"Invention is continually exercised, to furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without tribute."
Thomas Paine
"We’ve built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don’t know how to tell themselves what to do."
John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
"Putin has now been officially designated a madman like Gaddafi, Saddam, and Assad before him. And once somebody is designated as the new Hitler, Washington can do anything. Putin committed a criminal act by invading Ukraine, and he’s no friend of personal liberty either. But was it any different than what the US did when it bombed Serbia in 1999? Or invaded Panama in 1989? Or Grenada in 1983? Or Afghanistan. Or Iraq. Of course, Putin’s a dangerous sociopath—show me a major world leader who’s not. But that doesn’t mean he’s much more insane than any of our recent presidents."
Doug Casey
"It is important to understand this dynamic going forward because I see the argument often that the globalists are trying to 'divide and conquer' America. In truth, we are already divided and have been for some time. Trying to talk with and educate moderates on the facts is one thing, but there is very little point is trying to engage in diplomacy with leftists. They have already chosen a side, and it's not the side of reason or freedom."
Brandon Smith
"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
H. L. Mencken
"What are we to think when at the same time that public witch hunts for supposed white nationalists are carried out domestically with something near hysterical zeal, state-of-the-art shoulder-fired antiaircraft and antitank weaponry is shipped in great volumes to extremist white nationalists in Ukraine that would make the top of any of our own domestic terrorist watch lists?
We aren’t supposed to think about it all, at least not critically—just like we aren’t supposed to think critically about anything else."
Joseph Solis-Mullen
"The United States is ruled by monied interest groups, the deep state, and lies. The lies affect all, not only the people but also the deep state and monied interests pulling the politicians’ strings. Consequently, the United States cannot have any sensible policy, domestic or foreign.
The domestic policy is to demonize the majority white population as 'racists' and 'domestic terrorists.' The foreign policy is the use of threats and coercion to create the maximum number of enemies for the sake of the military/security complex’s budget and power.
The American propaganda ministry is so successful that the deep state believes its own lies."
Paul Craig Roberts
"The neocon warmongers and other defenders of 'democracy,' who unfortunately include some deluded 'libertarians' object. Don’t we have a duty to resist 'aggression?' The answer is clear: No, we don’t. We do not have a duty to evaluate every foreign quarrel and assess who is at fault. We do not have a duty to require leaders of regimes we, or rather our masters in Washington, don’t like to accept existing boundaries of countries as unchangeable. We should reject the false doctrine of 'collective security,' which makes every border disputes a world war."
Lew Rockwell
"Doing things the green way takes power away from the markets, which is where people vote with their dollars. It instead places power in the hands of ideologues and bureaucrats.
In brief, wind and solar are being promoted at the very time, nuclear and fossil fuels are being damned. It’s the opposite of what should be happening and a very bad trend from every point of view.
Put me down as liking the birds and the bunnies as much as anyone else, but I’m anti-green. Anyway, ecofreaks don’t really care about the birds and the bunnies so much. That’s just a veneer. They actually just hate people and really want them to disappear. At a minimum, they want to control them. And the great global warming/anti-fossil-fuel hysteria is a great way to do it."
Doug Casey
"On what … should the foreign policy of the United States be based? Here is one answer and it is not excogitated in any professor’s study or supplied by political agitators. It is the doctrine formulated by George Washington, supplemented by James Monroe, and followed by the Government of the United States until near the end of the nineteenth century, when the frenzy for foreign adventurism burst upon the country. This doctrine is simple. Europe has a set of 'primary interests' which have little or no relation to us, and is constantly vexed by 'ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice.' The United States is a continental power separated from Europe by a wide ocean which, despite all changes in warfare, is still a powerful asset of defense. In the ordinary or regular vicissitudes of European politics the United States should not become implicated by any permanent ties. We should promote commerce, but force 'nothing.' We should steer dear of hates and loves. We should maintain correct and formal relations with all established governments without respect to their forms or their religions, whether Christian, Mohammedan, Shinto, or what have you."
Charles Burris
"You see, dear reader, humans by nature are followers. Therefore, when authority appears, they follow. When absolute authority emerges the people follow without question and even to the point of self-sacrifice. Millions will give their own lives and those of their sons and daughters in war and never question or consider what they are doing. The mystique of government authority holds in its hands life and death — ours.
So when government men and their state media propaganda arm begin warning of imminent danger from this or that state actor — or Islamic terror sponsored by said state — the people are fooled into blood sacrifices under the pretense of war and patriotism.
Wars are not for patriotism and 'democracy,' as we are propagandized. Wars are to kill; i.e., mass ritual murder. And secondly, big business reaps massive profits for the killing and sacrifice of young men (lambs) on all sides of combat."
Bob Livingston
"President James Polk lied that 'American blood had been shed on American soil' to instigate the Mexican War.
Lincoln lied that secession was illegal and that the Southern states were 'in rebellion' and insurrectionists.
Republicans in 1896 lied that the Spanish blew up the U.S.S. Maine to start the Spanish-American War.
Wilson lied about 'making the world safe for democracy.'
FDR lied that the attack on Pearl Harbor was 'a surprise.'
Truman lied about a communist threat to America from North Korea.
Johnson lied about a North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Bush lied about 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq.
But now they’re telling us God’s Truth about Russia-Ukraine."
Tom DiLorenzo
"It is true that in his capacity as a producer every man depends either directly, as does the entrepreneur, or indirectly, as does the hired worker, on the demands of the consumers. However, this dependence upon the supremacy of the consumers is not unlimited. If a man has a weighty reason for defying the sovereignty of the consumers, he can try it. There is in the range of the market a very substantial and effective right to resist oppression. Nobody is forced to go into the liquor industry or into a gun factory if his conscience objects. He may have to pay a price for his conviction; there are in this world no ends the attainment of which is gratuitous. But it is left to a man's own decision to choose between a material advantage and the call of what he believes to be his duty. In the market economy the individual alone is the supreme arbiter in matters of his satisfaction."
Ludwig von Mises
"You either fight for Texas nationalism or you get globalism."
Daniel Miller
