Video
won't be able to hold onto any market it captures
after the first six months. People will soon get tired of
staring at a plywood box every night." -- Darryl F. Zanuck,
Head of 20th Century-Fox Studio c. 1946.
Despite Zanduck's prediction, many years later, a TV Guide survey asked 1,007 to answer the question: "How much money would it take to induce you to give up watching TV?" Twenty-three percent said they would sell for $25,000. Forty-six percent demanded $1 million. Twenty-five percent said they would refuse a cool million.
The folk wisdom says that people used to go to bed early to rise with the sun. The phrase, "burning the midnight oil," came from the period before electrification, radio and TV. Before the increase in crime and numerous people in and intruding into our lives, evenings were also spent talking or just sitting on the porch. Today we have twenty-four hour life in the cities and most people have had enough of people by the end of the day, so a period of relaxation now typically includes mindlessly watching the tube.
According to L. Wolfe, a profile by the authors of Watching America, some years ago, did a random sampling of the top 350 people involved in television programming. 73% came from either the Boston-Washington corridor or California. Although 93% had a religious upbringing (59% were Jewish), 45% claimed no religious affiliation or belief in God; those who said that they had retained some religious faith, said that their religious affiliations were nominal; 93% said they seldom or never attended religious services. Some 75% described themselves as "left of center" politically and "`liberal." Although "liberals," they were also strong believers in "free enterprise," and almost all supported the "free market system of economics." 43% thought that the American system of government and the Constitution needed a "complete restructuring." 91% were in favor of unrestricted rights to abortion; 80% believed that there is nothing wrong or abnormal about homosexuality, and 86% supported the right of homosexuals to teach in public schools. More than 83% believed that extramarital affairs are okay, while 51% thought there was nothing wrong with adultery. Nearly all supported a radical public land-grabbing environmentalist agenda to one degree or another. No question was asked about whether they believed that man was a beast, but their other answers revealed that their answer would have been a resounding "yes." Finally, asked which groups should influence American society the most, they listed consumer groups and intellectuals at the top and religion at the bottom. Two-thirds believed that it was their role to program television entertainment to promote "their" social agenda.
Research suggests that most TV viewers remember very little specifics but only get the basic theme. When we went to school, we took notes and read assigned books. TV watchers rarely take notes and most people don't read much after they complete their education. Some student talked back to their teachers but it is considered bad form to talk back to the TV. Also, it is generally not polite to interrupt Dan Rather when he is telling it the way it is.
My degree, before completing law school, was in political science. For about ten years I have been reading what material I could find on those who belong to exclusive organizations that meet in secret and appear to have the inside track on what will happen next, particularly in matters of U.S. foreign policy. While a number of authors have contributed materially to this subject, it was not until Gaylon Ross that any attempt was made to compile the whole roster of various elites and identify who they were and where they worked.
Initially, I began this project by making notes as I watched the TV. I found that writing tidbits down made it more interesting. Gradually, I realized that it was necessary to organize the notes and put the date and name of the program on the side. Occasionally, as different people were being interviewed, I looked their names up in Robert Gaylon Ross's WHO'S WHO OF THE ELITE (Dec. 1995).
Still relying just on the notes made while watching each program, I began a series of weekly global wrap-ups. I organized the information just like it was coming off the screen. When I printed it out my learned friends said it wasn't organized enough. So the present format of THE WEEK THAT JUST WAS was adopted with early morning note-taking from tapes taking the place of taking notes directly while watching each show. I was amazed at how much better the notes were from tapes as compared to a moving screen. Then I added an index to the elites and later the links and a recommended reading list.
What is the point? Every day elites come and go on the screen who can't be recognized by what the tube tells you (with rare exceptions). The five categories of elites (BB/CFR/M/RS/TC) are unseen but pervasive. By knowing who on the tube is an elite you can pay more attention to them. They will, by what they say, expose themselves as part of a well-disguised behind-the- scenes network that is slowly but gradually moving us all to a One World or Global Government.
One problem with the tube is that you spend a lot of time watching nothing but commercials. THE WEEK THAT JUST WAS releases your evenings and allows you to review, by reading, a summary of the week's events in a few minutes. The weeks attempt to set down in concise form what the tube is telling and include the affiliations of all known elites.
If you read through some the weeks, you will readily see how many of the key people on or interviewed on the tube are elites. Ross devoted some four years to library research in which he identified about 65% of the members of the CFR and showed their main affiliations in his $29.73 book. Even he keeps a copy handy when he watches TV or reads the newspapers: "You can better interpret what they say if you know who they are," says Ross. He also says: "When you see a list of the names with their jobs and places that they work, it all becomes VERY clear." The best proof of the existence of a plan for global government comes from informed, critical thinking about and questioning what the elites on the tube are telling us. It's like getting the story from the horse's own mouth.
THE WEEK THAT JUST WAS invites you to participate in this exposure of those who are behind the push for a Global Government. If you don't live in the United States, you are encouraged to discover the names of those in your country that are elites. For example, if you are living in England or in a Crown country, the Bilderberger list would be one place to start. Another key list is the membership of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. 33rd Masons are also common to all countries. You can then watch you tube and see who is being interviewed as well as find out who is hosting the show or news.
If you live in the United States, you can participate immediately by first turning on your printer and making a list of our selected elites. Then record programs you watch, play them back on fast forward and see what names on the screen are on the list. If you think something they said was informative and wasn't covered by THE WEEK THAT JUST WAS, you can choose to send an e-mail to janeric@concentric.net with the date of the show, the name of the person interviewed and the name of the show. If you have the time and interest to really get involved, you can also purchase Gaylon Ross's book. Then you will be able to watch your tube news with both the very current select elites from the posted past ten weeks and Ross's unique compilation of elites current up to 1995.
THE WEEK THAT JUST WAS will "track" the elites when they appear on the tube and do a brief summary of what they said. Without an elite list no such tracking was possible before. The freedoms we still have will soon be gone if most of us just sit or lay on the couch watching the TV and swallowing without question whatever the tube tells us.
Paul Fussell, in his book, Class, stated that TV is "not a patrician medium." In a recent book of photos of 100 upper class families, only one TV set was to be seen. Ultimately you may conclude that being truly informed does not consist of just taking in what they are telling you to think.
If you have any additional time, and a willingness to help, you can also find out more from the links by putting elite names into a search engine.
Yes, you may need more real proof before you come around. In the weeks to come, The Week That Just Was will assist in making more important facts known, including biographies of the elite. Disraeli once said: "Read no history, only biography, for that is life without theory."
Who owns the tube? Is it O.K. for the tube hosts to promote an agenda that is shared by their guests who also belong to secretive elite organizations? They are dedicated and without opposition destined to triumph. Have we become a nation of vicarious non-participating powerless spectators?
You still have a choice to be a docile couch potato or an informed and involved viewer who knows the real power players in this world and will take action to keep your freedoms.
"Evil triumphs when good men (and women) do nothing."
Eric Samuelson, the author of THE WEEK THAT JUST WAS, is a research attorney living in Austin, Texas. He is graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1979 where he was on the Moot Court team that won the best brief award in the state. Most of his practice has been representing property taxpayers and defending the right to petition local governments. In the past few years he has focused on the international level which he describes as being the fifth level of distant government (the others being local, state, national and regional). In politics he considers himself an independent.