Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 14, 2010 at 11:45:00 AM CET
Terry Gilliam to restart his Don Quixote
Terry Gilliam is to restart filming of his version of ‘Don Quixote’ in September. The original shoot of ‘The man who killed Don Quixote’ was beset with problems and abandoned in 2000.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 14, 2010 at 11:38:00 AM CET
Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?
On Nov. 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York’s Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station.
Olson’s ignominious end was written off as an unremarkable suicide of a depressed government bureaucrat who came to New York City seeking psychiatric treatment, so it attracted scant attention at the time.
But 22 years later, the Rockefeller Commission report was released, detailing a litany of domestic abuses committed by the CIA. The ugly truth emerged: Olson’s death was the result of his having been surreptitiously dosed with LSD days earlier by his colleagues.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 14, 2010 at 11:30:00 AM CET
The Men Who Really Stare At Goats
The new satirical movie with George Clooney is also called 'Men Who Stare at Goats'. The movie is based on a book - the same book that the TV documentary in this youtube video is based on.
Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s “Crazy Rulers of the World” explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence. With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary and plain bizarre national secrets at the core of the War on Terror.The first episode in the series (below) explores the C.I.A.’s exploration into the potential use of ESP for military purposes.
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