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OCR Page 1 of 81keeping filled the horn of plenty of the military
hardware producers and maintaining the concealed
power of the military establishment over the nominal
government in Washington. Experts will be produced
who will testify that the invisible paint program is
highly feasible but all that really means is that the
program will make billions of dollars for the manu-
facturers of invisible paint. The highest government
officials gravely will testify that they have studied
the program carefully and it is urgently needed for
the nation's survival but all that means is that the
Pentagon has given it the green light.
Similarly, the news magazines of the country are in
the service not of the people of the country but of
their military hardware advertisers -- most of whose
millions in advertising is concentrated in the "news"
magazines. Their presentations of any foreign relations
issue or any question of military requirements for years
have been colored by the necessity that their conclusions
be harmonious with the interests of the war machine. Nor
is it any different in the case of the news departments
of the television networks. They exist by virtue of
government sanction and no serious and objective
examination of current war projects -- or related
assassinations -- will be seen for long on the
television screen.
Reality has always been difficult for humans to perceive
because our antennae are short and because we cannot
perceive objectively. However, in the superstate the
fact is that the populace is kept in a state of euphoria
while the warfare interests pursue in the name of
national security their private objectives.
In 1964 when it certified that the impossible indeed
had occurred the Warren Commission declared a large
sector of reality as being officially off-limits. In
the warfare state there exists approved reality and
unapproved reality. For example, the fact that the
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