A gladiator (Latin for “swordsman”) was an armed combatant who entertained audiences in the Roman Republic and later in the Roman Empire, in violent confrontations with other gladiators, wild animals, and condemned criminals.
The fights were to the people’s delight.
At the end of a fight the winner looked to the yelling, hurling and screaming audience or to the “moderator” – what to do next? – Thumbs up meant give him mercy, let him live; thumbs down: kill ‘em.
A cheering crowd would watch these horrendous games of mostly men fighter. There were some female exceptions.
As in today’s world – there are also some female gladiators.
Today, there are female competitions in almost all sports.
But they are generally in lesser demand than men-events.
After all, we live in a macho-world. Wars and other conflict confrontations are mostly led by men – and those who suffer most, are women, children and the elderly.
The Gladiator fights date back to the 3rd Century BC. – Nowadays’ gladiator games are adapted to the 21st Century.
The origin of gladiatorial combats is not clear.
There is some evidence that they were used in funeral rites during the Punic Wars of the 3rd Century BC.
The Punic Wars were a series of confrontations fought between the Roman Republic and the Ancient Empire of Carthage (based in what today is Tunisia and stretching over western North Africa).
Those were for pure entertainment of the masses, to deviate from war losses, and to show winner’s ego, pride – propaganda for more fighting and more violence.
The tradition of gladiator games lasted for almost a thousand years, until the 6th Century AD.
Their origins appear like ceremonial, but later, when the Roman Republic became the Roman Empire – they served as brutal entertainments for the masses to deviate their attention from what the empire was doing at home, or “cooking” abroad, in foreign lands, with resources – “taxes” – taken from the people.
Resources of the people being diverted to causes that served only a small elite.
Not unlike today, where resources from the people, “taxes” from peoples’ earnings are used for purposes that are decided by the elite in power to a large extent, for reasons and projects that do not serve the people at all.
Just take the military budgets – they serve a small group the war and destruction industry, but not the people. People do not want wars.
In the early years of the first millennium (70 AD), the Roman Colosseum was built, where most gladiator games were fought.
They were entertaining “compensation-deviation” for the people, so they would not think about what was going on with their monetary resources in foreign lands or even at home – against their vital interests of wellbeing.
Their attention was focused on small-scale violence – leaving the big behind-the-scenes stuff to the elite.
The gladiator battles that pitted armed combatants against one another in brutal but often highly choreographed duels to the death, were by far the most popular kind of entertainment that unfolded in the Colosseum.
Today, modern-day Colosseums are football and soccer stadiums.
Thus, modern-day gladiator fights are back.
They are not as violent and as deadly as those fought in the ancient Roman Colosseum, but today’s emotion-loaded sports events are also destined to deviating peoples’ attention from the “deadly games”, games played by a minute world elite, well hidden from the entertained masses.
So well hidden and prepared for decades that they hit the people like a ton of bricks, when they are finally let loose on the innocent masses – masses for years misled by their governments’ propaganda machine.
Right now, the plandemic, called covid-19, has within 18 months already devastated the lives of billions of people throughout the UN’s 193 UN member countries – not by disease (SARS-CoV-2) caused death, but rather by a devastated economy, induced poverty, famine, despair and eventually death from desolation, famine and misery.
Within a year and a half, basic human rights have been stolen, abridged, taken away, in warp speed, and what were thought to be at least remnants of democracies, especially in the Global North, have become tyrannies, almost overnight; legalized tyrannies many of them under swiftly and semi-clandestinely passed martial law.
Driven by fake news and lavishly paid false propaganda, people have been lulled into fear – constant fear of death from an invisible enemy “V” for virus – from a monstruous fear-machine – false and fabricated disease figures, that they – and the entire society, what’s left of it, is breaking apart, incapable of living normal lives.
Indeed, because normal life has been extinguished with the well-in-advance planned pandemic, i.e., plandemic.
An obscure ultra-rich world elite that pretends to call the shots on everything, ordered governments to submit to The Virus, a corona virus, SARS-Cov-2, the version two of the SARS virus launched principally on China in 2002 / 2003.
The “order” came on 11 March 2020, from the pharma-compromised World Health Organization (WHO) declaring SARS-Cov-2, alias Covid-19, a worldwide pandemic.
It is virology 101, no virus strikes naturally the entre world all 193 UN member countries at once.
This was the beginning of the UN Agenda 2030, also called Agenda 21.
It’s also the beginning of the modern-days’ gladiator games.
In this ten-year-program, UN Agenda 2030, a complete structural change of society, if not our civilization, is planned to be implemented, leaving behind what the World Economic Forum (WEF) calls “The Great Reset”, a world that belongs to a few diabolical dark, rich beings, served by a drastically reduced world population.
The death knell to bring the population down, is a gigantic drive of “vaccination” with precisely what the CDC calls an “experimental gene-therapy”, so-called mRNA jabs. Governments around the globe lie, calling it a vaccine.
They spend the peoples’ billions, if not trillions, in tax money to lavishly reward the pharmaceuticals – in return for “vaccines”.
Already the immediate reaction to the coerced jabs is a severe death toll, reaching within the first 6 months of the “vaxx-drive” reported serious injuries and deaths that are exponentially higher than those of regular vaccinations over the past 50 years together.
The European Union reports 1.5 million serious vaccine injuries and 15,500 Deaths from the mRNA-jabs, as of 25 June 2021.
See this https://www.technocracy.news/shock-european-union-reports-1-5-million-vaccine-injuries-15472-deaths/ .
And by far, not all injuries are reported.
That already indicates that this tyrannical drive to vaccinate more than 7 billion people on Mother Earth, against a virus which has a proven death rate of no more than 0.3% to 0.8 %, about equivalent to the common flu, has nothing to do with health; absolutely nothing.
To the contrary.
Its wanton injury, and even better: death.
And 193 UN member governments are coopted, either by (deadly) threats or by lush rewards, or simply by being given a placebo instead of a deadly mRNA-experimental toxin.
While all is done to convert the lie – a universal crime of biblical proportions – into the truth, by billions of dollars or euros spent on false propaganda, the real truth does slowly seep through.
Real science is exiting the matrix of the bought and corrupted science – and is revealing against all odds and threats the truth.
It is still largely suppressed, but gradually emerging – and ever more of the lulled masses are waking up to life-threatening lies and crimes of their governments.
“It’s time to insert a break” – so, the elite, those who shall not be named, but are invisibly commanding the visible elite of our governments. And mind you, those who resist may disappear.
It’s time for the modern-days gladiator games, sports events like soccer championships, the European Cup, the American Cup, a variety of tennis championships, Wimbledon (UK), French Open, US Open, Australian Open, the summer Olympics starting these days in Japan…
Fights between today’s gladiators are normally not about death and life – but they nevertheless let bottled-up emotions explode — like you’d never think humans are capable of letting off so much steam. Just watch the slow-motion replays of a goal in one of these soccer championships matches.
It is almost unbelievable the energy let loose, by the players, as well as by the public.
Reality is forgotten.
That’s the plan.
Just imagine the shall-remain-unnamed billionaires, and others belonging to the dark and wicked masterminds behind the scenes and above the governments – leaning back in their armchairs, watching a soccer game – elated of joy, smiling – we have them where we want them to be — giv’em another month or two of diversion, then we’ll lock them down again.
This time even harsher, so they get used to it – become familiar with the method – with the infamous carrot and stick approach.
And the stick is getting bigger and bigger and the carrot proportionately smaller – just a little piece of sugar, of hope to have you accept the master’s scepter coming down on you, ever more forcefully, bringing ever more hardship, misery, disease and death.
You shall learn to be obedient.
Tyrants Don’t Create Tyranny.
Our Obedience Does.
See also this https://www.globalresearch.ca/radical-de-globalization-finding-back-our-freedom-sovereignty-tyrants-dont-create-tyranny-obedience-does/5732186 .
This may well be the plan.
The covid-tyrants will tell the media: After all, it’s their fault. We told them to be careful, to wear masks, keep social distancing; get vaccinated….
And the media go in over-drive: The new strong variants, like the ever-stronger Delta variant is spreading rapidly. It’s affecting sports players as well as spectators.
The media is already warning – that “infection cases” are rising, related to the sports events, that people were careless in their behavior – and may have to bear the consequences at the end of summer, or before, when the virus – or new “variants” of the virus hit and over-buren hospitals.
The Third Wave is in the coming – its already being announced openly by the media.
They never fail to announce their plan in advance – it’s part of the satanic ritual.
In Australia the “Delta Variant” has already locked down, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and maybe other cities.
This is scary.
Others be prepared, You may be next.
In the meantime, to keep spirits up and going, to incite even more “transgressions” against obedience, marketing outlets (are being sold to) say that flying in the Global North may be back to “normal” by 2022. Giving hope to normalcy.
Nothing is more deceiving than one’s hopes being crashed – and that for “mea-culpa” because we, the people, transgressed against all precautions, against risks.
The winter may hit us hard.
Lower our moral.
Make us more obedient.
Make us see the stick, the ever-present stick.
They say, the “D” for Delta Variant is so much stronger – they are already developing a new vaccine for it.
So, those who have had already their two shots and are still alive, may need to get a third one, to ward off the Delta Variant.
Such a nonsense.
Variants are usually weaker than the original virus and they usually differ no more than 5% from the original in the case of corona viruses.
But in the meantime, and while we live the northern summer, lets enjoy, football, soccer, tennis, Olympics – what have you – all sorts of sports that brings out the animal in us, in terms of emotions, and yelling and screaming and mass waving for a team, a player , mass celebrations — thumbs up, and thumbs down – lets do and be gladiators and enjoy their game.
It’s nothing but a prep for the real killing game, where We,
The People, are in the arena, exposed to the “swordsmen” – and those high above us, social media giants, computer moguls, eugenists, bankers of the “chosen ones” – again, they shall remain unnamed – those above the UN and all the member governments, those who are watching us, have been watching us for at least the last century – these un-people, will eventually lift or lower their thumbs, when they see us crumbling and already beaten by fear.
Shall we live or die?
It really depends on us.
Do we want to wake up, step out of the Matrix and take the Red Pill, taking responsibility for a new world which WE, the People are to create in solidarity?
Or do we – as a majority – submit to comfort and to the agenda of the WEF’s Global Resetters, and those that command the Global Resetters, hoping and trusting to be happy at the end when we own nothing.
Mind you, this gladiator game – call it also “the process”, is currently planned to end by 2030 – or earlier, if we continue the way we have been.
The way it looks right now, from the Global Gladiators vintage point – we will continue to just submitting to massive vaxxing, followed by horrifying “side effects” and death, hoping to survive, being happy as digitized humanoids, owning nothing and being managed by AI robots, becoming the new norm.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he has worked for over 30 years on water and environment around the world. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for online journals and is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020) Mr. Koenig is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
Published by Dissident Voice
Republished by The 21st Century
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