2006-09-11 09:16:14 · 9 answers · asked by GEO BHOY 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
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2006-09-11 09:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by Happy. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Buy the book: USA / UK
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice - and indeed, the laws of physics - they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren't joking. What's more, they're back and fighting the War on Terror. 'The men who stare at goats' reveals extraordinary - and very nutty - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's War on Terror.
With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Ronson traces the evolution of these bizarre activities over the past three decades, and sees how it is alive today within US Homeland Security and post-war Iraq. Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? Why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? How was the US Military associated with the mysterious mass-suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? 'The men who stare at goats' answers these, and many more, questions.
2006-09-11 17:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's a rather distrubing expose' of some of the woo-woo pseudo-science and new age crap that certain areas of the US military, since the neo-con resurgence, have been squandering tax money on. I've not seen the documentary, but I recommend the book, read it and be very worried! Cf 'the republican war on science', highlighting the Bush-era decline in American rationality.
2006-09-11 16:27:10 · answer #3 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I read the book -- both funny and scary.
It's about secret experiments done by the CIA and the military trying to make use of ESP, telekinesis, and other wacko-fake-"sciences". The title comes from a group at a military base that was supposedly learning to kill by willing someone's heart to stop -- they practiced on goats, and would stare at them trying to kill them for hours on end. Your tax dollars at work. The scary part is, some of this is still going on...
2006-09-11 16:23:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its for sale in WH Smiths, Ottakers, Waterstones, Amazon and the book shop in Terminal 4 at Heathrow.
£7.99
2006-09-12 01:14:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds bizarre, a brilliant title for a book.
2006-09-11 16:24:27 · answer #6 · answered by Oracle Of Delphi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American military involvement in the supernatural, apparently all sorts of weird things took place, eg. killing goats by staring at them.
2006-09-11 16:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
See the documentary, they reckon its true, but it just made me laugh
2006-09-11 20:36:45 · answer #8 · answered by Useless 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah whats that all about you makin me bloody paranoid yer pervs!
2006-09-11 16:24:54 · answer #9 · answered by Goatboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋