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Episode 65 – The Ghost of Music Industry Past

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The Story:

In 1992, Steve Albini wrote his famous piece, “The Problem with Music”, giving the graphic image of a bunch of hungry artists clambering through a trench full of excrement in order to vy for a recording contract with uncertain and questionable terms. He explained how the music industry is full of a special kind of corruption, that takes advantage of the very people which make the entire industry possible by providing them with a healthy line of credit, then selling them back all the services needed to create an album at an extremely inflated price. One figure that has been thrown around is that record companies, on average, have a 5% success rate – 5% of all records go gold or platinum, and 95% well, they don’t. In any other industry, that would send a company down shit creek pretty fast, but in the record industry, most of the costs are borne by the artist, making the record label a rather undesirable business partner.

Music is a powerful tool in manipulating minds. Might some unscrupulous A&Rs decide to change how people think, act, what they glorify? Perhaps by using overt themes in music, or perhaps even by subliminal messages. There might be a lot of pressure on record labels from certain nefarious and hidden interests.

Now of course, the music industry has been forced to change, under the pressure of Internet piracy and the decay of copyright laws as any meaningful deterrent. But that is a story for another time… For now, let’s explore how the music industry screwed over many artists as we journey through another exciting episode of … The Paradise Paradox!

The Links:

Manual: How to Have a Number 1 the Easy Way
EM-ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN OCTOBER 2008-MAGAZINE
Beat It (Single Version)
In Utero
The Paradise Paradox – Episode 52 – The Panopticon & Your Privacy: Juan Galt
The Paradise Paradox – Episode 50 – Ethereum & The Future: Juan Galt
The music industry is a parasite and copyright is dead – Steve Albini
The problem with music has been solved by the Internet – Steve Albini
Courtney Love’s speech about piracy 2000
RT – Autotune and lip-syncing
Manipulating the charts – Neil Strauss
Unethical practices in the record industry
The Problem with Music – Steve Albini
The secret meeting that changed rap music

Episode 32 – MKULTRA & Mass Mind Control

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The Story:

On November 28, 1953, Frank Olson’s body sailed peacefully through the air for a few short seconds, then slammed against the pavement below. He had dropped from the 13th story of the Hotel Statler in Manhattan. He was dead. Olson was a CIA agent, and had been dosed with LSD, most likely without his consent. This tragic story is quite possibly the origin of the popular belief that LSD causes people to believe they can fly, and jump out of windows. The problem with that is, forensic data from 1994 shows that Olson was knocked unconscious before he fell. It is unlikely that the thought of flying ever crossed his mind. Olson was pushed out of the window.

Olson was involved in a CIA project known as MKULTRA, an operation in mind control with many stated intentions, such as: discovering a truth serum to extract information from spies, finding out how possible it is to control people – specifically to create double agents, and making a public figure appear crazy, with the intent to discredit them. The circumstantial evidence indicates that, perhaps Olson knew too much, perhaps he was preparing to blow the whistle, and perhaps that’s why he met his untimely demise.

MKULTRA involved many clandestine operations, including Project Midnight Climax. In this op, the CIA set up a few brothels in a few US cities, and paid prostitutes to administer the LSD to the johns. In Subproject 68, a front organisation was established in Canada, and Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron was paid to conduct experiments on his patients, most likely without the knowledge that he was involved in a CIA program. On his subjects, Cameron used hallucinogenic drugs, sensory deprivation, electro-convulsive treatment, and electromagnetic radiation. Some of his patients lost their memories entirely – unable to talk, unable to walk, and incontinent, just as an infant.

Today, we can see cases such as David Shayler, a former MI5 operative who became a whistleblower, leaking documents about MI5’s investigation into members of parliament, and later questioning the official stories of 9/11 and 7/7. Shayler became discredited publicly when he declared himself to be a divine consciousness, started living in a squat, under the name of Delores Kane, his/her transvestite alter ego.

Another case is that of Karen Hudes, a whistleblower from the World Bank exposing corruption in the international financial system. In 2014 she started speaking about the races of extraterrestrials that are controlling the world. This affected her public image considerably.

In the intelligence community, there is a well-known formula: Capability + Intent = Threat. The experiments of the CIA indicate their capability to affect people mentally, though we don’t necessarily know the full extent of their abilities. The fact that they are an intelligence organisation indicates that they do have the motivation to discredit people. The historical precedent demonstrates how far they outside the law they are willing to go – to the point of drugging random civilians to see what happens. These factors, without a doubt, comprise a threat.

In this episode, Aaron and Kurt explore these issues, and ask how the CIA’s work could still affect the world today. What other experiments did they perform? How might intelligence agencies use this knowledge to manipulate public opinion? How much do we actually know? Join us in this intelligence-gathering mission as we move into the next exciting chapter of The Paradise Paradox!

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The Links:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest book (affiliate link)
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest movie – instant video (affiliate link)
They Live movie – instant video (affiliate link)
The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic paperback (affiliate link)
Project MKULTRA on Wikipedia
Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning
EX-CIA OFFICIAL SPEAKS OUT: An Interview with Victor Marchetti
Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Bill Hicks Positive Drug Story
David Icke – Still Crazy After All These Years
Britney Spears – A VICTIM OF ILLUMINATI
Courtney Love article about music industry
MKULTRA Ewen Cameron video
Hadley Cantril – The Invasion from Mars
US National Anthem subliminal messages video
CSI propaganda placement video
Modern Art was CIA weapon
Best of Hollywood MKULTRA
Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron – MKULTRA on Wikipedia
‘Dollar valueless, about to crash’ – World Bank whistleblower
Karen Hudes Discloses The Presence Of Aliens Ruling Our Society Video

Modified image used under Creative Commons. Original image by James Nash.