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Norbert W. Bolz | All the notable experts

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“All the notable experts support government policy because you only become a notable expert if you support government policy.” Norbert W. Bolz ist ein deutscher Medien- und Kommunikationstheoretiker, Buchautor sowie Designwissenschaftler. Bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 2018 lehrte er als Professor für Medienwissenschaften an der TU Berlin “Alle namhaften Experten unterstützen die Regierungspolitik, weil man nur zum namhaften Experten wird, wenn man die Regierungspolitik unterstützt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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H. L. Mencken | I believe that all government is evil

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“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.” Henry Louis Mencken “Ich glaube, dass alle Regierungen böse sind, und dass der Versuch, sie zu verbessern, weitgehend Zeitverschwendung ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Willy Brandt | Whoever should once play with the state of emergency

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“Whoever should once play with the state of emergency to limit freedom will find my friends and me on the barricades in defense of democracy, and this is meant quite literally.” Willy Brandt (In der Parlamentsdebatte wandte sich Willy Brandt, damals Außenminister und Vizekanzler, an die außerparlamentarische Opposition) “Wer einmal mit dem Notstand spielen sollte, um die Freiheit einzuschränken, wird meine Freunde und mich auf den Barrikaden zur Verteidigung der Demokratie finden, und dies ist ganz wörtlich gemeint.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Donald Pleasence | News is the most highly developed form of fiction

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“I always tell people. News is the most highly developed form of fiction. The most difficult” Donald Pleasence ( Donald Pleasence Explained Fake News in 1968 | The BBC showed this episode of its ‘Thirty Minute Shorts’ series, in 1968. Starring Donald Pleasence and Nigel Davenport) “Ich sage den Leuten immer. Nachrichten sind die am höchsten entwickelte Form der Fiktion. Die schwierigste” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Caitlin Johnstone | power-serving worldview

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“The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth.” Caitlin Johnstone “Der Hauptgrund dafür, dass die Mainstream-Nachrichtenreporter Dinge berichten, die nicht wahr sind, liegt darin, dass sie, um von den Mainstream-Nachrichtensendern angeworben zu werden, ihre Denkweise mit der herrschenden Weltanschauung gleichschalten müssen, welche nicht auf der Wahrheit beruht.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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David Rockefelle | We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications

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“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 40 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 more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination…

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José Ortega y Gasset | Universal suffrage

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“Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another.” José Ortega y Gasset (spanischer Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Soziologe Aufstand der Massen | Eine statistische Tatsache) “Das allgemeine Stimmrecht gab der Masse nicht das Recht zu entscheiden, sondern die Entscheidung der einen oder andern Elite gutzuheißen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Jessica Hamed | no longer be able to trust Germany’s highest

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“One of the most significant moments for me in my professional career, apart from being sworn in as an attorney, was signing my first – also successful – constitutional complaint. It pains me to no longer be able to trust Germany’s highest court in a fundamental way.” Jessica Hamed (ist Fachanwältin für Strafrecht und Dozentin an der Hochschule Mainz.) “Einer meiner für mich bedeutsamsten Momente in meiner Berufslaufbahn war neben der Vereidigung zur Rechtsanwältin das Unterzeichnen meiner ersten – auch erfolgreichen – Verfassungsbeschwerde. Mich schmerzt, dem höchsten Gericht Deutschlands in…

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Tony Cartalucci | Your Real Government

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“These organizations represent the collective interests of the largest corporations on earth. They not only retain armies of policy wonks and researchers to articulate their agenda and form a consensus internally, but also use their massive accumulation of unwarranted influence in media, industry, and finance to manufacture a self-serving consensus internationally. To believe that this corporate-financier oligarchy would subject their agenda and fate to the whims of the voting masses is naive at best. They have painstakingly ensured that no matter who gets into office, in whatever country, the guns,…

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Jacques Ellul | propaganda refines its techniques.

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“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda refines its techniques.” Jacques Ellul (war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe.) “Mit der Kenntnis des Menschen, seiner Neigungen, seiner Wünsche, seiner Bedürfnisse, seiner psychischen Mechanismen, seiner Automatismen sowie mit der Kenntnis der Sozialpsychologie und der analytischen Psychologie verfeinert die Propaganda ihre Techniken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Walter Lippmann | The process by which public opinions arise

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“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . ….

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Steve Jacobson | Political and economic power

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“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in…

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Milton Friedman | Every friend of freedom

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“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” Milton Friedman “Jeder Freund der Freiheit muss genauso empört sein wie ich über die Aussicht, die Vereinigten Staaten in ein bewaffnetes Lager zu verwandeln, über die Vision von Gefängnissen, die mit gelegentlichen Drogenkonsumenten gefüllt sind, und von einer Armee von Vollstreckern,…

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Mahatma Gandhi | who dare to question authority

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“The world cannot be improved if everyone blindly follows the majority. It needs people who have the courage to question the seemingly irrefutable, who dare to question authority and use their own minds.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) | Indischer Pazifist und Anführer der indischen Unabhängigkeitsbewegung “Die Welt lässt sich nicht verbessern, wenn alle blind der Mehrheit folgen. Es braucht Menschen, die den Mut haben scheinbar Unumstössliches infrage zu stellen, die sich trauen, Autoritäten anzuzweifeln und ihren eigenen Verstand zu gebrauchen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Aldous Huxley | Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control

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“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World “Unpersönliche Kräfte, über die wir fast keine Kontrolle haben, scheinen uns alle in Richtung des Albtraums der Schönen Neuen Welt…

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Gib ihnen am Morgen eine Lügenzeitung

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“Give them a lying newspaper in the morning, let them work a lot during the day for little money and bring the latest manipulated news on TV in the evening, alternating with dumbed-down shows, movies and commercials. Thus they have no more time to think consciously.” Autor Unbekannt “Gib ihnen am Morgen eine Lügenzeitung, lass sie tagsüber für wenig Geld viel arbeiten und bring am Abend im Fernsehen die neuesten manipulierten Nachrichten, abwechselnd mit Verblödungsshows, Filmen und Werbung. Somit haben die keine Zeit mehr, um bewusst nachzudenken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche…

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Ludwig Erhard | Inflation does not come upon us as a curse or as a tragic fate

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“Inflation does not come upon us as a curse or as a tragic fate; it is always caused by reckless or even criminal policies.” Ludwig Erhard, 1957 “Die Inflation kommt nicht über uns als ein Fluch oder als ein tragisches Geschick; sie wird immer durch eine leichtfertige oder sogar verbrecherische Politik hervorgerufen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Albert Pike | We always give the public their heroes

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“We always give the public their heroes. We give the heroes to every faction, and then people once they hear this person say all the right things, we give releases to them because he or she speaks for ‘me’. We say go there go do that and they do it. We give our power to the authorized heroes.” Albert Pike, (the Pope of Freemasonry in the 1800’s) “Wir geben der Öffentlichkeit immer ihre Helden. Wir geben jeder Fraktion, jeder Seite ihre Helden und wenn die Leute dann hören, dass diese…

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Lysander Spooner | The Constitution of no Authority

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“It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay any tax, as he…

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Hannah Arendt | those who choose the lesser evil

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“In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[….] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself.” Hannah Arendt “Bei ihrer moralischen…

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Marshall McLuhan | manage the public’s perception of a subject

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“Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public’s perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.” Marshall McLuhan | Philosoph, The Extensions of Man “Öffentlichkeitsarbeit ist der bewusste Versuch, die öffentliche Wahrnehmung eines Themas zu steuern. Zu den Subjekten der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit gehören Menschen (z.B. Politiker und darstellende Künstler), Waren und Dienstleistungen, Organisationen aller Art sowie Kunst- und Unterhaltungswerke.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Vilfredo Pareto | All governments use force

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“All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to’the will of the people’the expression which the few desire.” Vilfredo Pareto (Quoted in Arthur Livingstone | The Mind and Society 1935) “Alle Regierungen wenden Gewalt an, und alle behaupten, dass sie auf Vernunft gegründet sind. Unabhängig davon, ob es ein allgemeines Wahlrecht gibt oder nicht, ist es in Wirklichkeit immer eine Oligarchie, die regiert und Wege findet,…

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George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult

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“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” George Orwell, 1984 “Solange sie (die Proleten)…

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Aldous Huxley | The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy

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“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.” Aldous Huxley (Is doubted and is probably a quote from the „European Graduate School“ see here “Die perfekte Diktatur wird den Anschein einer Demokratie machen, einem Gefängnis ohne Mauern, in dem die Gefangenen nicht einmal davon träumen auszubrechen. Es ist ein System der Sklaverei, bei dem die Sklaven dank Konsum und Unterhaltung ihre Liebe…

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Carl Sagan on the importance of science education

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“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it? … Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical…

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Jack Posobiec | homogenized consumer class of worker drones

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“You’re going to be a homogenized consumer class of worker drones in order for them to establish Elysium, and this is also where … the metaverse comes in. Transhumanism, this is your bread and circuses now. It’s virtual bread and circuses to distract you from the suffering that goes on all around you.” Jack Posobiec | Eat Bugs, Live In Your Pod, Own Nothing and Be Happy: Wilsonian Thought Has Long Been Shaping Citizens into Serfs “Ihr werdet eine homogenisierte Konsumentenklasse von Arbeitsdrohnen sein, damit sie Elysium errichten können, und…

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James Dresden | Die ideale Tyrannei

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“Die ideale Tyrannei ist die, die ignorant von seinen Opfern selbstverwaltet wird. Die perfektesten Sklaven sind deshalb die, die sich glückselig und unbewusst versklaven lassen.” James Dresden (Niemand scheint die Quelle dieses Zitats zu kennen. Bei Dresden James handelt es sich vermutlich um Donald James Wheal, einen britischen Fernsehautor, Romanautor und Sachbuchautor.) “The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links Dieses Zitat wird Dresden James zugeschrieben. Das vollständige Zitat…