "Peter, it is because Ezra asking for money is a conflict of interest with the product he delivers. "

In what way? Ezra is asking for people to pay for the product they are receiving. That is the heart of the capitalism he supports. So instead of advertising to get people to buy his product, he asks directly. The only difference is his approach to the people.

You have no problems with the CBC whining for money.

You also have no problem with the government forcibly taking the money from the people in the form of taxes.

When Ezra asks for support so he can produce a product the people want, he is not forcing them to support him. All it is, is a different approach from advertising.

You, Anonymous, have everything backwards like a good little socialist lemming always does.

You want the money to support the CBC forcibly taken from you and all other Canadians even if they do not want to support the CBC.

What Ezra is doing is morally superior because he does not take stolen money and he follows closely the capitalist system he and his supporters follow.

Peter, it is because Ezra asking for money is a conflict of interest with the product he delivers.

For all the talk of the virtues of a free market economy, the rebel has proven it has to ask for handouts in order to survive. For once, I would like to hear an argument that does not bring up how the CBC gets government funding. Or better yet, I would like to see Ezra run his business in such a way where he does not have to constantly grovel for money. There are plenty of you tube channels out there that make huge amounts of money, and never have to ask the viewers for donations. Ezra should be
modelling the rebel after those channels, instead of what he has here.

Look at Prager University. They have lots of subs, and never panhandle for donations.

I am behind this effort. I think this is a great avenue to get the word out there about our outright abusive and oppressive government. I want to support as much as possible and donate and get involved.
But I can’t afford it.
I am an ex-Alberta oilfield worker who was laid off in March and have been on EI since. Four months ago, my daughter severely fractured her femur and I became a stay-home dad, unable to go back to work even I could find a job. She was confined to the main floor of our house and I gave up my office (my man-cave) so she could have a bedroom and we modified the bathroom to make things easier for her, to help her retain a little independence.
I don’t write all this here for sympathy from everyone. I am getting very involved in the Alberta situation by keeping up with what is going on this site as well as newalbertaseparatist.com and I was there at the recent carbon tax rally in Edmonton. My EI runs out in April 2017 unless I qualify for an extension but being at home has really gave me time to experience and discover just how screwed over we are and I didn’t sit around doing nothing and feel sorry for myself. Still unable to find gainful employment, I resorted to writing my findings down in a book (The Little Book of Joe’s Sh!t Life, available on Kobo, Kindle, soon on paperback) and the only means I have to try to become self-sufficient again is to shamelessly flaunt it anywhere I can so I can pay the bills. I understand I will probably get some backlash on this post and I hope I will be forgiven but I have to do something. My only recourse is to promise I will give back by donating some earnings to help this project grow.
The book is very tell-it-like-it-is, humourous and promises to entertain at the very least about the current issues we are facing. I hope someone gives it a read.

For those who want a debate of the leftist views and the right views, I recommend that, for the former, read the writings or listen to the verbiage of the leftists on the MSM and digest the utterances of the right. The verbiage from the leftists comes drom those to the extreme left to those who are middle of the road. They do not cover the right views. Any debate is comprised of those who expunge the views for the argument and those who expunge the converse view. Those arguing for one side cannot argue both sides of the argument. This leads to the conclusion wanted by the publisher dominating the debate resulting in a biased debate which would be an unreliable source for evaluating the argument.

The Rebel is asking for financial contribution. It is not mandating that anyone should pay. The Rebel leaves it up to the individual to make the choice. If the individual favours the objectives of the appeal he/she/it has the choice to participate or not to participate as he/she/it chooses. The institutions which are supported by the Government means that the Taxpayers – since all taxes (income and sales and from all other sources) are paid by the consumers (taxpayers) – are compelled to pay for the institution to meet its objectives without any choice to support or deny support of that institution’s objectives. This applies to the media financially supported by the government. For these institutions to continue they need to, either, meet a universal need, or provide something for everyone under the guise of being balanced. There is no accounting for production of material which is severely biased towards one view by presenting that view very strongly and presenting a weak contra argument and then proclaim that they are providing a balanced view.

As far as the Rebel is concerned, at least they are up front and clear as to their philosophical views. They are not responsible for providing contrary arguments. If you do not like it, don’t support their appeal. If you do not like their views you can choose to ignore them and not read them or publish counter arguments (at your cost or the cost of someone empathetic to your views/arguments). It is not the Rebel’s responsibility to publish views contrary to their views. They can choose to do so if they wish – it is their choice. They are not forcing everyone to pay for their operation since they do not receive any government funding which means the payers have no choice concerning the operation of the organization and its philosophy. Whether the Rebel survives or not depends on the choice of the readers/viewers – if they do not raise sufficient funds to survive they will fail, they have no means of forcing viewers/readers to provide funds. They my require the payment of a subscription and those potential subscribers make a choice to pay the subscription or not – no-one is forced to pay the subscription.

It is about time each of us took responsibility for our decisions and think about the choices we make and not leave it to others to do on our behalf. It is up to each one of us to do our own research of all arguments relevant to the decision and make the decision that suits our objectives for our selves and the society in which we live.

You should be grateful that you have a choice to voluntarily support or not support The Rebel and you are not being told that you will support OR not be allowed to support them regardless of what opinion you hold!

No Idea why you want IMacs for Video Editing. I have a custom made Desktop Computer, that runs Windows 7 Pro and Linux MINT Sara Cinnamon, use Vegas pro 13 on the Win 7 side and KDenlive on the Linux side, and I can guarantee you either platform can render a video out in shorter time than IMacs can. And You can cut the costs, if there is a cable connection to the new building look at Execulink, for 69 bucks a months we rock High speed here And 69 a month is a whole lot cheaper than 395 a month you have now.

My wife and I have both contributed to the Big Plan and encourage others to do so. Fox News Media seems to have views that align closely with those of TheRebel. I wonder if Ezra has considered a “Fox Media North” solution ( like Bloomberg North ) where he might pitch Rupert Murdoch for some serious money and the formation of some kind of operational entity. This could take TheRebel to cable channel status where the messages are more broadly dispersed. Social media is great but it has limitations in reaching many of those who are in need of the message from the right.

On a comparative shoe string, The Rebel had more than three times the video views than CBC News in the last 30 days on Youtube:

http://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg

http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/cbcnews

The future is bright for the Rebel and it burns some people.

lol

Looks like Michael Mann… I mean Jimmy Reece is triggered.

“Hillary will have the last laugh when she is President and you all look like the morons that you are.

Better buy the Depends diapers now and tampons, because you are going to be shitting in your pants a whole lot coming November and bleeding from your vagina’s as you can’t believe that Canada AND America is run by Liberals."

Fraser McBurney,

Nobody gives a fuck how proud you are.

Canadians have to pay for a ton of things that they may or may not support and your personal tax money may not be going to the CBC anyway.

Stop whining like a little bitch about the CBC and get out the Vagisil.