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"Gee, I'm glad he took the oppurtunity to keep his window down in such cold weather so
we can all hear his shitty music!"
-Liam

"Fuck! I know what you're thinking; I'm a potential terror suspect out to destroy the freedoms I believe in...
by knocking down the gates of control.."

"I think the biggest way to rebel is for all of us to grow moustaches that way the police don't know who to shoot"
-Inscription over the notebook pages lyrics for 'The Swine Flu Shuffle'

"Ignorance will kill,
but self- realization will revive our state of being."
-Leemonster

"Only idiots don't point out the common sense because it is common sense to point out the obvious when
it is obvious that most people are idiots."
-Leemonster

"What if the grim reaper had asthma and decided to stay the hell away from everybody that smoked?"
-Yeah yeah....

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius -
and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they
do not refer to reality."
-Albert Einstein

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
-Albert Einstein

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
-Albert Einstein

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
-Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
-Albert Einstein

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
-Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
-Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
-Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the
people who don't do anything about it."
-Albert Einstein

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein

"Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you."
-Bill Hicks

"Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
-Bill Hicks

"If you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, then go home and burn all your records, all your tapes,
and all your CDs because every one of those artists who have made brilliant music and enhanced your lives? RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrEAL fucking high on drugs. The Beatles were so fucking high they let Ringo sing a few songs."
-Bill Hicks

"Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts, that's their definition,
essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm... Sounds like...every commercial on television, doesn't it?
You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm not thinking of gum. I am thinking of chewing,
so maybe that's the connection they're trying to make."
-Bill Hicks

"Here is my final point. About drugs, about alcohol, about pornography and smoking and everything else. What
business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long
as I do not harm another human being on this planet?"
-Bill Hicks

"They lie about marijuana. Tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do
everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."
-Bill Hicks

"I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it.
I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely
nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say "Bill,
quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it."
I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here..."
-Bill Hicks

"It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one."
-Bill Hicks

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's
how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and
it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long
time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they
come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill
those people."
-Bill Hicks

"George Bush says 'we are losing the war on drugs'. Well you know what that implies? There's a war going on, and people on drugs are winning it! Well what does that tell you about drugs? Some smart, creative motherfuckers on that side."
-Bill Hicks

"Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America,
your goverment is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here
is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together
and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what well tell you!
You are free to do what we tell you!"
-Bill Hicks

"I'm gonna share with you a vision that I had, cause I love you. And you feel it. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense each year, trillions of dollars, correct? Instead -- just play with this -- if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world -- and it would pay for it many times over, not one human being excluded -- we can explore space together, both inner and outer, forever in peace."
-Bill Hicks

"If the FBI's motivating factor for busting down the Koresh compound was child abuse, how
come we never see Bradley tanks smashing into Catholic churches?"
-Bill Hicks

"If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries."
-Bill Hicks

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration,
that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a
dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves."
-Bill Hicks

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
-Bob Marley

"Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats.
This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes."
-Bruce Sterling

"I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things."
-Chuck D.

"We don't see the people who are doing real things getting enough props. We often see politicians who
are everywhere but nowhere at the same goddamn time. You know the kind of person: You see
them everywhere on television but nowhere in front of your face."
-Chuck D.

"And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison
and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history."
-David Icke

"The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what
prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends
down at the bar are going to think of them."
-David Icke

'"Education' is not involved in developing self-awareness, It merely prepares young people to do the jobs
that will serve the system. Real 'education' is actually unlearning the indoctrination of official 'education.'"
-David Icke

"The bigger the lie and the more it is repeated, the more will believe it. This process of indoctrinated reality has
convinced six billion people that 'seeing is believing' and that the 'world' around them is 'real'. It must be, they can
see, smell, touch, hear and taste it. That means it has to be real. Oh yeah? Who Says?"
-David Icke

"The assualt on diversity is designed to crystallize and solidify still further the consensus reality and make it
even more difficult for people to see beyond it or recognize that it's only a manipilated illusion designed to
imprison them. The agenda is to 'solidify' the consensus illusion still further by removing all challenges and
alternatives to it."
-David Icke

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
-George Orwell

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously,
and accepting both of them."
-George Orwell

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
-George Orwell

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
-George Orwell

"Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against
a homicidal maniac."
-George Orwell

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
-George Orwell

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
-George Orwell

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs,
he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
-George Orwell

"Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
-George Orwell

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give
an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
-George Orwell

"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."
-George Orwell

"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
-George Orwell

"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
-George Orwell

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell

"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-Groucho Marx

"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take
cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now
you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
-Frank Zappa

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
-Frank Zappa

"Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."
-Frank Zappa

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another."
-Frank Zappa

"You drank beer, you played golf, you watched football - WE EVOLVED!"
-Frank Zappa

"Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great."
-Frank Zappa

"If you really want to be a rebel, honestly try and love something. And if you really want to be gross about it,
try and love the society that's shitty-try and love it enough to do something about it. If you can get enough zealots
out there that believe in that sort of activity, you can't stop them, no matter what they look like and where they live,
because those are the kind of people that move mountains and you can't do anything about it. They won't take no for an answer."
-Frank Zappa

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
-Mark Twain

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."
-Mark Twain

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
-Mark Twain

"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."
-Mark Twain

"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds,
however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
-Mark Twain

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual
death on the installment plan."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else?
The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else
we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right,
temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for
easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent."
-Nikola Tesla

“Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.”
-Nikola Tesla

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
-Nikola Tesla

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel. Men have been led to it long ago by instinct or reason; it has been expressed in many ways, and in many places, in the history of old and new. We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians and in many hints and statements of thinkers of the present time. Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic — and this we know it is, for certain — then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
-Nikola Tesla

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence. Following this thought we now realize, forcibly enough to dispense with argument, that of all other conquests of man, without exception, that which is most desirable, which would be most helpful in the establishment of universal peaceful relations is — the complete ANNIHILATION OF DISTANCE.
To achieve this wonder, electricity is the one and only means. Inestimable good has already been done by the use of this all powerful agent, the nature of which is still a mystery. Our astonishment at what has been accomplished would be uncontrollable were it not held in check by the expectation of greater miracles to come. That one, the greatest of all, can be viewed in three aspects: Dissemination of intelligence, transportation, and transmission of power.
-Nikola Tesla

"If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and nutty. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, no matter what. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the telepathic pressure alone of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality."
-Rev. Ivan Stang

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly."
-Steven Wright

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."
-Steven Wright

"I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance."
-Steven Wright

"I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator."
-Steven Wright

"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it."
-Steven Wright

"One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about
justice, and that they have open minds."
-Zack de la Rocha

"We shall have world government whether or not we
like it. The only question is whether world government will be
achieved by conquest or consent."
-Paul Warburg.

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation.
We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland."
-Adolf Hitler
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation.
We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland."
-George W. Bush

"We are not going to achieve a New World Order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money."

- Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 'The CFR Journal Foreign Affairs', August 1975.

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991
LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside
threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" invasion], whether real or *promulgated* [emphasis mine], that threatened
our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing
every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished
for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."

-Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose
directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have
been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The
supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."

-David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting
of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

"The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the
bankers and the elite people control the world."
- Nick Rockefeller (from Aaron Russo interview)

"Some even believe we (Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure---one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."
- David Rockefeller, “Memoirs”, 2002

"The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able--nor can it be able--to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'"

-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, in an article entitled "Rockefeller Bids Free Lands Unite: Calls at Harvard for Drive to Build New World Order" -- The New York Times (February 1962)

"This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long - 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."
- David Rockefeller, 9/23/94

"Give me the power of the money and it will not matter
any more who is commanding"
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."

-Strobe Talbot, President Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State,
as quoted in Time, July 20th, l992.

"The New World Order will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down...but in the end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."

-CFR member Richard Gardner, writing in the April l974 issue of the CFR's journal, Foreign Affairs.

"By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations...
a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One world government is inevitable."
- Karl Wojtyla: AKA Pope John Paul II

"I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it."
- George Bush

"Out of these troubled times, our objective of a New World Order can emerge. Today, that new world is struggling to
be born, a world quite different from the one we have known."
- George Herbert Walker Bush, 9/11/90

"... in politics nothing is accidental. If something happens, be assured it was
planned this way"

"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over
city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen....At the head of this
octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred
to as international bankers. The little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government
for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."

"The government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a
plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semioccult power which....pushed the
mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I."

"For a long time I felt that FDR had developed many thoughts and ideas that were his own to benefit this country,
the United States. But, he didn't. Most of his thoughts, his political ammunition, as it were, were carefully manufactured
for him in advanced by the Council on Foreign Relations-One World Money group. Brilliantly, with great gusto, like a
fine piece of artillery, he exploded that prepared "ammunition" in the middle of an unsuspecting target, the American people,
and thus paid off and returned his internationalist political support.

"The UN is but a long-range, international banking apparatus clearly set up for financial and economic profit by a small
group of powerful One-World revolutionaries, hungry for profit and power.

"The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned
sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and
their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation
of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank."

-Curtis Dall, FDR's son-in-law as quoted in his book, My Exploited Father-in-Law

"The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking
interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a
skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary,
intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power
superior to the political governments of the nationstates involved. As managers and creators of the system ,they
will rule the future."

-U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies.

Media

"The biggest political joke in America is that we have a liberal press. It's a joke taken seriously by a surprisingly large
number of people... The myth of the liberal press has served as a political weapon for conservative and right-wing forces
eager to discourage critical coverage of government and corporate power ... Americans now have the worst of both
worlds: a press that, at best, parrots the pronouncements of the powerful and, at worst, encourages people to be
stupid with pseudo-news that illuminates nothing but the bottom line."
- Mark Hertzgaard

"Television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation... Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."
- Neil Postman

"The media is not just the message. The media is a massage. We're constantly being stroked, manipulated, adjusted,
realigned, and manoeuvered."
- Joey Skaggs

"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and
analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
- Noam Chomsky

"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of
democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate
power against democracy."
- Alex Carey

"A famous middle-aged rock-and-roller called me last week to thank me for speaking out against the war, only to go
on to tell me that he could not speak himself because he fears repercussions from Clear Channel. 'They promote
our concert appearances,' he said. 'They own most of the stations that play our music. I can't come out against this war'."
- Tim Robbins, actor

"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."
- Groucho Marx

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make
the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
- Malcolm X

"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
- Jim Morrison

"Expecting FOX News to report real news is about as silly as waiting for George Bush and Dick Cheney to tell the truth... Americans care, but it's tough to care when you don't know what's going on. That ignorance is what the warmakers count on and what the corporate media delivers."
- Amy Goodman

"The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those
who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimize it."
- Serge Daney

"Media manipulation in the U.S. today is more efficient than it was in Nazi Germany, because here we have the pretense
that we are getting all the information we want. That misconception prevents people from even looking for the truth."
- Mark Crispin Miller

"...the new corporate ethic is so single-minded about extreme fast profits and expanded control over the media business
that it is willing to convert American news into a service for the affluent customers wanted by the media's advertisers
instead of a source of information significant for the whole of society. The rewards of money profit through market
control by themselves and their advertisers have blinded media owners to the damage they are doing to an institution
central to the American democracy."
- Ben H. Bagdikian

Criminals In Action

"The CIA worked very closely with them and United States supported Saddam Hussein at every level -
gave him arms, gave him money, gave him political backing, the military helped him; none of this is really fully
understood by the American people."
- Peter Camejo

"Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they’ll say, ‘no.’ If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, ‘Yes.’."
- Louis Freeh

"The connections piled up quickly. Contra planes flew north to the U.S., loaded with cocaine, then returned laden with
cash. All under the protective umbrella of the United States Government. My informants were perfectly placed: one
worked with the Contra pilots at their base, while another moved easily among the Salvadoran military officials who
protected the resupply operation. They fed me the names of Contra pilots. Again and again, those names showed up in
the DEA database as documented drug traffickers. When I pursued the case, my superiors quietly and firmly advised
me to move on to other investigations."
- Former DEA Agent Celerino Castillo, Powder Burns, 1992

"Force George Bush not just to answer how can he can justify the CIA and himself and his political party, and the U.S. government, supporting a torturer and murderer for decades in Iraq."
- Peter Camejo

"In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern.
The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading
the American public."
- Frank Church

RFID

"The consumer backlash against the hidden RFID chips in the Payback loyalty card sent a clear message to the rest of
the world: We consumers have the power to stop RFID cold in its tracks, and we don’t have to put up with retailers’
nightmare vision for our future."
- “Spychips”, by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, p. 83

"… companies are developing eerie in-home people-watching systems… Plans are afoot to rig homes
with cameras, microphones, breathing monitors, proximity sensors, and RFID devices a la 1984 that can sense
not only where occupants are in homes, but even what they’re thinking and feeling."
- “Spychips”, by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, p. 89

"NCR must have done cartwheels when the Real ID Act passed in the spring of 2005, federalizing control over driver’s
licenses. The act gave the Department of Homeland Security the power to set technology standards for licenses –
including the potential to require them to carry RFID chips. Requiring spychips in licenses would mean consumers
could not leave home without a tracking device, at least not if they’re driving. (This bill has been widely denounced
by civil libertarians as creating a de facto national ID card)."
- “Spychips”, by Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre, p. 77

"Once the exact identity or some demographics or other characteristics of the person have been determined, the person
tracking unit relies on this information to track the person as the person moves through the roaming areas. The person tracking unit may assign a tracking number to each identified person and store the tracking number in association with the
collection of RFID tagged product information."
- IBM U.S. patent application #20020165758, “Identification and Tracking of Persons Using RFID-Tagged Items”

"Although the systems… of the present invention… have been described in context of a retail store, it can be applied
to other locations having roaming areas, such as shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains,
airplanes, restrooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc."
- IBM U.S. patent application #20020165758, “Identification and Tracking of Persons Using RFID-Tagged Items”

Other

"We have been taught lies. Reality is not at all what we perceive it to be. We cannot survive any longer by hanging
onto the falsehoods of the past. Reality must be discerned at all costs if we are to be a part of the future. Truth must
prevail in all instances, no matter who it hurts or helps, if we are to continue to live upon this earth. At this point, what
we want may no longer matter. It is what we must do to ensure our survival that counts. The old way is in the certain
process of destruction and a New World Order is beating down the door...
-William Cooper

If we do not act in concert with each other and ensure that the future becomes what we need it to be, then we will surely deserve whatever fate awaits us.
-William Cooper