Rage Against The War Machine
Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, leaving us to perish on the blood-soaked altars we erected for others.
For empires are not murdered, they commit suicide at the feet of the idols that entrance them.
We are here today to denounce the unelected, unaccountable high priests of Empire, who funnel the bodies of millions of victims, along with trillions of our national wealth, into the bowels of our own version of the Canaanite idol, Moloch.
The political class, the media, the entertainment industry, the financiers and even religious institutions bay like wolves for the blood of Muslims or Russians or Chinese, or whoever the idol has demonized as unworthy of life. There were no rational objectives in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Somalia. There are none in Ukraine. Permanent war and industrial slaughter are their own justification. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman earn billions of dollars in profits. The vast expenditures demanded by the Pentagon are sacrosanct. The cabal of warmongering pundits, diplomats and technocrats, who smugly dodge responsibility for the array of military disasters they orchestrate, are protean, shifting adroitly with the political tides, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Julien Benda called these courtiers to power “the self-made barbarians of the intelligentsia.”
These pimps of war do not see the corpses of their victims. I did. Including children. Every lifeless body I stood over as a reporter in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia, or Kosovo, month after month, year after year, exposed their moral bankruptcy, intellectual dishonesty, sick bloodlust and delusional fantasies. They are puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the weapons manufacturers who lavishly fund their think tanks: Project for the New American Century, Foreign Policy Initiative, American Enterprise Institute, Center for a New American Security, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council and Brookings Institute. Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories of global dominance, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many they condemn to death. They are immovable props, parasites vomited up in the dying days of all empires, ready to sell us the next virtuous war against whoever they have decided is the new Hitler. The map changes. The game is the same.
Pity our prophets, those who wander the desolate landscape crying out in the darkness. Pity Julian Assange, undergoing a slow-motion execution in a high-security prison in London. He committed Empire’s fatal sin. He exposed its crimes, its machinery of death, its moral depravity.
A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.
Some here today might like to think of themselves as radicals, maybe even revolutionaries. But what we are demanding on the political spectrum is, in fact, conservative: the restoration of the rule of law. It is simple and basic. It should not, in a functioning republic, be incendiary. But living in truth in a despotic system, one the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin called “inverted totalitarianism,” is subversive.
The architects of imperialism, the masters of war, the corporate-controlled legislative, judicial and executive branches of government and their obsequious mouth pieces in the media and academia, are illegitimate. Say this simple truth and you are banished, as many of us have been, to the margins. Prove this truth, as Julian did, and you are crucified.
“Red Rosa now has vanished too…” Bertolt Brecht wrote of the murdered socialist Rosa Luxemburg. “She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out.”
We have undergone a corporate coup d’état, where the poor and working men and women, half of whom lack $400 to cover an emergency expense, are reduced to chronic instability. Joblessness and food insecurity are endemic. Our communities and cities are desolate. War, financial speculation, constant surveillance and militarized police that function as internal armies of occupation are the only real concerns of the state. Even habeas corpus no longer exists. We, as citizens, are commodities to corporate systems of power, used and discarded. And the endless wars we fight overseas have spawned the wars we fight at home, as the students I teach in the New Jersey prison system are acutely aware. All empires die in the same act of self-immolation. The tyranny the Athenian empire imposed on others, Thucydides noted in his history of the Peloponnesian war, it finally imposed on itself.
To fight back, to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet from ecocide, to decry the domestic and international crimes of the ruling class, to demand justice, to live in truth, to smash the graven images, is to bear the mark of Cain.
Those in power must feel our wrath, which means constant acts of non-violent civil disobedience, social and political disruption. Organized power from below is the only power that can save us. Politics is a game of fear. It is our duty to make those in power very, very afraid.
The ruling oligarchy has us locked in its death grip. It cannot be reformed. It obscures and falsifies the truth. It is on a maniacal quest to increase its obscene wealth and unchecked power. It forces us to kneel before its false gods. And so, to quote the Queen of Hearts, metaphorically, of course, I say, “Off with their heads!”
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/megalomania-privilege-rich-powerful/5809132
Megalomania – Privilege of the Rich and Powerful? The World Government Summit
Ultimate Globalist Agenda: Elite to Control World Technologies
The World Government Summit (WGS) is an annual event held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates from 13 to 15 February 2023. This year’s title slogan was “Shaping Future Governments”. The Summit’s format is similar to the WEF’s at Davos.The WGS brings together business leaders and politicians, high-level government representatives for a global dialogue about “knowledge” and governmental processes, as well as policies with a focus on the issues of futurism, technology innovation and other topics.
This year’s about 10,000 WGS attendees (WEF Davos 2023, about 2,700) included some 300 speakers. One of the more prominent speakers was – who else – Klaus Schwab, founder and eternal CEO and globalist way beyond reason of the World Economic Forum, or WEF, for short.
In his as always exuberant presentation with his signature accent reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwab bragged, “I wrote in 2015 the book, ‘The Fourth Industrial Revolution’. I mentioned 23 or 25 technologies that will change the world.” He went on mentioning some of them. And continued, “The book was considered science fiction, but all those technologies have become realities.”
He said these technologies are now exponentially exploding: “our lives, ten years from now, will be completely different”; concluding his megalo-speech by saying, “Who masters those technologies – in some way – will be the master of the world.”
For a few seconds the camera passes over a row of VIP conference attendees. Their faces, in awe of so much megalomania and so much dystopian departure from reality, speak volumes.
Mr. Schwab’s time has come. He is no longer taken seriously. This was already demonstrated at this year’s (16-20 January 2023) traditional Davos WEF meeting. Davos turned out to be not much more than a networking event, a show-off about who is who in this megalo-elite club.
Not even Schwab’s elitist “allies”, who all come in their individual private jets to such events as Davos or Dubai, not collectively as a group of “think-alike leaders” might continue following the WEF’s agenda of sheer madness. They come to the event in Davos to rub elbows and to be seen. See this.
In Dubai a few days ago, Schwab used the same lingo as he did in Davos a month earlier.
He talked about a “fractured world” that needed to be “re-globalized”. The eternal Globalist cannot let go of a topic that nobody in his right mind – and especially not 99.9% of the world population is interested in: A globalized world, with a One World Order (OWO) Government of which Klaus Schwab sees himself as the Master Emperor on the throne.
See this related to the Dubai WGS conference and especially the 1:23 min video clip, excerpt of his full speech (16 min video) below.
Schwab and the WEF have become instruments for executing orders of the elite – a visible elite of the usual suspects, the multi-multi “philanthropist” billionaires, who finance and help organize disruptive social movements around the globe, like Woke and the unpronounceable acronym LGBTIQA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual; the plus + sign stands for evolving sexual inclinations), BLM (Black Lives Matter), and more.
Such social movements are sheer deviation maneuvers so, people don’t pay attention to what’s being brewed for the future of humankind behind black curtains.
The invisible corporate financial giants, plus the Silicon Valley Tech-titans, who literally run the world from the shadows of their sinister cult edifice, are those who direct with an iron fist the WEF, WHO, the entire UN system, the FED, World Bank, IMF, Bank for International Settlement (BIS), as well as Washington itself, the Pentagon, NATO and Brussels – the siège of the European Union (EU).
Klaus Schwab and his WEF-outfit are generously funded by them – so, he is but a tool to represent and, to the extent possible, impose their will on the world. This elite of darkness wants a globalized world; a One World Order (OWO).
It will not happen. Dynamics of the forces of life will not allow such excesses, risking the destruction of our beautiful Blue Planet.
Schwab and the WGS organizers envisage a future of doomsday tenor, see the WGS-issued “Government in 2071: Guidebook”. The issues and constraints listed in the Guidebook of the Future may only be resolved through a World Government, or OWO.
Elon Musk, who joined the conference by video, has a diametrically opposed view.
A world government may end humanity, Musk said, and pledges for maintaining our civilizational diversity.
The Tesla Chairman and SpaceX CEO voiced his concern over a single world government as “it could strip humanity of diversity and precipitate the end of civilization.”
These are valid concerns since the world population is made up of an uncountable multitude of different cultures, subcultures, moral and ethical values, as well as art, all of which would be lost in no time, if people like Schwab and his globalist ilk would have their way.
Musk added, “We want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having – and this may seem odd – too much cooperation between governments.”
He explained that historically, different civilizations were separated by distance, so when one went into decline, others could rise. He used Ancient Rome as an example. “When Ancient Rome fell, Islam rose and managed to preserve much of the Roman knowledge and build upon it”, Musk said. “But in a globalized world this may no longer be a viable scenario.”
He went on saying that human civilization “is like a tiny candle in a vast darkness, and a very vulnerable tiny candle that could easily be blown out,” urging the WGS audience “to take great care to avoid humanity being wiped out by some cataclysm” – man-made, or otherwise.
Perhaps one of Elon Musk’s most important warnings addressed Artificial Intelligence (AI). “One of the biggest risks to the future of civilization is AI.” Musk told WGS attendees.
Musk called upon governments to develop safety regulations for AI, comparing its rise to the development of nuclear technology.
In conclusion, Musk cautioned that AI and one-world government pose threats to humanity. He suggests that the latter may even end humanity.
These anti-globalist statements by Elon Musk are juxtaposed to Schwab’s megalo-statement “Technology can help the elite ‘be the master of the world.”
There was for sure hardly anybody in the audience who would want to give authority over the array of technologies listed in Schwab’s “4th Industrial Revolution” – like digitalization of everything, even the human brain to a small elite, on top of it, western elite, in the sense of WEF’s world view....
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