June 9, 1980 NEW SOLIDARITY Page 7

PRESS PASS: Fay Sober

The Conspiracy of Walter Lippmann

When most Americans hear the name Walter Lippmann, they think of the "dean of American journalism," and his popular radio commentaries. Many others identify Lippmann as a liberal philosopher who authored numerous books on American foreign and strategic policy, the editor of New Republic magazine, and the spokesman for the Woodrow Wilson administration who organized Wilson's League of Nations and its "14 Points" charter.

In fact Walter Lippmann was all these things. As such, more than any other man in American history, he created the notion of "public opinion" and developed the tools used to manipulate it today. Throughout the recently published volume, Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson, and the works of the propaganda expert who collaborated with Ferguson and the Aquarian conspirators to spread their ideas, Frederick Emery, there is not a single idea on manipulation through the mass media which does not derive from Lippmann's work. Lippmann in fact was the scion of the same circles from which today's Aquarians descend.

Walter Lippmann, fatherof public opinion.

Lippmann's Roots

Lippmann's Harvard University teachers in the early 1900s included the atheist "theologian" and philosopher William James, mystic drug pusher George Santayana, and Graham Wallas. He was also an intimate of John Dewey, Henri Bergson, Thorstein Veblen, and Jane Addams.

Lippmann took over the editorship of J.P. Morgan's New Republic magazine in 1913, to make it the voice of these Fabian conspirators. He brought to the magazine as contributors, Aldous Huxley, father of the 1960s rock-drug counterculture movement, H.G. Wells, whose turn-of-the-century "fiction" described the subculture pushed by the Aquarian conspirators today, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who oversaw the creation of the Round Table social control apparatus in Great Britain. John Maynard Keynes and John Dewey were also contributors.

It was New Republic which ran Woodrow Wilson's 1912 presidential election campaign and made policy for the Wilson administration in office. Its editorial staff would later largely comprise Wilson's World War I War Department.

The War Years

During the war, Lippmann was assigned to special intelligence projects, working with Wilson's British adviser and controller Col. Edward M. House, and with a carte blanche for experiments in psychological warfare and mass mind control. He also had at his disposal the Inter-Allied Propaganda Commission, run by British-Canadian press magnate Lord Beaverbrook, from London. With the cooperation of the commission, Lippmann was able to use the European Allied populations as guinea pigs for the experiments in propaganda effects.

The results of this testing of his theories were spelled out in Lippmann's 1922 psychological warfare manual, Public Opinion.

This groundwork on the theory of mass manipulation is the bible of journalism schools today and the reality behind the modern news media sham called "objective journalism." It is a clinically tested and proven method for inducing paranoid schizophrenia in an entire population.

Lippmann writes in Public Opinion on the brainwashing method he developed:

I must disentangle the idea with a name of its own and an emotion that has been scrutinized . . . bereft of affiliations. The idea is no longer me but that, it is objectified, it is at arm's length. Its fate is no longer bound up with my fate but with the fate of the outer world. (Emphasis in original).

Reeducating Public Opinion

This clinical disassociation, Lippmann insisted in 1922, had to be the basis for "reeducating" a "public opinion of the common will"—what he called a "public philosophy of natural philosophy" to deter civilization from its inherent "propensity to derangement." Lippmann called for the establish-ment of journalism schools— "training schools" in this philosophy and technique.

Lippmann's Heirs

Today Frederick Emery, a senior psychiatrist of the Tavistock clinic and the Aquarian conspiracy's propaganda chief, now teaching at the National University of Australia, has applied Lippmann's ideas to the use of television as an addictive mass media that can be programmed for the purpose of "closing down the central nervous system of man." The process he describes is a three-fold process of "superficiality, fragmentation, and disassociation," which in stages breaks down man's "ego investment" identity with the "outside world"—or Lippmann's "objectification" of the idea from the individual thinking that idea.

If you are one of the millions of fans of the programming of the three major television networks, of the nightly news broadcasts, or the bible of the printed word in your own daily newspaper, you are also the victim of a controlled experiment in creating "Public Opinion"—by destroying your mind.