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Julian Assange | when asked “Who do you think is the number-one enemy?”

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„Our number-one enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the number-one enemy of everyone. It’s not understanding what is actually going on in the world. It’s only once you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now the question is: who is promoting this ignorance? […] It is bad media. It really is my opinion that the media in general are so bad we have to question whether the world wouldn’t be better off without them all together. They’re so distortive to how the…

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Karl Jaspers | Where is the Federal Republic headed?

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“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to…

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Søren Kierkegaard | There are two ways to be fooled

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“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” Søren Kierkegaard “Es gibt zwei Möglichkeiten, sich täuschen zu lassen. Man soll glauben, was nicht wahr ist; Das andere ist, sich zu weigern zu glauben, was wahr ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it

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“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.” Erich Fromm “Die Inhaber…

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Friedrich Nietzsche | We live in a system

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“We live in a system in which one must either be a wheel or get crushed by the wheels.” Friedrich Nietzsche „Wir leben in einem System, in dem man entweder Rad sein muß oder unter die Räder gerät.“ Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ayn Rand | He is free to evade reality

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“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” Ayn Rand “Es steht ihm frei, sich der Realität zu entziehen, es steht ihm frei, seinen Verstand zu verwirren und blindlings jeden Weg zu beschreiten, der ihm gefällt, aber es steht ihm nicht frei, dem Abgrund zu vermeiden, den er nicht sehen will.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Ayn Rand | You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences

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„Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences.“ Ayn Rand Sometimes paraphrased as:…

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John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists

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“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” John Edgar Hoover | Gründer und Ex-Direktor des FBI “Der Einzelne hat das Problem, dass er mit einer so monströsen Verschwörung konfrontiert ist, dass er nicht glauben kann, dass sie existiert….

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Benjamin Constant | When you pay the representatives of the people

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“When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions.” Benjamin Constant | eigentlich Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque “Wenn man die Vertreter des Volkes bezahlt, so weckt man in ihnen nicht das Interesse, ihre Funktionen gewissenhaft zu erfüllen, man interessiert sie vielmehr nur daran, sich die Ausübung dieser Funktionen auch weiterhin zu sichern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Klaus Kinski | If the government was replaced by the mafia

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“If the government was replaced by the mafia we’d probably have half as much corruption and twice as much fun.” Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) “Wenn man die Regierung durch die Mafia ersetzen würde, hätten wir vermutlich halb so viel Korruption und doppelt so viel Spaß.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Roland Baader | Let us free ourselves from the true evil (state counterfeit money)

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“It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let’s talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let’s make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let’s fight to ensure that the basis of people’s freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it…

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Erich Fromm | Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable

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“Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.” Erich Fromm “In der Tat sind Freiheit und die Fähigkeit zum Ungehorsam untrennbar, daher kann jedes soziale, politische und religiöse System, das Freiheit proklamiert, aber Ungehorsam ausmerzt, nicht die Wahrheit sagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Tom Clancy | What the government is good at is collecting taxes

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“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” Tom Clancy (Thomas „Tom“ Leo Clancy Jr. | war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller) “Die Regierung ist gut darin, Steuern einzutreiben, Freiheiten zu nehmen und Menschen zu töten. Sonst taugt sie nicht viel.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Michael Crichton | You don’t play ball with the power structure

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“…Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to, because the power structure pays the bills. You don’t play ball with the power structure, you don’t get money for research, you don’t get an appointment, you don’t get published, in short you don’t count anymore. You’re out. You might as well be dead.” Michael Crichton „…Wer die Macht in der Gesellschaft hat, bestimmt, was studiert werden…

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Friedrich August von Hayek | all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny

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“Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.” Friedrich August von Hayek “Durch die unvermeidliche Misswirtschaft der Ressourcen und Güter, die dem Staat zur Verfügung stehen, führen alle Formen des Kollektivismus schließlich zur Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Caitlin Johnstone | The empire still fears the public

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“The empire still fears the public. If it didn’t it wouldn’t bother rolling out so much propaganda ahead of all its depraved actions—it would just act. They work so hard to manufacture our consent because they’re still afraid of what we’ll do to them if we decide we don’t consent.” Caitlin Johnstone | Autorin „Das Imperium hat immer noch Angst vor der Öffentlichkeit. Wenn es das nicht täte, würde es sich nicht die Mühe machen, so viel Propaganda im Vorfeld all seiner verderblichen Aktionen zu verbreiten – es würde einfach…

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Dr. Angela Merkel | all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made

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“But that is precisely why I am also deeply convinced that it is right that we have a representative democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy, and that representative democracy gives us the opportunity for certain periods of time to make decisions, then within these periods of time also to campaign for these decisions and thus to change opinions. Looking back at the history of the Federal Republic, we can say that all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made. The introduction of the social…

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Jon Rappoport | Socialism is

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“Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don’t work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored…

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Albert Jay Nock | The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social

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“The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.” Albert Jay Nock (1870-1945) American libertarian author, editor, educational theorist, Georgist, social critic “Der Staat ist sowohl in seiner…

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Ludwig von Mises | The champions of socialism

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“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in…

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C.S. Lewis | I do not like the pretensions of Government

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“I do not like the pretensions of Government — the grounds on which it demands my obedience — to be pitched too high. I don’t like the medicine-man’s magical pretensions nor the Bourbon’s Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet’s Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands ‘Thus saith the Lord’, it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I…

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Napoleon Bonaparte | A higher power is pushing me to a goal

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“A higher power is pushing me to a goal i don’t know. Until it is reached, i will be invulnerable, unshakeable. As soon as i’m no longer needed, one fly will be enough to knock me down.” Napoleon Bonaparte “Eine höhere Macht treibt mich zu einem Ziel, das ich nicht kenne. Solange es nicht erreicht ist, werde ich unverwundbar sein, unerschütterlich. Sobald ich nicht mehr gebraucht werde, wird eine einzige Fliege genügen, um mich zu Fall zu bringen.” “Une puissance supérieure me pousse à un but que j’ignore. Tant qu’il…

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ZUBY | One of the biggest problems with college degrees

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“One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they’ve made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. This arrogance and smugness makes them dumber because they think they’re too smart to receive new information from anybody with fewer ‘credentials’.” ZUBY | Rapper. Author. Podcaster. Speaker. Coach. “One of the biggest problems with college degrees is they’ve made a lot of people think they are much smarter than they truly are. “Eines der größten Probleme mit Hochschulabschlüssen ist, dass sie viele Menschen dazu gebracht…

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Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend

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“I’ve made a lot of mistakes, I’ve been wrong many times but I’m beginning to think I’m right about this: the mainstream media is not your friend, the culture is not your friend, the government is not your friend, big business is not your friend. They are operating collegiately in unison to create a set of systems that are beneficial to them and disadvantage you.” Russel Brand „the mainstream media is not your friend“ “Ich habe viele Fehler gemacht, ich habe mich oft geirrt, aber langsam glaube ich, dass ich…

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Prof. Christoph Degenhart | The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner

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“In the portrayal of political processes, I often see a certain political one-sidedness. For example, when it comes to the topics of ecology or Europeanization, critics are always put in the right-wing corner. [….] The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner. ARD and ZDF are increasingly acting as an acclamation forum for politics.” Professor Christoph Degenhart | (72 | Leipziger Medienrechtler) “In der Darstellung politischer Prozesse sehe ich oft eine gewisse politische Einseitigkeit. Zum Beispiel werden bei den Themen Ökologie oder Europäisierung Kritiker immer wieder in die rechte…