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The Pact For Your Future

Loading ...Addison Wiggin

October 1, 2024 • 8 minute, 3 second read


The Pact For Your Future

“A League of Nations really stands or falls with the truth of its title. If it is really a League of Nations it may really be a noble thing; but, as presented by some people, it is rather a League for the Abolition of Nations. It is not a scheme to guarantee the independence of States, but at best to guarantee their safety if they will sacrifice their independence.”

–G.K. Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, 1918


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Perhaps the outcome of the 2024 election is less important than the push for one-world government.

October 1, 2024 – What’s the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth?

About six months.

That’s a joke that was making its rounds on social media in the 2021-2022 era. It was a time when the vaccinated were waiting through what the Biden White House called a “winter of death,” for the unvaccinated to die.

They haven’t. But claims that the vaccinated would die en masse have also proven less than true.

Such diversions keep the mind occupied on the trivial. We should search for bigger, deeper truths.

For instance, the outcome of the Brexit vote or the election of Donald Trump in 2016 surprised many. It certainly surprised the elites. That’s a good thing.

We weren’t surprised. Populist rumblings often get their say at the ballot box. The 2010 midterm election was a bloodbath for the Democratic Party, thanks to Taxed Enough Already (TEA) party activists.

What did the TEA party accomplish? Nothing. Obamacare is still the law of the land. And while the bailouts violated free market principles, the TARP money lent out to banks was repaid, with interest. That’s a win for the taxpayers.

For centuries, people with means have dreamed of a one-world government. Today’s tech elite are no different.

Since the dawn of the 21st century, they’ve been scheming away at the World Economic Forum held annually in Davos, Switzerland. But last week, they were lurking about with political surrogates at the United Nations in New York City.

Below, Michael Snyder looks at what policy monstrosity and political boondoggle they’ve conjured up this time: the UN’s “Pact for the Future.” Enjoy ~~ Addison

The UN Just Adopted The “Pact For The Future” Which Lays the Foundation For a New “Global Order”

Michael Snyder, Michael Snyder’s Substack

While everyone was distracted, the global elite got exactly what they wanted.  The UN adopted the “Pact for the Future” on September 22nd, and the mainstream media in the western world almost entirely ignored what was happening.  Instead, the headlines urged us to just keep focusing on Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.  Sadly, the vast majority of the population has never ever heard about the “Pact for the Future”, and so there was very little public debate about whether or not we should be adopting a document which lays the foundation for a new “global order”.  The text of the “Pact for the Future” is available online, but hardly anyone will ever read it and many of the most important provisions are buried toward the end of the 56 page document.  Of course everyone should take the time to actually read this document, because our leaders just committed us to an extremely insidious global agenda that literally covers just about every conceivable area of human activity.

September 22nd, 2024 is a day that will go down in infamy.

Once the “Pact for the Future” was formally adopted, the following was posted on the official UN website…

World leaders today adopted a Pact for the Future that includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations. This Pact is the culmination of an inclusive, years-long process to adapt international cooperation to the realities of today and the challenges of tomorrow. The most wide-ranging international agreement in many years, covering entirely new areas as well as issues on which agreement has not been possible in decades, the Pact aims above all to ensure that international institutions can deliver in the face of a world that has changed dramatically since they were created. As the Secretary-General has said, “we cannot create a future fit for our grandchildren with a system built by our grandparents.”

You would think that the “most wide-ranging international agreement in many years” would make headlines all over the planet.

But that didn’t happen.

The UN press release also boldly declares that the “Pact for the Future” will “lay the foundations” for a new “global order”…

“The Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations open the door to new opportunities and untapped possibilities,” said the Secretary-General during his remarks at the opening of the Summit of the Future. The President of the General Assembly noted that the Pact would “lay the foundations for a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order – for all peoples and nations.”

The Pact covers a broad range of issues including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance.

I don’t want to live in a new “global order” that includes “all peoples and all nations”.

I am sure that most of you feel the exact same way.

Another page on the official UN website tells us that “UN 2.0” is all about creating a “modern UN family”…

Halfway through the 2030 Agenda, the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It is not too late to change course, if we all rethink, refocus, and recharge. “UN 2.0” encapsulates the Secretary-General’s vision of a modern UN family, rejuvenated by a forward-thinking culture and empowered by cutting-edge skills for the twenty-first century – to turbocharge our support to people and planet.

We will strive towards this vision with a powerful fusion of innovation, data, digital, foresight and behavioural science skills and culture – a dynamic combination that we call the “Quintet of Change”. It is about evolution towards more agile, diverse, responsive, and impactful UN organizations.

That sounds so cozy, doesn’t it?

Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a “family”, right?

But the truth is that the agenda that they intend to impose on all of us will not be pleasant at all.

Over the years, much has been written about how insidious the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals” are.

Well, the UN is openly admitting that the “Pact for the Future” was specifically designed “to turbo-charge implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”…

  • The entire Pact is designed to turbo-charge implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • The most detailed agreement ever at the United Nations on the need for reform of the international financial architecture so that it better represents and serves developing countries, including:
    • Giving developing countries a greater say in how decisions are taken at international financial institutions;
    • Mobilizing more financing from multilateral development banks to help developing countries meet their development needs;
    • Reviewing the sovereign debt architecture to ensure that developing countries can borrow sustainably to invest in their future, with the IMF, UN, G20 and other key players working together;
    • Strengthening the global financial safety net to protect the poorest in the event of financial and economic shocks, through concrete actions by the IMF and Member States;
    • and accelerating measures to address the challenge of climate change, including through delivering more finance to help countries adapt to climate change and invest in renewable energy.
  • Improving how we measure human progress, going beyond GDP to capturing human and planetary wellbeing and sustainability.
  • A commitment to consider ways to introduce a global minimum level of taxation on high-net-worth individuals.
  • On climate change, confirmation of the need to keep global temperature rise to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

In one way or another, all forms of human activity contribute to “climate change”.

And so they intend to strictly regulate all forms of human activity in order to meet their twisted goals.

The “Pact for the Future” also recognizes a “central role” for the UN and a “coordinated and multidimensional international response” whenever future “global shocks” arise…

We recognize the need for a more coherent, cooperative, coordinated and multidimensional international response to complex global shocks and the central role of the United Nations in this regard. Complex global shocks are events that have severely disruptive and adverse consequences for a significant proportion of countries and the global population, and that lead to impacts across multiple sectors, requiring a multidimensional and whole-of-government, whole-of-society response.

The next time that there is a major global crisis, do you want the UN running the show and telling everyone what to do?

I tried to warn everyone about this.

I have written extensively about the “Pact for the Future”, but in the end only a very small sliver of the population got fired up about it.

Now the global elite have achieved their goal, and the opposition that they encountered was barely perceptible.

~~Michael Snyder, Michael Snyder’s Substack

So it goes,


Addison Wiggin,
Grey Swan

P.S. What makes a one-world government so insidious today compared to in the past? The fact that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be employed globally to ensure compliance by populations.

A CBDC is a form of programmable money. It could ensure that those who don’t toe the line see their savings immediately confiscated. Or, prevented from expressing their own politically divergent views.

If you’ve missed our coverage of CBDC’s, Grey Swan contributor John Rubino and our portfolio manager Andrew Packer have briefly touched on the subject in prior Daily issues, here and here.


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