Stamps

"Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine."
--Edward L. Bernays,
"Propaganda"

Listlessness

"It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve."
--George Orwell

Sterile

"Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize."
--Sinclair Lewis,
Letter declining the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"

Freethinker

"What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?"
--William Winwood Reade
(1838-1875) English philosopher, historian, anthropologist and explorer
Source: "The Martyrdom Of Man" (1872)

Seniority

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
--E.B. White

Mad II

"Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you!"
--Russ Cargill,
"The Simpsons Movie"

No Testing, No Problem

Complete bull$hit. So many medical facilities are refusing to run a decent panel of tests to determine exactly, or even reasonably close, what it is they're dealing with. If you don't know what you're dealing with, then it's tantamount to throwing a dart (drug) at a board while wearing a blindfold and wait/see what happens. Symptoms don't mean squat on seasonal crud like this.  There is so much overlap it's virtually impossible to tell what the patient has without a blood panel and sputum culture! More proof this whole thing is being orchestrated!

When they refuse to test for other stuff, all they can say for sure on those patients who died and had CV *present in their body* is that the patient had CV *present in their body*. But they can't say squat about what killed the patient!

L.A. County Gives Up On Containing Coronavirus, Telling Doctors To Skip Testing Of Some Patients

Prison

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear"
--Aung San Suu Kyi

Wretches

"THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men but that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications."
--Thomas Paine,
"African Slavery in America" (March, 1775)

Obeys

"No one rules if no one obeys."
--David Icke

Stunt

"Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old."
--L. Frank Baum

Senior Deaths And The Current Flu Season

At a young age, I grew irritated with television ads.  Most bored me, most were pushing products that did not interest me, and of the rest that were for things I might like, times were lean (but comfortable), so I didn't need to be irritated about stuff I couldn't have.  Thus, I trained myself to tune them out unless they were especially entertaining.

In recent years, I have made an exception for pharmaceutical ads.  While they play relaxing or upbeat music, the drug companies are still obligated to warn of "side effects".  Some of this is required by the FDA, and even if it weren't, it would be motivated by self-interest since a warned victim, er, "patient", is less inclined to sue.  Even if they do sue, they are less likely to win significant damages (juries listened to those same ads, and wonder, "why weren't you paying attention to the warnings, we remember hearing them").

One particular warning of interest, which seems to be in a significant majority of the advertisements today, is about how harm to the immune system can result by taking the advertised drug.  Harm even to the point of death.  But isn't that background music pretty? 

Which leads into, why are seniors at greater risk from the current flu season?  Sure, there are the usual culprits, sugar, "vaccines", GMOs, 5G, and others, that weaken the immune system.  But young people are subjected to those as well.

The corporate press usually skirts the question by saying that many of the deceased seniors had "preexisting health issues".  But what did those seniors have with their "issues"?  Usually lots of drugs.  One report, and I've seen higher numbers, say the average number of prescriptions taken by people aged 65 - 69 is 15, while that number rises to an average of 18 for those ages 80 - 84.

And seniors in Euthanasia Chambers, er "Nursing Homes", are often given far more.  A well-medicated patient is less labor-intensive.

All those drugs, directly attacking the immune system. 

Remember, the Third Reich started with seniors, or what they frequently called, "Useless Eaters".

If you really want to help the seniors in your life, help them find means of healing without drugs, help them find drugs less dangerous to their immune system, help them do well with fewer drugs.  And at the same time, help them find ways to boost their immune systems.

Do you hear anything about the immune system from the "Health Officials", from the government actors asserting near-dictatorial powers, or from the lapdog media?  No, on that very important score, all you hear is...crickets.

See the excellent article, "The Elderly Are Taking Too Many Pills".

TLC

School's Out--Wonderful!!!

 UPDATE: I forgot to list Project Gutenberg, which has over 60,000 free eBooks.



With the shutdown of the government indoctrination camps, there is a golden opportunity to provide a genuine education to students, young, old, and lifelong.

This is a perfect time for a (re)reading of Thomas Paine's “Common Sense”.  Although from Paine's “Rights Of Men”, the following observations of Paine's are still highly pertinent today: "A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either."

“Common Sense”:



Declaration Of Independence.  “[W]henever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”.  Hummm...



US Constitution.  Which is not, contrary to the wishes of George W. Bu$h, “just a GD piece of paper”.  “...the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”.  And now we live in times where governments are telling us more than nine of us cannot meet at a time, and that a sneeze can get us expelled from the councils of government.  Hummm again...



There aren't too many people who still believe the malarkey that Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, but then who did?  “Farewell America” by James Hepburn (pseudonym), written in 1968, is one of the very best books around, and available for free.


One of Bill Clinton's most important mentors was Professor Carroll Quigley.  While IMHO Clinton did not use that knowledge for the betterment of the world, he certainly learned much.  Much background/additional information can be found at one of the two main Quigley sites.


Quigley wrote several books, the most important being “Tragedy And Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time”, which can be read for free.


Good debate/critical thinking/philosophy teachers are difficult to find even in the best of times.  If you have a little money to spare, I highly recommend Jon Rappoport's courses.  Had they been around when I graduated high school, perhaps I would have spent the following seven years and beyond more constructively, and I certainly wouldn't have spent the second two-thirds of my life trying to overcome the first third (i.e. government indoctrination facilities). 


The above list is not exhaustive or remotely close to being.  Rather, it is a starting point.  Not everyone prefers the written word, some are more receptive to audiobooks, lectures, videos,, and so on.  There are wonderful free resources out there.  Two Three of particular note:

Open Culture


Internet Archive


Project Gutenberg


TLC

Survivors

"Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization, organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements, conformity--these things are at the very heart of our national state policies, and are the poison that has killed our families and left individual survivors in a numbed, angry, nearly hysterical condition."
--John Taylor Gatto,
"The Exhausted School: Bending The Bars Of Traditional Education"

Might V

"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, 'It might have been.'"
--Kurt Vonnegut

Fine

"The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?'

Amelia: 'Yeah...'

The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine."

--Steven Moffat

Learn III

“'The best thing for being sad,' replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, 'is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.'”
--T.H. White,
"The Once and Future King"

Cut

"Cut the population by 90 percent and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage"
--Sam Keen,
 "State of the World Forum"
September, 1995, in San Francisco

Awaits

"[T]he world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution."
--John F. Kennedy

Protection IV

"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
--Clare Boothe Luce

Illusory

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
--Douglas MacArthur,
Speech to the Michigan legislature, in Lansing, Michigan (May 15, 1952)

Caring

“I really don't think it's a case of not caring at all about animals. Instead, I think it's a case of caring so much about one's own self that everything else becomes immaterial.”  
--Micheal Slusher

Crowd-Pleasers

"The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage and whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy--then go back to the office and sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."
--Hunter S. Thompson,
"Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72"

Symphony

"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
--Albert Einstein

Control VIII

"The Communist party must control the guns."
--Chairman Mao

Tip II

"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).'"
--Frank Mankiewicz

Crusade

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation'--this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."
--Aldous Huxley,
"Crome Yellow"

Fear VII

"Fear is like a pack of dogs--it chases us, and if we try to run or hide from it the dogs will continue our chase until finally, exhausted, we fall and are devoured."
--Gerry Spence