“When certain obstructionists become too irritating, label them, after suitable build-ups, as Fascist or Nazi or anti Semitic … to discredit them. In the public mind, constantly associate those who oppose us with those names which already have a bad smell. The association will, after enough repetition, become ‘fact’ in the public mind.”
Kommunistische Partei
“The tone is gently authoritarian, leaving no doubt that this is the way the world is and no other way [….]Proclaimers of unassailable truths [….] The broadcast gives the impression of a short devotional in a living room chapel.”
Hermann Rotermund
“I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I’ve also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don’t want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire.”
Christine Prayon alias Birte Schneider
“You can tell a good journalist by the fact that he doesn’t get mean about a cause, even a good cause.”
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs
“The announcement ‘This is the First German Television with the Tagesschau’ is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people.”
Volker Bräutigam
“Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. The was the “war to end wars.” This was the “war to make the world safe for democracy.” No one told them that dollars and cents were the real reason. No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United State patents. They were just told it was to be a “glorious adventure”. Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month! All that they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill…and be killed””
Smedley Darlington Butler
“The fundamental point has always been this: climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor is as misguided as it gets.”
Philip Stott
“After 3 years of propaganda is apparent:
– Covid was just flu
– The mortality figures were fake
– Masks were useless
– Vaccination was useless and harmful
– School closures were useless
– The high priests of the Covid cult are corrupt profiteers
What now?”
Dr. Markus Krall
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
Winston Churchill
“Sure, the media don’t depict reality, they create it! And that’s why we need counter-publicity!”
Niklas Luhmann