"Perception Management" through the Diabolic 'Operation Mockingbird'

"The smartest way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." -Noam Chomsky

Whoever would climb over the walls of this thought prison and venture beyond the spectrum of acceptable opinion steps beyond the pale into the realm of unapproved thought and therefore violates a cardinal Taboo -- an enforced Taboo which preserves the social order and its power structure by keeping every member of every social stratum (including and even especially the enforcers themselves) in their assigned place.

The social order as it exists today is directed by the social engineers to one ultimate purpose: to keep the masses in the blissful misery of their servitude by preserving them in a state of unawareness of their own servitude and to maintain those who wield power over them (the inner party as Orwell called them), on the behalf of the commanding heights of global finance, in a contented state of loyal service.

Limiting the spectrum of acceptable opinion preserves the state of the servitude of the mind of the masses by erecting artificial boundaries - barriers designed for the specific purpose of blocking out the forbidden light of dangerous truths that threaten the power structure. The way to break the shackles that keep the mind bound in servitude is to first, like Socrates, have the humility to admit that we know nothing and thus be willing to humbly accept that we have allowed ourselves to be deceived - to admit that when we perilously thought ourselves to be possessed of knowledge we were in reality believing in lies. From there we can then proceed to follow the path marked out by those independent spirits whom the ruling establishment have excoriated, berated and demonized because they threaten the power of the ruling elite by their stubborn persistence in the pursuit of historical facts and objective truth and their obstinate refusal to uncritically and meekly accept the politically correct lies that serve no purpose but to preserve the status quo of the ruling power structure, maintain the supremacy of the financial elite intact, and enforce their immoral, oppressive and ultimately nihilistic policies on humanity. Like them, we must seek the truth at all costs.

"Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoes of what George Orwell called the 'official truth', They simply cipher and transmit lies, it really grieves me that so many of my fellow journalists can be so manipulated that they become really what the French describe as 'functionaries'; functionaries, not journalists, Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words 'impartiality' and 'objectivity' is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over... [they] now mean the establishment point of view.,. Journalists don't sit down and think, 'I'm now going to speak for the establishment.' Of course not. But they internalize a whole set of assumptions..." -John Pilger (2002) 1

The state of affairs in journalism that Pilger describes is symptomatic of nations that have undergone the degeneration from a healthy state of republican democracy - in which a nation is governed by the people (the citizens, the sovereign nation) through their elected officials, and informed by a free and independent media - into what Christopher Story calls democratism, a pseudo-democratic corporatist state democratic in name only in which there is preserved the mere formality of the institutional framework of a democratic state while it is in reality effectively governed as a bureaucratic dictatorship by a ruling financial elite whose interests are served by controlled media which are financially dependent on them. "The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism," Pilger observes.

While many factors have led to the evolution of the corporatist state in the USA (such as the creation of the private corporate central banking system through the Federal Reserve Act, and the Federal Income Tax Act which was enacted immediately after the creation of the Federal Reserve in order to set up the mechanism for the payment of interest to the private Federal Reserve by the taxpayers), the decisive factor in the evolution of the corporatist state in America was the emergence of what President Eisenhower, at the end of his term in office, described as "threats" originating out of the creation of "an immense military establishment and a large arms industry" which was "new in the American experience."

This decisive factor brought into being what Eisenhower called the "military-industrial complex". In his Farewell Address delivered at the end of his term in office, he spoke of its "total influence - economic, political, even spiritual" which is "felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government", and warned of "Its grave implications". Precisely in this regard Eisenhower warned: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

The Power of International Finance and Secret Societies

The Revolution in Military Affairs Eisenhower described came about largely due to what he termed the "technological revolution during recent decades" in which "research has become central; ... more formalized, complex, and costly", and therefore a "steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government." This state of affairs brought about the emergence of the specific danger of the "prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money (which) is ever present," leading also to the "equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” These "threats", the president warned, could "endanger our liberties or democratic processes."

Eisenhower's immediate successor, John F. Kennedy, specified even more precisely the nature of the threat when he pointed to the "secret societies" as the source of the danger in his address of April 27, 1961 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. In that speech Kennedy declared:

“The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is the very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to extend its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.”

Kennedy's use of the terms “secret societies”, “secret oaths”, and “secret proceedings” constitute a clear and unmistakable reference to Freemasonry as the source of the "very grave danger" that would make use of "an announced need for increased security" that will be "seized upon" in order to exercise the maximum degree of censorship and secrecy. Here Kennedy gave precise specification to the threat Eisenhower spoke of thirteen months earlier that could "endanger our liberties or democratic processes." "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry," Eisenhower declared, "can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together:"

Today in 2018: The Control of Media Helps Maintain Citizens in a nice State of Brainwashed Ignorance

It is precisely an alert and knowledgeable citizenry that cannot exist in a state where official censorship and concealment maintains the state of brainwashed ignorance, thereby incapacitating the citizenry from exercising their sovereign power of self-governance and thus overthrowing the republic and reducing it to a bureaucratic directorate dictatorship.

It was in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks that the Mason-led government of high-degree secretary George W. Bush 2 let it be known - and it was loudly trumpeted out by the subservient media - that henceforth the citizens of the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, would have to relinquish some of their liberty for the sake of security and effectively hand over their sovereign power as a self-governing nation of citizens to the agencies that would reduce them to the status of powerless subjects in order to 'protect' them from 'terrorists'.

The Federal government has endlessly repeated this mantra during the years that have passed since the terrorist attacks while steadily and incrementally tightening the oppressive stranglehold of security around the collective necks of the citizenry to the extent that the nation- formerly the beacon of liberty - has become recognized as one of the most repressive bureaucratic police states in the world under the administration of Barack H. Obama.

The indispensable tool needed to reduce the citizenry to passive acceptance of dictated government policy and to instill in them the belief that such a state of affairs has been brought about in their interest and for their benefit is a controlled corporate media that willingly conceals the high crimes of government, the acts of war against the citizens it supposedly serves and deflects and re-directs the suspicions of the citizenry towards the designated groups and individuals targeted by the government. In so doing the corporate media subserviently performs the function of, what Orwell called, the 'Ministry of Truth'.

The Essential Tool of Control: Limit the Spectrum of Acceptable Opinion

The corporate media (like the public education system) are not in the business of performing a public service. What they provide for the public is no more a service to them than the service that prison guards provide for the incarcerated. They do perform a service however, but ultimately not for the public or for their benefit. The public is severely disadvantaged in this regard because it depends on the media and the educational system almost totally to provide the data and information which are the basis for forming judgments about the government and almost everything else - yet providing such data and information is precisely the function they perform, and in so doing they perform their service for the corporatist state that the Western democracies have become - for the private corporate interests that control the state and ultimately for the financial elite who occupy the commanding heights of monetary and therefore indirect but effective political power over the private and public institutions of nations.

The corporate media constitute what is perhaps the most vital organ of what has become the privatized state, performing perhaps the most important of functions for the corporatist state they were taken over or created to serve: that of forming the images that constitute the basis of understanding in the public mind. By performing this function they control the mind of the populace and manipulate their behavior through perception management so that the citizenry become the docile subjects of the state they formerly democratically ruled.

The Western governments and corporate media expend considerable human energy and financial resources on the effort to shape the images that form the basis of public perception of events that are reported in the news. In the documentary film Loose Change: Final Cut, one can hear the iconic voice of retired CBS news anchor Dan Rather intone the words: "Those who control images will control public opinion." By means of shaping the perception of the masses by directing their focus on some facts, excluding others, and then offering an analysis of them that establishes premises (which may be only partially true or sometimes entirely false) common perception, the basis of so-called 'common knowledge', is created. It is in this manner that public opinion is molded. Once the public opinion becomes firmly and inextricably bound to the carefully crafted 'common knowledge', the boundaries for the expression of socially acceptable thoughts, beliefs and opinions are firmly established within the parameters of the commonly perceived 'truth', and thus canons of orthodoxy are established within this artificial framework.

The MSM are far more effective in "managing perception" and molding public opinion on behalf of the corporatist state than the unsuspecting captive populations of the Western 'democracies' can even begin to suspect.

Just how effective they are was graphically demonstrated by a Cold War anecdote related by John Pilger at an address at Columbia University on 14 April 2006, he said:

During the Cold War, a group of Russian journalists toured the United States. On the final day of their visit, they were asked by their hosts for their impressions. 'I have to tell you,' said their spokesman, 'that we were astonished to find after reading all the newspapers and watching TV, that all the opinions on all the vital issues were by and large, the same. To get that result in our country, we imprison people, we tear out their fingernails. Here, you don't have that. What's the secret? How do you do it?'

Use the Corporate Media for Mind Control

The answer to that question posed by the mystified Russian journalist quite simply stated is 'perception management'. Retired US Army Intelligence officer Col. Robert Hickson spoke of it as "psychological warfare, or as we called it in the CIA – perception management". Also known as in a even more specific way “Operation Mockingbird”

This is what has become of the corporate media, the allegedly 'free press' that was envisaged in the Second Amendment of the American Constitution - it has degenerated into an instrument of repression and mind control. The co-opting of the corporate media as the institutionalized mouthpiece of the financial elite is not a recent occurrence but already was openly admitted in the late Nineteenth Century (ca. 1880) by John Swinton, one-time editor of the New York Times, who made the following statement at a banquet given in his honor:

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would! Be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." -John Swinton, 1880, editor of the New York Times

"The above quotation is striking proof," Deirdre Manifold comments "of the extent of the Illuminati's success in controlling the channels of information," by means of the power of money. As media conglomerates merge and globalize, the resulting monopoly in the exercise of 'perception management' is correspondingly and increasingly global and all-encompassing.

Responsible Sovereign "Democratic" Nations Depend Upon a Morally Sound and Well-informed Public!

So…

… Seek the Truth at All Costs

The next and equally necessary step to be taken on the road to finding the truth is to be able to recognize the lies for what they are - falsehoods - and thus expose them and distinguish them from the truth. Here in the seemingly transparent fishbowl of the Western 'democracies' we are decidedly at a disadvantage in comparison to the imprisoned citizens of the Communist countries, where the state propaganda is at times crass to the point of being unintentionally comical. Our disadvantage here in the West was brought poignantly into focus by Czech novelist Zdenek Urbanek (1917-2008) when he stated in a 1970's interview:

“In dictatorships we are more fortunate than you in the West in one respect: we believe nothing of what we read in the newspapers and nothing of what we watch on television because we know that it's propaganda and lies. Unlike you in the West we've learned to look behind the propaganda and read between the lines. Unlike you we know that the real truth is always subversive.” 3

While it may take a great deal of time, effort and study to arrive at the full possession of the whole truth, it does not require any great effort or superior intellectual powers to recognize the lies that the ruling establishment has served up for consumption by the general public, provided that one accepts nothing of what they say on the basis of mere human faith or perceived authority. We must always suspect that what we read in the newspapers and watch on television are lies and propaganda, and it is obvious that we have been lied to when what has been reported to us by the government and in the media can, upon investigation, be shown to be impossible.

The words of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle immortalized by his fictional character Sherlock Holmes admonish us:

“First we must eliminate the impossible and then whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth.”

Let us first eliminate the impossible and then see what remains. 4

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1 Wikipedia, under ~John Pilger'. John Pilger is a world renowned journalist who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia. See: www.johnpilger.com.

2 George W. Bush, like his father George H.W. Bush (as well as their distant cousin .John Kerry), is a member of the Yale University elite Masonic secret society)~ the Order of the Brotherhood of Death, commonly known as the Skull and Bones. The Skull & Bones originated in the early Nineteenth Century out of the Masonic milieu of the British East India Company as did likewise the ancestors of the Skull & Bones progenitors of the CIA in 1947. Please watch Robert DeNiro’s movie ‘The Good Shepherd’ it is all about this fact. (The East India Company during this period was controlled by the Baring Brothers Bank toward the closing decades of the l7th century, the British House of Rothschild would supplant the Baring Brothers as the controlling financial interests in the China opium trade.)

3 John Pilger, "Invisible Government" (youtube.com)

4 Father Paul Kramer, 'The Mystery of Iniquity' 2011, (page 169)

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