DAMAGED SPEEEEEEEERM! I AM FULL OF IIIIRON!

VS!

CHEMICALS ARE FIIIIIINE! I HAVE SCIENCE TO BACK ME UP! (thanks to Erik in the comments)

Who do you believe?

— By Akira The Don on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

Shaddap Sway with your lame ass.

FREE EARL!

Man, I remember when they were posting excitable drops about being featured on akirathedon.com. And that’s cos I can rmeber 10 months ago. YES MY BRAIN IS THAT AWESOME.

— By Akira The Don on Friday, February 25th, 2011

You can hear an interview with the film’s creator here.

— By Akira The Don on Thursday, February 24th, 2011

The Health Industry Lobbying Tour from Mancha Productions on Vimeo.

Goddamn leeching scum! Get away from our NHS you carcass sucking buzzards! A pox on you and the zombie horse you rode in on!

Jeres sent me this recently, I thought I’d posted it already but a search reveals not, so here it is in all its foul horrorful anti-glory:

Grrr, just reading Tory propaganda in the Tory bullshit press. There’s an article in the Wall Street Journal called ‘Britain’s Borrowed-Time Bomb’ about how the NHS is unsustainable as it controls 16.5pc of GDP and increased some 40pc under Brown, and apparently Britain is going to be in worse crisis than Ireland if it continues financing the health system, according to the Adam Smith Institute. The article is written by Eamonn Butler. Would that be the same Eamonn Butler who is the founder of Tory think tank the Adam Smith Institute? BLATANT!

— By Akira The Don on Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

From The Film Archive:

DVD: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000… More CIA: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/s…

Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, mind abuse, thought control, or thought reform) refers to a process in which a group or individual “systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated.” The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual’s sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making.

Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed in systematically indoctrinating prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded and modified, by psychologists including Margaret Singer, to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new religious movements (NRMs). A third-generation theory proposed by Ben Zablocki focused on the utilization of mind control to retain members of NRMs and cults to convert them to a new religion. The suggestion that NRMs use mind control techniques has resulted in scientific and legal controversy. Neither the American Psychological Association nor the American Sociological Association have found any scientific merit in such theories.

Project MKULTRA, or MK-ULTRA, was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence. This official U.S. government program began in the early 1950s, continuing at least through the late 1960s, and it used U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects.

Donald Ewen Cameron (24 December 1901–8 September 1967) was a twentieth-century Scottish-American psychiatrist. Cameron was involved in Project MKULTRA, United States Central Intelligence Agency’s research on torture and mind control.

Cameron lived and worked in Albany, New York, and was involved in experiments in Canada for Project MKULTRA, a United States based CIA-directed mind control program which eventually led to the publication of the KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation manual. He is unrelated to another CIA psychiatrist Alan Cameron, who helped pioneer psychological profiling of world leaders during the 1970s.

Naomi Klein states in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron’s research and his contribution to the MKUltra project was actually not about mind control and brainwashing, but about designing “a scientifically based system for extracting information from ‘resistant sources.’ In other words, torture…Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Dr. Cameron’s experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb’s earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA’s two-stage psychological torture method.”

Mind control in popular culture: * The communal brainwashing of an entire model community via subliminal messages is a central theme in the 2009 novel Candor by Pam Bachorz. * In the novel A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, the protagonist undergoes a scientific re-education process called the “Ludovico technique” in an attempt to remove his violent tendencies. * In his 1999 science fictin novel A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge introduces the themes of “mindrot” and controlled “Focus” later eplored in his 2006 novel. * In the novel Night of the Hawk by Dale Brown, the Soviets capture and brainwash U.S. Air Force Lieutenant David Luger, transforming him into the Russian scientist Ivan Ozerov. * In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949 before the popularization of the term “brainwashing”), the fictional totalitarian government of Oceania uses brainwashing-style techniques to erase nonconformist thought and rebellious personalities. * Vernor Vinge speculates on the application of technology to achieve brainwashing in his 2006 science fiction novel, Rainbows End (ISBN 0-312-85684-9), portraying separately the dangers of JITT (Just-in-time training) and the specter of YGBM (You gotta believe me).

Brainwashing became a common trope of films, television and games in the late twentieth century. It was a convenient means of introducing changes in the behavior of characters and a device for raising tension and audience uncertainty in the climate of Cold War and outbreaks of terrorism. * The film Brazil, depicts a fascist government similar to that in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The government controls a totalitarian society subconsciously by manipulation, intending to remain in control of the population. * Derren Brown: Mind Control (1999-2000), a television show on Channel 4

— By Akira The Don on Friday, January 21st, 2011

Following the samshing news that the classic Flex Mentallo series, absent from our shelves for ever and a day, will finally be getting reprinted, here’s some footage of Grant Morrison talking about his creaqtion, and what it means to him.

The clip is from the forthcoming GM documentary, Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods.

Oh hang on, I just looked at that site and the thing CAME OUT ALREADY! How’d I miss that?! Crap!

— By Akira The Don on Thursday, January 6th, 2011