Quotations Page

John Denver:

''There has never been a time on Earth like we see today.

What we need are more ways to experience our inter-

connectedness - it is a precursor to deep love. So,

in this quickening light, with the dawn of each

new day, let us look for love. Let us no longer

struggle. Let us ever become.. who we most

want to be. As we begin to be who we truly

are, the world will be a better place.''

Albert Schweitzer:

The first step in the evolution of ethics,

is a sense of solidarity with other

human beings.''

Writer Whitney Webb:

“What they want, is for you to get used to

the idea of ratting out your neighbours.”

Soame Jenyns:

''Those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty
and prosperity of their country, and at the same
time infringe her laws, affront her religion
and debauch her people, are but
despicable quacks.''

Ibn Hazm:

''If you attend, only behave like a man wishing to

expand his knowledge and seeking a higher

reward from God. Do not act like a man

content with what he holds... who is

waiting for a 'weakness' (from some-

one) to criticize (it or him), or for an

oddity to raise. This will be acting

like vile people, who have never

mastered science.''

Richard Price:

''The noblest principle in our nature, is the regard to

general justice, and that good-will which embraces

all the world.''

Naom Chomsky:

''We may recall that ...Winston Churchill authorized

the use of chemical weapons "against recalcitrant

Arabs as an experiment," denouncing the

"squeamishness" of those who objected

to him "using poisoned gas against

uncivilised tribes," mainly Kurds,

a policy he strongly favoured,

expecting that it "would

spread a lively terror."

''For England itself, he had somewhat different plans.

As Home Secretary in 1910 he had secretly proposed

sterilization of 100,000 "mental degenerates" and the

dispatch of tens of thousands of others to state-run

labour camps so as to save the "British race" from

inevitable decline if its "inferior" members are

allowed to breed, ideas that were within the

bounds of enlightened opinion of the day,

but have been kept secret in Home
Office files because of their
sensitivity, particularly
after they were

taken up by
Hitler.''

Frank Herbert:

''Power does not corrupt... What it does

do, however, is attract the corruptible.''

Blogger:

''Reports in the '90s, before the non-stop post 911 era

shut down decent scientific social studies, proved

that abusers are attracted to jobs like cops,

teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers

and banking... and anywhere money is

handled, such as benefits offices and

AP departments\treasury, passport

offices, DMV and information

technology.''

Dmitry Kozak, President Vladimir Putin’s

deputy chief of staff --- who is Ukrainian:

“I support those assessments that exist within Ukraine,

that the start of hostilities is the beginning of the end

for the country. This is a self-inflicted shot, a shot

not in the leg, but in the temple.”

Seymour Hersh, honest US writer:

''The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia.

We did the one thing that George Kennan warned

us never to do - to expand NATO too far.''

James Otis Jr.:

''What must be the wealth that
avarice, aided by power,
cannot exhaust!''

John Cruddas, British MP:

''Labour has broken its covenant
with the working class.''

Persius:

''You pray for good health and a body that will be

strong in old age. Good - but your rich foods

block God's answer and tie his hands.''

Jonathan Swift:

''Vision is the art of seeing
what is invisible to others.''

Matthew Ehret:

''The only pathway to avoiding the collapse of the financial

system & a thermonuclear war, is to be found in imposing

Natural Law, vigorously, upon the claimed “debts” which

Wall Street, & the City of London, wishes to have bailed

out. The expression of this Natural Law takes the form

of the restoration of Glass-Steagall laws across the

trans-Atlantic economies - eliminating the $1.5

quadrillion debt bomb, before it explodes - and

returning to the principles of national banking

for all countries. Under such a reform, and by

joining in common interest with other states

in the Eurasian zone --- a commitment to

progress and security can be realized,

and such poisonous agendas as the

Great Reset, can be avoided.''

Thaddeus Stevens, US House of Representatives:

''I wish the Indians had newspapers of their own.

If they had -- you would have horrible pictures of

the cold-blooded murders of inoffensive Indians.''

Nicholas Murray Butler:

''The world is divided into three kinds of people:

A very small group that makes things happen;

a somewhat larger group that watches things

happen; and a great multitude that never

knows what has happened.''

Aretha Franklin:

''I think, it would be a far greater

world if people were kinder and

more respectful to each other.''

This, from The Australian, the Murdoch

owned national newspaper of Australia:

“Zhao is a piss and wind functionary --- a bureaucrat

perfectly suited to serving a totalitarian government.

Wolf warrior? More a propaganda panda. Think of

Squealer from George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, the

obsequious manipulator, who, at the behest of

his master, Napoleon, spreads disinformation

throughout the socialist collective to bolster

the supremacy of his fellow pigs.”

Autralian blogger:

''Three Australian PM's who sought better tries with Asia

were ousted with the help of the US & UK. Those who

obediently follow the US are rewarded with lucrative

positions brokered by the US.''

Casanova:

''The man who has sufficient power over himself

to wait until his nature has recovered its even

balance, is the truly wise man, but such

beings are seldom met with.''

Germaine Greer:

''Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have

always died out; it's one of the most charming

things about them.''

On the West's terror on China, Finian Cunningham:

''Due to the 2-decade-old US-led war in Afghanistan

there has been a serious problem for the Chinese

authorities - from the radicalization of the Uyghur

population. Thousands of fighters from Xinjiang

have trained with the Taliban in Afghanistan, &

taken their “global jihad” to Syria, and Central

Asian countries. It's their stated objective: to

return to Xinjiang & liberate it as a caliphate

of East Turkestan, separate from China.''

Top French Military Commander

Colonel Jacques Hogard:

''This NATO aggression against Serbia over Kosovo in

1999, constitutes a violation of international law, a

violation of respect for the sovereignty of States,

a violation of intangible respect of borders.''

Albert Schweitzer:

''Example is not the main thing

in influencing others. It is the

only thing.''

In 1787, Virginia governor, Edmund Randolph:

“Our chief danger, arises from the democratic

parts of our constitutions.”

Winston Churchill:

"The best argument against democracy

is a five-minute conversation with the

average voter."

'Reply from average voter:

''Talk about the pot

calling the kettle black.''

Reply from woke US person:

''Excuse me but the correct

term now is Kettle of Color.''

Reply from average voter:

''Excuse me, but the 'correct'

term now, is kettle of colour,

but I prefer to keep it black.''

Charles W Pickering:

"A healthy democracy requires a decent society;

it requires that we are honorable, generous,

tolerant and respectful."

Huey P. Newton:

''During those long years in Oakland public schools,

I didn't have one teacher who taught me anything

relevant to my own life, or experience. Not one

instructor ever awoke in me a desire to learn

more or to question or to explore the worlds

of literature, science, and history. All they

did was try to rob me of the sense of my

own uniqueness and worth, and, in the

process, nearly killed my urge to

inquire.''

Jack London:

“And who knows what Romance, what Adventure, what Love,

is lurking around the next turn of the road, ready to leap out

on us, if we’ll only travel that far?”

Huey P. Newton:

''I think what motivates people is not great

hatred, but great love... for other people.''

Putin, in his January 27th 2021 Davos speech:

''We are ready for this, we want this, and we will strive

to make this happen. But love is impossible, if it is

declared only by one side. It must be mutual.''

Yevgeny Zamyatin:

“I am aware of myself. And, of course, the only things

that are aware of themselves and conscious of their

individuality, are irritated eyes, cut fingers, sore

teeth. A healthy eye, finger, tooth, might as
well not even be there. Isn't it clear that
individual consciousness is
just sickness?”

Frank Harris:

''Since Luther, we have been living

in a centrifugal movement, in a

wild individualism, where all

ties of love and affection

have been loosened...''

In his book, Killing Hope, author and journalist William Blum:

''The United States remains committed to its all- too- familiar

policy of establishing and/or supporting the most vile

tyrannies in the world, whose outrages against their

own people confront us daily in the pages of our

newspapers: brutal massacres; systematic,

sophisticated torture; public whippings;

soldiers and police firing into crowds;

government supported death squads;

tens of thousands of disappeared

persons; extreme economic

deprivation...''

Ludwig Quidde:

''The security of which we speak, is to be attained

by the development of international law, through

an international organization, based on the

principles of law and justice.''

Professor, S. Eastern Norway University, Glenn Diesen:

''Liberal hegemony as a value-based international order

contradicts the concept of a rules-based order. A rules
-based system infers the consistent application of

international law, while a values-based system

endows the liberal hegemon with the

prerogative of a selective and

inconsistent application

of international laws

and rules.''

An editor at Russia in Global Affairs journal, Glenn Diesen:

''The West will insist on maintaining that liberal hegemony

- due to a commitment and belief in liberal values, among

elites (although that is no longer uniform) - while Russia

and China will reject a value-based system instrumental

to imposing an untenable unipolar order. There is no

going back, as the world has moved on, although

the West is not yet ready to move forward.''

James Allen:

''Men are anxious to improve their circumstances,

but are unwilling to improve themselves; they

therefore, remain bound.''

Simone Weil:

''The only way into truth, is through

one's own annihilation; through

dwelling, for a long time, in a
state of extreme and total
humiliation.''

Gamal Abdel Nasser:

“The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days

in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines,

separating and isolating countries from one

another. No country can escape looking

beyond its boundaries, to find the

source of the currents which

influence how it can live

with others.”

Benito Juárez:

''Among individuals, as among nations,

respect for the rights of others,

is peace.''

Arundhati Roy:

“Historically... pandemics have forced humans to

break with the past & imagine their world anew.

This one is no different. It is a portal, a gate-

way, between one world and the next.”

Gabriel García Márquez:

''It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams

because they grow old, they grow old because

they stop pursuing dreams.''

Thomas Paine:

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must

guard even his enemy from oppression; for, if he

violates this duty, he establishes a precedent,
that will reach to himself."

Blogger:

''Two weeks to Flatten the Curve,

they said. This is a long
two weeks...''

Poet:

''You will not hear one doctor say,

an apple a day keeps the doctor

away''

Randal Cremer:

''All the vested interests, and people who profit by war,

will, with the journals they control, resolutely oppose

any reduction of armaments.''

Nina Simone:

''I’ll tell you what freedom is to me. No fear!''

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan:

"Today’s world is travelling in some strange direction.

You see that the world is going toward destruction

and violence. And the speciality of violence, is to

create hatred among people, and fear. I am a

believer in non-violence, and I say, that no

peace or tranquillity will descend upon

the people of the world, until non-

violence is practiced, because

non-violence is love, and it

stirs courage in people."

Jiddu Krishnamurti:

''It is no measure of health -- to be well-

adjusted to a profoundly sick society.''

Swami Vivekananda:

“Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.”

In 2014, after US sanctions on Russia's space

industry, the then deputy PM, Dmitry Rogozin:

''The US should use a trampoline

to send its astronauts to space.''

In 2020, after a SpaceX launch, Elon Musk:

“The trampoline is working!”

Now, chief of Russia's Space Agency,

Roscosmos, in 2021, Dmitry Rogozin:

“Apparently, the trampoline

only works so-so.”

Proverbs 24:17 New King James Version:

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,

And do not let your heart be glad

when he stumbles;

Bertolt Brecht:

“The first time it was reported that our friends were

being butchered, there was a cry of horror. Then a

hundred were butchered. But when a thousand

were butchered and there was no end to the

butchery, a blanket of silence spread.

When evil-doing comes like falling

rain, nobody calls out "stop!"

Stephen Gaskin:

“Enlightenment --- is getting off

your tail and doing something.”

Louis Bromfield:

''This other war, the war on the destruction of natural assets,

is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast

war is largely ignorance --- that most of our citizens do not

realize what is going on under their very feet.''

Jakob Wassermann:

“The way individuals live together: the truth of each individual

is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety

of mankind and of human qualities is always seen through

a prism, where its colours are broken. Observation is so

utterly different from experience; there is no hope of

fusing their contradictions, as the I and the not I

have been foes, from the world's beginning.”

Mao Zedong:

''I have witnessed the tremendous energy

of the masses. On this foundation, it is

possible to accomplish any task

whatsoever.''

''Joe'' Biden:

“I think it’s about time we stop... apologizing for

our support for Israel... It is the best $3 billion

investment we make. Were there not an

Israel, the United States of America

would have to invent an Israel,

to protect her (sic) interests

in the region.”

Alessandro Manzoni:

''Bullies, oppressors, and all men who do violence

to the rights of others are guilty, not only of their

own crimes, but also of the corruption they

bring into the hearts of their victims.''

Boris Gryzlov, Russia's Contract Group delegation

head, regarding Donbass becoming part of Russia:

[Kiev's actions are] "absolutely irresponsible

and aggressive." [and] "set themselves up

for its certain implementation."

Eva Bartlett, Canadian independent journalist,

& activist. Reach her on Twitter @EvaKBartlett:

''Western media have, predictably, remained silent

on Ukraine's crimes, painting the defenders of

Donbass as “pro-Russian separatists” - with

no context as to what people in Donbass

actually want. From what I heard there,

all they want, is autonomy from the

criminal government in Ukraine

and, above all, an end to

the war.''

Linus Pauling:

''The way to get good ideas

is to get lots of ideas - and

throw the bad ones away.''

Muhammad Ali:

''My way of joking, is to tell the truth.

That's the funniest joke in the world.''

Peter De Vries:

''Everybody hates me because

I'm so universally liked.''

Angela Walker, about Joe Biden:

“Well, I worked for him and I can tell you

he is incompetent and in it for power,

the compassion image is

bulls**t optics.”

Stephen Gaskin:

''Now, truth’s a funny trip, because if you really up and

try to do it, there’s going to be some resistance. If you

are going to try to speak some truth, there’s going to

be somebody around who’s got a hand in the till or a

skeleton in their closet, or an ace up their sleeve,
or some extra ego in their back pocket.... who is
not going to want you to talk. There are various

ways that they’ll try to keep you from talking,

and you have to pay attention to them. If you

start to say something that’s true, insist on

saying it until you’re finished saying it.
Do not let yourself be interrupted
when you are speaking truth,
because it cheapens the
truth, to let it be
interrupted.''

''It is also possible to be a pain in the rear about truth,

or anything else. I have been helped sometimes by

an old yogic saying, “Truth is good, but it also

needs to be helpful, necessary, and kind.”''

Charles Sumner:

''Senators undertake to disturb us.. by reminding us of

the possibility of large numbers swarming from China;-

but the answer to all this is very obvious & very simple.

If the Chinese come here they will come for citizenship

or merely for labour. If they come for citizenship, then,

in this desire, do they give a pledge of loyalty to our

institutions; and where is the peril in such vows?

They are peaceful & industrious;- how can

their citizenship be the occasion
of solicitude?

Zbigniew Brzezinski, in 1970:

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance

of a more controlled society. Such a society would be

dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional

values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost

continuous surveillance over every citizen and

maintain up-to-date complete files containing

even the most personal information about

the citizen. These files will be subject to

instantaneous retrieval by

the authorities.”

George Thomas "Mickey" Leland:

''I am as much a citizen of the world, as I am of this country.

To hell with those people who are critical of what I am able

to do, to help save people’s lives.... I don’t mean to sound

hokey, but I grew up on the Christian ethic, which says

we are supposed to help the least of our brothers.''

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

''It is not meant at all that people should be able to

perform wonders or miracles;- it is only intended

that they should live a fuller life & become real

human beings... in order to bring about better

conditions in the world. What do we want?..

We want human beings. It is not necessary

that everyone should become religious, or

exceedingly pious, or too good to live. We

want wise men in business, in politics, in

education, in all walks of life; those who

do not live only on the surface and

those who do not believe only in

matter, but who see life, both

within & without. It is such

souls, who will produce

beauty; it is such souls

who will harmonize the

world... who will bring

about the conditions

we need today.''

Prince Philip of Mountbatten in a 1988 interview::

“The more people there are, the more resources

they will consume, the more pollution they will
create, the more fighting they will do. We have
no option.... If it is not controlled voluntarily, it
will be controlled involuntarily, by an increase
in disease, starvation and war. In the event
that I am reincarnated, I would like to
return as a deadly virus, in order to
contribute something to solve
overpopulation.”

Dr Richard Price:

''What has the love of their country hitherto been

among mankind? What has it been but a love of

domination; a desire of conquest, and a thirst

for grandeur and glory, by extending territory,

and enslaving surrounding countries? What

has it been but a blind and narrow principle,

producing in every country a contempt of

other countries, and forming men into

combinations and factions against

their common rights and liberties?

''What was the love of their country among the Jews,

but a wretched partiality to themselves and a proud

contempt of all other nations? What was the love of

their country among the old Romans? We have

heard much of it; but I cannot hesitate in

saying that, however great it appeared

in some of its exertions... it was, in

general, no better than a principle

--- holding together a band of

robbers, in their attempts

to crush all liberty,
but their own.''

George Washington:

''If the freedom of speech is taken away

then dumb and silent we may be led,

like sheep to the slaughter.''

World tennis champion Novak

Djokovic's dad, Srdjan Djokovic:

"All normal people in the world love him.

Have you ever wondered why he plays

best in China? He feels love there, real

love – something he is not allowed to

experience in the west. In the west

they think that only they exist, but

they are only a fifth of the world.

The western media... have only

focused on Federer and Nadal,

and didn't pay any attention
to Novak. That was the
only way to stop him.''

Medvedev:

“Just to tell you a small story, I first practiced with

Novak when I was 500 or 600 in the world. He was

already number one and had just won Wimbledon.

I thought, ‘OK, he’s not going to speak to me'

- because the guy was a god for me. I was

really shy, [but] he was talking to me like

I was a friend. He’s never changed - he’s

always been a great sport, and a great

friend. He’s a great guy.”

Nikos Kazantzakis:

''What a miracle life is, and how alike are

all souls, when they send their roots

down deep and meet and are one!''

CEO of Pento Portfolio Strategies, Michael Pento:

“What is going to happen when the multiple trillions of dollars

in junk bonds, that have been pushed to the lowest yields to

treasuries ever, the lowest nominal yields ever, blow up?

The entire fixed income market, which is exponentially

bigger than GameStop, is about to blow, due to

insolvency and inflation. Watch out!”

Ella Josephine Baker:

“One of the things that has to be faced, is the process of waiting

to change the system - how much we have got to do - to find out

who we are, where we have come from and where we're going.”

Nikos Kazantzakis:

''Nothing is nearer to us than heaven.

The earth is beneath our feet, and

we tread upon it, but heaven is

within us.''

Dan Glazebrook:

''Enter Hadi - “empire’s man”, as Blumi puts it. Vice President

under Saleh, for almost two decades, Hadi... was a reliable

regime stooge, but without Saleh’s growing impertinence.

Ordained by the priesthood of global capital, his official

mandate was to embark on a process of 'reconciliation'

and prepare the country for elections. Instead, he made

a deal with the Muslim Brotherhood, which allowed him

to sideline the country’s two main popular movements

- Ansar Allah in the north, and Hirak, the separatist

movement in the South - and proceeded to steam-

roller the country into membership of the WTO.

''This process required the usual - long discredited – “shock

therapy”, of unrestrained privatization. Hadi immediately

privatized 11 of the 12 main sectors of the economy,

with 78 of 160 “subsectors” listed for immediate

“liberalization”. At the same time, he exposed

Yemen’s private sector to instant “free market”

competition from global multinationals, costing

thousands of jobs. In other words, says Blumi,

Hadi “proceeded to literally sell off Yemen, to

Saudi and Qatari interests...under no legal or

electoral pressure, Hadi’s government was

the ideal vehicle to plunder Yemen”.

Sayyed Nasrallah to Israelis:

''Stop Playing with Fire, We

are in the Resistance Era.''

Germaine Greer:

''Even crushed against his brother in the

Tube, the average Englishman pretends

desperately, that he is alone.''

Ramiro Funez, political commentator:

''The illusion known as the "American Dream" has been unveiled.

The year 2020, which is symbolic of clear vision, has exposed

the multiple and interconnected crises bringing down the US

empire. The house of cards is crumbling before our own eyes.

Poverty and unemployment... are skyrocketing. Homelessness

is rising. Police killings & foreign occupations are intensifying.

the infrastructure is crumbling. Meanwhile, the United States -

the richest and most powerful country on the planet - has the

highest COVID-19 infection and death rates. To top it off, the

myth that true political change in the US comes from the

ballot box, is being dispelled. Election season calamity,

a symptom of growing political instability, is rocking

the foundations of the so-called "American Dream",

like an earthquake. Millions of immigrant families

(including my own) are now realizing that the

United States is a crumbling empire. If
we want futures marked by peace &

prosperity, we should not look to

Washington and Wall Street.
We should look to Tehran,
Beijing, and Caracas.''

Edmond François Valentin About:

''Marriage, in life, is like a
duel in the midst of a battle.''

A Palestinian:

"Don't ever blame the Jews for the evil deeds of Zionists;

they are not the same people. The Jews walk with God,

and the Zionists walk with the Devil."

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

“Those people who are responsible for foreign policy

in the West do not understand the need for mutually

respectful conversation. Probably, we should just

stop communicating with them for a while.”

Sardar Patel:

''Faith is no good in the absence of strength.

Faith and strength, both are essential to

accomplish any great work.''

Ibn Hazm:

''The use of science in the practice of virtue, is

considerable: the man who knows the beauty
of virtue, will follow it, however possible.

Knowing the evil of wrong, he will avoid it,
however possible. He listens to worthy
praise, and keeps his distance from
unworthy praise.

From this, it is derived that science has a

part in every virtue, and that ignorance

has a part in every vice.

A man who is illiterate and who still
practices virtue, must be extremely
pure, a virtuous being.

This is the state of Prophets, because
God conveyed goodness to them,
without them acquiring it

from men.''

Bertolt Brecht:

''The worst illiterate is the political illiterate,

he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor

participates in political events....

He doesn’t know the cost of life,

the price of a bean, of a fish, of

the flour, of the rent, of the

shoes and of the medicine,

all of which, depends on

political decisions.''

''The political illiterate is so stupid, that he is proud

and swells his chest, saying that he hates politics.

The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political

ignorance, is born the prostitute, the abandoned

child, and, the worst thieves of all, the bad

politicians, the corrupted flunkies of the

national and multinational companies.”

Thomas Paine:

''Suspicion, is the companion of mean

souls, and the bane of all good society.''

August Strindberg:

“I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need

to become a savage and create a new world.”

Robert Norton Noyce:

''If ethics are poor at the top, that behaviour

is copied down through the organization.''

Malcolm Kendrick, doctor, author

and GP in the NHS in England:

''During January, it has been reported, more than 450 people

were catching Covid-19 every day while in hospital in

England for other medical reasons. Which means

that, over the course of the month, nearly one

in 10 people in hospital were infected.

One in 10… 10 percent...

''This figure is also likely to be significantly underestimated.

My own experience is that hospital managers are

extremely keen to find any possible explanation

for a positive test, other than that their patient

caught it while in hospital. They must have

got it at home, or in the ambulance, or in

a care home, etc.''

Sinclair Lewis:

"When fascism comes to America

it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross."

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan:

"The British feared a nonviolent Pashtun more than a

violent one. All the horrors the British perpetrated
on the Pashtuns had only one purpose:
to provoke them to violence."

Blogger, replying to Biden's speech claiming
US ''moral leadership'' of the whole world:

‘moral leadership & defend democracy’....

It's not April yet, and this fool is cracking

jokes... But it was a funny one: "moral
& democracy" - Haaaaaaaaaaaa.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Almeida Garrett:

''I ask the political economists and the moralists

if they have ever calculated the number of

individuals who must be condemned to

misery, overwork, demoralisation,

degradation, rank ignorance,

overwhelming misfortune

and utter penury, in

order to produce

one rich man.''

Simone Weil:

''When once a certain class of people

has been placed by the temporal

and spiritual authorities outside

the ranks of those whose life

has value --- then nothing

comes more naturally

to men than murder.''

Ilya Tsukanov:

''Recently CBS asked what US citizens

think is the biggest threat to the USA.

57% of those surveyed, named other

people in the US. Only 7% think that

the biggest threat is other states.''

Dr. Thomas M. Lister:

''The only country that stands in the way of their goal of a

Zionist Rothschild's New World Order, is Russia; & that's

because President Vladimir Putin, is her leader. Should

President Putin be removed from power, what Zionists

have done to the US & the Middle East, they will then

do to Mother Russia, because real Jews & Christians

within Russia, will not have the power to stop them.''

Sardar Patel:

''The negligence of a few could easily send a ship to the

bottom, but if it has the wholehearted co-operation of

all on board, it can be safely brought to port.''

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

''If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science

of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all

kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.''

Persius:

''Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust,

a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death;

the hour flies.''

Rudyard Kipling:

“There is no sin so great as

ignorance. Remember this.”

José Martí:

''He who could have been a torch
& stoops to being a pair of jaws

is a deserter.''

André Gide:

''Everything has been said before... but since

nobody listens, we have to keep going back

and beginning all over again.''

Jane Fonda:

''Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war

on women, or that they voted against equal pay for women. I'm not

surprised at all. In some ways, it may be a good thing. They're

defending the patriarchy, which is a wounded beast! And

wounded beasts are always dangerous.''

Sir Gerald Kaufman, UK MP, after visiting Gaza in 2009:

"My grandmother was ill in bed, when the Nazis came to her

home town. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. My

grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers

murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present

Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the

continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of

Jews in the Holocaust, as a justification for their

murder of Palestinians."

Blogger:

''Corbyn's labour was a threat to certain people

and it has been dealt with. Starmer and the

blairites now own the party.

I wonder what Hardie and Bevan might have said

if someone told them that, in 2020, their labour

party would be governed by a right wing,

titled, millionaire zionist.......

And Labour keep sending me emails

begging for money....... hahahahaha''

Arnon Soffer, adviser to PM Ariel Sharon in
2004, said, of the "Palestinian problem":

"We will have to kill and kill
and kill. All day, every day."

Syrian President Bashar Assad to Syria's press in 2019:

''All US presidents commit crimes and end up taking the

Nobel Prize and appear as a defender of human rights

& the ‘unique’ & ‘brilliant’ US or Western principles,

but all they are, is a group of criminals who only

represent the interests of the USA's lobbies of

large corporations in weapons, oil & others.

Trump speaks with transparency to say,

'We want the oil.' I tell you, he [Trump]

is the best US president. Why? Not

because his policies are good.. but

because he's the most transparent

US president. What do we want...
more than a transparent foe?”

Adam Phillips:

A guy goes in to see a psychologist.

He says, "It seems I can't make any

friends. Can you help me, you

fat slob?"

As the Chinese say farewell to Donald,

the most common words and phrases

under the Global Times posts include:

''Destruction, dishonest, selfish, populism,

McCarthyism, unilateralism, protectionism,

anti-globalization, untrustworthy, messy,

crazy, arrogant, uncertainty, low-credit,

funny, laughable, gravedigger of US

hegemony, and enemy to pro-US

sycophants.''

Martin Luther King Jr.:

''It is either nonviolence or nonexistence and the alternative

to disarmament, the alternative to a greater suspension in

nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthening the United

Nations and thereby disarming the whole world, may

well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of

annihilation.''

Frank B. Kellogg:

''It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each

other in building armaments and never use them.

History demonstrates the contrary, and we

have but to go back to the last war, to

see the appalling effect of nations

competing in great armaments.''

Patrice Lumumba wrote to his wife

and children days before his death

after the CIA and Belgian torture:

"No brutality, mistreatment or torture has broken me

because I prefer to die with my head held high, with

unshakable faith and deep trust in the future of my

country, than to live in submission and trampling

on sacred principles."

Martin Luther King Jr.:

''It is not enough, to say we must not wage war.

It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.''

Blogger;

''There are a hundred thousand people with COVID in

hospitals in the United States. And this is presented

as a disaster. I'm sorry, but it's not a disaster, it's
a disgrace. One hundred thousand patients, in a

country of 350 million, is not a disaster, it is a

very low figure. How poor the American health

care system is, if they treat people in tents. It
is a shame and disgrace. My naive hope for a

pandemic, was that governments would start

paying more attention to strengthening their

national health systems. That's logical, isn't

it ? For decades, we have seen the decline

in the number of hospitals, beds per capita

and so on... We almost don't know what

quality medical care is, especially free

of charge. We see the same situation

all over the world. The pandemic has

struck. & governments continue to

increase military budgets and cut

funding for health systems. They

are ready to lose a huge part of

the budget due to lockdowns...

but still do not care about their

health systems. What nonsense!

And we see it in every country.

People, instead of using the

situation to demand improve-

ments in the national health

system, are obsessed with

conspiracy theories......
or scared to death
by the virus.''

Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet and
author of 'The COVID-19 Catastrophe':

“Workers have been bullied and forced to see patients

who clearly have or are suspected of having Covid-19

- without PPE. When they raise concerns, they are

belittled or threatened. It’s horrifying to see the

lack of concern by some NHS management.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner:

“Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.”

Julius Caesar:

“If you must break the law, do it to

seize power: in all other cases,

observe it.”

Sardar Patel:

''It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that

his country is free, and to defend its freedom is his duty.''

Phil Ochs:

''Leaving America is like losing twenty

pounds, and finding a new girlfriend.''

German Foreign Minister, Herr Maas:

“We do not need to talk about European sovereignty

if it means that, in the future, we will only do every-

thing Washington wants. The federal government

will not change its position on Nord Stream 2.”

Top French Military Commander,

Colonel Jacques Hogard:

''Europe Died When NATO Illegally

Ripped Out Serbia's Heart in 1999''

Matt Groening:

“Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of

Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?”

Jane Fonda:

''I grew up with a deep belief that, wherever

our troops fought, they were on the side of

the angels. I took every chance I could, to

meet with US soldiers. I talked with them

and read the books they gave me about

the war. I decided I needed to return to

my country and join with them -- active

duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in
particular -- to try and end the war.''

A.N.R. Robinson:

''A union which is not based on justice,

on human rights and realism

is no real unity and

will not last...''

Jane Fonda:

''What we view in the media - and who presents it to us -

does so much to determine how we think, how we feel

about ourselves, and how we view the world.''

Frank B. Kellogg:

''Certain it is, that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen

of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for a reduction in

armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people

of the world, in the hope of an enduring peace.''

Ella Josephine Baker:

“Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes

as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white

mother's sons, we who believe in freedom, cannot rest, until

this happens.”

Character in US film The Day After (1983):

''Stupidity has a habit of getting its way.''

Phil Ochs:

''Leave the old and dying America and use your creative energies

to help form a new America, which would be de-militarized, more

humanistic, where the police are less hostile and closer to the

community, where the wealthy are not given unleashed power

for the exploitation of the people. And, mostly, because it's now

a matter of life and death, reassert an ecological balance with

the environment, which means the people in the oil companies

and the car companies and the space industry and all the other

industries will have to be brought into account, so that there will

be a new definition of government which has to be closer to the

people and less close to special interests --- which are far more

harmful than any revolutionaries.''

Dr Lisa McKenzie:

''UNICEF, the United Nations agency responsible for

providing humanitarian and developmental aid to

children, which usually works in third world

countries sending back reports and images

of starving black youngsters with swollen

bellies, has stepped into the breach to

help feed British families.The agency

has announced there is a ‘domestic

emergency’ and, for the first time

since it was founded 74 years

ago, will provide emergency

aid to the sum of £25,000, to

provide breakfast boxes for

about 1,800 children during

December's school break

in South London.''

Dilma Rousseff:

''The current generation of world leaders - our generation - is

also being called to face significant challenges concerning

peace, collective security and the environment. We have

been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new

threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating

the underlying causes of conflict.''

Ella Josephine Baker:

“Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education,

have the ability to understand and interpret the world around

them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.”

Robert Norton Noyce:

“Don’t be encumbered by history, just

go out and do something wonderful.”

Inayat Khan:

''If we respond to goodness, goodness becomes our property.

If we respond to evil, then evil becomes our property. If we

respond to love, then love becomes our possession.''

Ella Josephine Baker:

“Give light and people will find the way.”

Persius:

''Please not yourself the flattering crowd to hear;

'Tis fulsome stuff, to please your itching ear.

Survey your soul, not what you appear,

But what you are.''

Ken Dodd:

“I told the Inland Revenue I didn't owe them

a penny, because I lived near the seaside”

Jonathan Swift:

''A man should never be ashamed to own that he has

been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is

wiser today, than yesterday.''

Ibn Hazm:

''If you attend our meetings, strictly adopt three

attitudes; there is no fourth. First: You can lock

yourself in the silence of ignorance. Second: If

you do not behave as such, ask questions a

man seeking to learn asks. This man will

ask only about what he does not know,

not about what he knows. Third: You

can answer like a scientist, refuting

clearly the other’s arguments. If

you are not capable of that,
do not insist.''

US Secretary of State Pompeo:

''Venezuela's electoral fraud has already been committed.

The results announced by the illegitimate Maduro regime

will not reflect the will of the Venezuelan people. What is

happening today is a fraud and a sham, not an election.''

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza:

“A zombie has spoken! Although, according to his Boss,

there was fraud in the US elections. Secretary Pompeo,

take truth calmly and resignedly: in Venezuela, your

failure is absolute.''

Norman Finkelstein:

“I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is

becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about

that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants

peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war

and war.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner:

“Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England,

perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their

rights than fight for their rights.”

Jonathan Swift:

''We have enough religion to make us hate,

but not enough to make us love one another.''

Persius:

''Let the wicked see the beauty of virtue,

and pine at having forsaken her.''

Mu Lu :

''Whether or not the West will accept it,

the belief the West is the centre of the

world, will eventually come to an end.''

Persius:

''We consume our tomorrows

fretting about our yesterdays.''

''But when to-morrow comes, yesterday's morrow

will have been already spent: and lo! a fresh

morrow will be for ever making away with

our years, each just beyond our grasp.''

Jonathan Swift:

''The best doctors in the world are Doctor

Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.''

Tom Fowdy:

''By limiting access to China’s AI and rare earth metals,

Beijing is responding to [President Trump’s] endless

stream of sanctions. But this latest move is set to

cause big problems for the companies that work

with the US military. The new regulations are
set to control items said to be vital to the
country’s national security ---- including
military items, strategic technologies,
artificial intelligence algorithms,
and, most strikingly, rare
earth mineral exports.''

James Allen:

''The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow.

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit

and you reap a character. Sow a character

and you reap a destiny.''

Graham Hryce, Australian journalist and former media lawyer:

''Nine soldiers who had served in Afghanistan (a particularly

vulnerable group of veterans, even before recent events)

have committed suicide in the past three weeks. The

soldiers – one woman and eight men – were aged

from their early 20s, to their 50s.''

Jonathan Swift:

''Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do

generally discover everybody's face but their own.''

James Allen:

''If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait

for the money before you do it; you can do it now,

this very moment, and just where you are.''

Hassan Rouhani, Iran's President:

''The relationship between Iran and the United States, is

a complicated and difficult question. There is a chronic

wound, which is difficult to heal. However, it is not

impossible --- provided there is goodwill and

mutual respect between the two countries.“

Aneurin Bevan:

''No society can legitimately call itself civilized,

if a sick person is denied medical aid because

of lack of means.''

Carlos Saavedra Lamas:

''Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who

goes about hopelessly seeking work, in order to

earn bread for his children, is a living reproach

to civilization.''

Ken Dodd:

“The man who invented cats’ eyes, got the idea

when he saw the eyes of a cat in his headlights.

If the cat had been going the other way, he

would have invented the pencil sharpener.”

Aneurin Bevan:

''We could manage to survive without money changers

and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do

without (industrial) workers and those who

cultivate the land.”

Roger McGough:

''I wanna be the leader

I wanna be the leader

Can I be the leader?

Can I? I can?

Promise? Promise?

Yippee I'm the leader

I'm the leader

OK what shall we do?''

Ibn Hazm:

''Anyone who criticizes you,

cares about your friendship.

Anyone who makes light of your faults,

cares nothing about you.''

Ramin Mazaheri:

The United States - repeatedly - has the worst

elections of all the Western core democracies.

That’s not “Iranian meddling”, but Harvard,

& their 2019 Electoral Integrity Index. They

ranked US elections just 57th in the world.

One wonders how much further they will

fall in this year’s ranking? If we honestly

ask if US elections have integrity, I think

everyone has the same answer, and it’s

as serious as a heart-attack: You don’t

want to go there. US elections cannot

withstand serious scrutiny.''

Ken Dodd:

“I used to think I was marvellous in bed

until I discovered that all my girl friends

suffered from asthma.”

Sardar Patel:

"Work is undoubtedly worship, but laughter is life.

Anyone who takes life too seriously must prepare

himself for a miserable existence. Anyone who

greets joys and sorrows with equal facility,

can really get the best of life."

Daisy Bates:

''We will join hands with you as women of this country....

We will kneel-in, we will sit-in until we can eat at any

counter in the United States. We will walk until we

are free, until we can walk to any school and take

our children to any school in the United States.

And we will sit-in, and we will kneel-in and we

will lie-in, if necessary, until every Negro in

America can vote.''

Ken Dodd:

“My dad knew I was going to be a

comedian. When I was a baby, he

said, ‘Is this a joke?’.”

Ibn Hazm:

''If you advise someone on the condition that they

have to accept it, then you are an oppressor.''

Gene Debbs:

''Wars, throughout history, have been waged for conquest

and plunder… the working class who fight all the battles,

the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the

working class who freely shed their blood and furnish

their corpses, have never, yet, had a voice in either

declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling

class that invariably does both. They alone

declare war and they alone make peace.''

Ken Dodd:

“Tonight, when you get home, put

a handful of ice cubes down your

wife’s nightie and say: ‘There’s

the chest freezer you always

wanted’.”

Ibn Hazm:

''Whoever harms his kinship and his neighbours

is worse than them. Whosoever returns ill that

he receives from them is like them. Whosoever

does not return ill done to him, is the master,

the best and most virtuous amongst all.''

Gene Debbs:

''Getting a living under capitalism... is so precarious,

so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle,

that the wonder is, not that so many people

become vicious and criminal, but that so

many remain in docile submission to

such a tyrannous and debasing

condition.''

Blogger:

''The authorities care - so much - to protect us
from the invisible virus. That's all. Everything
else, they don't give a toss about.''

Sardar Patel:

''Take to the path of truth and justice. Don't misuse

your valour. Remain united. March forward in all

humility, but fully awake to the situation you

face, demanding your rights with firmness.''

Sardar Patel:

''Little pools of water tend to become stagnant and

useless, but if they are joined together to form a

big lake, the atmosphere is cooled and there is

universal benefit.''

Lucan:

''The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and

sea and air, and sky and virtue... Whatever you

behold and whatever you touch, that is God.''

Gene Debbs:

''Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things,

and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better

than the meanest on the earth. I said then, and

I say now, that, while there is a lower class,

I am in it; while there is a criminal element,

I am of it; while there is a soul in prison,

I am not free.''

Tommy Makem:

''The victims of social injustice, since time eternal,

have always been without the resources and the

ability to fight back. They are defenseless and

voiceless. The sad aspect of social injustice,

is that the defenseless and voiceless, are

the ones who most need a defense and

a strong, vibrant voice.''

Lucan:

''As far as the stars are from the earth, and

as different as fire is from water, so much

do self-interest and integrity differ.''

United Nations:

''Each year one journalist gets the Pullitzer

and one hundred get shot. Each year

journalists are killed to be silenced:

now YOU can be their voice.''

Carlos Saavedra Lamas:

''A war of aggression, a war which is

not for the defense of one's country,

is a collective crime.''

Finian Cunningham:

''The American Century or Pax Americana

is turning into “Pox Americana.''

Sardar Patel:

''Manpower - without Unity - is not a strength,

unless it is harmonized and united properly

--- then, it becomes a spiritual power.''

Hazrat Inayat Khan:

''What can really be called good or bad

right or wrong - is what comforts the

mind and what causes it discomfort.

It is not true, although it appears

so, that it is discomfort that

causes wrongdoing.

In reality, it is wrongdoing which

causes discomfort, and it is

right-doing which gives

comfort.''

Albert Einstein:

''Two things are infinite: the universe and human

stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe...''

Caitlin Johnstone:

''If you’ve ever wondered how the the US is so successful

in getting other nations around the world to align with its

interests, this is how:- it’s not that the US is a good actor

on the world stage, or a kind friend to its allies, it’s that

it will destroy you, if you disobey it. Australia is not

aligned with the US to protect itself from China.

Australia is aligned with the US to protect

itself from the US. As a Twitter follower

recently observed, the US doesn’t

have allies, only hostages.''

Caitlin Johnstone:

''The primary difference between the coup in Australia

and the one in Bolivia, was that the Bolivians refused

to roll over and take it, while we shrugged, and said

'No worries mate.' We had every option to become

a real nation & insist on our own self-sovereignty,

but we, unlike the Bolivians, were too thoroughly

propagandized and placid. Some hostages

escape, some don’t.''

Caitlin Johnstone:

''The US empire got rid of Whitlam, and then -- when we

elected, in 2007, a prime minister who was considered

too friendly with China -- they did it again;- in order to

facilitate the Obama administration’s “pivot” against

Beijing, the pro-China Kevin Rudd was replaced by

the compliant Julia Gillard.''

Blogger:

''NHS staff and police are exposed to greater numbers of

high risk people and cross lockdown boundaries. Some

still regularly go shopping in uniform - did they miss the

research earlier in the year on long term survival of the

virus under certain conditions? If the government fear

campaign is to be believed, the staff in public services

should either not be working or be housed in barracks

where they can be washed and fed, & not permitted to

shop, and not return home, until at least 7 days after

their tour has ended.''

Another blogger:

''There is too much talk about the EU and what it is doing.

The EU is a vassal state, founded by the CIA, to make it

easier to control. The EU will do whatever it is told to

do, despite its internal shambles and squabbling.

Chaos suits the banking oligarchy of the US just

fine. Manipulation is easier that way. Also, the

EU is fully-occupied by a US military and that

includes the Balkans (Camp Bondsteel).''

Matthew Ehret:

''Overall, the spirit of the growing New Silk Road

is fast moving from a simple east-south trade

route towards a global program stretching

across all of Africa, to the Middle East, to

the High Arctic and Latin America. While

this program is driven by a longer view

of the past and future than most

westerners realize, it is quickly

becoming evident that it is the

only game in town with a

future worth living in.''

Matthew Ehret:

''While China has committed to the enlightened idea

that human society is more than a “sum of its parts”,

the Cold Warriors of the west have chosen to hold

on to the obsolete notions of human nature, that

suppose we live in a world of “each vs. all”.

These obsolete notions are premised on

the (bestial) notion that our species is

destined to do little more than fight for

the diminishing returns of scraps in a

closed-system struggle for survival,

where only a tiny technocratic 'elite'

of gamemasters naming themselves

as “alphas” --- control all the levers

of our production and consumption

from above.''

Norman Schwarzkopf:

''The more you sweat in peace,

the less you bleed in war.''

Herodotus:

''In peace, sons bury their fathers.

In war, fathers bury their sons.''

Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Muammar Gaddafi:

''Everything that has happened during the Libyan conflict

or around it, since 2011, is a continuous attempt to

plunge the country into even greater chaos --- and

divide it. Humiliating agreements were concluded

with a number of states that previously wouldn’t

have dared to approach the Libyan shores; and

now they seek to enter the country and

dominate Africa at its expense.''

Ahmed Gaddaf al-Dam, cousin of Muammar Gaddafi:

''I can say that these external negotiations, taking place

in one or another third country, only distract from the

true settlement of the conflict. A solution to the

conflict should be sought within Libya. I’d like

to point out that 70 per cent of Libyans are

not represented at the negotiations, and

those who do participate in them

should be in prison.''

Patrick Cockburn:

''Instead of relying on experienced public health

experts, with a successful record in finding,

containing and isolating people infected

with HIV & TB, the government handed

the project over to the private sector

- pouring great sums of money into

the creation of a new, but in Sage’s

judgement, dysfunctional system.''

Patrick Cockburn:

''No less than 1,114 consultants from Deloitte, few

of whom are likely to be public health experts, are

now employed by the government to organise the

Test, Trace and Isolate, with each of them earning

a daily fee of up to £2,360. Other consultants such

as those working for the Boston Consulting Group

are even more munificently rewarded, earning as

much as £7,000 a day, or £1.5m a year.''

A German statesman asked a general in World War 1

- who wanted to press on with a calamitous offensive:

“Where does the incompetence end

and the crime begin?”

Former CIA officer John Stockwell:

“For about twenty-five years, the CIA trained and

organized police and paramilitary officers from

around the world, in techniques of population

control, repression, and torture. Schools were

set up in the United States, Panama and Asia,

from which, tens of thousands graduated. In

some cases, former Nazi officers from

Hitler’s Third Reich, were used as

instructors.”

Victor Marchetti, senior CIA official from 1955 to 1969:

“We were supporting every half-assed dictator, military

junta, oligarchy, that existed in the Third World, as long

as they promised to, somehow, maintain the status quo,

which would, of course, be beneficial to US geopolitical

interests, military interests, big business interests and

other special interests.”

William Blum:

''The US has endeavored to overthrow more than fifty

foreign governments; grossly interfered in democratic

elections in at least thirty countries; attempted to

assassinate more than fifty foreign leaders;

dropped bombs on the people of more

than thirty countries; and attempted

to suppress a populist or nationalist

movement, in twenty countries.''

George Jackson:

“The US has established itself as the mortal enemy

of all people’s government, all scientific-socialist

mobilization of consciousness everywhere on

the globe, all anti-imperialist activity

on earth.”

Gabriel Rockhill:

''To establish itself as the global military hegemon,

and international guard dog of capitalism, the U.S.

government & National Security State, have relied

on the help of the significant number of Nazis &

fascists it integrated into its global network of

repression: including the 1,600 Nazis brought

into the U.S. through Operation Paperclip, the

4,000 integrated into the Gehlen organization,

the tens, or even hundreds of thousands, that

were reintegrated into the postwar, or rather

transwar regimes, in fascist countries, the

large number who were given free passage

to the Empire’s backyard (Latin America) &

elsewhere, as well as the thousands or tens

of thousands integrated into NATO’s secret

stay-behind armies. This global network of

seasoned anti-communist assassins, has

also been used to train terrorist armies

around the world to participate in dirty

wars, coups d’état, destabilization

efforts, sabotage, and terror

campaigns.''

''All of this has been done under the cover of a liberal

democracy, and with the assistance of its powerful

culture industries. The true legacy of WWII, far from

being that of a liberal world order that had defeated

fascism, is that of a veritable fascist international,

developed under liberal cover, in order to try and

destroy those who had actually fought and won

the war against fascism: the communists.''

Columbia University's Centre for Poverty and Social Policy:

''We have an economy that works for those at the top of the

food chain, but nearly everyone else is desperately trying

to keep afloat.''

Brian Cloughley:

''According to the Christian website, St Basil’s,

the olive tree “is a symbol of peace, prosperity,

health, wellness, abundance and food.” And

Israel Olive Bond concurs, observing that it

“has been an important component of

Jewish and Israeli culture throughout

history” being “mentioned frequently

in the Bible in the context of blessings,

fruitfulness, and health” & “eventually

became linked to the concept of

putting down roots in the land.”

Which is, no doubt, why Israelis

continue destroying Palestinian

olive trees.''

Brian Cloughley:

According to independent monitors, some 4,000

Palestinian olive trees were destroyed by Israeli

settlers and soldiers in the period January-

July, 2020...''

Brian Cloughley:

''In spite of the fact that the Stockholm International

Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 2014 Yearbook,

recorded that Israel had 80 nuclear warheads,

the (UK) government’s answer was:

“Israel has not declared a nuclear weapons programme.

We have regular discussions with the Government of

Israel on a range of nuclear-related issues. The

Government of Israel is in no doubt as to our

views…” In one respect, the answer was

clearly indicative of policy, in that Israel

is certainly in no doubt about the views

of Britain (and France and the U.S. and

very many others) concerning its illegal

nuclear weapons: it is most unlikely that

any international action will be taken to

limit Israel’s nuclear arsenal (now

numbering at least 90 warheads,

according to SIPRI) or in any

way interfere with its

nuclear posture.''

Brian Cloughley:

''The certain things are, that Israel will carry on

destroying Palestinian houses and olive trees,

while the countries of the Western world keep

extending olive branches to its nuclear bombs.''

[ You can read Brian's full article on this at;

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/13/

olive-branches-and-nuclear-bombs-in-israel/ ]

Edward Wolff, in his November 2012

study “The Asset Price Meltdown”:

''Between 1983 and 2010... the largest gains in relative

terms, were made by the wealthiest households. The

top one percent saw their average wealth (in 2010

dollars) rise by 71%. The remaining part of the top

quintile experienced increases from 52 to 101%,

and the fourth quintile by 21%, while the middle

quintile lost 18% and the poorest 40 percent

lost 270%!''

Eric Zuesse, US writer and investigative historian:

''Though violence will be going up in such a society,

the results will be very different, if it is between

races, than if it is between classes. The top

class, obviously, don’t want it to be a class-

war; and so their media, instead, promote

there being a race-war. The situation is

the same, in the UK.''

Dr Lisa McKenzie:

''The Culture War is nothing but a bourgeois distraction

from the only war that really matters --- Class War.''

Robert Shule:

''US companies are not seriously interested in research and

development (R&D). Their focus has always been on sales;

i.e. selling the same old stuff to the maximum extent that

they can. After all, R&D costs money, and that digs into

profits. There are many examples of many industries

where the U.S.A. took an initial lead, but then never

invested to update their products. Perfect example

is the auto industry. Though Ford originated mass

car production in the U.S., how many more foreign

made autos does one see on US roads nowadays?

I predict that the computer, electronics & software

industries are quickly going in the same direction.

Ten years from now, Microsoft will be history.''

Swordfish (tech blogger):

''Just check how much China invests in education, training,

and the production of tech-related products. They have 4.7

million STEM graduates, against 570k in the US. China’s

system makes sure that the country receives the max

benefit of that knowledge base for the country’s

development. To put it in a nutshell, China’s

administrative system is coherent, well

organized and flawless and is driven by

one goal; to make China the world’s top

economic powerhouse. The subversion,

sanctioning and invasive methods that

the US is trying to use, simply won’t

work against China. The leaders in

the US should give up their gunboat

diplomacy --- and learn to work as

partners, in a multipolar world.''

Francis Lee:

''We are now at the beginning of the most serious series

of financial/economic crises since the great depression

of the inter-war period and the beginning of a new cycle

2000, 2008, 2020. These are no bog-standard business

cycles of short, relatively painless duration, as was the

case in the early '80s and '90s, it is an epochal event --

which will lead to fundamental political and economic

reconfigurations; the end of an era, no less. The ancien

regime is collapsing; this is hardly surprising, since it

has very little idea of what it is dealing with --- and is

attempting to fight today’s battles, with yesterday’s

weapons and tactics.''

Francis Lee:

''Much capital is now effectively redundant. It is ripe

for liquidation - but the economic consequences of

this process would be social and political dynamite.

So there seem to be three alternatives. Firstly, that

governments and central banks somehow stave off

the present catastrophe: but this will only postpone

the inevitable; secondly, the necessary destruction

of capital values (devalorization of capital) will take

place. This will involve a massive struggle for

political power between the haves and have

nots of this world. Either the system will

reconstitute itself -- and go forward to a

fresh round of accumulation -- or the

system as we know it, will be replaced

by another, more viable economic and

political system. Political struggle will

determine the outcome.''

Bertolt Brecht:

''Because things are the way they are,

things will not stay the way they are.’’

Ayn Rand:

''We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore

the consequences of ignoring reality.''

Marx, Capital Volume 3, p.404:

''The ultimate reason for all real crises, remains

the poverty and restricted consumption of the

masses, as opposed to the drive of capitalist

production to develop the productive forces

--- as though only the absolute consuming

power of society constituted their limit.''

Plato:

“Only the Dead Have

Seen the End of War”

Proverbs 28:15:

''As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so

is a wicked ruler over the poor people.''

Newsroom saying in the West:

“Make it sing, make it dance,

but, above all, make it up.”

Eric Zuesse:

''Scientific studies have demonstrated that the

wealthier a person is, the less compassion

the individual tends to have, for people

who are suffering.''

Josiah Stamp:

“Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin.

If you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers, and

pay the cost of your slavery, then let the bankers

continue to create money and control credit.”

US political operative Karl Rove:

''We're an empire now and we create our own reality.''

Novelist and journalist Nirpal Dhaliwal:

''With their media, economy and capital city wholly

dominated by foreigners, the British are now a

colonised people --- trudging exhaustedly

towards a globalised extinction, boxing

with shadows to distract themselves

along the way.''

Novelist and journalist Nirpal Dhaliwal:

''Britain’s inequalities have not disappeared,

but protesters take to the streets only once

the American (sic) signal has been given.''

Scott Ritter:

''America, long ago, ceased functioning as a beacon

of democratic values to which the world could look

for guidance and support. But the Trump-Biden

debate exposed our true dysfunction. We are

now little more than the laughing stock of

the world, armed with nuclear weapons.

And if that does not scare you,

nothing will.''

Blogger:

''The US has no equivalent to Soleimani

for Iran to take revenge.''

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps' Chief, General

Hossein Salami, in a message directed at Trump:

“If a hair comes off an Iranian head,

we will blow up all your fluff.”

1951 speech by then Congressman John Kennedy:

“I should have hoped that with our traditional concern

for other peoples, our generosity, our desire to relieve

poverty and inequality, we would — whatever else

happened — have made friends throughout this

world. It is tragic that, not only have we made

no new friends, but have lost old ones.”

Eric Zuesse:

''Whatever democracy America might once have had

is gone now. It has become replaced by a land of

mass-deceptions, which are bought and sold.''

James Baldwin:

“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most

ferocious enemy justice can have.”

Egon von Greyerz:

''The Chinese understand the long game and they

have infinite patience. They have always known

that they never needed to attack the US,

financially or militarily, because China

has invariably understood, that the

US would self-destruct.''

Blogger:

''The world has moved on from the west's grotesque

rules based barbarism and ritual crimes against

humanity. The entreaties from the east to the

UN this past week, to strengthen and uphold

the charter, are an indication of where 80%

of the world will exist, while the 20%

west implodes.''

Herman Melville:

''There is sorrow in the world,
but goodness too; and goodness
that is not greenness, either,
no more than sorrow is.

Pompeo, at Texas A&M University, April 15, 2019:

“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated,

we stole. We had entire training courses.”

Javad Zarif (@JZarif) September 20, 2020:

“The issue with mythomaniacs — who just can’t
help themselves in their pathological lying

— is that they actually get lost in

their own web of deceit.”

Leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah

movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi:

''The policies of the US and Israel have only

caused crises and wars across the world.''

Herman Melville:

''There is nothing namable but that some