In this episode, we look back at some of the most important videos we recorded in Davos over the past 24 hours, including interviews with the head of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and his team of VVIPs.
00:04:01.260In other words, his accountability, his responsibility to the world, his requirement to answer questions about public interest matters, in his mind, turned on the status, the class, and perhaps even the wealth of the question asker.
00:04:19.680If Masako had actually been a fancy working for CNN or the Wall Street Journal or one of the other regime journalists who pay to play.
00:10:54.660Now if you want to come mentor our kids, if you're about that, about that, then please feel free to come help inspire our kids to be journalists.
00:11:45.200Yeah, but so the government, they want the government to say, to knock things off that they say is not true.
00:11:51.100Whereas Elon Musk has implemented a system called community notes, which it means that the entire world puts their own response, says that is true.
00:11:58.640That is untrue because, and people voted up and voted down.
00:12:01.260As opposed to the government turning around and putting their money behind fact checkers.
00:12:06.820So activists, they're activists who are hired to a small group to say, no, hold on, that's misinformation.
00:12:14.260During COVID, when we were talking about the vaccines and whether the spread of the, whether it stopped the spread, whether it minimized the spread.
00:12:21.480Anybody who questioned that narrative at first were kicked off most social media platforms at the time.
00:12:30.580So, so that piece of information that we weren't allowed to discuss in the space because people like in the WEF were saying that the government should control.
00:12:48.480So, so you, you, you, so could you take that message in there that you think that people should have the freedom to express themselves on social media, even if the government deems it false?
00:13:10.840Social media was not executed properly.
00:13:14.100Um, I do believe in freedom of speech and freedom of expression and no one's account should be, uh, undone because they're doing their version of freedom of speech.
00:13:26.320So it's not all evil supervillains like Klaus Schwab and Larry Fink.
00:13:33.520You do have fun stuff like those Colombian dancers and entertainment.
00:13:37.380I mean, listen, all these VVIPs in town, they'd like to have fun too.
00:13:42.200I mean, the restaurants and the hotels around here really are luxurious.
00:13:48.100I mean, this is just an example of, um, of what this place is focused on most of the time, skiing and having fun.
00:13:58.500So no wonder the supervillains like to come here and have that lifestyle.
00:14:03.780Anyways, uh, I want to talk about the style of journalism we do for a moment, if I may.
00:14:08.220Because we're often denied accreditation, we're denied access to places, because of our populist grassroots conservative approach, it makes it difficult for us to cover the news in a direct way.
00:14:25.920Um, politicians give speeches and they publish those speeches these days online and they send out press releases.
00:14:33.120And you can cover a speech like a stenographer.
00:14:36.660You can just take a video of the speech that was produced by the politician and you can post it with some commentary.
00:14:42.640But, and there, there is some use to that.
00:14:45.240You can critique it and you can post questions about it.
00:14:49.080But if you actually go to the speech and ask a, perhaps a more prickly question to the politician directly and get an unscripted answer,
00:14:57.380that's a higher level of journalism or a more important way to do journalism than just being really a stay in your office stenographer.
00:15:05.380And, and that issue came alive about a week ago when our friend David Menzies was arrested for trying to ask a real question to Christia Freeland outside a vigil for the victims of an Iranian terrorist group shooting down a commercial jetliner that killed more than 50 Canadians.
00:15:21.160So David actually physically went there, waited for Christia Freeland to arrive, and then put a very simple question to her.
00:15:29.200Why have you not banned this Iran terrorist group?
00:15:31.720And frankly, how dare you come to this vigil for the victims of that?
00:15:40.700I received, I think I told you this before.
00:15:42.680I got an email from Shannon Proutford of the Global Mail who said, I don't think that's real journalism.
00:15:47.780And I just thought, who the hell are you?
00:15:49.580You sit in your, probably work from home.
00:15:53.980David did the real work on the ground, waiting for hours, putting a legitimate question to a deputy prime minister, and you got roughed up and arrested for it.
00:16:03.180And you have the audacity, the chutzpah to say, you're a real journalist, but he's not.
00:16:09.220I'm not denying that opinion journalism is journalism.
00:16:12.160But don't tell me that what David did was not as important or more important.
00:16:16.460In fact, it was the grist for the mill.
00:16:19.580What David did gave 100 journalists something to talk about, but he was the primary actor there.
00:16:27.180So coming here to Davos is our way to get personal contact with the world's oligarchs, the most powerful people in the world.
00:16:39.300And some of them who, either by virtue of personality or their confidence in their subject matter, or for whatever reason, have absolutely no problem walking and talking with us.
00:16:54.240Let me give you my, I guess, the best example from the past week.
00:16:57.720I actually bumped into, he's retired now, but a few years back, he was the big boss at the United Nations itself.
00:17:07.660Like the head honcho of the Security Council.
00:26:04.380You don't have to be a Rebel News subscriber.
00:26:07.620You don't have to be a conservative to like the fact that freedom of the press applies to everybody.
00:26:14.140And to be offended by police arresting and actually assaulting a journalist.
00:26:19.540You don't have to like David Menzies to support his freedom of the press.
00:26:23.360And I think Mark Carney understands that.
00:26:24.800Maybe it's because he's not as immersed in the Ottawa groupthink or maybe because he realizes that the Liberal Party of Canada has gone the wrong way on freedom of the press.
00:26:33.860But wouldn't you agree with me that that is the most pro-freedom of the press thing you've heard from a liberal in all of Canada?
00:26:43.180And the second thing he said was a phrase that I haven't heard since Stephen Harper was prime minister, which is to call Canada an energy superpower.
00:28:53.880Why is it that Bill Gates is out free when others who were involved with Epstein are being prosecuted, like even Prince Andrew's in trouble?
00:29:53.880We had a lot of those non-interviews of technology.
00:29:54.960And my whole life, I've thought that the MIT was the absolute highest, most prestigious, most accomplished, most competent, most meritorious science-oriented university in America.
00:30:10.100It was as prestigious as Harvard, but for the hard sciences.
00:30:15.260And like Harvard, they've recently been racked with crazy, out-of-control anti-Semitism.
00:30:24.300And I don't just mean latent anti-Semitism.
00:30:26.900I mean, Hamas-style hate marches, people calling for death to the Jews.
00:30:35.660The kind of thing that I don't think is being seen at MIT ever.
00:30:41.120I mean, really reminiscent of KKK-style chants for black lynchings.
00:30:47.820And so I asked him about anti-Semitism, and he dismissed it.
00:30:53.780You know, he just was so dismissive and condescending.
00:30:59.300In that first second, you know, that first reflexive response is a person's honest response before they sort of gather themselves and say, well, what's the right PR move?
00:31:09.340And I walked with him for a bit, and he got angry that I dared to ask.
00:31:41.100Don't you think you need to clear the air a bit?
00:31:43.480I mean, your first response to me, oh, come on, when I ask about anti-Semitism, isn't that what got you in this trouble in the first place, is you being so dismissive of it?
00:31:55.840Would you say, oh, come on, if I said you had a racism problem against black people or a homophobia problem against gay people?
00:32:02.460Why are you so dismissive about anti-Semitism?
00:32:05.620It seems like MIT's learned nothing from the last two months.
00:32:49.400I mean, why wouldn't he just say we stand against hatred of all forms and the recent wave of anti-Semitism is appalling and MIT rededicates itself to, you know, civil liberties and respect for all?
00:33:13.640Surely it would be very easy for him to come up with language like that.
00:33:17.900And again, this isn't the first time he's been asked about that.
00:33:21.220There's some truth to the fact that we're scrumming him on the streets and maybe his head was in a different space.
00:33:27.840But I say again, it's absolutely legitimate journalism to go up to a person who's in the center of a public controversy, who's a public figure, who happens to be in a public place and ask him a public policy question.
00:33:40.020There's nothing we asked anyone up and down this street that is of a personal or private nature.
00:33:46.540We did not talk to anyone who was a private person.
00:41:55.780I think she was sort of hiding from us.
00:41:57.860And I'm talking about Chrystia Freeland herself, the woman who had David Menzies arrested and assaulted for asking impertinent questions.
00:42:05.480Chrystia Freeland, like I've told you before, is actually on the board of the World Economic Forum, which I think is a conflict of interest that in any.
00:42:18.980You know, I believe it or not, there's a lot of people at the World Economic Forum who have come up to us and saluted us.
00:42:29.840Obviously, some workers, some hotel staff, some other people, basically, quote, the servants to the oligarchs here.
00:42:38.220Everywhere we go, restaurants, a lot of the people on the street, for example, the kids handing out the newspapers, taxi drivers, a lot of the working class people here have regarded Rebel News as sort of their champions because they have to deal with these VVIPs and their outrageous demands.
00:42:56.080So it's fun to be in league with the working class people here.
00:43:06.980I saw him walking down the street before.
00:43:09.120Not everyone here is 100% in sync with Klaus Schwab's ideological agenda.
00:43:17.400And people saw some of our interviews, not just this year, the video I did with the Bill and Bill and the Gates guy, which had a million views overnight.
00:43:26.560But people even remember the interview we did with Albert Bourla of Pfizer last year.
00:47:19.30085% of our grid is already clean and we are investing heavily in building more clean energy.
00:47:26.260We are a country that believes in manufacturing, has manufacturing know-how and capacity.
00:47:32.900And then you guys spoke about industrial policy.
00:47:35.960You know, the thing that is new about industrial policy is we are developing our economies, growing our economies at a time when we also need to accomplish the green transition.
00:47:52.100And I spoke yesterday to a very significant international business leader who is also a big investor in Canada.
00:48:00.540And he said to me, all the countries in the world need to be very careful that decarbonization does not mean de-industrialization.
00:48:12.180I thought that was an extremely smart comment.
00:48:16.000And Canada is absolutely determined that decarbonization for us will mean more jobs, more growth, more manufacturing.
00:48:26.000And we recognize government needs to play a role to make that happen.
00:48:31.320And she says those things here in Davos to applause that she would never say if she were, let's say, in Calgary or Edmonton or Fort McMurray or the north of Canada or really anywhere that depends on real industry.
00:48:46.720I think Chrystia Freeland is the worst thing about Canada in terms of policy.
00:48:53.980Justin Trudeau is obviously the worst person in the government and he sets the example.
00:48:59.260And I think, though, he has a level of personal style that can still win some people over, even though three quarters of Canadians want them gone.
00:49:11.700But Chrystia Freeland is one who actually implements the disastrous decisions.
00:49:26.180This notion to integrate young leaders is part of the World Economic Forum since many years.
00:49:33.920When I mention our names like Mrs. Merkel, even Vladimir Putin and so on, they all have been young global leaders of the World Economic Forum.
00:49:44.340But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister Trudeau, President of Argentina and so on, that we penetrate the cabinets.
00:50:00.080So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of this cabinet, or even more half of this cabinet, are actually young global leaders of the World Economic Forum.
00:50:20.760Yeah, when Klaus Schwab boasts about penetrating the cabinets and he mentioned Justin Trudeau, I think what he really meant was Chrystia Freeland, who's on the board of the World Economic Forum and is the pipeline of terrible ideas from this place directly to Canada.
00:50:40.020We came this long distance and we braved the cold and we chased the VVIPs up and down this promenade.
00:50:47.060Because believe it or not, many of the changes, many of the things that affect your life, many of the taxes, many of the regulations, many of the atrocious ideas that you're forced to live with in Canada came from right here in this Swiss town, high above in the Swiss Alps.
00:51:08.000They were here making plans for you, and they were not telling you about it or consulting you or asking you.
00:51:16.980And that's why we came here to hold them to account.
00:51:22.560I want you to watch every video we did, the long ones, the short ones, the back and forth videos, or the interviews where we were the only ones talking.
00:51:32.080Look at our work, and if you think it's important, and if you realize that Rebel News is doing more of this accountability journalism than all other media combined, chip in a few quid if you can to help us cover the costs.
00:51:44.560We'll be back in Canada soon, and we'll have so much more to say.
00:51:49.000Thanks for your support this past week.
00:51:51.080And from all of us here in Switzerland and our home base in Canada to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.