Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Dr. Fauci, you certainly learned, or should have learned, that the trace mineral zinc is required to make memory T-cells in your thymus gland.  And with sufficient zinc, exposure to ANY pathogenic bacteria or virus, whether we are exposed to them via vaccination or naturally from circulation in the community, will produce memory antibodies that provide life-long immunity.  In other words, vaccines don’t work very well without zinc and we may not even need vaccines if zinc is going to facilitate antibody production from any and all pathogens, do we?
Dr. Fauci, you need a zinc suppository, stat!  Your ideas are as old as Dr. Edward Jenner and his cow pox technology of yesteryear.  Today zinc replaces all those vaccines.  They didn’t tell you this in your virology course in college?
Dr. Fauci, you first.  Show us your papers that you have antibodies against each and every common infectious disease.  Then maybe we can talk.  Until then, go back home and stay in your room."
Bill Sardi

"If Trump is recommending zinc for the current virus then it follows that he believes natural therapies such as those advocated by Bill Sardi and many others are the antidote for the current flu virus.  And so it would follow that he is not in favor of those supposed remedies such as sheltering in place, wearing face masks, keeping 6 ft apart from other people, etc. ad nauseum. He is the one person who could at any moment end all this very costly nonsense.  So why doesn’t he ?  For the same reason he doesn’t put a stop to the endless costly wars of which he is in charge.  He would rather see people suffer unemployment, go out of business, or die in order to increase his chances at re-election.  And he will play hero when the phony statistics can no longer be sustained, and will claim his team’s policies were indispensable in ending the 'pandemic.'  Just another criminal-in-chief."
Anonymous

"Even the bad guys are admitting it, and that is they made these dire predictions so that they could go ahead and destroy peoples’ civil liberties and spend a lot of money and make up an excuse on why the stock market actually went down — all kinds of things by having this coronavirus event blown way out of proportion."
Ron Paul

"Why is it the evil 'price gouging' if a merchant raises the price on goods during a shortage, but perfectly fine if workers demand more money to do the same job they did before the Kung Flu?"
Michael Shannon

"Fuck the media both local and national, these scientifically illiterate chicken littles keep pumping a narrative that takes the worst parts of neo-Lysenkosim and the playbook from the climate alarmists to shutter an economy and hobble the productive class to the wishes of the parasite classes, which is the whole of government from the local to the Federal level. 
The bottom line is that the absence of evidence on comorbidity in all ‘rona death certificates is perpetrating a fraud that is strangling the economy. Not since the War to Save Josef Stalin has such a wholesale industrial massacre taken place. It is hard enough to navigate the landscape of business in America with the regulatory horseshit and crushing taxes that greet most budding entrepreneurs. If you live in a state run by the CPUSA, the slipshod and naked gangsterism of the regulatory state is something to behold.
The Mango Emperor holds daily press conference with his two bureaucratic sidekicks in Comrades Fauci and Birx whose models and prognostications would make PeeWee Herman bewildered that he found someone more silly than him. I have yet to watch one of the briefings since I am better off mowing my lawn with my teeth. For all of Trump’s vaunted Machiavellian chutzpah, these two Soviet-era clowns have quite literally driven the country into a death spiral from which it may not recover along with the willingness of Cocaine Mitch and his Menshevik clown posse in the Senate spending money that won’t even be made whole by our great grandchildren assuming the country exists at all in two generations."
Bill Buppert

"Laws and constitutions everywhere are being violated. And while most of the discussion about this pandemic is 'when will the public health emergency subside,' and 'when will the economy go back to normal,' there’s hardly any discussion about 'When will our freedoms be restored?'
It’s hard to imagine they’re going to stop the GPS tracking, the facial recognition, the criminal 'fake news' penalties, and the countless other 'emergency measures' anytime soon.
Think about it-- 9/11 was nearly two decades ago and we’re still dealing with the freedom-eroding consequences of that event.
So we have to be honest with ourselves about this pandemic-- the longer these freedoms are restricted, the more unlikely they’ll ever be restored."
Simon Black

"Medical crises will always require wealth and resources to combat. In an age of hysteria about such spurious threats as climate change and Internet privacy, banning private enterprise sets a terrible precedent. 
Other crises — from real meteors to meteorological mass madness — are sure to follow and require a bold and ingenious private sector. Socialism means sinking into the arms of a misremembered past.
Capitalism, and investment, cannot proceed in a world where it can be suspended anytime a group of experts suffer a domain–specific dementia."
George Gilder

"[Bill] Gates’ obsession with vaccines seems fueled by a messianic conviction that he is ordained to save the world with technology and a god–like willingness to experiment with the lives of lesser humans…
Vaccines, for Bill Gates, are a strategic philanthropy that feed his many vaccine–related businesses (including Microsoft’s ambition to control a global vac ID enterprise) and give him dictatorial control over global health policy—the spear tip of corporate neo–imperialism."
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

"Indeed, this is the Perfect Virus. No known origin, no known cure, no known prophylactic. Every 'medicine', every 'treatment', every ‘solution has been ridiculed, demeaned, denied, discarded – except those approved by Government. No Constitution, Rule of Law, legal precedent, economy, logic, values or basic common sense can stand before it. It is the Perfect Virus. But the people and entities that would control every aspect of your life, welfare, security, family, future and death will ultimately claim to have the Cure – which will guarantee them the means to control every aspect of your life, welfare, security, family, future and death.
It is the Perfect Virus."
Brian Wilson

"At first, I didn’t think this virus was being used as a cover for a larger hidden crisis, but after observing the disgracefully grotesque actions taken by despotic politicians and gutless puppet central bankers, I’m convinced this manufactured crisis is being used by the corporate fascists to cover up their financial fraud, destroy small businesses, further enslave the plebs in debt, institute martial control, institute digital currency, while electronically tracking our every movement. And the worst part is the majority have gone along with every government mandate like docile sheep being led to slaughter.
America is devolving into a totalitarian state before our very eyes and we obeyingly confine ourselves in our homes watching Netflix, heeding the 'expert' dictums of Fauci and Birx as gospel, and waiting for $1,200 to be electronically inserted into our empty bank accounts, as our recompense for losing our jobs and going further into debt to Wall Street banks. As Huxley pointed out almost ninety years ago, we were on a path towards an efficient totalitarian state, and we’ve finally arrived. Are you loving your servitude?
Here’s what we know for a fact. Fauci and Birx have been government bureaucrats for decades. He has been in charge of preparing the country for infectious diseases since 1984. His organization was completely unprepared, with faulty tests and not taking the situation seriously in February. He lied about the benefits of masks, making him responsible for thousands of deaths. These two civil servants were nameless government bureaucrats two months ago and now they are medical expert superstars, even though their predictions have proven to be complete and utter bullshit."
Jim Quinn

"There are forces using this virus for ulterior moves and creating a global collapse. They are dangerously undermining the entire world financial system, which threatens the rise of war. Historically, war never emerges as long as everyone is fat and happy. Rome fell because it first weakened internally by corruption which then encouraged the barbarians to storm the gates.
The veil of civilization is being pulled back. Everything past generations have fought for is at risk. The economy expanded and life expectancy increased all on the back of the prosperity. That is now all being undone."
Martin Armstrong

"Will we ever see street peddlers again, or, for that matter, street fairs, festivals, home shows, boat shows, or farmers’ markets? For that matter, will we ever see state or county fairs again, or the carnivals that were such a memorable part of them? Or have all those 'industries' now been relegated to the dustbin of history?
That’s why I think that if and when restaurants, for example, come back, they’ll overwhelmingly be chain outlets or franchises, instead of sole proprietor, 'Mom & Pop'-type operations. Who wants to take the risks associated with starting up and operating and building a business that can be rendered null and void overnight, without warning, by a government edict?
I think we may see our entire entrepreneurial class eliminated, and in a country where we used to think that entrepreneurship was part of our collective DNA. But we’re also a country where we used to think that if something were patently unconstitutional, it wouldn’t be allowed to happen."
Bill Martin

"Refuse to close your businesses and go back to work. Refuse to take orders. Refuse to be banned from travel. Refuse to abide by any 'social distancing' nonsense. Refuse to self-isolate, and force the state to play its hand. Refuse to vaccinate, and help destroy those like the evil Bill Gates and his pawns at the CDC. Refuse to listen to any impotent governor that only seeks more power and notoriety. Refuse to accept a king, for mass disobedience will destroy the beast that is tyranny."
Gary D. Barnett

"Never forget, nor let those around you forget, that the closed, ruined businesses, the needless lines and empty shelves in grocery stores, the deserted streets, the wariness of old friends who refuse a hug, are solely due to the dimwits and criminals in office. No flu could ever have ruined civilization as these sociopaths have."
Becky Akers

"Contrary to common belief, the killer digital app for authoritarianism isn’t listening in on people through increased surveillance, but listening to them as they express their honest opinions, especially complaints.
An Orwellian surveillance-based system would be overwhelming and repressive, as it is now in China, but it would also be similar to losing sensation in parts of one’s body due to nerve injuries. Without the pain to warn the brain, the hand stays on the hot stove, unaware of the damage to the flesh until it’s too late."
Zeynep Tufecki

"Socialism plays upon natural feelings of compassion (thank you, Jeff Carlson, for this observation), while ignoring its coercion. The moral and Christian alternative, which is not coercive, is compassion on a personal basis. Which is compassionate, being forced to pay taxes by political powers or acting freely and compassionately in one’s personal life? And which, practically speaking, does more good and moves us closer to the good?
Living in harmony and living in community do not require socialism. In fact, socialism doesn’t produce either harmony or community. It’s the reverse. Socialism produces disharmony and strife as different groups of people attempt to secure the fruits of raw political power for themselves and attempt to suppress the lives and thoughts of people opposed to them. Socialism is another form of warfare. The Christian alternative is not one of elevating or grabbing political power, even if the history of Christianity displays such failings of the Church. Christ spurned Satan’s offer of the kingdoms of power."
Michael Rozeff

"No business guaranteed by the government is capitalist. Guarantees destroy knowledge and wealth by eliminating falsifiability. Unless entrepreneurial ideas can fail and businesses go bankrupt, they cannot succeed in creating new knowledge and wealth."
George Gilder

"It is very important to understand that any and all respect for the illegitimate, violent, immoral, and corrupt nature of government is based on devotion to a religion of authoritarian rule by kings; those kings who expect to be worshiped and obeyed by the rest of humanity. This religion that demands the acceptance of a ruling class has to be pounded into the psyche over a long period of time in order for the flock to bow down to what is believed to be a higher power. This false reverence has been indoctrinated into the masses for thousands of years. Today, instead of one Supreme Being, ruler, or king, the supreme power is now an oligarchy of the few making up government. Even though there are controllers in hiding pulling the strings, the people at large continue to worship at the altar of government. In this modern age, government has become God, and therefore the religion of the people is the State."
Gary D. Barnett

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
William Boetcker

"Authoritarianism is based on this sort of long-term planning. Authoritarianism is a philosophy of collectivism. Some call it democracy. Some call it communism. Some call it fascism. Some call it democratic socialism. But whatever you call it, it is all collectivism or authoritarianism; and in its ultimate form it is simply globalism.
The goal is perfect docility and perfect harmony with authoritarianism (economic, social and spiritual). Until the people accept collectivism under some pretext they are not docile and completely subdued. Once they accept it, rebellion and confrontation are impossible. This is the ultimate goal of the globalists, and the American system is nearing this state."
Bob Livingston

"Indeed, in a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen."
John Marshall

"The distillate of the woke nonsense, the new communist momentum and the Democrat party is based entirely on the appropriation and transfer of other people’s wealth and labor to politically connected privilege groups from the nomenklatura to the usual suspects whose pigmentation and groin tackle find favor with the new masters. 
Some claim we live in a kakocratic society, one whose rulers are the worst people, the shit people; there is no doubt that has been the case since the end of the War Between the States. When you look at the psychotic scum that is the sum of everything in America’s political class, you know what is attracted to it."
Bill Buppert

"Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the past, people were mainly worried about their individual lives and surviving. Now they seem more concerned with things they can’t control. Mass media and the internet have brought politics into everybody’s living room. The problem is that politics is all about force and coercion. Tech can enhance the effect of politics, just as it can enhance personal freedom. It’s a double-edged sword in that regard.
In other words, it’s very dangerous to combine Stone Age ethics with Space Age technology."
Doug Casey

"Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air."
Henry Anatole Grunwald

"Citizens should remember that the government that claims a right to seize their firearms also denies that it has any legal obligation to protect individuals from violent criminals. Almost no one is holding politicians advocating mass gun confiscation liable for the carnage their proposals would produce. Instead, gun-ban proposals are being treated as moral imperatives or viewed as a chance for national atonement. Unfortunately, politicians can win votes in primary elections for championing policies that would ravage much of the nation."
James Bovard

"Ultimately, there's no reason why the entire US Constitution should not have to face an expiration date. In the spirit of Jefferson, let the entire compact come up for reapproval every dozen years or so.  A lack of an overwhelming 'yes' vote would simply dissolve the Union, and member states would be free to form a new compact, or none at all.
Naturally, this would present technical challenges, such as what to do with federal property and military equipment. But the presence of repeal as a viable option would also emphasize the need to create a more flexible union in which powers are more centered around member states and individual communities rather than an immense (and apparently fragile) central government. The proponents of union will insist that federal powers are too complex and too numerous to even risk a repeal of federal powers. But if this is the case, then perhaps federal powers are simply too complex and too numerous.
Nevertheless, opponents of reauthorization and legal expiration dates will insist that the US government must exist forever—without any option to ever vote on the matter—or the world will collapse into chaos."
Ryan McMaken

"Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. Thus the fear and the hate; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward."
Edward Abbey

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
Frederick Douglass

"If a big meteor was about to hit the earth, how much money would the Fed print?"
Eleven-year old son of Doug Noland