PsiOp Radio podcast 127 – 100829 with guest Jeremy Begin
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PsiOp Radio 127 – 100829 w/guest Jeremy Begin
Jeremy Begin is the author of Fighting for G.O.D. – Gold, Oil and Drugs, a graphic novel revelation about 9/11 and the global elite. He is a long-time activist / organizer who has a degree in writing from Hampshire College. He currently resides in California’s Bay Area.
Fighting for G.O.D. (Gold, Oil and Drugs) – Telling a story that our mainstream media rarely come near, this illustrated volume gives us an understanding of 9/11 as a cynical ploy by global elites to maintain their control. With a review of history from medieval bankers to the corporate ‘new world order’ of modern neocons, writer Jeremy Begin and artist Lauren Salk deftly set out the patterns of war and terror which have kept the masses subservient.
While police state control and war without end are becoming the expected norm, this analysis delves into aspects of the larger framework into which 9/11 fits and scrutinizes the ancestry of the players who transcend commonly accepted partisan divisions.
Building on the research of such notables as theologian David Ray Griffin, Michael Ruppert, and Anthony Sutton—all of whom have questioned the government’s account of 9/11— this book discusses key issues confronting America’s citizenry and steps the populace can take to not only halt but reverse the march towards totalitarianism.

100% of the author’s profits from sales of this book go towards 9/11 Truth activism. Please help to spread the word and mobilize the public.
FIGHTING FOR G.O.D. (Gold, Oil and Drugs)
Jeremy Begin’s links:
CenTex Headlines
New Front on the Fight to Protect the 2nd Amendment: Environmental Battle
WikiLeaks Watch
Monetary Reform
BlackWater Watch
NOLA Police State Truth Emerges
Activism & Protest News
Assassination News
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Border Crisis? Drug War Crisis!
Legal Drugs – More Economics of Enslavement
911 News
Police State / Surveillance Society
Blue Rose Reports / Mind Kontrol Survival
Mind Kontrol / Surveillance Society
Militarization of Society’s Youth
The War on SOME Drugs
“Non-Lethal” Militarization of Law Enforcement
Freedom of Speech / Freedom of Inquiry / Freedom of Journalism
UFOs & Anomalous Phenomena News
“Last Man on Earth” Meme

FIGHTING FOR G.O.D. (Gold, Oil and Drugs)
www.FightingForGod.com

The answer to 1984 is 1776. True patriots- Cam and Jeremy Begin.

Jeremy Begin is the author of Fighting for G.O.D. – Gold, Oil and Drugs, a graphic novel revelation about 9/11 and the global elite. He is a long-time activist / organizer who has a degree in writing from Hampshire College. He currently resides in California’s Bay Area.
Fighting for G.O.D. (Gold, Oil and Drugs) – Telling a story that our mainstream media rarely come near, this illustrated volume gives us an understanding of 9/11 as a cynical ploy by global elites to maintain their control. With a review of history from medieval bankers to the corporate ‘new world order’ of modern neocons, writer Jeremy Begin and artist Lauren Salk deftly set out the patterns of war and terror which have kept the masses subservient.
While police state control and war without end are becoming the expected norm, this analysis delves into aspects of the larger framework into which 9/11 fits and scrutinizes the ancestry of the players who transcend commonly accepted partisan divisions.
Building on the research of such notables as theologian David Ray Griffin, Michael Ruppert, and Anthony Sutton—all of whom have questioned the government’s account of 9/11— this book discusses key issues confronting America’s citizenry and steps the populace can take to not only halt but reverse the march towards totalitarianism.
100% of the author’s profits from sales of this book go towards 9/11 Truth activism. Please help to spread the word and mobilize the public.
Jeremy Begin’s links:

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PsiOp Radio 126 – 100822 w/guest Kenn Thomas
Guest – Parapolitical Researcher Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel Press …
Kenn will be speaking at the Second Annual ARC convention.
Alternative Research Community convention in Bath, England
August 28th – 29th on the subjects of
WILHELM REICH, JFK, MAURY ISLAND and the PARAPOLITICS of UFOLOGY
Kenn Thomas is founder, publisher and editor of Steamshovel Press, one of the world’s most respected alternative media publications. He is also one of America’s best known conspiracy writers and the author of seven published books on a variety of topics.
Thomas lectures widely and appears regularly on television and radio programs, including Fox News Full Nelson, Rob McConnell’s X-Zone, Sightings on the Radio, Strange Daze and Coast To Coast AM with Art Bell.
Books By Kenn Thomas include: Maury Island UFO, Inside the Gemstone File, Flying Saucers over Los Angeles, Mind Control, Oswald and JFK, NASA, Nazis and JFK, The Octopus, Popular Alienation
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PsiOp Radio 125 – 100815 w/guest Nick Redfern
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George Adamski never met an alien named Orthon – and he never took wild flights around the solar system. Likewise, George Hunt Williamson’s fascination with both the board and the planchette did not put him in contact with long-haired Venusians. And, as much as it saddens me to say so, there never was a Captain Aura Rhanes of the equally non-existent planet of Clarion.
But…those same Contactees did experience something…
And, it is that something which has utilized certain, key archetypes throughout history as a means to interact with those elements of the Human Race that it chooses (probably at random) to do its bidding, to spread the word, and to elevate both our consciousness and our worldview.
Centuries ago it appeared in the form of gods, angels, demons, fairies and goblins. 60 years ago, the phenomenon reawakened from its slumber, headed for the heart of California, and mind-fucked dozens of souls with its messages of peace, love and cosmic harmony.
Today, it appears in the form of ugly, black-eyed dwarfs who have an apparent fascination with human reproduction, the ecological collapse of the planet, and anal probes.
One hundred years from now, that same something will most assuredly still be playing its games on the West Coast and just about everywhere else, too. But, by then, the Grays and the long-haired ones will be nothing but distant memories, and in their place will be time-travelers, inter-dimensional pixies, or something else of an equally spaced-out nature. The message, however – as well as the profound change that the experience causes in those who are exposed to it – will remain.
It’s interesting you mention Carr: he’s one who (although he may have believed his stories) I have no faith in – at all. I think he made it all up.
You wrote: “Presenting the contactee movement as more or less a religious one is probably the right way to think about it. It is wholly unrelated to actual experience with saucers and I think you know that.”
Yes, and that’s the theme of my book. This isn’t the place for me to hijack the thread for my own book promotion, but since you originally brought up my book in this thread, I’ll say this:
In the book, I do present the Contactee movement from somewhat of a religious movement, and one that -like all religions – can create a vice-like grip on its believers and that, like all religions, is utterly belief-driven in terms of its ideologies, and totally lacking in any sort of hard evidence.
And, as I have mentioned on the radio-shows about the book, the idea that the Contactees met literal, long-haired aliens from Venus, and who arrived in metal ships is in my opinion, ironically, the absolute least likely scenario. In fact, there’s no way Venus is the home to anything living and advanced.
But, there are certain subtleties that lead me to believe in the existence of something that has interacted with us for a very long time, and that may have been out in force in the deserts of California in the late 40s and 50s.
It may be literally alien in the sense that it’s non-human and unknown to us, but may not be alien in terms of extraterrestrial.
And the space-brother imagery is almost certainly a facade, an image, a false memory of an encounter with something else.
It’s the same phenomenon that has been responsible for everything from religious conversion, to Joseph Smith’s angel Moroni, to Orthon, etc etc.
One of the people I interviewed for my “Contactees” book was Colin Bennett (author of, among other books, “Looking for Orthon”), who stated the following, with which I would broadly agree:
“Many Orthons have appeared throughout history. The equivalents to Adamski’s Venusian ‘space brother’ have appeared on mountain tops, in deserts, and have appeared to walk on water, or fly in the sky. Their sole function is to sow seeds in the head; just as a farmer grows a particular crop. These seeds act on the imagination, which replicates and amplifies whatever story-technology is around at the time. People such as Adamski and the rest of the Contactees were, and still are, like psychic lightning – rods for certain brands of information. Deception and all its ramifications is the key to this whole business. This does not burst the bubble of the mystery, however; for manipulative levels of faction may well be our first clue as to how a possible alien mind might work. If the levels of deception of all kinds in human culture are anything to go by, [then] the range of such within an alien culture must be both multiple and profound. The ‘space-folk’ are sculptured by wars between rival viral memes competing for prime-time belief. It may be that, as an independent form of non-organic life, memes as active viral information can display an Orthon entity at a drop of a hat. [They] come complete with sets of cultural agendas. After they have rung the doorbell as it were, and the goods are sold, these metaphysical salesmen disappear like the traditional Men in Black, no doubt traveling on to seed other dreams in other towns and other heads. The goods we have unwittingly bought are half-formed memories of having met someone from another world.”
NEXT WEEKS GUEST: Kenn Thomas of Steamshovel Press
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Nick Redfern is an incredibly prolific “Paranormal” oriented researcher and writer. He covers all aspects of the paranormal, from general Anomalistics, to Cryptozoology, to Forteana, to UFOs and many points in between. He also writes about declassified government documents and the parapolitical implications of corruption and cover-ups. In this guest review article he gives us a taste of the newly released UK-UFO book Mirage Men by Mark Pilkington.
Nick will be the guest of hosts Mack White and SMiles Lewis on the PsiOp-Radio show this Sunday, night from 7-9pm CST on the ANOMALY RADIO and AMERICAN FREEDOM RADIO Networks. He’s also giving a FREE Lecture in Austin, Texas on Saturday, August 21st presented by the ANOMALY ARCHIVES non-profit lending library.
Reviewed by Nick Redfern
Whether you are a full-on true-believer in the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH), wholly open-minded on what lies at the heart of the UFO puzzle, a skeptic, or a rabid debunker, you should not ignore Mirage Men. Of course, your views on what lies at the heart of the UFO phenomenon – and which of the above-categories you fall into – will play a large role in determining your response and reaction to Mark’s book.
Those for whom Ufology is a modern-day religion, and one that offers a form of cosmic comfort, will be shocked, angered and perhaps even disillusioned by what they read. Doubtless, too, there will be a degree of hostility and outright denial on their part when faced with the crumbling of certain much-cherished belief-systems, ideas and (possibly) certain cases that have become classics within Ufology.
Too bad. Ufology, and the people in it, need a shake-up now and again and Mirage Men most assuredly delivers. And if you’re someone whose notions on what make a good or bad UFO book are based on whether or not that same book says what you want to hear, then you’re lost already.
As for the debunkers: well, on reading the book, they might gain a realization that the issue they confidently dismiss – namely that ET really has visited us, and has crashed and burned – isn’t quite as clear-cut and black-and-white as they previously believed.
If, like me, however, you realize that something strange really is going on in our skies – but that it appears to be a blurry mix of classified military projects, official and unofficial chicanery, mind-games, lies and distortions, shadowy figures weaving complex tales, and perhaps, maybe, even a very real ET presence, then Mirage Men will well and truly satisfy.
So, with that said, what is Mirage Men all about? Well, let me tell you. Essentially, the book tells the story of Mark’s (and his friend and colleague John Lundberg’s) own and very personal search of the truth about the UFO puzzle, and what may be known about the subject at an official level.
After learning about how and why Mark became interested in, and intrigued by, Ufology and Forteana, we get a tutorial on the history of Ufology, and then it’s road-trip time.
Things begin in an entertaining fashion as Mark and John anticipate adventures of the Ufological kind in mysterious locales, in desert settings that would have made the likes of Adamski and Van Tassel drool, and at the annual International UFO Convention at Laughlin, Nevada. But, as our Dynamic Duo delve further into the heart of the mystery, instead of becoming clearer, things get much more confusing and distinctly murky. Danger duly rears its ominous head, and a high degree of paranoia and uncertainty seem to take hold of Mark and John.
As they seek out the truth about UFOs and the US Government, military and intelligence community, the pair sinks deeper and deeper into a surreal world that seems to be part-X-Files, part-Parallax View, part-hall-of-mirrors, and ALL VERY FUCKING WEIRD. Throw in a shot of All the President’s Men and more than a few Deep Throat-like characters, add a liberal dose of Cold War espionage, and mix it all up into a cocktail of truly mind-bending proportions, and Mirage Men kicks into high-gear.
We get to learn a great deal about some of the classic cases within Ufology – Roswell (of course!); the Antonio Villas Boas/Space Babe affair of 1957; the 1952 Washington, D.C. invasion; and the story of the “Underground Alien Base” at Dulce, New Mexico. Cattle-mutilations and alien abductions also surface – but not necessarily in ways that the ufological faithful might expect.
But, we get to learn much more too: namely, the way in which certain shadowy figures may have been manipulating all of the above events, cases and people (and many more too), for strange, obscure (at first glance, at least) and bizarre reasons, and how the ufological research community has been WELL AND TRULY PLAYED. Mind-control, staged-events, the spreading of spurious UFO tales to hide exotic military hardware, and even outright violation of human-rights come into play.
Of course, the highly disturbing story of Paul Bennewitz surfaces, too (a saga told in full in the pages of Greg Bishop’s essential Project Beta), and demonstrates not only the extent to which some will go to protect their secrets (whether of a military, intelligence or extraterrestrial nature – or maybe all three), but how easy it is to manipulate the ufological scene and those that immerse themselves within it – and in the case of Bennewitz, with truly tragic results.
Mark also addresses the Contactee controversy – a subject for which many have no time. But, as I noted in my Contactees book, there is clear evidence that some of the Contactees may have been working with the official world, or may have been manipulated, Bennewitz-style. Mark realizes this too, and provides thought-provoking data suggesting we should look at the whole Contactee movement in a new light.
One of the many highlights of the book is that relative to the relatively recent Serpo saga, and its attendant tales, stories, rumors, allegations and supposedly secret files on crashed UFOs, alien-human exchange missions, and a great deal more. And a character that Mark and John get to meet and hang out with, and from whom they glean a great deal of data, is the somewhat enigmatic Richard Doty – a name that should be familiar to all within Ufology, but one who very few within the field have actually met.
I found this part of the book to be one of the most informative and entertaining, as it is here that the realization hits both Mark and John that what begins for them as an adventurous trip from England to some of the most mysterious and legend-filled locations in the United States, becomes something more. Indeed, it turns into a slightly sinister, paranoia-filled period where neither Mark nor John know what to believe, who to trust, or whether they are being fed a bunch of bullshit, the absolute cosmic truth, or something in between.
Mark and John find themselves slightly lost from their moorings, unsure of what is afoot, and perhaps even unable to get a full handle on whether the US Government really is sitting upon a mountain of crashed UFOs, dead aliens and cosmic conspiracies, or whether it just wishes us to think that’s the case.
The fascinating thing is that for all the officially-orchestrated lies, distortions and outright manipulation of the UFO research community that they uncover, for a while Mark and John seem to find their Ufological beliefs actually growing. Is this due to the fact that they too have been firmly played by the powers-that-be? Are aliens really among us? Have UFOs really crashed to Earth? Or is the truth a swirling mix of several scenarios? Well, I’ll leave it up to you to seek out the answers for yourselves.
I will, however, say this: one of the key things that stands out from reading Mirage Men is how, why and under what circumstances the UFO subject has the ability to radically transform, and manipulate even, the mindset of the individual – whether that individual is Paul Bennewitz, George Adamski, and even Mark and John.
Personally, I suspect that it is this profound potential for deep, personal change that the UFO mystery offers us that the US Government fears most. It is not so much that UFOs might exist or that aliens could be visiting us that worries the official world. Rather, it is the fact – and officialdom’s realization of the fact – that the phenomenon seemingly has the ability to rewire the collective mindset of the populace, who may discard their old ways, give the finger to the old men in suits and ties that run the world, and become truly transformed.
For two men who tried to stay impartial, grounded and open-minded, even Mark and John found themselves affected and changed by not just the phenomenon, but by the people they met, the cases they investigated, the stories they were told, and the surreal pit into which they descended. And, when it comes to the issue of what those in power may know about UFOs, and the reasons behind the manipulation that Mark skilfully describes, that’s an important point to remember.
In conclusion, regardless of your Ufological views, beliefs or non-beliefs, you should read Mirage Men - and very soon, too. Something is clearly going on. It certainly involves the movers-and-shakers within the intelligence world, and it is reliant upon the official weaving of complex tales of a UFO nature that seem to be part-truth, part-fiction, and part-distortion as a means to affect and mold belief-systems and more. And, it may involve a very real alien presence too.
To learn more about Mark Pilkington’s Mirage Men, click here for the official website of the book, and here for the blog.
To purchase the book in the US, click on this link. If you’re in the UK, here’s where you can buy it. And, for Canadian readers, here you go.
Originally published at Nick’s FORTEAN REVIEWS Blog: REVIEWS OF THE MYSTERIOUS KIND
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