Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:"There was a time when the United States and Soviet Union fought together to overcome the scourge of Nazi Germany and the ideology it espoused. Today, when Russia is locked in a struggle with the progeny of Hitler’s Germany, in the form of the ideological descendants of the Ukrainian nationalist, Stepan Bandera – one would logically expect that the United States to be on Moscow's side.
Bandera's followers fought alongside German Nazis as members of the Waffen SS, slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent civilians, many of them Jewish. By rights, Washington should be ensuring that the hateful cause so many had given their lives and livelihoods to eradicate from Europe never again raised its evil banners on European soil.
Instead, the United States is providing succor to the present-day adherents of Bandera, and by extension, Hitler; their hateful ideology disguised as Ukrainian nationalism. American military personnel, whose traditions are born from the heroic sacrifices made by hundreds of thousands of their fellow soldiers, sailors, and airmen who gave their lives to defeat Nazi Germany, are today providing weapons and training to Ukrainians whose bodies and banners bear the markings of Hitler’s Third Reich."
Scott Ritter
"It is important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any 'conspiracy theory of history;' for a search for 'conspiracies' means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds. If, however, any tyranny imposed by the State, or venality, or aggressive war, was caused not by the State rulers but by mysterious and arcane 'social forces,' or by the imperfect state of the world or, if in some way, everyone was responsible ('We Are All Murderers,' proclaims one slogan), then there is no point to the people becoming indignant or rising up against such misdeeds. Furthermore, an attack on 'conspiracy theories' means that the subjects will become more gullible in believing the 'general welfare' reasons that are always put forth by the State for engaging in any of its despotic actions. A 'conspiracy theory' can unsettle the system by causing the public to doubt the State’s ideological propaganda."
Murray Rothbard
"Human liberty can only exist or be restored with an accurate perception of reality. Mind distorting fictions of government must be exposed. To do otherwise is to keep us dependent on an ivory tower mysticism based on lies and the duplicity of politicians and bureaucrats.
Government is a parasite cult, organized, and disguised behind a peculiar language of code words and phrases that wants to control your life and transfer your wealth to itself.
Nothing significant in our lives can or will happen unless and until we challenge our mental processes to investigate the morality and philosophy of government."
Bob Livingston
"Why, then, are 'conspiracy theories' and 'conspiracy theorists' so categorically dismissed and denounced? As Murray N. Rothbard suggested, the campaign against conspiracy theories is a part of a conspiracy to protect conspiracists themselves. All those who conduct conspiracies, including bank robbers, have every reason to divert and deflect attention away from their activities; only some conspirators have the power to do so. The latter have invented the taboo against conspiracy theories and propagated it. Their vassals in academia, the media, and society at large obediently enforce the taboo and routinely denigrate offenders. This is one way of keeping conspiracies hidden and conspirators off the hook. Instead of exposing them, the enforcers of the conspiracy theory taboo exonerate their felonious lords and laud them to the ends of the earth. Thus, those who aim to destroy all conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists are servants of the powerful and the enemies of truth."
Michael Rectenwald
"The fateful error that frustrated all the endeavors to safeguard peace was precisely that people did not grasp the fact that only within a world of pure, perfect, and unhampered capitalism are there no incentives for aggression and conquest."
Ludwig von Mises
"First, pollution would cause a new ice age unless we destroyed capitalism and replaced it with socialism and central planning.
That didn’t work out, so then we were told that capitalism was causing global warming and therefore must be destroyed and replaced with socialism and central planning.
That didn’t work out either, so then we were told that capitalism is causing climate change and therefore must be destroyed and replaced by socialism and central planning.
That didn’t happen, so now capitalism must be destroyed and replaced by socialism and central planning with a 'great reset' known as the 'Green New Deal.'
Fifty years of eco-pocalyptic predictions that turned out to be lies."
Tom DiLorenzo
"A disease without a cause is a business model.
You make a list of symptoms. You say many people are experiencing this cluster of symptoms.
You give a label to this list of symptoms. A name. The name of a disease or a disorder or a syndrome.
Over time, through promotion, the name sticks.
You fund research to find the cause of the disease. This research can stretch out for a long time. Possibly forever.
Meanwhile, you develop and sell drugs to treat the disease. Money.
You keep reporting 'progress' on finding the cause. 'At first, we looked for environmental factors. But now we know the basis is almost certainly genetic. We’re homing in on the specific genetic dysfunction…'
Over time, what’s forgotten is this: is there really a single disease with a single cause?
And think it through; if you can’t verify a single cause, you don’t have a disease. You just have the original list of symptoms."
Jon Rappoport
"With price inflation rising like crazy, the true disinformationists -- the regime and its loyal media -- are determined to confuse you.
First there was no price inflation. Then there was, but it was 'transitory.' Then it was longer-lasting but it was supposed to be a sign of a strong economy. Then it was Vladimir Putin's fault.
Everything that goes wrong is always someone else's fault. It's never the U.S. regime. It's like when the Soviets blamed food shortages on 'bad weather.' Only an idiot couldn't see through that."
Tom Woods
"Adverse events due to getting toxic injections are real. Immune system destruction due to deadly fake 'vaccinatio'’ is real. Extreme sickness after injection is real. Death from injected poison called a 'Covid' vaccine is real. 'Covid' is not real, so all arguments about curing 'Covid,' about avoiding 'Covid,' about treating 'Covid,' about preventing 'Covid,' are straw man arguments that can only cause harm by presenting convoluted information to an already perplexed societal collective.
Language is important; language means things, and the resulting understanding or more likely, misunderstanding, of what is presented as fact is not always obvious. Be careful what you believe, as the risk of being convinced to accept one or the other position, will not necessarily mean that one side is right and the other wrong; it may mean only that all are being led into a circular vortex of deceit based on both intentional and non-intentional lies from both camps."
Gary D. Barnett
"Thanks to the relentless propaganda from educational institutions and the corporate press, people have been conditioned to treat the FBI as a sacred institution. Upon reviewing the FBI’s history, it functions as a blunt instrument for a ruling class that is always looking for a nail to hammer down. For anyone who believes in a society predicated on voluntary association, property rights, and the respect for privacy, the FBI is not only nonessential but also represents an existential threat to the traditional liberties that Americans champion."
Jose Nino
"The Fed is headed to be the new Post Office. Antiquated, annoying, pointless, only there because it has always been there and no one seems to have the courage and will finally to pull the plug. Yes, it still exists. And yes, The Fed will still exist. But history will have passed it by."
Jeffrey Tucker
"Americans have been spoiled in that their manifest strategic blunders have not yet resulted in societal collapse. The disasters of the Vietnam War, Iraq, Afghanistan have not translated to widespread negative outcomes for American society, with the exception that these misadventures have added substantially to the national debt and caused great misery among working-class people, who are the ones footing the financial bill and paying the price in blood. How long will the American public accept the idea that they are marionettes controlled by elite hands that have bungled every major crisis in American history? When will Americans demand of their government that they dispense with promises of security to foreign nations that have taken advantage of American generosity for far too long and instead focus on the other, domestic disasters awaiting American society?
The time to end these security obligations invented by political elites is now, while we can control the process of what comes after them. If we wait much longer, these alliances will either collapse under the stresses of failing fiat currencies or the United States will be dragged into a war most of its citizens do not want and which may cause significant, long-lasting damage to American society. Let’s not leave another mess for the working man to clean up."
Daren Epstein
"Collectivist gatekeepers will spin fantastic narratives of a future devoid of discomfort and free from responsibility. All you have to do is give up all your freedom and the freedom of everyone else and the reward will be a perpetual childhood. It sounds nice, but it is quite evil in its design. Infantizing a society is the first step to enslaving a society. Being dependent on government means giving total control to government; government becomes mommy and daddy, and not all mommies and daddies love their children."
Brandon Smith
"When the legislature is in session, you’d better be as nervous as a chihuahua crapping a peach pit."
Daniel Miller
