The Men Who Stare at Goats. What a weird read.

[Z_I_Peevey]

Any thoughts on Jon Ronson's look at the madness in military intelligence?

I'm about 3/4 of the way through it. I just don't know what to think.

[niyad]

1. "military intelligence" is the ultimate oxymoron

[punpirate]

2. I've read excerpts...

... and I find his style and language very quirky and well-suited to the subject. It's a sort of "Carlos Castaneda Meets the Three Stooges" tale. It's on my upcoming reading list when I'm done with current projects.

Cheers.

[Hamlette]

3. I really liked it but in one sense, I'm not sure I allowed myself to

believe it. I'm not saying its not all true, I'm sure it is. But...when you let yourself think that there is a guy working for us who keeps running into walls because he believes he can pass through them.

Yowza. It was a great quirky fun to read book.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

5. It was also a three part TV series

I saw him interviewed - mad as a hatter. Here's a lecture he gave in the early 90's on RV:

http://www.crvmanual.com/docs/lecture0592.html

[NAO]

4. Ronson's earlier book "THEM" is even better

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

6. Ronson's one of my heros

As somebody's said - Them is probably better (Alex Jones, David Icke, Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove, OKC, Ruby Ridge, Ian Paisley, Omar bakri Mohammed, ...) but Goats is very weird, unbelievable at times (although I knew about the Remote Viewing (there's a really good book about it, buggered if I can remember the title) & the whole Olsen LSD case).

He made both books into TV series' - Secret Rulers of the World and Crazy Rules of the World - which you hopefully can download via edonkey from here:

http://www.rinf.com/articles/jon-ronson.html

If you have trouble, I know the Bilderberg & Bohmeian Grove ones are kicking around the net (conspiracy theorists love them - it was with Ronson that Alex Jones got the "Ceremony of Care" footage from Bohemian Grove). The network Trio picked up the first series a couple of years after it aired, so perhaps it'll do the same for "Crazy Rulers".

(At the above link, there's also a six-part BBC Radio 4 series he did & links to various articles)

Them is being turned into a film, written by Mike White (School of Rock, The Good Girl, Chuck & Buck) and directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead

Ronson also writes a small, humorous, weekly piece in the Guardian called "Out of the Ordinary" - this search link pulls up many of them:

http://browse.guardian.co.uk/search?search=jon+ronson

Finally, here's his website which has links to a fair bit of stuff. The forum's a good place too, especially as Jon posts there every now & then.

http://www.jonronson.com/

Also FYI, here's a link to Jim Channon's "First Earth Battalion" manual:

http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_channon_0200.htm

(per Channon, he's advising the Pentagon again)

and you can pick up a First Earth Battalion T-Shirt here!:

http://www.offkilter.co.uk/feb/

Okay, I'll stop my fan wankery now!