Juno News - January 16, 2024Davos Day 2： The elites are hiding from their records
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Summary
Day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos is in the books, and we're already getting a glimpse of why the elites don't like people penetrating their safe space. Today's episode is a look at the first main day of programming, where we're getting a sense of what's happening behind closed doors at the WEF.
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This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.
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This is Canada's most irreverent talk show here coming to you live from almost Switzerland.
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As I mentioned at the beginning of yesterday's show, and I spoke to you about, I believe, last week or a couple of weeks ago,
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We are covering the World Economic Forum live, the annual meeting, which is taking place in the Swiss Alpine village of Davos.
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But because the WEF likes to just buy up all of the hotels and Airbnbs within a rather sizable radius,
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we were forced not just a couple of counties over, but we're even staying across the border in Österreich, as they say in, well, as they say in Österreich, as they say in Austria, where we are.
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And we had Cosby and Georgia in the studio yesterday.
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We got a little creative today because we found there was like a button that turns on this like weird fake fireplace type thing,
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which I hope is fake because I'm sitting right beside it and I might just melt by the time the show is done.
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But nevertheless, this is going to be, I hope, an interesting show.
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It's day two officially of the WEF's annual meeting 2024.
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and we're already getting a bit of a glimpse of why it is that the elites don't like people
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penetrating their safe space. Penetrating, that is the word that Klaus Schwab used to describe
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his relationship with the government of Canada. As I mentioned yesterday, the theme for this
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year's conference is rebuilding trust. And there was a clip I had shared from an interview Klaus
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Schwab did, in which I learned that he doesn't really view the trust crisis as being one of
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institutions making. He doesn't think it's the WEF's fault or the media's fault or government's
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fault or experts fault that there's no trust in them. He thinks that it's the fault of so-called
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egotistical people. He elaborated a little bit more in his opening remarks today. This was the
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second day of the conference, but it was the first main day of programming. And in his opening
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remarks, he talked about exactly what it is that rebuilding trust means. And what I found
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interesting, it wasn't quite as menacing as the introduction he gave last year, I think it was,
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the future is built by us, but still certainly some shades of that.
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As trustees of the future, we are responsible for advancing a world which is richer in
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in possibilities, more equitable in opportunities, and more secure in its foundations.
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Moreover, as leaders in government, business and society, we bear a particular responsibility
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to rebuild trust in how we assume our own role as trustees.
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The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is not a collective decision-making body,
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but its impact stems from the new insights gained through dialogue and interaction,
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and more importantly, from the commitments made by each participant to contribute more significantly
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in the respective areas of responsibility to solving our most pressing issues
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you can tell they're trying to preempt the conspiracy theories or what they denounce
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and write off as conspiracy theories talking about how oh it's not a collective decision
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making body we're not all just getting behind closed doors and deciding things no we're just
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eliciting commitments for things from the people who are here behind closed doors yes and my
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friends that's what i have said in the past that's what i said yesterday is why this is important to
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cover because we have world leaders that are going here that are making these commitments
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as claushoi puts them and their citizens are the ones left paying the price both literally
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and figuratively now i wanted to just before we get into some of the newer things that have
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happened today share a bit of context with you so yesterday i noted that this was an incredibly
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untransparent organization doing a very untransparent conference and and by that i mean
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that they have not released the guest list the 2800 delegates who are here in davos they're not
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sharing anything about who they are yeah well except for like a few dozen world leaders they'll
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mentioned that, oh, you know, Antony Blinken is there and the premier of China is there, but
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not really the real member list or guest list here. So when we've been out and about on the
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streets of Davos, what we've been doing is basically just, this will sound very low tech
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because it is, you kind of just squint and everyone's wearing their name tag and you look
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at the name and you look at the title or the organization and you decide if it's someone that
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you should be grabbing, or sometimes you just recognize people outright. Now, why I share that
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is because it's gotten a little bit difficult this year compared to years past. When we've done this
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previously, this has just been like this billionaire Disneyland, where people are feeling
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unthreatened, they're just walking about in their own little world, because they're not actually
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used to anyone entering what I have termed the billionaire elite's safe space. They've never
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really had any prying eyes here. One of the pervasive themes of this conference is that
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much of the media who's in attendance is here not with the intent of reporting on the conference,
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but they're actually here as the invited guests of the World Economic Forum. They're here with
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the coveted white badges. So as to indicate, they are among the elites being feted and venerated.
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Okay, so what does that mean about independent media here? Well, look, we can only do the work
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we're doing from the street we aren't in the congress center we aren't inside but we can still
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see a lot of the comings and goings now well this is true to some extent one thing i've noticed and
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again this is early days still there seems to be a lot less coming and going than there was
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even last year which is an apples to apples comparison because last year was generally
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speaking a post-covid winter summit well this year it's harder to find people people seem to
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to be in hiding. They are hiding their name tags. And what I found interesting is that even when you
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get to the point where you can talk to people, they do not want to talk about their records.
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Again, they're not comfortable with the idea of people paying attention and covering it. Dare I
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say it, but the World Economic Forum has been put on notice and many of the people here,
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certainly not Klaus Schwab, but many of the people that are outside that inner sanctum
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of the organization seem to be running just a little bit scared. Now, I want to do a bit of
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a history lesson here because two years ago, not long history, don't worry, there was a clip that
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I shared that jumped out to me from one of the panels that ended up, I think it was like my most
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viewed tweet ever. It got like millions. I can't remember the exact number, but millions of views
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for this little clip of a guy named J. Michael Evans, who is the president of Alibaba Group,
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which is a big Chinese merchandising sales distribution network, whatever you want to call
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it. He's Canadian, but he has decided that he wants to go and legitimize this Chinese,
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in many ways, state affiliated enterprise. Now, he was talking about one innovation, which if you
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hear it just on its own merits will sound creepy, but all the more so if you think of it in the
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context of China and its social credit system. We're developing through technology an ability
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for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint what does that mean that's where are
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they traveling how are they traveling what are they eating what are they consuming on the platform
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so individual carbon footprint tracker stay tuned we don't have it operational yet but this is
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something that we're working on a few little caveats there and i i don't want to do the
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semantics thing. And I'm going to play this clip again for you in a few moments after another one
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because he uses words developing yet. Stay tuned. He's talking about this. He's very excited about
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this. An individual carbon footprint tracker. Now the most charitable defense that people would give
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to that as well. He's not saying it's mandatory. No, it's just it's voluntary. It's a thing you
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can do. If you want to track your carbon footprint, you can. Well, I brought up China because this is
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a social credit score by another name. We're just measuring social credit, not in terms of
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your diligence in upholding what the state wants in all areas. You're just doing it on the climate
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front. Now, what was interesting when I shared this clip, it actually got a lot of criticism
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from environmentalists who said, well, hold on. How come it's on individual people to make sure
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that they're getting the low methane beef and not on people like J. Michael Evans to not take their
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private jets to Davos. Now, to be clear, I don't know if he was one of the private jetters this
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year at the World Economic Forum, but the point stands that it was a very creepy thing. And that
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clip went around the world. The clip that we pulled, that we shared, was picked up by Legacy
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Media. Now, lo and behold, I was out on the streets of Davos today, and don't I see Mr. J. Michael
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evans now you may think i am trying to settle old scores by bringing up a two-year-old clip but
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he was saying this was something he was moving ahead with and we should all stay tuned for so
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i wanted to ask about that here's the exchange mr evans andrew lawton with the true north in
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canada a couple years ago you were talking about a carbon footprint tracker that alibaba was
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developing and i was curious if you think that's the way of the future don't know something to be
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considered for sure do you think that everyone should have their carbon footprint tracked on
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everything down to what they eat and where they go and what they buy? No, of course not. Then why
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were you promoting it with such enthusiasm? I wasn't promoting it, just discussing it as an
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idea. It's a product you're offering, is it not? No, it's not. Then why, you literally said you
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were developing it. Lots of things get, you know, are in development that don't get used. Gotta go.
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I love that. Oh no, we were just discussing the idea. Lots of things get developed. That doesn't
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mean they happen. It's no biggie. And I love the little bit at the end, those three words,
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gotta go. He just like bolted in, basically he did, what was the Looney Tunes character? It
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wasn't, it was a roadrunner. Yeah, he just kind of did like a roadrunner there. He might as well
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just said, well, maybe we'll do a dub online and we'll just do like meet meep and that'll be like
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what he says. And then he just zooms off into the distance. But I want you to contrast what he said
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there, this nonchalance of, oh yeah, no, just something to consider. It was just an idea. Who
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knows we're not offering this, to the way he spoke about it. I'm going to play it again in 2022.
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We're developing through technology an ability for consumers to measure their own carbon footprint.
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What does that mean? That's where are they traveling? How are they traveling? What are
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they eating? What are they consuming on the platform? So individual carbon footprint tracker.
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and realizing, okay, we shouldn't go down this road.
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that they still believe this is in fact the future.
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in the boardrooms and conference rooms of Davos
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With the minister of gas and petroleum in India,
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talked about the importance of just transition. And outside on the streets, he's saying,
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well, yeah, no, that's not what real people think. These are elites that want to be members of the
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club. But the problem is because they want to be members of the club, they end up giving what
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Klaus Schwab termed in that clip I played earlier, those commitments. And who is it that pays the
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price? People like you and me who can't really vote these people out. There's no way to vote
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out, Klaus Schwab, there's no way to vote against the World Economic Forum's policy agenda unless
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you have a government that is at least forthright enough to put it forward as their own national
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agenda, which by the way, in Canadian context, some politicians have. There are some little
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bits of candor on this, but not nearly as much as there should be. So J. Michael Evans was just
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one example. I also caught up with John Kerry, who you may recall, he was once a big shot American
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politician. He was a United States Senator. He ran for president in 2004, but lost to George W. Bush.
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And he later found success as Joe Biden's climate envoy. So John Kerry is the guy they send to fly
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around the world to tell you all that you shouldn't fly around the world. Not that you can afford to
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anyway, because you're not John Kerry. Well, John Kerry has a private jet infatuation. Maybe that's
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the right word. I don't know. Now, I'm not just saying he enjoys living high on the hog and that
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sometimes his work lets him take a private jet. I'm saying in his personal life, his family
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owns a private jet. His wife, Teresa Hines Carey, I believe still owns a private jet and he has
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traveled on this regularly in the course of his life. I wasn't even going to do the private jet
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thing because it's like the low hanging fruit with John Carey. But when I ran into him, the question
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I wanted to ask him, I wasn't really getting any traction with, which was whether he views China
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as being a partner in the fight against climate change now i i you may think i'm accepting the
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premise there what i was trying to do if i i let you uh you know inside what's here which
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not usually anything but just bear with me for a moment uh what i was saying is that uh there
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needs to be an ideal ideally there needs to be a reckoning with the fact that china is
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industrializing it's building more coal it doesn't really care about its emissions it's
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uh dominant if you measure emissions and accept those measurements at face value
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Well, countries like Canada are, what, one and a half percent.
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So why, this would have been the second part of the question,
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should people in Canada pay the price when China is not prepared to?
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But he didn't want to talk about it when I ran into him earlier today.
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Mr. Kerry, do you believe China is a good partner in the fight against climate change?
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I'm not doing an interview right now because I'm late.
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Do you believe China's a good partner in the fight against climate change?
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Do you believe your colleagues here should not take private jets here?
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So there's a little bit you don't see there, and we don't normally edit footage.
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The reason we edited there is, as you saw, Avi Amini from Rebel News was also horning in on my
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opportunity with John Kerry there, and I didn't want to steal their thunder. So I'll let Avi put
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out his questions, and I put out my questions, and Avi can put out my questions too. I don't
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really care too, too much. And there was a bit of a physical altercation that he got into, which
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fortunately I was spared from. But at one point I asked, look, do you fly private? And it was the
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woman in front of him, who I don't know, presumably is an aide in some way, she got very indignant
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about it and said, you know, no, never or something like that. And then I just got like baffled to
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them. Like, hang on, are we just like totally, they call this gaslighting. Are we just like
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totally rewriting history here? So then I got kind of indignant on my part. And I said, are you
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saying he's never flown private? And then he, then you hear the other shoe drop as well. Well, not in
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this job. Yeah. Okay. So your carbon footprint is job dependent. So you can fly in a private jet
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when you're on your own time, but not when you are doing the climate work that Joe Biden has
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asked you to do. So again, here's a guy that does not want to talk about his record, a guy that
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doesn't want to talk about the things that matter to real people, the real people that are going to
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have to pay the price for whatever commitments he and his colleagues make around the table
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at Davos. Now, what I have said in the past on this is that people need to realize there is a
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product being sold at Davos and it is access to politicians. Business leaders pay in some cases
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tens of thousands of dollars to be at the World Economic Forum annual meeting. Some companies
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pay basically hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to be members, which gives them the right
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to buy tickets for tens of thousands of dollars. So the WEF is a big, giant money-making operation.
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If you are Accenture, say, which is one of the so-called strategic partners of the WEF, or
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Microsoft, or Salesforce, all of these people that are mainstays here, what do they get out of it?
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Surely they have the ability to pick up the phone and call their colleagues. Surely the president
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of Microsoft doesn't have difficulty getting most other people in the tech world and even other
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world's on the phone. Why does he need to be here and spend so much money doing it? Because what
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the WEF does is puts them in the same room as politicians. Politicians where it's not always
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easy to just call them up. And more importantly, there are all these like pesky things like
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lobbying registries that you need to contend with if you do. So when you're in Davos, these things
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don't apply. The president of Microsoft, just to give one example, because I saw him today,
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can end up behind closed doors with, I don't know, Ukraine's energy minister. I don't know
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if those two have any conversations. I don't care. I'm using them purely as examples of people that
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I've seen in the last four hours. People like Chrystia Freeland can end up behind closed doors
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with Klaus Schwab without it being something that is registered or tracked or even announced or
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disclosed anywhere on any official agenda. So the politicians get to come for free.
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And there's an old saying, I don't know who coined it, I don't know the exact wording,
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but the paraphrase of it, which I'll share with you now, is something I very much believe,
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that if you are not paying for a product, you are the product.
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This is why you don't pay to use social media, because you are the product being sold to
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Politicians don't pay to be in attendance at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting,
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because they are the product being sold to businesses.
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So keep that in mind as you hear European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
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in her opening remarks this morning at the beginning of this conference.
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Many of the solutions lie not only in countries working together,
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but crucially on businesses and governments, business and democracies working together.
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It has never been more important for the public and private sector
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because none of these challenges respects borders. They each require collaboration
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to manage risks and to forge a path forward. And this is what I want to talk today about.
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While governments hold many of the levers to deal with the great challenges of our time,
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business have the innovation, the technology, the talents to deliver the solutions we need
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to fight threats like climate change or industrial-scale disinformation.
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Industrial-scale disinformation. This is like the only industrial, like, oh, no, actually,
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no, they don't like any industrialization. So yeah, industrial production, manufacturing,
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and disinformation all going the way of the dodo bird. But that was her saying, yeah, we need to
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bring more of an alliance between governments and corporations. These are the kinds of things that
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many people on the left take great issue with traditionally. And I think people on the right
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have started to, as the makeup of what the right looks like has changed, raise alarms with as well.
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And I mean, when they use disinformation, again, I go back to what the theme of this conference is,
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rebuilding trust but they don't view the institutions that have seen trust in decline
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as sharing any blame in that they point elsewhere and say oh well yes it's industrial disinformation
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that's the problem and what do we do we get commitments from private corporations to do
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the government's dirty work and reign this in and again i mean i've said in the canadian context
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when we're talking about speech regulations that the worst thing we could see is not government
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censorship, but government deputized private corporate censorship, where you still have
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government fiat behind it, but you don't even have the last ditch effort of like a judge that
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you can go to, to review the decision. If Facebook is censoring you on the government's behalf,
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who's your grievance with? Is it with Facebook or is it with the government? And this one,
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actually, I haven't even seen the clip. I just saw a blurb that was shared by one of my colleagues,
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Zartem in one of our group chats here. This is Alexandra Reeve-Gibbons, who is the president
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and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, talking about one of those very commitments that
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we could see that she would like to see evidently from private tech corporations. Take a look.
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So we're in this bizarre environment where right as the threats are ticking up,
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the investments in actually doing the day-to-day work of online trust and safety for our information
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environment is being scaled back and is under attack. And those are all things we need to
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recalibrate right now to try and address the threats. And just quickly, how?
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Yeah, so we have to have the social media companies keep up the work. There are really
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important lessons. Is there a way to force them to do that, push them to do that?
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You get them to places like Davos and you have them talk about the work.
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You know, right now, because a lot of it sadly is in the staffing and decisions of companies,
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making sure they're putting in those investments, making sure that they're sharing information,
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that they're doing it not just for the U.S. election, but for the other elections around the
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world. You know, that has to stay a key focus, even if there is political pressure. There are
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important lessons that we learned after 2016, right? Social media companies learned about
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how you track mis- and disinformation campaigns, what coordinated inauthentic activity looks like
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on a network, how you put breaks in, how when, you know, a rumor is flying, you get people
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to check whether or not, you know, have you read this article before you forward it, fact
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That architecture, it hasn't been a silver bullet by a long shot, but at least that architecture
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And there's an entire academic field now that studies this and analyzes what interventions
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We have to make sure that those interventions are still in place this year as a bare minimum
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Now, just for context, when she talks about this year, there is in 2024, not just an American
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election, but apparently someone said this and I haven't verified it myself, but it makes sense
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enough sense that there are just going to be a ton of elections in 2024. For whatever reason,
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this is just a global election year. So that's why, or at least part of the reason why mis and
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disinformation are ostensibly so high on their radar. But isn't her solution so nice? How do
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you force the tech companies to do what you want? Well, you just get them to Davos.
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She says it with a bit of a chuckle. Maybe we don't read too much into it, but there does seem
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to be this thinking that, oh, well, you just bring them there. And when they all get in the
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same room, they magically make those commitments. Oh, well, it might be working. It might not be.
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Who knows? I haven't seen much in the way of big tech executives running around. And if I do,
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I may ask. I did, I'm just going to confess, I did take hot chocolate from Meta, which is the
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parent company of Facebook. But in my defense, it was incredibly delicious. Hot chocolate,
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you'll learn more about it when I bring back tomorrow the famous Davos hot chocolate ranking,
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because as I will probably say in that video, you come for the world domination, you stay for
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the delightful chocolatey beverages. But again, apart from the Meta hot chocolate, I haven't seen
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much from Facebook on this. So it's entirely possible that they are all too willing to go
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along with this. Maybe they're not. But why? Why is this the discussion that's being had?
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Why is this the pressing issue facing society? Ursula von der Leyen, who I played that clip
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from before, she had acknowledged in the beginning of her remarks that mis and disinformation are the
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greatest global threat. She says more than war, it's mis and disinformation. And then a close
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second behind that was polarization. Now, again, I can agree that polarization is the problem or is
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a problem. I think that misinformation is a problem, believe it or not. I actually don't like
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that there are a lot of people in society that do not seem to have the ability to discern. And I know
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this when I get emails from people saying, did you hear X? And I just know that that's not in fact
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the case. But the problem is, is that I know what misinformation is. Misinformation is people
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believing something that is not true. There are a lot of people that think that if I say, oh,
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well, the World Economic Forum is wielding disproportionate influence on political figures
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in Canada, they will say that is misinformation, that is disinformation, that is far right,
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it is dishonest, it is a conspiracy theory when it is literally from the very words of the founding
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chairman of the organization. So the problem I have is that these people view misinformation
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as information they do not want to be disseminated
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when they want to summon the tech companies to Davos
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Canada has failed to get social media companies
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so now they are regulating them into compliance. And Facebook, a company with whom I have many,
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many grievances, by the way, but I support them on this, said, look, we're just going to not play
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ball with this. We're just not going to play this game. And as a result, True North is not accessible
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in Facebook. Now, interestingly, we were driving, my colleague Cosman Dirja, Sean Thompson,
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my producer, videographer, and I, and Sean was, no, sorry, Cosman was trying to pull up an article.
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and the link that he found on Google was directing him to Facebook and he you know clicked the link
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and even in Switzerland on his computer driving through the mountains he could not open this
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article to a publication that had nothing to do with Canada because Facebook knew he was Canadian
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this is literally Facebook knew he was a Canadian and said oh no you're not allowed to read the news
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on Facebook and yeah it's easy to look at Facebook and say oh come on that's ridiculous but but
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Facebook is playing the hand that it was dealt by the federal government. And I share that story
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because this is precisely what happens when that malign alliance of government and private
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entities, of government and tech companies in particular, are pushed into this place where
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they are working together. And I said at the beginning, and I think the theme of this show
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has been how the elites are in hiding. The ones that do come out don't want to really talk about
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the record. Many of them don't want to come out at all. There have been some locals that have
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taken issue with this. Now, this was just kind of a fun thing. I don't often do protest interviews
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because I find a lot of protesters are just going out of their way to get attention. But
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nevertheless, this was one that I felt succeeded in doing so because I was just out there waiting.
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I can't remember if this was before or after I had met up with John Kerry, but very, very cold
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outside was just hanging out on the street and i just heard this noise this indescript or a
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nondescript noise that was getting louder and louder and i could not make out what it was
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Now, that was, I mean, that actually is not doing justice to just how loud that was.
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it was just like echoing and thundering and what was weird is that those folks had this really
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really insane police escort like they were being brought down the road by dozens of heavily armed
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police officers and i figured okay i'll bite what what's the deal with this i was glad i did because
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those bells were actually meant to be the sound of freedom according to one of the organizers
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Why are you here and what's the name of your group?
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It's called Freiheitsrichter, that means Freedom Bell Swingers.
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The origin is to send evil ghosts away, to get ghosts with beautiful energy here.
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So the World Economic Forum are the evil ghosts to you, right?
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I know only that this is a village of Switzerland.
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how are they minded do they want to earn money with weapons do they want to earn money with
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climate hoax we don't know that but we send light and we hope that you will do the best for this
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planet stop bloodshedding so your issue is the secrecy secrecy you don't like that they're not
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telling you what they're talking about i don't like this is a sweet uh a swiss village and here
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you see some bricks you see a barrier you see a black people i mean uh people in black uniform
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and they stop us this is our country we don't know why there are people that mighty
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and that have so much fear that must block a road and that must block our swiss tradition
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this is a swiss tradition this road is blocked we don't want that swiss traditions are blocked
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by mr schwab we don't like that thank you very much you know it was weird at the beginning i
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i didn't quite know where it was gonna go when we were talking about you know dark spirits and
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light spirits and angels and evil ghosts and all of that i mean i still don't entirely know if he
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was doing that to be poetic or if he genuinely views there is something uh more untoward there
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But at the end, I actually found it quite moving, what he's saying.
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Here were a group of just normal, ordinary Swiss people.
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They were, I think, in many respects, working class Swiss people.
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And they took issue with the fact that their country and this village is taken over once a year by people that really want nothing to do with them and won't even let them walk down the street.
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And I mean, I can complain as an indignant Canadian journalist, I should be able to walk down the street and report on this.
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But for them, they really they have more of a claim than I do to being able to walk down that street.
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So it was a nice little point and proof that even through the personal carbon footprint trackers and the tech regulation and all of that,
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there are real people in this country who are affected just by the World Economic Forum's existence to say nothing of the policies that are being prescribed there.
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And I just want to say, I mean, it's been so nice to hear all of your messages and comments.
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I even got some question suggestions for Mark Carney.
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I did run into Mark Carney already, I will say.
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Mark Carney is like the most frequent flyer of Davos.
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You see him like on the streets, you know, multiple times today.
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I got like, I think, five seconds with him, which maybe I'll share tomorrow.
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But now it's a little bit different because now he's been like rumored as a replacement for Justin Trudeau.
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So we'll try to get something more substantive from him later on on that.
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My colleague Cosman did some of the dirty work.
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Literally, he was like calling up escort agencies, not to, you know, to bill to the company.
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But he was trying to get, not that I know of anyway.
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But he was trying to get a little bit of information about, you know, what some what some of the services being offered to.
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So who's calling? I mentioned escorts on the show and someone calls me immediately.
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So bear with me there. It's Klaus Schwab, actually.
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And yeah, so he was doing that. Apparently they're all booked.
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So take from that what you will. And I think there's another story that he has coming out very shortly about how some of the locals are being evicted.
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and in some cases getting like golden coat hangers
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We will talk to you tomorrow live from overseas once again.
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