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The Men Who Stare At Goats Movie Review. Get ready for psychedelic war, man! Host Grace Randolph asks audiences if George Clooney s new film is an all out farce, or if it has some bite. Brought to you by Indy Mogul and Next New Networks.

By: John Gholson I'm not sure why, but Overture Films has chosen to downplay the "based on a true story" aspects of their high-profile new satirical film The Men Who Stare at Goats. The film finds Ewan McGregor as a journalist looking for a story in Iraq who stumbles across a former member (George Clooney) of a special platoon of psychics employed by the U.S. military. While many moments in the film seem outlandish and ridiculous, they become even more jaw-dropping with the knowledge that the film is based on fact. Author Jon Ronson first explored the topic of remote viewers and psychic super-soldiers in a three-part Channel 4 television documentary, The Crazy Rulers of the World, the first part of which ("The Men Who Stare at Goats") he turned into a book in 2004. It's amazing to see the very real people behind the First Earth Battalion (renamed the New Earth Army in the film) recounting the bizarre stories that are brought to life on the big screen in the quasi-fictional movie by writer-director Grant Heslov. It's a must-see if you plan on catching the film, and absolutely fascinating. There's a cynical side of me that would like to assume the members of the First Earth Battallion all are crackpots, but there's too much fact mixed in with the weirdness for me to dismiss it outright. You can see the first episode of Jon Ronson's original documentary, in its entirety, over at SciFi Squad.Filed under: Comedy, Fandom, Trailers and Clips Permalink | Email this | Comments

George Clooney was back on the red carpet last night and, er, promising to give away free cars. Randomly. Plus we caught up with director of the film Grant Heslov to talk all things Goat and novelist Jon Ronson.

War, as they say, is hell. So what's to be said of peace, of employing any and all means necessary to avert violence instead of propagating it? If The Men Who Stare at Goats is to believed, the forces of peace are crazy and covert and even at war with themselves, and if fellow Fantastic Fest attendees are to believed, it's at best a loose adaptation of journalist Jon Ronson's truly remarkable true-life tale. After all, Ronson from Wales is now Bob Wilton from Ann Arbor (as played by Scotland's own Ewan McGregor), a journalist newly keen on covering the Iraq invasion after a cheating missus robs him of a purpose and a place to call his own. While waiting in Kuwait for a story, any story, he bumps into Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), who is not the contractor he says to be, but rather a man on a mission, and sensing a story, any story, Wilton decides to tag along...Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Fantastic Fest, George Clooney, WarContinue reading Fantastic Fest Review: The Men Who Stare at Goats Permalink | Email this | Comments

This week we chat to one of our journalistic heroes, Jon Ronson, about: conspiracy theorists, 9/11 truthers, MI5 agents becoming the son of God and just why people believe silly things. We also witness Jon attempting to train his dog Wolfie (or is it Woofy i m worried I have his name wrong now), which only furthers my belief that people really don t realise how much of a pain in the ass dogs actually are! i m a cat person. (Editor: DAMN! It is Woofy ) Joining me this week to grill our guest is our re-occuring charecter, Raymond Wiley! For those studious listeners out there (no pun intended), Raymond appeared as our guest on episodes 1 and 6, and like me, is a big jon Ronson fan! This weeks musical Interlude come courtesy of Mothboy s X in his Territory , background music from Amon Tobin!..sorry we didn t mention in the ep our mistake. Jon Ronson Biog: Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. His books, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats were international bestsellers. He s also the author of two collections, Out Of The Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness. For Channel 4, Jon has made a number of films including the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World and the multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah. His most recent documentaries are Reverend Death (Channel 4) and Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side (Radio 4).

This week we chat to one of our journalistic heroes, Jon Ronson, about: conspiracy theorists, 9/11 truthers, MI5 agents becoming the son of God and just why people believe silly things. We also witness Jon attempting to train his dog Wolfie (or is it Woofy i m worried I have his name wrong now), which only furthers my belief that people really don t realise how much of a pain the ass dogs actually are! i m a cat person. Joining me this week to grill our guest is our re-occuring charecter, Raymond Wiley! For those studious listeners out there (no pun intended), Raymond appeared as our guest on episodes 1 and 6, and like me, is a big jon Ronson fan! Biog: Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. His books, Them: Adventures With Extremists and The Men Who Stare At Goats were international bestsellers. He s also the author of two collections, Out Of The Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness. For Channel 4, Jon has made a number of films including the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World and the multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah. His most recent documentaries are Reverend Death (Channel 4) and Robbie Williams and Jon Ronson Journey to the Other Side (Radio 4).

Mega 9/11 shill Jon Ronson takes on former heavyweight former spook shill David Shayler on allegations ronson is a shill for promoting lies about 9/11 & the London bombings in a shilly conversation recently. Ronson shilling for the 911 perps - 'We rationalists are the oppressed minority' Jon Ronson Saturday November 4, 2006 The Guardian I've been getting a lot of emails from people who believe 9/11 was an inside job. They say shadowy forces behind the Bush administration brought down the Twin Towers with controlled explosions. I log on to the British 9/11 Truth Campaign forum to see why they believe what they do. I introduce myself. Within minutes, posters are warning other posters not to trust me. "Ronson's strings are being pulled," somebody writes. "You can bet there is a Zionist agenda somewhere in what he does." Another poster adds that my Zionist overlords and I don't only control the media, we also control "the money supply" and "everything else as well". And it was us "Zionists" who orchestrated 9/11. I tell them to stop being anti-semitic. "I don't see any references to Judaism in this thread, Jon," comes the instant reply. "So what is your rationale for making this comment?" "Hahaha, bless your soul, Jon," someone adds. "Playing the old religion card, huh? Don't try that one here, mate. It's cheap, pathetic and disgusting." I feel battered by the relentlessness of their insults. "I'm not going back there again. Horrible, patronising, codeword-using anti-semitic bastards," I eventually think. "They're so irrational. They sit behind their computers all day, pontificating away, getting their 'facts' from YouTube. They probably all look like Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons." I pause, stare out of the window, and clean my glasses. "They're indicative of a whole New Irrationality sweeping the land," I think. "Yes, that's it. This is a cultural shift I'm identifying. Nowadays everyone's either a conspiracy theorist or a believer in mysticism or the paranormal or a religious zealot. What's happened to the enlightenment? Where is our voice? Nowadays, we rationalists are the oppressed minority." I stare out of the window a bit more. Then I have a very significant thought: "It is time for rational, sceptical people like me to get off the fence and make ourselves known. It is time for us to be publicly and assertively rational." I'm serious. And I know how to do it. I determine that, from this moment forth, whenever I meet someone with irrational beliefs, I'll patiently take the time to sit them down and point out to them why the things they believe are nutty and stupid. "They'll probably be hostile to begin with," I think, "but they'll thank me in the end." As a first step I buy Richard Dawkins's new book, The God Delusion. By page 67 I'm almost certain God doesn't exist. Dawkins argues that it's perfectly acceptable for us to exclude vicars from all intellectual debate and essentially be militant atheists, laughing in the faces of people who believe in things. "Harsh," I think as I read, "but perhaps a necessary antidote for these irrational times." Dawkins and I are the same. He's unshackled himself from any lily-livered residual respect for vicars. He doesn't buy the rose-tinted "country vicar coming round for tea" thing. He basically thinks vicars are no different to those 9/11 anti-semite lunatics. They're all part of the same problem. "I really ought to feel derision for vicars, too," I think as I read. "And I will!" After being racially abused by those 9/11 conspiracy theorists, it feels good to belong to a club of like-minded rationalists. And so it is that I leave the house on the hunt for irrational people to whom I can benevolently point out the error of their ways. To be continued ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1937479,00.html http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=2482&highlight=jon+ronson Author: muckletoon Keywords: Jon Ronson David Shayler SHILLS London Bombings 911 7/7 insidejob jonronson secret rulers of the world men who fuk goats Added: August 22, 2007

This is an excerpt from the BBC special by Jon Ronson. The crew came to interview me as well as many others. This is just my part in the production. Mr. Ronson also wrote a book that Im in, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Im glad my parents are dead. The book also got us into the May 2005 issue of Playboy Magazine; again, Im glad my parents are dead. I thought that my viewers would enjoy seeing my contribution to this colorful BBC 3 hour series. You can find Jon Ronson at http://www.jonronson.com. As always you can find me at http://www.awarriorsway.com or http://www.infocard.cc, and listen to my marketing podcasts at : http://www.switchpod.com/p4701.html, and coming soon to blip.tv. Finally, if you like the defenders (know in the video as a predator, you can see them at http://www.pdws.biz or purchase them at? http://www.teachingsofthemasters.com/Shop/weapons/pdw/index.html