MK-OPRAH: "The Secret" and the Glorification of a Nazi War Criminal

In November 2006, a group of people appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. These people called themselves the Secret Teachers and were organized by Rhonda Byrne who produced a DVD and book called: The Secret. The show was an infomercial for Rhonda Byrne and her so-called Secret Teachers. The media made much about The Secret Teachers particularly when in 2007, the Oprah Winfrey had no less than 2 television shows, 2 more "Oprah after the show" shows, and an additional 3 radio shows dedicated to promoting an infomercial for this same group of people, including Esther Hicks (erstwhile Abraham).

The media has mostly been very critical of Oprah Winfrey. . . in allowing her shows to be turned into infomercials where no debate or challenging of guests is permitted or considered. The media has rightfully criticized Oprah because of the false or skewed scientific claims presented; because of the exaggerated results, obsessive focus on making money (to the point of almost using "greed is good" as a mantra); because of bizarre dictums such as "there has never been anyone ever victimized"; and also because of ridiculous pieces of advice offered. For example, some of The Secret Teachers were saying that one should never look at overweight people and should not have anything to do with those who have physical ailments.

All of these criticisms have been seen and heard many times. However, the worst part of this so-called “Secret” is their glorification of a Nazi propagandist and a Nazi War Criminal. This glorification of one particular well-known Nazi War Criminal and another major Nazi propagandist has appeared a number of times in either the book, “The Secret” or the DVD by the same name or on different television shows. In particular, the glorification of one Nazi War Criminal occurred on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The Nazi War Criminal is named Wernher Von Braun. Von Braun was an officer in Hitler’s murderous SS. Von Braun was in complicity in the murders of over 20,000 men, women and children whom he recruited as slaves from concentration camps to build terror weapons. Von Braun's slaves were rounded up from homes and streets in Europe and Russia and deported to concentration and death camps. Almost none of Von Braun’s slaves survived the starvation or brutal treatment by Von Braun's sadistic SS guards. After the murder of Von Braun’s slaves, Von Braun then used these terror weapons built by his slaves to reign down terror on the civilians in Paris, Antwerp and London, and American servicemen in Remagan. Von Braun then used the knowledge that he gained from development of his terror weapons (built by slave labor) to procure financial wealth (something some supporters of "The Secret" like to brag about).

Some of the Secret supporters claim that Von Braun did not willingly murder all those people. However, the evidence shows the opposite. The evidence shows that Von Braun strongly encouraged Hitler to proceed with Von Braun's program of death. Von Braun even offered a plan to Hitler to build the V-3 with the ability to bomb America. Von Braun then suggested bombing New York City with dirty bombs containing radioactive material to cause millions of casualties. In other words, Von Braun sought the infamy of being the worst terrorist in history, far outstripping Osama Bin Ladin in death and destruction.

To be sure, Ellen DeGeneres and the Secret Teachers have not come out and said that they applaud Von Braun’s handiwork, but they don’t have to. The fact that the Secret Teachers speak the name Von Braun numerous times as a genius to be admired is enough. The fact that Ellen DeGeneres permitted this tribute on her television show to a sadistic slave owner and genocide overseer Von Braun, is enough. This is the shame of Ellen DeGeneres—the same Ellen DeGeneres who purports to decry persecution of gays and lesbians, but who permits on her television show, the praising of one of the worst persecutors in the Holocaust and in the history of the world.

Now, to be fair to Oprah Winfrey, she has never indicated that she endorses Von Braun or the atrocities perpetrated by Von Braun. Moreover, The Secret Teachers never praised Von Braun on her show. However, Oprah Winfrey has hosted these same people on her show many times without saying a word about their slave-owner idol, albeit Oprah Winfrey had been apprised of the notorious past of this infamous War Criminal and terrorist. This behavior on the part of "The Secret" is however consistent with the philosophy of one of their ex-teacher's who says that no one has ever been a victim in the history of the world. How very convenient to say this so that a person can use the so-called "Secret" to be as greedy as they want and make obscene amounts of money (or so they delude themselves into thinking that they can make lots of money without working) and never be concerned with how they do it or whom they hurt in the process.

Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres have both been notified of what these "Secret Teachers" have said in praise of their terrorist hero, Von Braun, in other media forums—and Oprah Winfrey has been silent about it. Of course, Europe is a long ways off from America. So what if the slave- owner-praising occurred closer to home, say in the United States? Would Oprah be silent about "The Secret" if the guests on Oprah Winfrey's show were to praise Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy? Jefferson Davis was a slave-owner and issued an edict during the American Civil War, that no Black prisoners wearing Union blue, will be taken alive. As brutal and inhuman as Jefferson Davis was at that time, he is a light weight next to the extensive brutality and murders of terrorist Von Braun. And this is the person Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres will allow praise of from these people from "The Secret" who appear again and again on her show.

Oprah Winfrey did say that “The Secret” does not explain atrocities. However, there is an adage which does help explain atrocities. It says the following: “Evil happens when good men (and women) do nothing. And nothing is what Oprah Winfrey has done to distance herself from these admirers of Nazi killers.

Oprah Winfrey has also said in the July 9, 2007 issue of First Magazine:

They (The Secret Teachers) brought this to the world in a way no other philosophers were able to do. Oprah then, according to First Magazine Oprah says that the message has been explained so folks “can receive it in a way that perhaps they couldn’t have from other philosophers”.

Oprah Winfrey could not be more wrong. In other words, according to Oprah Winfrey, “The Ends Justifies the Means”. Members of the Secret Organization have used deception, false claims and praise of slave-owners to sell their product. This kind of behavior is apparently acceptable to Oprah Winfrey, as long as it sells. However, what Oprah Winfrey should realize is that when we believe that the end justifies the means, we can justify any atrocity or act of evil by saying that it had a good end. But if the means of obtaining that end is evil, then the end is always an evil. What is even worse here is that Oprah Winfrey has enabled these so-called "Secret" people to peddle their deceptions to the public more easily, by Oprah endorsing them over and over again on her shows and never ever allowing any criticism or dissent to be permitted on her shows. This is Oprah Winfrey's shame. The woman who tells the world that she is trying to help the world--has done the opposite.

The Rosetti Campaign urges Oprah Winfrey, who has "The Secret" people on her show many times, and Ellen DeGeneres, who has also hosted these people, to repudiate their (the Secret peoples') admiration of Nazi War
Criminal and slave-owner, Wernher Von Braun.

http://www.chrisrosetti.com/index.php?view=article&id=7:oprah-winfrey-qthe-secretq-and-the-shame-of-ellen-degeneres&tmpl=component&print=1&page=

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Oprah recently opened, with much fanfare, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa, and as I watched the network news stories about it, I couldn't get "The Secret" out of my mind. I kept wondering what would happen if professor Sam Mhlongo, South Africa's chief family practitioner who famously said that HIV doesn't cause AIDS, read about Oprah's connection to "The Secret" and found support there for his claim. I wondered if the students of the academy would read "The Secret" and start to believe that their parents deserved to be poor, or that the people of Darfur summoned the Janjaweed with "bad thoughts." Will the heavier girls be told, as readers of "The Secret" are, that food doesn't cause weight gain -- thinking about weight gain does? Will they be told to not even look at fat people, as "The Secret" advises? Oprah is already promoting these ideas to her television audience. Why wouldn't she espouse them to her students?

In many ways the Leadership Academy is a wonderful project, a school that will provide impoverished girls an education they otherwise might not have gotten. But it also seems to be the product, unavoidably, of the faux-spiritual, anti-intellectual, hyper-materialistic worldview expressed in "The Secret," the book that the school's founder has called "life changing."

The academy is a controversial enough project in South Africa that the government withdrew its support, because of the amount of money that's been spent on its well-reported, lavish design -- money that could have gone instead to creating perfectly fine schools that served many, many more students than the 350 who will be making use of spa facilities at the academy. But, when I watched Oprah's prime-time special about interviewing candidates for the school, it seemed to me that she wasn't nearly as excited about providing an education to the girls as she was about providing a "Secret"-like "transformative experience." (And not just for the girls, for herself; the first thing she said to the family members at the opening ceremony wasn't, "Welcome to a great moment in your daughters' lives," it was, "Welcome to the proudest moment of my life.")

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/05/the_secret/print.html

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Von Braun supervised the rocket's construction at the Nazis' Mittelwerk factory, which used slave labor from the nearby Dora concentration camp. In a letter to Mittelwerk's production manager, von Braun tells how he himself went to the notorious Buchenwald camp to arrange for the transport of more prisoners to Mittelwerk. At least 700 of them later died there. Survivors of the "hell of DORA" reported of burning corpse mountains, torture and for deterrence hanged prisoners at cranes. Dutch Sources report of 20.000 dead ones. Many slaves were murdered to eliminate any oral historical record of this new strange technology and the Nazi cruelties. Therefore von Braun also was a war criminal, and there must be a discussion of his culpability.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wernher-von-Braun-Sold-Moon/dp/0275962172

Comments

[ce399]

This is a psychological operations program to PACIFY the hearts and minds of the target population: YOU.

Of course, the point of MK-OPRAH and A Course of Miracles is NOT "spirituality", but psychological manipulation and control which serves to further the criminally insane and genocidal agenda of the corporate fascist state. The false memes (LIES) generated by the fascist propaganda machine and its endless psychological operations against target (YES YOU ARE THE TARGET) populations in order to continue propping up and retain faith and hope in this: a DEAD and CRIMINALLY INSANE SYSTEM, have nearly extinguished God's creation on Earth. EVERY MAN, WOMAN and CHILD literally has become an enslaved and mindless automaton PUPPET, endlessly repeating the FALSE programming of the criminally insane social engineers who have constructed a FALSE 'civilisation' out of exploitation, greed and murder .

[ce399]

Now you know why 'I' don't 'blog' here.

[Newton]

Thanks for the article.

It has many points of convergence with a book I wrote titled The Scourge of Our Time: The Demise of Critical Thinking in the Age of The Secret. It also has an addendum titled Muddied Waters: Oprah and The Secret. Note also that it predicted the economic crisis based on what I perceived to be a parallel New Age mentality which prevailed before The Great Depression, and which I believe was largely responsible for it.

It also is apparent that a feeding frenzy of supposed New Age Quacks proliferated afterwards, exploiting the social fragmentation that occurred in its wake. The most notable of them having been Hitler who modeled his religious ideology on the New Age views which proliferated at the time and further distorted it with the notion of a fallacious Zionist conspiracy. The Arian race notion particularly was derived from Indian mythology.

The likes of David Icke, Joan Veon, and the makers of Zeitgeist, are also parallel conspiracy theorists which are exploiting current day instabilities. These events are merely indicative of the lack of critical thinking prevalent at this time which further is a general indicator that societal values are on the decline.

For relevant extracts go to http://www.newfort.co.za

Many thanks,
Newton

[ce399]

Gandhi might be an interesting study in the balance or middle path between attachment, non attachment (for example, in the case of Greg Mackie above) and passivity.

http://books.google.com/books?id=tVLt99uleLwC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=Gandhi%27s+view+on+Karma&source=web&ots=4POsQAq0JM&sig=PsRQSaMYbTDY3IN74gDUfEF9nDY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

[Newton]

Great reference! Thanks