MK-ULTRA was the code name for a secret CIA mind control program, begun in 1953, under Director Allen Dulles. Its purpose was multifold, including to perfect a truth drug for interrogating suspected Soviet spies during the Cold War. It followed earlier WW II hypnosis, primitive drugs research, and the US Navy's Project Chatter, explained by its Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request as follows:

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By Nicholas C. Arguimbau
 
Almost everyone knows the severe and imminent consequences of failure to act promptly and decisively to control emissions of greenhouse gases - drowned coastal cities, unprecedented loss of biodiversity, agricultural lands turned to desert, destruction of water supplies dependent upon mountain snowmelt, starvation of hundreds of millions of humans, destruction of many of the world's remaining forests, death by acidification of the oceans, etc., etc., etc. We know the litany.

I was watching C-Span Book TV and they had Norman Podhoretz on, talking about his book “Why are Jews Liberals”. I felt as though I was in an alternate reality, like I had morphed into William Shatner and I was watching a monster on the wing of an airliner, but instead, I was watching a monster delivering a synopsis of a book.

March 20 is a day of historical importance. On March 20, 2003 there were world-wide protests against US military aggression.   Millions of activists around the world participated.  Some of the protests were inspired by US plans for "Shock and Awe".  "Shock and Awe" was promised by the US government to be one of the most destructive military campaigns in history.  In addition the US was at the same time threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has a big task ahead of him. He has to withdraw most of the $2.2 trillion the Fed created and pumped into the banking system since 2007 before a monster inflation strikes and robs of us our purchasing power. But he has do it without sending the economy back into a recession in the process.

A few words of advice for all you anti- Obama conservatives out there. Quit it with the whole teleprompter fixation, would ya?  Okay, okay, we get it, you don’t like the President. And you’ll throw the kitchen sink to attack him on everything under the sun; from being responsible for the recent rash of substandard Vermont maple syrup crops to the irksome infestation of grunge rock into country- western music all the way to wormy pears. Everything he stands for is bad, and everything he’s against is good. Got it.

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant is leaking copious quantities of tritium, a relatively rare (in nature) and extremely hazardous radioactive isotope of hydrogen.  Tritium can be absorbed through the skin, as well as ingested or inhaled.

At least four children have been killed and several injured after a school collapsed in the town of Cap-Haitien in northern Haiti.

North Korea has hailed its "peerlessly brilliant" leader, Kim Jong-il, as the country marks his 68th birthday in a festive atmosphere complete with parades, flower shows and goodie-bag handouts for children.

1979: The then Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. In the years that follow Moscow will rule Kabul by proxy while the US, Pakistan, China, Iran and Saudi Arabia extend their support to anti-communist Muslim fighters, the Mujahideen, who oppose the Soviets.

The joint command at Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has launchedwhat it calls an "Afghan-led counter-insurgency operation", sending 15,000 troops into key areas of Helmand province to fight the Taliban.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Brader, a senior Taliban military commander, has been captured in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, a US newspaper has reported.

Nato-led and Afghan forces have met sporadic resistance on the third day of a major offensive to secure a town in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.

As Iran announced plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants in a major expansion of its nuclear programme, A look at the nuclear fuel process.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister has expressed doubts about the need for more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme, a move being pushed by the United States.

The scenery here may be breathtaking, but for organisers, competitors and fans at the Winter Olympics the weather in Vancouver has been infuriating.