 All right everyone we're about to get started with our panel Alabama versus the Great Resa My name is Will Blakely. I'm a reporter with 1819 news So I guess to cut to cut right to the chase. I mean the panel today is about The Great Resa and so the Great Resa is a term used by the World Economic Forum and other global policy makers But as Alan said earlier some do dismiss it as a just a conspiracy theory and so Could y'all explain to us what you believe the Great Resa agenda is and Whether or not it is a real threat to Alabama today Yeah, so the Great Resa is a globalist plan engineered by NGOs in particular the World Economic Forum in conjunction with the UN they had they signed a contract in 2019 To accelerate the the attainment of the UN's 2030 sustainable development goals so the Great Resa could be understood as a public-private partnership arrangement to accelerate the the Sustainable Development Goals of Agenda 2030 and one of those those are a bunch of well, it's written in nothing but double-speak and You know propaganda but It's really about Mitigating so-called climate change Supposedly eradicating poverty in the world, which really just means government transfers of wealth from the developed world to the developing world to keep them from developing And It is You know, there's all these other goals like gender equality Gender equality really has to do with Making sure women don't only work in the professional lives and have and do not race have children Sustainability one of the things about sustainability this buzzword that they use it is there is a population control Agenda involved with sustainability. It is not strictly about keeping the environment sustainable they believe that There's too much consumption in the developed world and we need to keep these people from reproducing and eating meat and Guzzling gas so there's a real strict thing there. What it means to Alabama is we'll let others talk about that but It'll it'll affect everybody. So once that way to understand the great reset is it is The opposite of decentralization so whereas we want decentralization get the federal government off our backs Get to the local level as much as possible They want to agglomerate The state into a central world global state And so it is the exact opposite impetus that drives people like us liberty-minded people So I'm Brian Dawson. I'm the CEO of 1890 news If you've ever been in a room and especially on a panel where you think everyone in the room is smarter than you I've reached that point in my life right this moment I'm not a think-tank guy. So they brought this redneck up here to balance things out a little bit. So So I think the Conspiracy theorist aspect is the thing and it's starting to lose its appeal like calling someone racist or xenophobic or homophobic That used to like, you know be quite the punch to someone But now they've thrown it around so much that it's it's basically gone and I think that's happening with conspiracy theorists One of the few positives that came out of COVID was that is that it you know It used to be about six months for a conspiracy theory to come true now. We're at about three, you know, 90 days So I think that's interesting But I think to me the world economic forum the great reset all of these things it springs from Carl Marx and the long march to the institutions and the ultimate fulfillment of what I believe I'm a Christian and I believe Carl Marx was demon-possessed and he wrote, you know wrote his manifesto and Died and went to a funeral and there was like three people there. No one even knew who he was And those writings were picked up by linen and Stalin and pushed into Bolshevik revolution, which is anti-west anti everything that Christendom or the west is about And so I think this is the fulfillment of it. They hate everything we stand for And this is this is what they're trying. I think it's peak Long march to the institutions I think how it's going to affect Alabama Um So Man, I don't want to give a whole political history of alabama that would take forever The short version is business runs the state here and I don't I'm not talking about mom and pop business I'm talking alabama power regions blue cross blue shield Um, you know those people that's who runs this state. Okay, and what's interesting is that's always been a very republican thing Big business republican. Okay. Well now the head of the business council of alabama, which is our state chamber of commerce Is the lady named helen aduncan and she's essentially Um, a marxist right and so what you're starting to see is alabama power and these other big corporations That have always ran the state are bowing the knee to esg. They're bowing the knee uh to all of these socialist policies and everything else and Um, that's gonna take big business left And it will be interesting to see whether that's gonna take the people of alabama with it And I don't think it will um the the problem that we've always had in our state is that we have the most conservative people In the world in the united states that live right here in alabama, but we don't have legislation and government that reflects it right And so um, that's a big goal of 1819 news is to be able to inform the people of alabama about what's going on So that they can get involved in government and get a legislation and governor and things that actually reflect them So but but I think that's where it's going to affect alabama the most is going to be these big We call them the big mules The big mules Are buying into esg and that's who runs our politics and runs our state and all the guys that run around every four years to get elected Talking about how much they love jesus guns and free markets Well, the people that are paying, you know putting money in their campaigns are going to be pushing them to move left with esg and everything else So, um, there's going to be a fight and I I think alabama is ready for a fight. So There you go I've got a mic is it on yep Well esg is going to affect of course alabama in every state. There's a reason why The who cares wins conference with the united nations again governor of switzerland at all Targeted financial institutions and capital markets is the place to start because that's where all capital flows are You look at the industries that make money with money And you realize that if we can control all capital flow, then we can control everything beneath that framework So that's why uh people like executives at goldman sacks and morgan stanley, etc Big accounting firms big investment firms were all invited to to who cares wins and that's why they are Invited to the world economic forum as well Alabama has made some efforts to push back nothing like, you know, desantis in florida or texas in west virginia are doing a lot to push back, but we did sign on to uh An anti esg alliance 18 states signed on to that our attorney general steve marshal has joined a lawsuit against the department of labor Which was considering? Well, actually it instituted a rule to allow for uh, for usg 401k investments But will it have esg effect? I'll do of course it affects everybody And everybody that has investments I mean, I think the the best thing we can do is You know raise alarm bells ring the alarm bells because if esg-weighted portfolios Continue to underperform on the market. I think money still talks. I think when people start seeing that they're uh, They're not getting returns on investment because they're mutual fund manager or black rock vanguard state street their asset manager if they if they have money with those entities or if it's the state pensioners who are having their state pension funds invested In uh esg-weighted portfolios that are not doing as well as other portfolios Then you're going you know, you're going to see some outcry But people have to pay attention and have to watch The performance of those things because the only way esg works is if you get full systematic buy-in because I mean investment is Traditionally predicated on this notion of diversification, right? You want your funds spread out across as much As many different industries as possible as many different fields as possible To mitigate risk, right? If one field starts doing badly then another one's going to prop you up and all that Well esg by definition it it already narrows the range of possible Fields in which you can invest it's got to be in only these particular industries and these particular Companies and that is the opposite of diversification And you'll hear people talk about that the esg proponents talk about Risk management is if you know the risk is going to be climate change But it's long-term risk. They always emphasize that it's long-term risk Well, that means that after two years after three years after four years when these climate Catastrophes haven't happened they can just keep saying well, it's long term. It's just hasn't happened yet you know the the risk is long term and uh, and also they weren't against regulatory risk while paying all these lobbyists to Champion these regulations. So it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. They're like, oh, you know You're going to get all these regulations. For example the sec rule that I talked about Earlier, you're going to get all these regulations and they're going to be a risk to you as an investor long term Well, then they're actually paying lobbyists to try to get these regulations passed So, um, it's very deceptive. Uh, and of course it affects alabama and affects every state and it affects every human being that banks Yeah, and so you you listen to a lot of what's said from the world economic forum and what comes out of vsg And a word that I think most of us Would use to describe a lot of these things as woke now, of course, um, recently a slew of Left-wing pundits have accused people on the right of not being able to define the word woke. Um, I don't think they have read any of michael's books So michael if you could, um, define the word woke for us and just explain what it has to do with the great reset. Um, and Maybe how it's found its way into alabama Oh, I'm sure it's found its way into alabama. I'm sure everybody could attest to that Um, well, you know this word woke has a fairly long history, of course It was first the past tense verb right means having woken up or having awakened But it it started to be used as an adjective in right 1970s by the african-american community And it just meant like aware of uh, what's happening and then it transmuted into uh, conscious conscious of racial injustice and then it was taken up and finally Got its way into being effect effectively associated with social justice and it became a kind of equivalent of social justice and um, so it's supposed to be redressing all of these inequities between various people's various constituencies and it's supposedly to benefit these beleaguered groups but Really what it is and its function with reference to the great reset is this It is about guilt-tripping the population into believing That everything they have is a function of their privilege Which therefore should be revoked so that they will not have any rights or property um, and so it makes makes them feel Fine with this idea that it's supposed to make you feel That you should accept these reduced expectations that come with the great reset this reduced consumption this reduced mobility economic and physical mobility basically it is to the function of wokeness is to make the Which is to attack the the majority and their way of life and they use guilt and They figure everything in terms of privilege Which can be revoked rights and privileges are different rights Supposedly in here in the individual, but privileges are something that are extended to you And likewise if we take them away Then you haven't really lost anything you deserved and that's really the function of wokeness So if you go read any company's esg report when they put it out one thing that you'll quickly notice is under s You you see a lot of references to diversity equity and inclusion or di And so alan since you're the higher ed guy Could you explain exactly what di is and whether or not it purports to do? What its objectives are Oh, I'd be thrilled to do that Well nominally the d stands for diversity, but it actually means uniformity of thought so it's the opposite The e nominally means equity, but it's all about treating people unequally based upon immutable characteristics such as their race For example, if you are white, then you are Treated with discrimination You are alleged to have privilege that you Must basically leave at the door and it means all sorts of the front of action type programs you get different forms of like training in the workplace that That teaches you that if you are born One way with the skin color one way that you are responsible for a whole range of Injustices and past historical Uh discrimination that happened long before you were born and that therefore your role is to let other people Have positions and power Um regardless of their merit whether they've earned it whether they have the requisite wherewithal skills talent or knowledge They are entitled to that position And this is a form of quote unquote equity, which is all about equal outcomes rather than pure equality And then inclusion is all about exclusion. In fact, it's inclusion means You have to believe what we believe To be part of this belongingness If you do not believe what we believe then you are automatically excluded So it means exactly the exact opposite each term sounds good in theory but in and in practice and in the way it's done is very dangerous and and in fact leads to all kinds of systemic problems that become instituted in law again I like to use the phrase encoding elite preferences when the elites encode their preferences in law administrative agencies universities bureaucracies so that they're so much more difficult to dislodge once they're embedded. It's hard to get them out. So when you talk about uh, you know systemic racism or something like that You've got systemic anti-racism, which is you know systemic Measures that are put into law institutions administrative agencies With uh the express purpose of discriminating against people based on actually their skin color The thing that we uh used to To cry, you know people you know the whole martin luther king line about you know judging people by The uh the continent of their character rather than the color of their skin That's long gone for the left now They want to judge you based upon the color of your skin regardless of how uh regardless of what you think You're automatically disqualified from having a legitimate opinion if you look a certain way um, yeah having been um Cancelled by the diversity equity and inclusion group at NYU by the way the mesis institute mistakenly put at new york university on my name tag That's why I will not wear it uh I was uh one of the first professorial victims of the diverse the diversity equity and inclusion movement Which I like to say rather than dei. I call it dot di die They they cancelled me for they said The content and structure of my thoughts So this was a wrongthink conviction um in an orwellian courtroom Um In which I had no witnesses and wasn't able to testify for myself So yeah, this is what die comes down to is it's an execution squad and the um the The conformity acting. I think I was the first to coin this It's the conformity inequity and exclusion uh group is what I call that group that uh came after me anyway So this is a question for all of y'all. Um You know alabama is a republican super majority We're We're a conservative state But how equipped are we to um, I guess resist the great reset and what exactly can we do on a state level? I think The republican super majority thing and it was is really interesting. I just read an article the other day I think it was by the daily wire. It actually says the the the thicker your republican majority is the more moderate your legislature is Which is really weird and I'd never seen that on a broad scale. I thought maybe it was just something that alabama uh suffered from But in particularly, how are we going to push back against the great reset? I think um Information knowledge in uh resistance as from the people is what it boils down to let's use covet is the example So here we are, um, you know, kiv came out during all those things As as state after state was shutting down blue state after blue state and she literally came out and said we're not california We're not going to lockdown and three days later. She locked us down and gave us a uh, uh, What do you call that where you can't go out after seven a curfew and and The thought that we had a curfew in alabama is just mind-boggling But what do you do with the curfew? Don't go out after seven. Well, I'll see you guys after seven We'll go somewhere and meet right and so that is I think what it boils down to uh to me because um Whether we as long as alabama is dependent on federal funds and federal funds flowing to the state You know for our economic well-being we're never going to be able to be who we actually are And so the hope would be to elect people who begin to wean us off of federal dollars So a political solution would be looking for candidates that can actually win Who are running on um getting off the federal teat right and so I think that's a big piece of it But to me I think just um The the ability for people to resist and so um alabama was the least vaccinated state Okay, you should give yourselves a round of applause for that Every media outlet in the country in the nation mainstream media was slandering and pounding the state of alabama for our vaccine hesitancy Right this disease we have called vaccine hesitancy and so we were being berated insulted called no good dirty red necks and all this other stuff And and we just stood even donald trump came here and told us to get vaccinated and we booed him right and so The reason I love alabama is the people um and and we have what it takes to resist Put your mask on no get vaccinated not gonna do it You know your kid has to wear a mask in school. No, he doesn't Right, that's really it like no just say no and and and I think that's where it begins with us But as a as a political standpoint It's it's that dependence upon uh federal dollars flowing to the state and it's gonna be hard to break Yeah, I will say there is a resistance movement that wasn't there before I mean you've got an underdog media outlet in 1819 news Which is not docile submissive or complicit and uh and and all these things and doing great great work You've got actually matt clark who's sitting right here is an attorney who founded the alabama center for law and liberty There was no litigation mechanism for challenging a lot of sort of uh status and unconstitutional practices and conditions and acll is is now one of the matt recently filed an open records request with the rsa asking basically specifically Whether the the state was using black rock, but needs to do I think we need a lot more of that We need to look at all the asset management firms. We need to look at what proxy advisory services We're we're employing in the state I actually uh, you know, I mentioned earlier that by Speaking out and launching an anti book business program I just happened to get in touch with people all over the country who were surprised that such a thing could actually happen on a university campus and um, there's one guy that that communicates with me quite regularly and he's in pennsylvania and he just I think he just sits and watches youtube videos all day and um, he he sent me a video uh last week That has the ceo of iss. It's his first of all the recording this youtube video had 26 views and in the video the ceo of iss is Telling his interlocutor that oh, yes, we are doing investment stuff that that actually will hurt state pensioners It will underperform, but in the long run. It's sort of necessary to get easier I'm like, this is it. This is like a smoking gun for a lawsuit 26 views. So, um, You know, I think there are opportunities to litigate some of these things and we need to start start doing that Yeah, I have I'll I'm not gonna preempt my own talk, but I have a nine point plan for stopping the gray reset