Tag: cold war
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‘manchurian candidates’ to gather in connecticut
from danger room: For some, the horrors of the CIA’s secret, Cold War-era mind control research has never really ended. Next month in Connecticut, self-described victims of MK ULTRA will attend “The Eleventh Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference.” There, attendees will discuss their memories of being unwitting participants in the CIA’s…
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45 yrs ago: jfk’s american university speech
from politico: On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy declared that the U. S. would be willing to cease testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere if the Soviet Union agreed to follow suit. In a commencement address at Washington’s American University, the president disavowed a “Pax Americana” modeled after the Roman Empire. Instead,…
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cia secret experiments
from national geographic: During the Cold War, the CIA launched a highly classified program aimed at mastering the art of mind control.
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booz biometrics, castro quits, rotarix, lonsdale & checkmate
booz allen hamilton wins $6m biometrics bidfrom washington technology: Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. has won a contract worth $6.3 million to conduct a biometrics research project at the request of the Air Force, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Under the contract, the McLean, Va., company will help conduct research for a new 3-D facial recognition…
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military mind control, global fatting & immoral nukes
report: nonlethal weapons could target brain & mimic schizophreniafrom danger room: Of all the crazy, bizarre less-lethal weapons that have been proposed, the use of microwaves to target the human mind remains the most disturbing. The question has always been: is this anything more than urban myth? We may not have the final answer to…
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russia ‘ditching cold war pacts’
from telegraph: Russia is steadily “unraveling” the historic arms control treaties that ended the Cold War and became cornerstones of European security, the most comprehensive survey of global military trends said yesterday. The Military Balance 2008 (375kb PDF) portrays Russia as breaking out of the constraints imposed by treaties once considered inviolable. John Chipman, the…
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hillary: nuking terrorist ‘safe havens’ a possibility
clinton promises ‘heavy retaliation’ for terrorist-harboring nations from raw story: New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, finding herself in an unexpectedly close race with freshman Sen. Barack Obama, flexed her national security muscles in Saturday night’s Democratic debate, raising the possibility of loosing nuclear weapons on countries that harbor terrorists who plot a nuclear attack on…
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the good shepherd
from wikipedia: The value of secrecy — commitment to honor and discretion — has been embedded in Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) since childhood. As a dedicated, optimistic student at Yale University, he is recruited to join the Order of Skull and Bones, a secret society designed to breed the world leaders of tomorrow. Wilson’s acute…