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From Spy Culture:
Joining me for this discussion is Guillermo Jimenez along with regular guest Pearse Redmond. We talked about three recent examples of the crossover of popular culture and politics – the film The Interview, the attack on Charlie Hedbo magazine in Paris, and American Sniper. We talked about how the popular dialogue around these events has diluted and degraded the notion of freedom of speech, and outline a more careful and refined version of the same idea.
Show Notes:
From Spy Culture:
Launching in April of this year The CIA and Hollywood is a new series by Pearse Redmond and Tom Secker. The first season will have seven episodes where we will mostly focus on modern films, with guest appearances on five of the shows.
The full list:
Episode 1: The CIA and George Orwell
Pearse and I introduce the series and look at how George Orwell’s two major works – 1984 and Animal Farm – were both adapted into 1950s films by the CIA for propaganda purposes. Using files from MI5, the CIA and the FBI we outline in detail the people involved in the productions and how they fit into a wider picture of what was going on in Hollywood at the time.
Episode 2: The CIA and Robert De Niro – Guest: Guillermo Jimenez
In the first guest episode we welcome Guillermo to talk about Robert De Niro’s lengthy connections to the CIA. From Wag the Dog, where he plays a character based on CIA Entertainment Liaison Chase Brandon to the Meet the Parents film franchise which was assisted by Brandon, to his epic rewriting of CIA history in The Good Shepherd, De Niro has for nearly 20 years had some kind of relationship with the Agency.
Episode 3: The CIA and The Recruit – Guest: Aaron Franz
From one screen legend to another, Aaron joins us to discuss The Recruit starring Al Pacino. This film was co-written by Chase Brandon and the character Pacino plays is clearly based on Chase Brandon. This tale of a young man inducted into the secret world of the CIA is a perfect set up for inducting the audience into that same world, though what we find there is simply more layers of manipulation and doublethink.
Episode 4: The CIA and Enemy of the State – Guest: Adam of Themes and Memes
The film that predicted the entire Edward Snowden story is next on the list, when Adam joins in the discussion. The Gene Hackman character, based on a role he played in the 1970s thriller The Conversation, foreshadows everything about Snowden, including his name and where he grew up, and the film’s depiction of mass surveillance has much the same effect on audiences as Snowden’s ‘revelations’ some 15 years later.
Episode 5: The CIA and The Social Network – Guest: Thomas Sheridan
The only film featured in this series that was not explicitly sponsored by the CIA, but which bears all the hallmarks of CIA involvement. Thomas Sheridan joins us to examine this fictionalised account of the founding of facebook, possibly the world’s greatest ever surveillance tool. We examine Aaron Sorkin’s career and the key information he left out of his screenplay about the early investors in facebook.
Episode 6: The CIA and Charlie Wilson’s War – Guest: Sibel Edmonds
One of Chase Brandon’s final films mythologised one of the most important events in understanding modern history – the Soviet-Afghan War and the CIA’s support of the Mujahideen. Sibel lends us her expert knowledge as we dismantle this piece of CIA unhistory – which is also scripted by Sorkin – and construct a true version in its place.
Episode 7: The CIA and Argo
To round of this season Pearse and I take a look at the Oscar-winning Argo, produced by the unholy trio of Clooney, Heslov and Affleck, all of whom have long-standing ties to the CIA. We examine the film not only as a deliberate mis-telling of real historical events but also as a celebration of the CIA’s very useful relationship with the Hollywood dream factory. We reflect back on what we have learned through doing this first season, and briefly explain what to expect from season two.
From Spy Culture:
“Once more my good friend Pearse Redmond of Porkins Policy Radio joined me to discuss the latest series of Homeland, the CIA’s pet TV project. We looked at how the show has been rebooted in this season, with a much more aggressive and ambitious purpose both in mythologizing past events and predicting future ones. From 9/11 to the ISIS beheadings to drone strikes to The Lone Gladio, this is typically wide ranging conversation on one of the most important shows currently on TV.”
For Show notes and more please visit Spy Culture.
A prominent German journalist, Udo Ulfkotte, has admitted to acting as tool of CIA in its never ending quest to control public opinion. The former editor of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers) referred to himself as one of many journalists who worked for the agency under “non-official cover.” He knowingly printed stories he knew to be false that came directly from CIA talking points. He revealed this information to Russia Today because he felt that war with Russia is becoming ever more likely, and that he no longer wanted to take part in fomenting this anti-Russian, pro-war hatred. For more on the story please check out this recent Washington’s Blog article.
We are finally back! On today’s episode we take a look at the recent release of American POW Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for 5 Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Instead of focusing on the various theories as to why he left, and what he was actually doing, we dive into the psy-op that has been carefully constructed for us. We discuss the predictive programing elements, how the alt media has been fooled yet again, as well as what this means in terms of the evolving war on our reality. The Bowe Bergdahl saga represents a new stage of the blurring of reality and fiction and therefore deserves our attention.
This episode was a little rough to record due to the long gap in the podcasting schedule so my apologies if it seems a bit all over the place. Rest assured we will be returning to a normal schedule and much tighter episodes in the near future.
Show notes:
America’s Last Prisoner of War
FBI file on Michael Hastings
Spec. Cody Full Congressional testimony on Bowe Bergdahl
Soilder: Bowe Bergdahl lodged false war crime allegations against his unit
Bergdahl Roomate: Bergdahl a deserter who should be prosecuted
ClandesTime episode 16 Homeland
Army general will lead new investigation of Bowe Bergdahl disappearance
Exclusive: Bergdahl declared jihad in captivity, secret documents show
Former Spy with agenda operates a private CIA
Alex Jones: Was Bowe Bergdahl working with the sopranos of Afghanistan?
Bergdahl’s Parents speaking in Rose Garden
Taliban propaganda film of Bergdahl
Bowe Bergdahl movie project in the works from Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal; Rival project at Fox Searchlight
Why was the FBI investigating Michael Hastings reporting on Bowe Bergdahl?
Photo appears to show Bergdahl with top militant
Music:
Eileen – “Die stiefel sind zum wandern”
Devo – “Secret Agent Man”
If you didn’t think the CIA could be anymore despicable in their campaign to present themselves to the world as “cool” and “good” I would suggest you watch the above video. I came across it while listening to the latest episode of ClandesTime. This bizarre video featuring a cartoonish talking dog is obviously aimed at indoctrinating children into believing that a clandestine private government army that assassinates people, overthrows governments, and traffics narcotics is really cute and funny. I’m not quite sure how many children that find talking dogs awesome are also looking up information pertaining to the CIA. If you weren’t already aware, the CIA has a robust entertainment liaison office that works very closely with the entertainment industry. Tom Secker and Arron Franz hypothesized that perhaps this was the CIA’s first venture into children’s entertainment. If that is true we are living in very strange and dangerous times.
Here we go again, another bizarre mass shooting amid numerous scandals and geopolitical events. This narrative has gradually been foisted upon the American public in the past four years; coincidentally when Obama was installed as puppet ruler of Amerika. Now many in the audience may regard this as conspiracy theory, but the troubling frequency of mass shooting must be observed with a careful eye. Seemingly every time that the the globalist elites are in trouble (i.e. Lack of support for an illegal war in, revelations of mass spying on Americans, etc) a wonderful tradgedy occurs, the mass shooting of innocent people. These shooting are always used to bolster support or the state. We can all rally together and wrap ourselves in the flag, and look to the mass murdering regime that is the government for answers and solutions. Politicans exploit these events to speak to the public and humanize their own nefarious actions. These mass shootings also distract us from the events going on geopolitically that our puppet masters would prefer we not take notice off. If you go on Twitter or any social network or news outlet you are inundated with a constant stream of updates on the horror of this seemingly senseless violence. No longer are you concerned with whether or not the US will launch another illegal war of aggression; whether or not the latest round of government stimulus is actually hurting the economy as strengthening the Banksters. Instead your entire foucus is on a random act of violence that seems to come out of nowhere. In the mass media questions such as the timing of the event in relation to other events is never asked. While some are able to understand the wag the dog moments, think Bill Clinton starting war in Kosovo during Lewinsky scandal, people don’t seem to see the connection with these mass shootings and events that the government wishes us to ignore.
Pay close attention to how this recent mass shooting in the imperial capital will be exploited by the elites. The cries for more gun control will be echoed through out the nation; all while government agencies such as DHS and the IRS continue to stockpile billions of rounds of ammunition. The warmongers will manipulate our feelings of shock and horror to somehow justify war in Syria. Comparing the senseless violence here to that which is on going in Syria. Overall the state will use this as a rallying call to unite the American people together under their banner, so as to inflate their perceived justness in existing as our slave masters. And no where in the discussion will the influence of psychotropic drugs be mentioned. The chattering classes on cable TV will never ask the question “did antidepressant’s play a role in this”, as they have in nearly every major shooting in America. From Newtown to Aurora, to the infamous Colombine shooting, SSRI’s and other pysciatric drugs have played a significant if not direct role in the shooting. The fact that the suspect was in the military, which is notorious for pumping psychiatric drugs into soldiers, deserves a serious second look.
As with all events that take place in the Matrix that has been pulled over our eyes, we must critically look at them, and allow ourselves to be skeptical of the official conspiracy theory.
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