Jeff Riggenbach - 09/06/10

It was about 1550, according to the standard accounts — about 14 years before the birth of Shakespeare, about 80 years before the birth of John Locke, about 135 years before the birth of Bach — that a young Frenchman named Etienne de La Boetie, a young man of what we, today, would call college age, about 20 years old, posed what Murray Rothbard would later describe as “the central problem of political philosophy: the mystery of civil obedience. Why do people, in all times and places, obey the commands of the government, which always constitutes a small minority of the society?”

La Boetie saw, Rothbard wrote, that

every tyranny must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason, acquiesce in their own subjection. If this were not the case, no tyranny, indeed no governmental rule, could long endure. Hence, a government does not have to be popularly elected to enjoy general public support; for general public support is in the very nature of all governments that endure, including the most oppressive of tyrannies. The tyrant is but one person, and could scarcely command the obedience of another person, much less of an entire country, if most of the subjects did not grant their obedience by their own consent.

This, then, becomes for La Boétie the central problem of political theory: why in the world do people consent to their own enslavement?

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The Collins Brothers Unleashed Season Two,
Episode Five: Psychologizing Subservience and the Era of Psuchikos Man

In this installment, we examine Facebook as a method of psychological profiling. We then segue into the Wundtian theory that underpins such psychological profiling, touching on dubious theoreticians like Darwin, Dewey, Watson, and Skinner. A core commonality binding these theoreticians is the view of man as a mere animal. [Listen here]

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The Collins Brothers Unleashed, Season Two
Episode Six: Techno-Utopians and the Gingrich that Stole Conservativism

In an age of universal deceit, no one is exempt. Thus, we must take a second look at some of conservativism’s guiding lights and ask an important question: Is everything really as it appears? The Hegelian activists within the power elite have cultivated a dialectical climate. In that climate, right-wing varieties of techno-Utopians and New Agers have emerged. This week, we examine two individuals who exemplify this phenomenon: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and PayPal pioneer Peter Thiel. [Listen here]

Daniel Taylor - August 4, 2010

In order to understand our history, the development of our society and political structure, the influence of the large foundations in America is an essential area of research. Their investment into the social sciences and medical establishment shaped their direction for the 20th Century and beyond. Social control and eugenics became a primary directive. These ideas, primarily due to the work of the Rockefeller and Carnegie philanthropies, spread throughout the intelligentsia and elite circles throughout the western world.

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The Collins Brothers Unleashed Season Two, Epsiode One: Invaders From Earth?

Season Two of The Collins Brothers Unleashed opens with an examination of the UFO phenomenon as a possible terrestrial-based manipulation carried out for sociopolitical purposes. [Listen here]

The Collins Brothers Unleashed Season Two
Epsiode Two: The Emergent Occulture - From Subculture to Dominant Culture

In this installment, we examine how cults and occultism have filled the spiritual vacuum left by secularization, thereby ascending from the status of subculture to dominant culture. [Listen here]

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VFTB 044: Paul & Phillip Collins — Obama, Transformer or Technocrat? / The Information Cartel

BARACK OBAMA is on a political roll, finally getting his health care reform bill and preparing to push through (equally unpopular) legislation on climate change and immigration reform. But can President Obama — or any president — really offer change?

We present two interviews with our go-to guys on “deep politics”, Paul and Phillip Collins. They analyze tensions between transformers and technocrats within the Obama administration, and then discuss the Rand Corporation, an “epistemological cartel” that filters information before it reaches the president.

Listen at:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/pidradio/vftb044a.mp3
http://media.libsyn.com/media/pidradio/vftb044b.mp3

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IRON SHOW FIFTEEN

Subject: The Scientific Dictatorship

With special guest Phil Collins, author of the book “The Accendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship”

Listen along as our special guest Phillip Collins takes us on an epic journey through time and explains in detail what is forming in front our our very eyes: The Technocracy or the Scientific Dictatorship. Phil is a true intellectual and it was so wonderful to hang out with him and learn about the forming technocracy. We asked him to dig deep into the roots of the scientific dictatorship and take us on a journey from Nimrod to present day. We even took Phillip Collins to places he was hesitant to go, such as asking him to speculate on the mark of the beast.

This IRON SHOW! is the first to be recorded using the IRON SHOW STUDIOS. And includes our own IRON SHOW Paul and Phillip Collins Book Promo, which features Johnny on vocals, Ric on guitar, drums and synth. With special guests: Nixon, Hitler and Eisenhower.

Listen at:
http://ironshow.com/IRON-SHOW-FIFTEEN.mp3

Approx 90 Minute Recap of eventful News this week and Christian reflections. New World Order or Chaos to come? What is real and certain about this NWO and what is not? Obamacare. What happened? What does it mean? Guests Phillip and Paul Collins, authors of The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship, will help makes sense of the long Utopian drive towards world collectivism and the possible implications.

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Paul and Phillip D. Collins continue their discussion of the choice facing President Barrack Obama… Technocracy or transformation. Join us to examine the technocratic elements of the administration’s recovery program, the Trilateralist influences on the President, and the dialectical manipulation of the Tea Party Movement. [Listen here]

Washington’s Blog - Feb 10, 2010

The label “conspiracy theory” is commonly used to try to discredit criticism of the powerful in government or business.

For example, just this week - after Tony Blair was confronted by the Iraq Inquiry with evidence that he had used lies to sell the Iraq war - Blair dismissed the entire Iraq Inquiry as simply being part of Britain’s “obsession with conspiracy theories“. (Not only did Blair know that Saddam possessed no WMDs, but the French this week accused Blair of using of ‘Soviet-style’ propaganda in run-up to the Iraq war).

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Dave Harrison - February 8th, 2010

Ian Fleming’s fictional hero James Bond was never shaken, but he was stirred into action if he discovered he was being followed. If you are an active participant in the social media world, like Bond, you too may soon have an unwelcome follower. The infiltration won’t be a henchman such as Odd Job in Goldfinger or Dr. No from the inaugural 007 film of the same name. Instead your latest followers on Twitter may be on the payroll of the United States Government. That was the plan suggested in a paper co-authored by the White House’s Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Professor Cass Sunstein. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_administrator/

As I was considering the implications of professor Sunstein’s 2008 academic paper (John Wiley & Sons ~ Journal of Political Philosophy) titled Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures, something quite strange struck me. I had the distinct feeling that Professor Sunstein’s list of ways to deal with much of the independent thought displayed on the social web may potentially backfire. Then I thought that I should make this post as quickly as possible considering the list of suggestions outlined under Professor Sunstein’s self-described plan of “cognitive infiltration.”

• Government might undertake tactics for breaking up the tight cognitive clusters of extremist theories.
• Government agents might enter chat rooms, online social networks, even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, casual logic or implications for political action.

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The Collins Bros Unleashed Episode 14: The Trijicon Bible Code

Paul and Phillip D. Collins examine Trijicon’s placement of Scripture citations on combat rifles as a possible symptom of Dominionism insinuating itself into the U.S. Armed Services. [Listen here]

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VFTB 032: Paul & Phillip Collins — Guns For Jesus

A MINOR flap erupted in the media this week over the revelation that a suppler to the US military (and the militaries of the UK and New Zealand) inscribes its high-tech gunsights with references to Bible verses (click image for larger view). Is this just an excuse to bash a Christian-owned business for publicly proclaiming the faith, or is it Dominionism manifesting in an overtly militaristic form?

Paul and Phillip Collins, authors and editors of The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship and The Hidden Face of Terrorism, joined us to discuss.

For more from the brothers Collins, we direct you to the Collins brothers’ article archive at the Illuminati Conspiracy Archive and their new podcast The Collins Brothers Unleashed. [Listen here]

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The Collins Bros Unleashed Episode 15: Technocracy or Transformation… Obama’s Choice

Paul and Phillip D. Collins examine the pivotal choice facing President Barack Obama: Technocracy or transformation. [Listen here]

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Phillip D. Collins on Frankly Speaking Radio

Phillip D. Collins joins Frank Whalen to discuss the article, “Blackmailed by the Bomb: Nuclear Anxiety and the Cult of the Superweapon.” Collins and Whalen touch upon the Cold War, the Safari Club, the nuclear network of A.Q. Khan, normative fiction, and the faddish obsession with the superweapon as a proverbial rod of correction to be used against recalcitrant nations. [Listen here]

• Obama staffer wants ‘cognitive infiltration’ of 9/11 conspiracy groups
• Sunstein’s Paper Provides More Evidence COLINTELPRO Still Operational
• Top Obama czar: Infiltrate all ‘conspiracy theorists’
• Conspiracy theories, online government spooks, and Cass Sunstein (Parts 1 and 2)
• Obama confidant’s spine-chilling proposal

The Collins Bros Unleashed Episode 12: Secessionism and Agent Provocateurs

Paul and Phillip D. Collins continue their critique of secessionism and “patriot” mythology, this time turning their attention to the bizarre case of white supremacist/FBI informant Hal Turner.

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VFTB 029: Paul & Phillip Collins — Blackwater and Mystical Imperialism

APPARENTLY ONE can shoot people with impunity, if you have a security contract with the U.S. government and you do your shooting in Baghdad. That’s the takeaway from the District Court ruling last week that exonerated five Blackwater contractors who were accused of killing 17 Iraqis without provocation on the streets of Baghdad in September, 2007.

Evidence collected for the case indicates that Erik Prince, Blackwater’s founder and CEO, encouraged his employees to rack up body counts of hajis and adopted call signs based on the medieval Knights Templar — which is ironic, as guests Paul and Phillip Collins point out, because the Templars were heavily influenced by Muslim secret societies like the Assassins.

What does it all mean? The brothers Collins connect the dots and integrate Blackwater into a larger, more disturbing picture: a global neo-gnostic jihad in which the heresy of Dominionism competes with radical Islam and the New Age movement to create a literal heaven on Earth — by assimilating or wiping out those who disagree.

Highly recommended: the Collins brothers’ article archive at the Illuminati Conspiracy archive, and the new podcast The Collins Brothers Unleashed.

Paul and Phillip D. Collins dismantle the neo-Confederate theories of “patriot” mythology and examine secessionism as a precursor to regionalism. [Listen here]

Frank Furedi recalls being educated through fear in Stalinist Hungary, and is disturbed that the same tactics are now used by environmentalists.

Frank Furedi (15 December 2009)

There is a long and sordid tradition of trying to socialise children by scaring them. The aim of such socialisation-through-fear is twofold: firstly, to get children to conform to the scaremongers’ values; secondly, to use children to influence, or at least to contain, their parents’ behaviour.

When I was a schoolchild in Stalinist Hungary, we were frequently warned about the numerous threats facing our glorious regime. I also recall that we were encouraged to lecture our errant parents about the new wonderful values being promoted by our brave, wise leaders. The Big Brothers of the 1940s saw children as tools of moral blackmail and social control. Today, in the twenty-first century, scaremongers see children in much the same way, exploiting their natural concern with the wonders of life to promote a message of shrill climate alarmism.

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James Howell (17 December 2009)

On my first day at university in London this September, as I navigated my way through the throng of students hiding behind their MacBooks and Blackberries, I was struck by the omnipresence of recycling bins, posters advertising green student societies, and advice on how to live an eco-friendly student lifestyle.

I had thought that in joining an institution like Goldsmiths, University of London, which is known for being a progressive university – this is where the BritArt explosion happened in the 1990s and many famous writers, musicians and academics have studied and taught here – I would be immersing myself in a free-thinking, non-conformist, alternative atmosphere. I was wrong.

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