Ezra Levant returns from Davos’ WEF with 25M viral views from interviews with Pfizer’s Albert Bourla and Greta Thunberg, exposing mainstream media’s PR-friendly avoidance of tough questions. Swiss police stood neutral unlike U.S., Canada, or Australia, where he suspects heavier bias, but fears future restrictions—even terrorist labels for uncredentialed journalists. A clip shows Klaus Schwab dismissing citizen journalist Masako Ganaha as "independent," while John Kerry’s hollow commercial flights and self-serving "alien elite" rhetoric face mockery. Viewers’ critiques, from Ken Hall’s Thunberg optics to Eldegas 8’s fake claims, are shot down as Levant reaffirms Rebel News’ unfiltered accountability journalism, calling themselves underdogs against WEF’s institutional power. [Automatically generated summary]
I'm back from Davos, Switzerland and the World Economic Forum.
I'm going to take you through one story that I haven't done yet, which is how the other media reacted to us, what they said and did to us.
And I think it's one of the most important stories.
So stay with me.
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Here's today's show.
Tonight, I'm back from the World Economic Forum, but I'll be thinking about what I saw for a long time.
It's January 23rd, and this is the Ezra Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
Boy, I'm glad to be back in Canada to finally sleep in my own bed again.
I'm a little bit jet lagged.
I got up at 5 a.m. because, you know, I was set on Davos, Switzerland time.
It's nice to be home, but I really am proud about what the whole team did covering the World Economic Forum.
I'm sure you've been to our website, WEFReports.com.
Last I checked, we had published more than 40 stories there.
Some of them written, most of them video stories.
I was there.
Our new British reporter, Callum Smiles, was there.
And Calvin Robinson from GB News was with us too.
And we had a whole behind-the-scenes team, which was so very important.
The world is very interested in the World Economic Forum.
There were a few other independent journalists that we saw on the ground.
If you remember, my old friend Savannah Hernandez, who came with Rebel News last year, she was with her own team this year.
Another reporter named Morgan and about three support sounds.
She was doing great.
Our friend Andrew Lawton from True North was there.
He actually had access to some of the restricted areas, which was pretty amazing.
I think I told you that I met a young lady from Japan called Masako Ganaha, if I'm saying her name right.
She was one of my favorite, just the nicest person you'd ever meet.
Like the opposite of our style.
Very polite, but she did some great journalism.
And there were a few others I met.
Most of them were very familiar with Rebel News and were excited to see us.
And if I do say, I think they were inspired by us.
That's what Masako told us.
I know that the world was hungry for this because one of the ways to measure is how many people watched our stuff.
And as of this afternoon, and the numbers are surely higher by now, 20 million people saw our scrum of the Pfizer CEO, Albert Burla.
5 million watched the 20-minute long-you can even call that a mini documentary on Greta Tombregg.
That is a lot of people.
25 million.
That's just two videos.
Of course, we had a lot of other videos too.
There's a huge interest in the real stories.
And I feel like Rebel News really owned the place.
And I think, in fact, our Albert Buhrla CEO of Pfizer Story really was the number one story coming out of the World Economic Forum.
So that was the independent journalists.
Half a dozen of us, or maybe a few more.
There was seven in the Rebel team.
And then there was Andrew Lawton and his cameraman and the others I mentioned.
But there were hundreds of regime journalists.
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And by that, I mean exactly what it sounds.
They had the official pavilions that they spent hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars for.
The people that we scrummed on the streets, Greta Tomberg, Albert Bohrla, they had all done mainstream media interviews, but none of them were asked accountability questions.
So every person we scrummed, whether it was Larry King or John Kerry or Albert Bula or Greta Tomberg, it's not like we were the only person asking them questions.
We were the only people asking them real questions, not PR questions.
Now, I don't want to rehash that with you again, because if you've been watching my show over the past week, you've seen me refer to these things several times, and I'm sure you've had enough.
You can go to WEF Reports to see all our work if you haven't had enough.
I am very proud of what we've done there.
But what I want to talk about today is the mainstream media and us.
Because I think there were about three or four or five incidents there that are all part of a theme.
One of the first things that happened to us, it was to my friend Abiyamini, he got into a kind of tussle with CNBC, which is obviously part of NBC, and he threatened to clock Avi.
Here, take a quick look at that.
So can I ask you what CNBC is doing here?
I can't ask you.
No.
You can't.
Don't bother.
You didn't put a camera in my face.
Thank you.
Really?
But you're here as an invited guest and you're an editor for CNBC.
Don't you think that's a bit of a conflict of interest?
I'd like you to go away.
I haven't agreed to an interview.
If you're doorstep with me, go away.
Seriously, take a mic out of it.
Don't touch the mic.
You're meant to be speaking truth to power.
Are you here just to take your marching orders?
Is that what you're here for?
Do you want to go away?
Not really.
I'm here to do what you should be doing.
Yeah?
Please take this out of my mouth.
I can have you escort it off on security.
All right.
Do that.
There you go.
CNBC.
Their job is supposed to be doing what he's complaining I'm doing.
And now he's calling security to escort me off the premises.
What's the problem?
You're my conflict.
You've been very rude to me this morning.
I haven't asked me anything, so I'd like you to take the camera off me.
I've literally asked you questions politely, which should be your job.
That's your job, sir.
I'm doing your job.
I'm just not getting paid for by Klaus Schwab.
You were inside as you walked in a bit upset.
What did you hear him say?
I heard him say, I'm going to paraphrase it because I don't have the exact thing, but he came in sounding quite angry saying, I'm going to punch him out.
Paraphrasing there.
He's knocked out a punch out, but you know, he wanted to hear you.
Didn't notice about you until I came out and then I heard somebody else complaining about you to your face.
That point I realized, Avi had a word with him.
Now, you forgot about it when you told me this, but I marked you up a little earlier.
Oh, yeah.
So we're going to go back quickly and check if we caught that on audio.
Hopefully we did.
Avi.
You got it?
Yep.
Ready?
This guy's going to get punched out to the tradition.
I just got threatened by the head of news and programming of CNBC.
Ivy had a similar confrontation with the Washington Post.
Not as rough, but the Washington Post did not like us being there and did not like talking about it.
It was of a piece.
Take a look at this.
How are you doing, mate?
Why are you taking photos of them?
You're interested in seeing how real journalists do it?
I'm not going to talk to you guys.
Why not?
What do you want?
What do you want to do?
You're standing there taking photos of an interview.
I take photos of everything I have on the Ramenade.
So what was interesting about that?
It's interesting that you guys are here and there's usually values here.
It's interesting that the Saudis are here.
Davos is a spectacle and we're all part of that spectacle.
And what's your role in this spectacle?
I report.
I'm a journalist here.
So do you question them inside?
Because you seem to be an invited guest.
For sure.
Really?
You ask some tough questions in there.
You don't just go along with the narrative.
What is the narrative?
There's a bunch of narratives that they're running.
For example, the climate change narrative out here at the moment.
That seems a little bit hypocritical, don't you think?
I'm not going to engage in this back and forth.
So do you ask them about the hypocrisy in there?
I ask about lots of things.
Have you asked them about the hypocrisy?
You can read my report on Washington Post.
Yeah, good luck.
I believe it.
Well, things started getting weird when Avi was talking to the Prime Minister of Luxembourg.
And I know you're thinking the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, that's like saying the mayor of, you know, Tofino.
It's a tiny, teeny, tiny place, by the way.
I love Tofino.
I'm not making fun of it.
I'm just saying PM of Luxembourg is not a huge job.
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.
There was a good humor about it a little bit.
At least it sort of faked being good humor.
But take a look at this.
You're denying that here that there is a consolidation of power, that this is where some of the richest and powerful, most powerful people on the planet come to devise policy.
This is where the policy starts, the great reset.
As I decide in national parliaments and not in Davos, they all seem to come here and start off as young global leaders here in the WEF.
What do they all have in common?
I don't consider myself as a young leader or not.
I'm prime minister of an elected government in my country, like the other colleagues.
And we exchange here.
It's important.
We have several meetings a year.
We have once the UN General Assembly, where we either just in politics.
No, it's still okay.
Okay, because this is Nazdali.
Nasdali.
This guy's annoying.
Be careful of this guy.
He's annoying.
I was a lawyer before.
If you need some help, what law?
What law?
NAS might need criminal help.
Naz, Naz, Nas, Naz, Naz, coming.
Two questions.
I'm good.
I'm good.
Bro, I know you're doing it.
Hold on, hold on.
You said, I know you are.
Hold on.
Naz, Naz.
Naz, you said I was dangerous to my followers.
But you pushed your followers to support FTX.
Bro, bro, bro.
Aren't you the dangerous guy?
You're a bit.
I like you, Nasman.
I like your followers.
Listen.
I like your followers.
Listen.
But, bro, I saved that guy from you.
That's good of you.
But listen, I saved him from you.
Are you getting paid this time?
You said last time you weren't getting paid.
Nessiah, I said it right.
It was starting to get a bit weird, wasn't it?
I mean, that guy's name is NAS.
He goes by NAS daily online.
And he's a real pay-to-play kind of guy.
I'm going to talk about him more in a minute.
But so that's some encounters that Avi had.
And I had it too, not with Albert Buhrla.
That was just me and Avi going back and forth.
But when we did our 20-minute walk-and-talk with Greta Tunberg, there were other journalists along with us who didn't have as many questions and certainly didn't have any interesting questions.
But they clearly resented what we were asking Greta.
Now, I think what we asked Greta, we asked her, depending on how you counted, almost 100 questions.
So obviously not all of them were great.
You know, we were coming up with them on the fly.
I'd say we asked her probably 40 really good questions.
One of my favorites was why she never protests Vladimir Putin or China or OPEC.
And she didn't have a good answer.
I asked her, have you ever been on a private jet even once?
And she wouldn't answer.
So we had some really good questions, if I may say so myself.
But one of the reporters who was walking with us was so furious with our questions.
He said to Greta, well, would you like a question from a real journalist?
And then he put his idea of a real question.
Take a look at that.
Breta, maybe you want to talk to real journalists.
What did you talk?
You were here in Davos to go to successful.
So that's your big questions.
You were waiting for two hours in the cold.
You're walking with Greta, and your big question that you're going to win a Pulitzer Prize for, your real investigative journalism, your accountability journalism, what all the people want to know, was your visit to Davos a success?
And you're the real journalist telling us to be quiet, eh?
Here's a montage of all of the regime media's questions for Greta.
I mentioned that we had almost 100, and we've actually got a story on our website where we transcribe every one of our questions.
I want to show you the other questions from the real journalists.
Not a single one of them accountability-oriented.
Many of them just PR-oriented.
Like, say, I hear you're going to have a protest.
Can you tell me about it?
Whoa, holy cow.
Calm down there, Walter Cronkite.
Here, take a look.
Breta, maybe you want to talk to Real German with your charge.
Do you hear it in Davos to go to the successful?
What's your main message to the people who are at the World Economic Forum?
What message do you want to portray whilst you're here?
Greta, do you have any meetings with any people who are here?
Any politicians?
Any high business people whilst you're here?
Can you tell us who you're having talks to?
Do you think that in Davos, the big companies here, are really interesting by climate change?
Sort of pitiful.
Imagine interrupting our real questions for that.
But it wasn't just that they had softball questions themselves.
After a while, they started answering our questions for Greta.
Who are your advisors?
Who filmed you when you had your fake arrest or staged arrest in Germany?
Those were our questions for Greta.
She could answer them or not.
She could answer them well or poorly.
But the other reporters felt moved to answer for her because she could obviously, they could obviously see if she wasn't doing well.
And at one point, one of the reporters called me an idiot.
And maybe I am an idiot, by the way.
But is that the role of a journalist?
Or if Greta could call me an idiot for asking the question, but another journalist saying, don't you ask that?
That's an idiot question.
And then later complain, well, you're asking all the same questions.
We absolutely weren't.
We were following up on some of the questions that she wouldn't answer.
They were the ones with the empty questions.
Here, take a look at the media party getting a little stroppy with us, insulting me, calling me an idiot, saying we're tired of your questions and answering questions for Greta.
It was getting really weird.
He's answering for you.
He's answering for you.
He said you had an agency.
Oh, sometimes I wish I had one.
It would be much simpler than black people.
I don't know media.
You don't know who is filming you in Germany?
He said he knows.
He says it was an agency.
Whose agency, you idiot?
Isn't that weird?
And it got a little bit physical, too.
There was this one guy with a French TV station.
He had a big boom microphone.
He started pushing and jostling me.
It was really weird.
Did you catch that?
Why are you having private meetings?
Secret meetings.
Who are they having secret meetings with?
Come on.
Yes, please.
You believe them?
It's free speech, isn't it?
It is, but come on.
I think the establishment for you not part of it.
Hey, what are you doing?
I thought that was a bit much.
I mean, I didn't punch him back, but I sort of resisted.
And even at the end, when I was doing my talk to the camera, one of the reporters came up and said something snide and then sort of ran off.
I thought it was sort of pitiful.
Controlling Emotions In Conspiracies00:15:42
I don't know if you caught it.
Here's the end of that.
Well, there you have it, Greta Tunberg, walking and talking for quite a while with several rebel news journalists and several mainstream media journalists who sometimes even answered questions for her.
They knew the script so well.
I think the thing I was struck by, and come here.
There's a journalist saying we were just correcting you, dude, that tells you about the kind of media that are normally covering Davos.
Yeah, it was, you know, talking to Greta was a very unfulfilling experience.
She's clearly uneducated on the subject matter, which is no surprise.
I mean, she stopped going to school in high school.
She's not a subject matter expert.
She's just a mascot, really.
I thought she was immature, which you would say, well, of course, she's 12.
No, she's actually 20.
She's just developmentally arrested in some way.
But back to NAS Daly.
Again, I actually know very little about him.
I know that Avi had a contre tempe with him, but he's the kind of guy who takes money to do PR.
And I don't think he's even shy about it, but it's just so painfully obvious.
He's doing PR, not news.
Look at this.
You've probably seen in the news lately one of the largest scams in history.
A cryptocurrency exchange called FTX thieving billions of dollars.
Well, Nas Daly did a promo for that thief.
Take a look.
Okay, the guy you see next to me is the most generous billionaire in the world.
And I found him.
Hi, my name is Sam, and this is my story.
Sam has crazy hair.
Sam is vegan.
Sam sleeps five hours a night.
Sam lives in the Bahamas with 10 roommates.
Sam is 29 years old only, but Sam has $22 billion.
And he wants to donate all of it to charity.
But why?
Well, for many reasons.
So, so gross.
He does other propaganda.
For example, he lives in Dubai and he does propaganda for the United Arab Emirates.
And by the way, I'm actually pretty warm to the United Arab Emirates.
They're the most modern Arab country.
They made peace with Israel.
They're trying to be harmonious and positive and progressive.
I actually have a lot of time for the United Arab Emirates, and I'm not opposed to them hiring PR men.
So it's no surprise that they've hired NAS to be their PR men.
In fact, good for him.
But he hates the fact that we were there in Davos to ask questions of his paymasters.
He actually takes his loyalty to them and their money very seriously, which I suppose is endearing.
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.
Whether or not he believes in you, he got paid and he's earning it.
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.
Now, that wasn't a particularly important interview, with all due respect.
And NAS came in sort of friendly-ish, although it was really unprofessional.
But then we had our video on Albert Burla, the CEO of Pfizer, and we nuked the guy.
We just did.
And that seemed to hurt Ness' feelings because he is a pro-Davos, pro-World Economic Forum propagandist.
I don't know how much he gets paid by them.
It might be a million dollars for I know.
So he saw what we did in our real journalism with Albert Burla.
And then he saw us outside of Greta Tunberg's event.
And he got a little bit nervous because if we asked tough questions of Albert Burla, who's a fairly sophisticated, fairly smart guy, how would it go over with Greta Tunberg, who is not sophisticated and who has never answered a tough question in her life?
So he saw us outside of Greta's event.
And I think he panicked and he saw me waiting there.
Like I said, we waited two hours for Greta in the cold.
He saw me there.
And I just want to say, I had never met with, spoken to, communicated in any way with Naz ever.
In fact, I just know him in such a shallow way because I know Avi had a little debate with him, but I've never watched his stuff before.
But he was furious and obsessed and insane out of control.
He came up to me.
He made a public scene.
He was shouting at me.
He was swearing at me.
He was pushing me.
He was trying to take my microphone.
And I just said, calm down, control your emotions.
He said weird things to me.
I said, you're lying.
But I didn't really raise my voice or lose my temper.
It really felt like he was a crazy person.
Here, take a look for yourself.
And I don't want to overdo it, but let me just show you.
I was standing there for about two hours in the cold, just being very quiet, actually.
And suddenly this crazy PR man for the United Arab Emirates and FTX and the World Economic Forum comes up to me just unhinged.
Take a look.
I'm Angela Levance.
What's your name?
I want to help you improve.
You know exactly who I am.
I don't know your last name.
I know your first name is Naz.
I don't want to improve because you're doing it wrong.
You could do it so much better.
But the thing is, I don't want to make the same compromise that you have of taking corporate cash.
This is nice talk, but you are doing it wrong.
Don't do that.
You're being aggressive.
I'm going to help you be better.
And by the way, the guy you work with beats his wife.
The guy you work with beats his wife.
What do you think about that?
Is that okay?
I think you're bought and paid for.
You're bought and paid for, my friend.
You're bought and paid for.
I'm not willing to sell my soul like you are.
Wake up.
The guy you work with beats your paper.
You're upset.
You're upset.
I've never met you before.
I've never met you before.
I've never talked to you before.
You got to be careful.
And you're very upset.
You're very emotional.
Your friend never met me before.
Okay, well, talk to him.
I have no dealings with you, and I don't really...
Oh, and now you're not related?
No, I have nothing...
Now you're not related?
You are related.
He's your colleague.
Take it down.
You've got to take it down.
You've got to calm down.
Does that not feel good?
And you've got to stop being a pay-to-play guy.
Why does it not feel good to find that somebody does something that you do to others?
You don't know me.
I don't understand what you're saying.
My friend doesn't know me.
You beat your wife.
The guy you work with beats his wife.
Okay.
That's not okay.
No, the guy he works with.
Yeah, I think you're emotionally rubbed up right now.
I think you're upset.
I've never met you before.
I don't think you introduced yourself to me in a proper way.
You just want to go and annoy people and you don't like what it happens to you.
That's why you're not even talking.
You're like speechless.
No, I'm just don't beat your wife.
Number two, do it better.
What a strange and angry little man.
And whatever you're trying to say is stupid.
Very emotional, very over the top.
I've literally never met him before.
The first thing he said was a bizarre outburst.
I mean, you're just...
Avi, don't beat your wife.
I think you're just a little emotionally revved up.
You have to control your emotions better.
You have to control your emotions better, mate.
Control your emotions better.
Control your emotions.
You're emotionally out of control.
You're emotionally out of control.
You're bad for the world.
You are too.
And you're just making personal insults.
You make people trust the science.
And people like you are bad for the world.
Calm down.
Somebody has to be able to.
Calm down.
I know you're earning your money because you're a pay-to-play spokesman.
Everybody should know about how bad you are in the world.
You should have the logos on you.
You should have deck else on you for all your sponsors.
You go around the world pretending to be real news.
Calm down.
You have no news.
No fact.
You're not news.
Why does your name say news?
We're news.
You are.
You're a paid advertiser.
You're a paid advertiser.
So now that you know how it feels like you treat people.
Stop touching me, mate.
Do not spread conspiracy theories on the internet.
Tell me one conspiracy theory.
You are dangerous in the fucking world.
Don't swear.
Control your emotions.
You've got to control your emotions.
He's a little bit out of control.
I think he was trying to get a reaction out of me, but I wasn't really interested in playing along.
So he started to try and whip up other journalists there.
Oh, he's a science denier.
He's a vaccine denier.
He's a global warming denier.
It was a little bit crazy.
By the way, I don't deny that the globe is warming.
As you know, the globe has warmed and cooled over history.
Of course, it has.
And I'm not for banning vaccines or anything.
I just think people should have the choice to take him or not.
And he just started trying to denounce me to the other journalists there, which was sort of weird.
Most of them ignored him, but except for one or two.
Here, take a look.
Can you tell me one conspiracy theory?
I think you're a bit of a liar.
You're a bit of a liar.
I think you're a liar, sir.
I think you're a bit of a liar.
Oh, yeah.
I don't know Rebel News.
What is it?
Oh, this is the most far-right news.
Probably don't want to say the name.
Don't give them any publicity.
Far-right news, spreads conspiracy theories.
Like what?
What conspiracy theory?
Which conspiracy theory?
Can you say one?
No, no.
I mean, I think around the world, I don't know what, but there are people that have never done their research.
Like what?
Tell me one fact we got wrong.
Do you think the vaccine is bad for you?
I've never said that.
No, I don't think it's bad.
Okay, well, this guy thinks the vaccine is bad.
I've never said that.
No, what do you think of him?
You're a very strange liar.
Yeah, that's just a crazy guy.
But he did get one French journalist sort of revved up that I was this evil monster.
And, you know, it could be believed by these Davos journalists because I had asked some pretty tough questions of Albert Burla, the CEO of Pfizer.
So that French reporter, whose name I actually don't have, got worried and he asked me questions about what I plan to ask Greta Tunberg.
What questions do you plan to ask Greta Tunberg?
Well, that's none of your bloody business.
Here, I'll show you that exchange.
Why are you here?
Why are you in Davos?
Why are you here?
Why in Davos?
Get out.
Why are you in front of the David?
So you're telling me to get out?
Why are you in the middle of the moment?
Who are you?
Who are you to tell me to get out?
After the French news, not to me.
You're out of control emotionally.
Why are you in front of the With Attenborough conference?
The same reason you are to ask questions.
You want to ask questions with Attenberg?
I'm sorry, I'm not going to ask to see your homework and you don't get to see my homework.
What questions would you ask?
Yeah, I'm sorry, you don't get to look at my homework.
I got better questions than you.
We both know that.
You're not vetting my questions.
I know you want to, but you're not.
That same French guy was the guy who put his own lame question to Greta in our walk-and-talk.
Here, take a quick look at that.
Do you think that in Davos, the big companies here, are really interesting by climate change?
How lame is that?
How pitiful is that?
So let me close the loop here.
Why were our videos ultra-viral?
Like, seriously, tens of millions of views.
Is it because Greta Tunberg said fascinating things?
No.
Is it because Albert Bula said anything?
No, he was silent.
So why did tens of millions of people watch?
Well, it's because for years, ordinary people have felt that the vaccine salesmen, the big pharma companies, and Big Green and Greta Tunberg have never been asked real questions.
The reason our videos did so well is not because they were informative.
They weren't.
We got no answers.
Not because we were particularly well informed, although I think we had some good questions.
It's that by us asking questions, in the case of Albert Burla, 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 Tunberg.
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?
That's just as an important part of our trip to Davos as anything.
Stay with us for more.
Well, you saw our reports on the World Economic Forum.
If you haven't seen them all, we've got 40, 4-0 reports, many of them video, some of them are written reports at WEFreports.com.
There really is a lot there.
Of course, the fun ones were the splashy ones when we had a walking scrum of Albert Burla, the CEO of Pfizer.
And then when we had the 20-minute walk-and-talk with Greta Tunberg, which I found actually quite disappointing and deflating.
Not that I wanted her to be a star.
I just thought, my God, there really is nothing here other than a child actor who looks so much younger than her years.
She looks 12.
She's 20.
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.
I really think that's it.
She's aged out of being a child.
She's 20, but you don't know that by looking at her.
It was quite disappointing and depressing, frankly.
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.
They talk about sustainability, even though there were more than 1,000 private jet flights to bring them there and then the helicopters afterwards.
I want to bring on now one of our friends who we often meet at the global warming conferences that the United Nations hosts.
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.
I'm talking about our friend Mark Barano, the boss at climatepot.com.
He joins us now.
Praising the Journalism Effort00:03:48
Vice Guy, Mark, great to see you again.
You go to all the climate meetings of the UN.
This is sort of like a climate meeting plus.
There's all these green activists plus every other cultural Marxist and big spending.
It really was a UN conference on steroids.
That's how it felt to me.
Yeah, I mean, that's a great way to describe it, too.
And this is literally where, in many ways, the UN gets the marching orders from.
This is where billionaires, millionaires, royal family, Hollywood celebrities, presidents and prime ministers, academia and the media get together and they collude.
This is where you get your wonderful corporate government collusion.
This is why people like Klaus Schwab brag about penetrating Z cabinets because they can go to these meetings.
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.
Secret behind the scenes.
No lobbying disclosures, no ethics forms.
You can have a corporate CEO head meet with a prime minister president.
None of those rules that would happen if they did it the traditional route would apply at this Davos meeting.
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.
And I got to say, you've got to be so proud.
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.
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.
It's literally, it brings back what people were inspired by journalism for.
It makes people have faith in journalism again.
I was just so happy to see it.
And Rebel News deserves every award, journalistic award possible for that.
But sadly, I don't think you'll get a single one from the mainstream or establishment or corporate media.
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.
So kudos to you.
And yes, I'm jealous of what you achieved.
I'm in awe.
Thank you.
Well, Mark, that's high praise from you because you've been to so many of these things.
But you're right.
And I want to take a moment to give a shout out to our behind the scenes team.
Me and Callum Smiles and Calvin Robinson were on TV.
But you're right.
We had a couple of cameramen.
We had that special camera that made it look like we had a bird's eye view.
I mean, just let me just throw one little detail for folks who are curious.
Like when we were walking with Greta Tunberg for 20 minutes, which was quite something, our two cameramen were walking backwards the whole time.
Like imagine walking on a snowy street backwards, not bumping, not falling.
Like that, that is physically demanding.
It was very hard work for our camera people.
And then to edit it and get it out, it really was a team effort.
So thank you for your praise.
I want to share that praise with our behind the scenes team.
We had seven people there.
And yes, even finding them, like Albert Boorla, you know, if you didn't catch him as he was walking out of the secured zone, he would have walked right by.
So to spot these folks was an effort too.
So thank you for your praise.
It was a logistical effort, but it was a great pleasure.
And I hope that we'll go back next year.
You're Either Friend or Enemy00:02:54
I'm a little bit worried they're going to try and make it stricter.
But I have to say, Swiss authorities seem pretty freedom-oriented.
Mark, I don't know if you know this, but we were stopped twice by police road checks.
And I was ready for a big brawl like we have been in other jurisdictions.
But I would just say, look, freedom of the press.
And the cops would sort of wave us through.
And in the city also, the police were very much present, but they just didn't intervene.
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.
I think the Swiss police actually care about civil liberties and do not see themselves as a political force.
It was actually quite wonderful, just for that little detail.
Anyhow, Mark, thanks for the comments on that.
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 Dava.
So be ready.
But I don't know if they succeed, but they're certainly going to try.
They just might.
They have a disdain.
Here, let me just throw a quick clip in here.
I don't know if you saw this.
There was another citizen journalist from Japan named Masako Ganaha, I think was her last name.
And she managed to find Klaus Schwab.
She waited outside a hotel for like three hours in the cold.
He came out.
He was going to dinner.
And she asked him.
And he said to her, he turned around and said, what outlet are you with?
And as if something turned on the answer.
And when she said she was independent, he laughed at her and turned away.
Here, take a look at that.
Yeah.
Jeremy and Schwab.
Chairman Schwab, I'm from Japan.
May I ask you for, I'm from Japan?
Yeah.
And may I ask you for a comment?
No, we're on our way.
We're on our way to the next thing.
We're a bit late.
I think we're going to rush.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
Which media are you with?
I am an independent journalist.
I have to ask for a question.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you. Thank you.
Just one more.
One question.
That shows the disdain that the World Economic Forum has for anyone who's not part of their team.
They don't even respect, there's no transparency.
You're either a friend or an enemy.
A friend is someone who pays the money and bends the knee.
Anyone else is an enemy.
I thought that little video by Masako was one of the most telling things I saw all week.
And it's telling, I saw that.
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.
It's fine.
And they fear the small, independent, unaffiliated, you know, grassroots journalism.
Private Jets vs. Public Concerns00:08:49
That tells you everything you need to know about what's wrong with the mainstream media of the world today, globally speaking.
They're there to protect the powerful, not hold them to account.
What a flip from the 1960s and 70s when you had people like Jane Fonda and the media heralding the Pentagon Papers showing that the U.S. government lied about the Vietnam War.
So they don't think they'd lie about COVID or terrorism or climate?
I don't understand what happened to this.
What happened to these great progressives?
The merger of big media and big government is shocking.
Well, listen, I know your focus.
You're interested in a lot of things, but your focus really is the environment.
And I want to show you two clips from John Kerry.
Now, the first was actually when we encountered John Kerry.
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.
But my colleague Callum Smiles put a question to him.
Here, I'll play the whole clip for you to see.
Take a look.
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?
I'd love to talk about it, but I just can't do it on the road.
Justify being here.
Do you yourself take private jets?
Can you answer that?
But you're taking a private jet before.
No, but you're taking a private jet before to collect the climate change award.
You have done that.
I fly commercial exclusively.
I fly commercial exclusively.
Well, we know that's not true in the past.
He famously flies on private jets.
And when asked about it, he said it's because he's very, very, very important.
Do you think he has changed that?
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?
Okay, I think what this is the equivalent of is asking a lifelong smoker, well, you smoke a lot of cigarettes.
And I was like, nope, I don't smoke at all anymore.
And I think what that means is they've given up for like 72 hours and they're bragging that they quit.
There was no scrutiny on his timelines.
He said he flies exclusively.
What does that mean?
The last month, I bet he flew to the Davos on a commercial because he was probably prepared for that after the humiliation he's received.
And also, many other people in the United States, our transportation secretary, Pete Buttigiegs, as airlines were shut down for the first time since 9-11 due to computer glitches, has been flying private.
So there's been a lot of focus on the hypocrisy of this.
So the question is, is John Kerry doing this just recently?
And will he continue?
I don't know if he's capable.
This is a man who was once asked about how many houses he owned because he married the catch-up heiress, Teresa Hines.
He wasn't even able to add up when he was running for president.
wasn't even able to add up how many homes that he owned uh so i it's so easy to forget mark It's so easy to forget one or two.
Give the guy a break.
You know, he's quite a character, and he really does believe he's part of a different stratum of society.
And by the way, Mark, you've got to come with us next year.
It's just amazing.
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.
That's all there was.
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.
I've never seen anything like him.
And we were there for about an hour.
Every 10 minutes, another private plane came in.
Like, it's just, it really was incredible.
There must have been a thousand private aircraft.
I've saw reports of over a thousand private jets.
And it's not just jets.
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.
So these events, and it's just like the UN.
When I was in Shoymel Sheikh, Egypt back in November, I think there were 400 private jets were flown in.
And interestingly enough, despite the UN's push for insect eating and the World Economics Forum pushed 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.
So it's just, that's another example.
That's an important one because the World Economic Forum loves insect eating.
That's all they push.
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.
Yeah, we couldn't find any of that in town.
And I should say the only green vehicles we saw were Uber was having a promotion.
They were promoting themselves.
And so there were Uber Teslas in town, specially brought in just for Davos.
So you could get a Tesla Uber.
In fact, I myself wrote in one.
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.
No joking around with electric vehicles for the VVIPs, just the fun demo green Ubers for the, you know, just as a showpiece.
Anyway, I want to show you one more clip, and this is highlighted on your webpage, climatepot.com.
I mean, John Kerry is an unusual guy.
He's had so much plastic surgery.
Like, he really has changed his look so many times.
I mention that because he says a very funny thing about comparing the World Economic Forum elite to extraterrestrials.
And I can't help but think of his plan.
You know, I'm not insulting him.
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.
Let's play the clip and we'll come right back.
Take a look.
And when you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we, 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.
I mean, it's so almost extraterrestrial to think about, quote, saving the planet.
If you said that to most people, most people, they think you're just a crazy tree-hugging, lefty, liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.
And there's no relationship.
But really, that's where we are.
So there's a special elite of people who are very, very special.
They care about things much more than you and I.
And it's like an extraterrestrial coming to save the planet.
He really thinks he's that guy.
He really, I mean, if he was a religious man, I suppose he would talk about being godlike or saving humanity.
But I don't think he's particularly a man of faith.
So he talks about it in ET language.
I think it's all about him, and I don't think it's about the world.
I think it's all about him feeling important.
You're absolutely right.
Even Klaus Schwab has said, we will, it's us here in this room get to decide the future.
This is, we will basically be the forces of the future.
And what John Kerry was saying is they're the chosen one.
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.
And his answer was, I am so important.
My work is so important.
I can't be tied down with commercial airline flights and sitting next to a crying baby, basically.
He needs the private jets.
But I'll tell you about this extraterrestrial thing, Ezra.
The Roswell, New Mexico incident here in the United States happened on July 8th, 1947.
And almost nine months to the day later, Al Gore was born in the Columbia Hospital for Women here in the United States.
I'm not drawing anything.
I'm just laying those facts out there that, you know, there might be something to the extraterrestrial aspect of this climate crusade.
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.
Mark, it's great to catch up with you.
Thanks very much.
And who knows?
We've seen you at so many global warming conferences.
Maybe we'll see you next year at the World Economic Forum.
Let me tell you one thing that you might want to consider.
The World Health Organization's annual meeting where they're going to be talking about pandemic policy.
Probably darn, you probably could get credentialed for that one because it's like the UN.
So something to consider.
That's what I'm considering next because that'll give you all the same players merging COVID and climate together.
World Health Summit Insights00:06:45
All right.
Well, we were at the World Health Summit in Berlin a couple months ago, but that sounds like an interesting one.
We'll look into it for sure.
Mark, you take care.
Thanks for fighting the good fight.
Thank you, Ezra, and great work.
Again, just phenomenal.
Thank you for that.
Well, there you have it, Mark Morano with climate depot.com.
Stay with us.
more ahead.
Hey, welcome back.
Some letters.
Ken Hall says, hope you are all escaping winter doldrums and infections.
We are doing well now, but we're sick before Christmas.
I watched the interview with Greta Tunberg last night.
In retrospect, I think in the overall impression, she won.
She laughed them off.
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 women and children.
It would have been better to have one of the female reporters talk to her.
They can ask the hard questions, but if they don't get answers and play to the opposition by their approach, nothing is gained.
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.
Well, fair enough.
And of course, I was one of those guys.
We're not going to choose our journalists based on race or sex.
I'm a Jewish white male, Callum Smiles is a British white guy, and Calvin Robinson is in Canada, we would say black.
In the UK, they used to phrase mixed race.
That's how people talk over there.
So we had some ethnic diversity.
That's irrelevant.
The point that you should care about is the substance of it.
And of course, we're larger than Greta because she is developmentally arrested.
She's the size of a child.
That's her power.
That's her only power.
She doesn't have an intellectual power.
She doesn't even really have a charisma other than reading some lines.
She really is a child actor.
I've rewatched that video several times, and I do not believe that we were mean or bullying in any way.
We obviously didn't swear or push.
We didn't jostle her or block her.
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, Would you like me to go with you?
And she says, No, no, I'm fine with them.
And she was fine with the whole walk.
And at the end, she says, Okay, I'm done now.
Please don't follow me.
And we all say, That's okay.
And then she says, Thank you.
So she certainly didn't like it.
Now, if you're saying the optics of it were bad, well, that's what a scrum looks like.
It's called a scrum because it's reminiscent of a rugby match.
Everyone's trying to get their microphones and cameras there.
But in fact, she was worried for us.
You may have heard her say, watch out, there's a car.
Watch out, there's a step.
So I think you're projecting your own worries onto the situation.
I think Callum Smiles has some funny questions about, you know, where's the global warming?
It's very cold or something like that.
And, you know, Greta actually laughed at those, although I think it was her fake laugh that she used many times.
No, I dispute your thesis that we were bullying or mean.
And the fact that I'm five foot nine and she's five foot nothing is not going to stop us from doing the journalism that the other media won't do.
As I mentioned, there were other media there.
Obviously, they were regular adult-sized people.
They were just asking really stupid questions that weren't even questions.
They were more stenography.
So we were no more bullying than they were.
We were just asking better questions.
Wayne Curry says, Ezra, yes, we're proud of the work Rebel News did in Davos.
Couldn't leave a comment on Rumble.
You had asked that charming lady, Noor bin Laden, which main entities in the world were fighting back against the WEF globalization agenda.
You seemed a bit taken aback by her answer.
It's Rebel News herself, that determined little Japanese journalist, and all the citizen journalists in the world.
It truly is a David versus Goliath struggle.
You mined gold during that trip.
As Mr. Musk said, power to the people.
Well, Wayne, thanks very much for that.
And it was fun to see some big shots like that take notice of our work.
When Noor 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.
I thought, my God, if we're all there is, that's not very much.
I guess I just had hoped there was a bigger answer than independent journalists because it feels pretty small.
We were tiny little ants there.
I mean, there was just, we were so small.
I hope there's a bigger, better answer.
Eldegas 8 says, great coverage in Davos.
Seemed very staged.
Who are you working for, Ezra?
CPC headquarters, Mossad?
Not Canada or its people, that's for sure.
You got to interview all the heavy hitters, eh?
Greta, Albert Burla, just amazing.
No security around any of them.
Just at for a stroll on the streets of Davos.
You are as fake as Pierre Polyev and the CPC.
That's an amazing letter, and I love it.
I'm not sure how Israel works.
I think you said Israel and Mossad or something there.
I don't know how that fits into it.
I can't think of any connection.
I'm sorry.
You saw Greta had a security guard.
They made us wait two hours.
There were dozens of journalists.
Most of them went away after two hours.
There was a handful of us left, and I just asked more and better questions than the losers in the regime media.
And there were police and security everywhere.
If you saw my video on Greta, you saw all the police with submachine guns.
It was actually sort of amazing.
Like I said earlier on the show, the police in Switzerland have a very light touch.
And why would the police get involved if all I was doing was asking questions?
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.
And I had interactions with a number of them.
Why would you think that the police would stop me from asking questions?
That's not how they do it in Switzerland, and it shouldn't be how they do it in Canada.
And generally, it's not, actually.
So I just think that question is sort of a really weird question that says more about you than about us.
I think we did great journalism, and I can hardly wait to do more.
And to think that the CEO of Pfizer would go through some staged event.
That was the worst media day in his life.
He has never been held to account that way in his life.
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.
If you think that somehow controlled opposition, I think you got a screw loose, brother.