The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project By Mark Thompson / Washington 9/14/08 Soldiers barking orders at each other is so 20th Century. That's why the U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing "thought helmets" that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops. Ultimately, the Army hopes the project will "lead to direct mental control of military systems by thought alone." ....But improvements in computing power and a better understanding of how the brain works have scientists busy hunting for the distinctive neural fingerprints that flash through a brain when a person is talking to himself. The Army's initial goal is to capture those brain waves with incredibly sophisticated software that then translates the waves into audible radio messages for other troops in the field. "It'd be radio without a microphone, " says Dr. Elmar Schmeisser, the Army neuroscientist overseeing the program. "Because soldiers are already trained to talk in clean, clear and formulaic ways, it would be a very small step to have them think that way." ....Dr. Mike D'Zmura of UC-Irvine, the lead scientist on the project, says his task is akin to finding the right strands on a plate full of pasta. "You need to pick out the relevant pieces of spaghetti," he says, "and sometimes they have to be torn apart and re-attached to others." But with ever-increasing computing power the task can be done in real time, he says. Users also will have to be trained to think loudly. "How do we get a person to think something to themselves in a way that leaves a very strong signal in EEGs that we can read off against the background noise?" D'Zmura asks. Finally, because every person's EEG is different, persons using "thought helmets" will have to be trained so that computers intercepting their unspoken commands recognize each user's unique mental pattern. _http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html?imw=Y_ (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1841108,00.html?imw=Y) warning - describes graphic crimes of abuse Knifed 666 times each and eaten - By Lynsey Haywood 9/16/08 Horrified cops found body parts dumped in a pit beside an upside-down cross, a symbol used in Satanic worship....The discovery in Yaroslavl, 300 miles from Moscow, sent a shudder across Russia — where Satanists are feared to have committed a string of mutilations and killings. The victims, who all disappeared in June, were named as Anya Gorokhova, Olga Pukhova, Varya Kuzmina and Andrei Sorokin. The upside-down cross marking what was left of their bones and scalps had a small animal nailed to it. Police began tracing the gang after finding out that all the victims had made phone calls to alleged leader Nikolai Ogolobyak. Locals said they all knew Ogolobyak, whose grandmother revealed he had sung in the local church choir as a boy. The rest of the cult were described by ex-teachers as having been of low intelligence and moody at school. Three were named by police as Ksenia Kuznetsova, Alexander Voronov and Anton Makovkin. The dad of victim Andrei said: “ My son said he had Goths and Satanists among his friends. “I wasn’t scared. I thought, ‘Well, let him spend his time sitting around a cemetery — there’s not much harm in that, is there?’" Russia has seen a series of gruesome murders, rapes and desecrations linked to Satanic cults. _http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1692637.ece_ (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1692637.ece)
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