Thursday, June 23, 2022

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Hereditary slavery did not end in the United States until December 6, 1865, the ratification date of the 13th Amendment. Slave auctions continued in Kentucky through November 1865, five months after slavery supposedly ended on June 19th, 1865. If the last slaves were told they were free on June 19th, then what about slaves sold into slavery AFTER that point? Would be news to them. Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey (all slave States in 1865) rejected the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, and slavery was legal in each State until December, six months after June 19th, 1865. By the way, Delaware, Kentucky, and New Jersey were technically all UNION States during the War, though Kentucky was a special case and could be considered a Confederate State as well. Only Mississippi rejected the 13th Amendment from the former Confederate States. That means THREE Union States and only one Confederate State rejected the amendment that ended slavery after the War. So much for the theory that the Union fought the war to free the slaves, even after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863."

Brion McClanahan

"Now that voting no longer matters, in light of the massive vote fraud of the 2020 elections, which will only become more pervasive and cemented into place, the only thing that now stands in the way of totalitarianism is gun ownership.

I have a dream.  That Chuck Schumer will personally supervise attempts to go door-to-door in the mountains of Arkansas, Western Montana, the rural South, the Deer Hunter area of Western Pennsylvania, West Texas, and other parts of real America, including the inner-city 'hood,' to announce that 'I’m from the government and I’m here to confiscate your firearms.'

Tom DiLorenzo

"It's time for alternative economists to stop looking at the Fed as a self serving institution struggling to keep the U.S. economy propped up.  This is not reality. It is also time to stop pretending as if the Fed is bumbling about and doesn't have a clue what it is doing. These people are not stupid, they know exactly what they are doing. The Fed will destroy our economy if they believe the timing is right to create a new world order out of the chaos. When they pull the plug, and they will one way or the other, they need to be held accountable as conspirators seeking to sabotage, not as dunces that 'made mistakes'."

Brandon Smith

"The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is a man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrant's worst enemies."

Claire Wolfe

"The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook."

George Seldes

"Considering the enormous effort required just to resist illegal and unconstitutional mandates and the enormous resistance to the protests by the nazified governments in Canada, Austria, Germany, France, Australia, and elsewhere, what chances do the people have of mounting an effort sufficient to stop the illegal biowarfare research?  How large and ongoing a protest will it take to force a corrupt medical establishment to pour resources into finding ways to help the vaccine-injured?

Assuming the people can defeat the vaccine mandates, will they have the energy and the realization to take on the unaddressed business of the ongoing illegal biowarfare research and the absence of help for the vaccine-injured?

To be free is a never-ending battle.  Governments are motivated to accumulate power and resources.  Into these activities is where governments put their energy.  Over the course of my lifetime I have watched all government–state, local, and federal, as well as Property Owners Associations, become less accountable.  In the end trust between the people and government wears away, and government governs by deceit, force and terror."

Paul Craig Roberts

"The technocrats' desire to fully control their surroundings is anxiety-driven. They simply can't stand the feeling of uncertainty that comes with allowing other people's subjective choices to play any role. They don't trust others to do the right thing, much like a very neurotic parent doesn't trust his child's ability to choose wisely without supervision — but far less benevolently.

Their desire for control is intensely neurotic. They are sitting on needles, so to speak (a Russian idiom and a pun in the light of today) — and in order to dampen their anxiety, they resort to trying to implement their controlling ambitions ...

Technocrats may think they are the cream of the crop. They may think that their brilliant vision is good for the world. But regardless of whether they believe themselves to be the good guys or the bad guys, their thirst for total control is a pathological, anxiety-driven expression. They can't stand being dependent on other people's free will, and so they aspire to squash it, which is not existentially right."

Tessa Lena

"Whenever you have a crisis—whether it’s a military, political, economic, financial, or social crisis—the mob calls for strong leaders to kiss it and make it better.

This plays perfectly into the hands of the kind of people who work for the State. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a psychological flaw in humans, stemming from the fact that we’re pack animals.

Pack animals want leaders.

I’m not sure how we solve this problem other than delegitimizing the idea of the State and defanging it as much as possible. And stop lauding, even apotheosizing, its employees. But as long as the State exists, its basic impetus is to seek out crises. Crises benefit the State as an institution but also the people who work for it."

Doug Casey

"Sleeping next to a woman presents a greater radioactive risk than camping beside a nuclear power station."

Pile Botha 

"Neither one person, nor any number of persons, is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years, that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it. He is the person most interested in his own well-being, the interest which any other person, except in cases of strong personal attachment, can have in it, is trifling, compared with that which he himself has; the interest which society has in him individually (except as to his conduct to others) is fractional, and altogether indirect: while, with respect to his own feelings and circumstances, the most ordinary man or woman has means of knowledge immeasurably surpassing those that can be possessed by anyone else."

John Stuart Mill

"Although couched in altruistic terms in order to deceive the American people into buying the lie, all of the multi-trillion dollar government "stimulus" packages are used to reward corporatocracy — Wall Street, the banksters, large corporations that own American government and  campaign donors of all stripes — not to stimulate recovery.

Biden's multi-trillion dollar woke-frastructure bill, Trump's multi-trillion dollar stimulus package, as well as Obama and Bush's bailout packages were a myth. The stated reasons for these packages were myths. Any statements by politicians that they have concern for the American people are falsehoods.

What we have is grand theft, grand fraud and grand deception. That is not a myth."

Bob Livingston

"It feels like the consent of the governed is slipping away in the U.S.

The reason is so obvious we dare not acknowledge it or discuss it: Those in power — elected and unelected — only give lip-service to 'serving the public interest and common good.' Beneath this flimsy facade of PR, every action serves the interests of a wealthy, politically potent elite or the self-interests of those in power.

Commoners have no real say in governance. We are consenting to rule by self-interested elites under the guise of being represented by an elite who governs at the behest and expense of hyper-wealthy individuals, families, corporations, cartels and monopolies."

Charles Hugh Smith

"Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to “society,” to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force – and statism has always been the political corollary of collectivism."

Ayn Rand (1964)

"World War III is here and people are still busy taking selfies and making plans for when 'things go back to normal.'

It’s a war between people and their governments. Except the people don’t know they’re at war."

Meme


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