Globalism & the Great Reset

“The Great Reset came into general circulation over a decade ago, with the publication of a 2010 book, “The Great Reset,” by American urban studies scholar Richard Florida, written in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.”
– Dr. Michael Rectenwald, Hillsdale College, November 7, 2021

The December 2021 issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis featured the on-campus speech of Dr. Michael Rectenwald that answered this question, “What is the Great Reset?” Assuring the audience that the Great Reset is real, he began his speech with this:

“Last year [2020] Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) – a famous organization made up of the world‟s political, economic, and cultural elites that meets annually in Davos, Switzerland – and Thierry Malleret, co-founder and main author of the Monthly Barometer, published a book called COVID-19: The Great Reset. In the book, they define the Great Reset as a means of addressing the „weaknesses of capitalism‟ that were purportedly exposed by the COVID pandemic.”

He, also, cited Richard Florida‟s 2010 book entitled The Great Reset, which deemed the 2008 economic crash as the latest in a series of Great Resets, such as the Long Depression of the 1870s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Florida defined both as periods of “paradigm-shifting systemic innovations,” i.e., frameworks for diluting the sovereignty of nations.

During the 2014 WEF annual meeting, Schwab said, “What we want to do in Davos this year … is to push the reset button.”

“In May 2018, the WEF collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to conduct ‘CLADE X, a simulation of a world pandemic response’ … that without effective vaccines “experts tell us that we could eventually see 30 to 40 million deaths in the U.S. and more than 90 million around the world – twelve percent of the global population.”

In October 2019, the WEF … simulated another exercise – “Event 201 – as an international response to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus…. That scenario included the idea of asymptomatic spread.” Those exercises demonstrated how pandemics would affect” responses by governments, health agencies, the media, tech companies and elements of the public.”

Dr. Rectenwald continued, “The Great Reset aims to usher in a bewildering economic amalgam – Schwab’s stakeholder capitalism – which I have called ‘corporate socialism’ and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has called ‘communist capitalism.'”

Read more of the September 2023 newsletter here.

Will Universities Comply with SCOTUS’ 6 – 3 Decision?

“In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual – not on the basis of race. Many universities have for too long done just the opposite…. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and of the District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina are reversed. It is so ordered.”
– Supreme Court of the U.S. (SCOTUS) Opinion June 29, 2023, Cases 20-1199 and 21-707

Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the Court’s Opinion, began his comments with this: “In these cases we consider whether the admissions systems used by Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, two of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the U.S., are lawful under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Psst! They weren’t.

The Cases: In November 2014 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFAI) filed separate lawsuits against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, arguing that their raced-based admissions programs violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. SCOTUS ruled for SFAI in both cases. Title VI prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin under a program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, as does the Fourteenth Amendment.

UNC, Harvard and the 14th Amendment: SCOTUS evaluated the admissions program of both Harvard College and the University of North Carolina under the Fourteenth Amendment. The District Court in both cases held bench trials – Harvard’s lasted 15 days, N.C.‟s lasted eight days. The Harvard Court concluded that Harvard’s admissions program was acceptable and the North Carolina Court said UNC‟s admissions process was permitted under the Equal Protection Clause. Both decisions were reversed by the June 29, 2023 SCOTUS Opinion.

Read the full newsletter here.