2021: The world as a gambling hell?
by Wolfgang Effenberger*
(30 January 2021) On 11 December 2020, the Economist special issue "The World 2021" was published with forward-looking contents. The covers of the previous annual issues were, as usual, very cryptic with their encoded plans of the background elites: a mixture of occult symbolism and references to manipulation and control of the masses.
For 2021, a slot machine was chosen, with the globe adorning its lever arm. Pressing it causes the four reels to rotate. Instead of coins, "stimulus funds" are to be inserted. It's all about the very big rip-off "CASH OUT" at taxpayers' expense. The uninitiated readers have to rely on their imagination.
The second reel seems to have already come to a standstill. The portrait shown is probably that of Joe Biden, the future US president. This is not surprising, since the Economist – with its proximity to the so-called Deep State – had issued an election recommendation for Biden. In 1980, The Economist had, for the first time, issued a recommendation for a US presidential candidate, then Ronald Reagan.1 In Biden, The Economist sees a good man "who will return stability and decency to the White House" and "begin the long, difficult task of putting a fractured country back together".2 Well – Biden has not really distinguished himself as a peacemaker anywhere in the last 45 years of his political career, on the contrary. Let us recall his request to the US State Department for military action against the Bosnian Serbs right at the beginning of the unrest in the Balkans in 1993.3
After the war of aggression against Serbia, in violation of international law, UN Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999, formed the basis in international law for the establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission. This established the territorial affiliation of Kosovo to Serbia. Notwithstanding this, the West pushed for Kosovo's independence and presented its arguments against it before the International Court of Justice in The Hague on 17 April 2009. Before the fifteen judges in The Hague could even consider the independence application, US Vice President Biden, on a visit to Kosovo in May 2009, emphasised the country's independence as irreversible. A clearer defiance of a supreme court is hard to imagine.4
In 2002, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden drove his country into an unprovoked war against Iraq. The UN's then chief weapons inspector described his hearing before Biden's committee as a farce. "Biden and top congressional leaders determined in advance that they would remove Hussein regardless of the facts and launch a large-scale military attack on Iraq."5
After the illegal US coup in Kiev in late February 2014 – from 1990 onwards the US had invested $5 billion in Kiev for the purpose of "regime change",6 then Vice President Joe Biden travelled to Ukraine in April as Obama's appointee to support the new pro-Western cabinet and help reduce Ukraine's dependence on Russian energy supplies.7 Biden had no qualms about using the neo-fascist Svoboda party and the right-wing nationalist volunteer regiment "Azov" – now a political movement – to implement US policy in Ukraine. In recent months, however, presidential candidate Biden has demonstrated closeness to Antifa.
So far, the skilful tactician Biden has not presented himself as a friend of peace, a defender of rights or a friend of workers. On the contrary, he has mostly worked for banks, the financial industry and the military-industrial complex. For the US state of Delaware, a financial haven like Luxembourg, also known as the "onshore version of the Cayman Islands", Biden sat in the Senate for decades, representing the interests of business there. In 1999, Biden campaigned for the repeal of the Separate Banks Act (Glass-Steagall Act of 1933). The direct consequence was the financial crisis of 2008, which has still not been overcome. As vice president, Biden did nothing to hold those responsible accountable. On the contrary: the banks were rescued with gigantic aid packages from taxpayers' money.
Against this background, it seems impossible that Biden will be able to overcome the division of the country, he has worked on vigorously throughout his political life. So, a nuclear war cannot be ruled out either. The nomination of General Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defence also goes in this direction. After his retirement, Austin served on the board of directors of defence giant Raytheon Technologies – a major contractor of the Pentagon. Former adviser in the Obama administration and law professor Rosa Brooks sees this as a "terrible message".8
The first still-rotating reel features the virus, a face wearing a mask and a syringe, and an emerging question mark. Without a doubt, Corona will dominate the whole year. Despite vaccination, the mask could remain – goodbye freedom?
On the third reel, a question mark disappears and a Chinese flag appears. In between, a wind turbine ("climate protection policy") and a US dollar. China's economy – now at pre-crisis levels – could emerge from the crisis as a global and at the same time geostrategic winner. On top of that, China also stands for the model of surveillance and restrictions of freedom there.
On the fourth reel, a virus reappears, while the economic upswing disappears. The camera symbol probably stands for increased surveillance. The forest fires could stand for coming natural disasters. All in all, none of this is necessarily surprising. Gates and Drosten have been threatening with a new virus for a long time.
Climate protection serves as a vehicle to rebuild the world. A world free of wars and gigantic arms expenditures would be the best climate protection, but new wars are desired at least by the military-industrial complex and other profiteers. The latter seem to hope for a system of total surveillance after the "Great Reset". In addition, there is a new digital currency. China seems to be the model for these gentlemen.
"The Great Reset" A new start? A transformation?
In early June 2020, the head and founder of the "World Economic Forum" (WEF), Klaus Schwab, announced an initiative to help make the world a better place after the Covid-19 pandemic. Covid-19 offers the possibility, Schwab said, that "our economic and social foundations"9 can be rebooted. He listed Covid-19, national debt and the climate crisis as problem areas. The world is to be made more resilient to surprises such as other types of viruses, as well as more inclusive and equitable, and ultimately greener. This cannot be done by returning to the system of multilateralism that emerged after World War II; it requires a reform of the international system: "we need to implement new dimensions of global trade, eg. anything to do with e-commerce and so on."10
Already in 2016, the WEF had summarised 8 predictions for the world in 2030 in a promotional video:11
1. People are dispossessed. Goods are free or borrowed from the state.
2. The USA will be replaced as the leading superpower – a handful of countries will dominate.
3. Organs will not be transplanted but printed.
4. Meat consumption will be minimised.
5. Massive displacement of people will take place with billions of refugees.
6. An exorbitant price will be set globally to limit CO2 emissions.
7. People can prepare to go to Mars ...
8. The western value system will be strained to breaking point ...12
Who is this relatively unknown, in many ways globally networked and democratically not legitimised "to call the tune”?
The German economist Klaus Schwab was professor of corporate policy at the University of Geneva from 1972 to 2003. As a student, he had taken a seminar with Henry Kissinger at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS); he still maintains close contacts, especially with David Gergen. The latter served as communications director under Presidents Ford and Reagan and as an advisor to Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.13 Schwab's friend David Gergen is a member of the influential Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Klaus Schwab himself, on the other hand, sits on the Bilderberg Steering Committee (eight members). The invitation for each three-day conference of around 130 people from industry, politics, finance, the military and the media is issued by the chairman in consultation with his steering committee. Before their election as chancellors, Schröder and Merkel, for example, were invited. Macron was also there before he was elected president, as were several other presidents. At the 2019 meeting in Montreux, Schwab's favourite topics included: climate change and the future of capitalism. Rico Gebhardt, LINKE state leader in Saxony, speaks of a "self-appointed neoliberal elite" that makes decisions with far-reaching effects without their meetings having any form of democratic legitimacy.14
In 2004, Schwab founded “The Forum of Young Global Leaders” (YGLs), a unique community made up of the most extraordinary leaders from all regions of the world. Among them are film producers Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio, media magnate Mark Zuckerberg, internet entrepreneur and Google co-founder Larry Page, and Sebastian Kurz, the world's second youngest head of government.15
With Schwab and Gergen, the WEF thus has global influence that should not be underestimated.
In early July 2020, Klaus Schwab published the book "Covid-19: The Great Reset" together with Thierry Malleret – economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London and strategist at a large Russian investment bank. Without any human emotion, Schwab and Malleret link the pandemic to their futuristic proposals and hail it as a harbinger of the socio-economic upheaval they propose. According to US journalist and active Vietnam War opponent Diane Johnston, Schwab and Malleret use technocratic psychobabble "to proclaim that the pandemic is already in the process of altering human mentality to adapt to the new reality they believe is inevitable".16
According to Schwab's and the WEF's scenario, in 2030 the world will look very different according to the 8-point catalogue: artificial intelligence will fundamentally change the way people work and live today. Part of humanity will no longer be needed and will only be allowed to be taken care of. With this picture in mind, at the last WEF meeting in Davos, the Israeli historian Yuval Harari issued a powerful warning:
"While in the past people had to fight against exploitation, in the 21st century the really big fight will be against meaninglessness, (...) a new 'useless class' would form (...) And this useless class will be separated from the ever more powerful elite by an ever widening gap."17
Indian globalist, social activist and Sydney Peace Prize winner Vandana Shiva said even more clearly:
"The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering the corporate extraction machine and private ownership of life."18
Can the hidden messages of the Economist be read in terms of Schwab's planned "Great Reset"? Bill Gates is determined to vaccinate the majority of the world's population – an unprecedented attempt at humanity. The globe, including humanity, as the object of a gigantic gambling by technocratic, unscrupulous daredevils.
The visions of the technocratic elite are not new. Already in the first half of the 19th century, radical theories of communal labour and communal property were developed, above all by Henri de Saint-Simon and later by Karl Marx.
For Saint-Simon, useful members of a community were those who actively participated in services and especially in the production of goods.
Saint-Simon's utopian socialism, in its cold through-organisation and utilitarianism, bears great resemblance to the "reset" fantasies of Western elites. The totalitarian experiences of the 20th century should have taught us better: technocratic systems for "world improvement", which leave no room for the individual and the natural – consistently lead to a hell of coercion and contempt for human beings.
(Translation «Swiss Standpoint»)
| * Wolfgang Effenberger, born in 1946, is a journalist and author of numerous books in German. He published e.g. «Wiederkehr der Hasardeure, Schattenstrategen, Kriegstreiber, stille Profiteure 1914 und heute», 2014; «Geo-Imperialismus. Die Zerstörung der Welt», 2016. His newest book is «Schwarzbuch EU & NATO» [Blackbook EU & NATO], 2021 (https://zeitgeist-online.de/2013-11-30-00-57-32/1097-wolfgang-effenberger-schwarzbuch-eu-nato.html) |
1 https://www.economist.com/US2020endorsement
2 https://www.presseportal.de/pm/29138/4748305
3 Wolfgang Effenberger: Schwarzbuch EU & NATO, Warum die Welt keinen Frieden findet [Blackbook EU & NATO, Why the World can’t find Peace], Höhr-Grenzhausen 2020, p. 222
4 Ibidem, p. 308
5 https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Biden-kaempft-auch-gegen-die-Vergangenheit-article21977738.html [Biden also struggles against the past]
6 https://www.zeit.de/2015/20/ukraine-usa-maidan-finanzierung/seite-2 [Ukraine-USA-Maidan financing]
7 https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article127173350/US-Vize-fordert-von-Ukraine-Korruptionsbekaempfung.html [US Vice President demands corruption control in Ukraine]
8 https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/lloyd-austin-verteidigungsminister-unter-biden-100.html[Lloyd Austin, secretary of defense in Biden administration]
9 https://www.handelszeitung.ch/politik/the-great-reset-wie-das-wef-ins-zentrum-aller-verschworungstheorien-geriet [The Great Reset, how the WEF came to be the focal point of all conspiracy theories]
10 https://de.euronews.com/2020/11/17/klaus-schwab-wir-konnen-nicht-zur-alten-normalitat-zuruckkehren [Klaus Schwab: We cannot return to former normality]
11 WEF: 8 predictions for the world in 2030 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx3DhoLFO4s
12 Mueller, Antony P. “No Privacy, No Property: The World in 2030 According to the WEF” at https://mises.org/wire/no-privacy-no-property-world-2030-according-wef
13 Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
14 Lasch, Hendrik. The Bilderberg Conference meets in Dresden and thus for the first time in the former Eastern Bloc / Criticism of "pre-democratic" event on 8 June 2016. https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1014501.geheime-weltregierung-redet-ueber-das-prekariat.html
15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Global_Leaders
16 Johnstone, Diana. The Great Pretext – The Great Pretext for a Dystopia. https://kenfm.de/the-great-pretext-der-grosse-vorwand-fuer-eine-dystopie-von-diana-johnstone/
17 Quoted ibid.
18 Loffredo, Jeremy. World Economic Forum's 'Great Reset' Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=fd5883b3-d6e3-4471-825b-98bebd2bea7f