Louis Brandeis: We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jean-Paul Marat: Don't be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much, that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don't be taken in when they paternally pat you on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons, rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you to pieces. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harry Truman: I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in '47, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Mark Twain: Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl: The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Napoleon Bonaparte: Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent...Representative government required to speak, LIES with impunity. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Noam Chomsky: It is not the case as the naive might think that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy, rather . . . it's the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn't much matter because you've got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can't control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem-it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don't have the humility to submit to a civil rule, and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
David Rockefeller: We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Samuel Adams: It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Amnesty International: The U.S.A. has supplied arms, security equipment and training to governments and armed groups that have committed torture, political killings and other human rights abuses in countries around the world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Thomas Woodrow Wilson: We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
George Kennan: We have about 60% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its' population. In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world benefaction. We should cease to talk about such vague and unreal objectives as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Joel Skousen: There is a systematic plan to use the concepts of war to rearrange the chess pieces on the world playing board. It has to do with the New World Order, Globalism and the attack on national sovereignty we are seeing. Occasionally, the globalists who want One World Government have to turn to war to accelerate things. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Abraham Lincoln: Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
John Foster Dulles: In order to bring a nation to support the burdens incident to maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace or of internal conditions rendered intolerable by the unjust restraints of foreign nations. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of the duty of sacrifice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Harold Pinter: The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Daniel K. Inouye: There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Andrew Grove: If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Howard Zinn: (Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Jeremy Brecher: All over the world, people need change. The change? Getting control over the power and resources they need to solve their problems. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: ... there is a system of terroristic states -- the real terror network -- that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Howard Zinn: The modern liberal state, like Machiavelli's fox, often uses deception to gain its ends-not so much deception of the foreign enemy (which, after all, has little faith in its adversaries), but of its own citizens, who have been taught to trust their leaders. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Martinez de Hoz: We enjoy the economic stability that the Armed Forces guarantee us. This (economic) plan can be fulfilled dispite its lack of popular support. It has sufficient political support ... that provided buy the Armed Forces. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Charles Wright Mills: Today in America (is)... the development of a permanent war establishment by a privately incorporated economy inside a political vacuum. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: ... the establishment can't admit (that) it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that (don't) meet (the) standard of service to the transnational corporation... wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Edward Herman: There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
