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Who Did Benny Johnson Tick Off?
Benny Johnson talks about what job he’d like to have more than Political Editor @ BuzzFeed. A couple of weeks ago Benny Johnson, the pseudo-conservative political pundit, was let go from BuzzFeed for...
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PSA: Tor Vulnerability Reporting Procedure
A few weeks ago a.nolen reader Hubri5 alerted me to the sorry fate of two Tor researchers from Carnegie Mellon who didn’t ask the Department of Defense for permission to talk about their work on...
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Goodwill Burner
Last week I posted about Benny Johnson’s firing from BuzzFeed: Who Did Benny Johnson Tick Off? This post got a bit of attention, eliciting predictable responses from BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith and Gawker’s...
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A Call for Papers
Last week three prominent members of the US military put their support behind a study from The Palm Center which suggests that the US Military should lift their ban on openly transgendered service...
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A Death in Finland
Leonid Andreyev stands before one of his own drawings, 1909. A few months ago, I wrote about Leonid Andreyev’s final book, Satan’s Diary. This is an extraordinary work that probably inspired Mikhail...
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Rainbow Brite does ZunZuneo
Thank you, maahs.deviantart.com I’ve noticed an uptick in people hitting my site having searched for ‘Jed Sunden’ lately. “Great,” I thought, “He’s back in the news.” So I did a ‘Google News’ search on...
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Bank Cosmos
Leonid Chernovetsky with Kiev-based evangelist Sunday Adelaja, founder of the Embassy of God church. Thank you, pastorsundayadelaja.blogspot.com I had a lot of fun looking into Zhanna Kobylinska last...
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Walt and El Grupo
Was Walt Disney the first American victim of FDR’s illegal spy network? Last night I watched an old Disney cartoon called “The Golden Touch,” which is a retelling of the famous Greek myth about King...
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Cuneo and General Patton
It seems I’ll never be short of reasons to dislike FDR’s ‘Office of Strategic Services’, the forerunner to our beloved CIA. Today I’m going to tell the sordid tale of how and why OSS/BSC heavy-weight...
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Great Users of People
I started to think about ‘power worship’ a couple of years ago, after having read a few essays by George Orwell on the subject. Orwell thought that an unhealthy subservience to power was infecting...
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Eleanor and ISIS
A lady of exploitable insecurities. A few days ago I read an article in Haaretz about young French girls being brainwashed into 1) joining jihad in Syria or 2) working for IS/ISIS/’Islamic State’....
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Blitz Witch
About three months ago I watched a BBC documentary on Helen Duncan, the famous WWII psychic, titled The Unexplained: The Blitz Witch. Tony Robinson is the host and you can watch it for free on Youtube...
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Strategic Operations Inc.
When I first read about Strategic Operations Inc. (or ‘STOPS’), I thought it was a hoax. This is how their company website describes what they do: Strategic Operations Inc. (STOPS), on the lot of Stu...
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David Obst Talks Again
It’s been a fun day at a.nolen HQ: I’ve just found a 1974 article in which David Obst brags about being a literary agent for John Marks, author of The Search for the ‘Manchurian Candidate': The CIA and...
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CIA: Profiling Voters For Your Safety
TODAY: More on MK ULTRA subprojects that John Marks didn’t want to talk about! MK ULTRA Subproject 127 was never mentioned by John Marks in his book The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and...
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The Banality of Mind Control
Philip Zimbardo, courtesy of HeroicImagination.org, his think tank which studies street gangs, amongst other things. I’ve written about the MK ULTRA programs a lot recently; they’re an easy subject to...
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The Cult of Intelligence
While looking into Philip Zimbardo’s writing for my previous post, I came across the latest edition of the International Journal of Cultic Studies, the “Traumatic Narcissism” issue. The point of the...
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Sullivanians, or the “Fourth Wall” Cult
One of the Sullivan Institute’s buildings in NYC. Thanks, http://www.thesociallifeofartisticproperty.com. Today I’m going to write about the experiences of Dr. Amy B. Siskind inside the NYC-based...
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The Unfortunate Mr. Cosby
Bill Cosby’s implosion over the past few weeks has been almost as dramatic as Tiger Wood’s back in 2009. I have a little sympathy for Cosby, because although I believe he probably did drug and rape at...
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William Colby on the Pentagon Papers
Thank you, cia.gov! I’ve become jaded about politically sensitive ‘leaks’ of classified documents. I guess it started with Alfred McCoy’s self-exposing introduction to his 1991 edition of The Politics...
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