Interview w/ Jay Dyer on 'Interstellar'

Does the mainstream news cycle know when a new Christopher Nolan film is coming out? Jay Dyer of JaysAnalysis.com joins Media Monarchy to talk about the new film 'Interstellar' and all of the synchromystical connections to current events happening now in the sky - and crashing into the Earth. Kubrick, monoliths, comets, rockets and so much more on this cursory glance at a deeply interesting work.



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Interview w/ Matt McCormick of 'Buzz One Four'

'Buzz One Four' is the forthcoming documentary film from Portland-based filmmaker Matt McCormick that tells the tale of the "ill-fated flight of a Cold War Air Force B-52 bomber loaded with two thermonuclear bombs that crashed approximately 100 miles from Washington DC in 1964..." Media Monarchy takes a quick look at the politically personal reasons behind the making of this important film. You can help fund the film here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattmccormick/buzz-one-four



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Interview w/ Jon Rappoport on MKULTRA Jazz

Investigative journalist Jon Rappoprt's article, 'US Jazz Musicians Were Drafted Into the CIA’s MKULTRA,' caught my ear so he's joining Media Monarchy for some classic 'Acid Dreams'. Why did Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Elvin Jones and so many more great musicians take the 'Lexinton Cure' at the CIA-connected 'Narcotic Farm'? Who was Harris Isbell and what did he do at Lex? And the real question: Why do intelligence agencies use art as a weapon?



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kent state tape recording reveals gunshots by fbi informant

revelations prompt congressional inquiry
from ap: A tape recording of the 1970 shooting deaths of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen reveals the sound of pistol shots 70 seconds earlier, a newspaper reported Friday citing the work of a forensic audio expert.

The finding lends support to a theory that the guardsmen thought they were being shot at during a campus Vietnam War protest. Witnesses said at the time that an FBI informant monitoring the protest fired warning shots because he felt threatened.

The National Guard opened fire on student protesters on May 4, 1970, killing four and injuring nine others. Eight guardsmen were acquitted of federal civil rights charges four years later. Many believe the events contributed to the change in the public's attitude toward the war, which ended five years later.

The reel-to-reel audio recording was made by a Kent State student who placed a microphone at a windowsill in his dormitory, which overlooked the antiwar rally. He later turned the tape over to the FBI. A copy eventually wound up in a Yale University archive.

That's where Alan Canfora, a protester wounded by the Guard gunfire, found it in 2007.

Forensic audio expert Stuart Allen conducted an extensive review of the recording at the request of Cleveland's Plain Dealer newspaper, and he detected four shots matching the acoustic signature of a .38-caliber revolver firing.

Terry Norman, a Kent State student photographing protesters that day for the FBI, was carrying a loaded .38-caliber revolver under his coat, the newspaper said.

'manchurian candidates' to gather in connecticut

from danger room: For some, the horrors of the CIA's secret, Cold War-era mind control research has never really ended. Next month in Connecticut, self-described victims of MK ULTRA will attend “The Eleventh Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference.” There, attendees will discuss their memories of being unwitting participants in the CIA's experiments, which often involved slipping LSD to ordinary people.

Are all the people who attend the meeting really victims of MK ULTRA? No, as the organizer himself notes. Some are suffering from other, no doubt serious, mental issues. But as Jeff Stein elegantly points out in a piece for Congressional Quarterly, that's not the point. There were very real victims of MK ULTRA, and the CIA's decision to destroy most of the records means we will never have a final accounting. "CIA Director Richard M. Helms ordered the destruction of boxes upon boxes of documents, including the treatment records of unknown numbers of 'patients' agency 'doctors' experimented on in psychiatric hospitals (including a wing of Georgetown University Medical Center), and secret locations, including military bases," Stein writes.

The more contemporaneous issue is that the U.S. government is again being accused of using mind altering drugs. "Just as in the 1970s, however, as I wrote in April, evidence to the contrary is mounting," Stein writes. "The Washington Post’s Joby Warrick also tracked down former prisoners at Guantanamo who said their minds were destabilized by repeated drug injections."

45 yrs ago: jfk's american university speech

from politico: On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy declared that the U. S. would be willing to cease testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere if the Soviet Union agreed to follow suit. In a commencement address at Washington’s American University, the president disavowed a “Pax Americana” modeled after the Roman Empire. Instead, he said, his administration was seeking to fashion a new “strategy of peace.”

cia secret experiments

from national geographic: During the Cold War, the CIA launched a highly classified program aimed at mastering the art of mind control.

booz biometrics, castro quits, rotarix, lonsdale & checkmate

booz allen hamilton wins $6m biometrics bid
from washington technology: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a contract worth $6.3 million to conduct a biometrics research project at the request of the Air Force, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Under the contract, the McLean, Va., company will help conduct research for a new 3-D facial recognition biometrics program, DOD said. The company will conduct the research at the Information Assurance Technical Analysis Center (IATAC) in Herndon, Va... The contracting authority for the project is located at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.

fidel castro retires after 49 years in power
from reuters: Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that turned him into a leftist icon and a tyrant to his foes. Castro, 81, who has not appeared in public since undergoing stomach surgery almost 19 months ago, said he would not seek a new term as president or leader of Cuba's armed forces when the National Assembly meets on Sunday.

fda ties pneumonia deaths to infant vaccine
from reuters: GlaxoSmithKline Plc's rotavirus vaccine is associated with increased pneumonia-related deaths and other adverse reactions, U.S. regulatory staff said in documents posted on Friday. The review comes ahead of a Food and Drug Administration advisory meeting next Wednesday to consider approval of the oral vaccine to prevent the most common cause of severe diarrhea and dehydration among infants and young children in the world.

scourge of scientology dies in apparent suicide
from st. petersburg times: Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide... The medical examiner's office said the official cause of death is pending toxicology reports. It was a lonely end for a man who emerged out of nowhere in 2006 as a thorn in the side of the Church of Scientology.


'checkmate' for bay area pesticide spraying
from san francisco chronicle: Hundreds of people whose homes and yards were sprayed in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties from September to December have filed reports that said the pesticide seems to have caused coughing, wheezing, muscle aches and headaches, among other symptoms. One Monterey family reported that a child had a first-time asthma attack... Spraying of the pesticide, called Checkmate, is expected to begin in the Bay Area in August and could continue for five years over San Francisco... Other chemicals could also be used.

military mind control, global fatting & immoral nukes

report: nonlethal weapons could target brain & mimic schizophrenia
from danger room: Of all the crazy, bizarre less-lethal weapons that have been proposed, the use of microwaves to target the human mind remains the most disturbing. The question has always been: is this anything more than urban myth? We may not have the final answer to this question, but a newly declassified Pentagon report, Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons (4.1mb PDF), obtained by a private citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, provides some fascinating tidbits on a variety of exotic weapons ideas.

obesity 'requires climate plan'
from bbc: Obesity needs to be tackled in the same way as climate change, a top nutritional scientist has said. The chairman of the International Obesity Taskforce wants world leaders to agree a global pact to ensure that everyone is fed healthy food. Professor Philip James said the challenge of obesity was so great that action was needed now, even without clear evidence of the best options.


cold warrior shultz: nukes are 'immoral'
from press tv: The mastermind of the US Cold War policies, former US Secretary of State George Shultz says he believes nuclear weapons are 'immoral'. "They are all wrong," 87-year-old George Shultz, architect of the Ronald Reagan administration's foreign policy, said in a recent interview.

russia 'ditching cold war pacts'

from telegraph: Russia is steadily "unraveling" the historic arms control treaties that ended the Cold War and became cornerstones of European security, the most comprehensive survey of global military trends said yesterday.

The Military Balance 2008 (375kb PDF) portrays Russia as breaking out of the constraints imposed by treaties once considered inviolable.

John Chipman, the head of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, which published the survey, said the "next target of Moscow’s assertive revisionism" could be the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987.

hillary: nuking terrorist 'safe havens' a possibility

clinton promises 'heavy retaliation' for terrorist-harboring nations

from raw story: New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, finding herself in an unexpectedly close race with freshman Sen. Barack Obama, flexed her national security muscles in Saturday night's Democratic debate, raising the possibility of loosing nuclear weapons on countries that harbor terrorists who plot a nuclear attack on the US.

Clinton, answering a hypothetical question about the possibility of a nuclear weapon being detonated in the US, said she would immediately target terrorist "safe havens." The former First Lady warned "every state in the world must know we will retaliate," and she invoked deterrence aimed at the Soviet Union during the Cold War - predicated on mutually assured destruction resulting from a US nuclear counter-strike - as a successful strategy for averting a nuclear catastrophe.

the good shepherd

from wikipedia: The value of secrecy -- commitment to honor and discretion -- has been embedded in Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) since childhood. As a dedicated, optimistic student at Yale University, he is recruited to join the Order of Skull and Bones, a secret society designed to breed the world leaders of tomorrow. Wilson's acute intelligence, immaculate reputation, and sincere belief in American values render him a prime candidate for a career in intelligence. During the Second World War, General Sullivan (Robert De Niro) recruits him to the new Office of Strategic Services, a precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. As one of the Office's covert founders, duplicity is required of Wilson as he navigates a world where nothing can be accepted at face value.

Over his thirty-year career, Wilson's methods are adopted as standard operating procedure and he becomes a respected veteran in his field, but his idealism is eroded by a growing suspicious nature, reflective of a world settling into the long paranoia of the Cold War, and an escalating conflict with his volatile Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) counterpart. In the end, he sacrifices everything in the name of serving the country he loves, including his devoted wife Clover (Angelina Jolie), his children, and himself.