Tag: television
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Timothy Leary and Marshall McLuhan
from boingboing.net: There is no other 1960s intellectual figure whom Timothy Leary came to admire more than Marshall McLuhan. He considered McLuhan’s famous statement – “The medium is the message” — the most important cultural insight of the ‘60s, a decade saturated with insightful and lasting one-liners, some of the most famous coming from Leary’s…
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An Occult History of the Television Set
from gizmodo.in: The origin of the television set was heavily shrouded in both spiritualism and the occult, writes author Stefan Andriopoulos in his new book Ghostly Apparitions. In fact, as its very name implies, the television was first conceived as a technical device for seeing at a distance: like the telephone (speaking at a distance)…
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The Movie “Videodrome” and The Horror of Mass Media
from VigilantCitizen.com: “Videodrome” is an 80′s science fiction horror film that contains some gore, James Woods and Betamax videotapes. Above all, the movie communicates a strong message on the perversity of mass media, its dangers to the human psyche and how it is used to manipulate the masses. This article will look at the meaning…
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Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ Grammy Performance Had Witchcraft, Satanic Symbolism
christiantoday.com: Pop star Katy Perry’s performance of “Dark Horse” during the 2014 Grammy Awards on Sunday evening has shocked some fans as it displayed dark satanic imagery, including witchcraft and demons. Perry was dressed as a witch and wore a Knights of Templar cross across her chest during the performance. She also pole-danced on a…
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Global Epidemic Exposed: Television Sigil Magik
Television can induce trance state and reason content labeled programming. John and Bonnie Mitchell of awakenvideo.org expose threat in “Global Epidemic Exposed: Television Sigil Magik.” Sigils used in Magik, a mind manipulation that dates from antiquity and simply updated for electronic forum: televison. Bonnie observes well-known phenomenon that brain goes into alpha state in under…
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#Santorum Says #Satan Controls #Hollywood
from lafiga.firedoglake.com: Rick Santorum spat a frothy mouthful on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, plugging his first foray into film production, The Christmas Candle, due out this holiday season. The movie, from EchoLight Studio, is a period piece set in a Thomas Kinkade-esque village and tackles modernity vs (Christian) tradition as electricity and progressive thinking threaten…
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The Idiot Box: How TV Is Turning Us All Into Zombies
Several disturbing sources are cited, one disquieting article at Reuters by Frederick Joelving contends, “..background noise emitted from television is so distracting an mesmerizing to children that it is impacting their ability to interact with other human beings and potentially slowing down cognitive thinking and language development.”
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CIA TV: Surveillance Made Easy By ‘Connected Gadgets’
CIA director David Petraeus says, “web-connected gadgets will ‘transform’ the art of spying – allowing spies to monitor people automatically without planting bugs, breaking and entering or even donning a tuxedo to infiltrate a dinner party…’Transformational’ is an overused word, but I do believe it properly applies to these technologies.'”