21WIRE’s Week in Review: 30 JUL 2016 Edition
21st Century Wire says…
A review of all the Top Stories from this week – for your consideration.
MK Ultra
US Police Dept Uses ‘Pokémon Go’ to Lure Fugitives to Police Station
21st Century Wire says…
Another harbinger of the end of civilization as we once knew it. If you are considering downloading this app and getting into this new apocalyptic pastime, we urge you to stop and check yourself.
Mindless lemmings chasing after digital illusions. This is the true dystopia…
The Guardian/ AP
DALLAS “ATTACK” DIALECTICS: Summer of Uncle Sam
By: Jay Dyer
As the recent events (and subsequent incoherent media narratives) in Dallas continue to unravel, familiar patterns have already emerged that once again paint a now familiar picture of large-scale planning. We are now expected to believe this highly coordinated, professional “sniper” operation, whose numbers and details have now significantly changed, were conducted by the likes of a former vet and unknown accomplices for the purposes of targeting “white people,” and in particular, police.
The CIA and Hollywood episode 12 American Ultra
Adam from Themes and Memes is our guest to talk about the 2015 action comedy American Ultra. We start by trying to define this film, which is an intense mixture of cartoonish ultra violence, CIA covert operations, romance, comedy and horror, looking at the dissociating nature of this blend. The intentions of screenwriter Max Landis and the director Nima Nourizadeh are discussed and we ask whether they were reaching out to the CIA or trying to flatter them by making MKULTRA seem cool to stoners and young people. We go on to look at the prominen
Amazing Secrets in Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut: Jay Dyer on WOTR Radio
LA-based West of the Rockies Radio invited me on to discuss new information and research that will be featured in my book, Esoteric Hollywood: Sex, Cults and Symbols in Film.
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The CIA and Hollywood episode 11 The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jay Dyer joins us for this episode where we analyse the 2009 comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats, loosely based on Jon Ronson’s book of the same name. It tells the story of a journalist who is inducted into the world of psychic soldiers during the Iraq war. The movie goes on to explain some of the history behind the First Earth Battalion, an experimental Pentagon unit devoted to developing a new generation of super soldier informed by the hippy and New Age movements.