Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00513)

Vladimir quotes:
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"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, 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 opinions 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 even one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth: to lie
outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to
sell the country for his daily bread.

You know it and I know it, what folly is this toasting an
'independent' press. We are the tools and vassals of the 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, Editor of the New York Times at his retirement dinner
with the New York Press Club after he was asked to "...toast the
independent press".
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HPB wrote in 1877:

The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity. From many will come honest criticism; from many -- cant. But we look to the future. 

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu1-00in.htm#preface

She also spoke in her interview with Charles Johnston that whole nations will be the victim of hypnotism:

"Yes, Sir! Witch-tales in this enlightened age! And mark my words! You willhave such witch-tales as the Middle Ages never dreamt of. Whole nations will drift insensibly into black magic, with good intentions, no doubt, but paving the road to hell none the less for that! Do you not see the tremendous evils that lie concealed in hypnotism? Hypnotism and suggestion are greatand dangerous powers, for the very reason that the victim never knows whenhe is being subjected to them; his will is stolen from him. These things may be begun with good motives, and for right purposes. But I am an old woman, and have seen much of human life in many countries and I wish with all my heart I could believe that these powers would be used only for good! If you could foresee what I foresee, you would begin heart and soul to spread the teaching of universal brotherhood. It is the only safeguard!" 

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/theos/th-hpbcj.htm

Could it be that the monopolized mass medias are the tools for hypnotizing whole nations?

Frank










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