Ex-agent reveals KGB mind control techniques - paperMOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - A former KGB officer has divulged secrets of special mind control techniques that security services in developed nations used during and after the Cold War, a Russian government daily said Friday.
General Boris Ratnikov, who served in the KGB department for Moscow and the Moscow Region, told Rossiiskaya Gazeta that people in power had resorted to various methods of manipulating individuals' thoughts since ancient times, and that it was hardly s... (more)
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Israel 'poisoning the Palestinians'ALGIERS: Israel was yesterday accused of using illegal chemical weapons in the occupied territories.
"Analyses carried out in laboratories outside Palestine have shown that Israel has had recourse to banned chemical weapons and depleted uranium" in the territories, said environment minister Yussef Abu Sofia in Algiers, on the sidelines of a conference of Arab environment ministers.
He also accused Israel of having "transported major quantities of dangerous chemical ... (more)
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Navy vet says he was tortured by U.S. forcesDecember 18, 2006 - A Navy veteran from Chicago says he was detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Baghdad without being charged. Twenty-nine-year-old Donald Vance was a private security employee in Baghdad at the time of his arrest. He has filed a federal lawsuit against former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Donald Vance is a lifelong Chicagoan. After graduating from Taft High School he joined the Navy. He was discharged in the 90's. Two years ago, Vance went to work fo... (more)
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Target IranFormer UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh on White House Plans for Regime Change
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its strike group entered the Persian Gulf on Dec. 11. Another aircraft carrier, the Stennis, is expected to depart for the Gulf within the next month. The military said it is also taking steps to prevent Iran from blocking oil shipments from the Gulf. ... (more)
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Flashback: Iraqi Girl tells of US Attack in HadithaTen-year-old Iman Walid witnessed the killing of seven members of her family in an attack by American marines last November. The interview with Iman was filmed exclusively for ITV News by Ali Hamdani, our Iraqi video diarist.
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Juicing the BrainPhysicians have long tinkered with ways to "improve" the human brain, but as our understanding of that organ's inner workings quickly grows, artificial enhancement is becoming more feasible. Military research is at the forefront of this work, much of it focused on drugs. The goal is to produce a better soldier, but the emerging techniques could just as easily be applied to any individual.
The military wants to juice up personnel's brains because the human being is the weakest inst... (more)
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City under terror watchUNMANNED closed-circuit television camera spy planes and trucks with hidden cameras are among options canvassed in a top secret report into security coverage in Adelaide.
The report, considered by a top-level State Government and Adelaide City Council committee, is part of Premier Mike Rann's post-London bombing plan to improve CCTV coverage in the city centre. One Capital City Committee member, who wished to remain anonymous, said the report included options... (more)
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Global economy faces a dangerous yearRising inflation and falling home prices are likely to push the US economy into recession by the second half of 2007. Gathering economic weakness, combined with negative real yields on US Treasury securities and growing political pressure to weaken the dollar will lead to significant dollar depreciation against most currencies.
Economic growth in Asia, Europe and Latin America will also weaken in 2007. Slowing global economic growth will be very bad news for equity markets around ... (more)
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9/11's Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI InformantIf I had an hour, I would talk to you about how the 9/11 Report failed to reconcile Dick Cheney's conflicting accounts, which cannot all be true, of what he did on the morning of 9/11 in the bunker beneath the White House. But that story takes two whole chapters of my forthcoming book, The Road to 9/11. So instead I will expand on what I spoke about a month ago in Berkeley, concerning Ali Mohamed, Washington's double agent inside al-Qaeda, and also a chief 9/11 pl... (more)
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School Bans HuggingA junior high school in Iowa City has banned hugging on campus, according to a Local 6 News report.
School officials at Southeast Junior High School banned the popular act of affection because girls would hug in groups and stop the flow of traffic during passing periods.
Principal Deb Wretman said they have now instituted a strict hands-off or handshake policy at the Iowa City school. She said it's safe and efficient.
"The reason that we have the hand... (more)
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Mexican Soldiers Freelancing for Drug Cartels on US Soil(CNSNews.com) - Gun-toting members of the Mexican military are crossing regularly into U.S. territory, where they are partnering with drug cartels and criminal gangs to protect sophisticated smuggling operations, according to Texas sheriffs and lawmakers.
Some of the Mexican infiltrators are suspected to have been trained by the U.S. military.
U.S. Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement officials operating along the southwestern border have come under attack... (more)
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Report Says TSA Violated Privacy LawSecure Flight, the U.S. government's stalled program to screen domestic air passengers against terrorism watch lists, violated federal law during a crucial test phase, according to a report to be issued today by the Homeland Security Department's privacy office.
The agency found that by gathering passenger data from commercial brokers in 2004 without notifying the passengers, the program violated a 1974 Privacy Act requirement that the public be made aware of ... (more)
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X-51 Hypersonic Cruise Missile: The Pentagon's Prompt Global Strike Weapon PlanThe mission: Attack anywhere in the world in less than an hour. But is the Pentagon's bold program a critical new weapon for hitting elusive targets, or a good way to set off a nuclear war?
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Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons" for Offensive UseIn violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb.
So says Francis Boyle, the professor of international law who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 enacted by Congress. He states the Pentagon "is now gearing up to fight and 'win' biological war... (more)
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Blackmail fear after Russia doubles the price of its gasFears that Russia is using energy supplies as a political weapon increased last night after Moscow forced Georgia to accept a doubling of gas prices.
The deal came within hours of a threat by Gazprom, Russia's statecontrolled energy giant, to cut off supplies to the former Soviet republic from January 1.
Georgia had called the price increase 'unacceptable' and 'politically motivated'.
Relations between the Kremlin and Georgia's pro-West leadership wer... (more)
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Poll: Bush not trustworthy, doesn't share values, no longer inspires confidenceWASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush faces some discouraging poll numbers as the year many have called the most challenging of his presidency comes to an end.
A majority of the American people, 55 percent, no longer believe Bush shares their values. They also are not sure if he is honest and trustworthy or if he understands complex issues, a CNN poll released Thursday reports. The poll was conducted for CNN by the Opinion Research Corporation and has a margin of error of plus or min... (more)
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High school lockdown yields no illegal drugs "We had a hunch that today would be a good day for a lockdown," explained Tim Hamilton, CHS principal. "We like to do these every now and then to ensure that the students know we remember them and are looking out for their safety."
Hamilton said the high school administration worked with the Coolidge Police Department and Pinal County Juvenile Probation Department to set up the lockdown. At 12:45 p.m. on Dec. 14, four officers from those departments joined Hamilton and CHS deans ... (more)
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The redacted Iran op-ed revealedThe New York Times has taken the unusual step of publishing an op-ed in which parts of the contents have been "redacted" or blacked out by government censors, who believe that its contents would reveal "sensitive" information that the White House wants to withold. Below is RAW STORY's best informed guess at what might hide behind the redactions.
In addition to the redacted op-ed, the Times published an explanatory note from its aut... (more)
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George Orwell Was Right: Spy Cameras See Britons' Every Move It's Saturday night in Middlesbrough, England, and drunken university students are celebrating the start of the school year, known as Freshers' Week.
One picks up a traffic cone and runs down the street. Suddenly, a disembodied voice booms out from above:
``You in the black jacket! Yes, you! Put it back!'' The confused student obeys as his friends look bewildered.
``People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when th... (more)
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Big Brother BritainWe are experiencing the chill wind of technology driven authoritarianism and whether we like it or not it’s not going to go away. Increased surveillance of our daily lives is a fact of life; be it the DNA database, the growth of CCTV, the profiling of “would be offenders”, the continued hyping of the terrorist menace and advances in surveillance or security technology ostensibly to get us up to speed for the 2012 London Olympics.
Britain&... (more)
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Eyes on the streetThe place where Jane Creba was killed has returned to normal, Yonge Street-style: Students rush past a new Gwen Stefani billboard, a homeless man holds out a paper cup and a young man with a fade haircut stares at a pair of LeBron basketball shoes though the window of Foot Locker, unaware that he is standing on the spot where Ms. Creba was shot to death last Boxing Day.
"Right here?" he says when he learns that he is at a former homicide scene. "Wow." The ... (more)
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Designer monstersMahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man seemingly custom-made for the White House in its endless quest for enemies with whom to scare Congress, the American people, and the world, in order to justify the unseemly behavior of the empire.
The Iranian president has declared that he wants to "wipe Israel off the map." He's said that "the Holocaust is a myth." He recently held a conference in Iran for "Holocaust deniers." And his government passed a new law requiring Jews to wear a yellow insigni... (more)
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US 'Nazi guard' faces deportationAn 85-year-old man accused of having been a guard at a Nazi death camp has lost an appeal against his deportation from the US to his native Ukraine.
John Demjanjuk, who was ordered to be deported a year ago, can still make a further appeal against this ruling.
He has denied the allegations and his lawyers argued he would be tortured if sent back to Ukraine.
Mr Demjanjuk migrated to the US in 1951 and was briefly deported to Israel amid a 30-year legal... (more)
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