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

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Episode Overview

Podcast: Rebel News Podcast
Host: Ezra Levant
Title: We're back at WEF to expose what the global elites don't want you to see
Date: January 20, 2026

Ezra Levant and the Rebel News team return to Switzerland to provide on-the-ground coverage of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. Their stated aim is to scrutinize the actions—and contradictions—of global elites gathered at this exclusive summit, particularly their influence on global political and economic agendas. The episode features insights from previous years, lively airport observations, historical interviews with high-profile attendees, and a focus on accountability, transparency, and the often-hypocritical lifestyles of WEF delegates.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The World Economic Forum: Influence, Not Power

• WEF’s Significance and Attendees

  • High concentration of world leaders, oligarchs, business magnates, and NGOs, with significant G20 attendance and the expected arrival of Donald J. Trump.
  • Influence extends to both sides of the political spectrum and includes major figures like Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland.
  • Notable presence of AI and tech companies.
  • “Where some powerful people go, other powerful people attend too, or those seeking power.” (Ezra Levant, 01:30)

• Klaus Schwab’s Changing Role

  • Schwab somewhat sidelined after scandals but the WEF itself is “more powerful than ever.”
  • The WEF is not a legislative body but wields vast influence by providing a space where “socialist globalist talking points” are worked out and broadcast globally.
  • “To say that the World Economic Forum has power is not accurate, but it has enormous influence, if you understand the difference.” (Ezra Levant, 04:08)

Hypocrisy & Elitism: Private Jets and Climate Rhetoric

• Elites’ Contradictory Behaviour

  • Detailed description of the private jet airport serving the WEF: one private jet for every four delegates.
  • “Can you imagine? These are the folks telling you and me to live a smaller carbon footprint.” (Ezra Levant, 08:54)
  • Delegates often fly from nearby Swiss cities, exemplifying what they see as hypocrisy, e.g., a private jet from Geneva to Alton Rhein.
  • “Flying a private jet from Geneva to Alton Rhine... That would be like driving your car one block to the convenience store.” (Ezra Levant, 17:46)

• Airport Scene & Security

  • Colorful recounting of the team’s experience at Alten Rhein private airport, observing VIP arrivals, limousines, and heavy military presence, especially for the Lithuanian delegation.
  • “I can't imagine a more carbon intensive lifestyle. But that's how the rulers of the universe operate.” (Abi Amini, 10:46)

The WEF as a ‘Crypto-Government’

• Lack of Accountability
  • Contrasted with democratic systems, WEF meetings are closed-door, off-record, with no transparency or opposition.
  • “There’s no official opposition to Klaus Schwab. There’s no lobbyist registry. There’s no question period. There’s no transcript of these meetings. So in that way, it’s a kind of crypto government.” (Ezra Levant, 07:08)
  • Deals—especially geopolitical—are suspected of being brokered in secrecy.

The Cost & Experience of Independent Journalism

• Describing Their Mission
  • Levant emphasizes that Rebel News is “among the only independent journalists” at Davos, contrasted with “regime journalists” who pay for privileged access.
  • Cost of coverage is high, with Airbnb prices multiplying during WEF week.
  • “People really associate covering Davos with Rebel News, and we’re proud to do that.” (Ezra Levant, 25:40)

Scrumming the Elites: Highlight Interviews

• Confrontational Reporting
  • Replay of scrums and direct questioning with figures like Larry Fink (BlackRock) and Albert Bourla (Pfizer), with both refusing to engage or answer.
  • These segments are presented as evidence of lack of transparency and avoidance of accountability.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On WEF Influence vs. Power:
  “Power is a parliament can order a law, a policeman can arrest you. That’s power. But influence is who’s whispering into the ears of the powerful people? That’s the World Economic Forum.”
  — Ezra Levant, [04:08]

• On Private Jet Hypocrisy:
  “These are the folks telling you and me to live a smaller carbon footprint.”
  — Ezra Levant, [08:54]

• On the Event’s Secrecy:
  “So in that way, it’s a kind of crypto government. Like I said before, they don’t have actual power. They have tremendous influence.”
  — Ezra Levant, [07:08]

• On Interacting with Elites:
  “The CEO of BlackRock... is a full out socialist who believes that it’s easier to influence things and to inject socialism into companies from the inside than on the outside... Larry Fink has done more socialism through the tools of being an investor than any socialist, I suppose, since Lenin.”
  — Ezra Levant, [02:14]

• Confrontation with Larry Fink (BlackRock):
  “Is the next four years gonna be bad for business with Donald Trump in charge? Is peace the last thing you want on this world? Which makes more money for you? War in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine?”
  — Ezra Levant, [21:06]

• Confrontation with Albert Bourla (Pfizer):
  “Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?... Are you not ashamed of what you’ve done?”
  — Ezra Levant, [23:40]
  “Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?”
  — Abi Amini, [23:53]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:38 | Ezra Levant describes the arduous journey to Davos; sets the episode’s context | | 02:14 | Discussion about the political affiliations and motives of corporate giants | | 03:47 | Analysis of WEF as an “idea shop” for globalist policies (“build back better,” Great Reset) | | 07:08 | Comparison of democratic institutions with WEF’s lack of transparency and accountability | | 08:54 | Critique of elite carbon footprints (private jets vs. climate advocacy) | | 09:37 | On-the-ground reporting at the private jet airport; delegates’ privileged arrivals | | 13:38 | Commentary on the cost of being in Davos and the lifestyle disparity | | 17:46 | Highlighting egregious jet travel (e.g., Geneva to Alton Rhein) | | 19:43 | Reflecting on scrum interviews—elites avoiding hard questions | | 19:57 | Confrontation with Larry Fink (BlackRock), refusing questions | | 22:36 | Commentary on avoidance and physical intimidation from BlackRock’s security | | 22:58 | Confrontational questioning of Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla | | 25:40 | Reflections on the exclusivity and ‘club’ atmosphere at Davos | | 27:13 | End of content; fundraising appeal |

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Tone and Language

• Tone: Determined, skeptical, provocatively confrontational, and sometimes sardonic.
• Language: Conversational, informal, sometimes playful (referring to delegates as “masters of the universe”) but with pointed critiques of hypocrisy and exclusivity.

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Additional Observations

• Experience of Ordinary Attendees: The sheer expense and logistical difficulty of attending the WEF is described as emblematic of how detached the event is from ordinary people—a symbolic club for elites.
• Role of Media: “Regime journalists” are distinguished from independent reporters, with the former depicted as complicit in the event’s secrecy and uncritical in their questioning.
• Commitment to Coverage: The episode closes with a promise for more confrontational on-the-ground coverage in the days ahead, as well as a subtle fundraising nudge for the costs incurred.

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Conclusion

This episode provides a critical, sometimes combative examination of the World Economic Forum from an outsider’s perspective. Through vivid descriptions, direct interviews, and an emphasis on exposing hypocrisy, Rebel News positions itself as an independent watchdog aiming to challenge the narratives shaped by global elites in Davos.

Transcript

[Ezra Levant]

Foreign. Tonight, Rebel News is at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. I'll give you the latest. It's January 19th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.

[Abi Amini]

Shame on you, you sensori.

[Ezra Levant]

Oh, hi everybody. The sun sets at 5pm out here in the Swiss Alps, so that's why it's dark out. We traveled a great distance from Toronto, flying to Zurich, Switzerland, driving up to Klosters, the town we're in now. And then the train, the last distance to Davos, the site of the annual World Economic Forum conference that they have every January. Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, sort of pushed to the sidelines after a series of scandals, including sexual scandals and of course financial mismanagement. Isn't it a shame? Who would have thunk it? However, while the World Economic Forum has had some rocky times for its founder, in some ways it's never done better. I was looking at the guest list for this year's World Economic Forum and so many world leaders are here, including plans to attend by Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States. Mark Carney, of course, is attending. He was a director of the World Economic Forum for years, as was Chrystia Freeland. But there's at least half a dozen countries that we would call G20 countries. When we were at the airport, the private jet airport, we saw a government jet land from Lithuania, which I didn't see on the, on the guest list. So there's all sorts of people, meaning, and that's the thing where some powerful people go, other powerful people attend to, or those seeking power. There's all sorts of NGOs here, mainly on the left, some on the right, if there's such a thing. And of course there's a lot of business barons.

[Abi Amini]

It's a mistake, I suppose, a childish.

[Ezra Levant]

Mistake to think that business people are right wing, that if you use capitalism to make money, you believe in the capitalist system. I don't think so. I mean, think of George Soros, who is perhaps the most effective socialist, perhaps even communist in the world. He's made tens of billions of dollars using the capitalist system, but he would undermine and devour that system to promulgate his extreme ideas. So there are for example, the CEO of BlackRock, which has I think $20 trillion under management. He is a full out socialist who believes that it's easier to influence things and to inject socialism into companies from the inside than on the outside. Just remember how Larry Fink and BlackRock work. They invest in companies. They might put 10 million or $100 million into a company and they'll say, well, as shareholders, we now demand that you implement dei Diversity, equity and inclusion in a corporate setting. They have different initials, esg, Environmental, social and Governance. But Larry Fink has done more socialism through the tools of being an investor than any socialist, I suppose, since Lenin. So you have this strange mix of people. And a lot of tech people here too. Not elon Musk, but OpenAI, a lot of artificial intelligence companies. Palantir is here every year. So it's such a weird and interesting mix.

[Abi Amini]

And the thing that of course caught.

[Ezra Levant]

My interest at first when we started coming to the World Economic Forum about five years ago, was that it was obviously an idea shop where socialist globalist talking points got hammered out and then all the world leaders would sort of leave here parroting the same phrase. I mean, where do you think the phrase build back better came from? Or the great reset? These are subjects of entire conference meetings here at the World Economic Forum. They're not actual legislatures. So to say that the World Economic Forum has power is not accurate, but it has enormous influence, if you understand the difference. Power is a parliament can order a law, a policeman can arrest you. That's power. But influences. Who's whispering into the ears of the powerful people? That's the World Economic Forum. And I have to say, based on the guest list, they're actually more powerful than ever. I thought they were waning in importance because Donald Trump had made obsolete so many of their projects, like for example, global warming. Donald Trump is going full tilt with all sorts of energy creation, but they're adaptable. I mean, at the end of the day they're, they're self interested. And all these oligarchs, these vvips, as I call them, they'll go, they'll follow the buffalo, so to speak. And if the money is in arms manufacturing or if the money's in AI, they'll follow the money. I think they realize that iconoclast bulls in the China shop like Elon Musk are a threat to their systems. And they despise Elon Musk almost as much as they despise Donald Trump. But still, they'd love to do business with them, wouldn't they? This year, I think that at the, I mean, we haven't gone there yet. We started the day with a visit to the private jet air airfield where all these vvips come in. There's a lot of fog there today, so we only saw a few planes land. But one of the things that I think is on the mind of delegates. We'll know for sure as the week unfolds, are geopolitics. The Ukraine, the government of Ukraine always had a pavilion here where they would make the case against Russia and the case for Western support. But now with Donald Trump and his ambitions in Greenland and his moves in Venezuela and a potential war in Iran, geopolitics, I think, is suddenly thrust to the forefront. And you can see that in the guest list too. All the NATO communities, countries, including the leader of NATO who is here. Anyway, so it's going to be a very interesting week. And I'm here with my Australian colleague, Abi Amini. We left Calgary. Sorry, I left Toronto and then flew to Zurich and I did that route I listed to you. Well, Abi had to leave Melbourne, Australia, fly to Abu Dhabi and then from there to Zurich and there to take the car and the train. It's just I can't even imagine his 30 plus hour journey. But we do it every year because we are perhaps, if not the only, certainly one of the only independent journalists are here. By that I mean there are always regime journalists who are here who pay 50 grand, 100 grand, 200 grand to be part of the World Economic Forum and they get pride of placement and they get to emcee big panels with fancy VIPs. I mean, here's an example of how it works. So let's say you had various world leaders on a panel that's enormously prestigious to be the moderator of that panel, all right? 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. That's one of the ways that influence and connection and closeness to power has been monetized by Klaus Schwab over the years. I hear he makes hundreds of millions of dollars. Every one of these get togethers in Davos, and you can see it, everyone wants to be the center of the action, center of the power and center of the money. But who's there to represent ordinary people? Now that question is partly answered in a regular democracy with checks and balances. Think of our Canadian government. We have House of Commons and we have a Senate which can slow down at least the House of Commons. We have checks and balances in the form of the court system. We have, 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, there's all sorts of ways we try to democratize our system of power in Canada. None of those things happen here. There's no official opposition to Klaus Schwab. There's no lobbyist registry. There's no question, period. There's no transcript of these meetings. So in that way, it's a kind of crypto government. Like I said before, they don't have actual power. They have tremendous influence. But they are a policy shop, they are a lobbying shop. 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. 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. We flew commercial. We told you the route we took. But there's actually one private jet for every four delegates on average here at the World Economic Forum. Can you imagine? These are the folks telling you and me to live a smaller carbon footprint.

[Abi Amini]

We went there today, but there was.

[Ezra Levant]

A lot of fog, so much fog, I was worried no planes would land. And indeed, when we got there at the airport, that's what they told us. Nonetheless, we did see a Lithuanian military craft land with an enormous security detail. Let me show you a little bit from our trip to the airport, the private airport preferred by the private jet class. Here, take a look. Ezra Levant here, along with my colleague Avi Amini. We're at the Alten Rhein Airport.

[Abi Amini]

It's a small private airport in Switzerland that's the closest to the Davos World Economic Forum Conference. This is not a commercial airport like.

[Ezra Levant]

Zurich or Geneva, where you can get.

[Abi Amini]

A flight from Toronto or Melbourne. This is a private jet airport. 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. And some of them fly in a.

[Ezra Levant]

Jet here and then take a helicopter.

[Abi Amini]

For the last part of the journey.

[Ezra Levant]

To Davos to tell the rest of.

[Abi Amini]

Us, reduce your carbon footprint.

[Ezra Levant]

Don't eat so much meat, turn down.

[Abi Amini]

Your thermostat in the winter. Now, it's super foggy here now. So I don't know if they've temporarily paused landing the aircraft. On our way in, we saw about six aircraft parked here. One of the things that do is they land here, disgorge their vvips, take off again, and park at another airport.

[Ezra Levant]

Where there's more room.

[Abi Amini]

So understand what they do. They fly in a private jet from let's say, London to this Alton Run private airport, let off their vvips and they don't park. They go on another flight to park, then they take a flight back to.

[Ezra Levant]

Pick up their vvips and go.

[Abi Amini]

I can't imagine a more carbon intensive lifestyle. But that's how the rulers of the universe operate.

[Lincoln J]

Over the last five years that we've been here, we've recorded their carbon footprint, 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. And, you know, I was wondering on the way up here, will this be the year that they finally practice what they preach? And as we're driving in, the reaction you were having to see, seeing that many private jets parked here, showing us that this year, in fact, if anything, it possibly has more jets than ever.

[Abi Amini]

You know, it's sort of fun to be a plane spotter.

[Ezra Levant]

And I don't know if we can.

[Abi Amini]

Pick it up on the camera. This plastic window, this private airport is so media friendly, I gotta give them.

[Ezra Levant]

A big thank you.

[Abi Amini]

I don't know if Air Force One is gonna land here. If this is not high security enough, I don't know how he's getting here.

[Lincoln J]

I heard it's via Greenland.

[Abi Amini]

I'm not sure there's some. So many private aircraft that come in.

[Ezra Levant]

Here in the one week of Davos.

[Abi Amini]

It'S enough to keep the lights on.

[Lincoln J]

Well, I think it's worth mentioning that when we were physically walking into this small complex, this is a very tiny airport, you saw three or four VIP drivers waiting to take their passengers in the black limos.

[Abi Amini]

And it's a tiny airport. And I don't know if you saw.

[Ezra Levant]

It on the way in.

[Abi Amini]

We'll film it on the way out. They have sort of a welcome Davos delegates with some free snacks, as if they're not having free snacks on the private jets. 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.

[Ezra Levant]

Else to go, or they are waiting.

[Abi Amini]

For a jet that is about to arrive in the next, I don't know, half an hour. I saw a statistic that one out of four delegates at Davos flies private. One out of four, that's a stunning thing. I don't think one in 10,000 normal.

[Ezra Levant]

People fly private, but for these folks.

[Abi Amini]

It'S one in four.

[Ezra Levant]

I remember when Greta Thunberg came and we scrummed her and she was actually.

[Abi Amini]

She spent 20 minutes with us. She gave us no useful answers. But she was with us for 20 minutes. She didn't have a script ready. She didn't know what to say.

[Lincoln J]

She'd never had a useful answer, just by the way.

[Abi Amini]

Well, and I asked her if she had ever flown in a private jet.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Have you ever been on a private jet? Even once?

[Lincoln J]

I own 100 private jets.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Well, have you been on. How about once? Have you ever been on a private jet?

[Lincoln J]

All the time?

[Ezra Levant]

Yes.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

I wonder why you won't answer me in a straight answer.

[Lincoln J]

We didn't fly private. Ezra wouldn't pay for that jet. But wefreports.com you can catch all our reports all week and help fund our economy class tickets to get here. And our economy Airbnb, which if you looked at the price tag, doesn't feel economy. 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.

[Ezra Levant]

Yeah.

[Abi Amini]

Special thanks to Alton Ryan Airport for being so accommodating for us. We'll stick around for a while and see if we can catch any planes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 BMWs and Mercedes. Who are the VVIPS here? About 10 staff and about 10 vehicles pulled up here, including police. Here comes one cop right now.

[Lincoln J]

How are ya?

[Abi Amini]

Who's coming and going?

[Ezra Levant]

Do you know.

[Lincoln J]

It looks like they're about to pick somebody up. They're preparing to pick somebody up. And this is quite a large combo.

[Abi Amini]

Oh, you know what? This is the kind of thing you would see for maybe a prime minister. And remember, there's a lot of military on the, on the highways around here too. It's a very. I mean, think about it.

[Ezra Levant]

Donald Trump alone.

[Abi Amini]

When that man moves, you have an enormous security blanket.

[Ezra Levant]

Who are you picking up?

[Abi Amini]

Do you know?

[Ezra Levant]

I don't know.

[Abi Amini]

You don't know? Are you sure?

[Ezra Levant]

I don't know.

[Abi Amini]

I'm sorry. No, that's okay. I had to ask. Those are nice cars. Which one do you.

[Ezra Levant]

Is that.

[Abi Amini]

Is that the one you drive there? Oh, yeah.

[Ezra Levant]

All three.

[Abi Amini]

Oh, yeah. Looks nice.

[Lincoln J]

Are they all electric? Not electric, no.

[Ezra Levant]

These are real cars.

[Abi Amini]

You need real power on the mountain road. Not electric. You need real cars.

[Lincoln J]

Did you just tell her to come here?

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Prepare. You don't know what for.

[Lincoln J]

You're either very good at keeping secrets.

[Ezra Levant]

Or I'm a good mama.

[Abi Amini]

That was a military aircraft built for long hauls.

[Ezra Levant]

Fascinating.

[Abi Amini]

Well, our keen eyed, eagle eyed videographer, Lincoln J, identified the military Aircraft as being from Lithuania with checks out. I mean, Lithuania, of course is a small country, a former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It was part of the Soviet Union and it is now in really in the front line. The Baltics and Russia are in a kind of a military. I don't know, I wouldn't call it a standoff. But both sides have done a little saber rattling. It's not surprising that if that is the head of Lithuania that he's got such a security retinue.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

What do you think?

[Lincoln J]

We're speculating here, but it all fits. And look at the kind of entourage he's got and the kind of the convoy that's going to be taken led by police.

[Abi Amini]

Here's something else to think about. Donald Trump is coming to town. And so imagine all the NATO countries wanting to have a sit down with them and they have a beautiful welcome area with fresh fruit and juices. And then some of the prestige newspapers that are members of the World Economic Forum, they have special editions. Here's the New York Times. How do you feed 10 billion people sustainably? Here's the Financial Times. We're here to discuss global needs. Here's Barron's. Some attend summits. We move mountains. So it's a major propaganda exercise because there's so many vvips here. Journalists are here sure to interview them, but in softball interviews. But it's a kind of off the record lobbying event. There's no lobbyist registry. Nothing is on the record. So a lot of deals are being done behind the scenes. There's different layers to the World Economic Forum. There's the ideology being forced on the rest of us. But there's billions of dollars of deals cooked up and I guess they roll out the red carpet for the private jet class. I went on the website FlightAware.com, which is a very interesting way to track flights in and out of any airport. And let me to you some of the flights that have landed here when it wasn't too foggy just today. So the last private jet that landed came from Geneva. Just stop and think about that for a second. Geneva is in Switzerland. You could drive it. But two people flew in a jet from Geneva to Alton Rhein. I don't know how many thousands of liters of jet fuel they burn. That would be like driving your car one block to the convenience store. Flying a private jet from Geneva to Alton Rhine, just incredible. I see flights from Al Maktoum, which I believe is in the United Arab Emirates, from London, Luton Airport, from Boca Raton California from Speyer. I don't know where that is. I'm going to guess Germany or Austria. Nuremberg, Vienna, Oxford, Berlin, London. The Royal Air Force Northoltz suggesting that a senior person from the UK came on at Farnborough Airfield. Same thing. My point is that there are so many flights coming and we just were not able to see them during the fog. And three people told us that it was the fog that was delaying the mass arrival. I can understand why the Prime Minister or President of Lithuania needs to come for security reasons in a private aircraft. That makes sense to me. I think for most of the others flying private jets, I think it's just.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

They can afford it.

[Abi Amini]

Why wouldn't they? It's not like they're going to live the lifestyle that they prescribe to the rest of us. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

[Ezra Levant]

Well, I wish I could have shown you more private planes, but it was just so foggy. And I was using a website called.

[Abi Amini]

I think it was flight monitor.

[Ezra Levant]

There's FlightAware. That'[e-mail]. it's a pretty cool website. If you actually are curious, you can go there and see where every plane in the world is. You can search by tail number, you can search by airline, by route. You can even just look at an airport. So I looked at the airport and I saw all the flights that were coming and going and planned and it's pretty amazing. But of course things stop when it's super foggy. But tomorrow we're going to get up at the crack of dawn, even before dawn. Dawn here is about 7am, sunset's about 5pm so there's only about 10 hours of working sunlight, it being the wintertime, we're going to get to Davos just after, I'm going to guess, 7:30, and we're going to get to work right away. And you know what we do? We try and scrum oligarchs as we see them walking down the street. Some of them have meaningful conversations with us. Many of them just run away.

[Abi Amini]

It sort of bothers me when they.

[Ezra Levant]

Do because these are smart people. I mean, we may disagree with them and they may be diabolical, some of them may be downright evil. But I think, for example, of all the questions I put to Larry Fink of Blackrock last year, he absolutely could have answered them.

[Abi Amini]

In fact, he could have answered them.

[Ezra Levant]

With a slam dunk that made me sort of look dumb. But instead he just refused to answer questions from a ruffian like me. Here's a clip of that. Mr. Fink, are you going to follow Donald Trump's plan and get rid of DEI and ESG in your companies? BlackRock really is the opposite of Donald Trump in so many ways. You're authoritarian, you're anti populist, you're top down.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Are you going to change it all.

[Ezra Levant]

In light of the US Presidency?

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

How is Donald Trump? Have you talked to Donald Trump since he was elected? Is the World Economic Forum a counterpoint to Donald Trump? Why are you running away from simple questions? Just answer a question. Have you talked to President Trump yet?

[Ezra Levant]

Why are your.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Why are your bodyguards pushing away journalists, Mr. Fink?

They're simple questions. Is it that hard to answer a question that you need bodyguards and to swerve through traffic? Is the next four years gonna be bad for business with Donald Trump in charge? Is peace the last thing you want on this world?

Which makes more money for you? War in Ukraine or peace in Ukraine? Ezra levant's my name.

Mr. Fink, did you just take a photo of you?

Am I supposed to be scared?

[Ezra Levant]

Is that a threat?

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Mr. Fink, are you used to bullying your way through life?

[Ezra Levant]

No, no, no, no, no.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Is that how you've lived your entire life without having. Look at this. Push back, mate. Don't push me, bro. Don't push me.

When was the last time you answered a question that you didn't know was coming? Why are you so unaccountable? Isn't that what you love about the World Economic Forum? You control everything.

Why do you think you deserve so much power? Hey, Avi. Mini. Should I be scared now?

Which of your former directors do you want to run Canada? Mark Carney or Christia Freeland?

What? What are you getting violent for, man? I could push just like you can.

[Ezra Levant]

Hey.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Look at these thugs. They fund wars around the world and then you question them. They try not only to intimidate you, but physically assault you.

What's with taking photos of journalists who.

[Ezra Levant]

Ask you prickly questions? Or a couple years ago, our most famous interview with Albert Bourla, the CEO of of Pfizer. Of course he had answers to all of our questions. I wasn't the first one to ever raise those issues. I was just the first one to raise it to him personally. And for some reason, it was offensive to him that someone did tell me he couldn't have answered these questions. Take a look.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Mr. Borlak, can I ask you, when did you know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission? How long did you know that without saying it publicly? Thank you very much. I'm sorry for that question. I mean, we now know that the vaccines didn't stop transmission. But why did you keep it secret? You said it was 100% effective, then 90%, then 80%, then 70%. But we now know that the vaccines do not trans stop transmission. Why did you keep that secret?

[Lincoln J]

Have a nice day.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

I won't have a nice day until I know the answer. Why did you keep it a secret that your vaccine did not stop transmission?

Is it time to apologise to the world, sir? To give refunds back to the countries that poured all their money into your vaccine? That doesn't work, your ineffective vaccine. Are you not ashamed of what you've done in the last couple years?

[Abi Amini]

Do you have any apologies to the public, sir?

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Are you proud of it? You've made millions on the backs of people's tire livelihoods.

[Lincoln J]

How does that feel?

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

To walk the streets as a millionaire on the backs of the regular person at home in Australia, in England, in Canada?

What do you think about on your yacht, sir? What do you think about on your private jet?

[Abi Amini]

Are you worried about product liability?

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Are you worried about myocarditis?

What about the sudden deaths?

What do you have to say about young men dropping dead of heart attacks every day? Why won't you answer these basic questions?

[Abi Amini]

No apologies, sir.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Do you think you should be charged criminally for Albert? For some of the criminal behavior you've obviously been a part of?

How much money have you personally made off the vaccine?

How many boosters do you think it'll take for you to be happy enough with your earnings? Nothing.

Who did you meet with here in secret? Will you disclose who you met with? Who did you pay commissions to? In the past, Pfizer has paid $2.3 billion in fines for deceptive marketing. Have you engaged in that same conduct again? Yeah.

[Ezra Levant]

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. This is a very fancy club and you're not part of it. And if a citizen journalist manages to sneak in and get a question to a prince, well, they're more offended than anything. That's why we're doing it. We've done it every year. And I think people really associate covering Davos with rebel news, and we're proud to do that. I want to say we are crowdfunding our trip, as always. This is a very humble Airbnb, the kind of place that would all four of us are staying here. The kind of place that would probably cost, I don't know, $300 a night in any normal season, but I'd have to check. It's about 5,000. I think it works out to about $25,000 for the week. We're here because of the World Economic Forum. They literally multiply by 10 or more by 20 the price, because every one of the hotel rooms in the whole region is bought up, every hotel room, every Airbnb. They just simply sop them up. And you can't blame local homeowners. In fact, last year the local homeowners 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. And I know that sounds insane, but there's simply no other way to get. We're not even in Davos, I remind you, we're in Kloster's, a train ride away. 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. Like they walk around without security, without assistance, because they think they're in this protected.

[Ezra Levant (interviewer role)]

Getaway.

[Ezra Levant]

And they pretty much are until we show up. If you can help me cover the cost of our journey in this outrageously priced Airbnb, please do go to wefreports.com on Thursday night at 7pm Eastern Time, 5pm Mountain Time, which is 3am Here, we're going to have a private Zoom town Hall meeting for anyone who chips in 100 bucks or more. And if you've given in our last two emails, you'll be on the invite list. But if you want to help us out, we'll have a private catch up with you on Thursday night at 7pm Eastern time. Anyways, that's the show for today. We're just getting our feet under us. Tomorrow we're going to have so much for you because we're going to spend at least 10 hours walking the streets of Davos. Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Gloucester's, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.