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TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE for HUMAN RELATIONS: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States THE TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RELATIONS: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States. The Tavistock Institute for Human Relations has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual, cultural, political and economic policies of the United States of America and Great Britain. It has been in the front line of the attack on the U.S. Constitution and State constitutions. No group did more to propagandize the U.S. to participate in the WWI at a time when the majority of the American people were opposed to it. Much the same tactics were used by the Social Science scientists at Tavistock to get the United States into WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and both wars against Iraq. Tavistock began as a propaganda creating and disseminating organization at Wellington House in London in the run-up to WWI, what Toynbee called "that black hole of disinformation." On another occasion Toynbee called Wellington House "a lie factory." From a somewhat crude beginning, Wellington House evolved into the Tavistock Institute and went on to shape the destiny of Germany, Russia, Britain and the United States in a highly controversial manner. The people of these nations were unaware that they were being "brainwashed." The origin of "mind control," "inner directional conditioning" and mass "brainwashing" is explained in an easy to understand book written with great authority. The fall of dynasties, the Bolshevik Revolution, WWI and WWII saw the destruction of old alliances and boundaries, the convulsions in religion, morals, family life, economic and political conduct, decadence in music and art can all be traced back to mass indoctrination (mass brainwashing) practiced by the Tavistock Institute Social Science scientists. Prominent among Tavistock's faculty were Edward Bernays, the double nephew of Sigmund Freud. It is said that Herr Goebbels, Propaganda Minister in the German Third Reich used methodology devised by Bernays as well as those of Willy Munzenberg, whose extraordinary career is touched upon in this work about the past, present and future. Without Tavistock, there would have been no WWI and WWII, no Bolshevik Revolution, Korea, Vietnam, Serbia and Iraq wars. But for Tavistock, the United States would not be rushing down the road to dissolution and collapse. V CONTENTS FORWARD 1. Founding the World's Premiere Brainwashing Institute 1 2. Europe falls off the precipice 9 3. How "times" were made to change 13 4. Social engineering and the Social scientist 19 5. Do we have what H.G. Wells called "An Invisible Government?" 25 6. Mass communications ushers in the polling industry 29 7. The making of public opinion 33 8. Degrading women and decline of moral standards 37 9. How individuals and groups react to blending fact with Fiction 41 10. Polling comes of age 47 11. The paradigm shift in education 51 12. Lewin's doctrine of "identity change" 57 VI 13. The Induced Decline of Western Civilization between two World Wars 61 14. America is not a "Homeland" 69 15. The Media's role in propaganda 79 16. Scientific propaganda can deceive the very elect 85 17. Propaganda and Psychological Warfare 89 18. Wilson gets the U.S. into WWI, thanks to propaganda 95 19. Is history being repeated? The case of Lord Bryce 99 20. The Black Art of successful Lying: Gulf War 1991. 109 21. The Soldiers Memorial and WWI cemeteries 113 22. Peace is not Popular 121 23. The Tavistock Institute: Britain's Control of the U.S. 133 24. Brainwashing saves a U.S. President 145 25. Tavistock's assault on the U.S. 153 26. How mediocre politicians, actors and singers are "puffed." 157 VII 27. The Tavistock formula that got the U.S. into WWII 165 28. How Tavistock makes well people sick 173 29. Topological psychology gets the U.S. into the war in Iraq 183 30. My choice of candidate, not my choice 195 31. Zero Growth in Agriculture and Industry: Americas Post Industrial Society 207 32. Exposing the upper level parallel secret government 213 33. Interpol in the U.S.: Its origin and purpose exposed 221 34. The Cults of the East India Company 233 35. The Music Industry: Mind control, Propaganda and War 243 VIII Acknowledgements My very great debt - an immense one - for the help, encouragement and hard and long hours, sound criticism and encouragement on this book that my wife Lena, and our son John provided at every stage of its preparation, including suggestions for the cover design, research and proof reading. I also owe a debt of gratitude to Dana Farnes for his untiring computer work and technical assistance; to Ann Louise Gittleman, and James Templeton, who encouraged me to write this book and gave me no peace until I began it; to Renee and Grant Magan for doing the daily work, leaving me free to concentrate on writing. My particular thanks also to Dr. Kinne McCabe and Mike Granston whose faithful and steadfast support was a key factor in enabling me to finish the work. IX The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Shaping the Moral, Spiritual, Cultural, Political and Economic Decline of the United States of America. FORWARD. The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was unknown to the people of the United States before Dr. Coleman exposed its existence in his monograph, The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations: Britain's Control of the United States. Up to that time, Tavistock had successfully retained its secretive role in shaping the affairs of the United States, its government and its people since its early beginning in London, in 1913 at Wellington House. Since Dr. Coleman's original article exposing this ultra- secret organization, others have come forward with claims of authorship, which they were unable to substantiate. Tavistock began as a propaganda creating and disseminating organization centered at Wellington House, which was where the original organization was put together with intent of shaping a propaganda outlet that would break down the stiff public resistance being encountered to the looming war between Britain and Germany. X The project was given to Lords Rothmere and Northcliffe and their mandate was to produce an organization capable of manipulating public opinion and directing that manufactured opinion down the desired pathway to support for a declaration of war by Great Britain against Germany. Funding was provided by the British royal family, and later by the Rothschilds to whom Lord Northcliffe was related through marriage. Arnold Toynbee was selected as Director of Future Studies. Two Americans, Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays were appointed to handle the manipulation of American public opinion in preparation for the entry of the United States into WWI, and to brief and direct President Woodrow Wilson. From a somewhat crude beginning at Wellington House, grew an organization that was to shape the destiny of Germany, Britain and more especially the United States in manner that became a highly sophisticated organization to manipulate and create public opinion, what is commonly termed, "mass brainwashing." During the course of its evolvement, Tavistock expanded in size and ambition, when in 1937, a decision was made to use the German author Oswald Spengler's monumental work, Untergange des Abenlandes (The Decline of Western Civilization) as a model. Previously, Wellington House board members Rothmere, Northcliffe, Lippmann, and Bernays had read and proposed as a guide the writings of Correa Moylan Walsh, in particular, the book The Climax of Civilization (1917) as corresponding closely to conditions that had to be created before a New World Order in a One World Government could be ushered in. XI In this endeavor the members of the board consulted with the British royal family and obtained the approval of the "Olympians" (the inner core of the Committee of 300) to formulate a strategy. Funding was provided by the monarchy, the Rothschilds, the Milner Group and the Rockefeller family trusts. In 1936, Spengler's monumental work had come to the attention of what had become the Tavistock Institute. In preparation for changing and reshaping public opinion for the second time in less than twelve years, by unanimous consent of the board, Spengler's massive book was adopted as the blueprint for a new working model to bring about the decline and fall of Western civilization necessary to create and establish a New World Order inside a One World Government. Spengler held it bound to happen that alien elements would be introduced into Western civilization in increasing numbers, and that the West would fail at that time to expel the aliens, thereby sealing its fate, a society, whose inward beliefs and sound convictions would become at variance with its outward profession and thus Western civilization would fall by the wayside in the manner of the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. Tavistock thinking was that Spengler had indoctrinated Western civilization to believe that it would err on the side of Roman civilization, and expel the aliens. The genetic loss that has fallen upon Europe-and especially on Scandinavia, England, Germany, France-(the Anglo-Saxon, Nordic Alpine Germanic races) that began just before the Second World War is already so great as to be beyond expectations, and continues at an alarming pace under the skilled guidance of the Tavistock managers. XII What was a very rare instance became a common occurrence, a black man married to a white women or vice-versa. The two World Wars cost the German nation almost one quarter of its population. Most of the intellectual energies of the German nation were diverted into war channels in defense of the Fatherland at the expense of science, arts, literature, music and the cultural, spiritual and moral advancement of the nation.
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