I'm back from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and I'll be thinking about what I saw for a long time. Here's one of the most important things I saw: How the other media reacted to us.
00:08:52.100I'm just saying PM of Luxembourg is not a huge job.
00:08:55.040So Avi was talking to the PM of Luxembourg, and this other regime journalist with whom Avi had had words before saw that, ran up to Avi and the PM of Luxembourg in the middle of an interview, and interrupted in the weirdest way.
00:09:09.940There was a good humor about it a little bit.
00:09:11.920At least it sort of faked being good humor.
00:09:15.960You're denying that here there is a consolidation of power, that this is where some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet come to devise policy.
00:09:26.340This is where the policy starts, the Great Reset.
00:09:28.840The things are decided in national parliaments and not in Davos.
00:09:32.040They all seem to come here and start off as young global leaders here in the WEF.
00:18:50.220But he hates the fact that we were there in Davos to ask questions of his paymasters.
00:18:58.380He actually takes his loyalty to them and their money very seriously, which I suppose is endearing.
00:19:03.720I mean, if you pay a guy a million bucks to be your propagandist, it's actually sort of nice to see him really go to bat for you.
00:19:09.540But whether or not he believes in you, he got paid and he's earning it.
00:19:13.620So he saw us there, and I showed you his interaction with Avi Yamini when he came in to interrupt Avi talking to the prime minister of Luxembourg.
00:19:23.580Now, that wasn't a particularly important interview, with all due respect.
00:19:26.580And Nass came in sort of friendly-ish, although it was really unprofessional.
00:19:32.420But then we had our video on Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, and we nuked the guy.
00:26:48.500But he did get one French journalist sort of revved up that I was this evil monster.
00:26:53.940And, you know, it could be believed by these Davos journalists, because I had asked some pretty tough questions of Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer.
00:27:03.280So that French reporter, whose name I actually don't have, got worried.
00:27:08.320And he asked me questions about what I plan to ask Greta Thunberg.
00:27:14.060What questions do you plan to ask Greta Thunberg?
00:27:16.860Well, that's none of your bloody business.
00:28:35.000So, why did tens of millions of people watch?
00:28:39.460Well, it's because for years, ordinary people have felt that the vaccine salesmen, the big pharma companies, and Big Green and Greta Thunberg have never been asked real questions.
00:28:55.220The reason our videos did so well is not because they were informative.
00:29:02.860Not because we were particularly well-informed, although I think we had some good questions.
00:29:07.000It's that by us asking questions, in the case of Albert Bula, 29 questions, in the case of Greta, close to 100 questions, every time we asked an interesting and fair question, it proved that no one in the last year, two, five, ten years, had asked those questions of Big Pharma or of Greta Thunberg.
00:29:31.300We shamed the regime media simply by showing up and asking real questions instead of, hey, Greta, has your visit here been a success so far?
00:29:42.960That's just as an important part of our trip to Davos as anything.
00:30:15.260Of course, the fun ones were the splashy ones when we had a walking scrum of Albert Bula, the CEO of Pfizer, and then when we had the 20-minute walk and talk with Greta Thunberg, which I found actually quite disappointing and deflating.
00:30:40.160And I think that was the effect they were looking for, some infant who, like some Old Testament prophet scolding the world, if you don't change your ways, a big rain is going to come or something.
00:30:54.980But you don't know that by looking at it.
00:30:57.260It was quite disappointing and depressing, frankly.
00:31:00.520But one of the major themes of the Davos get-together, conclave, I've been calling it, is a move off of fossil fuels onto green fuels.
00:31:11.880They talk about sustainability, even though there were more than 1,000 private jet flights to bring them there and then the helicopters afterwards.
00:31:18.960I want to bring on now one of our friends who we often meet at the global warming conferences that the United Nations hosts.
00:31:28.900And I like his point of view because this Davos get-together, really, their number one issue seems to be global warming, or at least that's their excuse for wanting to reshape the world's economy.
00:31:40.840I'm talking about our friend Mark Marano, the boss at ClimateDepot.com.
00:32:03.800Yeah, I mean, that's a great way to describe it, too.
00:32:06.040And this is literally where, in many ways, the U.N. gets the marching orders from.
00:32:10.240This is where billionaires, millionaires, royal family, Hollywood celebrities, presidents and prime ministers, academia, and the media get together, and they collude.
00:32:22.400This is where you get your wonderful corporate government collusion.
00:32:26.460This is why people like Klaus Schwab brag about penetrating the cabinets, because they can go to these meetings.
00:32:32.400And the key to this, Ezra, and the reason Klaus Schwab has been so successful from starting the World Economic Forum in 1971 to this, is these annual meetings are off the books.
00:32:42.620Secret, behind the scenes, no lobbying disclosures, no ethics forms.
00:32:48.800You can have a corporate CEO head meet with a prime minister, president.
00:32:53.180None of those rules that would happen if they did it the traditional route would apply at this Davos meeting.
00:32:59.420But I just want to take a moment, having been a student of this, going to United Nations summits and these big international, I've been to the World Trade and other things, I've never seen a media outlet do what Rebel News achieved.
00:33:13.120And I've got to say, you've got to be so proud.
00:33:14.520But I, just as an observer of your reporting, particularly with Albert Borla, particularly with Greta Thunberg and all the others, and the way, not just the questions you asked, which were phenomenal, and the way you went about it, but the scouting and the camera work and the foiling the gaggle from far away.
00:33:31.720As the great Jimmy Dore, the progressive liberal, who says he doesn't agree with you, but was in awe of your coverage as well, even giving you credit, Jimmy Dore gave you credit for the Canadian coverage as well, the Canadian trucker protest.
00:33:45.940It's literally, it brings back what people were inspired by journalism for.
00:33:50.600It makes people have faith in journalism again.
00:33:54.940And Rebel News deserves every award, journalistic award, possible for that.
00:34:00.020But sadly, I don't think you'll get a single one from the mainstream or establishment or corporate media.
00:34:05.100But that's what journalism about, holding the powerful to account, not coddling up with them and pumping them up the way every other media outlet does.
00:35:14.900And yes, even finding them like Albert Bourla, you know, if you didn't catch him as he was walking out of the secured zone, he would have walked right by.
00:35:24.960So to just spot these folks was an effort, too.
00:35:28.740It was a logistical effort, but it was a great pleasure.
00:35:31.580And I hope that we'll go back next year.
00:35:33.500I'm a little bit worried they're going to try and make it stricter.
00:35:36.380But I have to say, Swiss authorities seem pretty freedom oriented.
00:35:41.500Mark, I don't know if you know this, but we were stopped twice by police road checks.
00:35:46.340And I was ready for a big brawl like we have been in other jurisdictions.
00:35:50.060But I would just say, look, freedom of the press.
00:35:52.220And the cops would sort of wave us through.
00:35:54.160And in the city also, the police were very much present, but they just didn't intervene.
00:36:01.200And I think that the police have a lighter touch in Switzerland than in the United States, Canada, Australia or UK, four jurisdictions I'm familiar with.
00:36:09.040I think the Swiss police actually care about civil liberties and do not see themselves as a political force.
00:36:14.880It was actually quite wonderful just for that little detail.
00:36:18.100Anyhow, Mark, thanks for the comments on that.
00:36:20.380I just want to say, I'm sure the World Economic Forum is going to try to have any uncredentialed media declared a terrorist threat at next year's Davos.
00:38:06.820It's telling most significantly because the world's most powerful ruling classes have now conditioned themselves to know that corporate media and established media is all friendly.
00:38:20.160And they fear the small, independent, unaffiliated, grassroots journalism.
00:38:27.480That tells you what's everything you need to know about what's wrong with the mainstream media of the world, globally speaking.
00:38:35.300They're there to protect the powerful, not hold them to account.
00:38:38.380What a flip from the 1960s and 70s when you had people like Jane Fonda and the media heralding the Pentagon paper showing that the U.S. government lied about the Vietnam War.
00:38:47.880So they don't think they'd lie about COVID or terrorism or climate.
00:38:52.640I don't understand what happened to this.
00:38:54.380What happened to these great progressives?
00:38:57.600The merger of big media and big government is shocking.
00:39:27.340Secretary Kerry, do you think that the high price of natural gas is actually a helpful thing to get people to transition to a green economy?
00:39:37.200I'd love to talk about it, but I just can't do it on the run.
00:39:40.620How can you justify being here when you yourself take private jets?
00:40:11.420Do you think this is a bald-faced lie, or do you think maybe he's been so embarrassed that he flies first class on a regular plane now and just has to chum with the little people?
00:40:21.560Okay, I think what this is the equivalent of is asking a lifelong smoker, well, you smoke a lot of cigarettes, and then I was like, nope, I don't smoke at all anymore.
00:40:30.180And I think what that means is they've given up for like 72 hours, and they're bragging that they quit.
00:40:35.080There was no scrutiny on his timelines.
00:40:40.680I bet he flew to the Davos on a commercial because he was probably prepared for that after the humiliation he's received.
00:40:47.180And also many other people in the United States, our transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, as airlines were shut down for the first time since 9-11 due to computer glitches, has been flying private.
00:40:59.020So there's been a lot of focus on the hypocrisy of this.
00:41:03.120So the question is, is John Kerry doing this just recently, and will he continue?
00:41:08.840This is a man who was once asked about how many houses he owned.
00:41:11.680And because he married the ketchup heiress, Teresa Hines, he wasn't even able to add up, when he was running for president, he wasn't even able to add up how many homes that he owned.
00:41:39.280We went to this private airfield that only services two kinds of planes, emergency aircraft for, like, rescuing people in the Alps, and private jets.
00:41:51.280And there's so many paparazzi who hang out there, they literally have a special area for paparazzi to stand safely while they photograph people coming off the jets.
00:42:17.000A lot of times there's yachts involved and all sorts of, you know, I remember a few years back, they had some of the receptions out on the harbor and yachts and other things.
00:42:26.400And so these events, and it's just like the UN, when I was in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt back in November, I think there was 400 private jets were flown in.
00:42:35.640And interestingly enough, despite the UN's push for insect eating and the World Economics Forum push for insect eating and they were at the UN, I didn't see anyone offering at any of the venues, restaurants, either in the UN conference or out, offering insects to the general public or for any of the delegates.
00:43:28.780But all of the official vehicles, the shuttles, the VVIP that take you from the helipad to the convention, all of them were big, black-tinted window SUVs.
00:43:41.760No joking around with electric vehicles for the VVIPs.
00:43:46.720Just the fun demo green Ubers for the, you know, just as a showpiece.
00:44:32.220And when you start to think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.
00:44:51.960I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.
00:44:58.460And if you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder or whatever.
00:45:47.180And even Klaus Schwab has said, we will, if us here in this room get to decide the future, this is, we will basically be the forces of the future.
00:45:56.820And what John Kerry was saying is they're the chosen one.
00:45:59.520He had the same rhetoric when, in Iceland, he was asked by that local journalist about why you fly private to pick up an environmental award.
00:46:06.680And his answer was, I am so important.
00:46:18.560But I'll tell you about this extraterrestrial thing, Ezra.
00:46:20.440The Roswell, New Mexico incident here in the United States happened on July 8, 1947, and almost nine months to the day later, Al Gore was born in the Columbia Hospital for Women here in the United States.
00:46:52.980We've seen you at so many global warming conferences.
00:46:55.520Maybe we'll see you next year at the World Economic Forum.
00:46:58.660Let me tell you one thing that you might want to consider.
00:47:00.440The World Health Organization's annual meeting where they're going to be talking about pandemic policy probably aren't – you probably could get credentialed for that one because it's like the U.N.
00:48:00.380Two grown men pursuing her through the streets and ignoring her nervousness while recognizing it just reinforced the liberal view of right-wingers as insensitive, patriarchal, white males, harassing them.
00:48:09.920It would have been better to have one of the female reporters talk to her.
00:48:14.340They can ask the hard questions, but if they don't get answers and play to the opposition by their approach, nothing is gained.
00:48:19.940I don't know if you agree with me or not or whether you have any influence to moderate these guys, but I thought I would share my thoughts after letting them marinate overnight.
00:52:47.020Like I said earlier on the show, the police in Switzerland have a very light touch.
00:52:50.960And why would the police get involved if all I was doing was asking questions?
00:52:55.300If I had touched anyone, if I had touched a VIP, if I had pushed or blocked or threatened anyone, there were 5,000 police and soldiers authorized and dispatched in the area.
00:53:08.500And I had interactions with a number of them.
00:53:12.100Why would you think that the police would stop me from asking questions?
00:53:16.580That's not how they do it in Switzerland.
00:53:19.020And it shouldn't be how they do it in Canada.