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"This [WW1] was the 'war to end all wars.' This was the 'war to make the world safe for democracy.' No one mentioned to [the recruits] that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. They were just told it was to be a 'glorious adventure.' " -- U.S. General Smedley Butler on World War I in his landmark book War is a Racket

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How can Americans trust a system where truth telling has become a crime and perception management has emerged as the highest virtue of cultic priests? -- Michael C.
Ruppert Information is an instrument of national power, just as military, economic and political. Like any weapon or tool, the United States Government needs to use it or cede the battlefield to someone else. John Rendon, Rendon Group (conservative think tank) (i.e. weapons of mass deception) Dont piss on my leg and tell me its raining, - An old expression from the military when someone insulted your intelligence with a cheap con.

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Until you change the way the money system works, you change nothing. -- M. King Hubbert,
"To question your government is not unpatriotic -- to not question your government is unpatriotic." -- Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.)

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore
Roosevelt, former American President

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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -- Bertrand Russell "Ideology is a lot easier, because you don't have to know anything or search for anything. You already know the answer to everything. It's not penetrable by facts." -- ex-Treasury Secretary
Paul O'Neill, discussing fundamentalism.

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"if you start talking two or three degrees Celsius [increase], then you're really talking about a different planet from the one we know. We have, at most, ten years -- not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions [if we are to prevent such disastrous outcomes from becoming inevitable]" -- James Hansen, Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and widely considered to be the world's foremost climatologist, said in July 2006

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We shall have world government whether or not we like it, by conquest or consent. -- Paul Warburg, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and original architect of the US Federal Reserve Act

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"I would suggest that belief and proof are in some way complementary: If you believe something, you don't need proof of it, and if you have proof, you don't need to believe." -- Maria Spiropulu "We cannot accept that there can be free democratic elections in a country under foreign military occupation"
-- George W Bush, referring to Lebanon and Syria... not Iraq

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Decades ago Franklin D. Roosevelt said: "Nothing in politics ever happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." Decades earlier Benjamin Disraeli, famed as the Victorian-era Prime Minister of Britain, wrote: "The world is governed by people far different from those imagined by the public."

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Corporations that are bigger than nations, with executives many times richer than kings, are sucking up everything, and their slaves think they are free, because the masters dress them up in nice clothes and let them ride in big chariots to where they have to perform their chores. -- Laren Corie- Philosophically Off-Grid
"Rarely do we find people who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Only justice, not bombs, can make our dangerous world a safer place." -- great British journalist, Robert Fisk Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the Gold makes the Rules!
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison, co-author of the American Constitution, while a United States Congressman "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -- John Adams

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Tell people something they know already, and they will thank you for it. Tell them something new, and they will hate you for it.
"Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely" -- Lord Acton The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level of thinking we created them. -- Albert Einstein fear = False Evidence Appearing Real -- Michael C. Ruppert

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"Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" -- Albert Hofmann

31. DID YOU KNOW...? Three decades ago, the people in well-to-do countries were 30 times better off than those in countries where the poorest 20 percent of the world's people live. By 1998, this gap had widened to 82 times. 32. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." -Mark Twain

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Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism. Control thoughts, and you can easily control behavior. -- Noam Chomsky "Reformation in government follows reformation in opinion." --Thomas Jefferson
"There are many victories worse than defeat" --- GEORGE ELLIOT " Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind." -- RUDYARD KIPLING "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King Jr. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." --- DR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR

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"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." -- Abba
Eban An enemy is someone whose story you havent heard I will meet you beyond right and wrong, over in that field over there Wars are not like Hollywood movies (the good guys and the bad guys). There is a lot of ambiguity, many shades of right and wrong "Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but we must take it because our conscience tells us that it is right." -Martin Luther King Jr. Everyone loves to slam America, and America loves to slam everyone else: criticising foreigners takes no effort. Looking in the mirror takes a lot more. But non-Americans should not think they can solve all their own problems without becoming involved in our cure. They cannot, simply because today America is part of everyones problems. Our policies affect everyone; indeed, they influence every countrys policies. No one can remain a complete outsider. -- JULIEN NINIO The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much

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control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required. -- William Rivers Pitt: 02/25/03 46. "You fight terrorism by creating more justice in the world." 47.

"A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain." -- Anatole France
Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools. America's national debt is now $7.5 trillion, and it's skyrocketing, even as America's population ages. There will never be a better time to start paying off this crippling debt than today. Americas skyrocketing national debt deeply affects our ability to address every other issue, from protecting the environment to combating terrorism. A bankrupt nation is a weak nation. CEO of Starbucks
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and for exposing the country to greater danger." -Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

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Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. anonymous (falsely attributed to Caesar) Fascism ought to more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and corporate power. -Benito Mussolini

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Our lives begin to end when we become silent about things that matter. (Martin Luther King Jnr)
"Reality is a thin line between denial and paranoia." -"It is no measure of health to be sane in an insane society." Krishnamurti If you dont read the newspaper, youre uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, youre misinformed. -- Mark Twain
Whenever you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." -- Martin Luther King Jr. Author unknown, but often quoted by the 9/11 truth movement

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"The ultimate measure of people is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy." -- Dr Martin Luther

King Jr
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Q. What's Wrong With Showing ID? A. "There are good people with bad papers; and bad people with good papers." - Bertold Brecht
"Ours is a society where things are like instant, so therefore, history almost is like so far back it doesn't count." - George W Bush If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'. --- Will Rogers "It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very

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different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them." -- Noam Chomsky 64. Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, liveable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war -- Richard Nixon in Real Peace 1983 "The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., quote from his 1967 book Where Do We Go From Here? "It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." -- Jonathan Swift

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"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves" -- Wm. Pitt the Younger Our governments function, by and large, as executive arms of corporate oligarchies. We all have to get politically active and take our political institutions back from the super-rich and their hired guns. -- Varda Burstyn
A truths initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believedWhen a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic. -- Dresden James I hated capitalism because it was a lie It said that everyone exercising their self-interest would make a decent community! It was government as protection agency, a belief system for the rich And self-interest exists, no one can say it doesnt the governments that tried got into deep trouble, because thats a lie of a different kind. But to say that self-interest is all that exists, or that it should be given free rein! My Lord. Believe that and nothing matters but money. Kim Stanley Robinson in Pacific Edge, p

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Justice is about truth; law is about lying (The law is a very smug, grand institution, but it has never concerned itself much with the truth. The English legal system is accusatorial in nature, not inquisitorial. It is not the courts duty to uncover the truth of a matter, but simply to

decide whether on the evidence an accused person is guilty. Truth is a vague lofty ideal that floats around the cloistered groves of academe, but which, if it accidentally strays into a courtroom, is soon sent packing. Assuming anyone even recognised it. Lying, however, is anything but a stranger in a courtroom.) Paul Adam in Genesis II, p57 72. "No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been

written will save the world. I cleave to no system, I am a true seeker." -- Mikhail Bakunin [famous anarchist]

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"Self-government, with help from the central government to even things out. Local control of schools, hospitals, transport, environment. National standards in all these social areas and financial help so that no one goes below these standards. Citizen-owned banks with low interest on loans for houses and schooling and little businesses and farms. Ward republics. I like that. Little local countries. People with the power over their own lives." --- Ernesto Blanco/ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, I, CHE GUEVARA, by John Blackthorn

74. "Now your materialist thinks that longing is about things. And, for the poor guy, there's something to that. Everybody longs for the basics for himself and his family -- shelter, food, a job. But there is more; I mean the longing for peace, for healthy children, for clean air and water, for goodwill in the community, for hope for a better life for your children. Maybe also not to be totally dead when you're dead. But that's a story for another time. It doesn't seem to me you can talk about Aristotle's 'Golden Mean' or Rousseau's 'social contract' to people like these who aren't even on the ladder yet. Aristotle was dealing with Athens, which, despite that war they had -- that crazy Peloponnesian one -- was a well-off place, and Rousseau was dealing with Enlightenment -- though pretty corrupt -- France." -Ernesto Blanco/ Ernesto "Che" Guevara, I, CHE GUEVARA, by John Blackthorn 75. "Now let's look at T. Jefferson. He was dealing with a

society that had roots in the Enlightenment and a yeoman culture and a stable middle class and an educated, more or less egalitarian leadership... He saw that the idea of equality , if applied to a political system of republican representative government, and if truly democratic, could offer hope, could give ordinary people the chance to improve their lives. If this is an idea whose time has come, then we'll see it catch on in other parts of the Latin world and the African world and the Asian world. Who knows, it might even catch on del norte." -- Ernesto Blanco/ Ernesto "Che"
Guevara, I, CHE GUEVARA, by John Blackthorn

76. "Under conditions of peace, the warlike man attacks himself." -- BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL, by Friedrich Nietzsche 77. "It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who

corrupted power." -- Nadia, in Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson 78. "One could try to regard politics as a science - a long series of experiments in communal living, say, with all the data consistently contaminated. Thus people hypothesized a system of governance, lived under it, examined how they felt about it, then changed the system and tried again... trying successively closer approximations of systems that promoted qualities like physical welfare, individual freedom, equality, stewardship of the land, guided markets, rule of law, compassion to all." -- Sax, BLUE MARS, by Kim Stanley Robinson
79. "Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all." -- WEALTH OF NATIONS, by Adam Smith

80. "The question is one of fighting the causes and not just the effects.

This revolution is bound to fail if it doesn't succeed in reaching deep inside them, stirring them right down to the bone, and giving them back their stature as human beings. Otherwise, what's the use?"
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"It is better to die standing than to live on your knees." Che Guevara

82. "Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." -Che83.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their

grandchildren are once more slaves. -- D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
84. "For evil to triumph, all that is necessary is for good people to do nothing.
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"These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics..." Frederick C. Howe, 1906, author of Monopoly ... "Among the many weapons at our disposal is euphemism." Bill Tremblay, in Like Minds Finding Answers (our FaceBook group) "He who votes decides nothing; he who counts the votes decides everything." Joseph Stalin Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands on AlterNet fact does not require fiction for 'balance' dailykos blog comment George Orwell is banging on the lid of his coffin and screaming, "1984 was a cautionary tale, you dolts, not a motivational speech!" dailykos blog comment When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a bible, and appointing emergency fiscal managers. -- with apologies to Sinclair Lewis "He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors." - Thomas Jefferson

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, dont deal in lies, Or, being hated, dont give way to hating, And yet dont look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream and not make dreams your master; If you can think and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth youve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds worth of distance run Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it, And which is more youll be a Man my son! Rudyard Kipling

94. [There are] many conspiracy theories dotting Americas

landscape. The very label serves as an automatic dismissal, as though no one ever acts in secret. Let us bring some perspective and common sense to this issue. The United States is comprised of large organizations corporations, bureaucracies, 'interest groups' and the like which are conspiratorial by nature. That is, they are hierarchical, their important decisions are made in secret by a few key decision-makers, and they are not above lying about their activities. Such is the nature of organizational behavior. 'Conspiracy,' in this key sense, is a way of life around the globe. Richard M. Dolan in UFOs and the National Security State 95. Anyone who has lived in a repressive society knows that official manipulation of the truth occurs daily. But all societies have their many and their few. In all times and all places, it is the few who rule, and the few who exert dominant influence over what we may call official culture. all elites take care to manipulate public information to maintain existing structures of power. Its an old game. Like everywhere else, America has its topics that are too sensitive to discuss openly without distressing some powerful interest. UFOs have always been such a topic, as seen by the combination of official denial, extreme secrecy, public ridicule, and widespread popular belief connected to it. Officially, UFOs do not exist, and are only discussed in public as a kind of joke, or perhaps a piece of cultural kitsch. Yet, some three quarters of Americans believe in them. Why this disparity? After all, most Americans believe in God, and there is no official ridicule associated with that belief. Could it be that a belief in UFOs is however odd this may at first seem slightly subversive? Richard M. Dolan in UFOs and the National Security State
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America is a country with a bad conscience, nominally a republic and free society, but in reality an empire and oligarchy, vaguely aware of its own oppression, within and without. 'We think were Luke Skywalker,' says a friend of mine, 'when were actually Darth Vader.' Richard M. Dolan in UFOs and the National Security State

97. ...when winning is all that matters, the conventional morality held by ordinary people becomes an impediment. Richard M. Dolan in UFOs and the National Security State

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." (Edmund Burke)
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"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." (Samuel Adams)
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ability and the mental and nervous equipment to make his own laws and act according to them rather than accept the laws that suit the lowest common denominator of the people. You have doubtless read Trotter's Instincts of the Herd in War and Peace, Mister Bond. Well I am by nature and predilection a wolf and I live by a wolf's laws. Naturally the sheep describe such a person as a 'criminal'. The fact that I survive and indeed enjoy limitless success, although I am alone against countless millions of sheep, is attributable to the modern techniques I described to you on the occasion of our last talk, and to an infinite capacity for taking pains. Not dull, plodding pains, but artistic, subtle pains. And I find, Mr Bond, that it is not difficult to outwit sheep, however many of them there may be, if one is dedicated to the task and if one is by nature an extremely well-equipped wolf. Mr Big in Ian Fleming's novel, Live and Let Die, published in 1954. 101. Can you imagine a C-130 full of troops or an Apache getting shot down over Kandahar? Or [Russian-made SA-16M, hand-held] missiles coming into this country, taking out commercial flights into Heathrow? Its becoming increasingly obvious that the US can not stabilise Afghanistan or Pakistan. This company's [Moscow Missile Manufacturing Complex] activities could result in a mountain of body bags. If domestic pressure made Obama pull out, China would close its borders with Pakistan and establish a Pak-Taliban

pact. Iran would then pull out all the stops in Afghanistan, just as it has in Iraq. And nuclear India? They won't just stand by and watch. They'd be forced to take action against a nuclear Pakistan. Andy McNab in Exit Wound, 2009.

102. "For real Democracy to flower, you first need a real Humanity." John Hogue 103.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. -- Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, who invented the field and term, Public Relations.

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imply that it is not denied. The existence of flat earthers does not change the fact that, uncontroversially, the earth is not flat. Similarly, it is uncontroversial that Stalin and Hitler were responsible for horrendous crimes, though loyalists deny it. All of this should, again, be too obvious for comment, and would be, except in an

atmosphere of hysteria so extreme that it blocks rational thought. Noam Chomsky

107. An 'aggressor' is a state that is the first to commit such actions as invasion of its armed forces, with or without a declaration of war, of the territory of another State....If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us." --- Justice Robert Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States at the Nuremberg Tribunal 108. "We're not against the system, the system is against us -- twitter message from JalapaRevealed during the 2011 Spanish protests organised by Democracia Real Ya ["Real Democracy Now"] with the slogan: "We're not merchandise in the hands of politicians and bankers". 109. The very idea of trying to threaten the careers of journalists
and activists to punish and deter their advocacy is selfevidently pernicious; that it's being so freely and casually proposed to groups as powerful as the Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce, and the DOJ-recommended Hunton & Williams demonstrates how common this is. These highly experienced firms included such proposals because they assumed those deep-pocket organizations would approve and it would make their hiring more likely. But the real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power...There is very little separation between government power and corporate power... It's not merely that corporate power is unrestrained; it's worse than that: corporations actively exploit the power of the state to further entrench and enhance their power....The exemption from the rule of law has been fully transferred from the highest level political elites to their counterparts in the private sector. "Law" is

something used to restrain ordinary Americans and especially those who oppose this consortium of government and corporate power, but it manifestly does not apply to restrain these elites. Glenn Greenwald, Salon journalist and constitutional lawyer, Feb 2011. 110. How is a Democratically elected government that doesn't listen to its people any better than a dictator who doesn't listen to its people? reader comment on 'Yes we camp' activists hit Spanish streets at english.aljazeera.net
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112. "For more than six hundred years - that is, since Magna Carta, in

1215 - there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge of the JUSTICE of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating, or resisting the execution of such laws." -- Lysander Spooner; "An Essay on the Trial by Jury" (1852)
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The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. -- Proverbs 27:12

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"Eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty." -- Andrew Jackson in his 1837 Farewell Address.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human. -Thomas Jefferson

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"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots." -Barbara Ehrenreich, in her book, The Worst Years of Our Lives, "Family Values" (1991), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
than a free press. Access to comprehensive, accurate and quality information is essential to the manifestation of Socratic citizenship - the society characterized by a civically-engaged, well-informed and socially-invested populace. Thus, to the degree that access to quality information is willfully or unintentionally obstructed, democracy itself is degraded. -- Dr. Cynthia Boaz, assistant professor of political science at Sonoma State University, through AlterNet

117. There is nothing more sacred to the maintenance of democracy

118. "As the founder and (so far) the only member of the Global Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Luddites, Lemmings, Banana Republics and Cynics, I applaud what you say, but suggest you don't go quite far enough. My organization is dedicated to the rehabilitation of misunderstood and misused concepts: Luddites didn't oppose machinery, they opposed machine owners getting all the benefits while they got unemployed; lemmings do not commit suicide, they try to escape inhospitable environments by leaping into the sea in the hope of reaching the other shore; and banana republics are (or were) not the product of lazy, corrupt Latinos, they are (or were) created by the United Fruit Company and the CIA, and we stupidly blamed (or stereotyped) the victims. As for Cynics, they were the very finest of citizens. They sought self-reliance and eschewed fame, fortune and Facebook friends. They criticised those who deceived people, craved wealth and power and were generally misanthropic liars. In short, if we all became Luddites, behaved like lemmings, inhabited banana republics (most of which fought hard for democracy and are beginning to reap its benefits), we'd all be better off. First, though, we have to become totally Cynical!" howard doughty, posted on alternet comments on the article, Don't Look on the Bright Side 119.

theres a saying in the drug industry: Cures Kill Profits

patriotism I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality. -- Author and journalist George Orwell

120. Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. . . By

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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities/injustices. - Voltaire, defender of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, 16941778.
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." ~Frederick Douglass

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In Gandhian language, means and ends are inseparable. That which is won through violence must be sustained through violence. That which is won through mass civil nonviolent action is more legitimate and more likely to be sustainable over the long term. ~~ Dr. Cynthia Boaz, Truthout

"In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence." ~ Kurt Nimmo "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." ~ H.L. Mencken "What luck for rulers that men do not think." ~ Adolf Hitler

corporatism -- the government uses public monies to protect private profit. "The rancorous debate over the debt belies a fundamental truth of our economy - that it is run for the few at the expense of the many, that our entire government has been turned into a machine which takes the wealth of a mass of Americans and accelerates it into the hands of the few." -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich,

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. ~George Washington "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." ~Frederick Douglass In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly double the value of some Diehard's vote. --David Foster Wallace
"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history." -- Mohandas Gandhi "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" -- "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train" (book) by Howard Zinn Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them. -- Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama "With a good conscious our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on Earth, God's work must truly be our own" -- John F. Kennedy

Anonymous --> We are the first Public Intelligence Agency. Expect us.
"When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty" - Thomas Jefferson

"It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorizes, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work; but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer, a merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stocks which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment. In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him; but the necessity is not so immediate. We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. We seldom, indeed, hear of this combination, because it is the usual, and one may say, the natural state of things, which nobody ever hears of. Masters, too, sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy, till the moment of execution, and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do, without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people." - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations "Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects

of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people." - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations "It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion." Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

Politicians say the darnedest things. On a daily basis they regale us with fairy tales like the best way to prevent a humanitarian crisis is to bomb that countrys already starving and demoralized populace back to the Stone Age. --- Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS)
"Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity." -- William Butler Yeats

I thought back and realized that when I was totally ignorant I had no idea that there was so much I did not know. Now that i have learned a few things I find that I really know nothing and the older I get, the more I learn that I know nothing. By the time I get to be really old I will find that I have become completely empty headed. -- Sandy Winnemueller of Like Minds Finding Answers (Facebook group) Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.-- Thomas Jefferson
The New World Order Has A Deliberate Systemic Plan. According to the late Hollywood producer Aaron Russo, Rockefeller told him:

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.
Benjamin Franklin, said in his autobiography: The colonies would

gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had not England took away from the colonies their money, which created unemployment and dissatisfaction. The inability of the colonist to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of King George III and THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS was the PRIME REASON for The Revolutionary War.
The government is not the problem. Nor is the Constitution on which it's founded. The problem lies in the people who control the government -- the New World Order global fascists who now have a chokehold on government. Their corporate money controls all three branches of government while their associates are appointed to cabinet-level positions of authority.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. -- George Orwell Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test a mans character give him power -- Abraham Lincoln

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Marx and Lenin and Hitler understood that a sane moderate can be overwhelmed and pushed out of the way because they would always respect other people's opinions, even ones whose avowed purpose was the monopolization of power and the criminalization of any opinion but their own. Bill Trembley, FaceBook friend
..in order for TRUE change to occur, we must spend less time battling the products of this sick social structure and more

time trying to change the root causes. As difficult and daunting as it may be to think this way, it is the only way our world will change for the better. We can continue to stomp on the ants coming out from under the refrigerator, but until we remove the spoiled food behind it, they are just going to keep coming. -- Peter Joseph, Zeitgeist Movement Australia As Gandhi said, "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ."

Thomas Jefferson had it right when he said: Educate and inform the whole mass of the people they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

"Funny how when a Muslim blows something up no one has a problem saying "Muslim terrorist," but when a fundamentalist Christian does it no one wants to call him a "Christian terrorist." He was anti-UN, anti-EU, anti-Islamic immigration, blamed secularism on the problems in Europe, had ties to neo-Nazis and rightwing hate groups and was a fundamentalist Christian: Christian Terrorist." -- Blair Scott
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. ~Hippocrates

Reaction-ships are bad.. Relation-ships are better.. Creation-ships are the best.. -Brian Piergrossi

In 1980, the average CEO pay was 42 times that of the companys average worker. In 2000, that ratio increased to 525 times the pay of the companys average worker. -http://www.moxyvote.com/goodcauses

Unless we put Medical Freedom in the Constitution, the time will come when Medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of man and deny equal privileges to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of Medical Science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a Republic. The Constitution of the Republic should make a special privilege for Medical Freedom as well as Religious Freedom.Benjamin Rush, M.D., Surgeon General Continental Army, 1777, Signatory, Declaration of Independence. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.. Abraham Lincoln
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy bodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for

they do so with the approval of their own conscience."C.S. Lewis

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy

"I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence." --Eugene Debs, 1918, socialist, http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/341/Debs1918.html "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it." Rev. Billy Graham

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles "If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool." Abraham Lincoln The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting the locals to work. Paul Myers

The saying goes "it's a recession if you are out of work but its a depression if I am out of work"
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? John Lennon

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law, its nine-tenths of the problem. John Lennon

I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. John Lennon I don't remember saying that [the song] Revolution was revolutionary... You say that in order to change the world you have to destroy it. Ruthlessly. You're obviously on a destruction kick. I'll tell you what's wrong with it - people. So, do you want to destroy them? Ruthlessly? You seem to think it's just a class war... The lyrics still stand today. They're still my feelings about politics: I want to see the PLAN. That is what I used to say to Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman. Count me out if it's for violence... What's the point in bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, change the system. It's no good shooting people. -- John Lennon in response to critics of his song Revolution

It's part of our policy not to be taken seriously because our opposition, whoever they may be - in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour, we're humorists, we're Laurel & Hardy, that's John & Yoko, we're willing to be the worlds clowns... The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour. John Lennon

When it gets down to using violence, then you are playing the systems game. The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once

they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour. John Lennon

Lao Tzu said: "the more laws we have, the more lawless we become." DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM

"America will cease to be a great nation whenever her young men and women cease to possess energy, daring, and endurance, as well as the wish and the power to fight the nation's foes, be they inside or outside the nation. No citizen of a free State should wrong any man; but it is not enough merely to refrain from infringing on the rights of others; he must also be able and willing to stand up for his own rights and those of his country against all comers, and he must be ready at any time to do his full share in resisting either malice domestic or foreign levy. (Preface to Hero Tales, with H. C. Lodge, 1895.) ~ Theodore Roosevelt

"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." -- David Rockefeller, Bilderberg Meeting, June 1991 Baden, Germany

Our democracy is but a name we choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Helen Keller, 1911 Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become. Arthur Schopenhauer Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon "We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution." -- Abraham Lincoln "Fifteen years ago, the assets of the six largest banks in this country totaled 17 percent of GDP ... The assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP." -- Sherrod Brown, April 25th, 2010. Talking about financial reform, Summers said there is "a million dollars being spent, per congressman, in lobbying expenses on this issue. (The) industry has four lobbyists per member of the House and Senate working on this." -- Lawrence Summers, April 4th, 2010. "I am not young enough to know everything --- Oscar Wilde

"If this is no longer the Land of the Free, I sure hope it's the Home of the Brave." protesters poster from
long ago

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles

"God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist." John LeCarre (London Times, January 15, 2003)
"To most of its citizens, America is exceptional, and it's only natural that it should take exception to certain international standards." Michael Ignatieff, former Canadian politician and Washington Post columnist "It is easier for an American member of Congress to criticize an American president than to criticize an Israeli Prime Minister; it is easier for them to criticize an unjust and unwarranted US war than one launched by Israel." Jeffrey Blankfort
Only the imperialist powers have the ability to enforce sanctions and are therefore always exempt from them. William Blum

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." --- Thomas Jefferson in 1802

The best customer of American industry is the well-paid worker.F. D. Roosevelt.

Marshall McLuhan, who in 1970 predicted, World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

"And he's taught how to walk in a pack, shoot in the back, with his fist in a clinch, to hang and to lynch ... He ain't got no name, but it ain't him to blame. He's only a pawn in their game." -- Bob Dylan

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." ~Bertrand Russell "Christian: One who thinks the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor." -- Ambrose Bierce

A revolution is coming a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability. John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a

democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same for any country." -- Herman Goering to Gustave Gilbert at Nuremberg, 18 April, 1946 If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State. -- Joseph Goebbels, The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over -- Joseph Goebbels, Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels, MiniProp for Hitlers Third Reich 1897-1945

Government subsidies and tax breaks to corporations outpace all the federal money spent on programs for the poor, including welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies, and student aid. -- Douglas J. Amy, Professor of
Politics at Mount Holyoke College, 2007

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism." FDR in 1930s What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul? -- God

Wikipedia describes Vanabode as a "disruptive technology" or "disruptive innovation"; terms used in business and technology circles to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or making something available to everyone that was previously only available to the rich". . .

In the entire history of man, no one has ever been brainwashed and realized, or believed, that he had been brainwashed. Those who have been brainwashed will usually passionately defend their manipulators. -- Dick Sutphen We are being run by rich trash without regard for the truth or reality. James Watson, 1962 Nobel Laureate, discoverer of DNA double-helix

when freedom fails, good people end up rotting in filthy jails Fritz Springmeyer, author of Bloodlines of the
Illuminati, persecuted and jailed for 8 years for exposing the truth.

"One reason that propaganda often works better on the educated than on the uneducated is that educated people read more, so they receive more propaganda. Another is that they have jobs in management, media, and academia and therefore work in some capacity as agents of the propaganda system--and they believe what the system expects them to believe. By and large, they're part of the privileged elite, and share the interests and perceptions of those in power." -- Noam Chomsky. "A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history." -- H.G. Wells