"If you don't plan your own life, someone else will plan it for you." ―unknown
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves" ―Edward R. Murrow
"Every citizenry has the government they deserve" ―Joseph de Maistre
"Power without oversight is the fastest route out of a replublic" ―unknown
"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over." —Carl Sagan
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." —Tex Guinan
"The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their real enemies back home in their capitals. " —Edward Abbey
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ―Plato
"Power is always dangerous, it attracts the worst and corrupts the best." ―Ragnar Lothbrok
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." —John Philpot Curran
"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. The conformist does what he is told regardless of what is right. The moralist does what is right regardless of what he is told. Be the moralist." —Unknown
"If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." —Malcolm X
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." —Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
"If a nation expects to remain ignorant and free - it expects what never was and will never be." —Franklin?
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." —Charles A Beard
Very accurate all the way around. Only element remaining to be addressed is accurately put, "To educate the mind of a man without educating in morality is to create a public menace." Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes, it would seem to have been far wiser had the U.S. REFUSED to educate those of other nations as they most certainly did not and still do not have Traditional Christian Morals which is a certain pre-requisite for a Govt. as the United States as it was founded to be.
Will be challenging for this Nation to rise back up to know victory over the current threats.
Christian morals had no effect on the founding of the federal reserve, or CIA, or war machine that US has become for decades. Even the idea of charity has been hijacked for schemes in money laundering, human trafficking, or creating strategic allies to foment wars.
Advise you to read 'Tragedy and Hope 101' by Joseph Plummer as an abridged version of whisleblower, Carroll Quigley's 'Tragedy and Hope' about the creation of the SHADOW GOVT. of the U.S. to actually be the first enemy the Patriots Founding Generation fought over 250 years ago...THE CITY OF LONDON with THE CROWN CORPORATION now hiding behind the Demonic U.N. Uniparty Nazi's.
All U.S. Agencies now called 'The Deep State' are siblings of every Agency in the U.K. and all are NAZI IN ORIENTATION AS ALL WERE DESIGNED BY THE PEER FABIANS OF THE ROUND TABLE OUT OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE once hiding behind the people of the British Isles making up the British Military to protect the old British East India Company which was itself an outgrowth of the Dutch East India Company under agreement with the British for their Military Protection for a share of profits.
The abridged version reads very quickly; in less than a day for a quick reader.
A second book to read to begin to grasp the actual World Body Politic is 'Tower of Basel' by Adam Labor about the BIS, it's beginnings and the fact of it being the premier Central Bank of all Central Banks.
Until you get a clue about what's really happening...Don't tell me about the lack of morals from the Soft Warfare attack of the Fabians beginning in 1954 to undermine and destroy the Traditional Christian Family Oriented, Land-Owning Morals of the United States based upon the plans of the Imperialists in LONDON with their Banker/Corporatist/Peer Fabian Buddies from Oxford requiring 250 years to eat the U.S. from the inside with agents indoctrinated by the Rhodes Trust Scholar Program graduating 33,000 spies into American Institutions.
That's an amazing list, thanks. Only issue I have is with Ragnar's. The best are not corruptible. Such people are not common, but do exist. If we're not capable of achieving that level, then why care about us at all?
The smartest, cleverest, healthiest people I know are my neighbors (Amish) who have no electricity therefore no TV, no cell phones, no social media and are committed to attending church, support the community with a work day a week, and support themselves farming ie hard labor. They eat what they grow or raise and they use herbal medicine unless it is something very serious. They may be committed to a life that seems to us quite restrictive, they do it by making conscious, informed and intelligent choices, not blindly following a cult leader. And in so doing, they have escaped all the evils of our modern technologically advanced body and soul destroying culture.
The Amish's way may come with a degree of insularity, that sometimes makes it difficult for domestic or adult-child relations that require intervention should outsiders need to provide it better than insiders.
Thanks John. I hear Ezekiel’s reproof of Israel in your words. (And, likewise, stand convicted).
“Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.” (Ch 16)
It does get tiresome hearing so many voices recite “God bless America” as if it were a command for God to obey.
“May God have mercy on America” sounds far more appropriate.
Great Article John-right on Target. As almost always Dr. McCullough is right! Add the Predator/Parasites constraining our rights and actively trying to explain away and cover up obvious GENOCIDE: Gaza, Covid and the BIOWEAPON JAB.
I went to nursing school several decades ago. One of the things that we were taught to do were nursing care plans. This is where we would create individual plans of care based on a patients most important needs. However, the goal for every patient, regardless of their illness or disability was the same: to help the patient reach & maintain their maximum level of functioning. In other words, we, as nurses, were not to foster dependency. That was the key to their physical, mental, & emotional well-being. It is also the key to our civic & national well-being. It should be glaringly obvious, but, alas, it is not.
I agree, most are sleep walking through life. Social collapse is already here and economic collapse is on the way. The sleep walkers won't know what hit them. If you are in a big shittie and are able get out, leave and fast..
Excellent article. Animal House is hysterically funny on a superficial level, but on a deeper level it glorifies drinking, chaos, and stupidity. As long as we grow past that, we will be ok be, in the aggregate, we haven't. The 9 items you listed have one thing in common; they are under our control. In our younger years we need guidance, which is frequently unavailable, or we have insufficient respect for the provider. My daughter has a Master's in mathematics. She teaches AP high school courses. Students are not permitted to have cell phones visible. A student was 'surfing' while she was teaching. She went to his desk and discretely admonished him. She went back to teaching and he went back to surfing. Again, and yet again, the scenario repeated itself. She finally told him she would have to call security if he doesn't stop using his phone. She does a great imitation of what followed. He looked up at her with a most pathetic expression and said, "I can't". The phone might just as we have been a pint of whiskey or a joint. He was addicted beyond his control. A frequent scene in my city, and many others, is school kids crossing the street against a red light in traffic, looking down at their phone and texting with two thumbs. What is so damned important?
Tyrannies of all stripes have been the standard form of human government since time immemorial. The United States of A is a fluke. In the grand scheme of things, nothing has changed since the Stone Age.
I will pray for you to hear the Lord and surrender your will to Him. He makes it doable if you just say help. Dr. McC has given you advice packed in love.
The empire has come to an end. This is the patterned cycle. It will most likely play out. Betting that it doesn't and that the population you just descibed "gets in shape and off the mental couch" is a stupid one make. Smart Americans have already left the country to set up ship elsewhere where life is not only far better, but has a brighter future and potential to create paralleled systems that can't be rigged so easily with fiat money and bribery.
True that. The majority of Americans, I'm afraid, are incapable of being free. Those of us who desire it must, as Harry Browne did, carve out our freedom from an unfree world.
Hear, hear! 100% agree! Like Mr. Leake, I'm also guilty as charged, but the difference between me and pretty much everyone I know, is I own my "stuff." I take responsibility and don't make excuses or look to lay blame elsewhere. That means the power to change negative habits is solely in my hands, where it belongs. "Tend your own garden" and "clean your own house first."
John Leake writes: "I am merely pointing out that we freedom-loving Americans would be in a much better position to resist tyrants if we took better care of ourselves." Am having difficulty following this logic. There are many healthy people among us, plenty of yoga adherents for example, who eschew fast food and who can execute amazing head stands, but who lay out the welcome mat for tyrants, thinking nothing of enslaving us all. In fact, they are more than happy to regulate our food production, our healthcare, and our purchases. The only way people will be in a better position to resist tyrants is to understand the mechanics of evil and the desire to trap others in subservient positions.
Fully agree. The problem is that traditional democratic processes have been subverted by the rise of unprecedented corporate power structures. The independent businesses of the old middle classes have been slowly but surely driven out of the market. Now the majority are wage slaves in giant corporations that are essentially totalitarian and strictly hierarchical in structure. The desire for freedom is rapidly being distinguished in most citizens. If the porocess continues we are doomed.
The biggest problem is the fictitious/fraudulent debt perpetrated by the fiat currency parasitic gang, followed by the refusal of the victims to learn their lessons of finance. Just a thought.
"If you don't plan your own life, someone else will plan it for you." ―unknown
"A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves" ―Edward R. Murrow
"Every citizenry has the government they deserve" ―Joseph de Maistre
"Power without oversight is the fastest route out of a replublic" ―unknown
"But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also stressed, passionately and repeatedly, that it was essential for the people to understand the risks and benefits of government, to educate themselves, and to involve themselves in the political process. Without that, he said, the wolves will take over." —Carl Sagan
"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." —Tex Guinan
"The tragedy of war is that the young men and women die fighting each other - rather than their real enemies back home in their capitals. " —Edward Abbey
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ―Plato
"Power is always dangerous, it attracts the worst and corrupts the best." ―Ragnar Lothbrok
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." —John Philpot Curran
"You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. The conformist does what he is told regardless of what is right. The moralist does what is right regardless of what he is told. Be the moralist." —Unknown
"If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary." —Malcolm X
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." —Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
"If a nation expects to remain ignorant and free - it expects what never was and will never be." —Franklin?
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." —Charles A Beard
Very accurate all the way around. Only element remaining to be addressed is accurately put, "To educate the mind of a man without educating in morality is to create a public menace." Theodore Roosevelt
Sometimes, it would seem to have been far wiser had the U.S. REFUSED to educate those of other nations as they most certainly did not and still do not have Traditional Christian Morals which is a certain pre-requisite for a Govt. as the United States as it was founded to be.
Will be challenging for this Nation to rise back up to know victory over the current threats.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. —John Adams
Absolutely!
Thus, the birth of what is now 'The Ivy League.'
Little did the founders know...
The Ivy league schools All originally had Judeo-Christian tenets and Bible study was part of coursework.
😉
Christian morals had no effect on the founding of the federal reserve, or CIA, or war machine that US has become for decades. Even the idea of charity has been hijacked for schemes in money laundering, human trafficking, or creating strategic allies to foment wars.
Advise you to read 'Tragedy and Hope 101' by Joseph Plummer as an abridged version of whisleblower, Carroll Quigley's 'Tragedy and Hope' about the creation of the SHADOW GOVT. of the U.S. to actually be the first enemy the Patriots Founding Generation fought over 250 years ago...THE CITY OF LONDON with THE CROWN CORPORATION now hiding behind the Demonic U.N. Uniparty Nazi's.
All U.S. Agencies now called 'The Deep State' are siblings of every Agency in the U.K. and all are NAZI IN ORIENTATION AS ALL WERE DESIGNED BY THE PEER FABIANS OF THE ROUND TABLE OUT OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE once hiding behind the people of the British Isles making up the British Military to protect the old British East India Company which was itself an outgrowth of the Dutch East India Company under agreement with the British for their Military Protection for a share of profits.
The abridged version reads very quickly; in less than a day for a quick reader.
A second book to read to begin to grasp the actual World Body Politic is 'Tower of Basel' by Adam Labor about the BIS, it's beginnings and the fact of it being the premier Central Bank of all Central Banks.
Until you get a clue about what's really happening...Don't tell me about the lack of morals from the Soft Warfare attack of the Fabians beginning in 1954 to undermine and destroy the Traditional Christian Family Oriented, Land-Owning Morals of the United States based upon the plans of the Imperialists in LONDON with their Banker/Corporatist/Peer Fabian Buddies from Oxford requiring 250 years to eat the U.S. from the inside with agents indoctrinated by the Rhodes Trust Scholar Program graduating 33,000 spies into American Institutions.
That's an amazing list, thanks. Only issue I have is with Ragnar's. The best are not corruptible. Such people are not common, but do exist. If we're not capable of achieving that level, then why care about us at all?
Great quotes... many thanks, worth printing and posting up.
I think that first one is Dr Phil 😂
Duly noted, thanks Michele =j
Don’t quote me on it though! It might have been Shakespeare who actually said it first😁
No can do Michele, from this point forward I will always attach your name as the authority on who authored that quote. Dr. Phil it is. ;-j
I am at the very least prepared to go down in history as someone who actually read his book Life Strategies in its entirety.
The smartest, cleverest, healthiest people I know are my neighbors (Amish) who have no electricity therefore no TV, no cell phones, no social media and are committed to attending church, support the community with a work day a week, and support themselves farming ie hard labor. They eat what they grow or raise and they use herbal medicine unless it is something very serious. They may be committed to a life that seems to us quite restrictive, they do it by making conscious, informed and intelligent choices, not blindly following a cult leader. And in so doing, they have escaped all the evils of our modern technologically advanced body and soul destroying culture.
How I wish I could join them.
The Amish's way may come with a degree of insularity, that sometimes makes it difficult for domestic or adult-child relations that require intervention should outsiders need to provide it better than insiders.
Thanks John. I hear Ezekiel’s reproof of Israel in your words. (And, likewise, stand convicted).
“Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.” (Ch 16)
It does get tiresome hearing so many voices recite “God bless America” as if it were a command for God to obey.
“May God have mercy on America” sounds far more appropriate.
Great Article John-right on Target. As almost always Dr. McCullough is right! Add the Predator/Parasites constraining our rights and actively trying to explain away and cover up obvious GENOCIDE: Gaza, Covid and the BIOWEAPON JAB.
I went to nursing school several decades ago. One of the things that we were taught to do were nursing care plans. This is where we would create individual plans of care based on a patients most important needs. However, the goal for every patient, regardless of their illness or disability was the same: to help the patient reach & maintain their maximum level of functioning. In other words, we, as nurses, were not to foster dependency. That was the key to their physical, mental, & emotional well-being. It is also the key to our civic & national well-being. It should be glaringly obvious, but, alas, it is not.
I agree, most are sleep walking through life. Social collapse is already here and economic collapse is on the way. The sleep walkers won't know what hit them. If you are in a big shittie and are able get out, leave and fast..
Like Jesus said, clean house of a demon and fail to refill it with righteousness, and you end up with 7 demon squatters.
Excellent article. Animal House is hysterically funny on a superficial level, but on a deeper level it glorifies drinking, chaos, and stupidity. As long as we grow past that, we will be ok be, in the aggregate, we haven't. The 9 items you listed have one thing in common; they are under our control. In our younger years we need guidance, which is frequently unavailable, or we have insufficient respect for the provider. My daughter has a Master's in mathematics. She teaches AP high school courses. Students are not permitted to have cell phones visible. A student was 'surfing' while she was teaching. She went to his desk and discretely admonished him. She went back to teaching and he went back to surfing. Again, and yet again, the scenario repeated itself. She finally told him she would have to call security if he doesn't stop using his phone. She does a great imitation of what followed. He looked up at her with a most pathetic expression and said, "I can't". The phone might just as we have been a pint of whiskey or a joint. He was addicted beyond his control. A frequent scene in my city, and many others, is school kids crossing the street against a red light in traffic, looking down at their phone and texting with two thumbs. What is so damned important?
Tyrannies of all stripes have been the standard form of human government since time immemorial. The United States of A is a fluke. In the grand scheme of things, nothing has changed since the Stone Age.
I will pray for you to hear the Lord and surrender your will to Him. He makes it doable if you just say help. Dr. McC has given you advice packed in love.
The empire has come to an end. This is the patterned cycle. It will most likely play out. Betting that it doesn't and that the population you just descibed "gets in shape and off the mental couch" is a stupid one make. Smart Americans have already left the country to set up ship elsewhere where life is not only far better, but has a brighter future and potential to create paralleled systems that can't be rigged so easily with fiat money and bribery.
True that. The majority of Americans, I'm afraid, are incapable of being free. Those of us who desire it must, as Harry Browne did, carve out our freedom from an unfree world.
Hear, hear! 100% agree! Like Mr. Leake, I'm also guilty as charged, but the difference between me and pretty much everyone I know, is I own my "stuff." I take responsibility and don't make excuses or look to lay blame elsewhere. That means the power to change negative habits is solely in my hands, where it belongs. "Tend your own garden" and "clean your own house first."
Spot on. It’s the age of taking no responsibility for oneself and blaming others for our state of health and situation.
John Leake writes: "I am merely pointing out that we freedom-loving Americans would be in a much better position to resist tyrants if we took better care of ourselves." Am having difficulty following this logic. There are many healthy people among us, plenty of yoga adherents for example, who eschew fast food and who can execute amazing head stands, but who lay out the welcome mat for tyrants, thinking nothing of enslaving us all. In fact, they are more than happy to regulate our food production, our healthcare, and our purchases. The only way people will be in a better position to resist tyrants is to understand the mechanics of evil and the desire to trap others in subservient positions.
Fully agree. The problem is that traditional democratic processes have been subverted by the rise of unprecedented corporate power structures. The independent businesses of the old middle classes have been slowly but surely driven out of the market. Now the majority are wage slaves in giant corporations that are essentially totalitarian and strictly hierarchical in structure. The desire for freedom is rapidly being distinguished in most citizens. If the porocess continues we are doomed.
The biggest problem is the fictitious/fraudulent debt perpetrated by the fiat currency parasitic gang, followed by the refusal of the victims to learn their lessons of finance. Just a thought.