Sunday, October 11, 2020

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Since the Walter Reed doctors are treating Trump with three drugs, they are ignoring the fact that the combined effects of these three have never been studied in depth. More reckless experimentation.

Naturally, any decline in the president’s health will be attributed to 'COVID-19,' not the drugs.

Remember, the whole episode began with Trump’s positive PCR test. I have spent many words refuting the relevance and reliability of the test.

A patient can read positive or negative, depending on which lab runs the test. The standards are not uniform. 

The PCR test has NEVER been vetted by several necessary large-scale studies, which, in the real world, would show the test has multiple flaws. It should never be used for medical diagnosis.

But it is used, all over the world. And it was used to launch a sitting president into the hospital, where doctors have violated the most basic principles of the healing profession. They are endangering the president’s health and life.

People who view 'leading doctors' as unshakable symbols of good science, and avid Trump supporters who believe the president is far too brilliant to submit himself to these dangerous drugs…need to rethink their positions. If they dare."

Jon Rappoport

"As always, the story keeps changing: Remember ventilators, flatten the curve, the next two weeks are crucial, etc.? Remember Nancy Pelosi in Chinatown back in February, urging everyone to visit? Remember Fauci dismissing masks as useless? Why should we believe anything the political/media complex tells us now?

So what do these headlines really mean? What exactly is a covid 'case'?

Mild or asymptomatic covid cases are effectively meaningless. The world is full of bacteria and viruses, and sometimes they make us a bit sick for a few days. There are millions of them in the world all around us, on our skin, in our nose and respiratory tract, in our organs. We are meant to live with them, which is why we all have immune systems designed to help us coexist and adapt to ever-changing organisms. We develop antibodies naturally, or we attempt to stimulate them through vaccines, but ultimately our own immune systems have to deal with covid-19. The virus will always be out there waiting, on the other side of any lockdown or mask—so we might as well get on with it."

Jeff Deist

"Mom says the appeal of lockdowns is that they force lives of meaning to be idled, while providing idle lives with meaning."

Tommy Carbon

"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."

Frederic Bastiat

"Most woke snowflakes are not some gentle caring beings they pretend to be. This is only a mask. This kind of deception and pretense is pervasive among Leftists and has, in fact, been the Left’s modus operandi since the French Revolution. Underneath their posture of fragility, the snowflakes are ruthless hooligans who through various forms of activism and online thuggery have destroyed the reputations and lives of many good and innocent people. Cancel-happy, politically correct, intolerant in their attitudes and merciless when dealing with dissenters, today’s snowflakes are the scions of tyrants.

Despite being regularly accused of being so, true conservatives are certainly no Hitlers or Stalins. Quite to the contrary, conservatives hold positions, views and values that in direct oppositions of those jointly espoused by progressives and tyrants.

The pejoratives that the woke hurl at conservatives are completely ungrounded. Unlike progressives, conservatives share no attitudes or principles with the likes of Stalin, Hitler or Mao. The accusations the progressives make against conservatives are a form of self-projection. The pejoratives they throw at their opponents accurately apply to themselves."

Vasko Kohlmayer

"The bad lessons of the last century, the Century of the Great State (1917-2017), during which many millions died at the hands of socialists and other collectivists, is being repeated in this horrific first test [scam-demic] of this new era.

The intellectual battle currently taking place is vital and will help dictate how future, similar battles will turn out. It is not a physical battle. It truly is a battle for hearts and minds. Western intellectuals are so notably out of touch, that it will be a surprise if this crisis ends in anything other than reduced trust in and reduced influence for the political and intellectual classes.

Unfortunately, I would expect more hysterical outcries like this largely manufactured crisis as the Western intellectual class struggles to be heard and to maintain relevance.

The apparent waning influence of the Western intellectual class that has brought about this crisis, is a cause to smile."

Allan Stevo

"The truth is we need and want and benefit from both rationalists and emotionalists. Emotional people can bring joy to our lives. Rational people can bring necessities to our lives. It’s only the psychopathic irrationalist political elitists who impose their obsessive need for ever more power-grabbing, ever more wealth-seizing and ever more ego-indulging on us—always for their own benefit at our expense.

And in spite of the pandering of left and right political parties and philosophies and ideologies and worldviews it’s only the nearly invisible anti-coercive band of libertarians who are standing up to and fighting back against the haters and takers while the majority keeps failing in both with their wrong-headed rationalisms and their wrong-hearted emotionalisms."

Garry Reed

"Whenever I hear that our military is fighting wars 'to protect our freedoms,' I have to shake my head. If this is true, then why are our 'freedoms' being eroded away like a beach in a hurricane? Perhaps it is not Moslem terrorists who are a danger to our 'freedoms,' but our own politicians and unelected bureaucrats.

The U.S. establishment has created a confusion of cause and effect by and through a flag-waving mania in America. 'Patriotism' and 'safety' throughout history have covered a multitude of mischief. We are seeing it now!"

Bob Livingston

"It is no secret that Bill Gates is a rabid eugenicist and the son of a rabid eugenicist. He openly brags about using pharmaceuticals to significantly reduce the earth’s population. That’s not the record of a man who wants to save lives. The only reason anyone would consider Bill Gates any kind of an authority on medical healing is due solely to the fact that we live in a money-crazed culture in which politicians and the media elite give super-rich scumbags like Gates slave-like obeisance. If Gates declared himself to be an expert in alien life forms, those same politicians and media elite would fall all over themselves saying it was true."

Chuck Baldwin

"I heard Trump say that the vaccination would not be required, but I don’t trust his health advisors at the federal health agencies. Those agencies are snake pits of corruption run by political hacks with medical degrees. None have ever looked a COVID-19 patient in the eye, and few have ever looked a patient in the eyes.

I wonder if Mr. Trump will assure Americans that we will not experience the following for not getting vaccinated: will we be safe from losing a job; losing our insurance or Medicare; have our children taken from us; or be required to have some identification to permit us to buy or sell?"

Dr. Don Boys

"It is crucial to understand that war is always about money, power, and control. Without ever being directly threatened or having its mainland attacked, the United States has been at war 93% of its entire existence. How could this be possible since there has never been any legitimate reason to defend this country from aggression at home? This should be a stark reminder to the bourgeoisie who in the past were fooled into supporting state murder, to rethink their undying support for the criminal and murderous policies advanced by this nation-state called America.

There have been plenty of bad people and bad regimes, and countries that have a history of committing heinous acts of war in the past. There is any number of brutal dictators, tyrants, and evil politicians in this world, all with control over military might. But none have ever reached the level of death, destruction, and military presence as the U.S. Empire. This is not pleasant to hear, but it is the truth. With that knowledge, it is time for Americans to stop the terror and murderous wars committed by their own country, because this country is the world leader in violence. It is unethical to condemn the acts of those in other lands when one’s own acts are far more savage and deadly. Common ethics require correcting self before attempting to correct others."

Gary D. Barnett

"What is left out of the standard story of the political business cycle is that Ludwig von Mises called 'destructionism' in his book, Socialism.  Socialist ideologues have always been determined to destroy the existing institutions of society (private property, rule of law, constitutionalism, religion, private enterprise, etc.) before they can usher in their utopia.  In addition to that, political totalitarians of all kinds will not hesitate to destroy as much of their own economy as possible by any means possible if they think it will reflect badly on the incumbent and return them to power.  That is why I believe has been going on for the past six months and I expect it to continue right up to election day."

Tom DiLorenzo

"Since antifa/BLM are activists 'fighting' for imaginary causes against imaginary foes, whose lack of substance makes them no more guilty than unicorns, it is incorrect to view BLM and antifa as movements, as a resistance movement, or as a rebellion, or as an uprising (as Kamala Harris put it). They are too puerile and too lacking in a real foundation in mass discontent to be any of these. They also happen to be based on near complete fantasies about history, human nature and the human condition. And if the BLM slogans have caused many people here and abroad to respond favorably to BLM, which is indeed a sad but real phenomenon, that doesn’t mean that their claims possess an underlying reality. Magicians provoke oohs and ahs when they saw a woman in half, but that doesn’t make her death real."

Michael Rozeff

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

John Stuart Mill

"There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."

Ray Bradbury 

"The truth is that individuals and companies should be able to trade with each other with absolutely no restrictions, interference, or comment of any type from governments. No quotas, no duties, no incentives… nothing.

Governments bring absolutely nothing to the party. It’s a sham, a myth, and a delusion that government acts in the interest of the country it controls. Government (and the people who control it) act in their own interests and those of their cronies. I’m sorry if that sounds harsh, and runs counter to what we were taught in grade school civics, or what sanctimonious Deep Staters like to repeat. But it’s the case with late-stage U.S. 'capitalism.'

'Globalists,' 'Globalism,' there’s barely any difference. It’s just busybodies deciding what products the real producers may or may not create, and what entrepreneurs can or can’t do. Saying one is good and the other is bad is the wrong way to look at it. It politicizes the question."

Doug Casey

"Since the rise of the modern state, many so-called enemies of the state have been at the receiving end of its power, from Voltaire and Emma Goldman to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. The struggle for political freedom is difficult because of the seriousness of the challenge, as Julian Assange is experiencing now. When this struggle starts yielding results it entails immediate dangers, because the state, like any organism, will defend itself; it cannot accept successful attempts to undermine its legitimacy, to curtail its power, to make it accountable, or to expose its secrets. It will start by trying to dissuade and, often successfully, dangle benefits to sway the less determined. If that doesn't work, the state will warn its victims, in true mafia style, and can then decide to ruin careers, imprison, and finally resort to murder if that is required to remove a serious threat."

Finn Andreen


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