thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-27--Faith-Based Morality Endangers Us All

Faith-Based Morality Endangers Us All

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post .
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This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse he moral problem is called by philosophers the ethical problem , but it ’ s the same thing , and it is interpersonal on the micro level , and more broadly societal — including national and even international — on the macro level .
The two levels ( micro and macro ) constantly interact with one-another , but the biggest ethical ( moral ) issues are on the macro level , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ altogether in most traditional sources of ‘ authority ’ regarding what is right and what is wrong .
Authentic ethics extends far beyond the merely personal sphere of concern , but the merely personal sphere of concern — which is oneself , one ’ s family , one ’ s nation , and one ’ s religion — is what the average person is thinking the most about when thinking about ‘ morality ’ .
That is thinking which focuses upon faith instead of upon science , and those two modes of thinking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concern is finding truth is science-based , and anyone whose main concern is adhering to what some ‘ authority ’ says , is faith-based — regardless of whether or not the individual believes in any religion .
America ’ s political mess , like that in other countries , results from too much faith and not enough science ; and this isn ’ t only religious faith , it is faith in anything at all .
Some faiths are nationalistic , others are religious , others are ideological , but what they all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ character , which has implicit trust in some scripture or person , instead of upon science , which has no scripture , because it is based instead upon empirical reality and upon carefully analyzing that so as to discover cause and effect , not upon interpreting what some supposed ‘ authority ’ said or supposedly meant , or dictated .
Every faith-based morality is personalistic , whereas every science-based morality focuses instead upon discovering cause and effect .
That ’ s the basis for being able to deal effectively with issues of good @ @ @ @ @ @ @ morality is religion , because its scripture is Scripture — it is canonized , and therefore can not be changed but can only be interpreted , so that it is like a nation ’ s constitution would be if that constitution prohibits any amendments being made to itself .
That ( canonization ) is the source of any religion ’ s rigidity .
Such a morality — regardless of whether it ’ s religious — is 100 % faith-based , and it is the extreme opposite of science , which is constantly open @ @ @ @ @ @ @ No matter how advanced a particular science ( a field of scientific investigation ) is , its laws are constantly open to being changed — none of them is ever canonized .
Science is a constant search , in order to increase accuracy ; it is the exact opposite of dictating anything ; it is the exact opposite of faith .
It is a constant process of discovery .
It is the exact opposite of anything that is unchangeable , or rigid .
Religion-based morality tends to be obsessed with sex because the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ every religion is based on faith ) is by promoting high birthrates of followers in order to create and raise many children in the faith .
A succession of such generations can turn a mere cult into a religion .
It ’ s how all religions actually came to be what they today are .
But that ’ s not what humans need more of in our time ( if ever ) , and it certainly doesn ’ t solve any problems ( except for the faith ’ s clergy , who thereby @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Scientific morality focuses instead upon matters like reducing wars , poverty , disease , and global warming .
The religious scriptures say nothing about those — the actually most important matters — but instead claim that holy people will cure the sick , and that God will take care of the rest ( so , it ’ s laissez faire ) .
Furthermore , at the extreme , people of faith — regardless of whether it ’ s in secular ‘ authorities ’ such as Marx or Plato , or in ‘ prophets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some supernatural deity ’ s words — have been willing to perpetrate ‘ holy wars ’ or Crusades and thus have been encouraged by their interpretation of ‘ authorities ’ to invade foreign lands ( like during the Crusades and 9/11 ) in the advancement of their faith ( which may be nationalistic , but is always taken solely upon the epistemological basis of faith , regardless of whether or not it is religious ) .
Science rejects all ‘ authority ’ , all faith , and relies instead only upon rigorously analyzed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ order to spread the religion or the nation or the ‘ race ’ , is no part of that .
“ Spreading the faith ” is no part of any science , though some people who try to be scientific get lost because they become focused more on spreading their beliefs than on discovering more realities , which might disprove what they believe .
Any faith is obsessed with the content of belief , not with the process of discovery .
By distracting the public from the real crimes against the public ( @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mass-murderous military invasions ) , the very personal focus on sex , as constituting the chief focus of a supposed ‘ morality ’ , serves to distract the public from the actually bigger crimes — which aren ’ t merely personal , though only individual persons actually perpetrate , and thus should be held to account for , any actual crime , any victimization .
Here are some specific examples : Moralistic lying is so obviously the case regarding the Republican Party ’ s Presidential nominee Donald Trump , that the Democratic Party @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about it , as a basically partisan political matter : But Republican Party news-media also show a religious focus , by their focusing on sex and other personal matters , and by what they won ’ t point out , regarding the Democratic Party ’ s Presidential nominee , Joe Biden , thus distracting even their own followers away from Biden ’ s bigger and more significant wrongs — wrongs that billionaires of both political Parties don ’ t want the public to focus upon ( such as Biden ’ s neoconservatism , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and conquer other countries ) .
Here is an example of how that ’ s so : Joe Biden has so many real and proven victims — policy-victims — ( and Donald Trump does , too ) , but some people suggest that Americans should make their voting-decision , for the U.S. Presidency on November 3rd , on the basis of one possible rape , that Biden might have committed ?
The reasons why Biden isn ’ t acceptable ( just like the reasons why Trump isn ’ t ) aren ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as that .
The real problem is his real policies , not his real personality .
Just as Republican voters have faith in their corrupt Party , Democratic voters have faith in their corrupt Party .
Faith is the opposite of science , and science is clear that neither Party is even close to being decent .
Only faith tells people ( some with the Democratic persuasion , others with the Republican one ) otherwise — that “ my Party is decent.
” If things keep on the way they are , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America .
Faith-based morality is destroying this country , and the destruction is bipartisan , and pervasive .
Regardless of whether a particular case of it is explicitly religious ( such as in the many ecclesiastical child-sex scandals ) , it is accepted only upon the basis of faith .
The fundamental problem is epistemological , and nobody pays attention to it .
PS : A religious friend rejected this essay .
He said : “ If God doesn ’ t exist , then everything ( every crime in pursuit of self-interest ) @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disagree is that you believe that only if there exists an “ The Almighty ” ( a being who personifies power ) can good exist — you believe that only if there is an ultimate punisher can good be rewarded — you believe that only punishment can define what is “ bad , ” and that if there is no ultimate justice in the world , then “ every crime in pursuit of self-interest is permitted ” ( because there exists no purgatory , no ultimate justice ) .
“ Self-interest , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of good and bad : only if there is a punisher for bad can there be any such thing as good and bad , you think .
Your philosophy is therefore driven by some ‘ ultimate ’ self-interest and your mythological belief that justice , even final justice , exists .
To me , “ good ” has no relationship to what is rewarded , and “ bad ” has no relationship to what is punished .
And I don ’ t believe in myths .
Myths are based on lies .
And @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of all sins .
I don ’ t define what is good by reference to who possesses power or how much power they possess .
You insult me by saying that “ If God doesn ’ t exist , then everything ( every crime in pursuit of self-interest ) is permitted.
” In my view , no wrong is allowed , because my conscience won ’ t allow it .
‘ God ’ ( ‘ The Almighty ’ ) has nothing to do with it .
Whether I get rewarded or punished has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are the materialist .
I am the spiritualist .
I am guided by the spirit , not by punishment , or reward .
He came back at me with “ Power is not the only divine attribute .
Mercy and compassion are the first two on the list.
” The defining attribute of God is “ the Creator.
” That ’ s The All-Powerful One !
It is the defining attribute of ‘ God ’ in any Scripture .
Religion is power-worship .
It is worship of the one-and-only All-Powerful Creator of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do religionists have for disbelievers in their particular faith ?
Each ‘ holy Scripture ’ damns non-believers in its faith .
How many hundreds of millions of people have been slaughtered and maimed and impoverished in religious wars ?
A lot of ‘ moral guidance ’ there !
( None — except to go out and conquer non-believers . )
How many non-believers were enslaved by the ‘ superior ’ people — the faith ’ s believers ?
( Plenty — countless millions , all entirely unnecessary . )
Can a worse basis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
I don ’ t see how .
What can be worse than a “ morality ” that prohibits birth-control , enserfs women , allows slavery , ‘ justifies ’ war against non-believers , and provides no clear guidance on global warming ?
I can ’ t think of any .
I don ’ t argue for atheism .
I argue against any faith : theistic , atheistic , nationalistic , ethnic , racist , or otherwise .

Another important dispatch from The Greanville Post. Be sure to share it widely.
This article is part of an ongoing series of dispatches by historian Eric Zuesse
T he moral problem is called by philosophers the ethical problem, but it’s the same thing, and it is interpersonal on the micro level, and more broadly societal — including national and even international — on the macro level. The two levels (micro and macro) constantly interact with one-another, but the biggest ethical (moral) issues are on the macro level, and they are downplayed or even ignored altogether in most traditional sources of ‘authority’ regarding what is right and what is wrong.
In order to think clearly about ethical issues, one must first get the epistemological issues (truth-falsity) correct, and this is what actual science is all about: it is about how to think clearly and accurately about true and false, instead of about right and wrong (which is dependent upon truth-falsity). Furthermore, unless one can think correctly about such policy-issues as global warming, or nuclear weapons, or social justice, no decision that one makes about the given issue can be any good. Goodness is intrinsically founded upon truthfulness. One must first be accurate about the science of the issue, before one can be accurate about what constitutes good policy, and what constitutes bad policy.
Authentic ethics extends far beyond the merely personal sphere of concern, but the merely personal sphere of concern — which is oneself, one’s family, one’s nation, and one’s religion — is what the average person is thinking the most about when thinking about ‘morality’. That is thinking which focuses upon faith instead of upon science, and those two modes of thinking are opposite epistemologies. Anyone whose main concern is finding truth is science-based, and anyone whose main concern is adhering to what some ‘authority’ says, is faith-based — regardless of whether or not the individual believes in any religion.
America’s political mess, like that in other countries, results from too much faith and not enough science; and this isn’t only religious faith, it is faith in anything at all.
Some faiths are nationalistic, others are religious, others are ideological, but what they all have in common is the authoritarian epistemological character, which has implicit trust in some scripture or person, instead of upon science, which has no scripture, because it is based instead upon empirical reality and upon carefully analyzing that so as to discover cause and effect, not upon interpreting what some supposed ‘authority’ said or supposedly meant, or dictated.
Every faith-based morality is personalistic, whereas every science-based morality focuses instead upon discovering cause and effect. That’s the basis for being able to deal effectively with issues of good and bad.
The archetype of faith-based morality is religion, because its scripture is Scripture — it is canonized, and therefore cannot be changed but can only be interpreted, so that it is like a nation’s constitution would be if that constitution prohibits any amendments being made to itself. That (canonization) is the source of any religion’s rigidity. Such a morality — regardless of whether it’s religious — is 100% faith-based, and it is the extreme opposite of science, which is constantly open to changing whatever laws it discovers. No matter how advanced a particular science (a field of scientific investigation) is, its laws are constantly open to being changed — none of them is ever canonized. Science is a constant search, in order to increase accuracy; it is the exact opposite of dictating anything; it is the exact opposite of faith. It is a constant process of discovery. It is the exact opposite of anything that is unchangeable, or rigid.
Religion-based morality tends to be obsessed with sex because the way to build a religion (and every religion is based on faith) is by promoting high birthrates of followers in order to create and raise many children in the faith. A succession of such generations can turn a mere cult into a religion. It’s how all religions actually came to be what they today are. But that’s not what humans need more of in our time (if ever), and it certainly doesn’t solve any problems (except for the faith’s clergy, who thereby expand their flock of followers).
Scientific morality focuses instead upon matters like reducing wars, poverty, disease, and global warming. The religious scriptures say nothing about those — the actually most important matters — but instead claim that holy people will cure the sick, and that God will take care of the rest (so, it’s laissez faire). Furthermore, at the extreme, people of faith — regardless of whether it’s in secular ‘authorities’ such as Marx or Plato, or in ‘prophets’ who are alleged to have transmitted some supernatural deity’s words — have been willing to perpetrate ‘holy wars’ or Crusades and thus have been encouraged by their interpretation of ‘authorities’ to invade foreign lands (like during the Crusades and 9/11) in the advancement of their faith (which may be nationalistic, but is always taken solely upon the epistemological basis of faith, regardless of whether or not it is religious). Science rejects all ‘authority’, all faith, and relies instead only upon rigorously analyzed empirical evidence. Conquering foreign lands in order to spread the religion or the nation or the ‘race’, is no part of that. “Spreading the faith” is no part of any science, though some people who try to be scientific get lost because they become focused more on spreading their beliefs than on discovering more realities, which might disprove what they believe. Any faith is obsessed with the content of belief, not with the process of discovery.
By distracting the public from the real crimes against the public (such as exploitative financial manipulations, and mass-murderous military invasions), the very personal focus on sex, as constituting the chief focus of a supposed ‘morality’, serves to distract the public from the actually bigger crimes — which aren’t merely personal, though only individual persons actually perpetrate, and thus should be held to account for, any actual crime, any victimization.
Here are some specific examples:
Moralistic lying is so obviously the case regarding the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee Donald Trump, that the Democratic Party’s news-media are now especially astir about it, as a basically partisan political matter:
But Republican Party news-media also show a religious focus, by their focusing on sex and other personal matters, and by what they won’t point out, regarding the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, thus distracting even their own followers away from Biden’s bigger and more significant wrongs — wrongs that billionaires of both political Parties don’t want the public to focus upon (such as Biden’s neoconservatism, his consistent support for America to invade and conquer other countries). Here is an example of how that’s so:
major lies and frauds, which have thousands of victims and not merely one or just a few. And these major evils are proven, not merely speculative. On March 14th, I documented and linked to the sources, all being lies from him, not a shred of truth in any of his ‘civil rights’ allegations there (as I documented). He had thus raped those voters’ minds, in order to get their votes and win the nomination with them; and, yet, the possible rape by him, of merely one victim (who happened to have been a white woman who was in his employ) gets special attention from the Republican Party news-medium, Fox News, which trumpeted that a former activist for Hillary Clinton was alleging that Biden must be rejected by Democrats if he actually did “rape” the woman. (And evidence kept piling up that he at least not at all with sex (which is the religious obsession), nor with other merely personal violations. But whether what Biden was alleged to have done there was done, or would qualify as “rape,” is for courts to decide — which won’t even happen — and yet such allegations get lots of public attention, while Biden’s entire political career is a succession of demonstrated, incontrovertible,lies and frauds, which have thousands of victims and not merely one or just a few. And these major evils are proven, not merely speculative. On March 14th, I documented and linked to the sources, "PROVEN: Biden won the Democratic nomination by cheating” , and the worst of those lies were effective in causing millions of Blacks to vote for him in the southern states where most voters in Democratic Party primaries are Blacks (as was documented there), and the issue for them was that Biden had a long career working with civil rights leaders and had done a sit-in against segregation in a restaurant —, not a shred of truth in any of his ‘civil rights’ allegations there (as I documented). He had thusand, yet, therape by him, of merelyvictim (who happened to have been a white woman who was in his employ) gets special attention from the Republican Party news-medium, Fox News, which trumpeted that a former activist for Hillary Clinton was alleging that Biden must be rejected by Democrats if he actually did “rape” the woman. (And evidence kept piling up that he at least was lying about that, regardless of whether the woman who was complaining was otherwise even credible .) There are far more significant reasons to reject Biden as our next President than such speculative ones, and they all are proven instead of speculative, and have to do with policies (policies for the billionaires who finance his career, and against the public),with sex (which is the religious obsession), nor with other merely personal violations.
both were backed by billionaires). Overwhelmingly the two reasons why Biden instead of Sanders won the Democratic Party’s nomination were (1) the billionaires who fund the Party were united against Sanders, and (2) black Democrats in the former Dixie states, starting with South Carolina on February 29th, overwhelmingly voted for the fake anti-segregationist Biden over the authentic anti-segregationist Sanders, because they had faith in the billionaire-controlled Democratic Party Establishment, who were 100% supporting and advertising for Biden. That’s faith. Those were faith-based voters — they had faith in the Democratic Party, its billionaires. That faith by those voters gave Americans a Trump-v.-Biden choice on November 3rd instead of a Trump-v.-Sanders choice (which would have included an option that the billionaires feared, instead of two nominees whowere backed by billionaires).
We thus now have a situation in which a candidate, Biden, whose entire lengthy political career is filled with corruption and lies , is the opposition against another candidate, Trump, whose established record is likewise filled with corruption and lies. And we are being told by the Republican Party’s billionaires that the reason why we shouldn’t accept Biden is that maybe what he did to that woman constituted “rape.”
Joe Biden has so many real and proven victims — policy-victims — (and Donald Trump does, too), but some people suggest that Americans should make their voting-decision, for the U.S. Presidency on November 3rd, on the basis of one possible rape, that Biden might have committed? The reasons why Biden isn’t acceptable (just like the reasons why Trump isn’t) aren’t nearly so personalistic, nor so speculative, as that. The real problem is his real policies, not his real personality.
“All of the money for corporations needs to be removed — all of the money needs to go instead to workers and to consumers, so that they won’t lose their homes, their cars, etc., and simultaneously go to the states to fill the gaps that have been created in states’ essential coffers, so that the states will be able to continue providing the essential services that they provide during this crisis.” (And as I had already “On April 9th, the Zero Hedge financial site only to individuals, not to any corporations.) On April 25th, Politico headlined “Biden wants a new stimulus ‘a hell of a lot bigger’ than $2 trillion” , and Biden there pretended that all of the blame is with the Republican President, and he pretended to be a progressive, by saying, “The last thing he [Trump] wants is anyone watching that $500 billion going to corporate America, for God’s sake.” But he didn’t say anything that would offend his billionaire backers. For example, he didn’t say” (And as I had already pointed out on April 14th On April 9th, the Zero Hedge financial site explained in detail why even bailing out the airlines would hurt the economy more than help the economy.” In other words: all bailouts should goto individuals, not tocorporations.)
only the Republican one who now occupies the White House. only because of faith. That’s trust in some ‘authority’, and it distracts from the empirical proven reality. Biden won’t bite the (billionaires’) hands that feed him, any more than Trump has been doing, but instead he uses vague promises in order to bring his Party’s faithful deceived voters to the polls on November 3rd. The same Democratic voters who didn’t even notice that Obama had dropped his plan for a “public option” within just days after his winning the 2008 election are expecting Biden to adhere to his promises to them. All of the winning politicians honor only the promises that they privately make to their billionaire backers. This can’t happen without their being distracted by the sorts of things that their own Party’s propaganda puts forth to distract from the candidate’s proven record. The flim-flam man isn’tthe Republican one who now occupies the White House. The billionaires’ dictatorship is bipartisan. And it succeedsbecause of faith. That’s trust in some ‘authority’, and itthe empirical proven reality.
did both of the two U.S. political Parties. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress voted for it. Unlike what Biden implies, both Republicans and Democrats signed onto this corruption. Just like Democrats are far more concerned that maybe Biden “raped” a woman than they are concerned that he clearly rape the minds of millions of Blacks in order to win the Party's nomination , Democrats evidently don’t care about the corruption that produced all the failures in the anti-coronavirus legislation that was unanimously passed byof the two U.S. political Parties. Both Democrats and Republicans in Congress voted for it. Unlike what Biden implies, both Republicans and Democrats signed onto this corruption.
Just as Republican voters have faith in their corrupt Party, Democratic voters have faith in their corrupt Party. Faith is the opposite of science, and science is clear that neither Party is even close to being decent. Only faith tells people (some with the Democratic persuasion, others with the Republican one) otherwise — that “my Party is decent.”
understand the total immunity from prosecution that America’s billionaires enjoy, no matter how many people they’ve destroyed, and even murdered, in order to become as rich as they are. For example, regarding the “Dark Waters” crime, which was perpetrated actually by the top executives of many of America’s largest international corporations: on 20 February 2018, Reuters headlined total immunity, for them. And the public is distracted from that. The easiest and quickest way to understand how faith is destroying the United States is to see the great movie Dark Waters , a very accurate dramatic re-enactment of one major legal case which exposes not only the total psychopathy of the entire U.S. power-structure but also the refusal of its victimized public to recognize that their lives were being destroyed by the very same institutions that they’ve been taught (by the billionaires and their agents) to respect the most. It’s an accurate two-hour education in the reality of today’s America, so that the audience canthe total immunity from prosecution that America’s billionaires enjoy, no matter how many people they’ve destroyed, and even murdered, in order to become as rich as they are. For example, regarding the “Dark Waters” crime, which was perpetrated actually by the top executives of many of America’s largest international corporations: on 20 February 2018, Reuters headlined “3M, Minnesota settle water pollution claims for $850 million” and reported that “Industrial group 3M Co and Minnesota’s attorney general have agreed to settle a lawsuit over polluted groundwater, with the company agreeing to grant $850 million to the state for groundwater projects, the attorney’s office said on Tuesday. Attorney General Lori Swanson had been seeking at least $5 billion in damages from 3M to help clean up the company’s disposal of industrial chemicals in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area over the past 40 years. … 3M said it would record a 2018 first-quarter charge of approximately $1.10 to $1.15 per share including legal fees as a result of the settlement. Shares in the company were down 0.6 percent.” That’s an inconsequential penalty, and none of the criminal 3M executives who were responsible for this poisoning of Minnesotans would face any punishments at all. On 2 November 2018, Bloomberg News headlined a 5,000-word history and timeline of this matter “Cancer-linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up in Drinking Water” . On 24 October 2019, The Intercept bannered about this, “Top U.S. Toxicologist Was Barred From Saying PFAS Causes Disease In Humans. She’s Saying It Now.” Uncounted thousands of people have had their health destroyed and have died from this poisoning, but none of the executives and investors who oversaw and profited from it were punished in any way. There is, for them. And the public is distracted from that.
If things keep on the way they are, then there is no realistic hope for America. Faith-based morality is destroying this country, and the destruction is bipartisan, and pervasive. Regardless of whether a particular case of it is explicitly religious (such as in the many ecclesiastical child-sex scandals), it is accepted only upon the basis of faith. The fundamental problem is epistemological, and nobody pays attention to it.
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PS: A religious friend rejected this essay. He said:
“If God doesn’t exist, then everything (every crime in pursuit of self-interest) is permitted.”
I replied:
Where you and I disagree is that you believe that only if there exists an “The Almighty” (a being who personifies power) can good exist — you believe that only if there is an ultimate punisher can good be rewarded — you believe that only punishment can define what is “bad,” and that if there is no ultimate justice in the world, then “every crime in pursuit of self-interest is permitted” (because there exists no purgatory, no ultimate justice). “Self-interest,” in other words, defines your concept of good and bad: only if there is a punisher for bad can there be any such thing as good and bad, you think. Your philosophy is therefore driven by some ‘ultimate’ self-interest and your mythological belief that justice, even final justice, exists.
To me, “good” has no relationship to what is rewarded, and “bad” has no relationship to what is punished. And I don’t believe in myths. Myths are based on lies. And, to me, deceit is worst of all sins.
I don’t define what is good by reference to who possesses power or how much power they possess.
You insult me by saying that “If God doesn’t exist, then everything (every crime in pursuit of self-interest) is permitted.” In my view, no wrong is allowed, because my conscience won’t allow it. ‘God’ (‘The Almighty’) has nothing to do with it. Whether I get rewarded or punished has nothing to do with it. You are the materialist. I am the spiritualist. I am guided by the spirit, not by punishment, or reward.
He came back at me with “Power is not the only divine attribute. Mercy and compassion are the first two on the list.”
I replied:
The defining attribute of God is “the Creator.” That’s The All-Powerful One! It is the defining attribute of ‘God’ in any Scripture. Religion is power-worship. It is worship of the one-and-only All-Powerful Creator of the universe.
How much “mercy” do religionists have for disbelievers in their particular faith? Each ‘holy Scripture’ damns non-believers in its faith.
How many hundreds of millions of people have been slaughtered and maimed and impoverished in religious wars? A lot of ‘moral guidance’ there! (None — except to go out and conquer non-believers.)
How many non-believers were enslaved by the ‘superior’ people — the faith’s believers? (Plenty — countless millions, all entirely unnecessary.)
Can a worse basis for morality than religion even be imagined? I don’t see how. What can be worse than a “morality” that prohibits birth-control, enserfs women, allows slavery, ‘justifies’ war against non-believers, and provides no clear guidance on global warming? I can’t think of any.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-26--Why Iran won’t be broken

Why Iran won’t be broken

These questions were the subject of a long phone call I placed to Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran – one of Iran ’ s premier , globally recognized analysts .
As Marandi explains , “ Iran after the revolution was all about social justice .
It set up a very elaborate health care network , similar to Cuba ’ s , but with more funding .
A large hospital network .
When the coronavirus hit , the US was even preventing Iran to get test kits .
Yet the system – not the private sector – managed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Everything was under control .
The numbers – even contested by the West – they do hold .
Iran is now producing everything it needs , tests , face masks .
None of the hospitals are full.
” Expanding Marandi ’ s observations , Tehran-based journalist Alireza Hashemi notes , “ Iran ’ s wide primary healthcare system , comprising public clinics , health houses and health centers is available in thousands of cities and villages ” , and that enabled the government to “ easily offer basic services ” .
As Hashemi @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Covid-19 call center and also distributed protective equipment supplied by relief providers .
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the armed forces to help – with the government deploying 300,000 soldiers and volunteers to disinfect streets and public places , distribute sanitizers and masks and conduct tests.
” It was the Iranian military that established production lines for producing face masks and other equipment .
According to Hashemi , “ some NGOs partnered with Tehran ’ s chamber of commerce to create a campaign called Nafas ( “ breath ” ) to supply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran ’ s Farabourse , an over-the-counter stock market in Tehran , established a crowd funding campaign to purchase medical devices and products to help health workers .
Hundreds of volunteer groups – called “ jihadi ” – started producing personal protective equipment that had been in short supply in seminaries , mosques and hussainiyas and even natural fruit juices for health workers.
” This sense of social solidarity is extremely powerful in Shi ’ ite culture .
Hashemi notes that “ the government loosened health-related restrictions over a month ago and we @ @ @ @ @ @ @ normality in recent weeks.
” Yet the fight is not over .
As in the West , there are fears of a covid-19 second wave .
Marandi stresses the economy , predictably , was hurt : “ But because of the sanctions , most of the hurt had already happened .
The economy is now running without oil revenue .
In Tehran , you don ’ t even notice it .
It ’ s nothing compared to Saudi Arabia , Iraq , Turkey or the UAE .
Workers from Pakistan and India are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Dubai is dead .
So , in comparison , Iran did better in dealing with the virus .
Moreover , harvests last year and this year have been positive .
We are more self-reliant.
” Hashemi adds a very important factor : “ The Covid-19 crisis was so massive that people themselves have pitched in with effort , revealing new levels of solidarity .
Individuals , civil society groups and others have set up a range of initiatives seeking to help the government and health workers on the front line of countering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign always ignores is how Iran after the revolution is used to extremely critical situations , starting with the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s .
Marandi and Hashemi are adamant : for older Iranians , the current economic crisis pales in comparison with what they had to put up with throughout the 1980s .
Marandi ’ s analysis ties up the economic data .
In early June , Mohammad Bagher Nobakht – responsible for planning Iran ’ s state budgets – told the Majlis ( Parliament ) that the new normal was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and run the country ’ s programs without oil.
” Nobakht stuck to the numbers .
Iran had earned just $ 8.9 billion from the sale of oil and related products in 2019-20 , down from a peak of $ 119 billion less than a decade ago .
The whole Iranian economy is in transition .
What ’ s particularly interesting is the boom in manufacturing – with companies focusing way beyond Iran ’ s large domestic market towards exports .
They are turning the massive devaluation of the rial to their advantage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ non-oil exports reached $ 41.3 billion .
That exceeded oil exports for the first time in Iran ’ s post-revolutionary history .
And roughly half of these non-oil exports were manufactured goods .
Team Trump ’ s “ maximum pressure ” via sanctions may have led to total non-oil exports going down – but only by 7 % .
The total remains near historic highs .
According to Purchasing Managers ’ Index ( PMI ) data published by the Iran Chamber of Commerce , private sector manufacturers were seriously back in business already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the partial lockdown .
The fact is Iranian consumer goods and industrial products – everything from cookies to stainless steel – are exported by small and medium enterprises to the wider Middle East and also to Central Asia , China and Russia .
The myth of Iranian “ isolation ” is , well , a myth .
Some new manufacturing clusters bode well for the future .
Take titanium – essential for myriad applications in military , aerospace , marine industries and industrial processes .
The Qara-Aghaj mine in Urmia , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is part of Iran ’ s mineral belt , including the country ’ s largest gold reserves , has tremendous potential .
Iran features in the Top 15 of mineral-rich countries .
In January , after getting the technology for deep-level mining , Tehran launched a pilot project for extraction of rare earth minerals .
Still , Washington pressure remains as relentless as the Terminator .
In January , the White House issued yet another executive order targeting the “ construction , mining , manufacturing , or textiles sectors of the Iranian economy.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the booming private sector – which means , in practice , countless Iranian blue-collar workers and their families .
This has nothing to do with forcing the Rouhani administration to say , “ I can ’ t breathe ” .
Apart from a few scuffles between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ( IRGC ) and the Health Ministry about China ’ s response to Covid-19 , the Iran-China “ comprehensive strategic partnership ” ( CSP ) remains on track .
The next big test is actually in September .
That ’ s when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arms embargo on Iran .
Add to it the threat to trigger the snapback mechanism inbuilt in UNSC resolution 2231 – if other Security Council members refuse to support Washington and let the embargo expire for good in October .
China ’ s mission at the UN has stressed the obvious .
The Trump administration unilaterally abandoned the JCPOA .
Then it reimposed unilateral sanctions .
Thus it has no right to extend the arms embargo or go for the snapback mechanism against Iran .
China , Russia and Iran are the three @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and diplomatically , their key decisions tend to be taken in concert .
So it ’ s no wonder that was reiterated last week in Moscow at the meeting of Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Javad Zarif – who get along famously .
Lavrov said , “ We will be doing everything so that no one can destroy these agreements .
Washington has no right to punish Iran.
” Zarif for his part described the whole juncture as “ very dangerous ” .
Additional conversations with Iranian analysts reveal how they interpret the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the axis of resistance ( Tehran , Baghdad , Damascus , Hezbollah ) in comparison with two other fronts : the US and its “ stooges ” ( the House of Saud , UAE , Egypt ) , the master – Israel – and also Turkey and Qatar , which , like Iran , but unlike the “ stooges ” , favor political Islam ( but of the Sunni variety , that is , the Moslem Brotherhood ) .
One of these analysts , pen name Blake Archer Williams , significantly remarks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ back from helping Iran ( mutual trade is almost at zero ) is that it fears Iran .
If Trump does not have a Reagan moment and does not prevail on Iran , and the US is in any event driven out of the Middle East by the continuing process of Iran ’ s weapons parity and its ability to project power in its own pond , then all of the oil of the Middle East , from the UAE , Qatar , Kuwait and Bahrain , to Iraq , of course , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Saudi Arabia ’ s Qatif region ( where all the oil is and is 100 % Shi ’ ite ) , will come under the umbrella of the axis of resistance.
” Still , Russia-China continue to back Iran on all fronts , for instance rebuking the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) for giving in to US “ bullying ” – as the IAEA ’ s board last week passed a resolution submitted by France , Britain and Germany criticizing Iran for the first time since 2012 .
Another key foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s soft power , in quite a spectacular manner keenly observed all across the Global South , de facto ridiculed Washington ’ s sanctions/blockade in its own Monroe Doctrine “ backyard ” , when five Iranian tankers loaded with gasoline successfully crossed the Atlantic and were received by a Venezuelan military escort of jets , helicopters , and naval patrols .
That was in fact a test run .
The Oil Ministry in Tehran is already planning a round two of deliveries to Caracas , sending two or three cargos full of gasoline @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran to offload its huge domestically produced fuel .
The historic initial shipment was characterized by both sides as part of a scientific and industrial cooperation , side by side with a “ solidarity action ” .
And then , this past week , I finally confirmed it .
The order came directly from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei .
In his own words : “ The blockade must be broken ” .
The rest is – Global South – history in the making .

S
o what’s goin’ on in Iran? How did the Islamic Republic really respond to Covid-19? How is it coping with Washington’s relentless “maximum pressure”?
These questions were the subject of a long phone call I placed to Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran – one of Iran’s premier, globally recognized analysts.
As Marandi explains, “Iran after the revolution was all about social justice. It set up a very elaborate health care network, similar to Cuba’s, but with more funding. A large hospital network. When the coronavirus hit, the US was even preventing Iran to get test kits. Yet the system – not the private sector – managed. There was no full shutdown. Everything was under control. The numbers – even contested by the West – they do hold. Iran is now producing everything it needs, tests, face masks. None of the hospitals are full.”
Expanding Marandi’s observations, Tehran-based journalist Alireza Hashemi notes, “Iran’s wide primary healthcare system, comprising public clinics, health houses and health centers is available in thousands of cities and villages”, and that enabled the government to “easily offer basic services”.
As Hashemi details, “the Health Ministry established a Covid-19 call center and also distributed protective equipment supplied by relief providers. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered the armed forces to help – with the government deploying 300,000 soldiers and volunteers to disinfect streets and public places, distribute sanitizers and masks and conduct tests.”
It was the Iranian military that established production lines for producing face masks and other equipment. According to Hashemi, “some NGOs partnered with Tehran’s chamber of commerce to create a campaign called Nafas (“breath”) to supply medical goods and provide clinical services. Iran’s Farabourse, an over-the-counter stock market in Tehran, established a crowd funding campaign to purchase medical devices and products to help health workers. Hundreds of volunteer groups – called “jihadi” – started producing personal protective equipment that had been in short supply in seminaries, mosques and hussainiyas and even natural fruit juices for health workers.”
This sense of social solidarity is extremely powerful in Shi’ite culture. Hashemi notes that “the government loosened health-related restrictions over a month ago and we have been experiencing a small slice of normality in recent weeks.” Yet the fight is not over. As in the West, there are fears of a covid-19 second wave.
Marandi stresses the economy, predictably, was hurt: “But because of the sanctions, most of the hurt had already happened. The economy is now running without oil revenue. In Tehran, you don’t even notice it. It’s nothing compared to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Turkey or the UAE. Workers from Pakistan and India are leaving the Persian Gulf in droves. Dubai is dead. So, in comparison, Iran did better in dealing with the virus. Moreover, harvests last year and this year have been positive. We are more self-reliant.”
Hashemi adds a very important factor: “The Covid-19 crisis was so massive that people themselves have pitched in with effort, revealing new levels of solidarity. Individuals, civil society groups and others have set up a range of initiatives seeking to help the government and health workers on the front line of countering the pandemic.”
What a relentless Western disinformation campaign always ignores is how Iran after the revolution is used to extremely critical situations, starting with the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Marandi and Hashemi are adamant: for older Iranians, the current economic crisis pales in comparison with what they had to put up with throughout the 1980s.
Made in Iran soars
Marandi’s analysis ties up the economic data. In early June, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht – responsible for planning Iran’s state budgets – told the Majlis (Parliament) that the new normal was “to sideline oil in the economy and run the country’s programs without oil.”
Nobakht stuck to the numbers. Iran had earned just $8.9 billion from the sale of oil and related products in 2019-20, down from a peak of $119 billion less than a decade ago.
The whole Iranian economy is in transition. What’s particularly interesting is the boom in manufacturing – with companies focusing way beyond Iran’s large domestic market towards exports. They are turning the massive devaluation of the rial to their advantage.
In 2019-20, Iran’s non-oil exports reached $41.3 billion. That exceeded oil exports for the first time in Iran’s post-revolutionary history. And roughly half of these non-oil exports were manufactured goods. Team Trump’s “maximum pressure” via sanctions may have led to total non-oil exports going down – but only by 7%. The total remains near historic highs.
According to Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) data published by the Iran Chamber of Commerce, private sector manufacturers were seriously back in business already in the first month following the relaxation of the partial lockdown.
The fact is Iranian consumer goods and industrial products – everything from cookies to stainless steel – are exported by small and medium enterprises to the wider Middle East and also to Central Asia, China and Russia. The myth of Iranian “isolation” is, well, a myth.
Some new manufacturing clusters bode well for the future. Take titanium – essential for myriad applications in military, aerospace, marine industries and industrial processes. The Qara-Aghaj mine in Urmia, the provincial capital of West Azarbaijan, which is part of Iran’s mineral belt, including the country’s largest gold reserves, has tremendous potential.
Iran features in the Top 15 of mineral-rich countries. In January, after getting the technology for deep-level mining, Tehran launched a pilot project for extraction of rare earth minerals.
Still, Washington pressure remains as relentless as the Terminator.
In January, the White House issued yet another executive order targeting the “construction, mining, manufacturing, or textiles sectors of the Iranian economy.” So Team Trump is targeting exactly the booming private sector – which means, in practice, countless Iranian blue-collar workers and their families. This has nothing to do with forcing the Rouhani administration to say, “I can’t breathe”.
The Venezuelan front
Apart from a few scuffles between the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Health Ministry about China’s response to Covid-19, the Iran-China “comprehensive strategic partnership” (CSP) remains on track.
The next big test is actually in September. That’s when Team Trump wants to extend the UN arms embargo on Iran. Add to it the threat to trigger the snapback mechanism inbuilt in UNSC resolution 2231 – if other Security Council members refuse to support Washington and let the embargo expire for good in October.
China’s mission at the UN has stressed the obvious. The Trump administration unilaterally abandoned the JCPOA. Then it reimposed unilateral sanctions. Thus it has no right to extend the arms embargo or go for the snapback mechanism against Iran.
China, Russia and Iran are the three key nodes of Eurasia integration. Politically and diplomatically, their key decisions tend to be taken in concert. So it’s no wonder that was reiterated last week in Moscow at the meeting of Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Javad Zarif – who get along famously.
Lavrov said, “We will be doing everything so that no one can destroy these agreements. Washington has no right to punish Iran.”
Zarif for his part described the whole juncture as “very dangerous”.
Additional conversations with Iranian analysts reveal how they interpret the regional geopolitical chessboard, calibrating the importance of the axis of resistance (Tehran, Baghdad, Damascus, Hezbollah) in comparison with two other fronts: the US and its “stooges” (the House of Saud, UAE, Egypt), the master – Israel – and also Turkey and Qatar, which, like Iran, but unlike the “stooges”, favor political Islam (but of the Sunni variety, that is, the Moslem Brotherhood).
One of these analysts, pen name Blake Archer Williams, significantly remarks, “the main reason Russia holds back from helping Iran (mutual trade is almost at zero) is that it fears Iran. If Trump does not have a Reagan moment and does not prevail on Iran, and the US is in any event driven out of the Middle East by the continuing process of Iran’s weapons parity and its ability to project power in its own pond, then all of the oil of the Middle East, from the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain, to Iraq, of course, and not least to the oilfields in Saudi Arabia’s Qatif region (where all the oil is and is 100% Shi’ite), will come under the umbrella of the axis of resistance.”
Still, Russia-China continue to back Iran on all fronts, for instance rebuking the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for giving in to US “bullying” – as the IAEA’s board last week passed a resolution submitted by France, Britain and Germany criticizing Iran for the first time since 2012.
Another key foreign policy front is Venezuela. Tehran’s soft power, in quite a spectacular manner keenly observed all across the Global South, de facto ridiculed Washington’s sanctions/blockade in its own Monroe Doctrine “backyard”, when five Iranian tankers loaded with gasoline successfully crossed the Atlantic and were received by a Venezuelan military escort of jets, helicopters, and naval patrols.
That was in fact a test run. The Oil Ministry in Tehran is already planning a round two of deliveries to Caracas, sending two or three cargos full of gasoline a month. That will also help Iran to offload its huge domestically produced fuel.
The historic initial shipment was characterized by both sides as part of a scientific and industrial cooperation, side by side with a “solidarity action”.
And then, this past week, I finally confirmed it. The order came directly from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. In his own words: “The blockade must be broken”. The rest is – Global South – history in the making.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-26--China’s $12.5 billion plan to transform Lebanon’s infrastructure (Arab TV report)

A recent Al Mayadeen TV presentation illustrating the major infrastructural projects that China is proposing to build in Lebanon .
@ @ @ @ @ fruition or not hinges upon a greater consensus within the Lebanese political establishment .
However @ @ @ @ @ in the country is reducing the credibility of pro-American parties who have long argued Lebanon @ @ @ @ @ upon the benevolence of Washington , Europe , and the Arab Gulf states .

A recent Al Mayadeen TV presentation illustrating the major infrastructural projects that China is proposing to build in Lebanon.
Whether these projects actually reach fruition or not hinges upon a greater consensus within the Lebanese political establishment.
However, the deteriorating socio-economic situation in the country is reducing the credibility of pro-American parties who have long argued Lebanon’s prosperity is dependent upon the benevolence of Washington, Europe, and the Arab Gulf states.
Source: Al Mayadeen News
Date: June 18, 2020


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-26--The Global Reset – Unplugged

The Global Reset – Unplugged

Imagine , you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy – and you may even believe it – but in fact your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich , ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs .
They may be called Deep State , Illuminati , or simply the Beast , or anything else obscure or untraceable – it doesn ’ t matter .
They are less than the 0.0001 % .
For lack of a better expression , let ’ s call them for now “ obscure individuals ” .
These obscure @ @ @ @ @ @ @ never been elected .
We don ’ t need to name them .
You will figure out who they are , and why they are famous , and some of them totally invisible .
They have created structures , or organisms without any legal format .
They are fully out of international legality .
They are a forefront for the Beast .
Maybe there are several competing Beasts .
But they have the same objective : A New or One World Order ( NWO , or OWO ) .
These obscure individuals are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Economic Forum ( WEF – representing Big Industry , Big Finance and Big Fame ) , the Group of 7 – G7 , the Group of 20 – G20 ( the leaders of the economically ” strongest ” nations ) .
There are also some lesser entities , called the Bilderberg Society , the Council on Foreign Relations ( CFR ) , the Chatham House and more .
The members of all of them are overlapping .
Even this expanded forefront combined represents less than 0.001 % .
They all have superimposed themselves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and over THE multinational world body , the United Nations , the UN .
In fact , they have coopted the UN to do their bidding .
UN Director Generals , as well as the DGs of the multiple UN-suborganizations , are chosen – mostly by the US , with the consenting nod of their European vassals – according to the candidate ’ s political and psychological profile .
If his or her ‘ performance ’ as head of the UN or head of one of the UN suborganizations fails , his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or created by the Beast ( s ) are also , the European Union , the Bretton Woods Organizations , World Bank and IMF , as well as the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) – and – make no mistake – the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) in The Hague .
It has no teeth .
Just to make sure the law is always on the side of the lawless .
In addition to the key international financial institutions , WB and IMF , there are the so-called regional development banks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ countries of their respective regions in check .
In the end its financial or debt-economy that controls everything .
Western neoliberal banditry has created a system , where political disobedience can be punished by economic oppression or outright theft of national assets in international territories .
The system ’ s common denominator is the ( still ) omnipresent US-dollar .
The supremacy of these obscure unelected individuals becomes ever more exposed .
We , the People consider it “ normal ” that they call the shots , not what we call – or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sovereign nations and sovereignly elected governments .
They have become a herd of obedient sheep .
The Beast has gradually and quietly taken over .
We haven ’ t noticed .
It ’ s the salami tactic : You cut off slice by tiny slice and when the salami is gone , you realize that you have nothing left , that your freedom , your civil and human rights are gone .
By then it ’ s too late .
Case in point is the US Patriot Act .
It was prepared way @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” , the Patriot Legislation was whizzed through Congress in no time – for the people ’ s future protection – people called for it for fear – and – bingo , the Patriot Act took about 90 % of the American population ’ s freedom and civil rights away .
For good .
We have become enslaved to the Beast .
The Beast calls the shots on boom or bust of our economies , on who should be shackled by debt , when and where a pandemic should break out , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , for example , social confinement .
And to top it all off – the instruments the Beast uses , very cleverly , are a tiny-tiny invisible enemy , called a virus , and a huge but also invisible monster , called FEAR .
That keeps us off the street , off reunions with our friends , and off our social entertainment , theatre , sports , or a picnic in the park .
Soon the Beast will decide who will live and who will die , literally – if we let it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Another wave of pandemic and people may beg , yell and scream for a vaccine , for their death knell , and for the super bonanza of Big Pharma – and towards the objectives of the eugenicists blatantly roaming the world – https : //www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero ?
language=en # t-11976 .
There is still time to collectively say NO .
Collectively and solidarily .
Take the latest case of blatant imposture .
Conveniently , after the first wave of Covid-19 had passed , at least in the Global North , where the major @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June 2020 , the unelected WEF Chairman , Klaus Schwab , announced “ The Great Reset ” .
Taking advantage of the economic collapse – the crisis shock , as in “ The Shock Doctrine ” – Mr. Schwab , one of the Beast ’ s frontrunners , announces openly what the WEF will discuss and decide for the world-to-come in their next Davos Forum in January 2021 .
For more details see https : //www.globalresearch.ca/davos-great-reset/5715515 .
Will , We , The People , accept the agenda of the unelected WEF ?
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what ’ s left of Mother Earth ; obviously at the center will be man-made CO2-based “ Global Warming ” .
The instrument for that protection of nature and humankind will be the UN Agenda 2030 – which equals the UN Sustainable Development Goals ( SDG ) .
It will focus on how to rebuild the willfully destroyed global economy , while respecting the ( “ green ” ) principles of the 17 SDGs .
Mind you , it ’ s all connected .
There are no coincidences .
The infamous Agenda 2021 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( UN ) Agenda 2030 , will be duly inaugurated by the WEF ’ s official declaration of The Great Reset , in January 2021 .
Similarly , the implementation of the agenda of The Great Reset began in January 2020 , by the launch of the corona pandemic – planned for decades with the latest visible events being the 2010 Rockefeller Report with its “ Lockstep Scenario ” , and Event 201 , of 18 October in NYC which computer-simulated a corona pandemic , leaving within 18 months 65 million deaths and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a few weeks before the launch of the actual corona pandemic .
See COVID-19 , We Are Now Living the “ Lock Step Scenario ” and https : //www.globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-world-government-and-the-corona-crisis/5712312 and https : //www.globalresearch.ca/moderna-covid-vaccine-trials/5713705 .
… .
The racial riots , initiated by the movement Black Lives Matter , funded by Soros & Co. , following the brutal assassination of the Afro-American George Floyd by a gang of Minneapolis police , and spreading like brush-fire in no time to more than 160 cities , first in the US , then in Europe – are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s agenda , but they were a convenient deviation from the human catastrophe left behind by Covid-19 .
See also https : //www.globalresearch.ca/corona-racial-riots-proliferation-agenda/5714923 .
The Beast ’ s nefarious plan to implement what ’ s really behind the UN Agenda 2030 is the little heard-of Agenda ID2020 .
See The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic : The Real Danger is “ Agenda ID2020 ” .
It has been created and funded by the vaccination guru Bill Gates , and so has GAVI ( Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations ) , the association of Big @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vaccines , and which funds along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF ) a major proportion of WHO ’ s budget .
The Great Reset , as announced by WEF ’ s Klaus Schwab , is supposedly implemented by Agenda ID2020 .
It is more than meets the eye .
Agenda ID2020 is even anchored in the SDGs , as SDG 16.9 “ by 2030 provide legal [ digital ] identity for all , including free birth registration ” .
This fits perfectly into the overall goal of SDG 16 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for sustainable development , provide access to justice for all and build effective , accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.
” Following the official path of the UN Agenda 2030 of achieving the SDGs , the ‘ implementing ’ Agenda ID2020 – which is currently being tested on school children in Bangladesh – will provide digitized IDs possibly in the form of nano-chips implanted along with compulsory vaccination programs , will promote digitization of money and the rolling out of 5G – which would be needed to upload and monitor personal data @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the populace .
Agenda ID2020 will most likely also include ‘ programs ’ – through vaccination ?
– of significantly reducing world population .
Eugenics is an important component in the control of future world population under a NOW / OWO – see also Georgia Guidestones , mysteriously built in 1980 https : //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones # Inscriptions .
The ruling elite used the lockdown as an instrument to carry out this agenda .
Its implementation would naturally face massive protests , organized and funded along the same lines as were the BLM protests and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ – and may not be planned as being peaceful .
Because to control the population in the US and in Europe , where most of the civil unrest would be expected , a total militarization of the people is required .
This is well under preparation .
In his essay “ The Big Plantation ” https : //www.globalresearch.ca/big-plantation/5716077 , John Steppling reports from a NYT article that a “ minimum of 93,763 machine guns , 180,718 magazine cartridges , hundreds of silencers and an unknown number of grenade launchers have been provided to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US since 2006 .
This is in addition to at least 533 planes and helicopters , and 432 MRAPs — 9-foot high , 30-ton Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicles with gun turrets and more than 44,900 pieces of night vision equipment , regularly used in nighttime raids in Afghanistan and Iraq.
” He adds that this militarization is part of a broader trend .
Since the late 1990s , about 89 percent of police departments in the United States serving populations of 50,000 people or more had a PPU ( Police Paramilitary Unit @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the mid-1980s .
He refers to these militarized police as the new Gestapo .
Even before Covid , about 15 % to 20 % of the population was on or below the poverty line in the United States .
The post-covid lockdown economic annihilation will at least double that percentage – and commensurately increase the risk for civil turbulence and clashes with authorities – further enhancing the reasoning for a militarized police force .
-- -- -- -- - None of these scenarios will , of course , be presented to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These are decisions taken behind closed doors by the key actors for the Beast .
However , this grandiose plan of the Great Reset does not have to happen .
There is at least half the world population and some of the most powerful countries , economically and militarily – like China and Russia – opposed to it .
“ Reset ” maybe yes , but not in these western terms .
In fact , a reset of kinds is already happening with China about to roll out a new People ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the crypto RMB , or yuan .
This is not only a hard currency based on a solid economy , it is also supported by gold .
While President Trump keeps trashing China for unfair trade , for improperly managing the covid pandemic , for stealing property rights – China bashing no end – that China depends on the US and that the US will cut trading ties with China – or cut ties altogether , China is calling Trump ’ s bluff .
China is quietly reorienting herself towards the ASEAN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ! )
and South Korea , where trade already today accounts for about 15 % of all China ’ s trade and is expected to double in the next five years .
True , China ’ s exports did decline by about 3 % in April 2020 as a result of the covid-lockdown , but US exports decreased by almost 8 % in the same period .
It is clear that the vast majority of US industries could not survive without Chinese supply chains .
The western dependence on Chinese medical supplies is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by US consumers .
In 2019 , US total consumption , about 70 % of GDP , amounted to $ 13.3 trillion , of which a fair amount is directly imported from China or dependent on ingredients from China .
The WEF-masters are confronted with a real dilemma .
Their plan depends very much on the dollar supremacy which would continue to allow dishing out sanctions and confiscating assets from those countries opposing US rule ; a dollar-hegemony which would allow imposing the components of The Great Reset scheme , as described above @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fiat money , debt-money created from thin air .
It has no backing whatsoever .
Therefore , its worth as a reserve currency is increasingly decaying , especially vis-à-vis the new crypto-yuan from China .
In order to compete with the Chinese yuan , the US Government would have to move away from its monetary Ponzi-scheme , by separating itself from the 1913 Federal Reserve Act and print her own US-economy- and possibly gold-backed ( crypto ) money – not fiat FED-money , as is the case today .
That would mean cutting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Rothschild and Co. clan-owned FED , and creating a real peoples-owned central bank .
Not impossible , but highly improbable .
Here , two Beasts might clash , as world power is at stake .
Meanwhile , China , with her philosophy of endless creation would continue forging ahead unstoppably with her mammoth socioeconomic development plan of the 21st Century , the Belt and Road Initiative , connecting and bridging the world with infrastructure for land and maritime transport , with joint research and industrial projects , cultural exchanges – and not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” characteristics , equality for all partners – towards a multi-polar world , towards a world with a common future for mankind .
Today already more than 120 countries are associated with BRI – and the field is wide open for others to join – and to defy , unmask and unplug The Great Reset of the West .

Peter Koenig
Imagine, you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy – and you may even believe it – but in fact your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. They may be called Deep State, Illuminati, or simply the Beast, or anything else obscure or untraceable – it doesn’t matter. They are less than the 0.0001%.
For lack of a better expression, let’s call them for now “obscure individuals”. These obscure individuals who pretend running our world have never been elected. We don’t need to name them. You will figure out who they are, and why they are famous, and some of them totally invisible. They have created structures, or organisms without any legal format. They are fully out of international legality. They are a forefront for the Beast. Maybe there are several competing Beasts. But they have the same objective: A New or One World Order (NWO, or OWO).
These obscure individuals are running, for example, The World Economic Forum (WEF – representing Big Industry, Big Finance and Big Fame), the Group of 7 – G7, the Group of 20 – G20 (the leaders of the economically” strongest” nations). There are also some lesser entities, called the Bilderberg Society, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Chatham House and more. The members of all of them are overlapping. Even this expanded forefront combined represents less than 0.001%. They all have superimposed themselves over sovereign national elected and constitutional governments, and over THE multinational world body, the United Nations, the UN.
In fact, they have coopted the UN to do their bidding. UN Director Generals, as well as the DGs of the multiple UN-suborganizations, are chosen – mostly by the US, with the consenting nod of their European vassals – according to the candidate’s political and psychological profile. If his or her ‘performance’ as head of the UN or head of one of the UN suborganizations fails, his or her days are counted. Coopted or created by the Beast(s) are also, the European Union, the Bretton Woods Organizations, World Bank and IMF, as well as the World Trade Organization (WTO) – and – make no mistake – the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. It has no teeth. Just to make sure the law is always on the side of the lawless.
In addition to the key international financial institutions, WB and IMF, there are the so-called regional development banks and similar financial institutions, keeping the countries of their respective regions in check. In the end its financial or debt-economy that controls everything. Western neoliberal banditry has created a system, where political disobedience can be punished by economic oppression or outright theft of national assets in international territories. The system’s common denominator is the (still) omnipresent US-dollar.
The supremacy of these obscure unelected individuals becomes ever more exposed. We, the People consider it “normal” that they call the shots, not what we call – or once were proud of calling, our sovereign nations and sovereignly elected governments. They have become a herd of obedient sheep. The Beast has gradually and quietly taken over. We haven’t noticed. It’s the salami tactic: You cut off slice by tiny slice and when the salami is gone, you realize that you have nothing left, that your freedom, your civil and human rights are gone. By then it’s too late. Case in point is the US Patriot Act. It was prepared way before 9/11. Once 9/11 “happened”, the Patriot Legislation was whizzed through Congress in no time – for the people’s future protection – people called for it for fear – and – bingo, the Patriot Act took about 90% of the American population’s freedom and civil rights away. For good.
We have become enslaved to the Beast. The Beast calls the shots on boom or bust of our economies, on who should be shackled by debt, when and where a pandemic should break out, and on the conditions of surviving the pandemic, for example, social confinement. And to top it all off – the instruments the Beast uses, very cleverly, are a tiny-tiny invisible enemy, called a virus, and a huge but also invisible monster, called FEAR. That keeps us off the street, off reunions with our friends, and off our social entertainment, theatre, sports, or a picnic in the park.
Soon the Beast will decide who will live and who will die, literally – if we let it. This may be not far away. Another wave of pandemic and people may beg, yell and scream for a vaccine, for their death knell, and for the super bonanza of Big Pharma – and towards the objectives of the eugenicists blatantly roaming the world – https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_innovating_to_zero?language=en#t-11976. There is still time to collectively say NO. Collectively and solidarily.
Take the latest case of blatant imposture. Conveniently, after the first wave of Covid-19 had passed, at least in the Global North, where the major world decisions are made, in early June 2020, the unelected WEF Chairman, Klaus Schwab, announced “The Great Reset”. Taking advantage of the economic collapse – the crisis shock, as in “The Shock Doctrine” – Mr. Schwab, one of the Beast’s frontrunners, announces openly what the WEF will discuss and decide for the world-to-come in their next Davos Forum in January 2021. For more details see https://www.globalresearch.ca/davos-great-reset/5715515 .
Will, We, The People, accept the agenda of the unelected WEF?
It will opportunely focus on the protection of what’s left of Mother Earth; obviously at the center will be man-made CO2-based “Global Warming”. The instrument for that protection of nature and humankind will be the UN Agenda 2030 – which equals the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It will focus on how to rebuild the willfully destroyed global economy, while respecting the (“green”) principles of the 17 SDGs.
Mind you, it’s all connected. There are no coincidences. The infamous Agenda 2021 which coincides with and complements the so-called (UN) Agenda 2030, will be duly inaugurated by the WEF’s official declaration of The Great Reset, in January 2021. Similarly, the implementation of the agenda of The Great Reset began in January 2020, by the launch of the corona pandemic – planned for decades with the latest visible events being the 2010 Rockefeller Report with its “Lockstep Scenario”, and Event 201, of 18 October in NYC which computer-simulated a corona pandemic, leaving within 18 months 65 million deaths and an economy in ruin, programmed just a few weeks before the launch of the actual corona pandemic. See COVID-19, We Are Now Living the “Lock Step Scenario” and https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-world-government-and-the-corona-crisis/5712312 and https://www.globalresearch.ca/moderna-covid-vaccine-trials/5713705.
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The racial riots, initiated by the movement Black Lives Matter, funded by Soros & Co., following the brutal assassination of the Afro-American George Floyd by a gang of Minneapolis police, and spreading like brush-fire in no time to more than 160 cities, first in the US, then in Europe – are not only connected to the Beast’s agenda, but they were a convenient deviation from the human catastrophe left behind by Covid-19. See also https://www.globalresearch.ca/corona-racial-riots-proliferation-agenda/5714923.
The Beast’s nefarious plan to implement what’s really behind the UN Agenda 2030 is the little heard-of Agenda ID2020. See The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”. It has been created and funded by the vaccination guru Bill Gates, and so has GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations), the association of Big Pharma – involved in creating the corona vaccines, and which funds along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) a major proportion of WHO’s budget.
The Great Reset, as announced by WEF’s Klaus Schwab, is supposedly implemented by Agenda ID2020. It is more than meets the eye. Agenda ID2020 is even anchored in the SDGs, as SDG 16.9 “by 2030 provide legal [digital] identity for all, including free birth registration”. This fits perfectly into the overall goal of SDG 16: ”Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels.”
Following the official path of the UN Agenda 2030 of achieving the SDGs, the ‘implementing’ Agenda ID2020 – which is currently being tested on school children in Bangladesh – will provide digitized IDs possibly in the form of nano-chips implanted along with compulsory vaccination programs, will promote digitization of money and the rolling out of 5G – which would be needed to upload and monitor personal data on the nano chips and to control the populace. Agenda ID2020 will most likely also include ‘programs’ – through vaccination? – of significantly reducing world population. Eugenics is an important component in the control of future world population under a NOW / OWO – see also Georgia Guidestones, mysteriously built in 1980 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones#Inscriptions.
The ruling elite used the lockdown as an instrument to carry out this agenda. Its implementation would naturally face massive protests, organized and funded along the same lines as were the BLM protests and demonstrations. They may not be peaceful – and may not be planned as being peaceful. Because to control the population in the US and in Europe, where most of the civil unrest would be expected, a total militarization of the people is required. This is well under preparation.
In his essay “The Big Plantation” https://www.globalresearch.ca/big-plantation/5716077, John Steppling reports from a NYT article that a “minimum of 93,763 machine guns, 180,718 magazine cartridges, hundreds of silencers and an unknown number of grenade launchers have been provided to state and local police departments in the US since 2006. This is in addition to at least 533 planes and helicopters, and 432 MRAPs — 9-foot high, 30-ton Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected armored vehicles with gun turrets and more than 44,900 pieces of night vision equipment, regularly used in nighttime raids in Afghanistan and Iraq.” He adds that this militarization is part of a broader trend. Since the late 1990s, about 89 percent of police departments in the United States serving populations of 50,000 people or more had a PPU (Police Paramilitary Unit), almost double of what existed in the mid-1980s. He refers to these militarized police as the new Gestapo.
Even before Covid, about 15% to 20% of the population was on or below the poverty line in the United States. The post-covid lockdown economic annihilation will at least double that percentage – and commensurately increase the risk for civil turbulence and clashes with authorities – further enhancing the reasoning for a militarized police force.
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None of these scenarios will, of course, be presented to the public by the WEF in January 2021. These are decisions taken behind closed doors by the key actors for the Beast. However, this grandiose plan of the Great Reset does not have to happen. There is at least half the world population and some of the most powerful countries, economically and militarily – like China and Russia – opposed to it. “Reset” maybe yes, but not in these western terms. In fact, a reset of kinds is already happening with China about to roll out a new People’s Bank of China backed blockchain-based cryptocurrency, the crypto RMB, or yuan. This is not only a hard currency based on a solid economy, it is also supported by gold.
While President Trump keeps trashing China for unfair trade, for improperly managing the covid pandemic, for stealing property rights – China bashing no end – that China depends on the US and that the US will cut trading ties with China – or cut ties altogether, China is calling Trump’s bluff. China is quietly reorienting herself towards the ASEAN countries plus Japan (yes, Japan!) and South Korea, where trade already today accounts for about 15% of all China’s trade and is expected to double in the next five years.
True, China’s exports did decline by about 3% in April 2020 as a result of the covid-lockdown, but US exports decreased by almost 8% in the same period. It is clear that the vast majority of US industries could not survive without Chinese supply chains. The western dependence on Chinese medical supplies is particularly strong. Let alone Chinese dependence by US consumers. In 2019, US total consumption, about 70% of GDP, amounted to $13.3 trillion, of which a fair amount is directly imported from China or dependent on ingredients from China.
The WEF-masters are confronted with a real dilemma. Their plan depends very much on the dollar supremacy which would continue to allow dishing out sanctions and confiscating assets from those countries opposing US rule; a dollar-hegemony which would allow imposing the components of The Great Reset scheme, as described above.
At present, the dollar is fiat money, debt-money created from thin air. It has no backing whatsoever. Therefore, its worth as a reserve currency is increasingly decaying, especially vis-à-vis the new crypto-yuan from China. In order to compete with the Chinese yuan, the US Government would have to move away from its monetary Ponzi-scheme, by separating itself from the 1913 Federal Reserve Act and print her own US-economy- and possibly gold-backed (crypto) money – not fiat FED-money, as is the case today. That would mean cutting the more than 100-year old ties to the Rothschild and Co. clan-owned FED, and creating a real peoples-owned central bank. Not impossible, but highly improbable. Here, two Beasts might clash, as world power is at stake.
Meanwhile, China, with her philosophy of endless creation would continue forging ahead unstoppably with her mammoth socioeconomic development plan of the 21st Century, the Belt and Road Initiative, connecting and bridging the world with infrastructure for land and maritime transport, with joint research and industrial projects, cultural exchanges – and not least, multinational trade with “win-win” characteristics, equality for all partners – towards a multi-polar world, towards a world with a common future for mankind.
Today already more than 120 countries are associated with BRI – and the field is wide open for others to join – and to defy, unmask and unplug The Great Reset of the West.