EZRA LEVANT ｜ What our Western police forces could learn from the Swiss
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In Davos, a bunch of Swiss police pulled me over and asked if I was a cop, and I said yes, and they wouldn t say a word about it. And then they said, "It's a free country, right? Why not?" and waved me through another check stop.
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Hello, my friends. Today, I'm in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum
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is having their annual secretive get-together. I go through a few things today, my hunt for the
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billionaires and their private jets, a brief but friendly interaction with the police,
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and a few other things on my mind. But to see it, as opposed to just hear it in a podcast,
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because we don't take any money from the government, none from Justin Trudeau, and it shows.
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Tonight, how do billionaires get from their home city to Davos, Switzerland? It's one of the things
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we spent the day looking into. It's January 17th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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Welcome back. I'm in Davos, Switzerland, and I'm standing in front of the Black Rock
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Pavilion. They don't like that. They already came up to us today and said, get out. And I said,
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are you a cop? What's your name? And they wouldn't say. And you know what? One of the things I like
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about Switzerland is that their police have a very light touch. In fact, I think a lot of the
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police who have been assigned to protect the VVIPs at Davos don't much like the job. I don't think
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they're an ideological police force. They're sort of what Canadian and British and Australian
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and American police were like a generation ago, which is following Sir Robert Peel's rules of
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policing, which is to be extremely neutral and nonpartisan and keep the trust of all segments
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in society. I get the feeling that's how Swiss police are. They're not the kind of political
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bullies that we see so often in the West. And I say that because, as you know, in our first
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trip in to Davos, we were pulled over. The police said, oh, I don't like those cameras. And I said,
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it's a free country, right? And literally, in less than a minute, he waved us through. Remember
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How are you today? Hello. How are you? No good. No good? Why not? Oh, yes. No good. Why is there
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no good? But it's a free country, right? Thanks very much. All the best. Bye-bye.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, today we went through another check stop,
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another police check stop. And today was the big official first day. So you could see all
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the police and the soldiers really flexing their muscles. So we were driving through the
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second police check stop. And we had our phones out sort of conspicuously filming the police.
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And they're so sensitive about that. In North America, police assume they're being filmed.
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And police are often filming you wearing body cams. By the way, if you want to know my opinion
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on that, I think it's a good thing. I think it keeps everybody better behaved because police
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know that they cannot commit any misconduct without it being on tape. And people cannot make false
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accusations against police, which happens quite a bit, by the way. I like the fact that police
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wear body cams. Well, here in Switzerland, police are very much obsessed with privacy,
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including their own privacy. And I should tell you that the only friction we've had,
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and it's been very gentle friction with police has been over their own privacy. And you've seen me say
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to at least one police officer that I would blur their appearance. They just don't want to be famous.
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They don't want to be branded as world economic foreign types. They are not here in the service of
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Klaus Schwab. They're here because the government says, keep law and order, make sure there's no
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terrorism, make sure there's no violence. For example, Antifa. There is a tiny exception to that,
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which is some of the police wear little patches on their arms that say WEF police. Now that is not a
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formal thing. That's sort of a mission badge that some police here wear, just like a memento,
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like a souvenir, like a mission they served on together. That caused some consternation when
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it happened last year. But we have discovered, sorry, I shouldn't say we, a fellow citizen
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journalist has discovered that there is another WEF police patch going on. Take a look at this tweet
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by our friend, Masako. I call her our friend because she is our friend. She's from Japan. And I was
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sitting, in fact, just over there, there's the, you know, the heart of darkness, BlackRock, and with
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their black tinted CIA type vans. What are they doing in these black tinted window black vans all day?
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I do not know. But it can't be good. Well, there's BlackRock over there. And just over there,
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I don't know if that's pronounced co-op. I presume it is. But that's the restaurant where,
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like, it's a grocery store on the main floor. And then the top floor, it's sort of like a grocery
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store restaurant with big tables. And you're allowed to sit there and sort of camp out and work. In fact,
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some delegates are in there. Some, it's just a great place when it's chilly out to camp out there.
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They have free Wi-Fi. The food is pretty healthy and pretty affordable. So it's sort of, this is our
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hangout here. And we're sitting in there having lunch yesterday. And this lady approaches Avi with a
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kind of jubilation. And I got my hackles up. I thought, uh-oh, is this some world economic forum
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type is going to get Avi in trouble? But I mean, she was a very petite lady. And I wasn't particularly
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worried for Avi who can take care of himself. No, it was not a hater. It was a super fan.
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And Masako said that she watched Avi Yamini's broadcast on Rebel News last spring when he was here.
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And she loved them so much. She was literally inspired to become a citizen journalist and come
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to Davos herself. And indeed she is. Don't tell me we're not making a difference. In Japan of all
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places. So good for Masako for breaking that news about the WEF patch that some police are wearing.
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Anyways, back to our second encounter with the police. And I'm spending too much time talking about this
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because it's not that important. It wasn't a crisis. As you saw yesterday, our entire time at
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the police checkpoint was less than one minute. Well, today they were on high alert. It was their
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opening day. They were being careful. We drove by. We had our cameras out conspicuously. So they waved
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us over. And we rolled down the windows and they demanded that we put away our cameras.
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But I want to let you know that before we came to Switzerland, we hired a lawyer in Zurich,
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Switzerland, to brief us on the media laws. You know, we do that a lot. I think you know that
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when we sent Jeremy Lafredo to Moscow, we actually hired a Moscow criminal lawyer to make sure we knew
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all the rules and do's and don'ts. And importantly, if Jeremy got arrested, we had someone in the
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country, we could call for help immediately. We wouldn't have to start searching through the
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Moscow phone book at night to find help. Well, we've done that here in Switzerland, too. We have
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a law firm in Zurich that has briefed us on media law. And here's the slight quirks. Number one,
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you are allowed to film the police, just like in the West. But, and this is the same in Canada,
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you're filming the police cannot interfere or obstruct them. That's obviously the same in Canada,
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too. And I mean, so you couldn't expose their operations in real time. That's the same in
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Canada, too. But they have another wrinkle. Here in Switzerland, and think about it, Swiss banks,
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privacy, you know, it's sort of a Swiss tradition. You aren't allowed to broadcast the face of an
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individual cop without their permission, unless there's an important public policy reason to do so.
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So if a cop pulls you over for a speeding ticket or a road check like this, and if you're filming
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them, you can film them. But you cannot broadcast their face without blurring it. So we knew the law
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and we told this. That's the ringing of the bells. I don't know if Klaus Schwab has passed away,
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and they're having a conclave to elect the next pope of the World Economic Forum. I should tell you that
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we learned that Klaus Schwab is ill, and he will not be attending the World Economic Forum today. We
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also learned that George Soros, another superfan of the World Economic Forum, is not attending this
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year. I presume that's what the bells are about. I'm kidding, of course. One of the interesting things
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about staying in Switzerland is you hear church bells ringing out the hour all the time. It's a rather
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pleasant experience, and every small town in Switzerland does it. I hope you can hear me
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nonetheless. I'll press on. So we were driving through this check stop, and our phones were out
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conspicuously, and they pulled us over, and they started asking questions. And I guess it's my instinct,
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after living through the last three years of bullying police during the lockdowns, of bullying
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Avi Yamini like this. Cover your nose and your mouth. Okay. You are not accredited media. Sorry?
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You are not accredited media. I'm not. You're saying I'm not accredited media.
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Show me your accredited media pass issued by Victoria police. And Victoria police actually told us that
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they've cancelled your accredited media pass issued by Victoria police. And like this.
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I'm being arrested. I've asked if I'm under arrest a couple of times, and I'm being forcibly ejected.
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I've got my national media press card, which is issued, the accreditation issued by the federal
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government. So right now, a journalist is being physically removed from doing his job,
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from reporting on the streets of Melbourne. And bullying him like this.
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My permit is in my pocket. I'm fine. I'm fine. I've got my permit in my pocket.
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I work for Rebel News. I am lawfully here. I've got my permit in my pocket.
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My permit is in my pocket. That and how they bullied Drea Humphrey like this.
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You talked about Canada's last wrongs, the past things they haven't done right. When will you speak
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out about the 20 vandalized churches? They're burning churches and vandalizing them. And you're
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not calling it a hate crime. And how they did atrocious things to David like this.
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What is this? You cannot touch me. No Russian word.
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Are you kidding? Are you kidding? I told you. What is this?
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You can't. Am I under arrest? Am I under arrest?
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And the worst moment in our eight-year history when they shot Alexa like this.
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So those and a half dozen other police experiences were on my mind when the Swiss police asked us to
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pull over. And so I wasn't particularly rude. And I don't know if I'd call myself aggressive.
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But I was certainly stubborn. And I had questions like, and what if I don't turn off my phone?
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Or do I really have to leave? I don't know. Here's how it went. It was about five minutes or so.
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See for yourself and tell me. Was I too stubborn? Was I too confrontational?
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Was I standing up for my rights? Here, take a look and let me know.
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How are you? No filming, no camera. Here, please.
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No police on camera. Where are you from? Canada.
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And what's the reason you are going to Davos? We're going to do journalism. Okay.
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Should I call my lawyer? If you want, you can. But turn off the mobile phone, please.
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Yes. I asked our lawyer. Yes. About phoning. But you can stay in the car, thank you. I can stay in the car?
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Should I call our lawyer now? Is he being detained? Is he being detained or arrested? We have a lawyer in Zurich.
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We have a lawyer in Zurich. Sorry? We have a lawyer in Zurich. Is he being detained or arrested?
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You can call the lawyer if you want. Okay, but is he being detained or arrested?
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A control. We make control of the papers if everything is all right. But you can call wherever you want.
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I know I can do that. I just want to know, does he have to go with you? No, he stays here.
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Does he have to go with you? Normal traffic control. Does he have to go with you?
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Pardon? Does that man have to go with you now? No. No one tells you that. Just normal traffic control.
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If you charge him or arrest him. Are you recording? I don't have to answer that.
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It's up to you. Thank you. But I ask you, are you recording right now?
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I am following Swiss law, which says I may not publish personal images of police if it interferes with
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their operations or if it identifies your passport as well. For what reason? I'm not driving. Okay.
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You can get your passport? For what reason? Am I under arrest or am I being detained? Otherwise,
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it's not possible to drive further. I'm not a driver. I'm not a driver. I'm not driving. It's up to you.
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It's not allowed to make movies, nothing to record or to use this for internet or something else.
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I'm aware of that. I've spoken with police and lawyers and we blur anyone's faces and we don't,
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we do not interfere with police activity. We respect the police and we follow the law.
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If you want to make some interview, just ask the people in front of you.
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We always blur faces. We hide identities. We studied the Swiss law before we came here
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and it is not our intention to break the law. Good. Okay.
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And I meant what I said about Swiss police. We've dealt with police in many countries.
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And I feel that the Swiss... We are friendly as well.
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Well, not just that, but you respect civil liberties.
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Thank you, Officer Miller. All right. Have a nice day.
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We just went through another police checkpoint on the way to Davos.
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And I think they would have just waved us on through had we not been
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sort of visibly, conspicuously holding cell phone cameras.
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And we weren't using big professional cameras, but they sort of knew that we were aiming these
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cell phones at them. So they pulled us over. They objected to us videoing, but I,
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but we studied Swiss law before we came here. You're allowed to film, including police,
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as long as you don't interrupt police activities. And you have to protect the personal privacy of
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individual cops. And we've been following that law. And they asked our driver, Isaac, to look in the back,
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which I guess you could call a warrantless search. But I wasn't particularly worried about it.
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They said we were not being detained. It was just a regular traffic stop.
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I gave them my passport when they said they would give it back.
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I'm not going to say that you can't do a traffic stop in Switzerland. I don't know enough about the
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traffic laws to say you can't search me. I'm not the driver. But in the end, they said you can go.
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You know, I meant it when I said to the cop that Swiss police are my favorite in the world.
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If I had been obstinate like that in Canada, I'd probably have gotten a ticket, maybe even worse.
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Did you catch when the cop said, we are nice? No, no, no. I don't care about a cop being nice.
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I actually don't want a cop to be nice. But I want a cop to care about civil liberties.
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And that's what the Swiss police care about. And that is why I love them. The Swiss police here,
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who had every opportunity to do bad things to us, like Canadian, British, Australian and other police
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have done, didn't do anything bad, even when we were being a little bit in transition. I have to
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tell you, I actually felt like I had been a little bit mean to the cop. And that is not a feeling I
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normally feel. Anyways, that was not the highlight of the day. But it was an interesting illustration of
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what an old fashioned civil liberties first Robert Peel style police force is like. I got to say, it reminds
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me of the old joke, and I mangled it yesterday when I tried to tell it. Heaven is a French cook,
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an Italian lover, a German mechanic, and a Swiss policeman. Hell, let me see if I can get the joke
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right. Hell is a German policeman, an Italian mechanic. Oh, I can't remember it. But I got the most important
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parts. And so I would indeed want to be policed by Swiss police anytime I could. I'll have to keep
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practicing that joke. But let me tell you what we spent the most of the day on. We've got a team of
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three journalists and four support staff out here in Davos. So Avi Yamini was working the strip here,
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this main street in Davos during the day. And Callum Smiles was doing projects with them too.
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While I was in a vehicle going to airstrips nearby. Because Davos itself does not have an
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airport right here. There are two small airports about an hour drive away. And from what we've learned,
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billionaires and oligarchs who never fly commercial, they land their private jets typically at these small
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airfields and then come to Davos from there. In fact, there have been famous photographs of all
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the private jets lined up, just stacked up by the dozen. Even by the hundred, I understand that there
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were a thousand flights in and out of these neighboring airports for private jets. So we went to one of the
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private airstrips today in San Moritz, which is close to the Italian border. I recorded a little
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video from down there. So let me break away and show you what I said when we were at the chilly,
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foggy and snowy airport near San Moritz. I'm at a private airfield. Actually, it's not a private
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airfield, but most of the jets that come here are private jets. Because an estimated 1,000
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private jet flights serviced the Davos World Economic Forum Conclave last year. So I want to check
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and see what it is this year. Well, you could see it was not clement weather. And they said that the
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number of flights in that airport had fallen precipitously because of the weather. We will
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try to go to another private jet airfield about an hour away tomorrow because I want to see these
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private jets come in. I want to see the billionaires get out of the jets and go into the gas-guzzling
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black SUVs like BlackRock has. And I want to see if I can identify them. There's some amazing web pages
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out there these days like this one website I just signed up for called Flight Aware, which tracks
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airplanes going in and out of any airport. And it actually tells you who owns the airplane if you look
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at the number on the tail. Now, some rich people own their own planes. Many people just rent a private
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jet. So we'll do our best to sort of track down who's coming. And as you saw when I was in San
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Moritz today, they have very modest security at these private jets because they don't have hundreds
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or even thousands of people pass through on any given day. It's just really like, well, it's as small
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and intimate as can be. If we are able to catch an oligarch on the go, we actually might have a moment to
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talk with them. But really, I just want that visual image. I want the visual image of a very,
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very important person from the World Economic Federation getting off the plane, getting into a
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black tinted window limousine and being whisked to Davos to tell you and me not to fly, not to drive,
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to turn our heat down. We're going to go to one more place tomorrow, too. And that is the helipad
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here in Davos. Because at the San Moritz airport, one of the workers said what's likely
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is that the billionaires are flying into Zurich and taking a helicopter directly from Zurich
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all the way to Davos for logistical reasons, for speed reasons, even for cost reasons,
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because these small private airports are apparently very expensive. So I'm going to continue this hunt.
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Obviously, I'm interested in buttonholing the VVIPs as I see them on the street. But I sort of do want
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to catch some of these oligarchs in action and maybe have a chance just to ask some questions. And I
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want to say this. I'm not against people being rich. I mean, I suppose it was a dream myself I had once.
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I'm not against people earning a living and spending it on themselves and their families.
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What I am against is those hedonistic, materialistic, maximum consumption billionaires
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then coming to a condescending, hectoring, scowling Greta Thunberg festival like this
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and telling you and me that we have to live small. When Leonardo DiCaprio from his yacht,
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when Al Gore from his jet tells you and I that we have to, and Al Gore, by the way, is on the board
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of the World Economic Forum. That's why I want to keep pursuing him. I have one more point I'd like to run
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by you, which goes to my interest in these private jets. I think about Chrystia Freeland,
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the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada who had other portfolios, including she was actually the finance
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minister for a while. I don't know Chrystia Freeland personally, but I knew about her when she was
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running first to parliament. I knew that she had come from the United States where she was an author
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and a journalist and the disastrously unsuccessful leader of a digital news project with Reuters called
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Reuters Next. There's some excellent investigative journalism about it out there. Chrystia Freeland
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was put in charge of an enormous project, 200 staff, tens of millions of dollars. She had no idea
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what she was doing. She listened to no one, appointed her own friends, wasted money, and she was so
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disastrous that they didn't replace her when they fired her. They shut the whole project down
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because it had been totally destroyed by her. That's a fact. She was really an unaccomplished
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gossip. She wrote books like Plutocrats. If you don't know, Plutocrats basically means
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extremely wealthy people who want to run the world. Well, that's what she's doing now.
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She's on the board of Plutocrats.com, or as it's properly called, the World Economic Forum.
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I read Plutocrats, or at least part of it, when it came out a few years ago.
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It was so weird. It was ideologically incoherent. In one way, she was saying,
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oh, these rich people are too powerful and too self-interested. But on the other hand,
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you could tell she was just so excited to gawk at them and to bask in their glory and to interview
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some of them. For those of you who are my age or older, you'll remember in the 1980s,
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there was a TV show called Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, where a tabloid journalist would show
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you into some of the most over-the-top rich people's houses and yards. Christian Freeland's book,
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Plutocrats, was a less exciting written version of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. But by
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writing that book, she smoothed with billionaires. And because she never held them to account,
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she ingratiated herself with them. She started to run in their circles. She was hired to become
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George Soros' authorized biographer. And in fact, that was her project on the eve of becoming elected
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to Canada's parliament. When she moved back from New York City, where both her and her husband
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had very high-powered jobs, she applied for a mortgage in Toronto. And she was so broke from
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her disastrous business that she had to borrow money from her parents. I'm not making fun of
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people who have to borrow money from their parents to buy a house. It's so expensive in Toronto and
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Vancouver. No normal people can afford to buy a home without help from their family. It's just
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a little weird that someone of that high station in life, who would go on to become finance minister
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and deputy prime minister, had to borrow money from her parents. She was such a failure in business
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and in life. Of course, Trudeau put her in charge of the Canadian economy. And of course,
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she loves to come here to Davos to rub shoulders and hobnob with the world's billionaires. But my point
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of mentioning Chrystia Freeland is not just to tell you how awful she is. But are you curious how she came
00:28:30.560
here? Did she fly commercial jam between two tourists? I don't think so. Did she use a Government of Canada
00:28:41.040
jet at taxpayers' expense to come here to work for the World Economic Forum? Could be. But boy,
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that would be an abuse of taxpayers' money, wouldn't it? So what about that last option? Did Chrystia
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Freeland come here on someone else's private jet? Did she come here on one of the many BlackRock
00:29:02.720
private jets? Did she come here on Bill Gates' jet or George Soros' jet? She used to be friends with
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them. In fact, she still is. Those are the kind of questions you can normally
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get answered when you're dealing with political people in a politically transparent setting. But
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the World Economic Forum is not transparent. They're secretive.
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Ezra Levant here in Davos, Switzerland. This is the second time
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Rebel News has dispatched reporters here. The last time was last May. But of course,
00:29:41.280
it's January now, which is when they normally meet. We're back. I'm here for the first time.
00:29:46.240
Avi Yamini, our star from Australia, is here. He's doing a great job already. And our newest reporter
00:29:51.360
from the UK, Callum Smiles, is here. But we have an extra guest, too, who doesn't work for Rebel News,
00:29:57.520
but he's joining us on our citizen journalism project. His name is Calvin Robinson. He's with GB
00:30:04.160
News in the UK. We've talked before as a guest on my show via Skype. It's great to see you in person.
00:30:10.480
Calvin, welcome. Thank you. It's an absolute pleasure to be here.
00:30:13.200
Well, it's really nice to have you here. It's sort of exciting to meet up in a jet-set town like this.
00:30:18.800
I know. The thing is, it's a very remote town, isn't it? It's hidden away. It's very exclusive.
00:30:24.880
The only reason to be here is if you know what's going on, if you're invited here. I think that's why they
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hold it here, isn't it? It's to keep it away from the normal folk and to keep everything behind closed
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doors. It's a bit secretive. It's a bit shadowy. Well, and they make it hard to get here because,
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I mean, it's far away and you have to journey anyways. But the town is fairly locked down.
00:30:44.800
All the hotel rooms are booked by the World Economic Forum itself. So, if you're not on their list,
00:30:50.800
you've got to stay a town or two away like we are. We're in sort of a legit cabin,
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half an hour's drive away, which isn't terrible. There's other reporters staying an hour away.
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But we've already seen how the elite get here today, haven't we? We went to the
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private airport where the jets fly in. Then they get the helicopter over here,
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and everyone's very escorted in their black SUVs. It's very much a process that they're all very
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familiar with. And it's very much set up for them exclusively. I don't think there are many people in
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this town actually that aren't here for Davos. And part of me believes in privacy. And if you've
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earned wealth, spend it however you like, except for these folks have plans for you and me. It's
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like an unelected government. And I don't want to sound too conspiratorial, but that's how they talk.
00:31:38.080
They talk about mastering the future. They talk about revising our concepts of citizenship. They talk
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about governance. But these are not elected people. So they're acting like a government
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without the checks and balances of a government that we demand.
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But even worse than that, some of them are elected, but not elected for this position that
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they find themselves in. They meet up together, they're colluding, they're lobbying each other.
00:32:02.480
And of course, when you put the most influential, most powerful, the richest people in the world in
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one room together, of course, they're going to be looking after their own vested interests before
00:32:11.200
ours. And then they get out there and say, this is for you. You will own nothing. You will be happy.
00:32:15.760
I want to ask them. That's why I'm here. I want to ask them, okay, so who will own everything? If
00:32:19.200
I own nothing, who will own it all? I don't think I'll be as happy as you.
00:32:22.480
Well, you know what? BlackRock, one of the largest funds manager in the world,
00:32:27.840
has a big pavilion here. I just can't get over that because the people are saying,
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you'll own nothing. I think they have $10 trillion in assets under management. They are owning
00:32:38.320
everything. BlackRock are already invested in everything, every single aspect of our lives.
00:32:44.000
They've got money in it. They are controlling us behind the scenes, essentially.
00:32:47.840
Now, here's the thing. We're here to ask people things, to observe with our eyes,
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to try and get some firsthand information. We're limited because we're not allowed into
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their secret sessions, but they actually do live stream some of it. They post video clips.
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Their boss, Klaus Schwab, has published books, including one called The Great Reset.
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Ezra, they're proud. They are proud of this. We've seen Klaus Schwab, the boss, say,
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we've penetrated the cabinet. The young generation, like Prime Minister Trudeau,
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President of Argentina and so on, said, we penetrate the cabinet.
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They are absolutely proud of what they've accomplished because they've managed to form
00:33:26.320
a global government. They're almost creating a global state. You know, as you arrive at the airport,
00:33:30.320
it says, welcome, World Economic Forum, the global state, something or other. They're using the
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language. They're putting it all out there and they're telling us what they're doing.
00:33:38.000
Yeah, they use the word global citizenship. They're replacing your British citizenship,
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my Canadian citizenship with their global citizenship, which actually doesn't really mean
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anything. And I'm a Brit. I'm an Englishman. I belong to England. I belong to Great Britain.
00:33:53.280
And my nationhood is important. I don't want that stripped away from me by my own politicians or any
00:33:57.440
other politicians, no matter where they come from. And I want to know, I want to ask the people who are
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here. I want to say, do you believe in the nationhood? Do you believe in the nation state?
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Or are you a globalist? Do you think we'd be all better off getting rid of our borders? And if so,
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how do I vote against it? There's a lot of fact checking done
00:34:14.240
whenever you talk about the World Economic Forum. And of course, fact checkers, I call myself a fact
00:34:18.880
checker. I check my facts all the time. I'm here to check facts. But those who call themselves official
00:34:24.000
fact checkers are often just PR men of 2023. They're called fact checkers now. They try and
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say that any criticism of the World Economic Forum is a kind of conspiracy theory. But it is happening.
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Like this secret conclave is happening. The pay to play of expensive lobbyists and businesses is
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happening. You can buy your way in to Davos if you have enough money. The plans to, as you say,
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penetrate the cabinets. It is happening. I think that the fact checkers either don't know what's
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going on or they're just plain out lying. I think that, I mean, I always say don't make up facts for
00:35:08.720
a conspiracy. The crazy stuff is already just out there. I say to our reporters at Rebel News,
00:35:14.720
the world is crazy enough as it is. You don't have to go beyond what you can see and hear. This
00:35:20.640
meaning is so crazy. If ordinary people just saw what they were saying and doing,
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that would be enough to get them mad. Ezra, there's two sides to that. The fact checkers.
00:35:31.120
First of all, look at who the fact checkers are. Usually it's PA. Usually it's Reuters. Usually it's
00:35:35.280
someone who is heavily invested in the World Economic Forum. So they're doing their own inside checking.
00:35:39.680
So that doesn't work first and foremost. So do your own checking. Be independent. Look up the facts
00:35:43.200
for yourself. But secondly, the term conspiracy theorist, it's a derogatory term used to shut
00:35:48.560
people down, used to shut down debate. And when did it start? After the JFK shooting. And we've
00:35:53.360
since found out very recently that actually, yes, the CIA was heavily involved in the shooting,
00:35:57.680
in the situation around JFK. And they used the word first and foremost conspiracy theorist in order to
00:36:03.200
shut people down and to stop people from talking about a very important issue. And we see it more and
00:36:07.680
more lately. Whenever there's something around COVID, vaccines, lockdowns, something that governments,
00:36:13.520
big business are heavily invested in, and they don't want us talking about or doing our own
00:36:17.360
fact checking, they call us conspiracy theorists in order to close us down and make us look like
00:36:21.760
loons. And we're not. In fact, it's sort of conspiracy theorists of a year ago are now the prophets of
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today. I mean, so many of the things during the lockdown and the pandemic that struck ordinary people
00:36:33.280
as audit, you know, oh, you shut up. That's a conspiracy theory. A lot of those things have
00:36:37.440
been borne out in the end. It's a real information battle. And, and, you know, Alex Jones is being
00:36:45.120
called a conspiracy theorist, but he, he came up with certain concepts in the info war. There's a
00:36:49.760
battle on for your mind. I really feel like some of those concepts are, are coming true here.
00:36:54.480
Um, last question, just for folks who want to get to know you better and follow you.
00:36:58.960
I mentioned you're on GB news and you can download the app. I have the app on my phone,
00:37:03.040
even though I'm in Canada, it works great over there. Is there a website or is it,
00:37:07.040
tell us a little bit about your show or is there something you're working on? You want to tell our
00:37:10.240
viewers about a lot of our viewers are in Canada, but we do have viewers around the world too.
00:37:13.920
Absolutely. So first of all, if you are in Canada or wherever you are online on YouTube and on the
00:37:18.400
app, we have a GB news app. My show is on at 3 PM GMT, but you can catch it later. But the best thing
00:37:24.240
to do is look me up online. It's calvinrobinson.com. I've got a sub stack where I'll be posting
00:37:28.320
video footage of our trip here. And I post a lot of articles on there too. And all my social media
00:37:32.960
is pretty much Calvin Robinson. Well, there you go, Calvin. It's great to see you here. It's
00:37:37.200
really fun to hang out with you in person because I'm a fan from afar. So to spend some time with you
00:37:41.760
is just really great. So Calvin's here on his own behalf. We have no editorial control over him. It's
00:37:47.440
just a pleasure to work alongside him. And of course, from the rebel news side, we've got Avi and Callum
00:37:52.720
and camera people and editors. So we've got a whole team and we've crowdfunded our economy
00:37:57.840
class travel here. You know, I'm not going to ask Calvin to describe.
00:38:02.720
We have a rather rustic Airbnb where we're all stacked in sort of like a frat house. It's a
00:38:08.240
little bit cheek in jowl if I'm using the phrase, right? But you know what? We're here on a mission
00:38:14.480
to shine a light of public scrutiny on things. We're going to catch up with Avi Amini and the team
00:38:19.360
now. It's a little chilly out here, so I'm going to put on my gloves. For all of our reporting,
00:38:23.760
go to wefreports.com. We'll embed all of our vids. And Calvin, if I see your stuff on Rumble or YouTube,
00:38:31.040
we'll put it on wefreports.com too, just so more eyeballs get to it. Thanks for your support, everybody.
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That's my show for the day. Sort of stitched a few things together. We'll get a little bit more
00:38:53.680
organized as the days go forward. Of course, if you go to wefreports.com, you'll see all of our work,
00:39:00.960
mine, Callum's, Avi's, all there. And if you think this reporting is interesting or worthwhile or useful,
00:39:06.880
you can even chip in a few bucks at wefreports.com. Boy, I'm mad at these BlackRock guys.
00:39:12.800
Can you believe that they're on the board of the World Economic Forum? We'll talk more about them
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later. For now, from here in Davos, Switzerland, to you at home around the world, good night,
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And keep fighting for freedom of business, great, good night.