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When the Nazis did this it was very, very bad. When the Soviets did this, they did it in secret and when the truth came out - as truths wickedly (and usually) do - it was initially discredited by all the world's left-wing intellectuals (a peculiar brand of semi-educated ostriches) until the evidence was so overwhelming that only a total idiot could deny it. And that was very, very bad. The Chinese were (are ?) quite partial to this - and that is evil. North Koreans do this it seems, and that is very evil. The British did it to the Irish, even very recently - and that was a bit naughty. The French did it to the Algerians back in the late 50s - and they filmed themselves while at it. And they filmed themselves laughing while doing it! Some South Americans did this and that was worth a protest march or two. The Iraqis did it and that was worth going to war for - or at least using that as an excuse. The Americans promised to stop doing this unless it's necessary (hehehe!) which means they won't stop. The Israelis regularly do this - and occasionally repent in the media to wipe the slate and conscience clean. Then they go back to doing it because boys will be boys.

Abuse and torture of detainees does only one thing: it creates die-hard enemies. Even spiteful behaviour - out of boredom?!!!! - on the part of the captor today creates endless danger for his/her children and grandchildren, even years hence, and for ours. It doesn't take a huge intellect to grasp this. Only total dunces cannot understand such a simple fact.

This is lovely! It's about an Irish university student who posted a fake quote by a musician. The quote got picked up by the media and within a few hours turned from fake into the bona fide musings of an artist.

The student thus proved that if anything is repeated sufficiently it will become fact, irrespective of whether it is true or false. Makes you think, doesn't it? How much of the information we are regularly fed is true and how much has been concocted to make us buy, vote, think in a desired way - desired by the great and the good? Not that we were entirely unaware of this little process of gentle and friendly (?) brain-washing.

Here is the quote in question: "One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack," Fitzgerald's fake Jarre quote read. "Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head that only I can hear."

It's rather good and I bet Jarre would have loved to have said it. Alas he didn't.

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From the page: "Project BLUEBIRD was approved by the director of the CIA on April 20, 1950. In a 1951 memo, Bluebird states that practical research was to be conducted to include these specific problems:

* Can we create by post-H [hypnotic] control an action contrary to an individual�s basic moral principles?
* Can we in a matter of an hour, two hours, one day, etc., induce an H condition in an unwilling subject to such an extent that he will perform an act for our benefit?
* Could we seize a subject and in the space of an hour or two by post-H control have him crash an airplane, wreck a train, etc.?
* Can we by H and SI [sleep inducing] techniques force a subject to travel long distances, commit specified acts and return to us or bring documents or materials?
* Can we guarantee total amnesia under any and all conditions?
* Can we �oealter” a person�s personality?
* Can we devise a system for making unwilling subjects into willing agents and then transfer that control to untrained agency agents in the field by use of codes or identifying signs?
* How can sodium A or P or any other sleep inducing agent be best concealed in a normal or commonplace item, such as candy, cigarettes, coffee, tea, beer, medicines?"

Fascinating stuff. Why don't the CIA people control their own minds to make them slightly sharper?

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