Jim Keith, erstwhile Dharma Combatant whose book output since the baby days of his old zine has been monumental, checks in with two views of the Con as varied in style as they are in content. In Mind Control, World Control, Keith gives a panoramic history of mind control technology as developed and applied by power elites in various attempts to dominate the world. In Black Helicopters II: The End Game Strategy Keith refines a vision about the point and purpose of the mysterious whirlybirds that he set forth in a previous volume.
Mind Control, World Control presents an almost breathtaking vista of historical data interweaving conspiracy lore with familiar history, about electronic implants, behaviorism, psychedelic drugs, making insightful new connections. The book starts with a review of the writings of H. G. Wells, whose science fiction has eclipsed in history other pre-occupation--reflected in such titles as The Open Conspiracy and New World Order. It moves through the establishment of Yale's Skull and Bones (and it's origins in Weishaupt's Illuminati), to the funding of eugenics experiments by the Rockefellers, on to the OSS, Dulles the CIA, Tavistock and into contemporary brainwashing ops, such as Operation Monarch, and even possible mind control applications of the HAARP array.
In order to put this arsenal of information at odds with the global conspiracy state, Keith transforms Wells and other literary stalwarts such as Aldous Huxley from reporters upon trends in mind control technology in their time to propagandists for it. The book reaches its low point when it repeats Walter Bowart's utterly unsupported charges against Timothy Leary in this regard, although at the same time it brings up Billy Mellon Hitchcock, whose familial ties to Richard Mellon Scaife give the book an unforeseen connection to the current conspiracy strife in DC. In fact, the sections in Mind Control, World Control that deal with the history of psychedelic drugs carry an anti-drug message worthy of a federal program, Keith no doubt pandering to a segment of his audience.
Of Black Helicopters II, a Steamshovel reader who works as a software engineer for Boeing says it looks like a compendium of newsletters and briefing documents he and his co-workers receive regularly on the job. That's a testament to the amount of technical information about known and identifiable military hardware in the book. Keith frames it with further questions and speculation about the unknown aspects of the black choppers, some re-hashed like the connection to cattle mutes and UFOs, but others, like the Quadrant Sign Code and the Endgame Strategy that inject new energy into the debate. The books ends with a call for non-violent resistance to New World Order oppression as perceived and expressed in the black helicopter imagery.