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The man that brought the Bilderbergs, Bohemian Grove and military remote viewing operations to the British mainstream media, kindly took the time to answer RINF.COM: Media Hijacker's questions.

Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker. His book, Them: Adventures With Extremists, was a UK bestseller and is now available in the US in paperback. His three part Channel 4 series the Crazy Rulers of the World was broadcast on Channel 4 throughout Nov 2004. Them was longlisted for The Guardian's First Book Award, until it was disqualified for not being, strictly speaking, his first book.

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Them: Adventures With Extremists
The Men Who Stare at Goats

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On Going West
On the comfort of strangers
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Secret Rulers Of The World: The Complete Series
Five part TV series written and presented by Jon Ronson, originally shown on UK's Channel 4 in early 2001.

(Edonkey Torrents)

David Icke, The Lizards and the Jews
Jon Ronson watches as David Icke battles with the mainstream media while gaining public support as his books fly off the shelves.

Satanic Rulers of the World
Alex Jones gets lost in the Bohemian Grove car park but eventually films the Cremation of Care ritual. Preacher man like shouting galore!

The Legend of Ruby Ridge
Why did over 400 members of the FBI, military and local law enforcement converge on the mountain?  Why did so many have to die?

The Oklahoma Bomb
Neo-Nazi extremist interpretations of the Oklahoma Bombing. Was Timothy Mcveigh working alone?

Bilderberg's Set a Trap
Jon Ronson and Jim Tucker piss off the "non existent" Bilderberg group, catching it all on film.

Realplayer Clips:
Excerpts from Jon Ronson's Secret Rulers Of The World documenting when he helped Alex Jones to infiltrate Bohemian Grove. *Editors Note: You must check out Them: Adventures With Extremists as it offers an alternative to the Alex Jones version of events, which is far more balanced and reasonable, exploring more than a narrow point a view and asking questions Jones ignores.
Part One | Part Two


Them: Adventures With Extremists
THEM began as a book about different kinds of extremists, but after Ronson had got to know some enemies of western democracy - Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis Ku Klux Klan - he found that they had one belief in common: that a tiny elite, which meets in secret, determines the course of global events.

Extracts
David Icke
Bilderberg Group
Omar Bakri Mohammed (Starts 3 mins 30 secs in)

Talks and book signings
Review of a talk at Borders books
Real Video of recent talk

Reviews
Bookreporter.com
sunspot.net
The Washington Post
Australia's The Age
The Guardian, Louis Theroux
The Irish Times, Arminta Wallace
Electronic Telegraph, Toby Clements
Independent, David V Barrett
Irish Independent

Interviews
Relaxwithabook Real Video | 56k | 250k


The Men Who Stare at Goats
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.

Extracts
The road to Abu Ghraib
Guantánamo Serenade

Reviews
The Observer, Tim Adams
Sunday Business Post, Dublin, Nadine O'Regan
Western Mail, David Williamson

Crazy Rulers Of The World: The Complete Series

(Edonkey Torrents)

The Men Who Stare At Goats
High-ranking officials reveal some of the secrets that remain fundamental to George W Bush's War on Terror, including the existence of a special forces outfit called the First Earth Battalion. Ronson traces the evolution of such forces and their activities today

Funny Torture
Following the exposure of American mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Ronson reveals the inspiration behind these acts of torture and humiliation. His investigation leads him to an officer whose musings in the late 1970s were never intended to be taken literally

Psychic Footsoldiers
Jon Ronson looks at the history of some outlandish projects researched by the US government during the Cold War era and investigates whether some of them are back in vogue. Focusing on the idea of psychic spies, he reveals how high-level intelligence pursuits bordering on science fiction can generate real and tragic consequences