The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism by Glenn Beck
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Worth the 5 stars! READ. THIS. BOOK. Analog, not digital. Trust me on that.
This is an uncovering of "the men behind the curtain" in regard to The Great Reset, where and how it started, what it is, who is involved, their methods, their lies, their truths, their M.O. This is a must read for any one who wants to be on top of what is happening in the world, and what will continue to happen, unless We The People wise up.
I wanted to underline the entire book, but of course didn't. I cannot do it justice here in a mere review nor in sharing quotes - though I will share some just to offer a taste of the type of information the book contains.
The book is heavy. Some may not want, nor be able, to read the entire thing, or even most. It sheds light on so much evil that is taking place, and the lies we're being told, but for all those who are strong enough to handle it, we MUST know this information in order to fight against it, as well as in order to learn how 'live with it' in the interim. We must be wise and knowledgeable. In this case, what we don't know WILL hurt us.
That being said, the book gets a bit "lighter" as it moves on - if one can even say that. And at the end, I very much appreciated Beck sharing the answer we're all dying to know after reading of such awful things taking place: What can we do about it!?
Here are some sample quotes:
CHAPTER 2:
I know, you have heard this infamous "Never let a crisis go to wast" quote from Rahm Emanuel before.... However, rarely have I taken the time to read the full quote..... Emanuel made the "crisis" comment way back in November 2008, just after Barack Obama won the presidential election. The United States was still in the midst of what was at that time the most significant economic crash in modern American history.... Emanuel said, 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. I think America as a whole in 1973 and 1974, and not just my view but obviously the administration's, missed the opportunity to deal with the energy crisis that was before us. For a long time our entire energy policy came down to cheap oil. This is an opportunity, what used to be long-term problems, be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things that we have postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity, for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before. The good news, I supposed, if you want to see a silver lining, is the problems are big enough that they lend themselves to ideas from both parties for the solution.'
"You might not have picked up on it, but there are a few important parts of Emanuel's statement that often get overlooked. First, Emanuel does not say, "Never let a crisis go to waste." He says, "you never want a serious crisis to go to waste." That might seem like a small difference, but the "serious" part of the statement is important. Small crises happen all the time. That is how most of the news industry makes its money. But it is the serious crises that present real opportunity for radical change.
"Emanuel reiterates this point later in his statement, when he says, "The good news, I suppose, if you want to see a silver lining, is the problems are big enough that they lend themselves to ideas from both parties for the solution." See, Emanuel's argument is not that any small problem can be transformed into a large issue that leads to change but rather that big alterations to our existing system - the kinds of radical things Barack Obama and Emanuel wanted to achieve - are not normally possible without serious crises.
"There is also another important part of the statement worth thinking about more carefully. Emanuel does not say that the 2008 financial crisis provided Democrats with a chance to enact their own reforms, but rather he says that the crisis allowed *both* parties to provide the solution. Now, you might be tempted to dismiss that part of his statement as pandering, but if the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that many Republicans are just as eager to find ways to expand the power of government and their corporate friends as their more left-wing rivals on the other side of the aisle.
"The only difference between many Republicans and Democrats in Congress is no longer *whether* government should be intricately involved in economic and societal decision making but rather the *extent to which this should occur.* A party deeply devoted to many traditionally conservative ideas - including "crazy" policies like "don't spend more money than you take in" - no longer exists in Washington D.C.
"Although millions of American have been complaining about the gradual shift toward soft authoritarianism that has occurred in both major U.S. political parties over the past couple of decades, the problem has never been more serious than it is now. Those of us who believe in free markets and individual liberty have few champions in government, and the problem appears to be getting worse. It seems that just about everyone in Washington is now looking for ways to use "serious crises" to expand their power and make American families increasingly dependent on government - just as Rahm Emanuel suggested.
"This destructive tendency has been perfectly illustrated by governments' reaction to the coronavirus pandemic, which will play a central role in how supporters of the Great Reset plan to implement their radical reforms over the next decade and beyond. Understanding how policymakers have reacted to COVID-19 and taken advantage of this important "opportunity" for creating change provide a vital road map we must understand if we are going to fight back against the Great Reset and other attempts to centralize power in the hands of the ruling class."
CHAPTER 3
"In several of my previous books, I spent a great deal of time showing that the so-called climate crisis we are always hearing about from the mainstream press is not nearly what it has been cracked up to be....We have not - contrary to the claims of so many elitist environmentalists - experienced substantially more wildfires in recent years. According to the National Interagency Coordination Center, which is responsible for tracking wildfires in the United States, there were more wildfires during the 2005-2009 period (406,614) than there were from 2010-2014 (324,762). And there were more wildfires from 2010-2014 than from 2015-2019 (315,953).
"We have not experienced any significant increase in the number or severity of hurricanes either. In 2018, a study of hurricane activity published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society found that despite some modest warming in the United States, there has been "no significant trends in land-falling hurricanes, major hurricanes, or normalized damage consistent with what has been found in previous studies."
"Further, and perhaps most important, crop production has not been in decline. It has been dramatically increasing. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) database shows worldwide production of cereals, wheat, coarse grain, and rice are all at or near record highs. And in February 2020, the United Nations reported, "FAO's forecast for world cereal production in 2020 has been revised upward by 9.3 million tonnes this month and now stands at almost 2,790 million tonnes, with the global output set to surpass the record-high reached in 2019 by as much as 3% (81.3 million tonnes). Global wheat production is pegged at 761.5 million tonnes, up 3.2 million tonnes from the previous month and now at part with last year's above-average outturn.
"Unfortunately, because of the great influence that elites have over the mainstream press, these facts are lost on most of the American public, which is routinely battered with dire and disturbing reports about famine, fires, and storms that are allegedly linked to climate change. Fueled by shoddy, ideologically motivated reporting and propaganda, tens of millions of Americans now think climate change poses a grave danger to human civilization and all life on earth.
"When Senator Elizabeth Warren...said that climate change "is the existential threat...the one that threatens all life on this planet," millions of people believed her.
"When Joe Biden - a man who came to Washington *ten presidents ago* - said, "Climate change poses an existential threat to our future, and we are running out of time to address it," millions believed him, and then voted for him to be president.
"When well-read publications like the Washington Post - a newspaper owned by Amazon's billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos - repeatedly frames climate change as a "emergency" and an "existential threat" and says it is likely to cuase an "indescribable catastrophe," millions of people believe it.
"This does not mean, of course, that climate has not changed in recent decades, won't change in the future, or isn't changing now. Climate, by definition, is always changing, and there are some highly respected, well-intentioned scientists who believe that climate change is being drive, at least in part, by human activity. And there are other well-qualified scientists and economists who believe that those changes to the climate are going to create economic problems and some environmental problems. (There are many scientists who disagree with these claims, by the way, but we'll address that later in the chapter.) But here's what virtually no reasonable scientist believes: that humanity is in grave danger because of climate change or that the human race and "all life on this planet," as Elizabeth Warren said, is facing the possibility of extinction.
"The constant, false drumbeat that because of global warming, human life could soon be wiped out - the meaning of "existential threat" - has deeply impacted an entire generation of young people worldwide, including in the United States. This has opened the door to the radical changes to society and the global economy that supporters of the Great Reset are now calling for. Without the wide-spread fear fo climate change and its impacts, shifting economic and social power into the hands of elites would be considerably more difficult under the Great Reset's framework."
CHAPTER 3
"One of the most famous and influential doomsayers of the past century was Stanford scientist Paul Ehrlich....(he) said "the 'time of famines' is upon us and will be at its worst and most disastrous by 1975."
"He (Ehrlich) said the population of the United States is already too big, that birth control may have to be accomplished by making it involuntary and by putting sterilizing agents into staple foods and drinking water [ever notice how common it is today for young women to be sterile? Coincidence?], and that the Roman Catholic Church should be pressured into going along with routine measured of population control."
Toward the end of Chapter 3, Beck discusses and compares the differences between going "green" and nuclear power. Some of this info was eye-opening as well as reaffirming for me. Such as how most Americans think of environmentalism as saving the pandas, but the truth is that the elites have become corrupted in their once-good intentions (power corrupts fully over time) and in that corruption they are attempting to push the Great Reset on us via the environmental issue. While nuclear power is expensive relative to existing conventional energy sources like natural gas, it "provides tremendous environmental benefits, such as when compared to "green energy" sources, primarily wind and solar power, nuclear energy is significantly MORE reliable, cost-efficient, and environmentally friendly. Plus, it produces almost no carbon dioxide emissions, the very thing environmentalists are always touting as the most important issue when it comes to building energy infrastructure."
Beck goes on to discuss how wind and solar power sources are not nearly as reliable as nuclear power because they don't generate any energy when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining. Duh? They have huge intermittency problems that quickly become a pain and it is "catastrophic for a nation the size of the United States, if that nation were to try to run mostly on these unreliable sources of energy." The lifespan for these 'green' sources are no more than 20-30 years, whereas nuclear is not only much more reliable and much safer for the environment, but it lasts twice as long, AND it's up to 3 times cheaper! Isaac Orr, an expert on energy policy at the Center of the American Experiment noted, "When the shorter operating lifespans for wind and solar are accounted for...the total cost of rebuilding wind turbines every 20 years brings the cost to $13.5 million PER MegaWatt, and replacing solar on 30-year timescales results in a total cost of $21 million PER MegaWatt," compared to less than $7 million per MegaWatt for nuclear. Huh.... And I will simply say that in order to make solar/wind power successful, if all these other issues could be resolved, there would need to be 1/3-1/2 of the entire territory of the U.S. available in order to place the billions of solar power panels and wind turbine - and that's not even mentioning the horrific damage these would do to the environment AND wildlife in those areas. We're talking upward of 400 times more land than the nuclear power plants require and land the size of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and W. Virginia combined. But moving on.....
The book then turns to how these elite rulers plan on "helping" us with such problems as poor education, joblessness, homelessness, lack of healthcare, etc,etc,etc,... and one inevitably comes to the concluding question: Who will pay for this?
And THAT is where the Great Reset really comes in - with the "solution" called MODERN MONETARY THEORY. I will end my review with the nutshell-description of what MMT is and you'll have to read the book to experience the greatest eye-roll of your life. You never knew your eyes could roll SO FAR BACK to the back of your head. I promise.
CHAPTER 4
"Modern Monetary Theory might sound complicated, but it is actually very simple. According to MMT theorists, everyone should stop worrying so much about the national debts and deficits, because the U.S. government can print and spend as much money as it wants to in order to achieve the goals set by the federal government's bureaucratic masterminds and political elite. That's pretty much it."
This book has a total of 7 chapters. Chapters 5-6 are where you really get into the details of the incredibly corrupt, deceitful, and I'd say evil plans of what is The Great Reset and now much we have already implemented it. Chapter 7 is the "What to do about it if you want to save our nation" chapter.
Chapter 1: A brave terrifying new world
Chapter 2: Never let a global pandemic go to waste
Chapter 3: Climate change: The catalyst for a "New World Order"
Chapter 4: Modern Monetary Theory: Fuel for a global economic takeover
Chapter 5: The Great Reset: Building a twenty-first century fascism machine
Chapter 6: Joe Biden and the Great Reset of America
Chapter 7: Derailing the Great Reset
The book then ends with the "Endnotes" where you find 511 references where you can read and learn all about each of these items Glenn Beck mentions and read the proof (not just evidence) for yourself.
As Glenn says, as I say, as anyone who is honest says: DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK. Don't just take my word for it. If you do, you will see how Beck hits the nail on the head with this book. A book that EVERY American needs to read and understand and then we need to stand TOGETHER to fight this Great Reset - or it will be the death of America.
(P.S. It is late, and I'm too tired - so please forgive any typos!)
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