UKC News: Return of the ‘Case-demic’ + The Terror Factory
UKC News | Co-hosts Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Alex Thomson with the end of week news round-up.
UKC News | Co-hosts Mike Robinson, Patrick Henningsen and Alex Thomson with the end of week news round-up.
4,000,000,029,057. Remember that number. It’s going to come up again later. But let’s begin with another number entirely: 145,000 — as in, 145,000 uniformed soldiers striding down Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue. That’s the number of troops who marched down that very street in May 1865 after the United States defeated the Confederate States of America.
For this inaugural episode I am joined by my good friend and frequent collaborator Tom Secker. We begin by discussing the bizarre life and career of the CIA Hollywood liaison Chase Brandon. We then move onto the relationship between entertainment and the security services. We explore the notion that this going beyond mere propaganda, and instead represents a significant distortion of our culture and perception of reality and world events.