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Everything You Know is Wrong — Disinformation: The Podcast Series Finale
Everything You Know is Wrong — Disinformation: The Podcast Series Finale
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This two-hour edition of Disinformation: The Podcast is the final episode of the series. Join Raymond Wiley, Joe McFall, Austin Gandy, and Joe Nolan for one last journey into the bizarre undercurrents of the human psyche. Raymond talks about the recent release of his first book, The Georgia Guidestones: America’s Most Mysterious Monument. Austin Gandy’s Invisible College returns with a new take on the infamous Knights Templar, and the Oslo shootings they are said to have inspired. Joe Nolan’s Insomnia delves into the undying myths of Carlos Castaneda, and the New Age subculture they have inspired. Finally, Raymond Wiley and Joe McFall present a retrospective discussion of their podcast careers, along with impressions of the occult mysteries, conspiracy theories, and obscure realms of belief featured in their seminal broadcasts. After 7 years, 80 podcasts, and more than a million downloads, these two friends say thank you and goodbye to the audience … For now.
Happy 4/20! Top 5 Marijuana Stories from Disinfo.com
4/20 is a day of fun, activism, and healing for millions of marijuana users throughout the world, so here are five of the dankest cannabis stories we have posted on Disinfo.com. To read all the pot-related stories in our news archive, go here. Does anyone know the origin of 420? If you’ve heard an urban legend about this most baked of numbers, please share…
Top Five Marijuana Stories:
1. Chronic Art: Making Amazing Mosaics From Roach Papers
2. Graham Hancock on Marijuana & Consciousness
3. Don’t Just Smoke a Joint on 4/20, Take Action Against Marijuana Prohibition
Murder in Memphis: Classic Out There Podcasts on MLK
Hey guys, I hope you enjoy this little nugget from my archive of past podcasts. 
Out There Radio: Episode 28 – Murder in Memphis
This episode is the first of two dealing with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In this first part, we deal with the events leading up to the assassination, including FBI surveillance and harrassment of Dr. King. Included in this episode is Dr. King’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech, in its entirety, recorded on April 4, 1967 (one year to the day before he was murdered).
Out There Radio: Episode 29 – Murder in Memphis, pt. 2
This episode is the second of two dealing with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. This episode features a short discussion about the Military Commissions Act of 2006, followed by the second part of our look at the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Entangled with Graham Hancock – Disinformation: The Podcast
Disinformation: The Podcast: Episode 15 — Entangled with Graham Hancock
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This episode features an interview with Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, Supernatural, The Sign and the Seal, and the recently released Entangled. We discuss Graham’s influential work in the field of alternative history, 2012, his recent shift from non-fiction to fiction, and his views on the “War on Consciousness.”
Disinformation: The Podcast is a monthly series featuring interviews with authors, artists and filmmakers about topics related to politics, the occult, conspiracy, magick, hidden history, spirituality, fringe science, and much more. Past interviews include Jim Marrs, Douglas Rushkoff, and the legendary Alan Moore.
Aleister Crowley for President 2012 – Red State Update
There’s a new front-runner in the 2012 presidential elections, dead Victorian occultist Aleister Crowley. This ad makes a good case for why you should write in for Uncle Al.
If you want to learn more about this strange figure, check out our film Aleister Crowley: In Search of The Great Beast 666, available instantly through iTunes and Amazon On-Demand.
The Death of Privacy with Steve Rambam – Right Where you are Sitting Now
Right Where You are Sitting Now – Episode 40 – The Death of Privacy with Steve Rambam
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This week we talk to private investigator, and head of Pallorium Inc, Steve Rambam. Steve is famous in the hacker community for his enlightening lectures on the death of privacy.
In this weeks episode we discuss: The death of privacy, smartphones: The little snitch in your pocket, The cavalier use of your data, how to (or not) avoid detection in the age of the Internet, why Foursquare is a really bad idea (see, we told you) and much more.
Steve’s fantastic talk, ‘Privacy is Dead – Get Over It’, is available over at Google Videos – Part 1, Part 2.
Steve Rambam Bio:
Steven Rambam is a private investigator operating out of New York and Texas. He has conducted several thousand missing-person searches over almost three decades. Steven is well known in the hacker community…
Uncover ‘Hidden Wisdom’ with Tim Wallace-Murphy on Disinformation: The Podcast
Disinformation: The Podcast: Episode 14 — Hidden Wisdom
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This episode features an interview with Tim Wallace-Murphy, author of Hidden Wisdom: Secrets of the Western Esoteric Tradition. Tim talks about the history of the occult, the historical need for secrecy in this tradition, and what it has left us in modern times.
After the interview, Raymond and Joe celebrate their 5th anniversary as co-hosts by taking up their old mantle of armchair film critics. Stay tuned for their scathing review of What in the World are they Spraying, a new documentary about the “chemtrail conspiracy.”
Ayahuasca Vision Quest on Disinformation: The Podcast
Disinformation: The Podcast: Episode 13 — Ayahuasca Vision Quest
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This episode features an interview with Adam Elenbaas, author of Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest. Adam discusses his experiences in the Peruvian jungle with a psychedelic tea called Ayahuasca, and explains how it changed his spiritual outlook.
Stay tuned after the interview for details on Raymond & Joe’s upcoming appearances at Dragon*Con 2010 in Atlanta. The guys will be supporting events and lectures by Disinfo favorite Graham Hancock.
The Process Church of the Final Judgement – Right Where you are Sitting Now
Right Where you are Sitting Now – Episode 39 – The Process Church of Final Judgment
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This week we talk to former member of The Process Church of the Final Judgement, Timothy Wyllie. Timothy has recently authored a fantastic book about his time in The Process, ‘Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement‘. In this weeks episode we discuss: The Process Church, Scientology, the controversies of the Process Church, why the church continues to have an influence, Dolphins and ET’s, and much more!
Timothy Wyllie Biography:
Timothy Wyllie is a writer specialising in the study of “non-human intelligences” such as angels. He was born in London in 1940. He moved to America in the mid-sixties and now lives in the desert of New Mexico. He had a near death experience in 1973. Afterwards, he devoted himself to the study of “non-human intelligences” (such as…
Aleister Crowley: A Passion for Evil? – Disinformation: The Podcast
Disinformation: The Podcast: Episode 12 — Aleister Crowley: A Passion for Evil?
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This episode features an interview with playwright John Burns. John’s latest work, Aleister Crowley: A Passion for Evil, is being performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer.
We discuss little known aspects of Crowley’s life, including his childhood and his experiences as a mountaineer. We also discuss the recent Disinformation documentary Aleister Crowley: In Search of the Great Beast 666, which attempts to dramatize Crowley’s history through filmmaking.
Google Attorney Calls Intellectual Property Treaty “Gollum-like”
Nothing like a good Lord of the Rings reference to make your point about Copyright Law. Declan McCullagh writes on CNET News:
Gollum sculpture at Wax Museum in Mexico City. Photo: Vic201401 (CC)
An attorney for Google slammed a controversial intellectual property treaty, saying it has “metastasized” from a proposal to address border security and counterfeit goods to an international legal framework sweeping in copyright and the Internet.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is “something that has grown in the shadows, Gollum-like,” without public scrutiny, Daphne Keller, a senior policy counsel in Mountain View, Calif., said at a conference at Stanford University.
Both the Obama administration and the Bush administration had rejected requests from civil libertarians and technologists for the text of ACTA, with the White House last year even indicating that disclosure would do “damage to the national security.” After pressure from the European Parliament, however, negotiators released the draft text two weeks…
NASA Tests Amazing Bailout Rocket Which Will Never be Used
I had such high hopes for the Orion program. Back to the Moon, and maybe even to Mars… It could have worked. The Register reports:
NASA has spectacularly and successfully tested the launch abort system – the ejector seat, as it were – for its new Orion crew capsule. There’s just one problem: according to President Obama’s stated plans, Orion will never be launched with crew aboard.
Novice Level Monster on Fox News Fails to Defeat Atheist
Thanks to BoingBoing for uncovering this clip of a Fox News reporter fighting the culture war:
In this Fox News segment about the recent U.S. District Court decision banning the National Day of Prayer, Dan Barker (author of Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists) handily parries a Fox News announcer’s clumsy blows.
Why the Enlightened Liberal Class Is Complicit in the Country’s Downward Spiral
This article from TruthDig is good reminder that just because you are educated, it doesn’t mean you have escaped “The System.”
We are approaching a decade of war in Afghanistan, and the war in Iraq is in its eighth year. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands more Afghans and Pakistani civilians have been killed. Millions have been driven into squalid displacement and refugee camps. Thousands of our own soldiers and Marines have died or been crippled physically and psychologically. We sustain these wars, which have no real popular support, by borrowing trillions of dollars that can never be repaid, even as we close schools, states go into bankruptcy, social services are cut, our infrastructure crumbles, tens of millions of Americans are reduced to poverty, and real unemployment approaches 17 percent. Collective, suicidal inertia rolls us forward toward national insolvency and the collapse of empire. And we do not protest. The peace…
Christian Right’s Favorite Muslim Convert Exposed As Jihadi Fraud
Looks like the Evangelicals have a scandal of their own to contend with now. Alternet reports:
Liberty Seminary President Ergun Caner claims he traveled the road ‘from jihad to Jesus,’ but Baptist bloggers say his stories of terrorist training are false.
Ergun Caner’s rise to the top of conservative evangelical celebrity — and to the presidency of the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell — was fueled by how aggressively he capitalized on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to portray himself as a personal example of the power of Jesus to save even someone raised as a jihadist, which he claimed to be.
There’s only one problem with that part of Caner’s story: it appears not to be true.
In 2001, Caner was pastoring a church in Colorado. After 9/11, he became a hot commodity on the speaking circuit as someone who knew about the evils of Islam…
Utah Uses Eminent Domain to Seize Land of … Uncle Sam
Medical Marijuana isn’t the only issue which has states challenging federal power. ABC News reports:
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Utah is itching for a land fight. A battle with Washington over territorial rights and state sovereignty. It wants to spark a revolt in which Western states attempt to wrest control of federal lands within their borders.
The Beehive State might just get its way, too. In March, Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed a controversial law authorizing the use of eminent domain to capture some of the millions of acres that the federal government owns here.
The law was tailor-made to provoke a lawsuit, possibly reaching the US Supreme Court, and to inspire other Western states to enact similar legislation.
While it’s unusual for eminent domain to involve the taking of federal lands, this law is a byproduct of many Utahns’ frustrations: The US government owns more than 60 percent of the state, thus dictating whether land…
Voyager 2 Stops Making Sense
Voyager 2 is nearly a billion miles away from the Earth right now, so repairs are a little out of our reach. Let’s hope the folks at JPL can fix these communications problems. Ars Technica reports:
Voyager 2, which has been traveling through the solar system since the late ’70s, has suffered a data formatting glitch that is preventing NASA from interpreting the content of its scientific data transmissions.
Control and diagnostic transmissions are unaffected, which should enable the engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to troubleshoot the problem, provided they’re patient — it currently takes nearly 13 hours for transmissions from Earth to catch up with the probe.
According to a statement released by the JPL, the problem first became apparent on April 22nd. Data from the scientific transmission, which currently reports on the conditions at the very edge of the solar system, began coming through with improper formatting, making it impossible to…
U.S. Army Marches On Red Square (Photo)
Don’t worry, they’re just celebrating the 65th anniversary of our two countries’ tag team victory over the Nazis! Wired reports:
Source: U.S. Army Europe, via Flickr
This weekend marks the 65th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of the Second World War in Europe. In Russia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union, May 9 marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany. Victory Day (День Победы) is a major public holiday there, vested with almost sacred meaning.
But this year’s military parade in Red Square is particularly unusual: It’s the first time active-duty U.S. troops have been invited to march in the ceremony. Pictured here are soldiers of Co. C, 2nd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, part of the 170th Brigade Combat Team, in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow. They took part in the parade as part of a contingent of troops from the nations that defeated Hitler.
[Read more at Wired]
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Chavez Uses State Funds to Hire 200 Staffers to Manage Twitter Account
Chavez may be a bit loony, but he does live in 21st century. This article from The Raw Story might be just the job posting you are looking for.
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Just days after his new Twitter account became a must-read in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez said he was setting up a special office with 200 staff and public funds to handle requests supporters Tweet him.”I’ve created my own Chavezcandanga mission to answer (the messages) and we’re even going to create a fund for the mission to provide many things that are now missing and that are urgent,” Chavez said late Saturday during a televised cabinet meeting.
He said the public fund will be used to make the most needed improvements in the country that his followers bring to his attention, such as in the health care and housing sectors.
Chavez late last month opened his Twitter account and it quickly took top…
