Archive for the 'Media' Category
France: Monsanto’s GMO Corn Causes Cancer, Organ Damage in Rats
September 20th, 2012Update: Study Linking GM Maize to Rat Tumors Retracted, Author Unrepentant Via: Nature: Bowing to scientists’ near-universal scorn, the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology today fulfilled its threat to retract a controversial paper that claimed that a genetically modified (GM) maize causes serious disease in rats after the authors refused to withdraw it. The paper, […]
Even Government Admits Fracking Mess in Wyoming
September 10th, 2012“The one—and only—place in the nation where fracking is causing water contamination…” Mmm hmm. Via: Bloomberg: Louis Meeks, a hay farmer in Pavillion, Wyo., holds a mason jar under a faucet in his house and turns on the water. It’s a demonstration he’s given to a slew of neighbors and government officials. The water, drawn […]
Sikh Temple Shooter Served in U.S. Army Psychological Operations Unit
August 6th, 2012Wade Michael Page Was White Supremacist Via: CBS News: Before he strode into a Sikh temple with a 9mm handgun and multiple magazines of ammunition, Wade Michael Page played in white supremacist heavy metal bands with names such as Definite Hate and End Apathy. The bald, heavily tattooed bassist was a 40-year-old Army veteran who […]
Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
July 20th, 2012Prop Master of Dark Knight Rises Died 3 Months Before Movie Release Via: Daily Paul: So, the map says “Sandy Hook”…Well, the ‘prop master’ for the Dark Knight movie, Scott Ketzinger, died in early April of this year, just months before the movies release. As I’m understanding this (please correct me if I’m wrong), it […]
“The film – to be fed into the opening ceremony – was given the name ‘The Arrival'”
July 20th, 2012Really? Via: News Ltd: JAMES Bond star Daniel Craig is to open the London 2012 Olympic Games ceremony after a personal invitation from Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen asked Craig into Buckingham Palace to film spectacular scenes as 007 for London’s sporting extravaganza, The Sun reports. In the film, he arrives by Royal Appointment to […]
Hard Times: Lost on Long Island
July 18th, 2012Via: Daily Ticker: In the new HBO documentary, “Hard Times: Lost on Long Island,” award-winning producer and director Marc Levin takes a deeper look at how many average middle class Americans are still struggling from the fallout of the Great Recession. The film puts a human face on the ongoing U.S. unemployment problem, which has […]
Active CIA Employees Developed Alien Language for Disney Children’s Film
June 18th, 2012[???] Via: Silver Screen Saucers: One of the most eyebrow-raising cases of government involvement in a Hollywood UFO movie in recent years is that of Race to Witch Mountain (2009), which apparently received extensive support from the CIA – albeit in an ‘off the books’ capacity – despite its plot drawing extensively from UFO mythology […]
RAND Suggest Reality TV Style Control Room Layout to Deal with Military Drone Data Glut
June 6th, 2012In a weird case of life imitating art, the film, Sleep Dealer, depicts a grim future in which drone missions are broadcast on a reality TV show. Via: Wired: Turns out, reality TV control rooms and Air Force ground stations actually have more in common than you might surmise. The volume of footage exploited in […]
DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers
May 24th, 2012Via: Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal. According […]
‘The Pentagon has a manual. Basically, it will only provide full cooperation to propaganda pieces.’
May 23rd, 2012Via: Vice: …the past few years have seen an explosion of high-profile cooperation between the armed forces and the movie industry. If the most powerful armed force in history isn’t winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly […]
