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the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world...

In theory, every citizen makes up his own 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
issue so that our field of choice is narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the
media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing
upon public question...
[Edward Bernays, Propaganda, 1928]

It is necessary for you, the reader, to grasp what it is that Bernays has said here. A global elite has
determined that the only way for a democratic society to operate is for unseen rulers who constitute
the true government of this world, to manipulate the habits and opinions of the masses. This global
elite has judged the common man to be incapable of governing himself. It is okay that the common
man believe he is governing himself (theory), but in practice a cabal of men who deem themselves
to be “philosopher kings,” are exercising a form of mind control through the mass media. As Edward
Bernays stated, in “every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our
social conduct or ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons - a
trifling fraction... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they
who pull the wires which control the public mind...”

Brothers and sisters, the media is the instrument used by the global elite to exert this mind control
over the masses. The media is owned and wholly controlled by “a trifling fraction” of humanity.
Those who own the media use it for their purposes. Among these purposes are keeping the people
distracted with mindless entertainment - the equivalent of the Roman circuses; inducing men and
women to continue to purchase the products and services offered by the transnational corporations;
and most importantly, to shape public opinion.

To accomplish these ends all means are used. News is not merely reported on. The news is
manufactured. The “false flag events” which “truthers” speak of with such disdain are viewed by the
global elite as the necessary staging of events which provide a context to drive their narrative and
shape public opinion. To the global elite, there is nothing nefarious in these manufactured events.
They are viewed as necessary fabrications which allow the elite to shape public opinion that men
might continue to live under the illusion of democratic rule. If the people would rule themselves,
then they must be guided by an unseen “intelligent minority.” These men create events, even