Just consider this quote from an interview with Hal Becker in 1981. "I know the secret of making the average American believe anything I want him to. Just let me control television.... You put something on the television and it becomes reality. If the world outside the TV set contradicts the images, people start trying to change the world to make it like the TV set images....'' --Hal Becker, media "expert'' and management consultant, the Futures Group
Even far before this in 1922, Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974), an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator defined the term "public opinion" as "The pictures inside the heads of human beings, the pictures of themselves, of others, of their needs and purposes, and relationship, are their public opinions. Those pictures which are acted upon by groups of people, or by individuals acting in the name of groups, are Public Opinion, with capital letters. ... It is through the media, that most people come to develop those 'pictures in their heads', giving the media 'an awesome power'.''
Lippmann was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), an Austrian physician who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis. Lippmann was the first to translate Freud's work into English. Lippmann's own book "Public Opinion" was published one year after Freud's "Mass Psychology" (1921), which touched on similar themes, was a product of his tutelage by the Rees networks.
The Rees networks had spent World War I studying the effects of war psychosis, and its breakdown of individual personality. From their work, an evil thesis emerged: through the use of terror, man can be reduced to a childlike and submissive state, in which his powers of reason are clouded, and in which his emotional response to various situations and stimuli can become predictable. By controlling the levels of anxiety, it is possible to induce a similar state in large groups of people, whose behavior can then be controlled and manipulated by the oligarchical (government by the few) forces.
Lippmann observes in his book that people are more than willing to reduce complex problems to simplistic formulas, to form their opinion by what they believe others around them believe; truth hardly enters into such considerations. Appearance of reports in the media confer the aura of reality upon those stories: If they weren't factual, then why would they be reported? Lippmann says the average person believes this. People whose fame is in turn built up by the media, such as movie stars, can become "opinion leaders'', with as much power to sway public opinion as political figures.
Lippmann marveled at the power of the burgeoning Hollywood movie industry to shape public opinion. Words, or even a still picture, require an effort for the person to form a "picture in the mind.'' But, with a movie, wrote Lippman, "the whole process of observing, describing, reporting, and then imagining has been accomplished for you. Without more trouble than is needed to stay awake, the result which your imagination is always aiming at is reeled off on the screen.''
Lippmann also believed that there was a global elite class that set public opinion. He described this social set as, "powerful, socially superior, successful, rich urban social set [which] is fundamentally international throughout the Western Hemisphere and in many ways, London is its center. It counts among its membership the most influential people in the world, containing as it does the diplomatic sets, high finance, the upper circles of the army and navy, some princes of the church, the great newspaper proprietors, their wives, mothers, and daughters who wield the scepter of invitation. It is at once a great circle of talk and a real social set.''
Lippmann concluded that if the goal of a one-worldist 'Great Society' is to be realized, then "public opinion must be organized for the press, not by the press.'' It is not sufficient to rely on the whims of a "super social set'' to manipulate the "pictures in people's heads''; that job "can only be managed by a specialized class'' which operates through intelligence bureaus.
Enter in the CIA and other intelligence bureaus. Project MK-ULTRA, or MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, that began in the early 1950s and continued at least through the late 1960s. Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the US Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973.
This brings us to the mega media film stars such as Mel Gibson and others. In the 2000 movie "The Patriot", Mel Gibson's first words, when weighing a rocking chair, are: "9 pounds, eleven ounces...perfect." This was a message to many CIA operatives and the elite, that plans were going forward. The agency constantly controls Hollywood. In the 2003 film "Confidence", the CIA used over 30 instances of double eleven code MK-ULTRA reinforcement commands. (Did you notice Mel's line of "9/11", a year before the September 11, 2001 attacks?)
This of course, is just the tip of the iceberg and we are on the Titanic! Do your own research. Think and determine for yourself. Don't be a sheep.
As with all Saturdays, I will recap key financial indicators that drive many of the markets. The price of precious metals started up again this week. Gold closed on Friday at $903.00 per ounce. Silver also climbed to $17.53 per ounce. Oil rose to an all-time weekly high of $138.08 per barrel. From previous posts you will know that this will continue to fuel inflationary pressures on the economy. Also, the US dollar index lost ground again as you would expect with the other indicators rising closing at 72.34 against the other major world currencies. As stated about last week's little dip, it was only temporary. The upward trends of precious metals and the downward trend of the dollar will continue.
When will the house of cards finally fall? As mentioned before in this blog, beware of conditions in September (especially on the anniversary of September 11th).
for attaining wisdom and discipline;
for understanding words of insight;
for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life,
doing what is right and just and fair;
for giving prudence to the simple,
knowledge and discretion to the young-
let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance-
for understanding proverbs and parables,
the sayings and riddles of the wise.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline. Proverbs 1:2-7 (NIV)
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