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Fred Hoyle | Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available…a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.“ Fred Hoyle (britische Astronom) “Wenn Menschen Bilder aus dem Weltraum von der Erde sehen, wird das Leben auf der Erde nie mehr so sein, wie es einmal war.“ Variante; “Sobald ein Foto der Erde, das von außen aufgenommen wurde, verfügbar ist, wird eine neue Idee, die so mächtig ist wie keine andere in der Geschichte, freigesetzt werden.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Max Goldt | This newspaper is an organ of infamy

“This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely unacceptable socially. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unkind to them as the law will just allow. They are bad people who do wrong.” Max Goldt | a german writer, once wrote about the german tabloid „BILD“: “Die Bild-Zeitung ist ein Organ der Niedertracht. Es ist falsch, sie zu lesen. Jemand, der zu dieser Zeitung beiträgt,…

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Christine Prayon | Welke & Co. made “atmosphere against those who think differently”

“I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I’ve also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don’t want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against…

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Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world

“We’re in a post-truth world where you can’t believe the media, you can’t believe Big Pharma, you can’t believe politicians, you can’t believe what you’re eating, you can’t believe yourself. Since we’ve existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it’s now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can’t trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,” Robbie Williams “Wir leben in einer postfaktischen…

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Nicolás Gómez Dávila | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness

“In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn’t know.” Nicolás Gómez Dávila “In einem Zeitalter, in dem die Medien unzählige Dummheiten verbreiten, wird der gebildete Mensch nicht durch das definiert, was er weiß, sondern durch das, was er nicht weiß.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Leonard E. Feeney | Having a television in your home

“Having a television in your home is like having a Jew in your living room.” Fr. Leonard E. Feeney (Jesuit) from “The Point” magazine, 1957. “Einen Fernseher zu Hause zu haben, ist wie einen Juden im Wohnzimmer zu haben.” Leonard E. Feeney (Jesuit) aus der Zeitschrift „The Point“, 1957 Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above

“A ‘war against X’ decreed from above – be it against ‘terror’ or against a pandemic – is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination.” Prof. Reiner Mausfeld “Bei einem von oben verordnetem ‚Krieg gegen X‘ – sei es gegen den ‚Terror‘ oder…

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Prof. Dr. Knut Löschke | how natural science is turned into a whore of politics

“I’m fed up, or to put it even more clearly: I’m fed up with the permanent and increasingly religious climate gibberish, with energy turnaround fantasies, with electric car worship, with scary stories about doomsday scenarios from Corona to conflagrations to weather catastrophes. I can no longer stand the people who shout this into microphones and cameras every day or print it in newspapers. I suffer from having to witness how natural science is turned into a whore of politics. I am tired of being told what to be ashamed of…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion

“The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who makes it, no one has ever met it personally, but everyone lets themselves be tyrannized by it!” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Das mächtigste Hirngespinst ist die öffentliche Meinung: Niemand weiß genau, wer sie macht, niemand hat sie je persönlich kennengelernt, aber alle lassen sich von ihr tyrannisieren!” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Vince Ebert | They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight

“I’m pretty sure: if the climate change thing was miraculously solved, many Germans wouldn’t breathe a sigh of relief. They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight.” Vince Ebert “Ich bin mir ziemlich sicher: wenn die Sache mit dem Klimawandel auf wundersame Weise gelöst wäre, würden viele Deutsche nicht erleichtert aufatmen. Sie würden sich quasi über Nacht vor etwas anderem fürchten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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George Orwell | To keep them in control was not difficult

“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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José Luis Sampedro | Public opinion is influenced by the media

“Public opinion is influenced by the media and the media are in the hands of those who rule and those who rule favor those who say what is convenient for them and erase everything that does not suit them. So public opinion is, above all, media opinion.” José Luis Sampedro spanischer Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Humanist und Schriftsteller 1917 – 2013 „Die öffentliche Meinung wird von den Medien beeinflusst, und die Medien sind in der Hand der Regierenden und der Regierenden, die diejenigen bevorzugen, die sagen, was für sie geeignet ist, und alles…

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Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled

“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. [….]An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people… ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control.” Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn | war ein britischer Politiker der Labour Party. Er gehörte dem House of Commons von 1950 bis 1960 an und erneut von 1963 bis 2000, also…

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Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind

“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.” Edward Bernays “Wenn wir den Mechanismus und die Motive des Gruppendenkens verstehen, ist es jetzt möglich, die Massen nach unserem Willen zu kontrollieren und zu reglementieren, ohne dass sie es merken.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen | mainstream media are not a mirror of reality

“The very first thing we have to understand is that the mainstream media are not a mirror of reality. Not even a distorted mirror of reality, but provide us with a reality that is constructed according to its very own points of view. Which is made to influence us in a certain way.” Prof. Dr. Michael Meyen „Wir müssen als aller erstes verstehen, dass die Leitmedien kein Spiegel der Wirklichkeit sind. Nicht mal ein verzerrter Spiegel der Wirklichkeit, sondern uns eine Realität liefern, die nach ganz eigenen Gesichtspunkten konstruiert wird….

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Dave Smith | basic human liberties

“If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist.” Dave Smith “Wenn Sie glauben, dass die grundlegendsten menschlichen Freiheiten von der Einnahme eines Produkts eines riesigen Pharmakonzerns abhängig gemacht werden sollten, dann sind Sie nicht liberal oder links. Sie sind weder konservativ noch patriotisch. Es gibt nur ein Wort, um Sie…

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Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.” Robert A. Heinlein “Es gibt keine schlimmere Tyrannei, als einen Menschen zu zwingen, für etwas zu bezahlen, das er nicht will, nur weil man glaubt, es wäre gut für ihn.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Charles MacKay | simultaneously impressed with one delusion

“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.” Charles MacKay | Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds “Wir sehen, daß ganze Gesellschaften plötzlich ihre Gedanken auf ein einziges Thema fixieren und den Verstand dabei verlieren; daß Millionen von Menschen gleichzeitig von einer einzigen Wahnvorstellung ergriffen werden, bis ihre Aufmerksamkeit von…

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Russel Brand | the mainstream media is not your friend

“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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Caroll Quigley | people can throw the rascals out at any election

“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but…

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Baron Arthur Ponsonby | 10 principles of war propaganda

10 principles of war propaganda We didn’t want this war. The enemy is responsible for this war. The enemy’s leader is the devil. We’re fighting for a good cause. The enemy is using forbidden weapons. Horrible acts committed by the enemy are intentional; ours are accidental. Our casualties are minor; those of the enemy are significant. Artists and intellectuals support our cause. Our cause is holy/righteous. If you question (1)-(9), you are a traitor. Baron Arthur Ponsonby Wir wollen den Krieg nicht Das gegnerische Lager trägt die Verantwortung Der Führer…