Good Night & Good Luck - Atavistic McCarthyism

I just finished watching this and though it was made over five years ago, the principles of editorial freedom and corporate influence are even more important today. It's my pessimistic view that we will see some root and branch censoring of the internet in the near future as in terms of freedom and volume of quality content, the last five years have been the most golden media years of my life, easily boosting my pedestrian IQ by 10 points and allowing me to punch above my weight on a broader platform of topics and at much greater depth.

Aside from my mutual fascination and disgust with Senator McCarthy in the States during this ugly period of U.S. history that is now invoking some kind of atavistic behaviour I was touched to identify something in CBS that connects me to them historically than prior to this film. 


Good Night & Good Luck is a great movie in terms of black and white elegance and sparing performances released in black and white but produced on colour film stock through a grey scale set and later colour corrected to black and white in post production so that the original McCarthy footage opened up a world of bigotry and congressional hearing ugliness that till now I wasn't fully acquainted with.

Nick Redfern - Esoteric Dimensions To UFO Phenomena

I like Nick Redfern's modesty. In one interview he explained that he also writes about pets and horseshows or whatever it takes to keep the money flowing. However he is a prolific author, a proven door knocking investigator and his knowledge of the scope of interdependant and interrelated field of study with the UFO at the centre is possibly unique.

In addition to being interesting his ability to reserve judgement and distance himself from belief frameworks is disciplined and keeps the investigative momentum going in a health manner.

Göbekli Tepe Is Embarrassing The Smithsonian Over Stonehenge & Pyramids

Ancient Aliens has pretty much jumped the shark with Giorgio Tsoukalos now more memorable for his carefully contrived hair than science, as well as his absurd piece to camera one liners such as "If X therefore Extraterrestrials" for example "If cosmic pubic hair therefore extraterrestrials (pronounced EGG-TRA terrestrials as he needs to jam as much idiosyncratic mnemonics into his sock puppet lines as possible to prolong the fame.

However Ancient Aliens has done its job of carefully inserting a future meme of  'hell they been coming and going forever" just in case they turn up again shortly and a few elite institutions look like they have been holding back on us.

It's a bit like the Precog crime unit in Minority report where the job isn't to prevent murder but instead dampen any future public backlash. TV and Hollywood does this best. It's a Precog outrage unit.

In the mean time a dozen threaded and interweaving historical revisions are unravelling around the world as we speak, it's just that most of them aren't getting prime time like Ancient Aliens which adds fuel to the rumour mill of, is something alien in the offing? 

The entire para-history picture hangs together if we interrogate it hard enough such that the Göbekli Tepe ruins in Southern Turkey rewrite the fundamentals of ancient history right down to how long the spurious time it took for language and the neocortex to evolve. In the mean time it's probably best to take a pointillist approach rather than the oil landscape route as the Göbekli Tepe ruins are older than Stonehenge and the Cheops Pyramid. If that doesn't raise a few questions for the inquiring mind to dash of a letter of protest to The iniquitous Smithsonian Institute then stick to the Ancient Aliens and their Eggstraterrestrials along with 'millions around the world'. 

It's a good start but a little stage managed for the connoisseur.