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Men Who Stare at Goats
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Just when you thought every possible conspiracy theory had been exhausted by The X-Files or The Da Vinci Code, along comes The Men Who Stare at Goats. The first line of the book is, "This is a true story." True or not, it is quite astonishing. Author Jon Ronson writes a column about family life for London's Guardian newspaper and has made several acclaimed documentaries. The Men Who Stare at Goats is his bizarre quest into "the most whacked-out corners of George W. Bush's War on Terror," as he puts it. Ronson is inspired when a man who claims to be a former U.S. military psychic spy tells the journalist he has been reactivated following the 9-11 attack. Ronson decides to investigate. His research leads him to the U.S. Army's strange forays into extra-sensory perception and telepathy, which apparently included efforts to kill barnyard animals with nothing more than thought. Ronson meets one ex-Army employee who claims to have killed a goat and his pet hamster by staring at them for prolonged periods of time. Like Ronson's original source, this man also says he has been reactivated for deployment to the Middle East.
Ronson's finely written book strikes a perfect balance between curiosity, incredulity, and humor. His characters are each more bizarre than the last, and Ronson does a wonderful job of depicting the colorful quirks they reveal in their often-comical meetings. Through a charming guile, he manages to elicit many strange and amazing revelations. Ronson meets a general who is frustrated in his frequent attempts to walk through walls. One source says the U.S. military has deployed psychic assassins to the Middle East to hunt down Al Qaeda suspects. Entertaining and disturbing. --Alex Roslin
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THE US GOVERNMENT SPENDS OVER $400 BILLION IN MILITARY EXPENDITURES. REAL-LIFE SECRET US ARMY EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT TAX-PAYERS' EXPENSE REVEALED IN THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS.
1. Goat/Hamster Thought-Death Experiments.
Description: Special Forces soldiers stare, heart of goat/hamster eventually explodes.
Success Rate: One dead goat, one dead hamster (experiments conducted inside 'Goat Lab' at Fort Bragg, North Carolina).
Operational Use: Military Intelligence currently considering staring at detainees at Abu Ghraib (not to kill them, just to freak them out).
2. Bee-Attracting Theremone.
Description: Special theremone to be sprayed on the enemy before bees are released to attack them.
Success Rate: Still in proposal stage.
Operational Use: Enemies will get stung.
3. Walking Through Walls.
Description: Soldier learns to walk through wall. Secret experiments conducted at US Army Intelligence headquarters, Arlington, Virginia.
Success Rate: None. Soldiers kept bumping their noses.
Operational Use: Who would want to screw with an army that could do that?
4. Blasting the enemy with the theme tune to Barney The Purple Dinosaur
Description: Detainee placed inside steel shipping container. Barney song is repeatedly blasted.
Success Rate: Hard to quantify.
Operational Use: This interrogation technique is designed to hit detainee on a "psycho-spiritual dimension". Currently being deployed in Iraq.
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