In our modern world there exist certain institutions of power. Not government committees, alphabet agencies, corporate lobbies, or even standard military organizations; no, these are the mere “middle-men” of power. The errand boys. The well paid hitmen of the global mafia. They are not the strategists or the decision makers.
Instead, I speak of institutions which introduce the newest paradigms. Who write the propaganda. Who issue the orders from on high. I speak of the hubs of elitism which have initiated nearly every policy mechanism of our government for the past several decades. I am talking about the Council On Foreign Relations, the Tavistock Institute, the Heritage Foundation (a socialist organization posing as conservative), the Bilderberg Group, as well as the corporate foils that they use to enact globalization, such as Monsanto, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Carlyle Group, etc.
Many of these organizations and corporations operate a revolving door within the U.S. government. Monsanto has champions, like Donald Rumsfeld who was on the board of directors of its Searle Pharmaceuticals branch, who later went on to help the company force numerous dangerous products including Aspartame through the FDA. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan have a veritable merry-go-round of corrupt banking agents which are appointed to important White House and Treasury positions on a regular basis REGARDLESS of which party happens to be in office. Most prominent politicians are all members of the Council on Foreign Relations, an organization which has openly admitted on multiple occasions that their goal is the destruction of U.S. sovereignty and the formation of a “one world government” or “supranational union” (their words, not mine).
However, one organization seems to rear its ugly head at the forefront of the most sweeping mass propaganda operations of our time, and has been linked to the creation of the most atrocious military methodologies, including the use of false flag events. I am of course referring to the Rand Corporation, a California based “think tank” whose influence reaches into nearly every sphere of our society, from politics, to war, to entertainment.
The Rand Corporation deals in what I would call “absolute gray”. The goal of the group from its very inception was to promote a social atmosphere of moral ambiguity in the name of personal and national priority. They did this first through the creation of “Rational Choice Theory”; a theory which prescribes that when making any choice, an individual (or government) must act as if balancing costs against benefits to arrive at an action that maximizes personal advantage. Basically, the ends justify the means, and moral conscience is not a factor to be taken seriously if one wishes to be successful.
Hilariously, rational choice theory has been attacked in the past by pro-socialist (collectivist) critics as “extreme individualism”; a philosophy which gives us license to be as “self serving” as possible while feeling patriotic at the same time. In reality, the socialists should have been applauding Rand Corporation all along.
What Rand had done through its propaganda war against the American people was to infuse the exact culture of selfishness needed to push the U.S. towards the socialist ideal. At the onset of any communist or national socialist society (sorry socialists, but they do indeed come from the same collectivist mindset), the masses are first convinced to hand over ultimate power to the establishment in order to safeguard THEMSELVES, not others. That is to say, the common collectivist man chooses to hand over his freedoms and participate in totalitarianism not because he wants what is best for the world, but because he wants what is best for himself, and he believes servitude to the system will get him what he wants with as little private sacrifice as possible (you know, except for his soul…).
The psychologist Carl Jung notes in his observations of collectivism in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia that most citizens of those nations did not necessarily want the formation of a tyrannical oligarchy, but, they went along with it anyway because they feared for their own comfort and livelihoods. Many a German supported the Third Reich simply because they did not want to lose a cushy job, or a steady paycheck, or they liked that the “trains ran on time”. Socialism is by far the most selfish movement in history, despite the fact that they claim to do what they do “for the greater good of the greater number”.
Rand also used Rational Choice Theory as a means to remove questions of principle from the debate over social progress. Rational Choice propaganda commonly presents the target audience with a false conundrum. A perfect example would be the hardcore propaganda based television show ‘24’ starring Kiefer Sutherland, in which a government “anti-terrorism” agent is faced with a controlled choice scenario in nearly every episode. This choice almost always ends with the agent being forced to set aside his morals and conscience to torture, kill, and destroy without mercy, or, allow millions of innocents to die if he does not.
Of course, the real world does not work this way. Life is not a chess game. Avenues to resolution of any crisis are limited only by our imagination and intelligence, not to mention the immense number of choices that could be made to defuse a crisis before it develops. Yet, Rand would like you to believe that we (and those in government) are required to become monstrous in order to survive. That we should be willing to forgo conscience and justice now for the promise of peace and tranquility later.
This is the age old strategy of Centralization; to remove all choices within a system, by force or manipulation, until the masses think they have nothing left but the choices the elites give them. It is the bread and butter of elitist institutions like Rand Corporation, and is at the core of the push for globalization.
In my studies on the developing economic disaster (or economic recovery depending on who you talk to) I have come across a particular methodology many times which set off my analyst alarm (or spidey-sense, if you will). This latest methodology, called “Linchpin Theory”, revolves around the work of John Casti, a Ph.D. from USC, “complexity scientist” and “systems theorist”, a Futurist, and most notably, a former employee of Rand Corporation:
http://www.viennareview.net/vienna-review-book-reviews/book-reviews/john-casti-an-optimist-of-the-apocalypse
Casti introduces his idea of “Linchpin Theory” in his book “X-Events: The Collapse Of Everything”, and what I found most immediately striking about the idea of “Linchpin Events” was how they offered perfect scapegoat scenarios for catastrophes that are engineered by the establishment.
Linchpin Theory argues that overt social, political, and technological “complexity” is to blame for the most destructive events in modern human history, and it is indeed an enticing suggestion for those who are uneducated and unaware of the behind the scenes mechanics of world events. Casti would like you to believe that political and social tides are unguided and chaotic; that all is random, and disaster is a product of “chance” trigger events that occur at the height of a malfunctioning and over-complicated system.
What he fails to mention, and what he should well know being a member of Rand, is that global events do not evolve in a vacuum. There have always been those groups who see themselves as the “select”, and who aspire to mold the future to their personal vision of Utopia. It has been openly admitted in myriad official observations on historical events that such groups have had a direct hand in the advent of particular conflicts.
For instance, Casti would call the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria an “X-event”, or linchpin, leading to the outbreak of WWI, when historical fact recalls that particular crisis was carefully constructed with the specific mind to involve the U.S.
Norman Dodd, former director of the Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations of the U.S. House of Representatives, testified that the Committee was invited to study the minutes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as part of the Committee's investigation. The Committee stated:
"The trustees of the Foundation brought up a single question. If it is desirable to alter the life of an entire people, is there any means more efficient than war.... They discussed this question... for a year and came up with an answer: There are no known means more efficient than war, assuming the objective is altering the life of an entire people. That leads them to a question: How do we involve the United States in a war. This was in 1909."
So, long before the advent of Ferdinand’s assassination, plans were being set in motion by globalist interests to draw the U.S. into a large scale conflict in order to “alter the life, or thinking, of the entire culture”. When a group of people set out to direct thinking and opportunity towards a particular outcome, and the end result is a culmination of that outcome, it is obviously not coincidence, and it is definitely not providence. It can only be called subversive design.
In the economic arena, one might say that the collapse of Lehman Bros. was the “linchpin” that triggered the landslide in the derivatives market which is still going on to this day. However, the derivatives market bubble was a carefully constructed house of cards, deliberately created with the help of multiple agencies and institutions. The private Federal Reserve had to artificially lower interest rates and inject trillions upon trillions into the housing market, the international banks had to invest those trillions into mortgages that they KNEW were toxic and likely never to be repaid. The Federal Government had to allow those mortgages to then be chopped up into derivatives and resold on the open market. The ratings agencies had to examine those derivatives and obviously defunct mortgages and then stamp them AAA. The SEC had to ignore the massive fraud being done in broad daylight while sweeping thousands of formal complaints and whistle blowers under the rug.
This was not some “random” event caused by uncontrolled “complexity”. This was engineered complexity with a devious purpose. The creation of the derivatives collapse was done with foreknowledge, at least by some. Goldman Sachs was caught red handed betting against their OWN derivatives instruments! Meaning they knew exactly what was about to happen in the market they helped build! This is called Conspiracy…
One might attribute Casti’s idea to a sincere belief in chaos, and a lack of insight into the nature of globalism as a brand of religion. However, in his first and as far as I can tell only interview with Coast To Coast Radio, Casti promotes catastrophic “X-Events” as a “good thing” for humanity, right in line with the Rand Corporation ideology. Casti, being a futurist and elitist, sees the ideas of the past as obsolete when confronted with the technological advancements of the modern world, and so, describes X-event moments as a kind of evolutionary “kickstart”, knocking us out of our old and barbaric philosophies of living and forcing us, through trial by fire, to adapt to a more streamlined culture. The linchpin event is, to summarize Casti’s position, a culture’s way of “punishing itself” for settling too comfortably into its own heritage and traditions. In other words, WE will supposedly be to blame for the next great apocalypse, not the elites…
I might suggest that Casti's attitude seems to be one of general indifference to human suffering in the wake of his "X-Events", and that he would not necessarily be opposed to the deaths of millions if it caused the "advancement" of humanity towards a particular ideology. His concept of "advancement" and ours are likely very different, though. I suspect that he is well aware that X-Events are actually tools at the disposal of elitists to generate the "evolution" he so desires, and that evolution includes a collectivist result.
With almost every major economy on the globe on the verge of collapse and most now desperately inflating, taxing, or outright stealing in order to hide their situation, with multiple tinderbox environments being facilitated in the Pacific with China, North Korea, and Japan, and in the Middle East and Africa with Egypt, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Mali, etc., there is no doubt that we are living in a linchpin-rich era. It is inevitable that one or more of these explosive tension points will erupt and cause a chain reaction around the planet. The linchpin and the chain reaction will become the focus of our epoch, rather than the men who made them possible in the first place.
Strangely, Casti’s theory was even recently featured in an episode of the ABC mystery/drama show “Castle”, called “Linchpin” (what else?), in which a writer turned detective uncovers a plot by a “shadow group” to use the research of the innocent Dr. Nelson Blakely (apparently based on Casti) to initiate a collapse of the U.S. economy by assassinating the ten-year-old daughter of a prominent Chinese businessman, triggering a dump of U.S. Treasuries by China and fomenting WWIII:
http://www.alterna-tv.com/castle/xevents.htm
Now, I think anyone with any sense can see where this is going. Casti and Rand Corporation are giving us a glimpse into the future of propaganda. This is what will be written in our children’s history books if the globalists have their way. The fact that Linchpin Theory is featured in a primetime television show at all is a testament to Rand Corporation’s influence in the media. But, as for the wider picture, are the trigger points around us really just a product of complex coincidence?
Not a chance.
Each major global hot-spot today can easily be linked back to the designs of international corporate and banking interests and the puppet governments they use as messengers. Casti claims that “X-events” and “linchpins” cannot be accurately predicted, but it would seem that they can certainly be purposely instigated.
The globalists have stretched the whole of the world thin. They have removed almost every pillar of support from the edifice around us, and like a giant game of Jenga, are waiting for the final piece to be removed, causing the teetering structure to crumble. Once this calamity occurs, they will call it a random act of fate, or a mathematical inevitability of an overly complex system. They will say that they are not to blame. That we were in the midst of “recovery”. That they could not have seen it coming.
Their solution will be predictable. They will state that in order to avoid such future destruction, the global framework must be “simplified”, and what better way to simplify the world than to end national sovereignty, dissolve all borders, and centralize nation states under a single economic and political ideal?
Is it the Hegelian Dialectic all over again? Yes. Is it old hat feudalism and distraction? Yes. But, I have to hand it to Casti and Rand Corporation; they certainly have refined the argument for collectivism, centralization, technocracy, slavery, moral relativism, and false-flag dupery down to a near science…
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written by Steve Boshkov , January 31, 2013
Terrific angle on all this. I read lots of Casti some years age, mainly before the 911 aftermath woke me up "real good" and it was clear nothing happened by chance. The shadow government, some of the organs of which you identify (though who is at the bottom of the rabbit hole--or the eye of the pyramid--is still subject to some conjecture, as, like Blofeld in the James bond movies and books, you never see his face, though he works for/controls all sides), in fact does run the world. And they control all sides, including Russia and China, though the West is the operator (ancient families which they themselves trace back to Sumer--and before that). So if/when the China T-bill dump occurs (something like it will, and WWIII will definitely occur, contrived as always), it will be because that is the moment which accords with the purposes and timing of the plan. Complexity theory is pithily expressed as of "order at the edge of chaos," which is just the Freemasonic slogan Ordo ab Chao. It's always in our faces, but we are too intellectually and morally supine to notice. But as we are now fully in a scientific dictatorship, we need a suitable pseudo-science to guide the final few miles into the New World Order. Brilliant, but morally bankrupt also.
written by matt g , January 31, 2013
Great piece of writing, Brandon. Disturbing stuff.
written by Phil Clarke , January 31, 2013
I was not surprised when, halfway through this article I scrolled up to see who had written such an incisive and engaging essay: Brandon Smith, who in another time, another galaxy perhaps, would be given all laud due him for his sharp, insightful and intelligent arguments that he brings to the table every time. I'm saving this one for my archives for my children to read when they are ready to take the red pill and wake up from this matrix we live in.
written by Alananda , January 31, 2013
In celebration of a man who calls 'em like he truly sees 'em!
The Emperor Walks His Dogs
The Emperor has no crown,
No undershirt, pants, or gown,
No embroidered cape,
No diamond-studded belt,
No medal strewn sash made of felt.
Yes, a few in this crowd did gape,
For the Emperor forgot his britches,
His leashes devoid of bitches,
Yet his followers pretended not to see,
How naked an Emperor could possibly be.
Yes, perhaps more than a few will now gape.
Alan
written by shropster , January 31, 2013
Cling more tightly to our God and guns.
written by robob , January 31, 2013
If only there were a way to explain all that in a thirty second sound bite digestable by the average citizen.
written by Mary 4 RP , January 31, 2013
Even those in my own household, whom I love, say "Jesus will take care of us because we believe, and even though they kill us." Yes, I believe that, but I also vaguely remember, (not sic), "Will the dust assist in Thy works of love? Will the ashes praise Thy Holy Name?" I just do not believe in dying by default or by one's own hand, through retarded neglect, (although Henry Kissinger, the Rothschilds and Rockefellers and all their grinning servants, whom we know well but in the interest of space,,,do believe this plan is for my "own good" ). These armies who must have deep inferiority complexes and wish to over-compensate for the itching of theirsouls through the narcotic of power. Who have, these many years, secretly offered exquisite baskets filled with imaginary, fiat alms to the croney leaders in cities and states, who then agree to place Fluoride in the peasants' drinking and bath water, poison gas in their air, and chemical trails to blot our their sun, in this state, once known for its cobalt blue skies.
In their food Monsanto hides. Its King has been appointed King of the Pure Food and Drug Adminstration. He dances the Happy Snoopy Dance with other corporations to place a Poison du Jour in their food.
There is the bought and promise to pay for) and keep them on life-support until money is money ) Media which knows that the truth of Dr. Ron Paul will spread throughout the world and its reign and that of the bribing, criminal corporations it loves, will evaporate, quite before they are ready or have bathed and made themself beautiful and utterly blameless to better deal with their world disgrace. In the far distance, we hear faint and gentle murmers of the wool-clad, who, with the steadfastness their parents have taught them since those laughing days when they were small children: "Honey, you must be seen but NOT heard!" feel in their hearts they do not wish to be exiled by their friends and feel a dearth in their options and so must believe as the lies, of brightly colored flakes of confetti, are tossed over their heads, tickling their noses so that they will be convinced they are again small children at a birthday party and their Mamas will drive them safely home: as they sing, "Baa,baa baa."
written by garden gritty , January 31, 2013
http://www.politico.com/multim...ml?ml=vi_1
Algore of the climate change "theory" is such a hippo-crit-pun intended.
An eyeopener here that the cracks in the NWO armor are becoming much, much bigger in their satanic world of evil.
The curtain is being pulled back and they are being exposed for the evildoers thay are.
His "Big book tour" is a huge joke as the good people are starting to take the blinders off and SEE these monsters being exposed for exactly what they are. And they WILL all come tunbling down and the good people will see God's justice being meted out.
Certainly, not to gloat but....HEHEHEHEHE!! What they have sown they will certainly reap - in spades. We just patiently wait and watch.
written by Brandon Smith , January 31, 2013
@Eri
Yes, the Heritage Foundation is a haven for Neo-Conservatives, NOT true conservatives. Neo-Conservatives are SOCIALIST in their methodology. They are the controlled opposition. In other words, fake conservatives. And, any organization that counts Henry Kissinger is obviously a globalist enclave. The heritage foundation promotes globalization and the removal of borders constantly:
http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/05/0808/art1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/opinion/09iht-edcox.html?_r=0
They also consistently attempt to derail constitutional arguments and concerns, like the UN's international treaty on small arms and their open admission that they seek to enforce gun control in the U.S. There Heritage Foundation has gone out of its way to DEFEND the UN:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/11/15/heritage-foundation-shoots-down-right-wing-un-g/191396
Sorry, friend, but you have been conned, or should I say "neo-conned". Your ignorance of the Heritage Foundation shows you have a lot of research to do.
written by dfwpike , January 31, 2013
Brandon... can you provide any information that supports your claim that the Heritage Foundation is a socialist organization? I'd love to know why you think that.
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written by dfwpike , January 31, 2013
Sorry Brandon. Didn't realize you answered my question in your previous post to Eri.
I'm going to look into this more. You bring up some interesting points but the fact that you have to reference the New York Times to make your point leaves me scratching my head.
written by Brandon Smith , January 31, 2013
@dfwpike
The information comes from the Heritage foundation itself, not only the New York Times. Who else should I reference...?
written by krb , February 01, 2013
Yes, very disturbing stuff.
written by John Wheeler , February 01, 2013
What the elites don't seem to understand is that their great simplification in creating one world government will be the linchpin event that ends the 10,000 year experiment called civilization and with it will go all their power and privilieges, along with most of humanity. Or maybe they do understand but have decided it is unavoidable anyway. But it doesn't have to end that way.
written by tonyn , February 01, 2013
CNN article is in line with your article on ; The Linchpin Lie: How Global Collapse Will Be Sold To The Masses
They talk about a “ Great Disruption “ …. This simulates your Lynch-pin theory.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/08/opinion/gilding-earth-limits/index.html
written by tonyn , February 01, 2013
This video creates the trigger for Global Collapse of the Supply-side economic valued stability .
Listen to the video at 1:45 they say we have been consuming more food than we produce as a world for 6 years NOW !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tF2yHjfj32I
written by yz , February 01, 2013
sounds exactly like "the matarese circle" by robert ludlum, 1979. even more compelling in that book in the near-installation of a man a potus who ha d taken over another's identity...
written by tonyn , February 01, 2013
How sustainable is it that if Interest rates start to spike in the Financial Markets and Bond markets that the Federal Reserve than has to print the Money to pay that Interest with while we try to keep the Equity markets investing in and expanding the Supply-side markets to stabilize supply inflation ????
written by A. Hunt , February 06, 2013
I ran across Norman Dodd quite a few years ago as I was researching the Wilson Administration. What led to Mr. Dodd was my search for information on Edward Mandel House. House was one of the founding agents of the CFR. He also wrote "Phillip Dru, Administrator". a story with the theme of a totalitarian military leader taking over the US. I believe House was behind the coup revealed by General Smedley Butler in 1935. Gen. Butler was approached by some of the top industrialists of the time to see if He would lead the "Bonus" army against the US Government. House was also Wilsons' representative at the Versaille treaty,which pretty much guaranteed WW2. He then moved into the FDR administration and provided some of what later became the New Deal etc. Norman Dodd, Edward House,Prescott Bush and others should be on anyones' list who want to know about the "Men Behind the Curtain" Another Linchpin Lie paraded before the fact was "The Smoking Gun" pilot that aired in August of 2001, which had as the plot the "rediculous" idea of planes being flown int the World Trade Centers by a rogue element of the US Government, dtraw your on conclusions.
written by Lily , February 24, 2013
@A. Hunt, February 06, 2013
Your facts are partially correct. Not sure about all of them, but the Bonus Army had nothing to do with any coup. They were simply a band of WWI veterans looking for their promised bonus money. The president AND the military abused, murdered some, burned out their tent city and ran them out of DC with apparently no remorse or regrets. Look it up, history may just repeat itself ... again.
Butler & Dodd were honorable men.
House & Bush were pure evil.
written by rich winkel , March 20, 2013
The author makes an interesting point, that the culture is full of convenient myths that individuals use to delegate their moral judgement to the state, and that complexity theory applied to social organization is one of them. But conspiracies and spontaneous self organization can occur simultaneously, in fact the concentrations of power that lead to conspiracies occur because of system-wide organization outside the control of any coordinated subgroup of people. And as the system becomes more streamlined and mechanical in its processes (particularly in its wholesale and systematic abuse of children), its participants become more alienated and specialized in their workaholism, becoming less capable of forming the empathic and temporal perspectives that enable moral judgement. This is no more in evidence than in the elitists’ own psychopathy. They are prisoners of the system that they purport to control, because their soul IS the system. They are locked in a race with their fellow elitists to the top of a collapsing pyramid, their actions as predetermined as any cog in a machine, because psychopathy is slavery to the skinner box of each agent’s ego-based stimulus-response. The system’s self-organization gives rise to the universal psychopath that facilitates the network processes that result in the system itself. Yet it’s also true that the coming collapse was/is being deliberately engineered by these human cogs which are acting out their programming. RAND itself is both a cause and a consequence of the problem. This is emblematic of complex systems: cause and effect become one and the same. The irony is that the “controllers” will be among the casualties of the X-event that they help facilitate.
In any case, it’s clear that the propaganda foundation for the abandonment of the constitution is being laid so that the monopolists’ NWO will be seen as an alternative to the chaos which they are preparing for us.
written by us , August 02, 2014
"Is it the Hegelian Dialectic all over again? Yes. Is it old hat feudalism and distraction? Yes."
written by George E. Mulligan - Stratford CT. , August 21, 2014
Ultimogeniture, primogeniture, gesellschaft, Magna Carta, & 12 tables
- Star Trek - The Omega Glory - Inalienable Rights are diametric to Divine Rights - Haecceity - Duns SCOTUS
- Star Trek - day of the dove = Everyone dies - yet mindsets perpetuate. Mountaintop.
- Star Trek - devil in the dark = upon this rock
- Subliminal associated cognition - hiding in plain sight
- Interpretation Christianity and perversions
- Mirror imagining > cognitive dissonance < syncretism
written by jadeknows , November 11, 2014
This whole theory of random linchpin acts to drive a particular policy is utter nonsense. And it's just ignorant of actual politics besides.
It doesn't actually make any sense that one politicized event would be a catalyst for anything on a global scale - especially for something as expensive and draining as a war.
If you understand politics, then it makes more sense that these "linchpin" events are manufactured to achieve a goal that can be sold to the people with little resistance. That's the part of politics that people forget about. The players want to sell the idea that won't be questioned so they don't have to deal with a resistance movement and so the people will do their indoctrination for them.
