Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"We have record of physicians and hospitals being paid to mis-code their diagnostic and billing numbers to indicate 'COVID-19' instead of plain pneumonia because hospitals are reimbursed $39,000 instead of just $13,000 for COVID-19!  There is a financial incentive to list COVID-19 on death certificates.  Normally Medicare or the AMA would issue billing code information.  This directive comes from the CDC.  The federal government, namely the CDC, is bribing doctors and hospitals to mis-code Medicare billing and then using that fake data to lockdown the citizenry."
Bill Sardi

"We are in the midst of what can only be described as the most prolific takeover of humanity that has ever occurred. This takeover has been achieved by state deceit, lies, fakery, and fraud, and has been accomplished in spite of all truth, logic, and sanity. How else could billions of people have been completely fooled into believing that an impotent virus was going to end life as we have known it on this planet? How else could a fake sickness created in a lab change the entire course of mankind? How else could false declarations by government cause people around this country to hide in fear in their own homes? How else could shaming others and reporting your neighbors to 'authorities' be normal behavior? How else could abandoning family values, business, jobs and faith be so easily achieved? 
To my knowledge, not one single death has been proven to be specifically from this particular Covid-19 strain, because the proper established methodology necessary to assure that proof has not been met. It seems we are all being manipulated due to an illusion, and not any legitimate or natural viral pandemic. Joseph Goebbels would have been proud to be a part of such deception, and would consider this virus coup to be the ultimate propaganda scheme ever devised."
Gary D. Barnett

"Shrieking the ridiculous lie that 'The Constitution is not a suicide pact!' Stupid. The Feds LOST both cases where they claimed that, all the way to the Supreme Court. The Constitution does, however, provide for the execution of tyrants. NEWSFLASH: They had epidemics in colonial times, without modern medicine. We've had at least four worse epidemics. We didn't turn into Nazi fucking Germany complete to 'papers, please!' to go about your daily business. Further, if 'emergency' can suspend the Constitution, there's already some leftist whore demanding it for 'Climate emergency.'  No, we will not surrender our Constitution because of a cold. If you're scared, stay home. The rest of us have a nation and economy to run."
Michael Z. Williamson

"One size doesn't fit all. This is basically flatten the curve: Kick the can down the street. We're just going to wait until, when? Until the vaccine is produced or until a drug comes out. The assumption is that the immune system of all of us is equally weak. That's what this is based on. The assumption is that all of us are going to get it and all of us will suffer from it.
It's a very interesting model. Look at the person leading this health policy, Dr. Fauci. His background is from the pharmaceutical world … [and] when you look at the NIH and the CDC, these organizations are heavily, heavily influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
In that environment, the model has always been never to discuss immune health, what we can do to support the immune system. It's always under the assumption that there's this big boogeyman, that the virus harms your body. Most medical doctors, again, they're victims of this education."
Shiva Ayyadurai

"It seems to me that demanding a governor to 'reopen' a state may not be the best approach for the long-term. That demand assumes that the governor had the authority to close it in the first place. It is obvious to anyone paying attention that these orders are unconstitutional and unlawful. Since sheriffs are almost universally elected, and they are the highest law enforcement officer in each county, they have the ability to reject unlawful orders from state and local governments. I realize a few of them have gone on record stating that they will resist some aspects of these orders. Should we not demand an answer from them explaining why they think that their state constitutions 'allow' such violations of civil rights? If the sheriffs don’t enforce these orders, then the edicts have no more value than a politician’s promise. At least there could be islands of freedom in a totalitarian sea. Then money and goods would flow to the free zones and put economic and political pressure on the zones of tyranny nearby."
Don McFadden

"This has been INTENTIONALLY exaggerated and used as a power-play in a far too well-organized manner. This attempt to blame some lab in China for the actions that have taken place in the political circles in the West is not justified. The West has jumped on the push for digital currencies using the virus as the excuse is just way too convenient. Blaming China’s lab is a distraction so we do not look at what has been done politically at by the people who are supposed to be representing the people but never do.
I do NOT support Trump with the blame game shifting this to China. We should have a public investigation of all the players from Bill Gates, the WHO, which elites sold all stocks and bonds and where did those tips come from. How about we start there. This coronavirus scare has been deliberately exploited as a power grab and NO lab in China would be responsible for the political actions right in our backyard. At the 2012 British Olympics, the opening skit was all about a pandemic with hospital beds. Was that a political attempt at pre-conditioning the public for a power-grab?"
Martin Armstrong

"There is the manufactured fear, the product of the propaganda machine—the good doctors making dire predictions about likely death counts, surrounded by somber officials, all standing near a dais backed by the richly colored, acronymed logo of some official sounding agency. Great video, great propaganda.
But there is more. Government is blaming the virus, not itself. That serves several purposes. It allows government to employ a misdirect, pilfering the public purse and annulling rights while the masses concern themselves with social distancing.
It also provides personal cover to minor agents of the bureaucracy, who do not have to spend sleepless nights fretting about their role in the destruction of our economy."
Jim Fedako

"Governments have no right or authority to tell us what business or other activity is 'essential.' Only in totalitarian states does the government claim this authority. We should encourage all those who are standing up peacefully and demanding an accounting from their elected leaders. They should not be able to get away with this."
Ron Paul

"When the State tells you it's safe to go to Home Depot to buy a sponge but dangerous to go and buy a flower...
And when the State shuts down millions of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it's not about your health.
When the State prevents you from buying cucumber seeds because it's dangerous, but allows in person lottery ticket sales…
And When the State tells you it's dangerous to go golf or fish alone but they can get makeup and hair done for 5 TV appearances, it's not about your health.
When the state puts you IN jail for walking in a park with your child because it’s too dangerous, but lets criminals OUT of jail for their health…
And when the state tells you it’s dangerous to get treated by a doctor yet says liquor stores are essential it’s not about your health!
When the State lets you go to the grocery store or  hardware store but is demanding mail-in voting, IT’S NOT ABOUT YOUR HEALTH. 
WAKE UP PEOPLE — If you think this is all about your health you’re mistaken! Please open your eyes! Stop being led like blind sheep."
Kevin Sorbo

"No one can rely on any of the innumeracy coming out of the cake holes of the self-anointed (but accurately named 'government health professionals'), theirs is a vocation devoted to ensuring the health of the state above all else.
Have no doubt that the gutting and rendering of reproducible science, the whoring of basic science research to political fancies and the 'climate alarmist' lobotomizing of scientific empiricism has led us to this point in concert with the ceaseless desire on the part of the most well-fed communist fifth column in the history of the planet to turn every human endeavor to the wheel of the state.
Take a good hard look around you at the family, friends and neighbors you see bowing and scraping before every foolish edict coming out of the asshole under the nose of every power-mad politico in America. There is one sure way to defeat viral contagion and that is herd immunity which doesn’t get stronger under mandated self-isolation.
Flu shots don’t protect you, exposure to the mass body of contagions that is your local human community does.
Hide and ye shall reap the rewards of your cowardice.
Fear is the mind killer. In this case, it will also actually kill you in the flesh."
Bill Buppert

"The latest gimmick from Team Apocalypse is to ask, 'Would you take a handful of jelly beans from a bowl of 100 in which one was poisoned?' This is supposed to show me that cowering in my house is the only rational response to the virus.
My reply:
The case is being framed like this: 'Would you reach in and take something if there was a chance it was poison?' Well, it depends on what I would suffer if I didn't reach in.
The people using this analogy are misleadingly suggesting that my only possible concern is the virus. But I have other concerns, too -- namely, not spending months and possibly years living like a vegetable. When I reach into the bowl, they are suggesting that this is the equivalent of returning to normal life, and taking a risk. But yes, I am prepared to take that risk because I want to live a life that's worth living.
If the jelly beans represent everything I've worked for my whole life, if they represent financial solvency, if they represent all my hopes, dreams, and aspirations, you'd better believe I would grab that handful and eat them without the slightest hesitation."
Tom Woods

"When it comes to what is laughingly called medical science, the basic energy, drive, ambition, outlook, and inner vision of the individual is discounted. His emotional force is discounted. The resilience of his immune system is discounted. The power of his spiritual beliefs is discounted. His ability to overcome obstacles is discounted. And of course, his natural right to make decisions about his own health is discounted.
Instead, he is viewed as a mechanical unit reacting to germs, with a high potential for failure. This is pure insanity. This is where all the purported sophistication of basic medical science winds up: in a dead end. LIFE itself was eliminated from the equations and formulas. Whose fault is that? Not yours. Not mine.
It turns out that, for many people, their belief in the power of the virus, and their belief in the officials who are spouting gobbledygook about it, outweigh their belief in whatever spiritual ultimates they profess."
Jon Rappoport

"Soon enough, all of those government actions that were crazy, hasty, excessive, ill-considered, causative of death, and illegal are going to be known to a greater extent by the general public.
This knowledge should lead to a radical lowering of esteem and reputation of public health departments and their place in the provision of health. It should lead to changes in voting behavior. It will result in a great deal of public anger. It should lead to lawsuits and to the removal of many officials from office who egregiously violated historic provisions in the Bill of Rights. It should lead to an even higher level of distrust and disillusionment with government’s capacities and capabilities."
Michel Rozeff

"When any society finds itself under stress, its leaders become tempted to point fingers at a foreign villain.
And they usually yield to that temptation, as we’re seeing with Trump and Biden trying to top each other with being 'tough on China.'
A modest proposal: Wouldn’t it be better to remedy the obvious failings that took place within our own shores?
Why hasn’t anyone at the CDC been fired for refusing to let private labs use testing kits that were proven to work overseas, insisting on spinning up its own kits (that didn’t work)?
Why hasn’t anyone at the FDA been fired for failing to relax its byzantine rules for production of masks and respirators — which has done so much to fuel the shortages?
Why hasn’t the surgeon general been fired for his outrageous flip-flop on masks?
Why hasn’t the rock-star governor of New York been held accountable for downplaying the risks in the early going and then making promises he couldn’t keep about contact tracing?
Why isn’t the president being held accountable for saying states with Democrats for governors should be 'liberated' but states with Republicans for governors must remain under similarly draconian controls?
Long before lashing out at foreign devils we desperately, urgently, need to tend our own garden."
Dave Gonigam

"The crisis now devolves onto the politicians and political Doctor Faucis who gullibly accepted and trumpeted what statistician William Briggs calls 'the most colossal and costly blown forecast of all time.'
An egregious statistical nightmare of millions of new deaths prompted the pols to impose a vandalistic lockdown on the economy. It would have been an outrage even if the assumptions were not wildly wrong.
Flattening the curve was always a fool’s errand that widened the damage.
President Trump had better take notice. He will soon own this gigantic botch of policy and leadership."
George Gilder

"Building on the legal principles, it can be reasonably argued that the initial decision to quarantine the entire society or to even demand worldwide vaccination as Bill Gates has been demanding, is beyond the power of government. This clearly bears no real or substantial relation to the protection of public health, and it is obviously arbitrary and oppressive. At a minimum, a complete quarantine of society shutting down all commerce is arbitrary and oppressive."
Martin Armstrong

"It required a contagion far more virulent than COVID-19 to decimate Manhattan: politicians and bureaucrats. Their economic embargo is an act of war, a weapon governments usually employ against foreign enemies but now aim at their own serfs.
Time to return fire."
Beck Akers

"In 1919 I was a communist.
From this point of view…the Profit System causes the injustice, the inequality, we see. We must eliminate profit; that is to say, we must eliminate the Capitalist. We will take his current profits, distribute his accumulated wealth, and ourselves administer his former affairs…When the Capitalist is gone, who will manage production? The State….It was at this point that the first doubt pierced my Communist faith….
This economic revolution concentrated economic power in the hands of the State…so that the lives, the livelihoods, of common men were once more subject to dictators…Every advance toward personal liberty which had been gained…was lost by the collectivist economic reaction….
Representative government cannot express the will of the mass of the people….In actual fact, the population of a country is a multitude of diverse human beings with an infinite variety of purposes and desires and fluctuating wills…Any government of multitudes of men, anywhere, at any time, must be a man, or few men, in power….
Centralized economic control over multitudes of human beings…must become such minute and rigorous control of details of individual life as no people will accept without compulsion….
What I saw was not an extension of human freedom, but the establishment of tyranny on a new, widely extended and deeper base…"
Rose Wilder Lane

"What happens in the West is pivotal. That’s because it’s the only civilization in history that enshrines the individual, as opposed to the collective or the State. It emphasizes things like free thought, free speech, free markets, reason, and individual liberty. These are historically alien concepts.
All of the good things we have come out of those values. It’s why almost all the world’s great literature, music, art, and science has also originated in the West.
If you destroy the underpinning values of the West—which is exactly what the 'woke,' PC, and socialist movements are in the process of doing—you’ll also destroy what it has created. The question is whether the fruits of civilization will survive the death of the tree that grew them.
We might wind up as being very intelligent, clever chimpanzees with nuclear weapons."
Doug Casey

"There is . . . in the feeling toward the State a large element of pure filial mysticism. This sense of insecurity, the desire for protection, sends one’s desire back to the father and mother, with whom is associated the earliest feeling of protection . . . .  [I]n Uncle Sam we have a symbol of protecting, kindly authority, and in the many Mother-posts of the Red Cross, we see how easily . . . the ruling organization is conceived in family terms.  [People become] obedient, respectful, trustful children again, full of that naïve faith in the all-wisdom and all-power of the adult who takes care of them, imposes his mild but necessary rule upon them and in whom they lose their responsibility and anxieties.  In this recrudescence of the child, there is great comfort.
On most people the strain of being an independent adult weights heavily.  The State provides a way of eliminating 'the psychic burden of adulthood'."
Randolph Bourne

"So long as immoral behavior is accepted, so long as harm to others is supported, so long as the power of government is worshipped, no true freedom can exist. Being able to go on vacation, or drive to the store, or being allowed to hold a sign in the town square is not freedom. Freedom can only exist in an environment where moral behavior is universal. This can be in an isolated society or on a larger scale, but the underlying premise of freedom is continuous non-aggression. No force can ever be legitimate except for actual self-defense, so true freedom cannot be present so long as government is in place. Government is force–government is violence; therefore government demands slavery. Living under any government system requires slavery of the individual, and therefore the slavery of all."
Gary D. Barnett

"Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy either one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians. Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons, but the people at large that holds the end of his chain.
By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master, and then relapse into it again. A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of compromise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large. This does not satisfy me: the nature of him I am to obey signifies less to me than the fact of extorted obedience."
Alexis de Tocqueville

"Marxist ideology is socialist ideology, because the socialist rationale for forcing wealth out of producers is the Marxian labor theory of value. And communists and socialists do not differ in the most important respect, which is that they both aim at eliminating private property, capitalism and the free economic decisions of individuals. They differ perhaps in the degree or method of revolutionary violence they advocate using to overthrow capitalism. But if socialists achieve socialism in America through the ballot box, it will hardly be something to accept as good or moral. It is hardly something to rejoice over. The death of liberty, however achieved and in whatever doses or degrees, is a terrible and evil thing. Socialism steals the Christian flag as much as does communism, and both rest upon Marxist ideology."
Michael Rozeff

"There is nothing difficult or especially demanding about the natural law of property and contract. Indeed, in many small villages people live by these laws, without the presence or pressure of any outside government police or judge. There is self-policing. Yet whoever polices is subject to the same rules as everyone else. And if need be, in the case of conflict, there is self-arbitration and self-adjudication. But whoever acts as judge or arbiter, too, is subject to natural private law.
The emergence of a natural order ruled by private law, then, is not difficult to explain. What is difficult to explain is the emergence of a state. Why should there be anyone, any institution, not subject to private law? Why should there be someone who can make laws? Why should there be an institution that can exempt itself from the rules applied to everyone else? Why should there be some policemen who cannot violate the law or some judges who cannot break the law? Why, indeed, should there be any ultimate and final judge, exempt from any and all prosecution? Certainly, all of this cannot be the result of an agreement or contract, because no one in his right mind would sign on to a contract which stipulated that in any conflict that might arise between you and me, you will always have the final word."
Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"I have written before that it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to impose discrimination in tax rates. The left will immediately scream that the rich deserve to be destroyed. To them, I say go to California and separate from the rest of the country. They hate the rich but will never look at the opposite side of the coin. Why is the lifestyle of the average person declining? It is not because someone else makes more than they do. It is because the politicians are lining their pockets and then the majority of people are too stupid to figure out who really is to blame. It is like someone robs your house. You come home and they get arrested. It is not their fault, but yours because you should not have come home."
Martin Armstrong

"The morality of socialism is easily summed up in a few words: envy and sacrifice based on a phony and coerced sense of altruism.
The socialist not only envies and wants a portion of the wealth of others; he desires to see the wealth of others lowered to the level of his own. The socialist wants to use a sense of altruism — couched in terms like 'fairness,' 'equality' and 'fair share' — to coerce those that have into willingly giving a portion of their wealth to others. That failing, the socialist desires that the power and organized violence of the state be used to create a level of conformity and reduce everyone to the same level — even if it is the level of poverty and privation."
Bob Livingston

"Our theory, which we have often put forward, is that experts ought to be on tap and not on top. We have had during our career a long and intimate knowledge of experts, most interesting men in their own speciality to which they have devoted themselves with great industry and zeal. But outside this special knowledge they are generally as foolish and ignorant as any person one could pick up in the street, with no broad knowledge of society or the general principles of legislation."
George William Russell

"Forget the US politicians’ panders to the voters’ mostly unearned “demands” for free goods and services. Dismiss their summoning of ever more exotic refinements of rights and entitlements. What matters is the continuation of the world’s efflorescence of creativity and invention that is manifest in all our time-price measures of innovation and progress."
George Gilder

"No emergency can justify a return to inflation. Inflation can provide neither the weapons a nation needs to defend its independence nor the capital goods required for any project. It does not cure unsatisfactory conditions. It merely helps the rulers whose policies brought about the catastrophe to exculpate themselves.
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism."
Ludwig von Mises

"No one can fully develop his powers in any direction without engaging in specialization. The primitive tribesman or peasant, bound to an endless round of different tasks in order to maintain himself, could have no time or resources available to pursue any particular interest to the full. He had no room to specialize, to develop whatever field he was best at or in which he was most interested. Two hundred years ago, Adam Smith pointed out that the developing division of labor is a key to the advance of any economy above the most primitive level. A necessary condition for any sort of developed economy, the division of labor is also requisite to the development of any sort of civilized society. The philosopher, the scientist, the builder, the merchant — none could develop these skills or functions if he had had no scope for specialization. Furthermore, no individual who does not live in a society enjoying a wide range of division of labor can possibly employ his powers to the fullest. He cannot concentrate his powers in a field or discipline and advance that discipline and his own mental faculties. Without the opportunity to specialize in whatever he can do best, no person can develop his powers to the full; no man, then, could be fully human."
Murray Rothbard

"An obvious question is:  If people with white skin cannot use certain words or long-established expressions, cannot read, study, or teach certain subjects that some believe are offensive, and cannot organize or segregate themselves as others are permitted to do, why can scientists and governments study and manufacture things that could terminate life itself?  This makes no sense.  If we do not begin to make better sense soon, conspiracy theories are going to become very real.
We cannot rely on the ethics and morality of governments.  They have neither."
Paul Craig Roberts

"Buppert’s Corollary to Acton: 'Power attracts the corruptible and absolute power attracts even worse'."  
Bill Buppert

"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
Noel Coward