There Is No Such Thing as The Great Reset

The fact that the title alone will ensure negative reactions from many justifies the reasons for saying it. This new master plan called ‘The Great Reset’ is the newest rave amongst Real Americans as the latest path to the inevitable Revelation 13:16-18, when those predicting the worst can say, “See, I told you so”.

Perhaps it’s time to have an honest, sobering discussion about this ‘reset’, and how it’s affecting many Americans – long before it ever happens, and if it ever happens in the first place.

The Great Reset, we are told, is the concoction of a group of wealthy business people who are members of the World Economic Forum (WEF); henceforth known as the WEF-ers. Their goal (as told by my peers) is that “You will own nothing, and be happy”. We get a steady diet of that, and for dessert, we get the altruistic promise that “…you will eat bugs.” The irony is that I hear, see and read this stuff more from our own side than I have ever heard it from the WEF-ers. Those making these predictions state it with no pre-conditions, no reasoning, and no counter solutions. “It’s gonna happen, and there’s nothing nobody can do about it!” (pardon the ‘Goodfellas’ movie reference).

It’s like we talk about these issues so much, that we are literally talking ourselves into this social construct. What’s worse, many of us (including myself), find ourselves in search of more ‘alternative’ news that reports the same thing. It’s almost like we’re addicted to this and other types of negative narratives. I believe these continuing conversations – the constant consumption of such negative information is contrary to what should be our long-term goals, destructive to the mindset, and absolute poison to the soul. Allow this author the attempt to break us out of this psychosis for a few minutes.

Now, I can just hear the woodpecker-like sounds on keyboards across the realm ready to ‘let me have it’ about why I am wrong, don’t see the big picture, or coming up with counterpoints against what I listed above in order to continue the ongoing narrative. If you are among those, just remember: you’ll be making my point, and in fact, justifying this entire article. Please don’t hit ‘send’ yet.

As I have long since turned off “legacy media”, I now find myself doing the same for the “alternative media”. Although good sources of today’s other news, the constant drum beat of “how bad it’s going to get” has me changing the dial or tuning out altogether. Just think about it: “You’ll own nothing, be happy, eat bugs, “civil war coming”, and we’re all going to die; and please subscribe, hit the ‘like’ button, and sign-up for a monthly subscription so we can give you more of this.”

Does any of this help you sleep better at night? Is this really worth a monthly subscription model?

What we don’t hear – and what we should hear more of – is what we could and should be doing to better secure the future for ourselves and/or our posterity. We should gravitate toward stories and report having a more positive, instructional, or inspirational impact on our lives. And here’s something that may anger some of you: Much of this information isn’t even found on the internet. Either it’s censored, pushed down in the search results, or just doesn’t sell.

Might I suggest a once a week break from all the bad news to relax with a book (i.e. numerous pages of text printed on paper and bound together with thick covers on front and back). If food is going to be in short supply, perhaps we should look into raising our own crops, and even livestock if possible (homesteading); If successful, share this information with others (networking). Instead of ‘owning nothing’, would it be more appropriate to say how many people who are not rich are actually working to own property and increasing its value due to the hard work they are putting into it? Taking something of little value and turning it into something worth much more? I suspect we would learn these are the happier people among us, clearly ignoring all the negative vibes emanating from our camp these days.

I have learned that turning off ‘our own media’ - even for a day at times – puts me in better spirits.

And instead of all this talk about mass death, perhaps we should dedicate some time talking about life; living to improve it; ways on how to survive what some think is coming our way. Oh, and I probably should say this to avoid the in-the-box thing: We need to think in terms beyond the Second Amendment, or the 45^th President (yeah, I said that). We can learn from the past, but we cannot and should not be stuck there. We have to begin to think about the future as a challenge, not a fait accompli.

Instead of living a life in personal lockdown, Prayer and Fellowship can go a long way towards breaking out of this mental and spiritual prison.

In my design/engineering classes, we were taught that when building any structure or device, we first envision the finished product; what we wish it to be, then design in reverse order until we know what foundation we need to get the project started. Over the years, I have learned the same goes for real life, and the challenges ahead. If we can change course by filling our bodies, hearts, minds and souls with Goodness instead of the poison pills we are fed daily, their version of "The Great Reset" would be meaningless to us. And it's best to remember that our Great Reset was provided to us long ago at Calvary.

We get a steady diet of that, and for dessert, we get the altruistic promise that “…you will eat bugs.” The irony is that I hear, see and read this stuff more from our own side than I have ever heard it from the WEF-ers. Those making these predictions state it with no pre-conditions, no reasoning, and no counter solutions. “It’s gonna happen, and there’s nothing nobody can do about it!”

Psst. It's already happening. How else do you suppose hundreds of products made from crickets suddenly exist? It was planned and implemented long before we started talking about it so your statement or worry about us 'talking ourselves into" something doesn't work.

USDA organic doesn't happen overnight with a new food like cricket powder for human consumption.

Fact is, the globalists, UN/WEF etc talked about it, then the MSM started writing articles about it to get people talking about it and then boom, products are for sale in Canada, US, UK and more and have certifications like organic, GMO free etc. That doesn't happen overnight. That means when we first started talking about it, production processes had already been worked out, crickets had already been being farmed, logos designed, facilities built, packaging and distribution lined up.

It seems you have the process a little backwards. By the time we start talking about it, it's well underway and will happen. You don't have to eat bugs. Maybe some day when/if it's the only protein available or affordable to you, you may decide you need the protein to stay healthy and you'll eat zee bugs. Same with me.

And that is what has so many of us concerned to the point of maybe seeming a bit frantic. We realize we have almost zero control over our future and that the future ain't lookin' so bright and in fact is looking as though it may be some dystopian nightmare.

To reiterate, I think it is very sound advice for people to put this stuff down on occasion instead of letting it permeate their being each and every day.

But, like soldier in a combat environment, we don't live in a time where we can relax about this kind of thing.

Lest you think this execrable thought process does not have its fingers around the very throat of our culture, consider this acceptance speech Walter Cronkite gave when presented with the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award. I include the entire speech here for a specific purpose. These are fully his words and sentiments.

And this was more than twenty years ago, but given in his speech that he was approached in the late Forties by Norman Cousins, and he was inclined to accept, but decided to be a "journalist", for what that is worth. This isn't some deathbed conversion to a world dictatorship.

This is Cronkite himself, on video saying these things. These aren't comments taken out of context or made up. This was the man who was regarded by many as the most "trustworthy man in this country". He hobnobbed with high officials in this government including Presidents and the likes of Ted Kennedy, not to mention innumerable others.

REMARKS ON ACCEPTING THE 1999 NORMAN COUSINS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AWARD
by Walter Cronkite

I am greatly honored to receive this Norman Cousins Global Governance Award for two reasons. First, I believe as Norman Cousins did: that the first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

Second, I feel sentimental about this award because half a century ago Norman offered me a job as spokesman and Washington lobbyist for the World Federalist organization, which was then in its infancy.

I chose instead to continue in the world of journalism. For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.

Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

Those of us who are living today can influence the future of civilization. We can influence whether our planet will drift into chaos and violence, or whether through a monumental educational and political effort we will achieve a world of peace under a system of law where individual violators of that law are brought to justice.

For most of this fairly long life I have been an optimist harboring a belief that as our globe shrank, as our communication miracles brought us closer together, we would begin to appreciate the commonality of our universal desire to live in peace and that we would do something to satisfy that yearning of all peoples. Today I find it harder to cling to that hope.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

While we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war, we see no comparable effort to establish a lasting peace. Meanwhile, emphasizing the sloth in this regard, those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.

But the American colonies did it once and brought forth one of the most nearly perfect unions the world has ever seen. The circumstances were vastly different, obviously. While the colonies differed on many questions, at least the people of the colonies were of the same Anglo-Saxon stock. Yet just because the task appears forbiddingly hard, we should not shirk it.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.

I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here. So let's not talk generalities but focus tonight on a few specifics of what the leadership of the World Federalist Movement believe must be done now to advance the rule of world law.

For starters, we can draw on the wisdom of the framers of the US Constitution in 1787. The differences among the American states then were as bitter as differences among the nation-states in the world today.

In their almost miraculous insight, the founders of our country invented "federalism," a concept that is rooted in the rights of the individual. Our federal system guarantees a maximum of freedom but provides it in a framework of law and justice.

Our forefathers believed that the closer the laws are to the people, the better. Cities legislate on local matters; states make decisions on matters within their borders; and the national government deals with issues that transcend the states, such as interstate commerce and foreign relations. That is federalism.

Today we must develop federal structures on a global level. We need a system of enforceable world law-- a democratic federal world government--to deal with world problems.

What Alexander Hamilton wrote about the need for law among the 13 states applies today to the approximately 200 sovereignties in our global village:

"To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of independent, unconnected sovereignties in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages."

Today the notion of unlimited national sovereignty means international anarchy. We must replace the anarchic law of force with a civilized force of law.

Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law. We will never have a city without crime, but we would never want to live in a city that had no system of law to deal with the criminals who will always be with us. Let me make three suggestions for immediate action that would move us in a direction firmly in the American tradition of law and democracy.

Keep our promises: We helped create the UN and to develop the UN assessment formula. Americans overwhelmingly want us to pay our UN dues, with no crippling limitations. We owe it to the world. In fact, we owe it as well to our national self-esteem.

Ratify the Treaty to Ban Land Mines, the Law of the Sea Treaty, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Convention to Eliminate All forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Most important, we should sign and ratify the Treaty for a Permanent International Criminal Court. That Court will enable the world to hold individuals accountable for crimes against humanity.

Consider, after 55 years, the possibility of a more representative and democratic system of decision making at the UN. This should include both revision of the Veto in the Security Council and adoption of a weighted voting system for the General Assembly. The World Federalists have endorsed Richard Hudson's Binding Triad proposal. George Soros, in his recent book, "The Crisis of Global Capitalism" has given serious attention to this concept which would be based upon not only one-nation-one-vote but also, on population and contributions to the UN budget. Resolutions adopted by majorities in each of these three areas would be binding, enforceable law. Within the powers given to it in the Charter, the UN could then deal with matters of reliable financing, a standing UN Peace force, development, the environment and human rights.

Some of you may ask why the Senate is not ratifying these important treaties and why the Congress is not paying our UN dues. Even as with the American rejection of the League of Nations, our failure to live up to our obligations to the United Nations is led by a handful of willful senators who choose to pursue their narrow, selfish political objectives at the cost of our nation's conscience.

They pander to and are supported by the Christian Coalition and the rest of the religious right wing. Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil!

This small but well-organized group, has intimidated both the Republican Party and the Clinton administration. It has attacked each of our Presidents since FDR for supporting the United Nations. Robertson explains that these Presidents were and are the unwitting agents of Lucifer.

The only way we who believe in the vision of a democratic world federal government can effectively overcome this reactionary movement is to organize a strong educational counteroffensive stretching from the most publicly visible people in all fields to the humblest individuals in every community. That is the vision and the program of the World Federalist Association.

The strength of the World Federalist program would serve an important auxiliary purpose at this particular point in our history. There would be immediate diplomatic advantages in just the world knowledge that this country was even beginning to explore the prospect of strengthening the UN. We would appear before the peoples of the world as the champion of peace for all by the equitable sharing of power. This in sharp contrast to the growing concern that we intend to use our current dominant military power to enforce a sort of pax Americana.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers. As Carl Van Doren has written, "History is now choosing the founders of the World Federation. Any person who can be among that number and fails to do so has lost the noblest opportunity of a lifetime.

This thought process is nothing new as this illustrates. And we can't dismiss it as an 84 year old grifter who is doing with this subject that Al Sharpton does with race issues. The WEF are like cockroaches. For every stupid spokesmen like the Nazi-sounding Klaus Schawb, there are thousands behind the scenes that we don't hear.

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