------------------------------------------------------------------ There are about 2 million dams in the US alone. ... EVERY DAM IN THE WORLD WILL FAIL. And every dam in the world must fail for those rivers to survive. This is something we all need to recognize, and that from the perepective of the world this is short-term habitat loss and long-term habitat gain. [Which, of course, also applies to] highways, cities, ... these are blights on the planet ... AND THE SOONER THEY DISAPPEAR THE MORE LIFE IS LEFT ON THIS PLANET. -- Derrick Jensen in "Dam Failure" (8:23) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fXPJNculM0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1001 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Das Tao liegt direkt unter unseren Fusssohlen. Mach nur deine Augen auf und sei gegenwaertig! Sei bewusst bei allem, was du tust, "JETZT-HIER" ! -- Zensho W. Kopp (MY caps) ( http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3897674084/zenguide-21 ) The Tao lies immediately under the soles of our feet. Just open your eyes and be present! Be (conscious?) aware (attentive?) in everything you do, "HERE and NOW" ! -- Zensho W. Kopp (MY caps, my transl.draft) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Ereignisse von 1933 bis 1945 haetten spaetestens 1928 bekaempft werden müssen. Spaeter war es zu spaet. Man darf nicht warten, bis der Freiheitskampf Landesverrat genannt wird. Man darf nicht warten, bis aus dem Schneeball eine Lawine geworden ist. Man muss den rollenden Schneeball zertreten. Die Lawine haelt keiner mehr auf. Sie ruht erst, wenn sie alles unter sich begraben hat. -- Erich Kaestner (1899-1974), "Ueber das Verbrennen von Buechern" ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ MEDICUS CURAT, NATURA SANAT. (God heals, the doctor takes the fees.) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1004 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Aber der Staat luegt in allen Zungen des Guten und Boesen. Und was er auch redet: Er luegt. Und was er auch hat: Gestohlen hat er's. -- Nietzsche (1844-1900) in "Also sprach Zarathustra" (1885) -- -- ISBN 1508718202, S. 38 -- -- zitiert in "Pflicht zur Impfung gegen COVID-19", apolut.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it. -- George Carlin (1937 - 2008) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1006 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Es herrschen haeufig die schlechtesten, unbedeutendsten, grausamsten, sittenlosesten und besonders die verlogensten Menschen. -- Tolstoj, Leo N. (1983): Rede gegen den Krieg, Seite 74 -- -- zitiert in https://www.rubikon.news/artikel/erziehung-zum-untertanen ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered with an occasional assassination." -- VOLTAIRE (1694-1778), as quoted by -- -- S. Andrew Swann in "Hostile Takeover" (1995) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1008 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [F]ear can unite people behind the most unsuitable of leaders, especially when that fear is strong and targeted at a common enemy or those who are different, or sometimes both. When people are fearful, the last thing they want to hear is that their fears are unreasonable or unjustified. ... Concerns by their nature are reasoned. Fears are not. -- L. E. Modesitt Jr., "Outcasts of Order" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 4.4.022 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Der Nationalsozialismus zielte nicht darauf, die Menschen kognitiv zu ueberzeugen, sondern sie emotional einzubinden: Er lebte von der narzisstischen Beduerftigkeit und Abhaengigkeit seiner Anhaenger, von ihren Schamgefuehlen, Kriegstraumata und fruehkindlichen Erloesungsphantasien. -- Stephan Marks in "Warum folgten sie Hitler? Die Psychologie des Nationalsozialismus" (2007) Auffallende Parallelen zum Coronafaschismus existieren selbstverstaendlich ausschließlich in der Fantasie von rechtsradikalen kommunistischen Gedankenverbrechern. -- wda, 2022/05 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1010 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Today everything serves war. There is not one discovery which the military does not study with the aim of applying it to warfare, not one invention which they do not attempt to turn to military use. -- Nikolai Fyodorov, "Philosophy of the Common Cause," 1891 To fight the bug, we must understand the bug. -- Starship Troopers = opening quotes of Yasha Levine, "Surveillance Valley" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ [T]he internet was developed as a weapon and remains a weapon today. [US] American military interests continue to dominate all parts of the network, even those that supposedly stand in opposition. -- Yasha Levine, NY 12/2017, "Surveillance Valley," p. 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1012 ------------------------------------------------------------------ [G]lobalized neoliberal capitalism ... is doing away with outmoded concepts like the nation state and national sovereignty and restructuring the world into one big marketplace where "Chinese" investors own "American" companies that manufacture goods for "European" markets by paying "Thai" workers 3 dollars a day to enrich "American" hedge fund crooks whose "British" bank[st]ers stash their loot in numbered accounts in the Cayman Islands while "American" taxpayers pay their taxes so that the "United States" can give billions of dollars to "Israelis" and assorted terrorist outfits in the Middle East to open up markets for the capitalist ruling classes, who have no allegiance to any country, and who couldn't possibly care less about the common people who have to live there. -- CJ Hopkins in "Goose-stepping Our Way Toward Pink Revolution" 2017-02-21 in "Trumpocalypse" (2019) ISBN 9783982146409, p.75 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ NEVER FORGET The people who hid and helped (e.g.) Anna Frank were "criminals". The people who brought them to the KZ were law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1014 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 97% Of scientists agree with whoever is funding them. The other 3% are banned, censored, deplatformed or shut up e.g. by having the lifes of their families threatend. Gates Bless! ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ NATIONALISM teaches you to be proud of things you haven't done and to hate people you've never met. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1016 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who is easily offended probably ought to be offended for hir own good. -- wda 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ The crime that was perpetrated during the p[l]andemic years of 2020-2022 was perhaps the greatest ever committed against humanity. And it is being perpetrated still. Naomi Wolf in "The Bodies of Others" (05/2022), 1737478560 p. 15 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1018 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Die Pharma-'Industrie' (bzw. -Mafia) ist an Gesundheit ganz genau so interessiert wie die Rüstungs-'Industrie' (bzw. -Mafia) an Frieden. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wie wird die Welt regiert und in den Krieg gefuehrt? Diplomaten beluegen Journalisten und glauben's wenn sie's lesen. -- Karl Kraus, 1914 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1020 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACTION IS THE ANTIDOTE TO DESPAIR ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1021 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Des toidschen Volxkrankheit ist seine Folgsamkeit. -- Anny Hartmann in "Lobbyismus 2.0" YT 9ym_hqMuQ_s ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1022 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Einmal in mehreren Jahren zu entscheiden, welches Mitglied der herrschenden Klasse das Volk im Parlament niederhalten und zertreten soll – das ist das wirkliche Wesen des buergerlichen Parlamentarismus. -- W. I. Lenin, "Staat und Revolution" (1930), in: Ausgewaehlte Werke, Band II, Berlin 1970, S. 355 -- -- zit. in https://apolut.net/macht-euch-endlich-vom-acker-von-hans-juergen-muelln/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ But no one is so deaf as he who will not hear. -- Lenin (), "State and Revolution" (1917), ISBN 0781614271925, p.46 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1024 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and oppress the people through parliament - this is the essence of bourgeois parliamentarism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics. -- Lenin(1870-1924), "State and Revolution" (1917), ISBN 0781614271925, p.40 ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steh zu den Dingen, an die du glaubst, auch wenn du alleine dort stehst. -- Sophie Scholl (1921-1943) zugeschrieben. WO? ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1026 ------------------------------------------------------------------ I identify as a Conspiracy Analyst. My pronouns are Told/You/So. ----------------- If someone accuses you of wearing a tinfoil hat... remind them it's better than a blindfold. ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ready or not, computers are coming to the people. That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics. -- Steward Brand, "SPACEWAR," 1972 -- -- as quoted in Yasha Levine, "Surveillance Valley" (2018) ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1028 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1030 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ %%% 1032 PRACTISE ======== random acts of kindness and acts of senseless beauty ! McCopies & D.Stribute 2145 !