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WAR: Brain will be battlefield of future
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by Paul Conneally | August 14, 2008 at 01:20 am
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Millions of dollars will be spent over the next few years on 'medical research' as pharmacological land minds and bullets are developed to incapacitate the brains of enemies. The powers that be will be and are labelling such research as 'medical' but this is just as surely chemical warfare as napalm ever this approach just redirecting the target inside the body rather than its surface.
The report by the Defense Intelligence Agency also points the way to using these technologies for mind control of drones in the battle zone and in new torture possibilities. Meanwhile research into some very common diseases that kill millions in developing countries gets limited investment. Where there's war there's brass and yes there may be some genuine health breakthroughs as byproducts of this warmongering investment in 'medical research' but warfare is terrible and chemical warfare is at the moment against international law. Scientists in their quest to discover have lent there effort to the production of waepons of mass destruction and here again we'll see I'm sure many eminent scientists and doctors lining up for a pay-check to see them through their research dreams and financial ones too.Rapid advances in neuroscience could have a dramatic impact on national security and the way in which future wars are fought, US intelligence officials have been told.
In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies.
They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person's state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision.
On the battlefield, bullets may be replaced with "pharmacological land mines" that release drugs to incapacitate soldiers on contact, while scanners and other electronic devices could be developed to identify suspects from their brain activity and even disrupt their ability to tell lies when questioned, the report says.
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at 01:39 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Okay, I a, not to happy about that and I believe it to rather dangerous, Further does things usually back fire in really bad way!
at 02:46 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 03:23 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 03:24 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, very interesting reading and suppositions! I know they're working on lasers to blind large crowds for calming riots, etc., I wonder what else is on the plate. Maybe the 'gay beam' is making a comeback?
at 03:47 on August 14th, 2008
The laser project is completed - it's all working just fine now ... causes permanent retinal scarring by the way.
Developed originally to blind enemy troops on the battlefield, it wasn't much of a stretch at that point for civilian law enforcement to imagine it might help them do their jobs better as well ...
at 03:41 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
More good news from the scientists ... all this progress is making me a little dizzy !
at 04:06 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
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swapnil saraswat (not verified)at 07:10 on August 14th, 2008
Very interesting story.
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dirdum (not verified)at 07:43 on August 14th, 2008
so you would prefer blowing the enemy to pieces to using an aerosol to incapacitate the enemy?
at 11:45 on August 14th, 2008
prefer... no war at all
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henry birkenbineat 07:44 on August 14th, 2008
Anyone remember Clinton's plan to get rid of bullets and use super silly string to tie up the enemy. What a deterrent that was.
at 08:20 on August 14th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff. It's scary but good. It reminds me of the LSD experiments conducted on the unsuspecting in the '60s. I wonder what Bill the Galactic Hero would think of all this.
at 16:46 on August 18th, 2008
LotusFlower, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Important story, scary as hell, but i'm glad we're getting this insight into the way things are going. Our military and intelligence R&D would do well to take stock of these findings from RAND: Is military force the best means to defeat terrorist groups?
Some have a world view of scarcity, enemies and competition for resources, ignoring other information; this whole universe and everything in it came into existence from nothing. All of civilization came from the minds of human beings. Establishing communication, cooperation and justice increases security. Those playing with this kind of fire are gonna get burned if they have bad intentions, i predict; computers keep getting smarter and more powerful, and all these technologies will be available to them when they become smarter than human beings.