AGelbert NOTE: What Graham Peebles calls "
god" is what I know
IS what
GOD created. I post his article because he exposes the FACT that
GREED is, as it has always been, a
Socially DESTRUCTIVE EVIL that, if not
countered by 🕊️ ETHICAL BEHAVIOR, will result in the
end of human civilization.
Graphics and emojies by me.
Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a 
light unto me.
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.COUNTERPUNCHMAY 24, 2024 BY
🕊️ GRAHAM PEEBLESSNIPPETS:
Keeping the masses poor, physically exhausted and emotionally drained, whilst concentrating wealth into the pockets of the already rich is not a new game of course. As Priya Sahni-Nicholas of the Equality Trust explains,
“The super-rich have spent centuries diverting wealth into their hands, making our democracy less responsive to people’s needs and damaging our communities. The result is we [society/nations] are
poorer, sicker, less productive, unhappier, more polarised, and less trusting.”
The
values of the market are
destroying communities and literally making people ill – physically and psychologically (and of course the two are inter-twinned). These insidious tools of control create the conditions for all kinds of conflict, individually and collectively. ... ...
The statistics around wealth and income inequality are manifold and horrifying. 
... ...
During the last ten years, (which saw the 2008 financial crash, Covid and the Ukraine/Russia) the collective wealth of this
tiny shiny gang has
increased by 120%. As Forbes puts it, “Even during times of financial uncertainty for many, the
super-rich continue to thrive.” At the same time, on the same planet, as the hyper rich drown in money and stuff, around
five billion people around the world are
poorer now than they were in 2019. ... ...
Remember all the
talk during the pandemic of a socio-economic reset, of tackling social injustices, creating fairer more integrated ways of working and living etc, blah, blah blah. Well,
Oxfam reveal that, in subsequent years while
“average real wages of nearly 800 million workers have fallen” across 52 countries 😵, the worlds billionaires are $3.3Tn richer than they were pre pandemic……and their
wealth has
grown three times faster than the rate of inflation.”
Unimaginable wealth for a tiny number of individuals while the majority of humanity live in varying levels of poverty or economic hardship. “The wealth of the world’s five richest billionaires has
more than doubled since the start of this decade,
while 60% of humanity has grown poorer.” ‘Trickle down economics’ (“gush up” as Arundhati Roy rightly describes it) is a 😈 dystopian fantasy peddled by
those who are swimming in cash. ... ...
Record profits as the majority are struggling to feed themselves, are in many cases falling into debt and destitution, whilst being told to ‘tighten their belts’, by obnoxious, often wealthy, politicians beholden to corporate leaders.
Virtually all profits are dished out to shareholders, with companies refusing to pay their staff properly;
less than 0.5% “of over 1,600 of the world’s largest companies “pay their workers a living wage.” Corporate
greed knows no limits, nor the level of worker exploitation. ... ...
The Paradigm of Greed and Destruction champions excess; sufficiency, simplicity and moderation are dismissed. Everything is seen as a commodity, including health care, education, and people, to be monetised, exploited to the last drop and profited from. Everyone is regarded as a consumer, every nation, city or village analysed as a potential marketplace.
It is a deeply materialistic, extremely crude, albeit complex way of organising society, that humanity is enthralled too and entrapped by. Obsession with objects and sensory experiences has resulted in mankind being divorced from him/herself, from the natural world and that underlying reality, which we call god.
It is choking the life out of humanity, poisoning the planet and driving climate change.
Full article:
Earning enough to pay the rent or mortgage, cover utility bills and travel costs, buy food and have the occasional coffee is impossible for many. But its
