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Hat tip to Tim Aehrke for sending us the link! — PID

(COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE) — A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975.

Three veterans groups and six individual veterans sued the CIA and other government agencies, claiming they used about 7,800 soldiers as human guinea pigs to research biological, chemical and psychological weapons.

via Courthouse News Service.

Project Blue Beam takes another step closer to reality. — PID

(WIRED.COM) — It’s one of those grandiose ideas that gets bandied about by Pentagon scientists and pops up in the press every few years. The “Face of Allah” weapon would beam a massive, lifelike hologram over a battlefield, projecting the image of some deity “to incite fear in soldiers on a battlefield,” according to one researcher.

We last checked in on holographic weapons research two years ago, when the University of New Hampshire was working on some Pentagon-funded projects. Since then, another university team has turned holograms into a reality — but not as tools of war. Not yet, at least.

via Military One Step Closer to Battlefield Holograms | Danger Room | Wired.com.

<Natasha Lakaev is currently working with patients in a mental care facility. She once claimed to be able to ‘cleanse the memory cells’ of devotees’ minds. Gee, didn’t Ewen Cameron do something similar in the MK Ultra experiments? — PID

(THEAGE.COM.AU) — /SNIP/ A former member of her inner circle, Carli McConkey, has told The Sunday Age that Ms Lakaev was physically violent and psychologically manipulative, and had persuaded her followers that she was the Queen of Atlantis, a reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and one of 12 members of the Intergalactic Council of the Universe.

via Alleged leader of cult works as psychologist.

(MAIL ONLINE) — They put on their headphones, drape a hood over their head and drift off into the world of ‘digital highs’.

Videos posted on YouTube show a young girl freaking out and leaping up in fear, a teenager shaking violently and a young boy in extreme distress.

This is the world of ‘i-Dosing’, the new craze sweeping the internet in which teenagers used so-called ‘digital drugs’ to change their brains in the same way as real-life narcotics.

via I-dosing: How teenagers are getting ‘digitally high’ from music they download from internet | Mail Online.

WASHINGTON, June 22 (Reuters) — Brain scans may be able to predict what you will do better than you can yourself, and might offer a powerful tool for advertisers or health officials seeking to motivate consumers, researchers said on Tuesday.

/SNIP/ “We are trying to figure out whether there is hidden wisdom that the brain contains,” Falk said in a telephone interview. [emp PID]

via Now scientists read your mind better than you can | Reuters.

Sadly, this sentiment is rampant throughout Hollywood these days. Blame Bush, crown Obama with many crowns. — PID

(Entertainment Blog|Fox News) — snip/ In an interview published by Spanish language newspaper La Vanguardia (that we translated), Allen says “I am pleased with Obama. I think he’s brilliant. The Republican Party should get out of his way and stop trying to hurt him.”

But wait – there’s more!

The director said “it would be good…if he could be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly.”

via Woody Allen says President Obama should be granted dictatorial powers (seriously) « Entertainment.

(THE WEEK) — The network admits it uses “behavior placement” on popular shows to encourage healthy, eco-friendly habits — and sell ads.

via NBC’s ‘cynical’ mind-control games – The Week.

PID COMMENT: This is nothing new. Teen films have been programming viewers for decades, encouraging promiscuity, drug use, hatred toward authority (particularly parents), and other anti-social behaviors. Suddenly, people notice because NBC wants soccer moms to recycle? Sheesh.