hippies and spooks

[smithtalk]

i thought this story was quite interesting in light of multiple recent conversations about the sixties, hippies, agitators and the dark guiding hands behind them<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/stauber07122006.html">www.counterpunch.org/stau...22006.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>snip<br>"In his hippie youth as a Merry Prankster, Stewart Brand bounced around San Francisco in Ken Kesey's day-glo bus, dousing people with LSD-laced Kool-Aid at the legendary Acid Tests. Those were strange days, but his latest trip is also bizarre. Brand and his Long Now Foundation are bringing to San Francisco John Rendon, the elusive head of the Rendon Group, one of the CIA's favorite PR firms." <p></p><i></i>

[professorpan]

Good find, smith. Ugh. Brand, of all people -- very distressing. <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Stewart Brand is a serious guy these days, and his endorsement of John Rendon as a guru in the "global war on terror" is for real. Brand finds Rendon "exceptionally informed, astute, and engaged. ... It should be a hell of a talk." Brand says Rendon wants the US "to deepen its thinking and activities against terror" and Rendon's talk is titled <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>"Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short."</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> Groovy. There is some very deep study that could go into this, to say the least - how the roads of Rendon and Brand have converged through the looking glass of today's world. <br><br>Hope one of the 570 registered members on this discussion board can make it to the Rendon-Brand performance. <p></p><i></i>