"Glass Onion : On John Lennon" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glass-onion-on-john-lennon/id1473867166)
"Film Gold" (https://anchor.fm/filmgold)
"Life and Life Only" (https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/)
Items mentioned in / relevant to the dialogue
Eric Schlosser, "Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True", The New Yorker (17 January 2014)
David Bromwich, "Dr. Strangelove: The Darkest Room", Criterion.com (28 June 2016)
Roger Ebert, "Dr Strangelove", RogerEbert.com (1999)
Daniel Rothberg, " "Dr. Strangelove’s" connections to the JFK assassination", Los Angeles Times (22 November 2013)
Wheeler Winston Dixon, "Dr Strangelove", via US National Film Preservation Board (2012)
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, "Dr. Strangelove", The Kubrick Site
David Alan Rosenberg, "The Origins of Overkill: Nuclear Weapons and American Strategy, 1945-1960", International Security, Spring, 1983, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Spring, 1983), pp. 3-71 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2626731)
Nick Jones, "Commander-1: The Life and Death of Author Peter George, alias Peter Bryant / Bryan Peters, co-writer of Dr. Strangelove; inc. Bibliography", ExistentialEnnui.com (19 October 2012)
Dan Lindley, "What I learned since I stopped worrying and studied the movie: A Teaching Guide to Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove", (8 September 2009)
"LEARNING TO LOVE THE BOMB: A Retrospective on Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove", Empire of the Mind YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbsWqoQpwhA)
Peter Sellers as Fred Kite and Sir Peter Kennaway in I'm Alright Jack (1959) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052911/characters/nm0000634)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041546/)
Simon Anthony (letter), "The real Dr Strangelove", NewScientist (5 June 2014)
Dr. Strangelove (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove)
Try a Little Tenderness (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Try_a_Little_Tenderness)
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Johnny_Comes_Marching_Home)
Strategic Air Command (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Air_Command)
Podcast image (above and below): By United States Department of Defense (either the U.S. Army or the U.S. Navy) derivative work: Victorrocha (Operation_Crossroads_Baker_(wide).jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons; cropped, resized
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Yuval Noah Harari, "Bananas in Heaven", TEDxJaffa (2014) via YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZa4sdIwV04)
Dr Harari's official website: (https://ynharari.com/)
Dr Harari's page at the WEF (https://www.weforum.org/people/yuval-noah-harari/)
US Declaration of Independence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence)
Note
Shortly after posting this podcast, a regular listener (who is a mathematician) kindly sent me a message which I thought would be helpful to add to these notes. Thank you, Paul.
I just listened to your podcast "Niggling Heavenly Bananas & Rights in Spleens". I'm writing firstly to say a "thank you" for the podcast, which I have been listening to for a couple of years now. I like the idea of these shorter commentary podcasts between the more extended interviews.
Secondly, I'm writing to express what I thought to be a fundamental contradiction in Dr Hurari's argument, which your commentary came close to.
As a mathematician, I'm well aware, as are most people, that science itself is underpinned by mathematics. Yet nowhere in the brain of mathematicians or scientists, nor of anyone else, would the number "2" be found. Nor would any other number for that matter! Neither would "pi", "e", or "i" (the unfortunately named (?) imaginary unit), nor any other constant, theorem, or proof of mathematics. Yet the world of science is built upon these elusive objects. The world around us is manipulated and changed daily as a result of science, and by implication, these missing mathematical entities.
Would Dr Hurari dismiss the entire body of science because of his inability to physically locate its foundations? I doubt it.
Mathematicians have even tried to build the entirety of mathematics literally from nothing; the "empty set", abstracting even counting numbers from the physical world. Yet Gödel's theorem essentially states that no matter how carefully this is done, there are mathematical truths which are "self-evident" and cannot be formally proven – a blow to the hopes of early 20th century mathematicians who hoped that everything which is true should be provably so.
In essence, Dr Hurari's argument that human rights, money, and God, do not exist, applies equally to his own beloved Science.
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CJ Hopkins has stated that "anyone is free to share and republish" his statemenrt to the court, (CJ Hopkins, "The Verdict", CJ Hopkins on Substack; accessed 26 January 2024).
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Podcast artwork by The Mind Renewed (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Van Diemen's Land (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Diemen%27s_Land)
"Tesco shopper stunned after 'spotting face of Princess Diana in packet of sliced ham' ", Birmingham Mail (27 April 2023)
(William) Comyns Beaumont, The Great Deception : Syria, Britain and the Roman Conspiracy, Lulu.com (2015 reprint)
"King Charles III is a descendant of Dracula and owns properties in Transylvania", CornwallLive (09 September 2022)
"VR goggles for mice create immersive scenarios for brain research", The Guardian (08 December 2023)
"Australian man screaming at spider 'why don't you die?' triggers full police response", The Guardian (02 January 2019)
"What the heck happened to Joe Biden’s face? “He grew testicles on his chin!” ", The Blaze (20 October 2023)
"Mayor Adams Anoints Kathleen Corradi as NYC's First-Ever 'Rat Czar' ", NYC.gov (12 April 2023)
"Nude landlord no excuse for holding back rent, rules German court", The Guardian (26 April 2023)
"Spoon spotted: Arizona Dairy Queen's big red spoon found", The Independent (03 April 2023)
"Dog eats owner's passport, putting Massachusetts couple's Italy wedding in jeopardy", CBSNews (21 August 2023)
"Peru doctors save toddler who swallowed eight medical needles", Reuters (13 September 2023)
"NHS adviser suggests staff should wear 'gratitude ponchos' ", The Telegraph (25 July 2023)
"Four men charged over theft of $6 mln gold toilet from English palace", Reuters (07 November 2023)
"Brian Williams Apologizes for Lying About His Iraq Helicopter Crash", Vanity Fair (05 February 2015)
"Giant meatball of extinct mammoth unveiled in The Netherlands", Reuters (29 March 2023)
" 'Northern Waitrose' becomes UK's first supermarket to go back to fully-staffed checkouts after axing almost all of its self-service tills", Daily Mail (10 November 2023)
"Graphic cigarette packet-style warnings could help people reduce meat consumption, study finds", Sky News (01 November 2023)
"Mexico legislators hold hearing on existence of UFOs, shown ‘alien’ bodies", Aljazeera (14 September 2023)
"When the BBC’s disinformation correspondent lied on her CV", The New European (06 September 2023)
"Crazy plane lady' Tiffany Gomas reveals she 'went into hiding for four weeks' after meltdown on American Airlines flight - 'it was the worst moment of my life' ", Daily Mail (11 November 2023)
"Baby found alive in tree after Tennessee tornado", BBC News (15 December 2023)
"US man charged over damage to Satanic Temple display in Iowa", BBC News (16 December 2023)
"The dossier that blows apart the Coutts claims about closing Nigel Farage’s account", The Telegraph (18 July 2023)
"Using Russell Brand as Pretext, UK Govt & US Media Launch Multi-Pronged War on Rumble", System Update with Glenn Greenwald on Rumble (25 September 2023)
"Parisian undertaker aims to introduce bicycle hearse in France", Reuters (03 November 2023)
Acknowledgements
TMR would also like to thank the following people for their valuable contributions to this year's New Year's Eve show.
GK—for the excellent graphics work
Jenifer Thyssen—for her beautiful vocal performance of "Auld Lang Syne"
The harpist Alena Bistritsky—for the equisite accompaniment to "Auld Lang Syne"
Bob Purse—for his wonderfully surreal song: "A Sailing Milk Moustache" by Bob Purse (from the album "The Many Moods of Bob") via Archive.org (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). The music appears here under the same licence (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).
TMR wishes to state that the fact that third-party creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that the creators of such materials endorse anything published by TMR.
Vocal excerpts and quotations from articles and papers used in the spirit of Fair Use for the purposes of commentary and satire.
TMR wishes to state that the fact that third-party creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that the creators of such materials endorse anything published by TMR.
Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Mark Campbell—creator of the Bowler or Fez Film Review channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSokpkLnhiQ65-AJK8Ru3kQ)
Antony Rotunno—podcasts: "Glass Onion : On John Lennon" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glass-onion-on-john-lennon/id1473867166); "Film Gold" (https://anchor.fm/filmgold); "Life and Life Only" (https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/)
Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
James Mottram, "Jennifer Lynch : Life with David and the turkey of the decade", The Independent (22 February 2009)
Shae Sennett, "How Eraserhead Led David Lynch To The Elephant Man's Script", Slashfilm.com (19 August 2022)
Trevor Lynch, "Eraserhead : A Gnostic Anti-Sex Film", Counter-Currents (12 December 2018)
David Sterritt, "Eraserhead", US Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board (PDF available there).
The excellent interview with David Lynch on the making of Eraserhead to which we frequently referred is on the DVD as an "extra". I can't find it elsewhere. (Sorry about that.)
Roger Ebert speaking enthusiastically (and Gene Siskel speaking less so) about Eraserheadin 1987 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ENiUHuepo). (The video includes a short clip of Henry attempting to carve the dead/live "chicken" at Mr and Mrs X's house.)
TMR wishes to state that the fact that third-party creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that the creators of such materials endorse anything published by TMR.
Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Mark Campbell—creator of the Bowler or Fez Film Review channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSokpkLnhiQ65-AJK8Ru3kQ)
Antony Rotunno—podcasts: "Glass Onion : On John Lennon" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glass-onion-on-john-lennon/id1473867166); "Film Gold" (https://anchor.fm/filmgold); "Life and Life Only" (https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/)
Note
I am aware that the personnel of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff changed between "Operation Northwoods" and the Cuban Missile Crisis (most notably the replacement of Lyman Lemnitzer by Maxwell Taylor as Chief of JCS on the 1st of October 1962), but I still think mention of Northwoods in the film would have been a good idea. But maybe it didn't make it past the CIA filter. After all, in their book, May and Zelikow ackowledge "financial support" from “Harvard University's Intelligence and Policy Project, which is sponsored by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence” (p. xiv).
Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
Ernest R May & Philip D Zelikow,The Kennedy Tapes : Inside the Cuban Missle Crisis, Belknap, Harvard University Press (1997)
Ernest R May, "Thirteen Days in 145 Minutes", The American Prospect (7 November 2001)
Robert F Kennedy, Thirteen Days : A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis, WW Norton (1969)
Barbara W Tuchman, The Guns of August, Macmillan (1962)
James W Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable : Why He Died and Why it Matters, Orbis Books (2008)
Noam Chomsky, Rethinking Camelot : JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture, South End Press (1993)
Detail on the Vasily Arkhipov story (https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2022-10-03/soviet-submarines-nuclear-torpedoes-cuban-missile-crisis)
TV docudrama: The Missiles of October (1974)
Roger Ebert, "Thirteen Days", RogerEbert.com (12 January 2001)
Michael Nelson, "Thirteen Days Doesn't Add Up", Chronicle of Higher Education (02 November 2001) [JC: This is quite a negative review of the movie, but still worth reading because it makes some good points. However, I can't agree with the author's defence of LeMay. In the transcript LeMay does use profanity in the JCS meeting (arguably worse than that noted by Nelson); it was said of him by McGeorge Bundy that his plans had called for "a massive, total, comprehensive, obliterating strategic attack... on everything Red", which I think justifies the film's depiction of LeMay as being capable of saying "shoot the Red dog", even if he didn't in actual fact; and I don't think it's unfair to portray the Joint Chiefs as at least somewhat "conspiratorial" given the background of the Bay of Pigs and Operation Northwoods (even if the latter wasn't mentioned in the film). I also think, had Kenny O'Donnell in real life asked the pilot "to lie to his superiors if he's shot at", that that request—under such circumstances of imminent nuclear war—would indeed have been worthy of applause. The fact that the author doesn't think so, I find somewhat telling.] [See: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/when-the-pentagon-wanted-to-nuke-russia/]
Audio of meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Crisis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MAmvx3lh4U) [Listen from about 22:10 for LeMay's "You're in a pretty bad fix, Mr President" and Kennedy's undramatic response.]
Robert McNamara responds to questions on the movie, PBS Online NewsHour (March 2001) (https://web.archive.org/web/20010905114944/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/february01/thirteendays3.html)
A nice little sample of JFK's sense of humour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRcTCUTXr5M)
James Corbett on JFK's so-called "Secret Societies Speech" (https://www.corbettreport.com/qfc-jfksecret/)
Transcript of Adlai Stevenson addressing the N Security Council (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/adlaistevensonunitednationscuba.html)
Transcript of JFK's "Peace Speech" of 10 June 1963 (https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfkamericanuniversityaddress.html)
Curtis LeMay being bland (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz__w3Hqy0E) [JC: I've no idea who the woman is who speaks first.]
The "sparrows incident" : Air Commander William Ecker comments on the film's accuracy (https://vfp62.com/Ecker_Comments.html)
Podcast artwork: "Map created by American intelligence showing Surface-to-Air Missile Activity in Cuba, 5 September 1962"; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1962_Cuba_Missiles_(30848755396).jpg; Central Intelligence Agency from Washington, D.C., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; cropped, slightly sharpened and colourised, and aspect ratio altered. See URL for original.
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(Phill is a Christian minister. Ordained in the Church of England, he formerly served in a parish on the Essex coast, but now leads an independent housechurch. He also runs the online ministries, "Understand the Bible", and "Sacred Musings : Building on Christian Foundations" on YouTube.)
Other items mentioned in / relevant to the conversation
Rebecca Seales, "The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't", BBC News (20 May 2023)
Joanna Williams, How Woke Won, Spiked (2022)
"You Won't Believe The Words From This "Prayer" At a Lutheran Church", BlackConservative24 YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIz-yuLShoY) [JC: As I said in the conversation, I don't know if this is a genuine service. I suppose it might be a parody. I suspect it's real, but I'll leave that to you to judge.]
Eugyppius, "The Administrative Man", Eugyppius.com (23 June 2023) (https://www.eugyppius.com/p/the-administrative-man)
Michael Heiser, Naked Bible 143 : Ezekiel 28, The Naked Bible Podcast (28 January 2017) (https://nakedbiblepodcast.com/podcast/naked-bible-143-ezekiel-28/)
Michael Heiser, "Trouble in Paradise / Like the Most High?", More Unseen Realm (https://www.moreunseenrealm.com/ch11/) [JC: Highly recommended for in-depth discussion.]
Please note that the above page contains a link to the doctoral thesis of Hugh Rowland Page entitled: “The astral revolt : A study of its reflexes in Canaanite and Hebrew literature.”
Dr Page is currently a professor of religion at The University of Notre Dame (https://theology.nd.edu/people/the-rev-hugh-r-page-jr/)
Richard Lederman, "What is the Biblical Flying Serpent?", TheTorah.com (https://www.thetorah.com/article/what-is-the-biblical-flying-serpent)
Dale Basil Martin, "When Did Angels Become Demons?", Journal of Biblical Literature, Winter 2010, Vol. 129, No. 4, pp. 657-677
Origen, De Principiis, Book 1, Chapter 5, Paragraph 5 (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04121.htm)
Origen, De Principiis, Book 4, Chapter 1, Paragraph 22 (https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04124.htm)
Brandon Smith, "American Churches Are Eerily Silent When The Country Needs Them Most", Alt-Market.us (07 July 2023) (https://alt-market.us/american-churches-are-eerily-silent-when-the-country-needs-them-most/)
Congress for Cultural Freedom (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_for_Cultural_Freedom)
Francis Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War, the CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, The New Press (New York : 2000)
Acknowledgements & Disclaimer
The opinions expressed by Rev Phill Sacre are his responsibility alone; they do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mind Renewed.
TMR wishes to state that the fact that these creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that its creators endorse anything published by TMR.
Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Mark Campbell—creator of the Bowler or Fez Film Review channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSokpkLnhiQ65-AJK8Ru3kQ)
Antony Rotunno—podcasts: "Glass Onion : On John Lennon" (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/glass-onion-on-john-lennon/id1473867166); "Film Gold" (https://anchor.fm/filmgold); "Life and Life Only" (https://lifeandlifeonly.podbean.com/)
Special Notes
1) Erratum: In the conversation, I mistakenly said that Joseph Goebbels became Führer for one day following Hitler's death. In fact he became Reichskanzler (Reich Chancellor), while Karl Dönitz became Reichspräsident (Reich President). It seems that, whereas Hitler had combined both Reichskanzler and Führer in himself, he wished that the roles should be split following his death and that Führer should be replaced by Reichspräsident. None of this affects the point I was trying to make—that there are always more goons waiting in the wings to take over when the current goon goes—but I thought I should correct my mistake. (I think that's right now. Let me know if it's still wrong!)
2) I do not wish to be misunderstood on this point, as I think I may have come over as more dismissive in the pocdast than I had intended. As I said in the roundtable, although I am currently not persuaded that Adolf and Eva escaped from the Führerbunker and travelled to Argentina, I am not certain about it. In fact—rather like the Moon Landings issue—I am about 60/40 about it (60 they didn't; 40 they did), and I certainly wouldn't criticise anyone who thinks they did escape or dismiss as crazy attempts to research the matter. Again, rather like the Moon Landings issue, I haven't spent very much time pursuing arguments and evidence for and against. (If listeners think it worthwhile, I am open to the idea of looking into these questions further.)
3) Although these didn't get a mention in the podcast (because the conversation just didn't go that way), I am aware of FBI and CIA interest in claimed sightings of Hitler in South America in the years following the war. I have consulted these documents.
FBI Report on Adolf Hitler in Argentina (https://vault.fbi.gov/adolf-hitler/adolf-hitler-part-01-of-04/view)
CIA: Hitler, Adolf_0001.pdf; Hitler, Adolf_0002.pdf; Hitler, Adolf_0003.pdf; Hitler, Adolf_0004.pdf; Hitler, Adolf_0005.pdf; Hitler, Adolf_0006.pdf, each accessible via (https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/nazi-war-crimes-disclosure-act?page=1917)
4) In the film Grey Wolf : The Escape of Adolf Hitler, we see a dog that looks like Blondi. Given that later in the film we see two small gravestones, one marked "Blondi" and the other marked "Blondi II", it seems reasonable to think that Gerrard Williams (director, and co-author of the original book which I've not read) is suggesting that either Blondi survived and travelled with Adolf and Eva to Argentina (only to be replaced by another dog later on), or that they carried Blondi's ashes with them. Either way, the claim seems to be that Blondi went with them in some form.
5)Film Gold podcast on Michael Caine was mentioned at the beginning, so here are the URLs:
Traudl Junge, ed. Melissa Müller, Until the Final Hour, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2003)
Joachim Fest, Inside Hitler's Bunker : The Last Days Of The Third Reich, (2002, German edition)
Simon Dunstan & Gerrard Williams, Grey Wolf : The Escape of Adolf Hitler, Sterling (2019)
Grey Wolf (film) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr_YmMfw1Jc) as made available by Mediatime Network on YouTube
Gerrard Williams speaks to Howard Hughes (https://theunexplained.tv/episodes/edition-160-did-hitler-escape) [JC: Highly recommended interview.]
Hunting Hitler (History Channel TV series) [JC: This contains the fascinating claim that there was an escape tunnel at the Bunker] (Wikipedia entry for description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_Hitler)
"High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history", The Guardian (25 September 2016)
"Kein schöner Land in dieser Zeit" (Wikipedia entry with sheet music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kein_sch%C3%B6ner_Land_in_dieser_Zeit)
For Magda Goebbels' rationale for murder see (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Goebbels#Death)
Jim Marrs, Rise of the Fourth Reich, William Morrow & Company (2008)
Hitler And Stalin, Roots Of Evil (documentary)
Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free : The Germans, 1933-45, University of Chicago Press (1955)
Kevin P Sweeney, "We Will Never Speak of It : Evidence of Hitler's Direct Responsibility for the Premeditation and Implementation of the Nazi Final Solution", Illinois Wesleyan University (2012) (https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/constructing/vol13/iss1/7/)
Helmut Krausnick & Martin Broszat, Anatomy of the SS State, Paladin (1970)
Alan Bullock, Hitler : A Study in Tyranny, Odhams (1952)
Article in The Advocate (1949) on Peter Baumgart (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/69327754)
Hitler’s Political Testament, Personal Will, and Marriage Certificate (https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2014/03/04/hitlers-political-testament-personal-will-and-marriage-certificate-from-the-bunker-in-berlin-to-the-national-archives-in-washington-d-c-part-i-the-creation-of-the-documents/)
"U-Boat rumoured to have helped Nazis escape to Argentina is discovered", The Independent (19 April 2018)
"Hitler lived until 1962? That's my story, claims Argentinian writer", The Observer (27 October 2013)
"JFK docs show CIA heard rumor that Adolf Hitler escaped to South America", CBS News (01 November 2017)
"What Really Happened During Hitler's Final Hours In The Führerbunker?", an interview with historian Luke Daly Groves. [JC: I list this because I consulted it, but I wasn't impressed. The interviewer asked "soft-ball" questions and Dr Groves seemed to rely too heavily on official sources and opinions for my liking.]
TMR wishes to state that the fact that these creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that its creators endorse anything published by TMR.
Valley Park Radio (https://www.valleyparkradio.org.uk/)
Mark is on most Mondays from 3 pm to 5 pm UK time, if you fancy listening in. (Actually, he's on most Mondays from 3 pm to 5 pm UK time, even if you don't fancy listening in.) He's very good at it. In a fairer world he'd be on BBC Radio 2 or something, but that's life I suppose.
John Ashe
"John Ashe ("spelt with an E") is either 60 or 62 years old and lives in Basingstoke, UK. In the 1970s he had two girlfriends (at different times), one called Maud, the other Molly. His hobbies include riding a pogo stick and walking with stilts (neither of which, contrary to the ignorant opinion of his newly trained GP, has any connection to his persistent back problems). Though not short of money, as a fairly successful, now-retired, quantity surveyor, John occasionally endeavours to supplement his pensions by buying and selling Cornish pasties and transporting them up and down the M6 to outlets from which he can gain the greatest profit before they go bad. He once (famously in Baskingtoke circles) won a second-hand lawnmower in a postal competition."
[Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.] :)
TMR wishes to state that the fact that these creative materials appear in TMR productions should in no way be understood as implying that its creators endorse anything published by TMR.
"Bombs away! Male porn star who took controversial trans teacher with size Z prosthetic breasts on a skydive says he considered it ‘a challenge’ given her weight", Mail Online (24 November 2022)
"Was the fake boobs teacher a hoax?", Unherd.com (26 September 2022)
URL of anonymous Twitter comment about Kayla Lemieux (https://twitter.com/718tv/status/1573391238526603264?s=46&t=MtoEgtlZq2TVUN0JGqVbPQ)
Did Henry VIII write Greensleaves? Wikipedia doesn't think so, so maybe he did. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensleeves#Origin)
"Judge rules that bees, legally, can be fish", The Independent (02 June 2022)
Rishi Sunak's red/green folder mystery (Sky News on YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELrn0mmZnGE)
[JC: Some claim to have solved this deep mystery. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgt2mnU1oDc. However, TMR is not so easily persuaded. Indeed a TMR Think-tank is being planned thoroughly to investigate this crucial matter sometime in the New Year.]
"Former US President Donald Trump sells out NFT trading cards", BBC News (16 December 2022)
"There was a creepy fifth housemate lurking in cult TV show The Young Ones — and hardly anyone noticed", BusinessInsider.com (29 June 2016)
"Sarcastic BrewDog reacts as beer advert is banned", Sky News (07 December 2022)
"NYC New School students demand ‘A’ grades, refunds after faculty strike", New York Post (17 December 2022)
"A Study in Stupidity: does the covid vaccine really lower your risk of being in a car accident?", Prof Norman Fenton on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iryCrHaozU)
" 'Lettuce all pray for Liz Truss' - PM loses to vegetable in Daily Star stunt", Sky News (21 October 2022)
Matt Taibbi's The Twitter Files (https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394?lang=en)
"Episode 429 - Meet Elon Musk, Technocratic Huckster", The Corbett Report (18 October 2022)
Acknowledgements
TMR would also like to thank the following people for their valuable contributions to this year's New Year's Eve show.
GK—for the excellent graphics work. (Thanks again GK! Sorry you couldn't be with us this time.)
Jenifer Thyssen—for her beautiful musical composition (written especially for the show) setting the poem "Christmas Meditation" by George Macdonald (1824-1905), and her exquisite performance of the same. (Thank you Jenifer— such a beautiful piece!)
The poem by George Macdonald can be read here (https://allpoetry.com/Christmas-Meditation).
The opinions expressed by the guests on this show are the responsibility of each alone; they do not necessarily reflect the views of The Mind Renewed.
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Ali G meets Tony Benn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-YYroSudUs) [JC: If you've not seen this, do. Notice, as one commenter does, that after the interview Sasha Baron Cohen shakes Tony Benn's hand rather than giving him the usual fist bump. I think the mutual respect (respek?) is clear.]
"Keir Starmer's Journey to Jewishness" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHa9-mdEbUQ)
Anatoliy Golitsyn (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Golitsyn) [See the "accusing Harold Wilson" section and the books referenced there (so long as that bit doesn't get removed).]
"Did the KGB send Golitsyn to Angleton? One could just as easily subsitute MI5 for KGB... [Perhaps] Golitsyn was a two-way channel to Angleton and MI5, both of whom relied on him for their secret infomation. MI5 fed Golitsyn stories... which he then relayed to Angleton as his his own secret information." Dorril & Ramsay, Smear : Wilson and the Secret State, p 42.
Books suggested by John Booth
Richard J Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelligence, (2001)
Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? : The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta (2000)
Hugh Wilford, The CIA, The British Left and the Cold War: Calling the Tune?, Routledge (2003)
The interview from which the clip was taken can be watched at the following URL (https://watch.declassifieduk.org/a/video/jeremy-corbyn-on-the-establishment-campaign-to-stop-him-becoming-prime-minister).
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room! (1966) (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!)
Soylent Green (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green)
Soylent Green (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/)
Soylent Green DVD (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soylent-Green-DVD-Charlton-Heston/dp/B0000AISK) [For audio commentary by Richard Fleischer and Leigh Taylor-Young]
Roger Ebert, "Soylent Green", (27 April 1973) (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/soylent-green-1973)
"Liverpool fans tear-gassed in Paris, Rangers fans without water in baking heat: Why football needs a democratic revolution", The Scotsman (31 May 2022)
"French police tear gas & pepper spray fans waiting to attend the Champions League final", Sky Sports News (28 May 2022) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PBu_YTu9wM)
Schneider & Thomsen, eds., Lexikon der britischen und amerikanischen Spielfilme in den Fernsehprogrammen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1954–1985, vol. 2, p 642, Berlin: Spiess (1989)
Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, Encounter (June 2020)
The Club of Rome (https://www.clubofrome.org/)
Alex Beggs, "A Taste for Cannibalism? : A spate of recent stomach-churning books, TV shows and films suggests we’ve never looked so delicious — to one another", New York Times (23 July 2022)
Soylent (https://soylent.com/) [JC: Needless to say this company is not the fictional Soylent Corporation in the film! I note it here simply because we mentioned it in the roundtable. Please also note that TMR is not endorsing their products or being paid anything by them to advertise. It's just for reference.]
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Dan Wooton of GB News speaks to two participants (https://odysee.com/@WelcomeToTheDelusion:d/Y2Mate.is---The-Outsider-Dan-Wootton-is-joined-by-participants-of-vaccine-show-who-slam-the-BBC-as-%E2%80%98bias%E2%80%99-vlyXWdZrH9c-720p-1658485254809:9) via Odysee
Dr Ryan Cole shares deep concerns with Dr Joseph Mercola (https://odysee.com/@InSearchOfTruth:7/Effects-of-the-COVID-Jab---Interview-with-Dr.-Ryan-Cole:0) via Odysee
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“Phill is a Christian minister. He is ordained in the Church of England and spends about two days a week in a parish on the Essex coast. The rest of the time he works on his online ministries: Understand the Bible and Sacred Musings : Making Sense of the World from a Christian Perspective.”
Interviews with Phill from 2021
[If you haven't heard them already, please listen to the two previous interviews with Phill Sacre, because they provide a background to the current conversation.]
Other items mentioned in / relevant to the conversations
Francis Schaeffer, The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century, Intervarsity Press (1970)
C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock : Essays on Theology and Ethics, Eerdmans (1970) [contains Lewis's essay, "Is Progress Possible?", published in The Observer 1958]
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Many thanks to all my friends from ASITP who kindly agreed to take part in this episode.
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"EU President Ursula von der Leyen says time to consider mandatory vaccinations", Evening Standard (01 December 2021)
"COVID-19: Downing Street seeks to play down significance of Boris Johnson's mandatory jabs comment", Sky News (09 December 2021)
UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid says universal vaccination mandates are "unethical" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kU6wwPbXQk) [JC: I'm glad to hear him say that, and I hope he sticks to his principles. Unfortunately, I cannot get out of my mind what the former UK Vaccines Minister said only a few months back about COVID Passports: "It goes against everything I believe in, but..."]
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Please note that I am not criticising anyone who believes we have been visited by extraterrestrial beings. As I say in the podcast, I am not currently persuaded myself.
Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
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"You ask an excellent question. If I tell you WHO as an organisation, only 30% of my budget is predictable funds. Other 70% I have to take a hat and go around the world to beg for money. And when they give us the money, they are highly linked to their preferences, what they like. It may not be the priority of WHO. So if we do not solve this, you know, we are not going to be as great as we were."—Margaret Chan
The "JAMA study": Lopez-Medina, et al, "Effect of Ivermectin on Time to Resolution of Symptoms Among Adults With Mild COVID-19A Randomized Clinical Trial", JAMA (04 March 2021) (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2777389)
"An Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is a mechanism to facilitate the availability and use of medical countermeasures, including vaccines, during public health emergencies, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic. Under an EUA, FDA may allow the use of unapproved medical products, or unapproved uses of approved medical products in an emergency to diagnose, treat, or prevent serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions when certain statutory criteria have been met, including that there are no adequate, approved, and available alternatives." [emphasis added]
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Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
Danny Rubin, "How I wrote the script for Groundhog Day in less than a week", The Telegraph (07 August 2016)
Kennedy Elliott & Shelly Tan, "30 years of groundhog forecasts, mapped", The Washington Post (31 January 2015)
Brian Welk, "Andie MacDowell on ‘Groundhog Day’ at 25: Bill Murray ‘Asked Me to Really Slap Him’ ", The Wrap (12 February 2018)
Ryan Murphy, "Bill Murray And The Beast Filming "Groundhog Day" Turned Out To Be A Nightmare For The Actor. His Furry Co-star Had A Hankering For His Blood", Philly.com (07 February 1993)
Tad Friend, "Comedy First : How Harold Ramis’s movies have stayed funny for twenty-five years", The New Yorker (19 April 2004)
Simon Brew, "How Groundhog Day Changed Dramatically During Development", DenOfGeek.com (02 February 2019)
"The greatest story ever told?", The Independent (02 February 2004)
Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
My guests and I refer to Wikipedia several times in this podcast. I am generally happy to do this on uncontroversial matters, but (as regular listeners will know) I am much more cautious when it comes to contentious subjects. I am keenly aware that Wikipedia is often used as a thought controller. Nevertheless, Wikipedia can (if read critically) often serve as a useful starting point for research.
Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
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"You swine! German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop", The Guardian (07 August)
"Drunk and boarish: swigging pig hogs 18 beers at campsite", The Guardian (09 September 2013)
"North Korean gymnast defects to the South 'by leaping over border fence': Seoul officials 'then made him jump twice to prove he was telling the truth' ", Mail Online (24 November 2020)
"Mummified ankylosaur offers a rare glimpse of a dinosaur’s last meal", Popular Sciene (03 June 2020)
"School bans parents from THROWING their children over its 6ft fence when they're running late", Mail Online (11 November 2020)
"Glow-in-the-dark bees", Bad Beekeeping Blog (26 June 2014)
"Oregon Police Remind Residents: Don't Call 911 If You Run Out Of Toilet Paper", NPR (17 March 2020)
Acknowledgements
TMR would also like to thank the following people for their valuable contributions to this year's New Year's Eve show.
GK—for the excellent graphics work
Jenifer Thyssen—for her beautiful vocal performance of "Auld Lang Syne"
The harpist Alena Bistritsky—for the equisite accompaniment to "Auld Lang Syne"
Special thanks to Mr. E. L. Wisty for his tireless work on bees (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avwgEyE8QCI).
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
"CBS was also up for sale that August, it was announced. But [at] the same time, something else was announced, that there was a criminal inquiry beginning in the Justice Department - a possible perjury by the eight heads of tobacco companies who had sworn that they didn't believe that nicotine was addictive. One of those people was the son of Larry Tisch, the owner of CBS—because they owned Lorillard Tobacco. So I have a situation where, this has happened at ABC, the guy I have on camera - maybe he could derail the merger with Westinghouse and CBS at that point—but also [he] might be a witness in a grand jury against the son of the owner of the company. So yeah, there's a lot of possible problems that would result from that."—some of Lowell Bergman's words from the interview
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Lynn White Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis", Science (1967)
[JC: While I appreciate this article in some respects, I do disagree with its fundamental thesis that Christianity per se is to blame for ecological decay. While I think it arguable that the "Christian West" may have misinterpreted the phrase in Genesis, "have dominion over" (KJV), to mean "exploit", I believe that a correct interpretation should favour something more like "exercise stewardship over", or as The Message renders it: "be responsible for".]
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Thank you Dean for locating a video that proves our theory. Here, in footage from 2017, you can clearly see a mouse (wearing a white wool coat) expand (due to no air pressure), freeze (due to extremely low temperature) and float off into space.
Did Russian agent "Yoffy" predictively program British citizens to expect Space Mouse? See the Fingermouse conspiracy files (http://www.thechestnut.com/finger.htm).
(Please be aware that YouTube may place cookies on your computer if you choose to follow these links.)
(JC: Also, if you're wondering why I've included so many of these YouTube links, it's because I wanted to show how "viral" this nonsense became around that time, and—given that people's YouTube channels are sometimes deleted—I would be sure to leave some active links for future reference.)
"Should NASA and SpaceX be investigated for fraud? Mouse caught on "live rocket feed" in space", New Jeruslam Media (31 May 2020) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ4VtsxotO8)
"Shocking Video !!! UFOs seen during SpaceX Dragon flight, NASA removed this from original stream!", MP3Nice YouTube channel (31 May 2020) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYu4WqrZzvE)
Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
"Was Boris Johnson's Covid-19 condition contrived?", Dorset Eye (12 April 2020) [JC: Please note that this link is included for reference only. As is clear from the podcast, I criticise Dorset Eye's posting of this article as being, in my view, irresponsible. After all, they didn't post it on the 1st of April.]
"Updated RCP advice on Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19", Royal College of Physicians [JC: As of 25 April 2020, this page is advising UK physicians not to use hydroxychloroquine in the treatement of covid-19: "The evidence behind the use of hydroxychloroquine remains patchy and at the moment the RCP does not support its routine use in patients with COVID-19."]
One further thought about the "block universe" idea. Why, if "time is an illusion", do we see patterns of evolutionary change in the cosmos? (I am not, here, talking about evolution/creation debates.) Isn't it well-established that the universe underwent evolutionary growth after the Big Bang, with its proliferation of galaxies and star systems, etc.? (We might picture that as a tree on its side, the base being the Big Bang and the twigs being us.) If so, why do those patterns exist? Don't they imply the reality of time? Why would the universe have a time "shape" or "pattern" if time is, in fact, illusory?
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
James Frazer, The Golden Bough : A Study in Magic and Religion (1890)
Hargrave Jennings, The Rosicrucians : Their Rites and Mysteries, Routledge (1907)
H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine : The Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, Volume II Anthropogenesis, Theosophical Publishing House (1893)
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Listeners who may be concerned about the verisimilitude of the information contained in this particular podcast are kindly advised to consult the publication date.
"Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010."
All the reports included in this podcast are written by Craig Murray, although they are spoken by me, Julian Charles. Please note that I don't gaurantee that my performance is perfect! I might well have made some errors. Therefore, if anything is unclear from my reading, please check the original blogs for clarification (below).
TMR would like to thank Craig Murray for his tireless activism in the pursuit of truth and freedom and for making these blog posts freely available for reposting.
TMR would also like to thank SomersetBean.com for making the images used for this podcast freely available.
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Frank Johnson—researcher for Chris White's Ancient Aliens Debunked documentary and writer for the Ancient Aliens Debunked website (https://www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/)
Many thanks to Frank and Mark for their patience. We agreed to do this film review over a year ago, but unfortunately I had to keep postponing the recording session for various reasons. In the event, that put me at an advantage, because my guests had made their notes on the film months ago, whereas I was able to prepare in the week immediately prior to the recording. Mark had even thrown out his notes a few days ago, thinking that we would never get around to doing the review, so when I eventually got back to him with a recording date he had to fish his notes out of the rubbish bin!
Items mentioned in / relevant to the roundtable discussion
Joseph P. Farrell, SS Brotherhood of the Bell : The Nazi's Incredible Secret Technology (2006) [JC: Frank mentioned this, but—to his great disappointment—we didn't talk about it.]
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Niels H. Harrit et al, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe" [external PDF], The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31
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[JC: I don't own a copy of this book in reality, alas, but it's intrigued me for a long time. The idea of strategically placing this on a coffee div for visitors to notice often amuses me. If anyone feels generous enough to send me a copy, I would be delighted!]
"A GLASSY AFFAIR Leeds woman celebrates engagement to a 90-year-old CHANDELIER she loves to ‘kiss and cuddle’ ", The Sun (05 December 2017)
"Dutch man, 69, starts legal fight to identify as 20 years younger", The Guardian (08 November 2018)
"Stan Lee was working on final superhero Dirt Man with daughter, she says", BBC News (14 November 2018)
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Mark Campbell is a writer, actor, director and film-maker. He is involved with his local drama group in South East London, UK, and has directed 'The Tempest', 'Calendar Girls' and an award-winning production of 'The Caretaker'. He took the lead role in 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' and has appeared in several plays including 'Much Ado About Nothing', 'Journey's End' and most recently 'Season's Greetings'. He is the author of several books on Dr Who and the producer of Bowler or Fez film reviews on YouTube.
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Notes from JC
Just in case anyone is wondering, no, I don't smoke cigars (or anything else!). I do like a glass of port from time to time though. :)
Also—and I'm quite sure many of you will have picked up on this—Antony and I sometimes do exactly what Adam Curtis does and say "everyone" when we actually mean "many people", etc., but, in our defence, ours is an unscripted conversation in which hyperbole is difficult to avoid, whereas Mr. Curtis is reading from his carefully-crafted script. Just saying...
Items mentioned in / related to the conversation
Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation (widely available online)
Rebuilding America's Defenses : Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century : A Report of The Project for the New American Century, PNAC (September 2000).
The PNAC website has terminated. A copy of the report may be available via The Wayback Machine at Archive.org, such as here.
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