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the emotional habits of the public to produce mass reactions against the alleged atrocities,
the terror, and the tyranny of the enemy.

Edward Bernays is describing here the government’s manipulation of the people. This sets
the whole scheme of Democracy on its head. Instead of “government of the people, for the
people, by the people,” it has become a government of a small elite who fool the people into
believing they are making autonomous decisions, never realizing that they are being
manipulated. Bernays had a true “insider’s” perspective into the machinations of
government. Stuart Ewen in his book PR! A Social History of Spin, describes a visit he paid
to Bernays at his home.

He led me through a dark room off the landing. Its walls were covered with scores of
framed black and white photographs, many of them inscribed. Wordlessly, yet eloquently,
the pictures placed my ancient host close to the heartbeat of a century. Bernays on his way
to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. Bernays standing with Enrico Caruso. Bernays and
Henry Ford. Bernays and Thomas Edison. Bernays and Dwight David Eisenhower. An
inscribed photo portrait of his uncle, Freud, was also conspicuous. Bernays with the
“great men” at the “great events” of the twentieth century.

Bernays and Eisenhower

Bernays wrote of the power a small group has in selecting even those candidates who will
become President of the United States.

A presidential candidate may be “drafted” in response to “overwhelming popular
demand,” but it is well known that his name may be decided upon by half a dozen men
sitting around a table in a hotel room.
[Source: Propaganda, Edward Bernays]

Things have not changed much since the day in which the above statement was written.
Much has been written about the Bilderberger Group in recent years. This group of
extremely wealthy and powerful global persons derives their name from the hotel they met
at for their first annual meeting. It is true that a small number of men and women still meet
today in hotel rooms to determine who will be given the rule of the nations. Both Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama were whisked away during the midst of campaigning for the
Presidential nomination of their party in 2008. Their sudden absence was the subject of
much speculation. It became known that they were taken to attend the annual Bilderberger
conference, at which it was determined that Obama would become President and Hillary
Clinton Secretary of State. Those elected to public positions are acting as the pawns of the
true powers that have placed them there.