E117: The Animal Farm

Here’s the tale of two long term operative friends possibly trying to use subtle suggestion to get me to sink my meager 9 months worth of retirement savings into ill informed Alibaba options, and when...

3 Heinä 202418min

“Covert action is a stimulating business, a heady experience for those who sponsor it and for its practitioners. If not used in moderation, it is as dangerous as any stimulant.” -David Phillips, form...

26 Kesä 202440min

An examination of ritual and metaphor vs. cognitive dissonance in the context of culture and degrees of indoctrination, and the impact of economics on religiosity. The meek shall be rewarded. Have fu...

25 Touko 20241h 59min

Hey-if you’re a hacker or specialist with the resources to investigate and prove the extensive psychological warfare demonstrated in Vanity Fair’s “The Golden Suicides”, get in touch.

18 Touko 202413min

This is the follow up to episode 116, in which I describe getting stalked by a literary agent, or someone posing as such, after I sent an email query to Bill Clegg for my dark humor memoir, “Almost Ra...

26 Huhti 20241h 14min

Do you ever get the feeling that a billion dollar church has put cameras in your home in order to anticipate your next move at the laundromat in order to coordinate spies to interact with you so you’l...

22 Huhti 202442min

This is for anyone who’s ever said “Why would I care if anyone spied on me? I have nothing to hide.” I used to say this very thing, in a loud, bragging tone to all my friends. Other than an isolated i...

31 Maalis 202434min

Hey all-so I experienced a leak in my ceiling timed oh-so-perfectly with the publication of an article in The Marshall Project written by an inmate sentenced for murder whose girlfriend’s body was fou...

5 Helmi 20241h 8min