Books

"Master and Commander's" Prize Money

The Royal Navy’s pay truly was contemptible. Except for those who were independently wealthy, the uncertain prospect of prize money was a captain’s only prospect for financial security. The British had to trust in fate and their captains’ skill for the encouraging effects of prize money, but it seems to have worked.

ESOTERIC HOLLYWOOD: Dave McGowan’s Programmed to Kill: MK Ultra Serial Killers – Jay Dyer (Free Part)

As promised, we come to Programmed to Kill, an earlier, and equally important book from Dave McGowan, of Weird Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon fame.  I summarize his thesis and in the full talk give my analysis and commentary based on the numerous other analyses I’ve read regarding related material.  We look at the strengths and weaknesses of his book, as well as the crucial connection to Hollywood, which created a whole new entertainment genre surrounding ‘lone gunner sickos’….or are they really lone gunners?