Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m back from the World Economic Forum, but I’ll be thinking about what I saw for a long time

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. I'm back from Davos, Switzerland in the World Economic Forum.

00:00:04.240 I'm going to take you through one story that I haven't done yet, which is how the other media

00:00:09.700 reacted to us, what they said and did to us. And I think it's one of the most important stories,

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00:00:48.280 Tonight, I'm back from the World Economic Forum, but I'll be thinking about what I saw for a long

00:00:53.120 time. It's January 23rd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:59.860 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:11.700 Boy, I'm glad to be back in Canada to finally sleep in my own bed again. I'm a little bit jet-lagged.

00:01:16.740 I got up at 5 a.m. because, you know, I was set on Davos, Switzerland time. It's nice to be home,

00:01:22.680 but I really am proud about what the whole team did covering the World Economic Forum.

00:01:27.120 I'm sure you've been to our website, wefreports.com. Last I checked, we had published more than 40

00:01:33.300 stories there, some of them written, most of them video stories. I was there. Our new British reporter,

00:01:39.220 Callum Smiles, was there, and Calvin Robinson from GB News was with us too, and we had a whole

00:01:46.340 behind-the-seams team, which was so very important. The world is very interested in the World Economic

00:01:53.580 Forum. There were a few other independent journalists that we saw on the ground. If you

00:01:59.640 remember my old friend, Savannah Hernandez, who came with Rebel News last year, she was with her own team

00:02:05.140 this year. Another reporter named Morgan and about three support. She was doing great. Our friend,

00:02:11.300 Andrew Lawton from True North, was there. He actually had access to some of the restricted areas, which

00:02:17.320 was pretty amazing. I think I told you that I met a young lady from Japan called Masako Ganaha, 0.57

00:02:24.600 if I'm saying her name right. She was one of my favorites, just the nicest person you'd ever meet.

00:02:29.920 Like the opposite of a rawr style. Very polite, but she did some great journalism. There were a few

00:02:35.720 others I met. Most of them were very familiar with Rebel News and were excited to see us. And if I do

00:02:41.060 say, I think they were inspired by us, that's what Masako told us. I know that the world was hungry

00:02:46.900 for this because one of the ways to measure is how many people watched our stuff. And as of this

00:02:52.320 afternoon, and the numbers are surely higher by now, 20 million people saw our scrum of the Pfizer CEO,

00:03:01.200 Albert Bourla. Five million watched the 20-minute long, you can even call that a mini-documentary,

00:03:06.740 on Greta Thunberg. That is a lot of people, 25 million. That's just two videos. Of course,

00:03:11.540 we had a lot of other videos too. There's a huge interest in the real stories. And I feel like Rebel

00:03:17.040 News really owned the place. And I think, in fact, our Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer's story really

00:03:23.060 was the number one story coming out of the World Economic Forum. So that was the independent

00:03:28.960 journalists. Half a dozen of us, or maybe a few more. There was seven in the Rebel team,

00:03:34.240 and then there was Andrew Lawton and his cameraman, and the others I mentioned.

00:03:39.420 But there were hundreds of regime journalists. And by that, I mean exactly what it sounds. They

00:03:47.200 had the official pavilions that they spent hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for.

00:03:52.600 The people that we scrummed on the streets, Greta Thunberg, Albert Bourla,

00:03:57.220 they had all done mainstream media interviews. But none of them were asked accountability questions.

00:04:04.520 So every person we scrummed, whether it was Larry King or John Kerry or Albert Bourla or Greta Thunberg,

00:04:10.820 they, it's not like we were the only person asking them questions.

00:04:13.640 We were the only people asking them real questions, not PR questions.

00:04:19.520 Now, I don't want to rehash that with you again, because if you've been watching my show over the

00:04:22.940 past week, you've seen me refer to these things several times, and I'm sure you've had enough.

00:04:26.460 You can go to WEF reports to see all our work if you haven't had enough. I am very proud of what

00:04:31.620 we've done there. But what I want to talk about today is the mainstream media and us.

00:04:37.460 because I think there were about three or four or five incidents there that are all part of a theme.

00:04:43.700 One of the first things that happened to us, it was to my friend Avi Amini,

00:04:47.260 he got into a kind of tussle with CNBC, which is obviously part of NBC,

00:04:54.200 and he threatened to clock Avi. Here, take a quick look at that.

00:04:57.720 So can I ask you what CNBC is doing here?

00:05:01.640 You can't, I can't ask you?

00:05:02.980 No, you can't. I'm sorry you didn't put a camera in my face, thank you.

00:05:05.960 Really? But you're here as an invited guest, and you're an editor for CNBC.

00:05:11.280 Don't you think that's a bit of a conflict of interest?

00:05:13.840 I'd like you to go away. I haven't agreed to an interview. If you're doorstepping me,

00:05:17.560 like, go away. 0.91

00:05:20.140 Don't touch the mic.

00:05:22.600 You're meant to be speaking truth to power. Are you here just to take your marching orders?

00:05:27.840 Is that what you're here for?

00:05:29.900 Do you want to go away?

00:05:31.300 Not really. I'm here to do what you should be doing.

00:05:35.220 Yeah?

00:05:35.960 Please take this out of my mouth. I'm going to have to just score it off for security.

00:05:39.480 Alright. Do that.

00:05:41.580 There you go.

00:05:43.440 CNBC.

00:05:46.280 Their job.

00:05:47.360 Supposed to be doing what he's complaining I'm doing.

00:05:51.040 And now he's calling security to escort me.

00:05:54.000 Off the premises.

00:05:55.280 Well...

00:05:55.960 Let's go, bud. 0.90

00:05:56.960 Let's go, bud. 0.90

00:06:01.640 Send us to it one day.

00:06:03.880 What's the problem?

00:06:04.460 You're my problem.

00:06:05.720 You've been very rude to me this morning.

00:06:07.400 You haven't asked me anything, so I'd like you to take the camera off me.

00:06:09.860 I've literally asked you questions politely, which should be your job.

00:06:15.780 That's your job, sir.

00:06:17.380 I'm doing your job.

00:06:19.160 I'm just not getting paid for by Klaus Schwab.

00:06:22.740 You were inside as he walked in a bit upset.

00:06:26.080 What did you hear him say?

00:06:27.060 I heard him say, I'm going to paraphrase it because it doesn't have the exact thing, but

00:06:30.520 he came in sounding quite angry, saying, I'm going to punch him out.

00:06:35.080 Paraphrasing there, he's knocked out, punched out, but, you know, he wanted to hit you.

00:06:40.360 Didn't know it was about you until I came out, and then I heard somebody else complaining about you to your face.

00:06:45.160 At that point, I realised, Avi had a word with him.

00:06:49.620 Now, you forgot about it when you told me this, but I mic'd you up a little earlier.

00:06:53.940 Oh, yeah.

00:06:54.440 So we're going to go back quickly and check if we caught that on audio.

00:06:58.500 Hopefully we did.

00:07:01.420 Avi.

00:07:02.160 You got it?

00:07:03.160 Yep.

00:07:05.120 Ready?

00:07:05.480 I just got threatened by the head of news and programming of CNBC.

00:07:18.000 Avi had a similar confrontation with The Washington Post.

00:07:21.140 Not as rough, but The Washington Post did not like us being there and did not like talking about it.

00:07:27.040 It was of a piece.

00:07:28.360 Take a look at this.

00:07:29.980 How are you doing, mate?

00:07:32.260 Why are you taking photos of them?

00:07:34.040 You're interested in seeing how real journalists do it?

00:07:40.860 I'm not going to talk to you guys.

00:07:42.880 Why not?

00:07:43.940 What do you want?

00:07:45.440 You're standing there taking photos of an interview.

00:07:49.100 It's part of my Instagram.

00:07:49.660 I take photos of everything that happened on the promenade.

00:07:51.520 So what was interesting about that?

00:07:53.260 It's interesting that you guys are here.

00:07:55.420 It's interesting that the Palantir is here.

00:07:56.640 It's interesting that the Saudis are here.

00:07:58.120 Davos is a spectacle, and we're all part of that spectacle.

00:08:01.020 And what's your role in this spectacle?

00:08:02.720 I report.

00:08:03.840 I'm a journalist here.

00:08:04.960 So do you question them inside?

00:08:07.160 Because you seem to be an invited guest.

00:08:10.220 For sure.

00:08:11.660 Really?

00:08:12.060 You ask them the tough questions in there?

00:08:13.460 You don't just go along with the narrative?

00:08:15.560 What is the narrative?

00:08:16.780 There's a bunch of narratives that they're running.

00:08:18.360 For example, the climate change narrative out here at the moment.

00:08:21.020 That seems a little bit hypocritical, don't you think?

00:08:23.660 I'm not going to engage in this back and forth.

00:08:25.860 So do you ask them about the hypocrisy in there?

00:08:28.360 I ask about lots of things.

00:08:29.480 Have you asked them about the hypocrisy?

00:08:32.080 You can read my reporting.

00:08:33.220 On Washington Post?

00:08:34.320 Yeah.

00:08:34.640 Good luck.

00:08:34.880 I believe it.

00:08:36.940 Well, things started getting weird when Avi was talking to the prime minister of Luxembourg.

00:08:41.940 And I know you're thinking the prime minister of Luxembourg, that's like saying the mayor of, you know, Tofino.

00:08:48.720 It's a tiny, teeny, tiny place.

00:08:50.140 By the way, I love Tofino.

00:08:51.140 I'm not making fun of it.

00:08:52.100 I'm just saying PM of Luxembourg is not a huge job.

00:08:55.040 So Avi was talking to the PM of Luxembourg, and this other regime journalist with whom Avi had had words before saw that, ran up to Avi and the PM of Luxembourg in the middle of an interview, and interrupted in the weirdest way.

00:09:09.940 There was a good humor about it a little bit.

00:09:11.920 At least it sort of faked being good humor.

00:09:14.940 But take a look at this.

00:09:15.960 You're denying that here there is a consolidation of power, that this is where some of the richest and most powerful people on the planet come to devise policy.

00:09:26.340 This is where the policy starts, the Great Reset.

00:09:28.840 The things are decided in national parliaments and not in Davos.

00:09:32.040 They all seem to come here and start off as young global leaders here in the WEF.

00:09:37.100 What do they all have in common?

00:09:38.340 I don't consider myself as a young leader or not.

00:09:41.800 I'm Prime Minister of an elected government in my country, like the other colleagues, and we exchange here.

00:09:49.100 It's important.

00:09:49.720 We have several meetings a year.

00:09:51.640 We have once the UN General Assembly, where we are able to just...

00:09:54.620 Sorry, is he annoying you?

00:09:55.720 Is he annoying you?

00:09:56.460 No, it's still okay.

00:09:57.180 Okay, because this is Nasdaq.

00:09:58.340 He's a...

00:09:58.960 Nasdaq.

00:09:59.680 This guy's annoying.

00:10:00.820 Be careful of this guy.

00:10:02.340 He's annoying.

00:10:03.220 I was a lawyer before.

00:10:04.140 If you need some help...

00:10:04.840 Wait, wait.

00:10:05.520 What law?

00:10:08.000 What law?

00:10:08.740 Nas might need criminal help. 1.00

00:10:10.540 Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas, come here.

00:10:11.800 Two questions.

00:10:12.840 I'm good, I'm good.

00:10:13.960 Bro, I know you're...

00:10:14.860 Hold on, hold on.

00:10:15.840 Hold on, you said...

00:10:16.140 I know you're...

00:10:16.980 Hold on, Nas, Nas.

00:10:19.560 And Nas, you said I was dangerous to my followers.

00:10:22.480 But you...

00:10:23.980 You pushed your followers to support FTX.

00:10:26.400 Bro, bro, bro.

00:10:27.000 FTX.

00:10:27.260 Aren't you a dangerous guy?

00:10:28.600 You're very dangerous.

00:10:29.640 Yo, I liked you, Nasdaq.

00:10:31.100 I like your followers.

00:10:32.280 Listen, listen.

00:10:32.940 I like your followers.

00:10:33.740 Listen, but...

00:10:34.520 Bro, I saved that guy from you.

00:10:36.180 That's good of you, but listen, why...

00:10:37.540 I saved him from you.

00:10:38.800 Are you getting paid this time?

00:10:40.160 You said last time you weren't getting paid.

00:10:42.120 Nasaya, I said it right.

00:10:44.100 It was starting to get a bit weird, wasn't it?

00:10:45.940 I mean, that guy's name is Nas.

00:10:47.680 He goes by Nas Daily online.

00:10:50.360 And he's a real pay-to-play kind of guy.

00:10:52.640 I'm going to talk about him more in a minute.

00:10:54.540 But...

00:10:55.140 So that's some encounters that Avi had, and I had it too, not with Albert Bourla.

00:11:01.380 That was just me and Avi going back and forth.

00:11:03.280 But when we did our 20-minute walk and talk with Greta Thunberg, there were other journalists

00:11:08.300 along with us who didn't have as many questions and certainly didn't have any interesting questions,

00:11:12.840 but they clearly resented what we were asking Greta.

00:11:16.360 Now, I think what we asked Greta, we asked her, depending on how you counted, almost 100 questions.

00:11:23.480 So obviously not all of them were great.

00:11:26.000 You know, we were coming up with them on the fly.

00:11:27.720 I'd say we asked her probably 40 really good questions.

00:11:32.540 One of my favorites was why she never protests Vladimir Putin or China or OPEC.

00:11:38.360 And she didn't have a good answer.

00:11:39.700 I asked her, have you ever been on a private jet even once?

00:11:42.760 And she wouldn't answer.

00:11:43.480 So we had some really good questions, if I may say so myself.

00:11:46.020 But one of the reporters who was walking with us was so furious with our questions,

00:11:51.420 he said to Greta, well, would you like a question from a real journalist?

00:11:55.400 And then he put his idea of a real question.

00:11:57.180 Take a look at that.

00:11:58.200 Greta, maybe you want to talk to a real journalist.

00:12:00.600 What did you do here in Davos to go to successful?

00:12:06.240 So that's your big questions.

00:12:08.020 You were waiting for two hours in the cold.

00:12:09.740 You're walking with Greta.

00:12:11.000 And your big question that you're going to win a Pulitzer Prize for,

00:12:14.720 your real investigative journalism, your accountability journalism,

00:12:17.840 what all the people want to know, was your visit to Davos a success?

00:12:23.780 And you're the real journalist telling us to be quiet, eh?

00:12:26.420 Here's a montage of all of the regime media's questions for Greta.

00:12:33.120 I mentioned that we had almost 100, and we've actually got a story on our website

00:12:38.280 where we transcribe every one of our questions.

00:12:41.340 I want to show you the other questions from the real journalists,

00:12:46.760 not a single one of them accountability-oriented, many of them just PR-oriented.

00:12:51.860 Like, say, I hear you're going to have a protest.

00:12:55.180 Can you tell me about it?

00:12:56.720 Whoa, holy cow.

00:12:58.960 Calm down there, Walter Cronkite.

00:13:00.960 Here, take a look.

00:13:01.620 Greta, maybe you want to talk to a real journalist.

00:13:04.240 What do you do here in Davos to be successful?

00:13:10.740 What's your main message to the people who are at the World Economic Forum?

00:13:14.380 What message do you want to portray whilst you're here?

00:13:17.460 Greta, do you have any meetings with any people who are here,

00:13:20.420 any politicians, any high business people whilst you're here?

00:13:24.040 Can you tell us who you're having talks to?

00:13:25.860 Greta, do you think that in Davos, the big companies here are really interesting by climate change?

00:13:33.280 Sort of pitiful.

00:13:34.200 Imagine interrupting our real questions for that.

00:13:36.680 But it wasn't just that they had softball questions themselves.

00:13:41.360 After a while, they started answering our questions for Greta.

00:13:47.680 Who are your advisors?

00:13:50.360 Who filmed you when you had your fake arrest or staged arrest in Germany?

00:13:56.440 Those were our questions for Greta.

00:13:58.720 She could answer them or not.

00:13:59.940 She could answer them well or poorly.

00:14:01.480 But the other reporters felt moved to answer for her because she could obviously,

00:14:07.860 they could obviously see if she wasn't doing well.

00:14:10.300 And at one point, one of the reporters called me an idiot.

00:14:13.560 And maybe I am an idiot, by the way.

00:14:17.600 But is that the role of a journalist?

00:14:20.460 Or Greta could call me an idiot for asking the question. 0.98

00:14:23.200 But another journalist saying, don't you ask that?

00:14:25.640 That's an idiot question.

00:14:26.780 And they later complain, well, you're asking all the same questions.

00:14:29.980 We absolutely weren't.

00:14:31.820 We were following up on some of the questions that she wouldn't answer.

00:14:34.960 They were the ones with the empty questions.

00:14:37.120 Here, take a look at the media party getting a little stroppy with us.

00:14:42.880 Insulting me, calling me an idiot, saying we're tired of your questions.

00:14:46.560 And answering questions for Greta was getting really weird.

00:14:52.260 He's answering for you.

00:14:54.200 He's answering for you.

00:14:56.360 He said you had an agency.

00:14:58.240 Oh, sometimes I wish I had one.

00:15:00.460 It would be much simpler then.

00:15:01.900 Well, who was filming you then?

00:15:04.380 I don't know media.

00:15:05.760 You don't know who was filming you in Germany?

00:15:08.060 He said he knows.

00:15:09.280 He says it was an agency.

00:15:10.780 A news agency, you idiot.

00:15:13.500 Isn't that weird?

00:15:14.640 And it got a little bit physical, too.

00:15:17.640 There was this one guy with a French TV station.

00:15:19.660 He had a big boom microphone.

00:15:21.280 He started pushing and jostling me.

00:15:23.260 It was really weird.

00:15:24.120 Did you catch that?

00:15:25.220 Why are you having private meetings?

00:15:27.360 Secret meetings.

00:15:28.720 Who are they having secret meetings with?

00:15:30.660 Can you let other people ask questions?

00:15:32.420 Yes, please.

00:15:33.040 You have enough?

00:15:33.640 You believe in them?

00:15:35.400 It's free speech, isn't it?

00:15:36.620 It is, but come on.

00:15:41.380 Are you fighting the establishment before you're not part of yourself?

00:15:44.640 Hey, what are you doing?

00:15:50.740 I thought that was a bit much.

00:15:52.200 I mean, I didn't punch him back, but I sort of resisted.

00:15:55.000 And even at the end, when I was doing my talk to the camera, one of the reporters came up

00:15:59.600 and said something snide and then sort of ran off.

00:16:02.060 I thought it was sort of pitiful.

00:16:03.140 I don't know if you caught it.

00:16:03.920 Here's the end of that.

00:16:04.920 Well, there you have it, Greta Thunberg, walking and talking for quite a while with several

00:16:10.620 Rebel News journalists and several mainstream media journalists who sometimes even answered

00:16:16.360 questions for her.

00:16:17.560 They knew the script so well.

00:16:18.740 Well, I think the thing I was struck by, and come here, there's a journalist saying we

00:16:27.060 were just correcting you, dude, that tells you about the kind of media that are normally

00:16:31.920 covering Davos.

00:16:33.440 Yeah, it was, you know, talking to Greta was a very unfulfilling experience.

00:16:37.780 She's clearly uneducated on the subject matter, which is no surprise.

00:16:41.600 I mean, she stopped going to school in high school.

00:16:44.460 She's not a subject matter expert.

00:16:46.240 She's just a mascot, really.

00:16:48.380 I thought she was immature, which you would say, well, of course, she's 12.

00:16:51.880 No, she's actually 20.

00:16:53.340 She's just developmentally arrested in some way.

00:16:56.720 But back to Nass Daly.

00:16:58.500 Again, I actually know very little about him.

00:17:01.560 I know that Avi had a contretemps with him.

00:17:03.560 But he's the kind of guy who takes money to do PR, and I don't think he's even shy about

00:17:14.180 it, but it's just so painfully obvious he's doing PR, not news.

00:17:19.280 Look at this.

00:17:20.560 You've probably seen in the news lately one of the largest scams in history, a cryptocurrency

00:17:27.340 exchange called FTX, thieving billions of dollars.

00:17:34.020 Well, Nass Daly did a promo for that thief.

00:17:36.980 Take a look.

00:17:39.960 OK, the guy you see next to me is the most generous billionaire in the world, and I found him.

00:17:47.380 Hi, my name is Sam, and this is my story.

00:17:50.020 Sam has crazy hair.

00:17:52.180 Sam is vegan.

00:17:53.440 Sam sleeps five hours a night.

00:17:56.780 Sam lives in the Bahamas with 10 roommates.

00:18:00.720 Sam is 29 years old only.

00:18:03.640 But Sam has $22 billion.

00:18:07.460 And he wants to donate all of it to charity.

00:18:12.420 But why?

00:18:14.300 Well, for many reasons.

00:18:17.420 So, so gross.

00:18:19.740 He does other propaganda.

00:18:21.360 For example, he lives in Dubai, and he does propaganda for the United Arab Emirates.

00:18:25.780 And by the way, I'm actually pretty warm to the United Arab Emirates.

00:18:30.120 They're the most modern Arab country.

00:18:32.080 They're made peace with Israel.

00:18:33.720 They're trying to be harmonious and positive and progressive.

00:18:37.480 I actually have a lot of time for the United Arab Emirates, and I'm not opposed to them hiring

00:18:42.420 PR men.

00:18:43.740 So it's no surprise that they've hired Nass to be their PR men.

00:18:47.760 And in fact, good for him.

00:18:50.220 But he hates the fact that we were there in Davos to ask questions of his paymasters.

00:18:58.380 He actually takes his loyalty to them and their money very seriously, which I suppose is endearing.

00:19:03.720 I mean, if you pay a guy a million bucks to be your propagandist, it's actually sort of nice to see him really go to bat for you.

00:19:09.540 But whether or not he believes in you, he got paid and he's earning it.

00:19:13.620 So he saw us there, and I showed you his interaction with Avi Yamini when he came in to interrupt Avi talking to the prime minister of Luxembourg.

00:19:23.580 Now, that wasn't a particularly important interview, with all due respect.

00:19:26.580 And Nass came in sort of friendly-ish, although it was really unprofessional.

00:19:32.420 But then we had our video on Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer, and we nuked the guy.

00:19:40.420 We just did.

00:19:41.960 And that seemed to hurt Nass' feelings because he is a pro-Davos, pro-World Economic Forum propagandist.

00:19:50.360 I don't know how much he gets paid by them.

00:19:52.040 It might be a million dollars for I know.

00:19:53.460 So he saw what we did in our real journalism with Albert Bourla, and then he saw us outside of Greta Thunberg's event.

00:20:05.640 And he got a little bit nervous because if we ask tough questions of Albert Bourla, who's a fairly sophisticated, fairly smart guy,

00:20:15.220 how would it go over with Greta Thunberg, who is not sophisticated and who has never answered a tough question in her life? 0.96

00:20:23.460 So he saw us outside of Greta's event.

00:20:27.720 And I think he panicked, and he saw me waiting there.

00:20:31.020 Like I said, we waited two hours for Greta in the cold.

00:20:34.360 He saw me there, and I just want to say, I had never met with, spoken to, communicated in any way with Nass ever.

00:20:42.120 In fact, I just know him in such a shallow way because I know Avi had a little debate with him.

00:20:48.040 But I've never watched his stuff before.

00:20:50.600 But he was furious and obsessed and insane, out of control.

00:20:55.560 He came up to me.

00:20:57.340 He made a public scene.

00:20:58.520 He was shouting at me.

00:20:59.620 He was swearing at me.

00:21:00.980 He was pushing me.

00:21:02.420 He was trying to take my microphone.

00:21:04.260 And I just said, calm down, control your emotions.

00:21:06.720 He said weird things to me.

00:21:07.860 I said, you're lying.

00:21:08.880 But I didn't really raise my voice or lose my temper.

00:21:11.840 It really felt like he was a crazy person.

00:21:15.620 Here, take a look for yourself.

00:21:17.000 And I don't want to overdo it, but let me just show you.

00:21:19.920 I was standing there for almost two, for about two hours in the cold, just being very quiet, actually.

00:21:26.180 And suddenly this crazy PR man for the United Arab Emirates and FTX and the World Economic Forum comes up to me just unhinged.

00:21:34.900 Take a look.

00:21:35.720 I'm Ansrell LeVance.

00:21:36.720 I want to help you improve.

00:21:37.240 What's your name?

00:21:37.900 I want to help you improve.

00:21:38.780 You know exactly who I am.

00:21:39.860 I don't know your last name.

00:21:41.060 I know your first name is Nass.

00:21:42.160 I don't.

00:21:43.040 I want to help you improve because you're doing it wrong.

00:21:45.560 You could do so much better.

00:21:46.780 But the thing is, I don't want to make the same compromise that you have.

00:21:50.100 Why do you feel so uncomfortable?

00:21:51.020 Of taking corporate cash.

00:21:52.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.

00:21:53.420 This is nice talk, but you are doing it wrong.

00:21:55.740 Get rid of my microphone.

00:21:56.400 Don't do that.

00:21:57.500 You're being aggressive.

00:21:59.320 How can I help you be better?

00:22:00.280 And by the way, the guy you work with beats his wife. 1.00

00:22:03.620 The guy you work with beats his wife. 1.00

00:22:05.960 What do you think about that?

00:22:07.880 I think that you're bought and paid for.

00:22:10.780 You're bought and paid for, my friend.

00:22:12.220 To be sued to beat your wife?

00:22:13.700 Come on, man.

00:22:14.780 You're bought and paid for.

00:22:15.880 Wake up.

00:22:16.240 I'm not willing to sell my soul like you are.

00:22:18.380 Wake up.

00:22:20.020 The guy you work with beats his wife. 1.00

00:22:20.980 You're upset.

00:22:21.800 You're upset.

00:22:22.540 That's a form of social social social social social social.

00:22:23.400 I've never met you before.

00:22:24.740 I've never met you before.

00:22:25.780 I've never talked to you before.

00:22:26.780 So you really got to be careful.

00:22:27.440 And you're very upset.

00:22:28.700 You're very emotional.

00:22:29.580 Your friend never met me before.

00:22:31.440 Okay, well, talk to him.

00:22:32.760 I have no dealings with you and I don't really.

00:22:34.880 And now you're not related?

00:22:35.840 No, I have nothing.

00:22:36.560 Now you're not related?

00:22:37.660 You are related.

00:22:38.820 He's your colleague.

00:22:40.200 Okay, well, just take it down.

00:22:42.120 You got to take it down.

00:22:43.020 You got to calm down.

00:22:44.020 Does that not feel good?

00:22:44.840 And you've got to stop being a pay-to-play guy.

00:22:47.880 Why does it not feel good to find that somebody does something that you do to others?

00:22:52.060 You don't know me.

00:22:52.760 So I don't understand what you're saying.

00:22:53.300 And your friend doesn't know me.

00:22:54.700 You beat your wife. 0.90

00:22:55.560 The guy you work with beats his wife. 1.00

00:22:57.580 Okay.

00:22:58.060 That's not okay.

00:22:58.820 Very slumberous.

00:22:59.220 You just said he beats his wife. 0.98

00:23:00.560 No, the guy he works with.

00:23:01.800 Yeah.

00:23:01.980 I think you're emotionally revved up right now.

00:23:04.160 I think you're upset.

00:23:05.240 I've never met you before.

00:23:06.480 I think you should do it better.

00:23:07.320 I don't think you introduced yourself to me in a proper way.

00:23:09.780 So you just want to go and annoy people and you don't like when it happens to you.

00:23:14.400 That's why you're not even talking.

00:23:15.940 You're like speechless.

00:23:17.280 No, I'm just...

00:23:17.840 So number one, don't beat your wife. 0.99

00:23:20.020 And number two, do it better.

00:23:25.240 What a strange and angry little man.

00:23:30.420 And whatever you're trying to say is stupid.

00:23:34.180 Very emotional, very over the top.

00:23:37.260 I've literally never met him before.

00:23:39.520 The first thing he said was a bizarre outburst.

00:23:43.720 I mean, you're just...

00:23:45.120 Avi, don't beat your wife.

00:23:46.240 I think you're just a little emotionally revved up.

00:23:48.200 He's...

00:23:49.880 You have to control your emotions better.

00:23:53.760 You have to control your emotions better, mate.

00:23:56.400 Control your emotions better.

00:23:57.820 You have to control your emotions.

00:23:59.380 You're emotionally out of control.

00:24:01.900 You're emotionally out of control.

00:24:03.120 You are bad for the world.

00:24:05.100 You are too.

00:24:06.040 And you're just making personal insults.

00:24:07.940 You have to make people trust the science.

00:24:10.220 And people like you are bad for the world.

00:24:12.700 Calm down, mate.

00:24:13.340 Somebody has to confront you.

00:24:14.300 I know you're earning your money because you're a pay-to-play spokesman.

00:24:19.180 Everybody should know about how bad you are for the world.

00:24:21.760 You should have the logos on you.

00:24:23.480 You should have deck-outs on you for all your sponsors.

00:24:26.460 You spread conspiracy theories.

00:24:27.120 You're paid to say...

00:24:28.660 Do not spread conspiracy theories.

00:24:31.340 Tell me a conspiracy theory I said.

00:24:32.960 It is bad for the world.

00:24:33.360 Please stop lying, Naz. 0.98

00:24:34.480 You are the reason the internet sucks.

00:24:36.300 Please stop lying.

00:24:37.080 Somebody needs to tell you that.

00:24:38.880 Please stop lying.

00:24:39.720 Do not spread conspiracy theories.

00:24:42.840 Please stop lying.

00:24:43.620 Calm down.

00:24:44.220 Calm down.

00:24:44.920 Calm down.

00:24:45.300 All your friends in Australia.

00:24:46.560 Calm down.

00:24:47.340 Calm down.

00:24:48.500 Emotionally control yourself.

00:24:49.660 You need to fix the internet.

00:24:50.180 Control your emotions.

00:24:51.240 Your content.

00:24:52.040 Control your emotions.

00:24:53.260 You are the epitome of fake news.

00:24:54.860 Calm down.

00:24:55.640 You go around the world pretending to be real news.

00:24:57.700 Calm down.

00:24:58.120 You have no science.

00:24:59.100 You're not even news.

00:24:59.880 No fact.

00:25:00.480 You're not news.

00:25:01.160 Why does your name say news?

00:25:02.260 We're news.

00:25:03.180 You are a paid advertiser.

00:25:06.060 You're a paid advertiser.

00:25:07.360 So now that you know how it feels like...

00:25:09.020 Stop touching me, mate.

00:25:09.880 ...to be treated like you treat people.

00:25:10.600 Stop touching me, mate.

00:25:11.780 Do not spread conspiracy theories on the internet.

00:25:14.260 Tell me one conspiracy theory.

00:25:15.320 People like you are dangerous in the fucking world.

00:25:17.220 Don't swear.

00:25:18.120 Control your emotions.

00:25:19.480 You've got to control your emotions.

00:25:21.360 He's a little bit out of control.

00:25:23.280 I think he was trying to get a reaction out of me,

00:25:25.340 but I wasn't really interested in playing along.

00:25:27.240 So he started to try and whip up other journalists there.

00:25:32.580 Oh, he's a science denier.

00:25:34.880 He's a vaccine denier.

00:25:36.340 He's a global warming denier.

00:25:37.960 It was a little bit crazy.

00:25:41.600 By the way, I don't deny that the globe is warming.

00:25:44.020 As you know, the globe has warmed and cooled over history.

00:25:46.200 Of course it has.

00:25:46.980 And I'm not for banning vaccines or anything.

00:25:50.260 I just think people should have the choice to take him or not.

00:25:53.240 And he just started trying to denounce me to the other journalists there,

00:25:56.940 which was sort of weird.

00:25:58.060 Most of them ignored him, but except for one or two.

00:26:00.560 Here, take a look.

00:26:01.220 Can you tell me one conspiracy theory?

00:26:03.200 I think you're a bit of a liar.

00:26:04.400 The guy I work with is right now in a court for beating his wife.

00:26:07.500 I think you're a liar, sir.

00:26:08.580 He's probably not worked with anybody that beats their wife. 0.86

00:26:10.260 I think you're a bit of a liar.

00:26:11.700 This is your first TV.

00:26:13.900 Oh, yes.

00:26:14.280 I don't know rebel news.

00:26:15.160 What is it?

00:26:15.560 Oh, this is the most far-right news.

00:26:18.340 Probably don't want to say the name.

00:26:19.880 Don't give them any publicity.

00:26:21.300 Far-right news.

00:26:22.260 Express conspiracy theories.

00:26:23.540 Like what?

00:26:24.140 What conspiracy theory?

00:26:25.160 When you talk about what's bad from around the world.

00:26:26.980 Can you say one?

00:26:27.680 American?

00:26:28.380 No, no.

00:26:29.080 I mean, I think around the world.

00:26:30.200 I don't know what.

00:26:31.240 Sounds like you don't know a lot.

00:26:32.380 People that have never done their research.

00:26:36.260 Like what?

00:26:36.660 They go around and say vaccine is bad for you.

00:26:37.260 Tell me one fact we got wrong.

00:26:38.880 Do you think the vaccine is bad for you?

00:26:39.900 No.

00:26:40.160 I've never said that.

00:26:41.020 No, I don't think.

00:26:41.700 Okay, well, this guy thinks the vaccine is bad for you.

00:26:43.120 I've never said that, you liar.

00:26:43.920 Now, what do you think of him?

00:26:44.640 You're a very strange liar.

00:26:46.240 Yeah, that's just a crazy guy.

00:26:48.500 But he did get one French journalist sort of revved up that I was this evil monster.

00:26:53.940 And, you know, it could be believed by these Davos journalists, because I had asked some pretty tough questions of Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer.

00:27:03.280 So that French reporter, whose name I actually don't have, got worried.

00:27:08.320 And he asked me questions about what I plan to ask Greta Thunberg.

00:27:14.060 What questions do you plan to ask Greta Thunberg?

00:27:16.860 Well, that's none of your bloody business.

00:27:18.220 Here, I'll show you that exchange.

00:27:19.440 Why are you here?

00:27:20.220 Why are you in Davos?

00:27:20.780 Why are you in Davos?

00:27:21.100 Why are you in Davos?

00:27:21.920 Get out! 0.98

00:27:22.720 Why are you in front of the...

00:27:23.620 So you're telling me to get out?

00:27:25.120 Why are you in front of the...

00:27:25.880 Who are you?

00:27:26.800 Who are you to tell me to get out?

00:27:28.380 Back to the French news, not to me.

00:27:29.700 You're out of control emotionally.

00:27:31.780 Why are you in front of the Greta Thunberg conference?

00:27:34.560 The same reason you are, to ask questions.

00:27:36.740 You want to ask questions to Greta Thunberg? 0.78

00:27:38.320 Which question?

00:27:39.320 I'm sorry, I'm not going to ask to see your homework and you don't get to see my homework.

00:27:44.360 What questions would you ask?

00:27:46.180 Yeah, I'm sorry, you don't get to look at my homework.

00:27:49.480 I got better questions than you, we both know that.

00:27:52.480 You're not vetting my questions.

00:27:54.060 I know you want to, but you're not.

00:27:56.800 That same French guy was the guy who put his own lame question to Greta in our walk-and-talk. 0.79

00:28:03.460 Here, take a quick look at that.

00:28:04.540 Peter, do you think that in Davos, the big companies here are really interesting by climate change?

00:28:11.800 How lame is that?

00:28:13.440 How pitiful is that?

00:28:14.660 So, let me close the loop here.

00:28:19.480 Why were our videos ultra-viral?

00:28:23.160 Like, seriously, tens of millions of views.

00:28:25.540 Is it because Greta Thunberg said fascinating things?

00:28:29.980 No.

00:28:30.760 Is it because Albert Bula said anything?

00:28:34.020 No, he was silent.

00:28:35.000 So, why did tens of millions of people watch?

00:28:39.460 Well, it's because for years, ordinary people have felt that the vaccine salesmen, the big pharma companies, and Big Green and Greta Thunberg have never been asked real questions.

00:28:55.220 The reason our videos did so well is not because they were informative.

00:29:00.640 They weren't.

00:29:01.040 We got no answers.

00:29:02.860 Not because we were particularly well-informed, although I think we had some good questions.

00:29:07.000 It's that by us asking questions, in the case of Albert Bula, 29 questions, in the case of Greta, close to 100 questions, every time we asked an interesting and fair question, it proved that no one in the last year, two, five, ten years, had asked those questions of Big Pharma or of Greta Thunberg.

00:29:31.300 We shamed the regime media simply by showing up and asking real questions instead of, hey, Greta, has your visit here been a success so far?

00:29:42.960 That's just as an important part of our trip to Davos as anything.

00:29:48.260 Stay with us for more.

00:30:01.300 Well, you saw our reports on the World Economic Forum.

00:30:04.400 If you haven't seen them all, we've got 40, 4-0 reports, many of them video, some of them written reports, at wefreports.com.

00:30:13.740 There really is a lot there.

00:30:15.260 Of course, the fun ones were the splashy ones when we had a walking scrum of Albert Bula, the CEO of Pfizer, and then when we had the 20-minute walk and talk with Greta Thunberg, which I found actually quite disappointing and deflating.

00:30:30.020 Not that I wanted her to be a star.

00:30:31.600 I just thought, my God, there really is nothing here other than a child actor who looks so much younger than her years.

00:30:38.220 She looks 12.

00:30:39.120 She's 20.

00:30:40.160 And I think that was the effect they were looking for, some infant who, like some Old Testament prophet scolding the world, if you don't change your ways, a big rain is going to come or something.

00:30:50.720 I really think that's it.

00:30:52.220 She's aged out of being a child.

00:30:54.300 She's 20.

00:30:54.980 But you don't know that by looking at it.

00:30:57.260 It was quite disappointing and depressing, frankly.

00:31:00.520 But one of the major themes of the Davos get-together, conclave, I've been calling it, is a move off of fossil fuels onto green fuels.

00:31:11.880 They talk about sustainability, even though there were more than 1,000 private jet flights to bring them there and then the helicopters afterwards.

00:31:18.960 I want to bring on now one of our friends who we often meet at the global warming conferences that the United Nations hosts.

00:31:28.900 And I like his point of view because this Davos get-together, really, their number one issue seems to be global warming, or at least that's their excuse for wanting to reshape the world's economy.

00:31:40.840 I'm talking about our friend Mark Marano, the boss at ClimateDepot.com.

00:31:44.360 He joins us now by Skype.

00:31:45.740 Mark, great to see you again.

00:31:47.700 You go to all the climate meetings of the U.N.

00:31:51.320 This is sort of like a climate meeting plus.

00:31:53.940 There's all these green activists plus every other cultural Marxist and big spending.

00:31:59.200 It really was a U.N. conference on steroids.

00:32:01.840 That's how it felt to me.

00:32:03.800 Yeah, I mean, that's a great way to describe it, too.

00:32:06.040 And this is literally where, in many ways, the U.N. gets the marching orders from.

00:32:10.240 This is where billionaires, millionaires, royal family, Hollywood celebrities, presidents and prime ministers, academia, and the media get together, and they collude.

00:32:22.400 This is where you get your wonderful corporate government collusion.

00:32:26.460 This is why people like Klaus Schwab brag about penetrating the cabinets, because they can go to these meetings.

00:32:32.400 And the key to this, Ezra, and the reason Klaus Schwab has been so successful from starting the World Economic Forum in 1971 to this, is these annual meetings are off the books.

00:32:42.620 Secret, behind the scenes, no lobbying disclosures, no ethics forms.

00:32:48.800 You can have a corporate CEO head meet with a prime minister, president.

00:32:53.180 None of those rules that would happen if they did it the traditional route would apply at this Davos meeting.

00:32:59.420 But I just want to take a moment, having been a student of this, going to United Nations summits and these big international, I've been to the World Trade and other things, I've never seen a media outlet do what Rebel News achieved.

00:33:13.120 And I've got to say, you've got to be so proud.

00:33:14.520 But I, just as an observer of your reporting, particularly with Albert Borla, particularly with Greta Thunberg and all the others, and the way, not just the questions you asked, which were phenomenal, and the way you went about it, but the scouting and the camera work and the foiling the gaggle from far away.

00:33:31.720 As the great Jimmy Dore, the progressive liberal, who says he doesn't agree with you, but was in awe of your coverage as well, even giving you credit, Jimmy Dore gave you credit for the Canadian coverage as well, the Canadian trucker protest.

00:33:45.940 It's literally, it brings back what people were inspired by journalism for.

00:33:50.600 It makes people have faith in journalism again.

00:33:52.280 And I was just so happy to see it.

00:33:54.940 And Rebel News deserves every award, journalistic award, possible for that.

00:34:00.020 But sadly, I don't think you'll get a single one from the mainstream or establishment or corporate media.

00:34:05.100 But that's what journalism about, holding the powerful to account, not coddling up with them and pumping them up the way every other media outlet does.

00:34:16.280 So kudos to you.

00:34:17.800 And yes, I'm jealous of what you achieved.

00:34:20.160 I'm in awe.

00:34:21.000 Thank you.

00:34:21.540 Well, Mark, that's high praise from you because you've been to so many of these things.

00:34:26.020 But you're right.

00:34:26.520 And I want to take a moment to give a shout out to our behind the scenes team.

00:34:30.500 Me and Callum Smiles and Calvin Robinson were on TV.

00:34:34.700 But you're right.

00:34:35.620 We had a couple of cameramen.

00:34:37.780 We had that special camera that made it look like we had a bird's eye view.

00:34:41.280 Yeah.

00:34:41.820 I mean, just let me just throw one little detail for folks who are curious.

00:34:45.240 Like when we were walking with Greta Thunberg for 20 minutes, which was quite something.

00:34:49.620 Our two cameramen were walking backwards the whole time.

00:34:53.980 Like imagine walking on a snowy street backwards, not bumping, not falling like that.

00:35:00.800 That is physically demanding.

00:35:03.200 It was very hard work for our camera people.

00:35:05.680 And then to edit it and get it out.

00:35:07.480 It really was a team effort.

00:35:08.860 So thank you for your praise.

00:35:10.000 I want to share that praise with our behind the scenes team.

00:35:13.300 We had seven people there.

00:35:14.900 And yes, even finding them like Albert Bourla, you know, if you didn't catch him as he was walking out of the secured zone, he would have walked right by.

00:35:24.960 So to just spot these folks was an effort, too.

00:35:27.660 So thank you for your praise.

00:35:28.740 It was a logistical effort, but it was a great pleasure.

00:35:31.580 And I hope that we'll go back next year.

00:35:33.500 I'm a little bit worried they're going to try and make it stricter.

00:35:36.380 But I have to say, Swiss authorities seem pretty freedom oriented.

00:35:41.500 Mark, I don't know if you know this, but we were stopped twice by police road checks.

00:35:46.340 And I was ready for a big brawl like we have been in other jurisdictions.

00:35:50.060 But I would just say, look, freedom of the press.

00:35:52.220 And the cops would sort of wave us through.

00:35:54.160 And in the city also, the police were very much present, but they just didn't intervene.

00:36:01.200 And I think that the police have a lighter touch in Switzerland than in the United States, Canada, Australia or UK, four jurisdictions I'm familiar with.

00:36:09.040 I think the Swiss police actually care about civil liberties and do not see themselves as a political force.

00:36:14.880 It was actually quite wonderful just for that little detail.

00:36:18.100 Anyhow, Mark, thanks for the comments on that.

00:36:20.380 I just want to say, I'm sure the World Economic Forum is going to try to have any uncredentialed media declared a terrorist threat at next year's Davos.

00:36:27.180 So be ready.

00:36:27.800 But I don't know if they'll succeed, but they're certainly going to try.

00:36:30.360 They just might.

00:36:32.080 They have a disdain.

00:36:33.380 Here, let me just throw a quick clip in here. 1.00

00:36:34.860 I don't know if you saw this.

00:36:36.000 There was another citizen journalist from Japan named Masako Ghanaha, I think was her last name.

00:36:42.120 And she managed to find Klaus Schwab.

00:36:44.080 She waited outside a hotel for like three hours in the cold.

00:36:47.560 He came out.

00:36:48.160 He was going to dinner.

00:36:48.920 And he said to her, he turned around and said, what outlet are you with?

00:36:55.900 And as if something turned on the answer.

00:37:00.380 And when she said she was independent, he laughed at her and turned away.

00:37:04.260 Here, take a look at that.

00:37:05.320 Yeah.

00:37:06.800 Jeremy Schwab.

00:37:08.140 Jeremy Schwab.

00:37:09.080 I'm from Japan.

00:37:10.340 May I ask you for...

00:37:11.700 I'm from Japan.

00:37:13.160 Yeah.

00:37:13.660 And may I ask you for a comment?

00:37:15.860 No, we're on our way to the next thing.

00:37:18.100 We're a bit late.

00:37:18.680 Oh, I can just walk with you and ask questions.

00:37:20.880 Oh, I think we're going to rush.

00:37:22.900 But thank you.

00:37:23.740 Thanks very much.

00:37:25.260 Which media are you with?

00:37:28.100 I am an independent journalist from Japan.

00:37:30.480 No, thank you very much.

00:37:31.900 I have to ask.

00:37:33.100 Thank you.

00:37:33.680 Thank you.

00:37:39.200 But I want to ask.

00:37:41.600 Just one more question.

00:37:43.800 That shows the disdain that the World Economic Forum has for anyone who's not part of their team.

00:37:50.320 They don't even respect.

00:37:51.720 There's no transparency.

00:37:53.320 You're either a friend or an enemy.

00:37:55.300 A friend is someone who pays the money and bends the knee.

00:37:59.240 Anyone else is an enemy.

00:38:00.340 I thought that little video by Masako was one of the most telling things I saw all week.

00:38:04.940 And it's telling.

00:38:06.220 I saw that.

00:38:06.820 It's telling most significantly because the world's most powerful ruling classes have now conditioned themselves to know that corporate media and established media is all friendly.

00:38:19.580 It's fine.

00:38:20.160 And they fear the small, independent, unaffiliated, grassroots journalism.

00:38:27.480 That tells you what's everything you need to know about what's wrong with the mainstream media of the world, globally speaking.

00:38:35.300 They're there to protect the powerful, not hold them to account.

00:38:38.380 What a flip from the 1960s and 70s when you had people like Jane Fonda and the media heralding the Pentagon paper showing that the U.S. government lied about the Vietnam War.

00:38:47.880 So they don't think they'd lie about COVID or terrorism or climate.

00:38:52.640 I don't understand what happened to this.

00:38:54.380 What happened to these great progressives?

00:38:57.600 The merger of big media and big government is shocking.

00:39:00.760 Well, listen, I know your focus.

00:39:02.480 You're interested in a lot of things, but your focus really is the environment.

00:39:06.020 And I want to show you two clips from John Kerry.

00:39:09.200 Now, the first was actually when we encountered John Kerry.

00:39:12.300 I tried to put a couple of questions to him, but unfortunately, my physical route was blocked by a gate, and I sort of abandoned it.

00:39:20.820 But my colleague, Callum Smiles, put a question to him.

00:39:23.900 Here, I'll play the whole clip for you to see.

00:39:26.260 Take a look.

00:39:27.340 Secretary Kerry, do you think that the high price of natural gas is actually a helpful thing to get people to transition to a green economy?

00:39:37.200 I'd love to talk about it, but I just can't do it on the run.

00:39:40.620 How can you justify being here when you yourself take private jets?

00:39:44.600 Can you answer that?

00:39:45.500 I don't.

00:39:46.460 But you've taken a private jet before.

00:39:48.680 No, but you've taken a private jet before to collect a climate change award.

00:39:52.160 You have done that.

00:39:53.100 I fly commercial exclusively.

00:39:54.200 I fly commercial exclusively.

00:39:59.540 Well, we know that's not true in the past.

00:40:02.100 He famously flies on private jets, and when asked about it, he said it's because he's very, very, very important.

00:40:08.840 Do you think he has changed that?

00:40:11.420 Do you think this is a bald-faced lie, or do you think maybe he's been so embarrassed that he flies first class on a regular plane now and just has to chum with the little people? 0.99

00:40:21.560 Okay, I think what this is the equivalent of is asking a lifelong smoker, well, you smoke a lot of cigarettes, and then I was like, nope, I don't smoke at all anymore.

00:40:30.180 And I think what that means is they've given up for like 72 hours, and they're bragging that they quit.

00:40:35.080 There was no scrutiny on his timelines.

00:40:37.120 He said he flies exclusively.

00:40:39.060 What does that mean?

00:40:39.680 The last month?

00:40:40.680 I bet he flew to the Davos on a commercial because he was probably prepared for that after the humiliation he's received.

00:40:47.180 And also many other people in the United States, our transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, as airlines were shut down for the first time since 9-11 due to computer glitches, has been flying private.

00:40:59.020 So there's been a lot of focus on the hypocrisy of this.

00:41:03.120 So the question is, is John Kerry doing this just recently, and will he continue?

00:41:07.860 I don't know if he's cabled.

00:41:08.840 This is a man who was once asked about how many houses he owned.

00:41:11.680 And because he married the ketchup heiress, Teresa Hines, he wasn't even able to add up, when he was running for president, he wasn't even able to add up how many homes that he owned.

00:41:21.560 It's so easy to forget, Mark.

00:41:23.220 It's so easy to forget one or two.

00:41:25.020 Give the guy a break.

00:41:28.580 You know, he's quite a character, and he really does believe he's part of a different stratum of society.

00:41:36.420 And by the way, Mark, you've got to come with us next year.

00:41:38.560 It was just amazing.

00:41:39.280 We went to this private airfield that only services two kinds of planes, emergency aircraft for, like, rescuing people in the Alps, and private jets.

00:41:49.700 That's all there was.

00:41:51.280 And there's so many paparazzi who hang out there, they literally have a special area for paparazzi to stand safely while they photograph people coming off the jets.

00:42:00.900 I've never seen anything like it.

00:42:02.840 And we were there for about an hour.

00:42:06.100 Every 10 minutes, another private plane came in.

00:42:08.680 Like, it just, it really was incredible.

00:42:11.140 There must have been 1,000 private aircraft.

00:42:13.680 I saw reports of over 1,000 private jets.

00:42:16.040 And it's not just jets.

00:42:17.000 A lot of times there's yachts involved and all sorts of, you know, I remember a few years back, they had some of the receptions out on the harbor and yachts and other things.

00:42:26.400 And so these events, and it's just like the UN, when I was in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt back in November, I think there was 400 private jets were flown in.

00:42:35.640 And interestingly enough, despite the UN's push for insect eating and the World Economics Forum push for insect eating and they were at the UN, I didn't see anyone offering at any of the venues, restaurants, either in the UN conference or out, offering insects to the general public or for any of the delegates.

00:42:53.440 So it's just, that's another example.

00:42:55.160 And that's an important one because the World Economic Forum loves insect eating.

00:42:59.460 That's all they push.

00:43:00.580 And they are one of the biggest pushers in the world of making us go back to eating bugs as a source of protein instead of meat.

00:43:07.440 Yeah, we couldn't find any of that in town.

00:43:10.180 And I should say, the only green vehicles we saw were Uber was having a promotion.

00:43:15.740 They were promoting themselves.

00:43:16.920 And so there were Uber Teslas in town, specially brought in just for Davos.

00:43:23.280 So you could get a Tesla Uber.

00:43:26.520 In fact, I myself rode in one.

00:43:28.780 But all of the official vehicles, the shuttles, the VVIP that take you from the helipad to the convention, all of them were big, black-tinted window SUVs.

00:43:41.760 No joking around with electric vehicles for the VVIPs.

00:43:46.720 Just the fun demo green Ubers for the, you know, just as a showpiece.

00:43:54.280 And I want to show you one more clip.

00:43:55.620 And this is highlighted on your web page, climatedepot.com.

00:44:00.860 I mean, John Kerry is an unusual guy.

00:44:03.060 He's had so much plastic surgery.

00:44:06.180 Like, he really has changed his look so many times.

00:44:09.320 I mention that because he says a very funny thing about comparing the World Economic Forum elite to extraterrestrials.

00:44:18.520 And I can't help but think of his, you know, I'm not insulting him.

00:44:22.680 I'm just saying a guy who's done that much plastic surgeries to himself shouldn't be talking about being space aliens or something.

00:44:29.980 Let's play the clip and we'll come right back.

00:44:31.840 Take a look.

00:44:32.220 And when you start to think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet.

00:44:51.960 I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.

00:44:58.460 And if you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy, tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder or whatever.

00:45:06.100 And there's no relationship.

00:45:07.840 But really, that's where we are.

00:45:09.520 So there's a special elite of people who are very, very special.

00:45:13.980 They care about things much more than you and I.

00:45:17.880 And it's like an extraterrestrial coming to save the planet.

00:45:23.380 He really thinks he's that guy.

00:45:25.800 He really, I mean, if he was a religious man, I suppose he would talk about being godlike or saving humanity.

00:45:34.100 But I don't think he's particularly a man of faith, so he talks about it in E.T. language.

00:45:40.880 I think it's all about him, and I don't think it's about the world.

00:45:43.600 I think it's all about him feeling important.

00:45:46.220 You're absolutely right.

00:45:47.180 And even Klaus Schwab has said, we will, if us here in this room get to decide the future, this is, we will basically be the forces of the future.

00:45:56.820 And what John Kerry was saying is they're the chosen one.

00:45:59.520 He had the same rhetoric when, in Iceland, he was asked by that local journalist about why you fly private to pick up an environmental award.

00:46:06.680 And his answer was, I am so important.

00:46:09.640 My work is so important.

00:46:11.000 I can't be tied down with commercial airline flights and sit next to a crying baby, basically.

00:46:16.880 He needs the private jets.

00:46:18.560 But I'll tell you about this extraterrestrial thing, Ezra.

00:46:20.440 The Roswell, New Mexico incident here in the United States happened on July 8, 1947, and almost nine months to the day later, Al Gore was born in the Columbia Hospital for Women here in the United States.

00:46:33.640 I'm not drawing anything.

00:46:34.820 I'm just laying those facts out there that, you know, there might be something to the extraterrestrial aspect of this climate crusade.

00:46:40.960 Well, Al Gore has the natural human instincts of someone who's been studying people for quite a long time, him and Mark Zuckerberg both.

00:46:48.880 Mark, it's great to catch up with you.

00:46:50.520 Thanks very much.

00:46:51.460 And who knows?

00:46:52.980 We've seen you at so many global warming conferences.

00:46:55.520 Maybe we'll see you next year at the World Economic Forum.

00:46:58.660 Let me tell you one thing that you might want to consider.

00:47:00.440 The World Health Organization's annual meeting where they're going to be talking about pandemic policy probably aren't – you probably could get credentialed for that one because it's like the U.N.

00:47:09.920 So something to consider.

00:47:11.580 That's what I'm considering next because that will give you all the same players merging COVID and climate together.

00:47:17.240 All right.

00:47:17.740 Well, we were at the World Health Summit in Berlin a couple months ago, but that sounds like an interesting one.

00:47:22.100 We'll look into it for sure.

00:47:23.420 Mark, you take care.

00:47:24.220 Thanks for fighting the good fight.

00:47:26.080 Thank you, Ezra, and great work.

00:47:27.520 Again, just phenomenal.

00:47:29.020 Thank you for that.

00:47:29.760 Well, there you have it.

00:47:30.260 Mark Morano with ClimateDepot.com.

00:47:32.880 Stay with us.

00:47:33.460 More ahead.

00:47:33.840 More ahead.

00:47:39.920 Hey, welcome back.

00:47:46.740 Some letters.

00:47:47.560 Ken Hall says, hope you are all escaping winter doldrums and infections.

00:47:51.620 We are doing well now, but we're sick before Christmas.

00:47:54.340 I watched the interview with Greta Thunberg last night.

00:47:56.180 In retrospect, I think in the overall impression, she won.

00:47:59.480 She laughed them off.

00:48:00.380 Two grown men pursuing her through the streets and ignoring her nervousness while recognizing it just reinforced the liberal view of right-wingers as insensitive, patriarchal, white males, harassing them.

00:48:09.920 It would have been better to have one of the female reporters talk to her. 1.00

00:48:14.340 They can ask the hard questions, but if they don't get answers and play to the opposition by their approach, nothing is gained.

00:48:19.940 I don't know if you agree with me or not or whether you have any influence to moderate these guys, but I thought I would share my thoughts after letting them marinate overnight.

00:48:27.360 Well, fair enough.

00:48:28.120 And, of course, I was one of those guys.

00:48:30.180 We're not going to choose our journalists based on race or sex.

00:48:33.100 I'm a Jewish white male, Callum, and Callum Smiles is a British white guy.

00:48:39.880 And Calvin Robinson is, in Canada, we would say black.

00:48:44.980 In the UK, they used to phrase mixed race.

00:48:46.960 That's how people talk over there.

00:48:49.040 So we had some ethnic diversity.

00:48:52.160 That's irrelevant.

00:48:53.320 The point that you should care about is the substance of it.

00:48:56.340 And, of course, we're larger than Greta because she is developmentally arrested.

00:49:01.940 She's the size of a child. 0.96

00:49:04.380 That's her power. 1.00

00:49:05.420 That's her only power.

00:49:06.540 She doesn't have an intellectual power. 1.00

00:49:08.500 She doesn't even really have a charisma other than reading some lines.

00:49:11.900 She really is a child actor.

00:49:14.160 I've rewatched that video several times, and I do not believe that we were mean or bullying in any way.

00:49:20.580 We obviously didn't swear or push.

00:49:23.260 We didn't jostle her or block her.

00:49:25.380 If you go back and watch it again, you'll see that when she comes out of the store and sees us, her security guard says,

00:49:32.960 Would you like me to go with you?

00:49:33.980 And she says, No, no, I'm fine with them.

00:49:36.160 And she was fine with the whole walk.

00:49:37.740 And at the end, she says, Okay, I'm done now.

00:49:39.840 Please don't follow me.

00:49:40.640 And we all say, That's okay.

00:49:41.840 And then she says, Thank you.

00:49:43.740 So she certainly didn't like it.

00:49:45.720 Now, if you're saying the optics of it were bad, well, that's what a scrum looks like.

00:49:50.460 It's called a scrum because it's reminiscent of a rugby match.

00:49:53.720 Everyone's trying to get their microphones and cameras there.

00:49:55.960 But in fact, she was worried for us.

00:49:57.880 You may have heard her say, Watch out.

00:49:59.140 There's a car.

00:50:00.020 Watch out.

00:50:00.460 There's a step.

00:50:01.320 So I think you're projecting your own worries onto the situation.

00:50:06.020 I think Callum Smiles has some funny questions about, you know, where's the global warming?

00:50:12.580 It's very cold or something like that.

00:50:14.300 And, you know, Greta actually laughed at those, although I think it was her fake laugh that she used many times.

00:50:18.900 No, I dispute your thesis that we were bullying or mean.

00:50:24.460 And the fact that I'm 5'9 and she's 5'0 is not going to stop us from doing the journalism that the other media won't do.

00:50:34.840 As I mentioned, there were other media there.

00:50:37.260 Obviously, they were regular adult-sized people.

00:50:40.380 They were just asking really stupid questions that weren't even questions.

00:50:44.300 They were more stenography.

00:50:45.260 So we were no more bullying than they were.

00:50:48.800 We were just asking better questions.

00:50:51.420 Wayne Curry says, Ezra, yes, we're proud of the work Rebel News did in Davos.

00:50:55.380 Couldn't leave a comment on Rumble.

00:50:56.960 You had asked that charming lady, Nur bin Laden, which main entities in the world were fighting back against the WEF globalization agenda. 0.54

00:51:03.440 You seemed a bit taken aback by her answer.

00:51:05.680 It's Rebel News herself.

00:51:07.160 That determined little Japanese journalist and all the citizen journalists in the world. 1.00

00:51:10.580 It truly is a David versus Goliath struggle.

00:51:12.960 You mined gold during that trip.

00:51:14.540 As Mr. Musk said, power to the people.

00:51:17.280 Well, Wayne, thanks very much for that.

00:51:18.680 And it was fun to see some big shots like that take notice of our work.

00:51:22.820 When Nur bin Laden said that the answer was citizen journalists, I guess I wasn't so much taken aback as I was sort of worried and sad.

00:51:29.740 I thought, my God, if we're all there is, that's not very much.

00:51:33.000 I guess I just had to hope there was a bigger answer than independent journalists because it feels pretty small.

00:51:38.040 We were tiny little ants there.

00:51:41.660 I mean, there was just, we were so small.

00:51:43.580 I hope there's a bigger, better answer.

00:51:46.500 Eldegas 8 says, great coverage in Davos.

00:51:48.880 Seemed very staged.

00:51:50.320 Who are you working for, Ezra?

00:51:51.880 CPC headquarters?

00:51:53.120 Mossad?

00:51:53.940 Not Canada or its people, that's for sure. 1.00

00:51:56.440 You got to interview all the heavy hitters, eh?

00:51:58.620 Greta, Albert Bourla, just amazing.

00:52:00.500 No security around any of them.

00:52:02.260 Just apt for a stroll on the streets of Davos.

00:52:04.780 You are as fake as Pierre Polyab and the CPC.

00:52:09.040 That's an amazing letter, and I love it.

00:52:12.420 I'm not sure how Israel works.

00:52:14.960 I think you said Israel and Mossad or something there.

00:52:17.020 I don't know how that fits into it.

00:52:19.660 I can't think of any connection.

00:52:21.360 I'm sorry.

00:52:22.360 You saw Greta had a security guard.

00:52:25.200 They made us wait two hours.

00:52:26.500 There were dozens of journalists.

00:52:28.720 Most of them went away after two hours.

00:52:30.280 There was a handful of us left.

00:52:31.360 And I just asked more and better questions than the losers in the regime media.

00:52:36.540 And there were police and security everywhere.

00:52:40.160 If you saw my video on Greta, you saw all the police with submachine guns.

00:52:45.020 It was actually sort of amazing.

00:52:47.020 Like I said earlier on the show, the police in Switzerland have a very light touch.

00:52:50.960 And why would the police get involved if all I was doing was asking questions?

00:52:55.300 If I had touched anyone, if I had touched a VIP, if I had pushed or blocked or threatened anyone, there were 5,000 police and soldiers authorized and dispatched in the area.

00:53:08.500 And I had interactions with a number of them.

00:53:12.100 Why would you think that the police would stop me from asking questions?

00:53:16.580 That's not how they do it in Switzerland.

00:53:19.020 And it shouldn't be how they do it in Canada.

00:53:21.260 And generally, it's not, actually.

00:53:23.080 So I just think that question is sort of a really weird question that says more about you than about us.

00:53:28.420 I think we did great journalism.

00:53:29.840 And I can hardly wait to do more.

00:53:31.320 And to think that the CEO of Pfizer would go through some staged event.

00:53:37.400 That was the worst media day in his life.

00:53:41.800 He has never been held to account that way in his life.

00:53:45.860 And the reason that had 20 million views is because people were stunned to see the shellacking we gave him that had never happened before.

00:53:54.200 If you think that somehow controlled opposition, I think you've got to screw loose, brother.

00:53:59.140 Well, that's our show for today.

00:54:00.800 What a pleasure to be back until tomorrow.

00:54:02.780 On behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night.

00:54:06.000 And keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - January 24, 2023

EZRA LEVANT ｜ I’m back from the World Economic Forum, but I’ll be thinking about what I saw for a long time

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