The artycraft OfGOVERNING An essay on Manipulation of the public mind Machiavelli (1469-1527) puts it this way; quote: As I put it; 2008: Copyright note: Although there are no restrictions on quotation or publication of material presented here there is a moral obligation to quote accurately and in context and to inform your audience of the source of material quoted. This, be assured, is in your own interests. First published as “BRAIN-WASH" January 1992 Earlier ‘campaign’ works include:
INTRODUCTION A common excuse given for not being willing to study the evidence of what is going on around us is: "I don't have time!" This is a self-insult; if we have time to live, then we have time to look at the dangers that threaten our living. People are today committing suicide just because they didn't take time to understand their world. Who do you think you are? Don’t try to answer: no one today can be sure they know their true self. Why? Well that is something we need to find out! If life is worth living it is worth protecting. But then you may not think life is worth living. Let’s not be hasty! If you consume the evidence here you may find that you thought wrong. What has to be exposed is not so much hidden as camouflaged. The challenge is to see the true nature of things we are, quite deliberately, indoctrinated to ignore. The real world so easily slips out of sight just as our mind manipulators plan. Example: Most have seen the puzzle drawings where a cat or some other object is hidden among pigeons or some other. We look and see what is obviously there but it may take us some time to see the outline of the ‘cat’ among the ‘pigeons’. However, once seen, the hidden object it is then easy to find. Those who manipulate public opinion ("social engineers") do not make the mistake of lying about the obvious, what they do is hide truth among things they encourage us to want and expect to see. Be assured; once reality is accepted we never again allow ourselves to be so easily fooled. What we are enticed and expect to see is the product of our ‘manipulated life’; what we want to see is justification of our indoctrinated beliefs – pride and prejudice then defend our beliefs. We don't like to be wrong but to make the most of life requires continual self-sacrifice of beliefs that we can, with time and experience, improve on. To find and welcome new evidence we need first to realize that every advance in truth brings benefit. Among the most powerful weapons used against us in the ‘mind war’, is our pride and prejudice; those who survive this war will be those who control these emotions. How do cultures decline? Social manipulation is our subject – what is social engineering about; how does it operate; how it affects us; what is behind it? Social Engineering is presented to us as Public Relations – as legitimate persuasion and the generation of goodwill! Is it so? When did we lose these rights? Were they not ours at birth! Dogma is a body of dead belief! Did the ‘humanism mind virus’ cripple us? Do we now need laws to maintain pretence of human life? The young of today know nothing of the world we had; they are enticed to think change means advance but today we live as puppets desperate to obey the strings lest even this artificial humanity be lost. When despotism tires of the game will the controlled puppets become a waste of space and resources? We see people whose ideas were widely used to support the deceits of humanist social engineering such as Germane Greer; Dr Spock; Dr Mead; Darwin; etc., renounce positions without change to public dogma or mass media attitude. Is it not revealing that all new-found enlightenment that does not fit the promoted dogma is ignored? We see politics, business and family increasingly corrupted. We see bank fraud protected by law – mindless social behaviour; robbery and violence; presented as normal life and encouraged by TV – war made politically correct – generations of children sacrificed to philosophic dogma. Let's look into our hearts before both conscience and soul die of shame? Yes, we do need a new world order but an order of natural social conscience where ‘order' is not a dictator's choice and ‘peace' does not require the death of those who do not accept the tyrant's decree. After many years of literary research and observation it became my considered opinion that almost all immorality is directed from the top levels of culture. Years later I found that political manipulation (in cloak of ideology) is the force behind study of P R. Public Relations attach to studies of human behaviour and psychiatry; its purposes are political manipulation of the mass community for private power. Instead of being ‘considerate persuasion' it is, in fact, political deceit! The commercial PR is camouflage to allow academic study of community behaviour without the rebellion that would surely result were its real use understood. It's a big ‘cat’ hidden from us ‘pigeons’. It is now apparent that all manipulation of the community mind results in confusion, ineptitude and misapplied effort. Commercial manipulation masks, and aids, the political invasion! It gives community an appearance of mental incompetence and generates feelings of futility and anger. As a result, political manipulation (hidden by commercial disguise and distraction of beer and circuses) is now easy. Mind manipulation IS a more obnoxious crime than common child abuse; it is the main cause of child abuse – and so much more! Can humanity be regained? That there are so many failures is only because too few people have been prepared to study problems and stand behind their own intelligence. Jacques Cousteau, known to most of us from his publicised oceanographic adventures, once said that the only chance the world has is an educated people. People today march in the streets to protest, but they march to the Hegelian Dialectic band; they protest effects – not causes – they protest on their own behalf not that of the community. Can the deceived be safely left to make decisions about the matters that affect them? Not until they accept the need of understanding! The manipulated will always demand ‘big brother’ does the right thing. We fear adult responsibilities! But, let us know the nature of our deception and our impulse will be to expose and eliminate the cause of deceit – ah then, our disabilities would quickly heal! To make good decisions we have to understand our situation! The first step is to expose manipulative propaganda and false government. Only after the cause of the problem is understood can recovery begin. Propaganda against common democracy is now pandemic; a P.R. campaign discredits the power and authority of the people even to the extent of discrediting the common law and jury system of justice; big government is taking over. As kids run riot police look away for fear of charge of harassment; discouraged they feel futile! Courts give such light punishment that children see they are beyond the law. If parents discipline, they also become subject to 'politically correct' punishment! If we, the people, are to regain control of our lives, we need to accept our duty to fair family discipline and Constitutional Democratic Government! We need education for life not for slavery. For many years complaints about the standard of primary education and the discouragement of science and mathematics have been growing. Education has turned to the promotion of the frivolous. Today many school-leavers are incompetent to do any responsible job and advanced nations steal technicians and trades people from each other. "Maths gives you a way of looking at the world that values evidence, logic and clear deduction" says Will Morony, executive Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers. Well clearly, those dumbing-down our culture don't want that. True democracy is an ideal only possible if people know the scientific and political truths. To be sure that we are honestly informed we, the people, must govern ourselves – we cannot rely on what leaders tell us. We have to learn what democracy is and not just accept that we have it because we are told we have it, or because our Constitution provides for it. So let's stop feeling sorry for ourselves and realise that it is we, the people, who have both the NEED and the ABILITY to solve our problems. Let's make a 'quantum leap' of goodwill in service to our future. Let’s not just think, "what I can do for me"; let’s think "what can I do for humanity". Humane generosity is for the good of all. It may well be too late for those of us (who make decisions today) to be wise in many things, but we can be wise in one thing: we can be wise in our caring to provide following generations with a base for truth, prosperity and justice. Corruption pushes down from the top. To return to a more just – more human – society; reverse the process. A true regeneration of conscience must come from the grassroots level of society to spread understanding and permeate upwards: "The meek shall inherit the earth." We are a multitude – they are few! We have the power, they the illusion! Yes, you may read this as fiction but perhaps, when you have read and better understand how illusions are created and maintained, you will feel a stirring of human conscience; an awareness of your human privilege and a care for the human future on this earth. One more thing – severe criticism of certain groups does not mean that all people in such groups are criminal. There are good and bad in all walks of life and both good and bad are misled. People like Bernays and fanatical ideologues seldom support despotism by choice of understanding; they, like the rest of us, behave as they do because of beliefs and attitudes they absorb on trust from nurture and environment. The artycraft Of GOVERNING Chapter 1. WELCOME to your chance of survival! Is that an arrogant statement? Well I just want to be sure you know what we are talking about. Those who can profit from this work will take it seriously and few have a memory so good that they can retain and relate well enough to casually make the many connections. Minimum length is to encourage readers, not because of lack of material for reference. Manipulation of public opinion is not new in the world. There is no reason to doubt that conspiracy to manipulate others goes back to the beginning of civilisation. Manipulation extends from the smallest family to the largest community and we tend to take it for granted; at some levels it is necessary. Be warned: to understand what has been done to you, will mean a major review of how you see your world. There is an old saying in our culture, "A fool and his money are soon parted". Actually the way of it is: "A fool and his wealth are soon parted". Our true wealth is something we are born with – our birthright – it is our ability to know life and profit from it rather than, as dumb animals, be the playthings of fate – or manipulation. Is the brainwasher more to blame for robbing you of your life than you are for allowing it? The means of manipulation have greatly advanced in the last century. The scientific study of human behaviour, has created a system of power, exploitation and injustice that is truly new and dangerous; and not just dangerous to the human community but to the future of life on earth. Beware! Those who conspire to rob us of our birthright go to great lengths to convince us that international conspiracy does not exist. Although too big to be unnoticed the ‘cat’ does not want the ‘pigeons’ to recognise it for what it is – although they themselves must explain it to us because it cannot be invisible they must then have us believe it be. My job is to explain how they do this. The 1914-18 war introduced a new potential for scientific public manipulation. A man called Bernays became the recognised expert and advocate for development of a form of mass persuasion called Public Relations: (PR). ‘Public Relations’ is the friendly public face of what Bernays himself liked to call “propaganda”, now called “social engineering”. However, to the general public (when aware of it) this is really a common social abuse called “brainwashing”. Brainwashing, in military terms, is a physically forced program of indoctrination and the crime is not so much brainwashing as assault. That is not the kind of brainwashing we are concerned with here. What we deal with here is something that causes us to act in ways beneficial to others and detrimental to our own interests without our being aware we are manipulated. The word brainwashing is a deceit in itself. It does not mean washing to make clean. Rather it means hidden by deceit – changing the purity of brain logic by adding contamination. Better called confidence trickery, but in the computer age best explained as inserting ‘virus’. Our bodies suffer at times from virus attack but only in the computer age do we see virus as a destroyer of logic – an active agent to sabotage minds logical workings. So manipulation comes in many names but none can excuse its cruelly obnoxious nature. The manipulated find that their decisions – social, family or business – do not work out and lose confidence in themselves. They find they have to trust 'authorities' – financial consultants, the news media, politicians, educators – but they know that these people deceive them. Community manipulation has to be achieved in ways subtle because to be noticed is to fail. In fact PR is now so pervasive that those brainwashed may claim PR is just legitimate persuasion. Though some live happily with, or find some excuse for this abuse, growing numbers secretly despise their incompetence as a personal problem and suffer their frustration. In reply I think we will find that PR opinion forming, pursued by deliberate deceit for the profit of the manipulator, is not just highly immoral but should be legally criminal. It is an activity designed to damage the human ability to make rational decisions. It is more poisonous than ‘confidence trickery’ and more cancerous than indoctrination. Does manipulation really affect our lives? Let's have a simple example: If you want to swap items with another person there is no reason you should pay an onlooker for watching. If you choose to use money to make your exchange more convenient then there is still no reason why you should pay a bystander. If we are told we are to be taxed on every transaction we make (a goods and services tax) we are annoyed, but this is exactly what has been happening for years. No! Not as a government tax but for the benefit of a private group of people! This hidden tax, the one disguised by public manipulation, is called usury; meaning unjust use of power or deceit to gain unjustified benefit from the work of others. Money (today) is created and loaned by international moneylenders. Our trade and commerce is now organised around the borrowing of money and every use of money carries a hidden cost for personal gain of others. The cost of providing money for convenience use in a free economy is so small it can be a function of government at no significant cost. To borrow money from a community-owned bank is estimated to cost no more than 1% or 2% (mainly to cover honest bad debts). The difference between that and what you pay on your Bankcard or loan (or the addition to cost of goods and services because of loans cost to business and government) is a cost imposed by deceit and its social consequences. In fact it is a perfect "Goods and Services" tax imposed by manipulation. We pay Globalists a ‘stand-over’ fee each time we buy or sell. But that is only a small part of the price! The full price of institutionalised mind corruption is irrational behaviour; it includes the greater part of all illness, suicides, road accidents, road-rage, vandalism, crimes, terrorism, loutish acts and general incompetence. All, by and large, are the result of community confusion, muddled thinking, and misunderstandings, created by deceits, frustrations and persuasions implanted in the community mind. We buy our own chains! Another example: When George Orwell wanted to tell the world what was planned for it, he cloaked his message in fiction because he feared to openly tell the truth. Professor Quigley, an insider, wrote openly his 1,300 pages "Tragedy & Hope" about the New World Order and the people who planned it; Quigley’s work had less public effect than Orwell’s. PR allows the social engineer to tell YOU what to believe. The power to persuade YOU of your choices, of what you can or cannot believe, is what today's mind manipulation achieves. Then came the so-called "Gulf War" 1, and Big Brother felt so secure as to make the New World Order public. We then had to admit that warnings of conspiracy about world government were, to that extent, true, so we adjusted to the idea that world government, born by sword and deceit, was not conspired but 'a good thing' – PR persuaded us it was for our mob. Reliable estimates are that over 100,000 'enemy' soldiers died of this one-sided mission. In addition it was estimated that 100,000 children and babies (more as the blockade continued) died of disease and malnutrition. Certainly a lot of innocents gained 'peace'. The 2nd Gulf War also: we do not excuse Iraq but many countries have leadership and policies as bad or worse. Are we really better; we abused them as enemies for commercial gain and power! Surely we must ask if it is worse for Hussain to kill 10,000 rebels, few of whom were guilty of any crime, than for advanced nations to kill tens of thousands AND many thousands of children even more innocent of any crime and even less justifiable as none threatened us in any way and all were defenceless against modern weapons. Well, if we have no care for truth, justice, humanity, or social environment, so be it. If our social conscience is no more than that of the puppet obeying the strings as they are pulled; if we have no concern for family, or human future, then let us glorify the growing erosion of our humanity; it is our choice. No doubt we will get as we deserve. To know who cheats is interesting. To know why is important. To know how is vital. To know ourselves – well, that’s our life! Chapter 2: Modern mind manipulation differs as much from the old advertising as men moving blocks of stone differ from a machine pouring concrete. The modern promoter of deceit NEVER dirties his hands with production. Your attitudes, whether to pop music, discrimination, sex or political ideology, may begin with a seeming harmless promotion on TV, or at kindergarten where you adopt a comfortable peer-group reinforced fashion or fad – you became ‘hooked’ into a “slave to a group-security comfort and empowerment fad” – you felt good. So long as you agreed with the group you felt the power of the group, you could make demands of your parents because what all your little friends wanted or had you must have a right to; parents feel guilty if their child feels ‘left out’. So the mob was you and you were a mob – no need to think for yourself – you had the first link of the slave chain embedded in your mind and you FELT your power. Modern government would never say, “The jury system of justice is too slow, we are changing to a system of direct judgements. "Oh NO! Ideological control forbids such dangerous honesty. What liberal governments will now do is “bow to public pressure” from people who make up their own minds on the basis of evidence that shows the jury system failing to give justice. The job of Public Relations is to create or identify situations that will create news. This, the news media publicises so as to create the required emotion, public perception and attitude. Laws introduced to restrict evidence in crime's favour help manipulate the jury system. If justice may be seen as ‘not done’ this situation can be publicised to arouse public anger. The mass media will then shout: “the mob has spoken”. The Government, like parents, bows to the wishes of its children: Good old government. Public anger will target the system not the hidden persuaders or the corrupt law. Such manipulations only happen over time and where change is required by the manipulators; irrelevant issues are allowed to be resolved free of PR – media does not build up emotion, government does not bow. Use of subtle persuasion only for issues relevant to the manipulator, reduces the chance of exposure; credibility is maintained and results achieved. Media reports of protests give us credibility. That is how the system works! Educated people are taught to scorn any idea of “conspiracy”. However honest thought shows conspiracy to be an historic and ever-present fact of life. Having gone that far, more honest thought brings us face to face with the fact of greed for power. We only need to understand evidence to see the world is managed very differently from what we are led to believe. Or, as Disraeli: 1804-81 put it: "The world is governed by very different persons from what those believe who are not behind the scenes." He was in a position to know. Greed for power is a sickness of egocentrics! Normal humans tend to avoid responsibility and this hands fanatics the power they crave. Mob allegiance is popular with the commonalty because it gives a feeling of power without responsibility. We still have lessons to learn: Power corrupts; Liberty requires eternal vigilance; Responsibility is Personal. We look for essential basics of social reality. To manipulate human intelligence for elitist service is perhaps the most despicable and inhuman abuse of power exercised by humans. Although drugs and force can help control people these are poor means of control and better serve for distraction. Well-designed deception gives the tyrant-elite better security because it allows the victim a determined pursuit of ‘apparent’ self-interest and produces willing service; remember: the Egyptian pyramids were not built by slaves! Explaining manipulation of the mind is the work of these writings; please excuse repeat of some quotations for reminder. The following is from "The Impact of Science on Society",by Bertrand Russell; quote: Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rightly confined to the governing class and the populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated … education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they will be incapable … of thinking or acting otherwise than their schoolmasters would have wished.” End Q. Russell was of the establishment: The Impact of Science on Society was published in 1976. Books set for higher education can contain such secrets and show fearless exposure of a program in operation. Note that: "not allowed to know" means "not allowed to understand". We ‘think’ we are not controlled because “misinformation” does not alter our ability to think, it only alters what we think about and what we think about it – it deforms our perception of reality. In a national education system this is not difficult. Keep students under pressure; set literature to be read and remembered. Confined to your curriculum students memorise, have no time for thinking, pass exams and feel pride in their success. By the time higher education is reached many ‘already see themselves as elite and enter easily into the spirit of elitism’, (clearly seen in behaviour). Now accustomed to feelings of mob power they want to be part of the 'elite' peer-group mob. Pride is in our nature; encouragement to excess of pride is easy for P.R. Instead of education helping us achieve goals through becoming conscious of greater human responsibility and enhanced feelings of satisfaction for achievement, we are ego-boosted with ideas of group power! Eager to take advantage of those less powerful: – willing, if unwitting, we serve others. The Humanist, Jan/Feb 1983; quote: Continuous ‘PR’ promotion, religiously applied in academic disciplines and public authority, forms indoctrinations to advance the humanist ‘slave’ state! Honesty does not enter into P.R. As Russell said, early training is vital. Parents are now socially pressured to deliver their children to the system as young as possible. At the time of the Multi-Function Polis debates the following comment was made at a MFP meeting: "… it is necessary to control the consciousness of public and related organisations very carefully." EQ. This was said to people who were not insiders, but the speaker was confident the audience was educated to accept humanist attitude. He recognized his own mob! Now a revealing quote by Caldwell & Zanfagna in their book Fluoridation and Truth Decay p8, it is from writings of PR specialist: Bernays: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses must be done by experts, the public relations counsels (Bernays invented the term); they are the invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions ... the most direct way to reach the herd is through the leaders. ... all this must be planned ... indoctrination must be subtle. It should be worked into the everyday life of the people – 24 hours a day in hundreds of ways ... A redefinition of ethics is necessary ... the subject matter of propaganda need not necessarily be true.” End quote. Yes it is abominable that some of our race, raised in our culture, abuse with enthusiasm, the advantages given them. Poisons such as fluoride, are not needed to make us compliant but our compliance helps them make us sick. The following is from an address given by Sir Herbert Gepp to the Constitutional Association (30/5/1938) Sydney, Australia. In emphasis of the duties and responsibilities of youth in a democracy; quote: “The so-called mysteries of banking, finance and economics are mysteries only to those who will not take the trouble to try to understand. I do not suggest it is possible to obtain a complete appreciation of all factors operating in our complex civilisation, but I do maintain that the colossal ignorance today of economic fundamentals is the gravest danger to the continuance of democracies.” EQ. It may at least be suspected that a condition of affairs in which men are able and willing to work are unable to find secure jobs, and in which urgent works are delayed because a prosperous [elite] community declares that it can raise no money for them, is no advertisement for the knowledge of economics possessed by the community.” E.Q. We are so sedated that even the media (on occasion) may speak honestly and openly without fear of awakening; the perfect deceit gives ability to tell the victim the truth and have him ignore it. We ‘the people’ think that those we elect, argue about and beg of, are the government. Not so; they are ‘people leaders’, dogs to round-up public opinion; neither sheep nor dogs understand their role. If some suspect, fear prevents honesty. Will we forever consign our children to slavery rather than face reality? Soon we look at Bernays' work but first: The money managers: Search for the forces behind the indoctrination of democratic society lead directly and surely to international banking. This subject is quite well covered in this literature and there is vast information on the money trick: here a few essentials. International finance is ‘owned’ by the most powerful mafia-type ‘family’ ever. The power of this group is legalised by a fake democracy called the ‘party system’, this system is a cancer in the common law of all legitimate democratic constitutions. Some indication of the power of Globalist finance is shown by the following comment from Lloyd George, famous English statesman and Prime Minister, when speaking of peace negotiations following World War 1. (1914-18); quote: Many still have the idea that mass manipulation is to give everyone the same values and opinions but such simple viewpoints are themselves the products of manipulation. MANIPULATING CONSCIOUSNESS Example 1: To the present time 2006, no one, at street level, knows if the 'greenhouse effect' is a very serious problem, a possible problem or a confidence trick, but a lot of people (including 'authorities') have very strong opinions covering each possibility. Example 2: In our society there are political factions pulling in all directions but who understands, wants to know about, or is prepared to expose the illegitimacy of ‘political party’ government? Example 3: We rush to adopt new technology but what is safe? There is substantial evidence that mobile phones are dangerous to our mental health? Given a variety of 'authoritative' views who cares? Real evidence is delayed until millions are incapacitated; pretended caring then consoles us. Restriction of human consciousness: The above are greatly aided by TV: divide children at an early age from real-life experience then from parents by kindergarten! Then the 'cram and regurgitate' public education completes abortion of independent reasoning. The Hegelian Dialectic Process is a system that is misused to achieve social deformities. By designed social conflict Social Engineers force their desired social change. To appreciate this we go first to the principle revealed by George Orwell, “who controls the past controls the future.” Social attitudes are based on past experience so, by manipulation of belief about the past, it is possible to influence future behaviour. Then add the complementary idea, Conflict Creates History, which is a short statement of the purpose for which the Hegelian Dialectic Process has been adapted. The socialist axiom, Conflict Creates History, sets the idea of using designed conflict to create a desired 'history' for control of future generations. The Hegelian expression of it: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Example: A politician is enticed to challenge for leadership (thesis); other leading figures are encouraged to resist (antithesis); the conflict discredits the party and the opposition is elected (synthesis). Division of the nation into balanced political factions is the great example of a thesis and antithesis whose synthesis is control of the national political emotion. Two main parties (thesis and antithesis) for conflict; two reins to achieve (synthesis): by manipulation of mass emotions = Democracy by Dictate! Change is achieved by instilling false hopes, beliefs and fears so as to create conflict that leads to desired responses as earlier expressed. Then consolidate the result and the deceits achieved become permanent, all this is greatly helped by restricting reading and vocabulary; as we will see. Globalists believe they have succeeded in mind manipulation to the extent that revolution is no longer possible. They believe the commonalty is now unable to understand its situation. Are they right? Will we see the cat among the pigeons? Chapter 3. Here we see a new public relations becoming respectable as a wartime need then turning to commercial manipulation – political use slots in invisibly. To look into the business of PR in more depth who better to be our guide than Bernays himself. Bernays, a leader in his field, was given an eminence that few modern authorities attain. A book, Public Relations, Edward L. Bernayses and the American Scene, by Keith A. Larson; over 300 pages to catalogue his works and teachings. First published in 1951 this book was enlarged and republished 1971. This, for someone barely known outside of academia, must be rare. It is interesting that Bernays, born in Vienna, was a nephew of the infamous Sigmund Freud. This propaganda expert guided introduction of the forced medication, fluoridation in the USA in 1951: Later spread worldwide. So here we have a family high in the favour of the manipulative establishment. Let's take a closer look at his writings on scientific public relations. Following quotes, unless otherwise specified, are from his book , PROPAGANDA; quote: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power of our government. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is the logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. .. (cont). That comment, from the founder of modern manipulation is something you may find hard to believe unless you study PR or related subjects. It is important to understand that he was not exposing hidden government – or conspiracy. He was writing a frank technical essay for the use of people being educated to make a living from public manipulation. The book Propaganda was first published in 1928 and one chapter is given over to explaining that the ignorant public has sadly misunderstood the word “propaganda”. We who use words may be sympathetic that a word that started out honourably as meaning 'the propagation of truth' has become its opposite. Nevertheless, for a person who makes a living by understanding human nature, we must also wonder if he was really so naive as to believe that a system designed to manipulate the human mind (even with honest intent) will not be eagerly seized by greedy self-interests. May we be excused for thinking his comment on the changed meaning of the word propaganda was just his own little public relations exercise to soothe the conscience of students? Students who read Bernays also learned that there is no conspiracy. A good belief to have if public manipulation is to be your business; it might be embarrassing to think creating public delusions is in service to some foreign conspiracy. PR persuasion, according to Bernays, is a way of life essential to organised society. He says of it: "the logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized". I think it would be more truthful to have said: In the way our political system is organized. Our democracy is just manipulated. If scientific means were not used to convince people of ‘desired truths’ then there would, in Bernays' opinion, be social chaos. He must accept that today’s unworldly students are either content with this or too involved with success in their studies to challenge it. There, I think, is the answer to a question that puzzles many people. How can it be that so many can be involved and yet the dangers of public manipulation are not exposed? It is too big to be hidden, so we are manipulated to misunderstand it! If manipulators benefit, well ... they do it for our benefit – er I guess... When students accept an authority, then their first dedication is to put into effect what they have learned. They are very conscious of this and very involved. By the time they have established themselves they have a psychological commitment and may never see a need to challenge the reason for their success or see that there are hidden consequences. So far as Bernays himself is concerned, I think the weakness of his argument for PR, and the weakness of the whole academic argument against true democracy (or for manipulation, as follows) is very apparent in Propaganda. Let us now continue the quote where we left it earlier: [I wonder: could Bernays have seen our culture today would he think it still a smoothly functioning society? It is easy to fall in love with a grand idea and fail to see its consequences.] They govern us by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure. Whatever attitude one chooses to take toward this condition, it remains a fact that in almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons – a trifling fraction of our hundred and twenty million – who understand the mental processes and mental patterns of the masses. [USA 1920s] It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world". [That, surely, is putting it clearly. But there’s more.] But American voters soon found that without organization and direction their individual votes, cast, perhaps, for dozens or hundreds of candidates, would produce nothing but confusion. Invisible government, in the shape of rudimentary political parties, arose almost overnight. Ever since then we have agreed, for the sake of simplicity and practicality, that party machines should narrow down the field of choice to two candidates, or at most three or four. In theory, every citizen makes up his mind on public questions and matters of private conduct. In practice, if all men had to study for themselves the abstruse economic, political, and ethical data involved in every question, they would find it impossible to come to a conclusion about anything. We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions." End Quote. Emphasis added. Well, that is the essence of his argument; are you convinced? NOTES: Australians had about fifteen years over which time national non-party government worked as well as the party controlled. (Not saying a lot but true democracy means more than avoidance of party systems). States governments enjoyed longer party-free time. Voter nomination of candidate, the essential of any true democratic system, has never entered visibly into a political system anywhere. No previous Human culture has reached a level of understanding and education to accomplish it. In England non-party government lasted for over 300 years before elitists worked out that the democracy idea should be aborted before people saw the need to BOTH choose AND elect their representatives. Introduction of parties, 'for public convenience' secured elitist control. Political parties have a long and obnoxious history. Can't we believe that those idealists who framed constitutions of the USA and Australia rejected political parties because well aware of their danger? B/ Who "voluntarily agreed"? Have you heard of a referendum in the USA or anywhere else where the people have agreed to let an invisible government rule their lives, beliefs and attitudes? If the people would actually agree to this, then why bother with elections at all? Voting for pre-selected candidates does not change the decisions of government! Were voting not for misleading the public then it would be a total waste of effort! Yes: political parties represent cats hidden among us pigeons. Could any mature-minded person not be appalled by the huge power grabbed so easily by so few hands and kept from public question? Is it not obvious that powerful egocentric people would (if they had not in fact set the party system up) very easily gain control of it? Who are these people of natural leadership abilities who are such great leaders that they need protection from the sight and knowledge of those they lead? C/ We can agree that every individual cannot be expert on every subject; it’s not necessary. Are our elected politicians experts about everything – or anything? No! Are even those hidden natural leaders expert in anything beyond self-interest? Everyone does not need be doctor, lawyer, singer and dancer, but we are entitled to the right of INFORMED choice when needs arise. One does not deny the need for specialists to advise government but, given information, decision-making is hardly a science. We have a right to know the loyalties and abilities of our specialists. As responsible, intelligent or even caring people, can we accept that secret self-interest organisations should control our lives, likes and thoughts! Set up our wars and laws, and in general have life/death power over us? Are the needs and morals of social behaviour today different from 2000 years ago? Dangers and abilities may increase but our nature and the nature of our creation remains the same. Time changes consequences not rights. When numbers increase we need rules of the road; but laws cannot substitute for moral responsibility; nor can justice ever deny our right to human development and enlightenment. We have a designed ability to develop and advance. Enslavement to simple fixed behaviour patterns of animals is no substitute for intellectual freedom limited by moral justice alone. Mind manipulation is immoral and has no right in human culture. We need become more responsible as society becomes more complex; eliminate non-productive effort, reduce waste. Can we yet imagine a supermarket without checkouts, money or bankcards; where people could be relied on to take what they needed and not waste? We may no longer be able to imagine that. However people of mature age can remember not needing to lock the home door when they went out and if they did so they left the key under the mat so friends could let themselves in – can remember as kids being able to roam freely and stranger-danger unknown! Given truth of our nature rather than incessant promotion of unnatural behaviour, then people may become increasingly kind, honest, considerate and responsible! All 'greenies' are not just political slaves; all working charitably see gain other than pay. Growing in humanity IS our proven potential, and our right! Globalism may lead us to believe we are not human but belief does not change our potential! A true civilisation is one where we become more and more aware of our human nature and more responsible in our care of it. Neither civilisation nor technology, honestly employed, will change human needs, for that to happen we need to become a different species. Public Relations Examples Bernays has written openly and with obvious confidence in the natural, emotion-bound, security of a system of government-controlled mass media and education; we are indeed fortunate that they are so confident of their control that the window on social manipulation remains open. Clearly the danger of public rebellion is not considered relevant. Now to p27 where he says; quote: It was, of course, the astounding success of propaganda during the war that opened the eyes of the intelligent few in all departments of life to the possibilities of regimenting the public mind. The American government and numerous patriotic agencies developed a technique which, to most persons accustomed to bidding for public acceptance, was new. They not only appealed to the individual by means of every approach – visual, graphic, and auditory – to support the national endeavour, but they also secured the co-operation of the key men in every group – persons whose mere word carried authority to hundreds of thousands of followers. They thus automatically gained the support of fraternal, religious, commercial, patriotic, social and local groups whose members took their opinions from their accustomed leaders and spokesmen, or from the periodical Publications which they were accustomed to read and believe. At the same time, the manipulators of patriotic opinion made use of the mental clichés and the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities, the terror and tyranny of the enemy. It was only natural, after the war ended, that intelligent persons should ask themselves whether it was not possible to apply a similar, technique to the problems of peace. As a matter of fact, the practice of propaganda since the war has assumed very different forms from those prevalent twenty years ago. This new technique may fairly be called the new propaganda. It takes account not merely of the individual, nor even of the mass mind alone, but also and especially of the anatomy of society, with its interlocking group formations and loyalties. It sees the individual not only as a cell in the social organism but as a cell organised into the social unit. Touch a nerve at a sensitive spot and you get an automatic response from certain specific members of the organism." E.Q. Emphasis. This revelation exposes a very logical advance of social engineering; groups now react with monotonous predictability to their seduced leaders in every social division. When the culture itself becomes manipulative and educates for increasing manipulation, then we see that group leaders become part of the programs. Your religious leaders; “parents and citizens” organisations; government departments, all become integrated. I am sorry to have to take such long quotations from PROPAGANDA but large quotes are needed to make clear Bernays' very important points about the extent and penetration, even at that time, of mind invasion – no mystery now about how humanity is manipulated and we will find out to whose benefit! We may well take issue with Bernays about the superior intelligence of those greedy for power. Having achieved wealth by immoral means they then use this wealth to HIRE the expertise to maintain and expand their empires. They are neither superior nor all-knowing, and are morally decayed. We can also doubt that the need of leaders to have the public on side is new. Was there ever a time when a leader could ignore the feelings of his subjects or did not appreciate their ease of manipulation? In fact Bernays himself accepts this in a later book, Public Relations, in which he gives a history of the profession. History surely shows that the desire to manipulate and deceive is rarely a skill of good leadership. Rather leadership has been a skill of manipulation. Also apparent is that the 20th century introduced a new ball game in both the technology of deceit and the numbers deceived, it brought a need to recruit and structure the propaganda more craftily. There was need to adapt and sell a more scientific understanding of behaviour throughout a more educated and technically organised populace. Modern study of psychology played a big part in providing “behavioural studies” to support new technique but those who want to study human potential may find ‘behavioural studies’ biased. However, for the purposes of elitist manipulation the testing of University students is very important, such tests may measure the efficiency of behavioural techniques on future leaders and indicate where new work may be best applied. Don’t think any of this huge effort is for cultural enlightenment; unwanted results must be weeded out! It is not just human nature that is under study it is human manipulation. Because of conflicting interests it is naive to take the public or educational presentation of psychiatry and human behaviour research at face value. Now let us look at samples of commercial use of PR to better appreciate the nature of its commercial/political use. 'Bernays tells of how markets were regained for a group of textile manufacturers. Velvet had gone out of fashion and its U.S manufacturers faced ruin. Study showed that the market could not be revived by action taken within America so where was the vital spot? Quote: "It was determined to substitute purpose for chance and to utilize the regular sources for fashion distribution ... An intelligent Parisian was enlisted in the work- He visited Lanvin and Worth, Agnes and Patou, and others and induced them to use velvet in their gowns and hats. It was he who arranged for the distinguished Countess This or Duchess That to wear the hat or the gown. And as for the presentation of the idea to the public, the American buyer or the American woman of fashion was simply shown the velvet creations in the atelier of the dressmaker or the milliner. The editors of the American magazines and fashion reporters of the American newspapers, likewise were subjected to the actual (although created) circumstance ... A demand was slowly, but deliberately, created in Paris and America. The created circumstances had their effect. "Fickle fashion has veered to velvet," was one newspaper comment." EQ. Emphasis added. So it is that fashions, trends, movements, political plans, pop-singers and popular beliefs. Every aspect of life becomes deformed and biased, in the public mind. You will note that with modern technique the target group is not approached directly. For risk-free conviction there should always be one or more “innocent” carriers between deceit and victim. We may be getting the feeling that those Bernays quotations were from 2008 rather than 1928 so let us now go to another of his books, Public Relations: 1952; here he is still giving examples of propaganda from the time of “World War I” these show techniques developed in that era, are now improved and relevant; most improved is organisation: p72-3 quote: April 6 1917, the Committee on Public Information was set up, under the direction of George Creel, former editor of the Rocky Mountain News. Other members were the secretaries of War, Navy, and State. … I worked with the Committee on Public Information in the United States and in Paris. I saw it grow from an idea to an organization of enthusiastic men and women in key centers throughout the world. This experience in broad public relations was a turning point in the lives of those who worked with the Committee. My own case was typical ... In 1913, when I was editor of the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette and associated with The Medical Review of Reviews, Richard Bennett, the actor, was trying to produce Brieux’s play, Damaged Goods, but was unable to find sponsorship for it because the theme of the play offended the people in pre-war America. Believing that Brieux’s drama taught an important social lesson, I wrote Bennett that our magazine, The Medical Review of Reviews, would give him its moral support in his efforts to produce the play. ... The result of our talk was that we undertook, under the auspices of the Review, to mobilize public opinion for the production of the play ... The technique employed became widespread in later years. We set up a Sociological Fund which appealed to public opinion to support production of the play on the grounds of public and social interest. Membership of the Fund cost four dollars [probably equal to $50 (2006)] and entitled the member to a ticket for a performance of Damaged Goods, when and if produced". The results were described by John T. Flynn in an article entitled "Edward L. Bernays: The Science of Ballyhoo published in the Atlantic Monthly for May,1932; quote: "Bernays ... sent invitations to our New York nobility. Every person of social prominence was invited to subscribe four dollars to endorse a movement for dealing with sex via Damaged Goods ... these notables responded nobly. When they did, the rank and file of humbler folk proceeded, as always, to grow curious, and then toddle along behind their betters, sending in their four dollars by the hundreds and the thousands. …" [Note: Moral corruption is the easiest to sell of all usury. As said: immorality comes down from the top. Public perceptions of morality are today so changed that ‘Damaged Goods’ would be just funny.] How words won the war; p74-5: The bombardment came at people from all sides – advertisements, news, volunteer speakers, posters, schools, theatres; millions of homes displayed service flags. The war aims and ideals were continually projected to the eyes and ears of the populace. These high-pressure methods were new at the time, but have become usual since then. … The most fantastic atrocity stories were believed. ... Later, the slogan – equally true – that "Words Won the War but Lost the Peace" came to remind us never to place too great a reliance on words. ... In public relations, as in all other pursuits, actions speak louder than words. Public relations activities in World War 1 never attained their full potentialities." End quote. Emphasis added. Conversion to mass persuasion: Expertise in effective control was in a steep learning curve over the first half of the 20th century and even faster over the second half. Actions speak loud, but can be disguised by lies. Bernays goes on to tell us how, in the 1930s, most large American companies and industries including the National Association of Manufacturers, Rockefeller Center, General Motors, Standard Oil Co., J.P. Morgan and Co. etc., all became involved with use of the new public relations industry. Bernays himself was appointed a member of the President's Emergency Committee for Employment (President Hoover), and goes on to say that there was even a significant change in public attitude by bankers. In growing numbers bankers sought professional advice and in 1939 Bernays' own firm was working with the Bank of America on the West Coast and in Washington, p106-8, quote: "That America was becoming more aware of the nature and importance of public relations was further evidenced by the active interest now shown in the field by newspapers, magazines, universities, social scientists, research organizations, and political parties. ... But the new era was emphasized when Mr. Flynn spoke of the modern Public relations expert as "a social psychologist engaged in carrying out in actual practice and according to newer theories that branch of psychology which August Comte* and later Herbert Spencer recognized as having a definite relation to sociology. In connection with these activities, we initiated a practice which became widespread toward the end of the decade – the creation of institutes and foundations as public interest bodies of private profit organizations ... By this time the colleges and universities of the United States were keenly aware of the dependence of government, industry, and all other social groups on public opinion." End quote. E.A. *Note: August Comte (1798-1857) as we will see in Book 5, set the pattern for the New World Order. This abuse of intellect was not to improve community morals and industry, it was to manipulate the public to blindly accept corruption. Bernays firm surveyed American colleges and universities in 1937 to find that they offered a wide range of courses devoted to public opinion and public relations propaganda. We see now why certain big business gave large donations to higher education. The increasingly predatory attitude of industrial and political leaders is now (2008) obvious. Bernays tells us that interest in propaganda at that time (1937) even extended to exposure of propaganda, but that aspect did not prosper! Actually exposure of propaganda could not prosper at that time because exposure relies on moral values and these had lost visibility by lack of exposure (as today) of the serious consequences of immoralities. These techniques of mass persuasion are used in relation to business, music, sex, politics and human relationships; any temptation that relates to gaining power through ability to influence by deceit. Two things become notable from any study of modern social engineering: a) No matter if the activity is to find answers to what opinion is popular with the public; or what people think of a business or service; or whether it is to manipulate the public to form a favourable opinion of a business or service, one thing remains constant – it's purpose is to mislead or to take advantage of public trust. Public health or welfare is not considered. b) No matter whether the activity of public relations is presented as being for the public benefit or for private advantage, there is never any acceptance that the commonalty is human – all apart from the controlling elite are treated as animals. To the mind manipulator, humanity is a collection of biological machinery. Public Relations does not consider that people have a right to truth. The manipulator plays out the game as unknowing and uncaring of the consequences as the dog rounding up sheep to the master’s whistle. Power Corrupts: Bernays knew, and we need keep in mind that behind the group leaders most directly influencing the thinking of millions, is a secretive private group planning the future for private benefit. International business is run by its own laws and these laws neither recognize nor care about the commonalty. Our government works under direction just as so many, over ages, have openly told us. These hidden princes and princesses see themselves as gods and for their wealth the generals of P.R worship them. Public relations people work happily, without thought of the arrogant assumption that a few of the same race and abilities are gods while all others must live as mind-manipulated slaves. After generations of power a man may think he, his family and friends, are divorced from the stupid inept mass they have created; they may claim they cannot be held responsible for the stupidity of slaves. But they are, and they will be held to be. p256, by the mid 1940s future opinion would favour “free trade; an international bank; an international police force; and a world court.” At that time the opinion leaders had set in train a public opinion to favour the formation of the United Nations; 1945. This would offer multiculturalism, world government and a New World Order without one in a million knowing what it was about. Bernays' whole attitude to manipulation is well summed up in the chapter heading on p335: How American Business Can Sell the American Way of Life to the American People, apparently the American people did not know what their way of life was. Well, they sold the American way of business to the American people world-wide but no one bothered to sell the way of humanity to business. Some people will argue that manipulative business enterprise creates work – it certainly does, but to what purpose? People made to want things they don't need and which are detrimental to their welfare? Can we be honest and see that unneeded work is waste work, it is work that could serve real social benefit! On the other hand unhealthy products and lifestyles create work beyond human ability to service and this we are now beginning to experience. Can we not also see that unneeded manufacture creates pollution and wasted resources? Can we see that in an honest world we could do so much better for ourselves than waste time and create pollution! Our society has reached a stage in its development where we MUST take a new look at ourselves. The present system has created poisons for body, mind and environment; the final chapter will end human life unless we change our cultural direction to reset the present last chapter to the service of humanity. Bernays may believe the chains of manipulation serve mankind; what does he know? He is an expert on manipulation but what does he know of humanity? We go back to the book Propaganda, p30, for closing quotes: "A desire for a specific reform, however widespread, cannot be translated into action until it is made articulate ... Millions of housewives may feel that manufactured foods deleterious to health should be prohibited (1928) [Since then cancer, heart attacks and other health and social problems have blossomed. How strange!] But there is little chance that their individual desires will be translated into effective legal form unless their half-expressed demand can be organized, made vocal, and concentrated upon state legislature or upon the Federal Congress in some mode which will produce the results they desire." EQ. However if those with the power cared, then millions of housewives would have had no need to complain, either then or now. His statement clearly demonstrates the futility of the common herd when mind warped by government? Bernays ends this chapter of his book with these words; quote: "Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority. EQ. Chapter 4: "The present order of our lives is governed and controlled by the governors and controllers of money ... If an economist from Mars or a little child of ordinary intellect were told of the present position they would rock with laughter at the blind stupidity of mankind.” Since that was written the world has moved on and today the little child would more likely cry. Do we care who governs us? We should for, wherever you are in the world; it is certainly not the blindfolded people. Also it is certainly not government as Constitutional agreements or “Bills of Rights” may require. No doubt many readers already know that, but we need to understand it. It is of little help to know individual problems, or people involved with international political manipulation, we have no direct power over them. Only by understanding enough of their plans and methods to act meaningfully can we discover and reclaim our heritage. In Australia, political babble urging people to be free of British colonial ties is 'hogwash'. The colonial ties of Australia are now with the U N and with other nations by political agreements. As a U.N. colony, quisling signatures overrule legal ties and, although brought about unconstitutionally and by agreements that are unknown and treasonable, people and government are effectively controlled. We allow our freedoms to drain away because we place our trust in a form of government under advice of unknown agents! Why? Is it because we are too smug to be interested in what is going on? Do we want to be slaves? No! Those who work to give our freedoms away are “quislings” who think to profit from servitude to finance. Who or what does the Banking system represent? Reference: Facts and Theories of Finance by Frank Anstey. Quote: "The war governments gave the Associated Banks the 'Right to Draw' Commonwealth notes without any gold payment or any deposited security. The mechanism of this scheme, and the way it operated, were set forth in detail on June 13, 1924, by the then treasurer Earle Page. For all notes drawn under the scheme the banks had to pay interest at rates varying between 3% and 4%. ... For instance six millions of the War Gratuities had to be paid in cash. The Government arranged with the banks to pay out and charge to the Government on a 5 1/2% loan basis. For this the banks had 'Right to Draw' Commonwealth notes to an account paid to ex-soldiers. Thus the banks were out nothing and scooped the difference between the 4% notes and the 5 1/2% 'loan'. But the banks did not draw notes – they traded on their 'Right to Draw' as if the notes were actually in their own vaults. Thereby they avoided interest payments to the Government, but upon these 'Rights' they issued credits and drew interest from the Government and from the general public. …. On June 23, 1923, these Rights to Draw totalled £8,000,000. The Board made a demand that the banks should exercise their 'Rights' – draw the notes, and pay interest thereon. The Banks refused. Early in 1924 the banks made a demand that these rights should be extended by another £3,000,000. The Chairman of the Board, Mr John Garvan, stated that these 'Rights' were equivalent to an issue of notes to the banks without interest. He described the proposition as 'madness'. The Treasurer upheld the view but the banks' demand was conceded." EQ. Anstey goes on to report that the banks subsequently demanded and forced the issue of further "free" drawing rights to a total of £31,000,000. Had Australians chosen and elected their own representatives to parliament (as the National Constitution requires) the Commonwealth Bank as an arm of government would have been used as intended (as, in its early years it was), Australia need never have known any depression. The newly formed Commonwealth Bank financed World War 1 and other of our economic needs without need of foreign debt or interest robbery. Who governs? Amos shows that in 1912, Australia was a nation free from want and debt. In 1921 Commonwealth Bank Governor, Sir Denison Miller, (as reported in the press) said: quote: "The whole of the resources of Australia are at the back of this bank ... whatever the Australian people can intelligently conceive in their minds and loyally support, that can be done.' [As, to that time, it had been.] … "By utilising Australian notes in this manner the Commonwealth Government avoided debt, interest charges and taxation ... it made enough money out of that account to pay the greater portion of the construction cost of the East-West Railway, the remainder coming out of revenue." (Hansard Vol. 129, p. 1930). End quote. By 1916 the party system of government had begun its infiltration. By 1921 Miller must already have been aware that the parties would betray the nation and the bank. If this was an attempted warning to the public it fell on deaf ears. 1931 found Australia faced with a complete breakdown of her monetary system and proposals by the Theodore-led government to ease the financial situation were refused by the Bank; p34-5; quote: [Commonwealth Bank] "now proposed, without any consultation or prior discussion, to cut off money supplies to the government beyond a point that would be reached in a day or two. That could only be regarded as an attempt on the part of the bank to arrogate to itself a supremacy over the government in the determination of the financial policy of the Commonwealth, a supremacy which had never been contemplated by the framers of the Australian Constitution, nor sanctioned by the Australian people. In financial, as in all other matters of public policy, the Government was responsible to the electorate, and not to the banks, and it could not change this responsibility without exposing to grave danger the democratic principles of the nation. The Government would not be a party to any attempt of the Bank Board, or any other authority, to take from the people's representatives in parliament what had hitherto been regarded as an essential prerogative of the people – the control of the public purse. He [Theodore] went on to point out that the present financial difficulties ... had been largely caused by the action of the Commonwealth Bank and the private banks themselves; for they had blindly followed the overseas banks in pursuing a deflationary policy which had forced down prices the world over, and brought in its train a collapse of trade, loss of commercial profits, thousands of business bankruptcies, and the creation of unemployment on a scale wholly unprecedented in the history of the country. That it was in the power of the banks to remedy this state of things could not seriously be denied." End Q. Scullins' surrender to Sir Robert Gibson (bankers representative) in the Senate settled the matter and the sell-out of Australia to the International Money-Lenders was virtually complete. It seems that, on occasion, some party people may get too big for their boots and must be firmly disciplined as to the masters they must bow to. If we are going to have a party we should know that the man who pays the piper calls the tune. Speaking of the depression of the 1930s Amos assures us that had the Commonwealth Bank been allowed to function as intended; quote (p9): "Many prosperous business firms would have been saved from ruin, and somewhere about one-third of our people would not have had to eat the bitter bread of charity. Neither would the people have had to submit to the ruinous debt and taxation imposed upon them in the second war period (1939-1945)." EQ. Australia not our only guide, let's look at the USA. In 1870 the various interests of the brothers were incorporated as the Standard Oil Co of Ohio, with John as president. In the 1970s the railways were competing desperately for business by giving rebates and drawbacks. The Standard Oil Co not only secured from the railways a rebate from the published rates . . . but also forced them to pay an agreed sum for every barrel of oil which the railway carried for its competitors. . . the Standard Oil Co quickly put its rivals out of business; by forcing them to sell out on terms laid down by Rockefeller. Owners of oil wells were also equally dependent on the one great oil refining co., and so an enormous business, controlling 95% of the oil refining . . . was built up in ten years. Rockefeller Senior founded, amongst other organisations, the University Of Chicago, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Rockefeller Foundation ‘to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.’ His benefactions probably totalled over 150,000,000 Pounds Sterling." End quote. Emphasis added. We soon see that these people are never truly benefactors – they do not give anything away. They want their pound of flesh and all the blood that goes with it. We now see the results the above influence in our medical and education systems. We now go to the book "Money Power" by Frank Anstey; quote: "The men controlling the great trusts and the principal banks of America organised a scheme of complete dominance over the industrial and financial life of the American nation. They waged a war of extermination against every competitor. Against this policy President Roosevelt set his teeth. He prosecuted and secured against Standard Oil verdicts that loaded the trust with penalties to the extent of 29,000,000 dollars. At once the Standard Oil banks (under Rockefeller), the Steel Trust banks (under Morgan), and the Beef Trust banks (under Armour) entered into an offensive Alliance. This triple alliance dominated the financial world of America. It had a majority on the Clearing House Association of all the big cities. The New York Clearing House Association commenced proceedings. It commanded every independent bank to come to heel and take orders. Those who refused were expelled from the Clearing House (October 20, 1907), on the ground that such banks were no longer worthy of public confidence. Such action destroyed confidence in the blackballed banks and caused a run, Charles Barney of the Knickerbocker Bank; and Howard Marwell, of the Brooklyn, committed suicide. All other banks capitulated. Within three days (from October 20 to 23, 1907) every bank in the United States had been brought to heel taught obedience, and mobilised for action. The representatives of banks expelled on the 20th, having duly made submission, were re-admitted to membership. Every bank received its orders, its ammunition and the hour of action. Next day (October 24th, 1907) the strike of the Bank Trust against the nation commenced. Every bank, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, refused to pay out gold; refused to pay anything but paper currency of its own creation – a currency with which every bank throughout the United States had previously been stocked – an incontestable of proof of preparedness. On October 25th, 1907, Pierpoint Morgan declared, on behalf of the Banking Association of America: We will continue to trade in a paper currency and pay no more gold until we get from President Roosevelt the necessary guarantee against adverse legislation. The people can take paper money or leave it; they will get nothing else. The mills, mines, and other industries controlled by ourselves and allied interests will slacken down or close until we get effective guarantees against anti-trust prosecutions. This was the ultimatum of the Money Trust to the subject nation. Speaking in the United States Senate, Senator James Mill said: this recklessness and remorseless brutality comes from men who speak our language, who were born under the same skies and nurtured in the principles of a common faith. The banks held the country by the throat. If any depositor moved legal process, the great magnates could carry him from court to court for years. If the Government enforced the law of cash redemption the Banking Trust threatened to close its doors. Only a revolutionary seizure, that Congress was not prepared to enforce or the press to endorse, could defeat the conspiracy of the financial thuggery. … The London "Daily News" (December 6) said: The Trust magnates hardly seem to have moved a finger, yet they made their power felt throughout the civilised world. They have made no sacrifices, but, on the contrary, will emerge wealthier men than before." End quote. Not only wealthier but with unchallenged power. Question: Did President Roosevelt really 'set his teeth' or was there all along an agreement to make it seem that the government was powerless to act against “wealthy” thugs and gangsters? The action that the banks took show they had prepared for it and there was action that could have been taken if the government and/or the press had been willing to take it. Government could have exposed the scam and enforced public accountability – news media could have made the situation public and demanded accountability! That the banks were already prepared (by having paper money printed and distributed) is sufficient evidence that the ‘blackmail’ was planned. To gain that power by legislation would have been a long and risky process – by going through the charade of force it was accomplished quickly, decisively, and with full security. Had the government been, as it is supposed to be, a democratic public institution, the conspiracy would have been charged with act of war, or crime. Leaders would be arrested and assets confiscated. Even threat of such action would have removed this threat. It must be obvious, had the trust magnates not been sure of the servility of ‘their’ Party System and ‘their’ Mass media then that risk could not have been taken. These people are not rash gamblers. Globalists have no concern for nations or people. ‘Charitable’ tax-free donations to institutions of learning “to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world” are bribes. The grip of the international bankers on the nations was tightened further in 1944; p45, quote: "On July 1st, 1944, delegates from 44 nations met at Bretton Woods, in the USA. There they found an Agreement already prepared for their signatures, and they were asked to sign upon the dotted lines. It took three weeks to induce them to sign, but eventually all did so. p46 Australia was given until December 31st, 1946 to ratify the agreement. Some cabinet ministers were in favour of doing so, but many members of parliament and trade union executives saw clearly that to do so was to prove false to their promise to bring the Commonwealth Bank back to its original position of financier for the people of Australia." End Q. Australia signed in August 1947, the 45th victim to ratify this plunder. No doubt there are MPs who enter politics with simple innocence and rose-coloured spectacles; their battles are vital to maintaining the belief that democracy exists. This manipulation did not start in the USA! These money-lenders are in the spirit of the moneychangers Jesus drove from the Temple. Usury in early Middle East civilisations; established in Europe from the Dark Ages and was highlighted when (1743-1812) Mayer Amschel Rothschild and five sons financed wars, nations, and railways in Europe and America. As Amos suggests money carrots consistently dangled before the donkey's nose keep them on the road desired by finance. There is now a lot of public knowledge of these forces and how they operate. The reason knowledge is not used by the people is that understanding is, by subtle deceit, kept from them. The banker cat is not exposed as a tiger by the party system or mass media. All behave as if we live in democracies even though, when asked, most readily admit that what we have is not democracy. We pretend governments must do their best for us because we can vote them out of power. There are two problems with that idea: 1) We are not well enough informed about political If a ‘party’ were serving the people rather than the moneylenders then it would have explained to the people and have had all the public support it needed to control the banks from the beginning! Criminal acts would result in arrest and confiscation! That political parties don't do this, clearly shows their colours; p49; quote: "The right of the people of this Commonwealth to expand or contract financial credit in accordance with their needs, by means of the Commonwealth Bank, was something that the people of Australia should have safeguarded with the same jealousy as they safeguard their right to vote. They did not do this, so when the artificial depression of the 'thirties' burst upon them, they were exposed without defence to the mercy of domestic and foreign financiers who knew no mercy. … they are just as powerless to help themselves against future depressions which those same financiers may be preparing for them." End quote. Had Australiacontinued as originally planned it would be a very different nation. Free of the party system the Commonwealth Bank could not have become part of a banking cartel. As said by Plato, “The Laws”: “The state is just like a ship at sea, which always needs someone to keep watch night and day, as it is steered through the waves of international affairs, it lives in constant peril of being captured by all sorts of conspiracies.” Plato was not fooled by plausible deceit! Until we, the people, are prepared to admit our slavery we remain governed by tyranny. When prepared to take responsibilities for our governing will we chose and elect our own representatives to confiscate all assets lost by action of crime, treason, seduction, or manipulation. Banks then return to common law! All personal debt at time of changeover could be halved; interest rates limited to 5% and humanity then will progress in wisdom to justice. A lawyer, Dr. E. Vieira, USA: writes about unlawful money and explains that it would take the power of a foreign nation to take the International Money Lenders to court and expose that they are operating outside, and contrary to, the Constitution of the USA. In the 1980s this idea may have seemed possible, today it is clearly a dream. Where is there a nation of authority whose government is not already owned by international finance? Should a substantial nation attempt legal action the USA Government would expose consequences; the legal system would not accept that there was a case to hear; the mass media would not fully report on the matter. That would be the end of it. No nation has, or will ever, attempt this. The people alone have the alternative. Worldwide the situation is equally criminal. Years ago Lord Rothschild is reported to have said: "Permit me to issue the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." As you might expect, his wording is devious. His emphasis would lead people to believe he was above the law. To be honest he would have said, "So long as the law permits me to issue the money I care not who makes the laws." This way of expressing it would have shown that it is national law that has the power to control the issue of money. Electors have the power to choose competent, honest people – we, the people have access to ultimate control. Note: the USA Federal Reserve Bank, which effectively controls world finance, is privately owned, it is not, as many believe, a government instrument. More in other books. Another truth to remember was expressed by C H Douglas in, “In Whose Service is Perfect Freedom”; quote: "It is not too much to say that an International Organisation having almost unlimited control of money and, in consequence, of the Press, can produce almost any "trend" which may serve its purpose. What it cannot do, however, is to avoid the natural consequences of the policies which it pursues." E.Q. We are presently experiencing the truth of that statement. After the 1990s economic downturn and bank seizures, people were told that the economic conditions are improving. We work hard to pay off our debts and establish new assets. A few years later, the next shearing! That we let them act in contempt of criminal law is not a simple matter of natural cringe and servility, it is better expressed as blind stupidity. At this stage you may feel that this is all too incredible, or hopeless, but think: what is at stake? What have we to lose by not making a realistic effort – our lives, the lives of children and grandchildren? The evidence is saying that we can lose everything we have to live for – the integrity of our human potential, our right to understanding and choice; we cannot lose what is lost, but we can regain it! Chapter comment: He knew his subject. Are we, the people, a sub-human species unable to understand the meanings of ‘truth” or “lies”? If that is so will you please explain to me why it is then necessary that we brainless ones have to be lied to, miss-educated and brainwashed? Why is it that a huge industry has to be set in place to keep us in the dark? Tell me why science delivers no evidence of two distinctly different human races inhabiting our nations? If you explain these things to me then I will apologise to myself for wasting my life – and to you for wasting your time – if you cannot do that then I trust you to think and, by the end of these books, to see that our position is only without hope if we are ourselves hopeless. The true wealth of this world has been purchased with fake money! But far more than wealth is lost; the very “humanity” of mankind is sold into the hands of criminals. If you have read book 1, you will know why the owners of the Federal Reserve won't be harmed when they pull the pin on world finance! If we fail to take responsibility for our own governing they will 'own', by our default, everything of real value. Be not misled! This is not just a life or death struggle for some; it is a struggle for the humanity of man.Chapter 5: World-wide we, the people, have been robbed of so much more than democracy and wealth! We have and are being robbed of our birthright to know ourselves – the right to develop our true humanity. So now let's sample just how treacherous and childish our MPs are and what that means to our nation. In Australia: Even with that known, we still feel that if we ask a politician a straight question about Constitution or law, we will get a straight answer. Here is a revealing answer given by a sitting Federal MP 20th.11; 1991. Quote: "Thank you for your letter, directed to me by my State colleague. Your argument seems to rest on the constitutional question of whether the 1688 Bill of Rights confers any legal 'right' to bear arms on the Australian citizen. I have sought advice in this matter from the office of the Attorney General who advises that the 1688 Bill of Rights has never been applicable to Australia and is not part of our Constitution. Nor can it be made binding under any Westminster System of Government." EQ. Gary Johns MP, Federal Member for Petrie. It is difficult to imagine how a nation can become so divorced from all understanding of its roots that a Federal MP, backed by the Attorney General's office, can give, and get away with, such blatant deceit. We seem prepared to live with lies but why accept contempt. Years of neglect of the truth and deformity of fact have made us ignorant and uncaring of our rights and freedoms and of how vital is knowledge of past victories and past sacrifice to present life and freedom. Our legal rights in Australia (as elsewhere) are no longer enforceable. By election we hand power to parliament. Parliaments may have acted illegally in signing our rights away but elected government (illegally or not) holds the reins of power. Or, as Chairman Mao is reported to have said. “The hand that holds the gun ….” Have we no human vision for life? For confirmation that the political advice given above was a blatant misrepresentation, consider comment from Issues Paper No.1 put out about the same time by a, government-organised Constitutional Commission. In reporting its findings, p6, it has this to say; quote: "Laws dealing with individual and democratic rights, which are also called 'fundamental freedoms " and "guarantees", have a very long and cherished history, beginning with Magna Carta, continuing with the British Bill of Rights of 1688, which is still law in Australia".End Q. Johns also mentions the “Westminster System of Government”. The so-called Westminster System is no more than a political convenience; it has no legal or constitutional standing. Deceit in political matters is worldwide and entrenched. For an even more important example of just how submissive we are to political rape (Australia; 1990) we find the then Prime Minister Hawke addressing the National Press Club; quote: "I now come to an area of reform which we must acknowledge has proved most difficult to achieve – the Constitution itself. It is true that there have been very significant changes in the way we govern ourselves, within the existing Constitution. ... High Court decisions have done more to alter the Constitution than all the referendums. And there has been, without change to the text of the Constitution, quiet and constructive adjustment in the roles of the Federal and State Governments in such areas as family law. Thus, without actual change to the written Constitution, there has been considerable change in the role and responsibilities of the three levels of government". EQ. Here we see a Prime Minister speaking directly to the National Press andboastingabout how the political parties have conspired with the High Court to make significant changes to the way the Australian Constitution is interpreted at law – all without referendum or publicity a crime is revealed that, when the constitution was written, would have bought charges of treason and quite likely, death of leading conspirators by hanging. The Australian Constitution requires changes to be put to referendum and passed, not only by a majority of people but also by a majority of States. Do you wonder how it is possible that those statements did not make headlines? That words were not changed is no excuse: a change of legal meaning is a change to legality. Even the pigs in Animal Farm had the decency to change the words on the back of the barn. What kinds of creatures run affairs in our democracies? For significance of what the PM said, let us consider a comment by High Court Judge Wilson in regard to one such change; quote: "The effect of investing the Parliament with power through Section 51 in all these areas would be transfer to the Commonwealth of virtually unlimited power in almost every conceivable aspect of life in Australia". EQ. Now consider the Crimes Act, under TREASON, "24 AA. (1) A person shall not – (a) do any act or thing with intent – (i) to overthrow the Constitution of the Commonwealth by revolution or sabotage." Was not the then PM boasting to the National Press of Constitutional sabotage? Have reporters been silenced for life by bribe or threats? No! No! No! Nothing so excusable! They keep quiet as co-conspirators! As we see, the indoctrinated like to imagine themselves as part of the elite ‘peer group’! Manipulation of other groups is OK. From lofty heights of ego they look down: “What right have our competitors to consideration – to truth?” It seems our news reporters and petty officials have regressed to primitive! Do they believe that truth is contaminated by contact with the 'profane'? Well, perhaps it is – but who now are the profane? That is how it now stands – wherever your nation – as we let it stand! Can we care so little for the human future? How can any now believe that National Constitutions protect us – that we can appeal to law if we need to? There is ample evidence of people trying to uphold their constitutional rights having such appeals simply dismissed – clearly demonstrated but not reported – our freedoms are deleted. If secretly arrested it is now useless to appeal to law! Even if given the option the law will judge as parliament and courts have decided. People go bankrupt in foolish attempts to have the law find in the logic of the written Constitution! Knowing how we are deceived it is only honest to call it conspiracy, if the ‘mis-educated’ treat it as a joke that is their loss. Can they now say we are guilty of treason if we oppose treason? Of course! What stops them? Only that if they move too fast we may awaken! Can we see why the push for all given authority (nurses/police) to be university indoctrinated? As said years ago by Sir John Fortescue: Treason never prospers; what’s the reason? For when it prospers, none dare call it treason. Politicians, knowingly and without shame, exceed their Constitutional authority and unite across party lines to cover their deceptions while petty officials and media look away. The long-term effect of mass deceit is that when someone with knowledge tries to show people that they are being betrayed, the first action of those who should care is to ask their local MP. Having asked, they will believe his answer rather than trust their own intelligence or investigate for themselves! They fear to face that (what they believe is ‘their government’) deliberately and wilfully betrays them. The Australian Constitution is actually no more than a limited authority, given by the Australian States and people, to allow Federal unity. The Australian National Constitution gave limited authority! The 1688 Bill of Rights is not "written into" what we call The Australian Constitution, because both the Constitution and Australia’s national law are empowered by the States that created The Australian Constitution! It was always intended the Federal Government be subject to the States people; that is why changes have to be allowed by States referendum. For MP Johns to be correct the Australian States could never have been British colonies and Australia would have no legal identity. Don't waste time and money trying to get charge of treason upheld in a court of law. You are divorced, now be quiet and look happy. Such deceit and treachery could not result from local conspiracy – were that its extent it would be exposed by true democracies. This cancer is worldwide! Finance, politics, small nation or large: treachery and treason govern our world and create our strife! Transcript: Dunhoff talking with Ben Smith, a political scientist from California State University; quote: Dunhoff: "One of the things that we find that's very important is that the big-business people who are the ruling class have a series of policy planning organisations which try to stay bipartisan and non-partisan in their representation, ... these organisations consist of big-businessmen, corporation lawyers and academic experts, who meet together in small discussion groups and try to plan out policy in areas such as foreign policy, economic policy, welfare policy, population policy – name it, and what we find is when we look at those organisations, they have leaders who are both democrats and republicans, and what we find further is that whomever is elected as president, a democrat or republican, we find that his appointments to government tend to be from these non-partisan, bipartisan (whatever euphemism we're giving for them) policy organisations. 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