Rebel News Podcast - January 20, 2026


EZRA LEVANT ｜ We're back at WEF to expose what the global elites don't want you to see

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Rebel News is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where world leaders such as Donald Trump, Larry Fink and Chrystia Freeland are attending the annual gathering of the world's most powerful people.

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00:00:00.000 Tonight, Rebel News is at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
00:00:19.040 I'll give you the latest.
00:00:20.180 It's January 19th, and this is The Ezra Levant Show.
00:00:22.820 You're fighting for freedom!
00:00:26.000 Shame on you, you censorious bug! 0.88
00:00:30.000 Oh, hi, everybody.
00:00:39.240 The sun sets at 5 p.m. out here in the Swiss Alps, so that's why it's dark out.
00:00:43.840 We traveled a great distance from Toronto, flying to Zurich, Switzerland, driving up to
00:00:50.520 Closters, the town we're in now, and then the train the last distance to Davos, the site
00:00:56.460 of the annual World Economic Forum conference that they have every January.
00:01:01.480 Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, sort of pushed to the sidelines after
00:01:05.760 a series of scandals, including sexual scandals and, of course, financial mismanagement.
00:01:10.860 Isn't it a shame?
00:01:12.220 Who would have thunk it?
00:01:13.260 However, while the World Economic Forum has had some rocky times for its founder, in some
00:01:21.040 ways it's never done better.
00:01:22.100 I was looking at the guest list for this year's World Economic Forum, and so many world leaders
00:01:28.020 are here, including plans to attend by Donald J. Trump, the president of the United States.
00:01:33.160 Mark Carney, of course, is attending.
00:01:34.980 He was a director of the World Economic Forum for years, as was Chrystia Freeland.
00:01:39.380 But there's at least half a dozen countries that we would call G20 countries.
00:01:46.820 When we were at the airport, the private jet airport, we saw a government jet land from
00:01:51.840 Lithuania, which I didn't see on the guest list.
00:01:55.200 So there's all sorts of people meeting.
00:01:56.760 And that's the thing, where some powerful people go, other powerful people attend too,
00:02:00.880 or those seeking power.
00:02:02.160 There's all sorts of NGOs here, mainly on the left, some on the right, if there's such
00:02:08.500 a thing.
00:02:09.440 And of course, there's a lot of business bearers.
00:02:12.220 It's a mistake, I suppose a childish mistake, to think that business people are right wing,
00:02:18.320 that if you use capitalism to make money, you believe in the capitalist system.
00:02:23.220 I don't think so.
00:02:23.940 I mean, think of George Soros, who is perhaps the most effective socialist, perhaps even communist
00:02:28.800 in the world.
00:02:29.380 He's made tens of billions of dollars using the capitalist system, but he would undermine
00:02:34.900 and devour that system to promulgate his extreme ideas.
00:02:38.940 So there are, for example, the CEO of BlackRock, which has, I think, $20 trillion under management.
00:02:45.640 He is a full-out socialist who believes that it's easier to influence things and to inject
00:02:52.720 socialism into companies from the inside than on the outside.
00:02:56.180 I just remember how Larry Fink and BlackRock work.
00:02:59.800 They invest in companies.
00:03:01.520 They might put $10 million or $100 million into a company.
00:03:05.240 And they'll say, well, as shareholders, we now demand that you implement DEI, diversity, equity,
00:03:12.580 and inclusion.
00:03:15.780 In a corporate setting, they have different initials, ESG, environmental, social, and governance.
00:03:20.580 But Larry Fink has done more socialism through the tools of being an investor than any socialist,
00:03:29.400 I suppose, since Lenin.
00:03:30.320 So you have this strange mix of people and a lot of tech people here, too.
00:03:35.980 Not Elon Musk, but OpenAI.
00:03:39.000 A lot of artificial intelligence companies.
00:03:41.900 Palantir is here every year.
00:03:43.660 So it's such a weird and interesting mix.
00:03:46.600 And the thing that, of course, caught my interest at first when we started coming to the World
00:03:50.500 Economic Forum about five years ago was that it was obviously an idea shop where socialist,
00:03:57.840 globalist talking points got hammered out.
00:03:59.860 And then all the world leaders would sort of leave here parroting the same phrase.
00:04:04.960 I mean, where do you think the phrase build back better came from or the great reset?
00:04:10.360 These are subjects of entire conference meetings here at the World Economic Forum.
00:04:15.600 They're not actual legislatures.
00:04:17.480 So to say that the World Economic Forum has power is not accurate, but it has enormous influence
00:04:23.080 if you understand the difference.
00:04:24.640 Power is a parliament can order a law.
00:04:27.740 A policeman can arrest you.
00:04:29.460 That's power.
00:04:30.020 But influence is who's whispering into the ears of the powerful people.
00:04:34.300 That's the World Economic Forum.
00:04:35.720 And I have to say, based on the guest list, they're actually more powerful than ever.
00:04:40.180 I thought they were waning in importance because Donald Trump had made obsolete so many of their
00:04:46.760 projects, like, for example, global warming.
00:04:49.300 Donald Trump is going full tilt with all sorts of energy creation.
00:04:53.480 But they're adaptable.
00:04:54.900 I mean, at the end of the day, they're self-interested.
00:04:57.740 And all these oligarchs, these VVIPs, as I call them, they'll go, they'll follow the buffalo, 0.88
00:05:03.960 so to speak.
00:05:04.600 And if the money is in arms manufacturing or if the money's in AI, they'll follow the money.
00:05:09.960 I think they realize that iconoclast bulls in the China shop like Elon Musk are a threat
00:05:16.600 to their systems, and they despise Elon Musk almost as much as they despise Donald Trump.
00:05:21.020 But still, they'd love to do business with them, wouldn't they?
00:05:25.700 This year, I think that at the—I mean, we haven't gone there yet.
00:05:29.380 We started the day with a visit to the private jet airfield where all these VVIPs come in.
00:05:35.220 There was a lot of fog there today, so we only saw a few planes land.
00:05:38.440 But one of the things that I think is on the mind of delegates, we'll know for sure as the week unfolds,
00:05:46.200 are geopolitics.
00:05:48.240 The Ukraine, the government of Ukraine, always had a pavilion here where they would make the case against Russia,
00:05:55.260 the case for Western support.
00:05:56.520 But now with Donald Trump and his ambitions in Greenland and his moves in Venezuela and a potential war in Iran,
00:06:04.400 geopolitics, I think, is suddenly thrust to the forefront.
00:06:06.900 And you can see that in the guest list, too, all the NATO countries, including the leader of NATO, who is here.
00:06:12.480 Anyway, it's going to be a very interesting week.
00:06:14.300 And I'm here with my Australian colleague, Abiy Amini.
00:06:16.920 We left Calgary—sorry, I left Toronto and then flew to Zurich, and I did that route.
00:06:21.720 I listed to you.
00:06:22.320 Well, Abiy had to leave Melbourne, Australia, fly to Abu Dhabi, and then from there to Zurich,
00:06:27.400 and there to take the car and the train.
00:06:29.520 It's just—I can't even imagine his 30-plus-hour journey.
00:06:32.800 But we do it every year because we are perhaps, if not the only, certainly one of the only, independent journalists are here.
00:06:41.960 By that, I mean there are always regime journalists who are here who pay 50 grand, 100 grand, 200 grand
00:06:48.240 to be part of the World Economic Forum, and they get pride of placement, and they get to emcee big panels with fancy VIPs.
00:06:57.160 I mean, here's an example of how it works.
00:06:58.480 So let's say you had various world leaders on a panel.
00:07:02.020 That's enormously prestigious to be the moderator of that panel.
00:07:06.140 All right.
00:07:06.760 Who's got a quarter of a million dollars that they're willing to pay Klaus Schwab for the honor of being a moderator of a panel involving three world leaders?
00:07:16.920 Like, that's one of the ways that influence and connection and closeness to power has been monetized by Klaus Schwab over the years.
00:07:25.460 I hear he makes hundreds of millions of dollars every one of these get-togethers in Davos, and you can see it.
00:07:32.900 Everyone wants to be the center of the action, center of the power, and center of the money.
00:07:37.640 But who's there to represent ordinary people? 0.99
00:07:40.200 Now, that question is partly answered in a regular democracy with checks and balances.
00:07:45.020 Think of our Canadian government.
00:07:46.660 We have House of Commons, and we have a Senate, which can slow down, at least, the House of Commons.
00:07:52.120 We have checks and balances in the form of the court system.
00:07:55.900 We have transparency, whether it's a lobbyist registry or even just the fact that debates are publicized and there's a record of them and then there's committee hearings.
00:08:05.180 There's all sorts of ways we try to democratize our system of power in Canada.
00:08:10.320 None of those things happen here.
00:08:11.580 There's no official opposition to Klaus Schwab.
00:08:14.260 There's no lobbyist registry.
00:08:16.060 There's no question period.
00:08:17.580 There's no transcript of these meetings.
00:08:19.280 So, in that way, it's a kind of crypto government.
00:08:22.580 Like I said before, they don't have actual power.
00:08:24.660 They have tremendous influence.
00:08:26.300 But they are a policy shop.
00:08:29.200 They are a lobbying shop.
00:08:31.480 And it wouldn't surprise me if in closed doors, behind closed doors, in smoky rooms, all sorts of deals were being hatched, especially when it comes to these wars that are afoot.
00:08:42.980 Anyways, we did, like I said, we spent most of our time traveling, but we did manage to get a visit into the private jet airfield that we attend every year.
00:08:54.500 We flew commercial.
00:08:55.760 We told you the route we took.
00:08:57.100 But there's actually one private jet for every four delegates on average here at the World Economic Forum.
00:09:03.780 Can you imagine?
00:09:04.720 These are the folks telling you and me to live a smaller carbon footprint.
00:09:09.960 We went there today, but there was a lot of fog, so much fog, I was worried no planes would land.
00:09:15.500 And, indeed, when we got there at the airport, that's what they told us.
00:09:18.200 Nonetheless, we did see a Lithuanian military craft land with an enormous security detail.
00:09:23.360 Let me show you a little bit from our trip to the airport, the private airport, preferred by the private jet class.
00:09:31.500 Here, take a look.
00:09:32.000 Ezra Levant here, along with my colleague Avi Amini.
00:09:35.660 We're at the Altenrhein Airport.
00:09:38.060 It's a small, private airport in Switzerland that's the closest to the Davos World Economic Forum Conference.
00:09:45.560 This is not a commercial airport like Zurich or Geneva, where you can get a flight from Toronto or Melbourne.
00:09:52.280 This is a private jet airport.
00:09:54.520 We come here every year because it's so incredible to watch the masters of the universe, that's what I call them, who fly in private jets only.
00:10:02.220 And some of them fly in a jet here and then take a helicopter for the last part of the journey to Davos to tell the rest of us, reduce your carbon footprint, don't eat so much meat, turn down your thermostat in the winter.
00:10:14.300 Now, it's super foggy here now, so I don't know if they've temporarily paused landing the aircraft.
00:10:20.260 On our way in, we saw about six aircraft parked here.
00:10:23.060 One of the things that aircraft do is they land here, disgorge their VVIPs, take off again, and park at another airport where there's more room.
00:10:32.980 So understand what they do.
00:10:34.220 They fly in a private jet from, let's say, London to this Altenrhein private airport, let off their VVIPs, and they don't park.
00:10:40.820 They go on another flight to park.
00:10:43.100 Then they take a flight back to pick up their VVIPs and go.
00:10:46.560 I can't imagine a more carbon-intensive lifestyle, but that's how the rulers of the universe operate.
00:10:51.740 Over the last five years that we've been here, we've recorded their carbon footprint.
00:10:55.840 We've asked them about how is this worth it, especially after the era of COVID, where we learned how efficient Zoom is in comparison.
00:11:05.160 And, you know, I was wondering on the way up here, will this be the year that they finally practice what they preach?
00:11:11.800 And as we're driving in, the reaction you were having to seeing that many private jets parked here, showing us that this year, in fact, if anything, it possibly has more jets than ever.
00:11:24.800 You know, it's sort of fun to be a plane spotter, and I don't know if we can pick it up on the camera.
00:11:29.140 However, this plastic window, this private airport is so media-friendly.
00:11:33.880 I've got to give them a big thank you.
00:11:35.800 I don't know if Air Force One is going to land here, if this is not high security enough.
00:11:39.560 I don't know how he's getting here.
00:11:41.000 I heard it's via Greenland.
00:11:42.680 I'm not sure.
00:11:43.040 There's so many private aircraft that come in here in the one week of Davos.
00:11:48.360 It's enough to keep the lights on.
00:11:50.280 Well, I think it's worth mentioning that when we were physically walking into this small complex, this is a very tiny airport.
00:11:56.020 You saw three or four VIP drivers waiting to take their passengers.
00:12:02.660 In the black limos.
00:12:03.860 And it's a tiny airport, and I don't know if you saw it on the way in.
00:12:06.520 We'll film it on the way out.
00:12:07.440 They have sort of a welcome Davos delegates with some free snacks, as if they're not having free snacks on the private jets.
00:12:13.640 So the fact that there are, I think, three or four black limos at the front either tells me they're just hanging out here because they have nowhere else to go,
00:12:21.560 or they are waiting for a jet that is about to arrive in the next, I don't know, half an hour.
00:12:27.560 I saw a statistic that one out of four delegates at Davos flies private.
00:12:32.920 One out of four.
00:12:33.840 That's a stunning thing.
00:12:34.720 I don't think one in 10,000 normal people.
00:12:37.440 Fly private.
00:12:38.420 But for these folks, it's one in four.
00:12:40.860 I remember when Greta Thunberg came and we scrummed her, and she was actually, she spent 20 minutes with us.
00:12:46.440 She gave us no useful answers, but she was with us for 20 minutes.
00:12:49.380 She didn't have a script ready.
00:12:50.620 She didn't know what to say.
00:12:51.700 She'd never had a useful answer, just by the way.
00:12:54.320 Well, and I asked her if she had ever flown on a private jet.
00:12:57.560 Have you ever been on a private jet even once?
00:12:59.980 I own 100 private jets.
00:13:02.060 Well, have you been on, how about once?
00:13:04.360 Have you ever been on a private jet?
00:13:06.500 All the time.
00:13:07.440 Yes.
00:13:07.980 I wonder why you won't answer me in a straight answer.
00:13:10.700 We didn't fly private.
00:13:12.340 Ezra wouldn't pay for that jet.
00:13:14.120 But wefreports.com, you can catch all our reports all week and help fund our economy class tickets to get here.
00:13:22.420 And our economy Airbnb, which, if you looked at the price tag, doesn't feel economy.
00:13:27.860 It's very expensive just to be in and amongst these, the rich and famous here that are shaping and delegating to the world how we have to live.
00:13:38.660 Yeah.
00:13:39.160 Special thanks to Alton Ryan Airport for being so accommodating for us.
00:13:43.200 We'll stick around for a while and see if we can catch any planes.
00:13:45.380 One, two, three, four, five BMWs and Mercedes.
00:13:49.780 Who are the VVIPs here? 0.99
00:13:51.460 There are about 10 staff and about 10 vehicles pulled up here, including police.
00:13:59.000 Here comes one cop right now.
00:14:01.140 How are you?
00:14:02.460 Yeah.
00:14:02.900 Who's coming and going?
00:14:05.220 Do you know?
00:14:06.760 Yeah.
00:14:09.140 It looks like they're about to pick somebody up.
00:14:10.960 They're preparing to pick somebody up.
00:14:12.380 And this is quite a large column.
00:14:13.580 Oh, you know what?
00:14:15.160 This is the kind of thing you would see for maybe a prime minister.
00:14:18.020 And remember, there's a lot of military on the highways around here, too.
00:14:22.280 It's a very, I mean, think about it.
00:14:23.580 Donald Trump alone, when that man moves, you have an enormous security blanket.
00:14:28.660 Who are you picking up?
00:14:32.900 Do you know, uh, you don't know?
00:14:36.980 Are you sure?
00:14:40.740 I don't know.
00:14:42.380 I'm sorry.
00:14:43.060 No, that's okay.
00:14:44.060 I had to ask.
00:14:46.180 Those are nice cars.
00:14:47.480 Which one do you, is that, is that the one you drive there?
00:14:50.340 Oh, yeah.
00:14:51.300 All three.
00:14:51.980 Oh, yeah.
00:14:52.640 It looks nice.
00:14:53.780 Are they all electric?
00:14:54.960 Not electric?
00:14:56.760 No, these are real cars.
00:14:58.640 You need real power on the mountain road, not electric.
00:15:00.740 You need real cars.
00:15:01.700 No, electric.
00:15:04.560 You just told it to come here, prepare.
00:15:06.820 You don't know what for.
00:15:08.440 You're either very good at keeping secrets or...
00:15:12.880 I'm a good mama.
00:15:13.720 That was a military aircraft built for long hauls.
00:15:24.100 Fascinating.
00:15:24.900 Well, our keen-eyed, eagle-eyed videographer, Lincoln Jay, identified the military aircraft
00:15:30.680 as being from Lithuania with checks out.
00:15:33.080 I mean, Lithuania, of course, is a small country, a former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
00:15:38.240 He was part of the Soviet Union, and it is now in, really in the front line.
00:15:44.040 The Baltics and Russia are in a kind of a military, I don't know, I wouldn't call it a standoff,
00:15:50.160 but both sides have done a little saber-rattling.
00:15:53.100 It's not surprising that if that is the head of Lithuania, that he's got such a security retinue.
00:15:59.240 What do you think?
00:16:00.920 We're speculating here, but it all fits.
00:16:03.440 And look at the kind of entourage he's got in there, the kind of the convoy that's going to be taken, led by police.
00:16:12.140 Here's something else to think about.
00:16:13.380 Donald Trump is coming to town.
00:16:15.500 And so imagine all the NATO countries wanting to have a sit-down with him.
00:16:19.420 And they have a beautiful welcome area with fresh fruit and juices.
00:16:23.820 And then some of the prestige newspapers that are members of the World Economic Forum,
00:16:28.360 they have special editions.
00:16:29.520 Here's the New York Times.
00:16:30.640 How do you feed 10 billion people sustainably?
00:16:33.440 Here's the Financial Times.
00:16:34.980 We're here to discuss global needs.
00:16:36.760 Here's Barron's.
00:16:37.760 Some attend summits.
00:16:38.720 We move mountains.
00:16:39.400 So it's a major propaganda exercise because there's so many VVIPs here. 0.99
00:16:45.220 Journalists are here, sure, to interview them in softball interviews.
00:16:49.540 But it's a kind of off-the-record lobbying event.
00:16:53.460 There's no lobbyist registry.
00:16:55.220 Nothing is on the record.
00:16:56.180 So a lot of deals are being done behind the scenes.
00:16:58.660 There's different layers to the World Economic Forum.
00:17:01.440 There's the ideology being forced on the rest of us.
00:17:04.500 But there's billions of dollars of deals cooked up.
00:17:07.300 And I guess they roll out the red carpet for the private jet class.
00:17:11.420 I went on the website FlightAware.com, which is a very interesting way to track flights in and out of any airport.
00:17:17.020 And let me read to you some of the flights that have landed here when it wasn't too foggy just today.
00:17:23.040 So the last private jet that landed came from Geneva.
00:17:27.480 Just stop and think about that for a second.
00:17:29.480 Geneva is in Switzerland.
00:17:30.780 You could drive it.
00:17:33.000 But two people flew in a jet from Geneva to Altenrhein.
00:17:38.060 I don't know how many thousands of liters of jet fuel they burned.
00:17:42.120 That would be like driving your car one block to the convenience store.
00:17:47.280 Flying a private jet from Geneva to Altenrhein.
00:17:49.860 Just incredible.
00:17:50.760 I see flights from Al-Maktoum, which I believe is in the United Arab Emirates.
00:17:55.720 From London Luton Airport.
00:17:57.160 From Boca Raton, California.
00:17:59.140 From Speyer.
00:17:59.880 I don't know where that is.
00:18:00.680 I'm going to guess Germany or Austria.
00:18:03.000 Nuremberg, Vienna, Oxford, Berlin, London.
00:18:06.720 The Royal Air Force Northolt suggesting that a senior person from the UK came on it.
00:18:12.240 Farnborough Airfield, same thing.
00:18:14.080 My point is that there are so many flights coming in.
00:18:16.280 We just were not able to see them during the fog.
00:18:19.520 And three people told us that it was the fog that was delaying the mass arrival.
00:18:23.380 I can understand why the Prime Minister or President of Lithuania needs to come for security reasons
00:18:29.080 in a private aircraft.
00:18:30.280 That makes sense to me.
00:18:31.700 I think for most of the others flying private jets, I think it's just they can afford it.
00:18:36.160 Why wouldn't they?
00:18:36.920 It's not like they're going to live the lifestyle that they prescribe to the rest of us.
00:18:41.420 You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.
00:18:43.460 Well, I wish I could have shown you more private planes, but it was just so foggy.
00:18:47.140 And I was using a website called, I think it was Flight Monitor.
00:18:51.220 There's FlightAware.
00:18:52.080 That's it.
00:18:52.520 FlightAware.com.
00:18:53.500 It's a pretty cool website.
00:18:54.740 If you actually are curious, you can go there and see where every plane in the world is.
00:18:59.600 You can search by tail number.
00:19:01.300 You can search by airline, by route.
00:19:03.240 You can even just look at an airport.
00:19:04.880 So I looked at the airport and I saw all the flights that were coming and going and planned.
00:19:08.800 And it's pretty amazing.
00:19:10.660 But of course, things stop when it's super foggy.
00:19:13.200 But tomorrow, we're going to get up at the crack of dawn, even before dawn.
00:19:16.560 Dawn here is about 7 a.m.
00:19:18.400 Sunset's about 5 p.m.
00:19:19.560 So there's only about 10 hours of working sunlight, it being the wintertime.
00:19:25.820 We're going to get to Davos just after, I'm going to guess, 7.30.
00:19:31.300 And we're going to get to work right away.
00:19:34.800 And you know what we do.
00:19:35.900 We try and scrum oligarchs as we see them walking down the street.
00:19:39.520 Some of them have meaningful conversations with us.
00:19:42.260 Many of them just run away.
00:19:43.920 It sort of bothers me when they do, because these are smart people.
00:19:46.500 I mean, we may disagree with them and they may be diabolical.
00:19:48.840 Some of them may be downright evil.
00:19:50.840 But I think, for example, of all the questions I put to Larry Fink of BlackRock last year,
00:19:55.440 he absolutely could have answered them. 0.98
00:19:57.140 In fact, he could have answered them with a slam dunk that made me sort of look dumb. 0.96
00:20:00.680 But instead, he just refused to answer questions from a ruffian like me. 0.95
00:20:04.520 Here's a clip of that.
00:20:05.480 Mr. Fink, are you going to follow Donald Trump's plan and get rid of DEI and ESG in your companies?
00:20:14.480 BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways.
00:20:18.840 You're authoritarian.
00:20:20.380 You're anti-populist.
00:20:21.620 You're top-down.
00:20:22.980 Are you going to change it all in light of the U.S. presidency?
00:20:25.700 How has Donald Trump—have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected?
00:20:33.520 Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump?
00:20:42.180 Why are you running away from simple questions?
00:20:44.600 Just answer a question.
00:20:45.540 Have you talked to President Trump yet?
00:20:46.940 Why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, Mr. Fink?
00:20:51.960 They're simple questions.
00:20:52.900 Is it that hard to answer a question that you need bodyguards and to swerve through traffic?
00:20:58.600 Is the next four years going to be bad for business with Donald Trump in charge?
00:21:03.280 Is peace the last thing you want on this world?
00:21:06.520 Which makes more money for you, war in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine?
00:21:10.300 Ezra Levant's my name, Mr. Fink.
00:21:13.040 Did you just take a photo of you?
00:21:15.060 Am I supposed to be scared?
00:21:16.280 Is that a threat, Mr. Fink?
00:21:18.660 Are you used to bullying your way through life?
00:21:24.120 No, no, no, no, no.
00:21:25.000 It's like a push.
00:21:26.820 What?
00:21:28.940 Is that how you've lived your entire life without having—
00:21:33.460 Look at this.
00:21:34.420 Don't push back, mate.
00:21:36.360 Don't push me, bro.
00:21:38.220 Don't push me.
00:21:39.040 When was the last time you answered a question that you didn't know was coming?
00:21:44.400 Why are you so unaccountable?
00:21:47.320 Isn't that what you love about the World Economic Forum?
00:21:50.060 You control everything.
00:21:53.680 Why do you think you deserve so much power?
00:21:58.460 Hey, I'll be your mini.
00:22:00.440 Should I be scared now?
00:22:02.020 Which of your former directors do you want to run Canada?
00:22:06.500 Mark Carney or Chrystia Freeland?
00:22:09.040 Hey, don't push me, bro.
00:22:14.400 What?
00:22:15.600 What are you getting violent for, man? 0.97
00:22:18.540 I could push just like you get, man. 0.94
00:22:20.640 No, you're going to be general speaking about thugs.
00:22:22.680 Just try it. 0.98
00:22:23.360 Look at these thugs. 0.76
00:22:24.300 They fund wars around the world and then you question them. 0.96
00:22:29.740 They try not only to intimidate you, but physically assault you.
00:22:36.000 What's with taking photos of journalists who ask you prickly questions?
00:22:40.040 Or a couple of years ago, our most famous interview with Albert Bourla, the CEO of Pfizer.
00:22:45.180 Of course he had answers to all of our questions.
00:22:47.820 I wasn't the first one to ever raise those issues.
00:22:50.660 I was just the first one to raise it to him personally.
00:22:52.920 And for some reason, it was offensive to him that someone did.
00:22:55.980 Tell me he couldn't have answered these questions.
00:22:57.900 Take a look.
00:22:58.780 Mr. Bourla, can I ask you, when did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission?
00:23:04.580 How long did you know that without saying it publicly?
00:23:07.500 Thank you very much.
00:23:08.160 Why don't you answer that question?
00:23:10.300 I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission, but why did you keep it secret?
00:23:18.000 You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%.
00:23:23.420 But we now know that the vaccines do not stop transmission.
00:23:27.080 Why did you keep that secret?
00:23:29.080 Have a nice day.
00:23:30.280 I won't have a nice day until I know the answer.
00:23:32.800 Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?
00:23:40.220 Is it time to apologize to the world, sir?
00:23:42.660 To give refunds back to the countries that poured all their money into your vaccine that doesn't work, your ineffective vaccine?
00:23:50.540 Are you not ashamed of what you've done in the last couple of years?
00:23:53.960 Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?
00:23:59.080 Are you proud of it?
00:24:00.140 You've made millions on the backs of people's entire livelihoods.
00:24:05.020 How does that feel, to walk the streets as a millionaire on the backs of the regular person at home in Australia, in England, in Canada?
00:24:12.940 What do you think about on your yacht, sir?
00:24:15.260 What do you think about on your private jet?
00:24:17.780 Are you worried about product liability?
00:24:20.180 Are you worried about myocarditis?
00:24:22.920 What about the sudden deaths?
00:24:24.560 What do you have to say about young men dropping dead of heart attacks every day?
00:24:33.940 Why won't you answer these basic questions?
00:24:39.780 No apologies, sir.
00:24:41.280 Do you think you should be charged criminally for some of the criminal behavior you've obviously been a part of?
00:24:49.460 How much money have you personally made off the vaccine?
00:24:54.920 How many boosters do you think it'll take for you to be happy enough with your earnings?
00:25:03.240 Nothing?
00:25:03.760 Who did you meet with here in secret?
00:25:07.660 Will you disclose who you met with?
00:25:11.980 Who did you pay commissions to?
00:25:14.240 In the past, Pfizer has paid $2.3 billion in fines for deceptive marketing.
00:25:20.740 Have you engaged in that same conduct again?
00:25:23.300 Yeah, I think that part of the problem of being so high up in the mountains here, so hard to get to, is that it really looks and starts to resemble what it is, which is a club.
00:25:34.840 This is a very fancy club, and you're not part of it.
00:25:37.800 And if a citizen journalist manages to sneak in and get a question to a prince, well, they're more offended than anything.
00:25:45.080 That's why we're doing it.
00:25:46.180 We've done it every year, and I think people really associate covering Davos with Rebel News, and we're proud to do that.
00:25:53.900 I want to say we are crowdfunding our trip, as always.
00:25:56.560 This is a very humble Airbnb, the kind of place that all four of us are staying here, the kind of place it would probably cost, I don't know, $300 a night in any normal season.
00:26:10.240 But I'd have to check.
00:26:11.740 It's about $5,000 a night.
00:26:15.900 I think it works out to about $25,000 for the week we're here because of the World Economic Forum.
00:26:20.660 They literally multiply by 10 or more, by 20.
00:26:26.780 The price, because every one of the hotel rooms in the whole region is bought up.
00:26:31.140 Every hotel room, every Airbnb, they just simply sop them up.
00:26:36.560 And you can't blame local homeowners.
00:26:39.120 In fact, last year, the local homeowner said only one week a year does he Airbnb his place, just the one week of Davos, and that practically pays his mortgage for the whole year.
00:26:51.720 And I know that sounds insane, but there's simply no other way to get.
00:26:54.700 But we're not even in Davos, I remind you.
00:26:57.080 We're in clusters and train ride away.
00:26:59.260 So it's so hard to get there that when we get there, it's almost like we stumble upon this sort of paradise for VIPs.
00:27:06.860 Like they walk around without security, without assistance, because they think they're in this protected getaway.
00:27:13.900 And they pretty much are until we show up.
00:27:17.140 If you can help me cover the cost of our journey in this outrageously priced Airbnb, please do.
00:27:22.640 Go to wefreports.com.
00:27:25.060 On Thursday night at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, 5 p.m. Mountain Time, which is 3 a.m. here,
00:27:30.940 we're going to have a private Zoom town hall meeting for anyone who chips in $100 or more.
00:27:36.880 And if you've given in our last two emails, you'll be on the invite list.
00:27:40.660 But if you want to help us out, we'll have a private catch up with you on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
00:27:48.360 Anyways, that's the show for today.
00:27:49.760 We're just getting our feet under us tomorrow.
00:27:51.700 We're going to have so much for you because we're going to spend at least 10 hours walking the streets of Davos.
00:27:58.080 Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Gloucesters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.
00:28:10.660 Bye.