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There are more things in Heaven and Earth that are dreamt of in our philosophy.
In Hamlet, William Shakespeare wrote:
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
I had a moment of realization yesterday about how true Hamlet’s statement is.
Yesterday, I caught the snippet of a discussion between Carol Roth and Glenn Beck on Beck’s radio program. I didn’t have time to fully listen and comprehend, so I had to wait for the podcast of the show to be posted online, last night I went back to confirm what I thought I heard – and say what you want about Beck, he probably knows more about the Great Reset than anyone outside the World Economic Forum (who are trying to make it happen).
Beck has long been derided as a “conspiracy theorist” but these days, a conspiracy theorist is just somebody who is ahead of the curve in revealing what the powerful elites around the world have planned for the rest of us. The Great Reset is no Bilderberger, Rothschild, Tri-Lateral Commission fantasy, this is the World Economic Forum, the UN and the Davos climate crowd doing it out loud and in our faces. They are so bold and so indifferent to government of, for and by the people, they are posting their plans on their own websites for everyone to see.
Nobody needs to make anything up, it is right there. You just have to observe to understand.
You see, I have had too narrow of a view of what is happening.
I sort of touched on it the other day with my post about being wary of the tools used to “sanction” Putin. If you are paying attention, you will see those “tools” didn’t come from government toolboxes, they were largely brought to bear by private entities, acting in partnership with governments.
Remember how the Biden Administration used “public/private partnerships” to push unconstitutional Covid rules the government had no power to institute?
Welp, the Russia/Ukraine sanctions are that on a global scale.
Up until the past few days, I saw the Great Reset as a battle between liberty and freedom against authoritarianism and tyranny, but what is playing out right in front of is a battle between nationalism and globalism.
Look, I think Putin is an angry, megalomaniacal actor who blames the West for the demotion of his beloved Soviet Union from superpower status to an also-ran. If they didn’t have nukes, nobody would be giving them the attention they are getting. I’m not a fan, nor do I think he has any socially redeeming qualities. He would bring the world down if it meant Russia could get its USSR mojo back.
Putin is a reality with which the world must deal, but by any definition, he is undeniably a nationalist. He loves Mother Russia first and foremost.
Donald Trump is also a nationalist. He operates under a different set of rules (the US Constitution) but his MAGA/America First philosophy was a stark break from the run of globalism that largely began in Reagan’s second term and was advanced by H.W. Bush, Clinton, Dub, Obama and now, Obama’s second-string team, the Biden administration.
Xi of China is an interesting case. He is a nationalist as well but is willing to play the game with the UN/WEF/Davos cabal as long as it is in China’s interests. A significant number of China’s communist policies have been readily adopted by the Great Reset folks, namely the idea of ranking companies and individuals using and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governmental) score modeled on China’s social credit scores.
But the reality is that China doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about the UN, NATO, Russia, the US or the EU other than the things they might do to get in the way of China’s ascension to the top of the global pecking order.
China will allow the WEF to believe they are in charge as long as that benefits China.
What is true throughout all of this is that nationalists get in the way of the globalist’s agenda.
The Great Reset crowd doesn’t care about Ukraine or its people, they are trying to stop Putin due to the risk a nationalist Russia poses.
That’s why President Trump had to go. A resurgent, powerful and independent America would toss a real wrench in the plans of every Doctor Evil wannabe inside the World Economic Forum.
I’m not saying Putin should be supported, what I am saying is that the opposition to him has revealed some really strange bedfellows, private actors voluntarily doing things never done before without being forced to do through government action – for goodness sake, the Swiss, the paragon of financial privacy, have fallen in line with the globalists to move against Putin.
A scant twenty years ago, Swiss bankers would have told the world to pound sand if the world demanded the freezing of assets of someone with accounts in Swiss banks.
That is tantamount to giving up a brand. The selling point for banking in Switzerland has always been total secrecy and absolute privacy. Keep in mind that there are still credible theories that there is still Nazi money and gold in private banks in Switzerland.
One would be justified in asking why this change and why now?
You must pause a minute to consider why a banking system comfortable with taking and protecting Nazi money is now suddenly concerned about Russia invading Ukraine – especially since it is highly likely that corrupt heads of Ukrainian companies also have accounts in Swiss banks.
Heck, maybe even Hunter Biden has a few accounts there as well.
My point is that the enemy of your enemy is NOT your friend.
It is perfectly logical to oppose Putin’s actions and yet question the methods used against him (especially when those actions could just as easily be taken against you).
This whole thing stinks to high heaven and while the Great Reset crowd has us all focused on events in Ukraine, they are testing the tools they plan to use to accomplish their dreams of a global economic reset with themselves on top.
There are more questions than answers right now but let us not go into this thinking it is just about Putin – because it isn’t.
Thanks again for your insight! Biden has been using the word “reset” frequently-although the way he reads his speeches, I do not think he knows what he is talking about!
Very nice essay, Michael! I'd only like to add that the December, 2021 issue of Hillsdale Colllege's free monthly magazine (IMPRIMIS) features an essay by Michael Rectenwald entitled "What Is the Great Reset?"
I suspect it is significant that Switzerland has joined in the international lynching because there is real concern that the renminbi will become the world's default currency if the Russia/China/Iran coalition is successful in upending the New World Order so beloved by Klaus Schwab, the Bush family, the Clinton's, and the Obama's.