Misc. Quotes for Saturday, August 13, 2016

"Whenever you run a clandestine operation, you run two things at the same time: you prepare the team for the hit, and you keep it so small there's nobody to spread it all around. And across the hall is a big staff working on what we call special plans. They're preparing the cover story. The cover story is what they want people to believe and to talk about, and to argue about." - From a 1992 speech by Col. Fletcher Prouty, former chief of special operations, Joint Chief of Staff (as quoted in Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein)

"Dysfunctional families are known for a certain type of boundary problem called triangulation. It goes something like this: Person A is angry at Person B. Person A does not tell Person B. Person A calls Person C and gripes about Person B. Person C enjoys Person A's confidence and listens whenever A wants to play the triangle game. By this time, Person B, feeling lonely, calls C, and in passing, mentions the conflict with A. Person C becomes the confidant of B as well as A. Persons A and B have not resolved their conflict and C has two "friends." - Boundaries, by Dr. John Townsend and Dr. Henry Clouad

"We are presently working discretely with all our might to wrest this mysterious force called sovereignty out of the clutches of the local nation states of the world." - Arnold Toynbee, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1031 (as quoted in the United Nations Exposed)

"The Pentagon's calculation that it owns or rents 702 bases in about 130 countries -- over and above 6000 bases in the United States - is a gross underestimate because it fails to include installations in such places as Kosovo and Bosnia, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan, and secret installations in Israel, Australia, and England, among others...Between the alliance with France in the Revolutionary War in 1778 and the creation of NATO in 1949, the United States did not enter a formal alliance with any country. Yet we are now treaty-bound to defend sixty nations on five continents..." - Day of Reckoning, by Patrick Buchanan, 2007

 "The aggregate national debt had grown from $22 billion in 1932 to just under $400 billion in 1970. By 1979 the debt had doubled to $800 billion. The difficulty with a debt that doubles in ten years is that the interest compounds to the point that it can no longer be paid out of current revenues. Once the interest itself is debt financed, the compounding accelerates...Interest payments [on the national debt] is a misnomer. The interest is not actually being paid. It is being borrowed and added to the debt. So, in reality, we are paying interest on the interest from previous years." - The Coming Economic Earthquake, by Larry Burkett (Note: This book was published in  1991 when our national debt was still under $4 trillion dollars. Today, it is somewhere between $19 trillion and $100 trillion, depending on who's cooking, I mean, keeping the books!)


"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

"But the change will come only when we have slammed the system up against the wall and stared it down, and made it responsive to us. It is not unpatriotic to criticize one's country. It is essential. I think of the wife of a drunk who covers, apologize, and makes excuses for him because she loves him too much, and thereby enables him to continue in his oppression and destruction.  In the same way we must stop enabling our system to continue its injustices because, we too, love it so unconditionally that we fail to demand it reform, that is, be responsible." -  With Justice for None - Destroying an American Myth, by Gerry Spence (Attorney)