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FMPU Book/Essay Review: King-Kill/33 [1987]

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The Essay That Called JFK a Put-On Before It Was Cool Published on America's 250th birthday. Two hundred fifty years of history, and it's hard to point to a stranger, more corrosive mystery than what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963 — not because of who may or may not have pulled a trigger, but because of what the unresolved doubt has done to the country's relationship with its own official story ever since. If disclosure culture today feels like a charade, this is arguably where the pattern started. Bob Dylan got at the same idea, decades later, better than most historians have. His 2020 epic "Murder Most Foul" describes the assassination as the greatest magic trick ever pulled off in broad daylight — flawlessly executed, in full view of a watching crowd that somehow saw nothing. That's the "put-on" thesis in a single image: not a crime hidden in the dark, but a performance staged in the light, betting correctly that visibility it...

FMPU BOOK CLUB: Saucers, Spooks and KOOKs

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 Adam Gorightly is one damn likeable dude so its not lost on this fan why he meets up with so many interesting people of the fringe world and tells the tale in such a fun loving, interesting and informative way.  I've been reading his books for a long time, each revealing insight to interesting characters or events tying a massive roadmap of events that make you want to stay up past midnight just to turn that page one more time. Here's a link to his new book: Saucers, Spooks and Kooks - UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius.  We know so much anything "UFO" is potentially riddled with bullshit, but the how and why this has occurred is just as mysterious as UFOs!  So many interesting characters, mysterious texts, factions battling to get a stronghold on what?  Who knows, I just know I enjoy being challenged.   As a self-proclaimed rational observer, I have had to jump out of so many rabbit holes with nothing to show for it but maybe a lash of wisdom...