Sometimes the Freedom of Information Act is a strange beast and you receive something you didn't ask for, but are still happy to get. That happened to me recently when in response to a request about the Pentagon's Hollywood database I received an updated list of DOD Films - movies that were assisted by the DOD.

The first two Iron Man movies are far more important to cinematic history than their daft scripts, super-arrogant star performer and cartoonish presentation might suggest. Between them they made over $1.2 billion worldwide and established the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has since become the biggest film franchise of all time.

Charlie Wilson's War reduces nearly 10 years of the Soviet-Afghan War into an hour and forty minutes of Sorkin-scribed witty dialogue focusing almost entirely on how one alcoholic, womanising congressman helped to raise the billions of dollars that were given to the mujahideen to fight the godless Commie invaders.

Il est rare que j’évoque autre chose que l’Espagne dans ce blog. Mais certains événements peuvent m’y amener.

The Clintons and the CIA: deep relationship

by Jon Rappoport

November 7, 2016

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As we close in on the election, it’s important to remember how far back the Clinton-CIA connection goes.

How often do US police officers discharge their weapons?

by Jon Rappoport

November 6, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

In recent years, the police have been blamed for a variety of very serious problems in American inner cities.

What connects JFK, Allen Dulles and the CIA's invasion at the Bay of Pigs to the movies Thunderball and Goldfinger? The answer is the relationship between the CIA and James Bond.

In November 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles sent a copy of the new Ian Fleming novel Goldfinger to Jackie Kennedy. In October 1964 the CIA Deputy Director Marshall Carter was invited to a special screening of the new James Bond movie Goldfinger at the MPAA headquarters in Washington.

To those FBI agents who are standing on Honor: don’t stop now

by Jon Rappoport

November 2, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, The Matrix Revealed, click here.)

“Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour to his titles.” —John Ford, 1638

Agents,

Tomorrow Never Dies is perhaps the most military-heavy Bond film of recent times, benefiting from production support from both the British and American armed forces. Despite this the Pentagon's Hollywood liaison Phil Strub denied that they provided any assistance to the film-makers.

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Breaking Hillary email scandal: open rebellion at the FBI

by Jon Rappoport

8:03PM ET, October 29, 2016

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Sources: NBC News, Gateway Pundit

Today we welcome back Robbie Martin of Media Roots and A Very Heavy Agenda to discuss the psychological impact of the most fierce and fearful US election in recent memory.

FBI reopens Hillary email probe: why did it take so long?

by Jon Rappoport

October 29, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

File this one under: “Come on. Really?”

The elephant in the room: HOW LONG HAS THE FBI KNOWN that new Hillary emails require reopening the probe in her handling of classified materials?

The Department of Energy has a minor but interesting role in the history of Hollywood, providing shooting locations for Tron (1982) and Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I am still awaiting documents on Star Trek but the DoE have provided me with another of their records on Tron - a kind of in house making of video.

Le comité fédéral, instance parlementaire du PSOE, l’équivalent des bons vieux comités centraux de partis, a donc voté dimanche dernier une résolution appelant les parlementaires socialistes à  s’abstenir lors du deuxième vote d’investiture de la coalition PP-Ciudadanos, vote qui devrait intervenir assez rapidement, avant Toussaint.

2009's Brüno is probably the most shallow of Sacha Baron Cohen's movies, based almost solely around the comedy of irritation and embarrassment. However, the story of its production is quite fascinating and a great example of how to get the state to accidentally or unwittingly sponsor your movie.

Javier Fernández dont on suit avec curiosité et même compassion le chemin de croix que son parti lui a demandé d’entreprendre a finalement lâché le dernier des arguments possibles à quelques jours de la réunion du comité fédéral du Psoe : s’abstenir et permettre à la droite de gouverner, c’est « el mal menor », le moindre mal.

Roar is a truly unique piece of cinema, possibly the most dangerous and brave and crazy film ever made. This week I take a look at this fascinating production which took 11 years to make, cost over $15 million and put most of its cast and crew in the hospital. The result is a magical, terrifying, hilarious story of the power of nature, the dangers inherent in our relationship with it and of good intentions gone badly wrong.

Scorpio holds the dubious distinction of being the first film to be allowed to shoot at the CIA headquarters in Langley. Since then the likes of Patriot Games and Argo are among a very small number to have been granted that privilege.

On peut être surpris par le ton pessimiste et même fataliste du Président en exercice de la direction provisoire du PSOE, Javier Fernández. Depuis sa nomination il distille un discours de défaite ou de résignation. Cette ligne de discours est volontaire, elle vise à couper l’herbe sous les pieds des plus déterminés des socialistes à un vote contre l’investiture de la droite. C’est une variante du dogme TINA, appliqué non pas aux orientations économiques ou sociales, mais au jeu institutionnel (si on peut prétendre aujourd’hui qu’il s’agit d’un jeu).

Author and publicist Richard Condon is best remembered for writing The Manchurian Candidate - a biting futuristic satire in which a Medal of Honor winning soldier is brainwashed by the Soviets to try to assassinate the US president.

Le Psoe est-il en état de mort clinique? La réunion de samedi dernier du Comité Fédéral (instance délibérative du parti) a sanctionné la gestion politique de Pedro Sánchez, qui,  tirant les conséquences, de ce vote, a remis sa démission. Un organe de gestion provisoire  composé de dix membres a été immédiatement mis en place pour préparer les nouvelles échéances dont la plus importante sera d’infirmer les votes antérieurs de cet organe dirigeant pour se prononcer en faveur d’une abstention pour une éventuelle nouvelle candidature du PP à l’investiture parlementaire.

Rien ne va plus au sein du Psoe. Les deux mauvais résultats aux élections régionales en Galice et au Pays basque comme les résultats médiocres aux élections législatives ont plongé  ce parti dans une crise interne sans précédent. Elle n’est pas sans rappeler celle qui secoua les communistes espagnols au début des années 80, toutes proportions gardées et toutes choses égales par ailleurs.

J’ai relevé le titre suivant dans sur la page Syrie de la chaîne d’info continue internationale France 24 : « À l’ONU, Paris dénonce des « crimes de guerre »[1] et compare Alep à Guernica ». Le sous-texte résume un élément du discours de l’ambassadeur de France à l’ONU, François Delattre :

A l’occasion de la célébration de la Diada, fête nationale catalane, le 11 septembre dernier, le Président de la Généralité de Catalogne, Carles Puigdemont a évoqué la possibilité de convoquer, après celui de septembre 2015, un deuxième référendum pour l’indépendance à l’horizon 2017. Il s’agirait de proposer une nouvelle feuille de route vers l’indépendance qui passerait par ce référendum puis, si l’accord ne se fait pas sur sa légitimité, par des élections constituantes dans un an.

Le Psoe va mal très mal. Les dissidents se considèrent comme victimes du manque de liberté d’expression et de démocratie à l’intérieur du parti. L’image est déplorable, bien sûr, mais elle est le reflet du danger d’implosion qui guette ce parti, confortablement installé depuis une quarantaine d’années dans le dense tissu de ce que Podemos appelle, concept sans grande pertinence mais qui reflète assez bien l’état des choses ressenti, « la casta ».

Il faudra attendre que les élections régionales de Galice et du Pays basque aient livré leur verdict pour qu’une autre solution, peu vraisemblable aujourd’hui, que de nouvelles élections en décembre soit possible pour former un nouveau gouvernement.

Si l’on examine les sondages réalisés dans ces deux régions, on note que dans la première le PP est en position hégémonique, alors que dans la deuxième, des alliances seront nécessaires au PNV (parti nationaliste basque de centre droit) pour gouverner.

Parlement régional de Galice:

Pearse invited me back onto his new radio show to discuss my recent piece on Three Days of the Condor and some of the alternative history of Watergate.

Tron is a classic piece of transhumanist cinema and the first of a string of films where someone is sucked into a digital realm and has to battle it out with computer programs in order to save the day (the Matrix trilogy being the most popular examples).

Message to Colin Kaepernick: the real disaster of inner cities

by Jon Rappoport

September 4, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Exit From The Matrix, click here.)

Mr. Kaepernick:

As you keep sitting down or kneeling during the National Anthem, you keep focusing on police brutality.

Salvador Dali vs. The Matrix

by Jon Rappoport

August 22, 2016

Dali, the painter: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989).

His self-appointed task: shake up reality.

Make the impossible intrude on the ordinary. Expose and confound the critics and the press. Whenever the establishment tries to define who he is, become something else.

I was recently a guest on Uncle the Podcast - my favourite up and coming comedy podcast - to discuss the 1980s arm wrestling movie Over the Top, starring Sylvester Stallone. The film is about a father who is estranged from his young son but due to the mother's illness they are thrown back together.

Adding to the British government departments who have provided assistance to the James Bond franchise, the now defunct Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) have released documents on the filming of a scene for Skyfall at their headquarters in Whitehall.

The rabbit hole

by Jon Rappoport

August 8, 2016
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There are very few investigators on the planet who are interested in this subject. I am one of them. There is a reason why.

Today we take a look at the documentary series A Very Heavy Agenda by Robbie Martin, which I reviewed a few weeks ago.

The Battle of Algiers was a groundbreaking film when it came out in 1966, not just for its depiction of the Algerian War against French occupation but for its quasi-documentary realism and its morally neutral approach, showing both sides committing atrocities.

Richard Klein is one of the most important people in the entertainment industry that you have never heard of - a former State Department employee who now works for McLarty Associates - an elite Washington DC law firm - as their liaison to Hollywood.

Rounding off this second season we take a look at SALT, the 2010 action thriller starring Angelina Jolie as a CIA officer accused of being a Russian sleeper agent. SALT is one of the less well known CIA-assisted productions, but along with technical advice from former CIA officer Melissa Boyle Mahle the producers also consulted with the CIA themselves in a video conference.

Robbie Martin is our final guest for this season as we dissect the 2012 docudrama Zero Dark Thirty. We discussed the difficulty in defining what kind of film this is - somewhere between a spy thriller, a documentary and a dry European art house movie.

My interview with Sharyl Attkisson: vaccines, exposing the CDC

by Jon Rappoport

July 22, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

The Department of Defense maintains a database summarising its collaboration with Hollywood productions. The master list for this database was released to me two years ago as the DOD Film List and since then I have obtained a handful of entries.

NASA's Multimedia Liaison Office was founded in the 1990s but they have recently become more aggressively involved in the entertainment industry.

James Evan Pilato is our latest guest as we dissect the 2009 Disney UFO adventure Race to Witch Mountain. We start off looking at Disney as a corporation - its long standing interest in UFOs and extraterrestrials, the connections to government agencies and their recent takeover of the fantasy genre.

Inside the FBI: agents’ outrage at Hillary email decision

by Jon Rappoport

July 13, 2016

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FBI-Hillary interview lost; and the silence of the lambs

One more clue that the fix is in

by Jon Rappoport

July 11, 2016

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It’s unthinkable—but not surprising—that the FBI didn’t record their interview with Hillary Clinton.

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) recently published its annual report, which details complaints against various movies including Spectre, Kingsman and Minions. As is so often the case, sex and violence were the focus of the complaints, leading the BBFC to explain why they had allowed these scenes into films aimed at young people.

Pearse and I recently appeared on The Opperman Report to chat about The Writer with No Hands, Matthew Alford's book into the disappearance and probable murder of Hollywood screenwriter Gary Devore.

Adam from Themes and Memes is our guest to talk about the 2015 action comedy American Ultra. We start by trying to define this film, which is an intense mixture of cartoonish ultra violence, CIA covert operations, romance, comedy and horror, looking at the dissociating nature of this blend.

Our old friends at the U.S. Pentagon’s Tor Project have had a hard time of it recently. The public face of Tor, Jacob Appelbaum, was forced to resign from the project when it was revealed he apparently is a sexual predator.

One of the most prominent influences of pop culture on government and on the deep state is in the use of code names. From the capture of Saddam Hussein to a counter-smuggling helicopter unit in Hawaii, from a mass surveillance program named after Blazing Saddles to Secret Service and MI5 code names taken from cartoon characters, this is a widespread and frequent phenomenon.

Boggling flu hoax: not for prime-time news

by Jon Rappoport

June 15, 2016

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Orlando shooter: deeper hidden ties to the FBI?

by Jon Rappoport

June 13, 2016

(To read about Jon’s mega-collection, Power Outside The Matrix, click here.)

Cousins from Hebron area are suspected of opening fire in busy square, killing four.

you’re hilarious:

“I know that people in California don’t like to walk, forget about work! But tomorrow, they gotta walk that lonesome valley by themselves!”

The Hidden History of Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali’s resistance to racism and war belongs not only to the 1960s, but the common future of humanity.

by Dave Zirin

The post Priorities, Priorities! appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

​[A childhood friend of mine now living in Israel wrote me this morning: “Norman now that Hillary has won California don’t you think it’s time for Bernie to get behind her to defeat the orangutan?”  Here’s my reply:]

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The Bilderberg Group’s members are starting to arrive early in all black tinted windowed limousines. The police are out and acting savage – threatening Luke Rudkowski with a beating if he returned to the Dresden Hotel where the Bilderberg Conference is being hosted.

Planned visit by PEGIDA UK leaders highlights Israel’s appeal to anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic bigots.

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Is Tom Hayes The Libor Scapegoat ?

Was Tom Hayes Running The Biggest Financial Conspiracy In History
Or Just Taking The Fall?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-14/was-tom-hayes-running-the-biggest-financial-conspiracy-in-history-

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Lindsey Graham will Become a Democrat If Republicans Select Trump

During a time when the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, should be working to bring the party together and prepare for the primary battle against Hillary Clinton, he continues to deepen the divide between Republicans and Americans alike.

Source : News Monkey, 16-05-2016

J’ai remis à jour quelques graphiques sur le climat, complété par quelques autres.

(pour mémoire, la série mensuelle sur la météo n’existe plus car aucun volontaire ne s’est proposé pour le faire (2 heures par mois environ), tout comme la grosse étude sur le climat à remettre à jour (long, mais à faire une seule fois) – je dis ça, je dis rien… Vous pouvez nous contacter ici)

Voici l’évolution de la température planétaire (sur les terres et les océans) :

The smash-hit movie called Reality

by Jon Rappoport

There is always a certain amount of whining and remorse as one enters the theater to see the movie called Reality, after buying the ticket.

“Is this a good idea?” “Why did I do it?”

But you can already feel a merging sensation. The electromagnetic fields humming in the theater, even before the movie starts, are drawing you into the space.

Your perception of x dimensions is narrowing down to three.

You take your seat. You look at the note you’ve written to yourself, and you read it again:

Source : Consortiumnews.com, le 18/05/2016

Le 18 mai 2016

Les nouvelles données climatiques montrent que le réchauffement mondial empire, s’accélérant à un rythme plus rapide que ce qui était prévu à la conférence de Paris sur le changement climatique, écrit Nicolas C. Arguimbau.

Par Nicholas C. Arguimbau