Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ If we're all 'global citizens' who gets to rule？ Klaus Schwab has a plan

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, the podcast is from the streets of Davos, Switzerland,

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00:00:30.000 Tonight, Rebel News journalists are on the ground here at Davos, Switzerland, for the annual meeting

00:00:50.320 of the secretive World Economic Forum. It's January 16th, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:00.000 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:12.000 It's chilly here in the Alps of Switzerland, but I am not here on a skiing vacation, I can assure you.

00:01:19.120 I'm here because the World Economic Forum chooses this town to have their secretive retreat every

00:01:27.520 January. It was an anomaly during pandemic times. They skipped it, and then they had it in May of

00:01:33.560 2022 when it was actually sunny and warm. You might recall Rebel News sent six reporters then.

00:01:40.440 Here are some of the highlights from May 2022. Here's my favorite, featuring Avi Amini.

00:01:46.020 How do you justify, how does the UN climate envoy justify the massive carbon footprint here today

00:01:51.780 to set this up, this fake city for a week event?

00:01:57.100 How did you get here?

00:01:58.020 How did you get here?

00:01:59.540 Did you flock?

00:02:01.180 You walked?

00:02:01.900 Yeah.

00:02:02.760 Did you come on a private jet?

00:02:04.180 Of course not.

00:02:05.420 No, so how do you justify this? Look at all of this. For one week event, the carbon footprint is huge.

00:02:11.300 Don't you think that's a bit hypocritical? 0.93

00:02:12.920 Oh, drop it. 0.95

00:02:14.560 No?

00:02:14.840 Drop it.

00:02:15.900 Look, there is lots of progress being made, but look, I'm not doing a stand-up interview,

00:02:20.300 okay?

00:02:20.640 Why not? You're walking that way anyways. I think people around the world, you know,

00:02:24.760 they see they say regaining trust.

00:02:26.400 I do.

00:02:26.680 That's the whole purpose.

00:02:27.960 I do lots of media.

00:02:30.560 Friendly media.

00:02:31.220 How is the public meant to believe that the New York Times is here to actually ask the

00:02:36.200 tough questions when you're here as an invited guest? How are people meant to rely on the

00:02:41.120 mainstream media?

00:02:41.960 We have, if you wouldn't mind, we're just having a, just, if you could give us, you know,

00:02:47.140 thank you.

00:02:48.000 You don't want to explain to people why we should trust the mainstream media? No? Of course.

00:02:53.200 We do a lot of work on the SDGs. You know, we address things like skilling and climate change,

00:02:58.800 internet access for everyone, and I happen to be an SDG advocate myself for, appointed by the

00:03:05.120 UN Secretary General.

00:03:06.440 And this year...

00:03:07.120 We'll get you into your thing.

00:03:08.100 Okay.

00:03:08.520 Yeah.

00:03:08.980 One more question.

00:03:09.980 One more question. This year they're saying that this is about regaining trust. Why do you

00:03:13.180 think so much of the world has lost trust in the WEF?

00:03:16.600 Well, the first thing I would say is we live in a world where I think people question much more

00:03:22.840 everything around them, and questioning can be a challenge, but, you know, questioning, I think,

00:03:27.340 is also an opportunity, mostly to provide people with better information, more information,

00:03:32.060 and that's one of the things that the World Economic Forum does.

00:03:35.260 But that doesn't answer the question why people mistrust, and specifically Bill Gatner.

00:03:41.040 Oh, that was a good one, and we had other journalists. Well, this time I'm joining Avi, and we've got

00:03:45.900 Callum Smiles from the United Kingdom, and even Calvin Robinson, a star from the GB News network

00:03:52.440 in the UK. It's colder now. Now, not as cold as it was in Ottawa during the trucker's convoy,

00:03:58.240 so I won't complain too much. But I think part of the scheme, part of the strategy for having the

00:04:05.160 World Economic Forum gathering at this time of year in this place is to make it as hard to get to for

00:04:12.060 outsiders as possible. The entire town's hotels are booked up by the World Economic Forum.

00:04:18.100 So, for example, Rebel News is renting an Airbnb almost an hour away. You just simply can't get

00:04:25.080 into the city. And although we've been walking down this strip downtown today, that will not be

00:04:32.040 allowed tomorrow, as you'll need to have a World Economic Forum access pass, a digital ID card to

00:04:39.340 get through. Of course, that's not given out just to anybody. You can buy your way in, and depending on

00:04:45.520 the access, you need $400,000 or more. And all along the main strip, you can see people happily

00:04:53.020 paying that or much more to showcase their company, their country, their scheme, their investment scam

00:05:00.720 to the high and mighty, the billionaires and the oligarchs who gather here. And a tear underneath those

00:05:06.920 billionaires and oligarchs, the politicians. At the very end of the street, one of the pop-up

00:05:12.960 studios, remember, these are not here year-round. It's just for the week of Davos. They take it over

00:05:18.180 like a movie set. They put up a facade of all the different companies who purport to be working for

00:05:24.920 the World Economic Forum's mission of improving the state of the world. They're not doing that.

00:05:29.420 They're here to improve the state of their company or the state of their political fortunes. For example,

00:05:34.080 BlackRock, one of the world's largest asset managers with $10 or $20 trillion in management,

00:05:39.360 is at the bottom of this road. They're involved in both ends of the Ukraine war. You got to salute

00:05:44.680 them for their entrepreneurship. They're arms dealers. They're also planning to rebuild the

00:05:49.620 rubble in the country. They'll make money either way, which may be one of the reasons why Larry Fink,

00:05:54.280 their CEO, is on the board of directors of the World Economic Forum, along with Chrystia Freeland,

00:06:00.620 Justin Trudeau's deputy prime minister. I don't know how someone could be loyal to the Canadian

00:06:05.800 cabinet, loyal to the queen, but also loyal to a rival organization, rival in terms of global power,

00:06:12.800 rival in terms of ideology or plans. What I don't quite get about the World Economic Forum is how

00:06:19.320 they can purport to create foreign policy, domestic policy, tax policy, because they are not elected.

00:06:26.320 They are not a legislature. They are a oligarchy, a kleptocracy. I don't know. There are dictators

00:06:34.900 represented here who buy their way in. And the fact that mere elected officials like Chrystia Freeland 0.98

00:06:42.480 are at the same level as billionaires and both have a seat at the same table,

00:06:48.520 who gave Larry Fink of BlackRock the right to make policy for anyone, let alone for sovereign

00:06:54.240 countries? The World Economic Forum, as you heard in my interview with James Lindsay last week,

00:06:58.640 they have this phrase, global citizenship. But what does that mean? I know what it means to be

00:07:07.060 the citizen of Switzerland or Canada or the United States. It gives you certain rights. You have the

00:07:13.200 right to vote. You have the right to enter that country. That's what a passport says. But what is it?

00:07:19.360 You have the right to select your leader. But what does it mean to be a global citizen? Who's

00:07:24.140 your legislature? Where can you move around? What rights do you have against this global ruler?

00:07:29.460 And who is a global ruler? Well, Klaus Schwab puts himself and his cronies forward as the people who

00:07:37.000 would rule us all under global citizenship. I'm here all week with my friends. There's seven of us

00:07:43.220 all together. We're crammed into an Airbnb an hour down the road. We came here economy class,

00:07:49.000 airfare. We're not allowed to stay in the fancy hotels on the street. I don't think we can afford to.

00:07:53.640 Anyways, and we're going to do citizen journalism that you can only get from independent companies

00:08:00.800 like Rebel News. So all along this road, you see the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, you see

00:08:05.340 CNBC, you see all these companies that purport to be journalists, but they are not here to ask

00:08:13.020 questions. They are here to get in on the deals, to get their messaging straight, to harmonize with

00:08:18.580 the rest of the media party. We are not welcome here. In fact, on our way in, we were pulled over

00:08:24.160 by police at a check stop. Now credit to the Swiss police. They have a very light touch, especially

00:08:28.980 compared to Justin Trudeau, the bully. Here's my very brief interaction with a Swiss cop stopping us

00:08:34.780 when we were coming into town.

00:08:35.780 How are you today? How are you? How are you? No good. No good? Why not? Why is it no good?

00:08:48.180 But it's a free country, right? That's great. Thanks very much. All the best. Bye-bye.

00:08:56.260 Okay. Thank you. I can't stay mad at that cop. When I said Switzerland's a free country,

00:09:03.840 he seemed to agree. Well, that's my intro, but I'm going to leave you with a walk and talk

00:09:11.320 with me and my friend, obviously. We walked up the strip observing and commenting on things we saw

00:09:17.280 in the snow, in the cold. That's the Ezra Levant show today, but over the days ahead,

00:09:23.080 we'll try and buttonhole the VIPs as they walk down the street, at least the parts where we're

00:09:28.520 allowed to go. We'll also talk about thematic things like the difference between the high life

00:09:33.700 here at Davos, the private jets, the luxury hotels, the steak and champagne versus the low-carbon

00:09:40.720 lifestyle they demand you and I live. You eat bugs, you'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

00:09:46.900 We'll talk about other themes, and of course, we'll interview interesting guests, whether that's

00:09:51.880 people who are attending here, or I'd like to hear what Avi and Callum Smiles and Calvin Robinson

00:09:58.040 and our friend Andrew Lawton is in town from True North as well. So I'll say goodbye to you now and

00:10:03.460 enjoy my walk and talk with my friend Avi Amini as he takes me down the streets that he knew in May

00:10:09.260 when he covered WEF reports for us then. And let me leave you with that. Every video,

00:10:15.600 every report we do in Davos will be posted online at WEF reports.com. You can see all our videos there.

00:10:24.120 And if you're moved by our independent journalism, you can even chip in a few bucks to pay our bills

00:10:29.640 because we do not get money from any of the fancy pants around here. All right, here's me and Avi.

00:10:35.500 You know, Avi, there's a handful of environmental activists over there. And over there is the office

00:10:57.520 of BlackRock, one of the largest investment funds in the world, what, 10 or 20 trillion dollars

00:11:03.500 in assets under management. They are just as extreme in their environmental and climate action

00:11:14.120 as these folks here. I don't even understand how they could be protesting when the World Economic Forum

00:11:21.860 and Grand Poobahs are just as committed to socialism, cultural Marxism, environmental extremism,

00:11:28.840 depopulation as they are. I don't know who they're protesting against because the World Economic Forum

00:11:34.580 is these same guys just with a little more money. What is funny, when I did speak to them,

00:11:41.720 their problem that they explained to me, they explained to me exactly what you're talking about.

00:11:45.340 Their problem is that they said that WEF is like, his wording was wolf in sheep's clothing.

00:11:53.220 They basically say the things, they agree you should eat bugs, but they don't practice what they preach,

00:12:01.400 which I kind of agree. But none of these people are practicing what they preach either.

00:12:05.800 Every single one of them got here using fossil fuels. Every single one of them is wearing some sort 0.99

00:12:11.480 of polymer or plastic coat. Like, it's bloody cold out, and it's getting colder this week.

00:12:17.920 They're all, they're the young hypocrites league who will grow up to be the directors of the big 0.99

00:12:23.120 hypocrites league. I don't know. They were chanting against capitalism. I don't think there's a lot of 0.99

00:12:28.880 pure free market people in the World Economic Forum. They're, they're sort of, you know, when you

00:12:34.160 have the merger of big government and big business, that's called fascism. That's not called the free

00:12:40.280 market. The World Economic Forum are actually not really capitalists. They're

00:12:45.200 public-private partnerships, which is called for a kind of fascism.

00:12:51.440 By the way, I like the cops here. They're very nice.

00:12:54.480 Very nice touch compared to Canada, where they had, where they had fairly brutal.

00:12:59.720 They're very nice, but they're camera shy. That's right. They're camera shy.

00:13:05.640 That was crazy. They literally, like, it's, what is that? I've never seen that in the world anywhere.

00:13:12.980 You know what? Cops don't care. 1.00

00:13:14.760 Yeah. I like how shy the, I like a police force that's shy. Look at this delicious, you know, you're, you know, you're in Central Europe when you've got delicious meat and cheese like this, eh?

00:13:25.600 I mean, well, maybe those World Economic Forum guys know what they're doing, having their getaway.

00:13:30.720 Do you speak English? No. Do you sell bugs? No. No, insectin. No, no, no.

00:13:38.360 Only meat and cheese. Only meat. It's meat. It's good.

00:13:40.480 Meat and cheese. Well, we'll have to come back here later.

00:13:43.520 It looks great. Look at all these.

00:13:45.520 Looks great. Thank you.

00:13:46.740 I promise you one thing. You won't find bugs here.

00:13:51.960 Oh, that's right. You know, Switzerland's interesting. You got one part German, one part French, one part Italian. You get, oh, look at this.

00:14:00.960 This looks like someone important.

00:14:02.880 You got a...

00:14:04.520 An escort.

00:14:05.600 An escort. I wonder who that is. I wonder if that's VIP shuttle, the Audi VIP shuttle and the Golanwagen.

00:14:14.220 And there was a black Mercedes. Maybe that's the BlackRock vehicle.

00:14:20.800 Yeah, probably.

00:14:21.160 Maybe that's Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. He's got his little entourage.

00:14:26.220 I don't know why you would need that here in Davos. It looks like there's some more.

00:14:31.240 I think those are cop cars, right? Either that or taxis. I can't tell.

00:14:35.140 No, that's police.

00:14:36.840 Polizai.

00:14:38.760 And another Mercedes.

00:14:40.760 I think these are the BlackRock boys coming through. 0.99

00:14:46.300 BlackRock boys coming through with their escort.

00:14:48.760 Who do they need the police to protect them from?

00:14:51.380 Exactly. It's insane because you walk down here, they're shocked when they're confronted by journalists.

00:14:58.660 Like, who are the police protecting them from?

00:15:00.580 Yeah.

00:15:00.760 You know, it's a lovely little town. It's a little bit hard to get to.

00:15:12.320 It reminds me of going from Calgary to Banff, going from Zurich to Davos, except for it's a little further and the road's a little harder to do.

00:15:20.700 So here's some more serious cops. And it says police, but that's your drab green camouflage. These are the serious blokes.

00:15:28.760 And this is a new vehicle. This wasn't here last time I was here. This vehicle here, which has the...

00:15:33.700 That looks like an anti-riot screen in case people are throwing things at the vehicle. I think that's what that's for.

00:15:39.140 Absolutely. But it makes you wonder, what intel did they get?

00:15:42.780 Can you guys stop filming us, all right?

00:15:45.900 Want to ask why?

00:15:48.660 Yeah, ask why?

00:15:51.260 It's part of the news, isn't it?

00:15:53.240 Yes, it is.

00:15:53.820 But we don't like our faces in the news, so they're in the world, okay?

00:15:57.900 I respect that. We'll blow your face. I promise we'll blow your face. 0.97

00:16:00.960 It's a promise. It's a promise. 0.99

00:16:03.140 I promise we will.

00:16:03.960 We do our jobs. We have families at home. We don't need our...

00:16:06.580 I respect that. We'll blow your face. Thank you for that. 1.00

00:16:09.140 Fair deal. He says he doesn't want his face all over the world.

00:16:15.640 We'll blur his face. He's not a personal story, but the police is a story.

00:16:22.980 When you've got reports that 5,000 police and military have been authorized, that's news.

00:16:29.260 You know what I like? I like that the cops here are asking, please don't show my face.

00:16:34.000 Please don't, you know, film us. I like a deferential cop.

00:16:39.140 Yeah, it is. And look, they do try to tell you at first.

00:16:44.400 They order you to do it.

00:16:46.200 And then they go to...

00:16:47.820 But it's so interesting.

00:16:49.620 Why?

00:16:50.560 I would have liked to engage them a bit more as to what are they so upset?

00:16:54.880 Like, and the other interesting thing that I noticed is that this time, they're not wearing those W.E.F. police badges that they were wearing last time.

00:17:02.100 I remember last time you saw that, that they had that badge.

00:17:04.300 Every single one of them had it.

00:17:05.620 And there was a big controversy.

00:17:07.180 And it was fact-checked because the fact-checkers found there was no W.E.F. police, even though they were all wearing the badges.

00:17:12.000 When I spoke to the cops that I had to, you know, secretly film because they wouldn't talk to you straight up.

00:17:17.280 And they were saying, oh, it was just the badge that we were sold.

00:17:20.680 And if anyone who's ever served, that does happen when you serve.

00:17:24.220 It's like a team spirit. It's like a memento.

00:17:26.440 A memento.

00:17:27.080 But they all had to buy it and they all had to wear it.

00:17:30.260 So it makes you question.

00:17:32.700 You've got this police force that seem like they don't want anyone to know that they're here, at least as individual cops.

00:17:38.320 That were forced to wear these badges.

00:17:41.440 So there is this, there's a really incestuous relationship between the W.E.F. and the authorities here.

00:17:51.020 And everything here.

00:17:52.320 Anything here.

00:17:53.200 You've got hundreds of police in town and around town.

00:17:56.280 I mean, reports say there could be up to 5,000.

00:17:59.260 Obviously, they're not all locals from Davos or the neighbouring towns.

00:18:03.660 So you've got cops who have been summoned here, assigned here.

00:18:07.880 Now, maybe they're making it a little over time.

00:18:09.480 Maybe they find it interesting.

00:18:11.100 But I think that Swiss cops are more respectful of their citizens.

00:18:17.720 I mean, listen, Switzerland is well known for being very democratic.

00:18:21.820 They have lots of citizen referendums.

00:18:24.000 It really is a free country.

00:18:26.120 They have strong firearms, property rights.

00:18:29.200 It's a country that respects citizens.

00:18:31.600 So it's not surprising to me that the cops here, when you give them a little bit of pushback,

00:18:36.360 which we've done a couple times today, you give the cops a little pushback instead of them growling at you

00:18:41.620 and threatening to arrest you, which has happened to you in particular,

00:18:46.120 they sort of, I'm not going to say plead with you, but they say, hey.

00:18:51.280 Now, look at this.

00:18:51.940 Let's stop here for a second.

00:18:55.940 Indonesia.

00:18:56.340 Show us.

00:18:57.020 This will go by.

00:19:00.600 Yeah, I met one of the guys from here today at lunch.

00:19:05.200 Indonesia Pavilion, Malaysia House.

00:19:07.360 So this is, I'm going to compare this to a movie set or even a Disneyland.

00:19:11.400 Disneyland, it's like a street on Disneyland, but the stars of Disneyland are, you know,

00:19:16.600 the characters, Mickey Mouse, you know, maybe some of the movies.

00:19:20.200 This is a Disneyland too.

00:19:21.900 It's a fake facade, like a movie set, where for a week a year, companies, interest groups,

00:19:29.660 and even some countries drop millions of dollars to have their stretch along the main stroll here.

00:19:36.700 And let's look there, right next door to Ukraine.

00:19:42.180 That's right.

00:19:43.060 Look at that.

00:19:43.760 Ukraine House, Davos.

00:19:45.800 Ukraine is you. 0.62

00:19:47.020 Let's go over there.

00:19:48.920 I guess we know where some of that foreign aid money is going.

00:19:51.980 Look at that, eh?

00:19:53.720 Walking through liberated Kurson.

00:20:01.520 Office of the President of Ukraine, Pinchuk Arts Center.

00:20:04.240 Victor Pinchuk, there you see.

00:20:06.700 Is there a room or is it just that window?

00:20:09.500 It'll be open.

00:20:10.680 It'll open up tomorrow.

00:20:12.280 Last time they had that corner.

00:20:14.960 So it looks like they're still setting it up.

00:20:16.580 Yeah, they're setting up.

00:20:17.220 This is the day before it's open.

00:20:19.520 So it looks like they're going to have, like, a museum-style display.

00:20:24.440 I think the Russians caught propaganda.

00:20:29.060 Project Ukraine is you.

00:20:30.620 Ukraine House Davos.

00:20:31.520 So it's quite a large, quite a large area.

00:20:36.700 Yeah, I've been here for a while.

00:20:38.620 Can we come in?

00:20:45.080 Can we come in?

00:20:45.980 Excuse me.

00:20:46.560 It's closed.

00:20:47.360 Oh, it's closed.

00:20:47.940 Oh, I thought I saw the sign was open.

00:20:49.620 Are you open tomorrow?

00:20:50.860 Are you open tomorrow?

00:20:52.220 You can come on Wednesday.

00:20:53.460 Come on Wednesday.

00:20:54.300 See you Wednesday.

00:20:55.400 Thank you.

00:20:55.720 Looks like maybe they're still building it.

00:21:00.160 They're building it.

00:21:01.220 Right.

00:21:01.740 But it's sustainably built.

00:21:03.400 You can tell everything they're doing here is conscious of the planet.

00:21:07.880 Right.

00:21:08.280 And our foreign aid.

00:21:11.200 But this is what it is.

00:21:12.200 And this time it looks like a...

00:21:14.100 It actually looks like a smaller setup than last year.

00:21:16.640 Last year it was all Ukraine. 0.97

00:21:18.580 Looks like they are giving a tour to another media group in there.

00:21:25.200 That must be the friendly media.

00:21:28.820 Or maybe it's some sort of PR.

00:21:30.920 PR for them.

00:21:31.740 It could be.

00:21:32.560 All right.

00:21:33.120 We'll keep it going.

00:21:34.000 On Wednesday, she said.

00:21:35.220 I've got to tell you, Ezra, this is the first time I've been in snow.

00:21:50.360 In my life.

00:21:52.000 Really.

00:21:53.420 It's not as great as they say.

00:21:55.840 Well, it's chilly.

00:21:57.080 It's cold.

00:21:57.600 It's cold.

00:22:05.220 So this would be like if the main street in Banff, Alberta, or in Aspen, Colorado, were totally bought out.

00:22:13.580 If every single hotel room in Banff were bought out.

00:22:17.120 If huge corporations put up pop-up offices and 10,000 oligarchs, billionaires, mooches, hangers-on, B-list celebrities, schemers and scammers came to town.

00:22:35.220 Except for Klaus Schwab is sort of, he's quite a character, isn't he?

00:22:44.660 I think he really looks like a good character for a villain in a movie.

00:22:50.220 He absolutely does.

00:22:53.300 DP World.

00:22:54.440 I don't even dare ask what that stands for.

00:23:00.800 Manchester United.

00:23:01.980 So a football team is here to promote themselves.

00:23:06.500 I don't know.

00:23:07.040 Maybe they're selling season tickets.

00:23:08.820 You've got to be a billionaire to buy season tickets on some of these clubs.

00:23:12.200 Look, some of these places that are here, I kind of don't blame them.

00:23:15.680 It's an opportunity that they're taking advantage of.

00:23:18.500 You've got these cryptocurrency up here somewhere.

00:23:22.380 And some of the guys there are pretty anti the WEF.

00:23:25.320 I've spoken to them last time.

00:23:26.380 Well, and there's also the scammers.

00:23:28.500 I think Sam Bankman-Fried from FTX was attended Davos.

00:23:33.100 Of course, but he didn't set up shop out here.

00:23:35.300 He was given a red carpet entrance to the inside of the event where we're not good enough to be.

00:23:41.700 There's a lot of hotels.

00:23:43.200 Like, for example, here's Hotel Europe.

00:23:45.360 There's the Belvedere up ahead.

00:23:46.800 They're beautiful hotels, completely booked up.

00:23:51.680 Like, look at this here.

00:23:52.780 This is a list of the blockchain companies here at Davos.

00:23:58.520 I guess they're a little too embarrassed to have FTX on them on there anymore.

00:24:03.660 But it's, you know, if you think about it, everything here, almost everything here, wasn't what it's displaying now a week ago.

00:24:19.720 There's even pubs that you'll see up ahead.

00:24:24.600 I think the Polish house was clearly a pub until last week.

00:24:29.640 Some of the places that are taking advantage of it, like a country or a state or, like, they're seeing the opportunity. 0.97

00:24:36.460 You've got a bunch of crooks in town.

00:24:38.160 There's potential to make money. 0.64

00:24:39.540 That's right.

00:24:42.300 Red carpet, velvet rope, the blockchain hub.

00:24:45.760 Yeah.

00:24:46.300 Nothing says fancy like the blockchain hub.

00:24:59.640 Now, Axios, I don't know if you're familiar with Axios.

00:25:07.840 It's a fairly new media company, a news media company.

00:25:12.640 When Axios is here with a big place like that on the main promenade, they're not here to ask critical questions.

00:25:22.580 They're not here to scrutinize or to do accountability.

00:25:26.840 They're here to make sure they're riveted to the billionaires and the oligarchs, the movers and shakers.

00:25:33.600 Make sure they get the inside track.

00:25:36.440 Make sure they harmonize their messaging with Alex Soros and Bill Gates.

00:25:42.440 So, whenever I see a media company boasting that they're an insider here, I know you can't trust them because they're really bought and paid for.

00:25:53.360 There's more India stuff.

00:25:54.900 You know what?

00:25:55.280 India seems to have the biggest hold on WEF, at least within the strip here.

00:26:04.300 And last time I met, one of the senior ministers who was happy about it.

00:26:10.800 Well, they're trying to get the world economic forum to care about India, not just China.

00:26:15.280 Klaus Schwab is obsessed with China.

00:26:17.820 China is a strategic, military, economic and political rival of India.

00:26:24.120 Maybe India thinks they can buy the love of these oligarchs. 1.00

00:26:28.100 But I don't know.

00:26:28.840 Klaus Schwab is pretty deep into the Communist Party of China.

00:26:32.100 And it's interesting because China doesn't seem to have anything on this out here.

00:26:37.540 So, it's almost like they know that they're in.

00:26:40.200 They don't need to.

00:26:41.160 That whole hotel there, Maharashtra, I think that's the name of a state in India, if I'm not mistaken.

00:26:49.080 Tamil Nadu, that's another part of India.

00:26:57.480 Amazon.

00:26:58.000 No one did better during the lockdowns than Amazon.com.

00:27:04.100 They managed to build the fear into their business plan to shut down bricks and mortar mom and pop shops around the world.

00:27:13.680 But that didn't matter if Amazon was there.

00:27:16.740 They loved it.

00:27:18.440 Did you get that with him saying that with the Amazon behind him yet?

00:27:22.700 They, everyone here managed to, just like there's war profiteers here, there are pandemic profiteers here.

00:27:31.180 Look, he's across the right.

00:27:32.420 Great point.

00:27:33.560 Zoom.

00:27:33.940 No one did better.

00:27:35.580 No one.

00:27:36.420 No one had even heard of Zoom three years ago.

00:27:40.440 And then, when you were banned from meeting, from gathering, from traveling, and I'm not even blaming Zoom.

00:27:47.660 They were a company that happened to do well.

00:27:49.960 I don't think they were particularly strong lobbyists.

00:27:52.380 Amazon, by contrast, owns the Washington Post.

00:27:56.000 It's Jeff Bezos.

00:27:56.740 He has probably more lobbyists in Washington than anyone else except for Facebook.

00:28:02.140 Amazon worked hard to really, really wring everything out of the pandemic.

00:28:06.920 Like, Zoom, I think, was just an accidental beneficiary.

00:28:10.600 But it's interesting that they're across from each other when both were such successful beneficiaries of the pandemic.

00:28:20.800 Equality Lounge.

00:28:22.100 That was the one we went to, thinking it would be juicy in there.

00:28:26.440 But they were, they were, they were okay.

00:28:31.160 We went in there thinking, you know, we actually sent Sav, who had come with us last time, and to engage with them on the kinds of things that you'd imagine they'd be advocating for and pushing.

00:28:47.580 But they weren't, they weren't your most radical, in that case.

00:28:52.080 But the, I think it's a Saudi, Saudi mosque there?

00:28:57.960 No, like, you know, I think it's a Saudi set up. 1.00

00:29:01.680 And I went in there to ask them about Israel.

00:29:04.000 I don't know.

00:29:04.320 I thought, why not?

00:29:04.920 Let's stir the pot.

00:29:06.400 And they kicked me out.

00:29:07.840 But I think this time I'm going to go in secretly, you know, not with the camera.

00:29:11.880 They see the camera.

00:29:12.780 They don't like it.

00:29:13.960 And, and, um, because what's the other, what's the, uh, oh, no, it's, uh, yeah, Mohammed bin Salwan Foundation.

00:29:22.460 You want to ask them about journalists.

00:29:24.860 And you often see journalists in there, like, just taking the free food and the free coffee in the room.

00:29:29.840 And you think, weren't you guys advocating that, weren't you guys protesting against this guy?

00:29:35.740 But, uh, I'll try not to get noticed too much by them, because I want to go in there once it opens.

00:29:48.140 But you can see, it's very dead today.

00:29:49.520 Yeah.

00:29:49.820 Dead.

00:29:50.600 Well, that's the same place that the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones had.

00:29:54.720 Yep.

00:29:55.180 A lot of the spots here, it almost seems like they, they held it because it was only eight months.

00:30:00.400 Yeah.

00:30:00.780 They took a place over.

00:30:01.860 This is a magnificent looking hotel.

00:30:03.660 I think it's called the Belvedere.

00:30:05.740 Um, I don't, I've never been inside it, but obviously, but from the outside, it looks like it's a great classic.

00:30:12.600 I think your friend was staying there.

00:30:15.320 Mark, uh, who, who did I interview from Canada?

00:30:19.080 The Canadian.

00:30:21.300 The, um, who's going to become the Prime Minister of Canada.

00:30:26.100 He was the bank of, he was the head.

00:30:27.920 Oh, Mark Carney.

00:30:28.600 Mark Carney.

00:30:29.100 So that happened right, that, that video was here, or no, walking up there, and he walked up the ramp into the Belvedere.

00:30:35.080 Well, of course, Mark Carney would stay nowhere less than the Belvedere.

00:30:40.500 He's earned it.

00:30:41.500 Probably $2,000 a night.

00:30:43.340 Of course.

00:30:43.800 But he'll bill it to someone, some taxpayer group.

00:30:48.880 This is, they didn't have last time, there's a, um, World Economic Forum Museum.

00:30:55.680 Ah.

00:30:56.880 I wonder if that's where they celebrate all their wins, all the cabinets that they've penetrated.

00:31:02.060 That's right.

00:31:03.020 Maybe we'd learn a little bit more.

00:31:06.480 Maybe we'd learn a little bit more about Klaus Schwab.

00:31:09.160 Yeah.

00:31:09.380 And his history is cold, slushy and sludgy for the mere citizens on the street and the unaccredited media.

00:31:20.380 But for the fancy fancy insiders, it's luxury Mercedes up and down this road and private red carpet access.

00:31:30.500 I mean, I'm not against wealth, I'm not against privacy, but these people seek to rule us without including us.

00:31:40.920 They seek to tell us but not listen to us.

00:31:43.820 And when your whole message is, change now so our climate doesn't, I didn't have to look far to find a message that they're not practicing themselves at all.

00:32:03.080 Wow.

00:32:05.480 I think it's a Korean arms dealer.

00:32:07.560 Let me see.

00:32:09.240 Please tell me it is.

00:32:10.500 The Hanwha Group is a large business conglomerate from South Korea.

00:32:19.860 Diversified holdings stretching from explosives to retail and financial services.

00:32:30.220 They really are a weapons company, business area.

00:32:36.480 Do you think we should be more worried about climate change or what they're selling?

00:32:39.420 Aerospace.

00:32:43.640 Satellites.

00:32:49.240 Yeah, I think they're an arms dealer.

00:32:52.300 You know, I just did a very quick Google check, but the arms dealer, the leading arms manufacturer of South Korea, has a message for you.

00:33:02.200 Change now so our climate doesn't.

00:33:04.460 I'm just glad they didn't end that with an or else.

00:33:10.580 I think we're in, we're in Davos.

00:33:13.580 I think the or else is implied.

00:33:15.460 That's right.

00:33:15.920 That booth that says stay warm, and then that says hot chocolate.

00:33:20.580 I'm guessing that when they're done setting up, that'll be like a heater, and that'll have free hot chocolate.

00:33:26.620 It looks like they've got like a hot chocolate bar.

00:33:28.960 Well, I am very interested in that.

00:33:30.680 I wonder if they're open now.

00:33:41.880 Looks like they're still preparing.

00:33:44.420 Look who they've got on the screen.

00:33:48.280 Look, it's their lead star this year.

00:33:51.720 Nasdaily is who they're... 0.95

00:33:53.660 He's back.

00:33:59.580 So he will most certainly be walking up and down here.

00:34:04.420 We might have to ask him that final question about FTX.

00:34:07.700 Right.

00:34:08.240 Because he did say that I was the biggest threat to my viewers.

00:34:11.480 Wow.

00:34:11.820 I've never convinced thousands of people to invest into a scam.

00:34:17.560 The New York Times.

00:34:19.420 Of course the New York Times is here.

00:34:22.380 This really is...

00:34:24.980 If the editorial pages of the New York Times could take human form, it would be the World Economic Forum.

00:34:34.460 They're not here to scrutinize or to criticize.

00:34:37.400 They're here to assimilate, to harmonize, to make sure they don't lose any deals or angles.

00:34:46.100 I mean, remember, the New York Times is owned by Carlos Slim, Mexico's richest man.

00:34:52.600 He's not interested in journalism for its own sake.

00:34:54.840 He's interested in the power and connections and influence it gets him by owning the New York Times.

00:35:01.020 That's the microcosm.

00:35:02.400 That's the template for every single person here.

00:35:05.380 What can they get out of it?

00:35:06.840 How can they muster power for wealth and influence?

00:35:18.220 They're CNBC.

00:35:22.820 Part of NBC.

00:35:24.700 They're not here to ask questions.

00:35:26.700 They're here to lob softballs. 1.00

00:35:28.780 They've got a studio here, I bet, where someone gives a speech to Davos and then they come here to give a two-minute version of it.

00:35:38.240 It's a PR firm.

00:35:40.680 CNBC is here not to do journalism, let alone accountability journalism or investigative journalism.

00:35:47.280 They're here to do press releases.

00:35:50.300 They're here to massage power, not challenge it.

00:35:53.660 This is it.

00:35:54.300 This is the entrance.

00:35:59.300 Tomorrow we will not be good enough to pass this point.

00:36:02.580 So where we're walking, you're saying there will be a gate here and they'll check your ID to go through?

00:36:09.120 Yeah, this will be shut down.

00:36:10.380 There will be police on either side.

00:36:13.280 It'll be only if you have one of the...

00:36:16.920 And that's where you'll get access to the main conference.

00:36:20.100 That's the big...

00:36:20.380 That's the conference.

00:36:21.260 Got it.

00:36:22.240 And there's another hotel here.

00:36:23.480 You'll see this.

00:36:24.080 Everything beyond this point, you've got to have access to get into, even the hotel.

00:36:28.520 So to get a room in the hotel in here, but I think even the hotel there, it's all...

00:36:37.960 The WEF has full control.

00:36:40.960 Live TV position, CNBC, CNN, Eurovision, Fox Business News, and Swiss TV.

00:36:49.260 There's a media village.

00:36:50.840 Isn't that interesting?

00:36:51.680 I think it has the pretense of being a media village, but it's...

00:36:59.360 Like I say, it's a PR village.

00:37:01.040 I can understand.

00:37:01.960 I can...

00:37:02.500 CNBC.

00:37:03.460 Look at that.

00:37:04.500 Yeah.

00:37:05.760 Hold on.

00:37:09.700 I see Fox Business down there.

00:37:13.580 And it makes sense because Fox Business, again, you've got all these billionaires and oligarchs

00:37:18.220 who are going to be here.

00:37:18.920 If you can get five minutes with Alex Soros, if you can get five minutes with Bill Gates,

00:37:24.040 that's great from a business news point of view, but it's Fox Business.

00:37:30.060 It's not Fox News because the Bill Gates of the world, the Alex Soros of the world would

00:37:36.120 never answer questions about political accountability.

00:37:39.740 They just want to talk about their new deal.

00:37:41.840 It's interesting because when you look at it, it's Fox Business News and CNN.

00:37:45.900 Right.

00:37:46.240 Does CNN have a business channel?

00:37:49.460 I don't think so.

00:37:52.560 Saudi at Davos.

00:37:54.760 The Saudis have... 0.99

00:37:55.960 This is within the protected quarters now, so this is...

00:37:58.760 We can't have access to this tomorrow, but the Saudis have access.

00:38:02.920 Redwood News doesn't, but the Saudis do. 1.00

00:38:05.800 Right next door to Microsoft.

00:38:07.620 It's very large.

00:38:12.420 I mean, I don't know if it's a mile long.

00:38:14.440 Yeah.

00:38:14.680 I'm not sure if it's quite that long.

00:38:16.840 But I can only imagine how much money it costs just for one week to be set up here.

00:38:24.440 But, Ezra, credit where credit is due.

00:38:31.560 These people practice what they preach.

00:38:33.960 Even their fire hoses are in the color of Ukraine.

00:38:37.160 Actually, in fact, their logos are.

00:38:39.420 I just realized it's their logo.

00:38:41.340 Well, that's our show for today.

00:38:43.200 From Davos, Switzerland, where it is bloody cold, to you at home around the world, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:38:52.460 We'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - January 17, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ If we're all 'global citizens' who gets to rule？ Klaus Schwab has a plan

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