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Guardian Hay Festival 2002: Jon Ronson - Jon Ronson discusses and reads from the picaresque travels recorded in Them: Adventures with Extremists. 60 minutes, Windows Media Player.
Jon Ronson - Official site of the writer and documentary film maker whose books include Them: Adventures with Extremists. Includes video clips, news, projects and links. [RealPlayer]
Guardian Books: Stranger than fiction - Louis Theroux reviews Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists. The book was written after spending several years in the company of a few of these fringe-dwellers, in an attempt to understand their mindset and to see to what - if any - extent their fears were founded in fact.
Guardian Books: Who pulls the strings? - Extensive extract from Them: Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson, about tracking down the Bilderberg Group with Big Jim Tucker of Washington DC.
Observer Review: Them by Jon Ronson - Reviewer Jason Cowley asks if Jon really cares about these extremists from all over the world: Omar Mohammed, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Dr Ian Paisley, David Icke and the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, the Weavers.
Guardian Books: Beset by lizards - Extensive extract from Jon Ronson's Them: Adventures With Extremists about following David Icke, whose fans turn out to be mostly concerned with the perils of global capitalism. How "we" can turn into the villains, the hidden hand - "them".
Salon: Jon Ronson - Joanna Smith Rakoff. The author of "Them: Adventures With Extremists" discusses his time with Osama's London cohort, close calls with neo-Nazis, and the undeniable humanity of the world's would-be monsters.
Guardian: Stars in Their Eyes - Jon Ronson followed the original Big Brother crew for nine months after their eviction and the show's finale to find out if their 15 minutes of fame were really worth it.
The Northern Rivers Echo Word on Books: Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jeremy Fenton, reviewer. Journalist-by-day Jon Ronson has linked the dots together to come up with a startling and humorous - and not completely unsympathetic - picture of people who believe the world is controlled by a secret group of elites for their own nefarious purposes.
Fresh Air: Jon Ronson - Audio archives of his programmes from All Things Considered with NPR (National Public Radio) in the US.
The Secret Rulers of the World: A Review of a Lost Opportunity - David Icke's commentary on his experiences being interviewed by Jon Ronson for both an article in The Guardian and the Channel Four documentary "The Secret Rulers of the World".
Flak Magazine Review: Them: Adventures With Extremists - Paul McLeary reviews Jon Ronson's book, which he finds to be a very human look into the lives and motivations of those often dismissed as "extremists" but who think of themselves as the sane ones.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams Ronson, Jon "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Ronson, Jon The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Ronson, Jon Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on. -- Oscar Levant "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Ronson, Jon "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Ronson, Jon And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Ronson, Jon Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein May you never leave your marriage alive. Ronson, Jon The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Ronson, Jon Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Ronson, Jon I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard Ronson, Jon Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Ronson, Jon The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Ronson, Jon All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. -- Winnie the Pooh Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ronson, Jon "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ronson, Jon "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Ronson, Jon Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Ronson, Jon In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Ronson, Jon Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Ronson, Jon A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Ronson, Jon Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi Ronson, Jon We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. -- William James Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Ronson, Jon Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Ronson, Jon
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