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curated news for friends & family ™ "If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."... read more
When they say the pandemic is not over, what they mean is, there’s still vaccines to be taken, goal posts to be moved, and money to be made. -- Herb Powell ... read more
Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus and the feeling that you’re bound to be okay because you’re safely in the majority. -- Christopher Hitchens... read more
The doctor of the future will give little medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. -- Thomas Edison... read more
The best way to predict the future is to create it! -- Dennis Gabor... read more
We’re lied to with headlines like ’US counts record 4,000 Covid deaths in a day as virus continues to wreak havoc.’ These deaths, if accurate in number, were from seasonal flu/influenza -- perhaps pne... read more
We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. -- Aldo Leopold... read more
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. -- Hannah Arendt... read more
The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves. -- Vladimir Lenin... read more
If science can’t be questioned ... it’s propaganda. -- Quarterback Aaron Rodgers
Critically-thinking Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was a guest on the Pat McAfee Show... read more
It’s life that matters, nothing but life. The process of discovering. The everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky... read more
...the Holocaust didn’t start with death camps. Instead, it began with propaganda, scaremongering, scapegoating, segregation, and exclusion. Then, it was an easy next step to strip further rights, dehumanize, ... read more
Forcing individuals to have an experimental, toxic drug which has now almost certainly caused more deaths and injuries than any other prescription drug in history surely breaks laws in all civilized nations. ... read more
Life is tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid. -- John Wayne... read more
...either individuals are essentially free to pursue their own interests, express their own thoughts, and own their own property, or the state directs their actions, words, and beliefs to comport with official dog... read more
People are constantly trying to use you to help them create the particular illusions by which they live. This is particularly true of the collective illusions which sometimes are accepted as ideologies. You must r... read more
The ascendancy of crowds indicates the death throes of a civilisation. Crowds are only useful for destruction. -- ... read more
Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the face. -- Mike Tyson, former champion boxer... read more
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -- ... read more
Keep your face always towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. -- Walt Whitman... read more
The truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth -- Todd Wagner... read more
The flu is not a hoax. Renaming it covid and calling it a pandemic is the hoax. -- anon... read more
We’ll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false. William Casey, CIA Director, 1981 ... read more
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. -- John Lennon
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Unlike Skynet, which gained self-awareness, Silicon Valley is full of people who seem to have no self-awareness at all. -- Vince Coyner, ... read more
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Only the sick governing elites can look you in the eye with a straight face and force experimental injections on you because masks didn’t work while simultaneously forcing masks on you because the injections d... read more
From Rand's Quotes Remember these when the "news" media holds someone up as an authority or expert in their attempt to make you go along with the program... read more
Loyalty must not be a higher value than integrity... -- Stephen Covey... read more
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right. The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to ru... read more
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. -- Adolf Hitler (no, we... read more
Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty. -- Joseph Goebbels
I first noticed this comin... read more
"We even have an organization that styles itself, "AntiFa," its chief means for fighting fascism being to dress all in black and beat its political opponents with clubs." -- ... read more
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves... read more
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. And then, they build monuments to you. -- union leader ... read more
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers. Every man is guilty of all the good he did ... read more
Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, for no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is the one who sacrifices himself for the good of others... read more
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -- ... read more
From, obviously and properly enough, Rand Lindsly, rand skydiver.eng.sun , Take me back to loQtus!
I’d take a Bromo, but I can’... read more
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating. Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake. He who laughs most, learns best. ... read more
Does this remind you of anything happening RIGHT NOW?
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of ... read more
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- ... read more
Those who tell the stories rule society -- Plato
Or, maybe it was Native Americ... read more
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- ... read more
It’s not the votes that count, it’s who counts the votes. -- Josef Stalin... read more
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- ... read more
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ’racists.’
Some of the biggest ca... read more
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say ’Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!’ And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him. ... read more
Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt, and a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
A small body of dete... read more
"Remember, those who are shutting down our economy haven't missed a paycheck since lockdown began. We are not in this together." -- Van Morrison... read more
Beware of information obedient to the status quo. When information is obedient to a status quo, it deserves a special level of skepticism to avoid the bias known as confirmation bias, an easy bias to fall into. q... read more
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. -- Laurie Halse Anderson... read more
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden reviv... read more
There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for ... read more
Polling: The gateway political drug to misinformation, mistakes and malfeasance. -- Christian JosiThis was actually just ... read more
The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of ant... read more
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- Arthur C. Clarke... read more
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. -- Cesar A. Cruz ... read more
A novel is the fine art of never getting to the point.
Stay loose, keep moving, stay true to yourself... always.
All the lies we deal with can be disheartening until you realize ... read more
If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed. -- Mark Twain... read more
No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusi... read more
The problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you’ve given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helpi... read more
The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy ... read more
People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing -- refusing to participate in activities that make life bad. -- ... read more
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stup... read more
The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when ... read more
Some Thoughts On Life
Raising teenagers is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree.
There is always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that... read more
Somethin’ to think about Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun. How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you’re on. I have noticed that... read more
Somethin’ to think about Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a trip around the sun. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on. I have noticed that the people who... read more
The Fence
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail in the back fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into t... read more
This is great. Pretty similar to one by Mark Twain, actually, but I am adding it here, anyway: One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we have been bamboozled... read more
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freen... read more
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled! -- Mark Twain
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- Rumi
I happen to think there is nothing wrong with g... read more
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy just... read more
One way or another, in our own inimitable way, we all do to others what was done to us. -- William Arthur Holmes... read more
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad; and that is my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln
Heaven is by favo... read more
Stay loose, keep moving, stay true to yourself... always. This is pretty good advice, too, though.... read more
Total tolerance is not a virtue, it is a total lack of principles. - Plainsman 2016 And here are a couple more... Never trust a Republican with your PUBLIC LAND. Nev... read more
The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray... read more
The bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the po... read more
Nice list: Putting Words in Mark Twain’s MouthI wonder if ... read more
Just because it made me laugh out loud ... Jenny: Do you ever dream, Forrest, about who you’re gonna be?Forrest: Who I’m gonna be?Jenny: Yeah. ... read more
We hang the petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop... read more
We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks d... read more
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. q... read more
The War on Terror(TM) is a product. It doesn’t exist ’to keep us safe’; on the contrary, it exists to keep us in a state of fear. - Liberty Un... read more
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- VoltaireGood quote, but apparently not spoken by Voltaire. See ... read more
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis Brandeis I prefer to be true to ... read more
Watching Titanic the part where the ship is sinking is like watching the U.S. economy, where the rich conspire to sink as many of the poor as they possibly can. - Bill Holmes (yes, I ... read more
For life to work well for most people today, the universe has chosen an unlucky few for whom nothing works at all. :) Try and keep that in mind as you go through your day. -- Bill Holme... read more
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled! A banker is a fellow who lends you his um... read more
The corporation is a true Frankenstein’s monster, an artificial person run amok, responsible only to its own soulless self. - William Dugger For more, go to ... read more
I’ll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it’s going to be impossible to buy a week’s groceries for $20. Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won’t be lon... read more
Andy Rooney on Monica. Can you believe it? Monica turned 28 this week. It seems like only yesterday that she was crawling round the White House on her hands and knees.... on Vegetarians. "Vegetarian" - that's an old Indian w... read more