Sunday, February 21, 2021

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Everything that happens with governments and the entire state apparatus is planned in advance. Nothing concerning the ruling class is organic or natural in any way. All action and reaction to any event by the government and its controllers is by design. Most everything that happens has been foretold or predicted by the state oligarchic perpetrators. This is usually done by very deceptive means meant either to create a false crisis, or to use indoctrination methods in order to plant in the minds of the people what to expect from some imagined future adversary or terrifying event that has already been devised or created. These tactics of course are psychological in nature, but if the psyche of the majority can be captured to such an extent as to cause the proper desired reaction, then they can be easily controlled. In a world of logic and reason, this current situation should serve as definitive proof of this hypothesis, but sadly, I doubt that any such mass revelation by the people at large will be forthcoming. I base this on Einstein’s statement that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome is insanity. This seems to sum up the mentality of the American herd."

Gary D. Barnett

"Elected leaders rush to show their constituents how pious and virtuous they are, whether they’re kneeling in solidarity for a photo opp, or changing their own rules to banish gender-specific language in the House of Representatives.

And we saw last year how government policy has started to become driven by the supreme religious leaders, i.e. American Ayatollahs who wield extraordinary, unelected power.

They control a perpetually outraged Twitter mob through hashtags and memes. They get to tell people whose life does and doesn’t matter… who’s an oppressor and who’s a victim. And they rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in donations with zero oversight or transparency. 

It’s important to point out that this new woke fanaticism is a polytheistic religion with many gods to exalt.

There are the cultural gods whose followers wage jihad peacefully protest against everything in their path-- monuments, buildings, and businesses run by infidel non-believers. 

But there are also fanatics who worship Covid… or more appropriately, they worship the FEAR of Covid. 

Theirs is a god of panic and outrage who demands strict obedience. 

And they follow the commandment to terrorize anyone who isn’t afraid or commits the blasphemy of asking a rational question about the disease or a vaccine.

There are also the Marxist gods, whose worshipers demand you make a routine sacrifice of your hard work to the failed altar of Communism.

And there are plenty of other gods in the mix, like the Green gods whose devoted followers at the World Economic Forum want to eliminate cows and condition humans to eat weeds and 'drink toilet water' because of climate change.

It is a busy religion indeed."

Simon Black

"Lockdowns were never about a virus or a pandemic.

Lockdown Civilization has been in the planning and development stage for a long time.

People say, 'Why? Why are they doing this?'

The short answer is, because they want to and they can.

Technocrats don’t view life as life. They view it as a system, and this is their most comprehensive system to date."

Jon Rappoport

"The opposite of the lockdown is quarantine-liberty. The ill are quarantined, kept entirely separate from the healthy until they are dead or no longer communicable. Because of cheating, transmission is still possible, but it’s far less likely. Liberty of the healthy allows people to live their normal lives, which slows transmission. And does not concentrate power into the hands of the government or oligarchy.

It was obvious before 2020 that lockdowns (with then only weather forcing people to gather inside for long periods) not only did not stop the transmission of bugs, but helped spread them. A look at the all-cause death numbers peaking every single winter without exception (this year, too) proved that. It was in no way controversial. It was so well known that forced contact spread bugs that mentioning it was like saying the sun rose in the east."

George Gilder

"Neoliberalism and imperialism do not care about the pseudo-fights between the two parties or the cable TV bickering of the day. They do not like the far left or the far right. They do not like extremism of any kind. They do not support Communism and they do not support neo-Nazism or some fascist revolution. They care only about one thing: disempowering and crushing anyone who dissents from and threatens their hegemony. They care about stopping dissidents. All the weapons they build and institutions they assemble — the FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the NSA, oligarchical power — exist for that sole and exclusive purpose, to fortify their power by rewarding those who accede to their pieties and crushing those who do not."

Glenn Greenwald

"The traditional definition of the word 'Corporatism' has been turned upside down by modern leftists to mean the domination of the government by corporate interests in their attempt to hang over the necks of conservatives the moniker 'corporatist' in a dishonest attempt to tie today’s conservative movement with the Fascism of the 1930s. However, it should be noted that the government domination of business is much more in line with present Liberal / Progressive Democrat thinking and as such is much more in alignment with 1930’s Fascism than modern conservatism."

Bill Smart

"Leftists, riddle me this: Why is it that your side is supported by all the evil corporations you claim to despise? Why does the Ford Foundation and George Soros' Open Society Foundation pump millions of dollars (THIS IS FACT) into BLM? Why has the Ford Foundation been backstopping the social justice movement for decades? Why are billion-dollar Big Tech companies acting as the censorship arm of the social justice movement? Why is every major Hollywood studio regurgitating endless social justice propaganda even when they are losing money on it? Again, I ask, why are all the evil people on your side if your cause is so righteous?"

Brandon Smith

"Today America is neither a republic nor really a nation-state, at least according to this Merriam-Webster definition of a nation-state: 'a form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language live in a particular area under one government.' But America no longer shares the same history, traditions or political language. We are a shallow ghost of a once functioning Constitutional Republic. Its clear direction today is collectivistic authoritarian rule by a small clique of excessively wealthy, powerful and egotistical elitists who care only to expand their wealth, power and egos forever.

If this irrationality continues there will be no more red states. There will only be one big brutally oppressive Autocratic America."

Garry Reed

"The American people are under siege, but precious few are aware. People who were obsessed with their materialism are now obsessed with what other people are and aren’t wearing on their faces, and who they are or aren’t coming within six feet of.

The United States has more political prisoners than any nation in the world because most are in a prison of the mind, created for them by the 'American system.'

I used to wonder, will government and its politicians awaken in time for reform with economic sobriety? The answer is categorically no! Nobody will give up the power they have grabbed to control people’s lives.

In the final collapse, government always attacks the private sector and the people rather than admit that government itself caused the decline and fall of America, if not all of Western civilization."

Bob Livingston

"Is mass democracy across a country of 330 million people the answer? Is any degree of subsidiarity permissible, to allow for local control and greater social cohesion? Or must states fully and finally become glorified federal counties, archaic throwbacks to old conceptions of America? If Biden or Harris truly wants to transform America, these are the questions they must grapple with. The Left is in no mood for reconciliation with Trump supporters, but punishment is not a policy. It is the act of tyrants."

Jeff Deist

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

Oscar Wilde

"When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect."

Thomas Paine

"Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything highly valued by others. They can produce things highly valued by others but are hampered or prevented from doing so. Or, they volunteer to be poor."

Walter Williams

"The Jeffersonians were much better than Jefferson. The Taftians were much better than Robert Taft. The Trumpians tend to be much better than Trump."

Lew Rockwell

"Americans are encouraged to believe that their vote on Election Day somehow miraculously guarantees that the subsequent ten thousand actions by the president, Congress, and federal agencies embody 'the will of the people.' In reality, the more edicts a president issues, the less likely that his decrees will have any connection to popular preferences. It is even more doubtful that all the provisions of hefty legislative packages reflect majority support, considering the wheeling, dealing, and conniving prior to final passage. Or maybe the Holy Ghost of Democracy hovers over Capitol Hill to assure that average Americans truly want every provision on every page of bills that most representatives and senators do not even bother reading?"

James Bovard


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