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> > From: "Adam Whaley"
> > To: "PFP"
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:02 AM
> > Subject: [BIOWAR] Frankensteins in the Pentagon
> >
> >
> > Frankensteins in the Pentagon
> > DAPRA's Creepy Bioengineering Program
> > By Cheryl Seal
> > 25 August 2003
> > DARPA Bioengineering Program Seeks to Turn
> Soldiers
> > Into Cyborgs
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> > Not long ago, the public was stunned by the
> > practical and moral idiocy of
> > the Pentagon researcher (and unprosecuted war
> > criminal) John Poindexter, who
> > proposed a 'football pool' scheme for predicting
> > terrorist attacks. We all
> > laughed at such insanity and were relieved to see
> > the scheme speedily
> > deep-sixed. However, this bit of lunacy was just
> the
> > lightest ice in the tip
> > of the very large, very dark iceberg that the
> > Pentagon's research program,
> > better known as DARPA, has become.
> >
> > Just a few weeks before the bizarro world
> 'terrorism
> > gambling' project was
> > exposed, a DARPA (which stands for Defense
> Advanced
> > Research Projects
> > Agency)-sponsored conference was held in
> Washington,
> > DC, that showcased the
> > latest love child of the Bush Pentagon: military
> > bioengineering. The
> > euphemisms being used by the Pentagon to disguise
> > the true nature of this
> > research are being spread as thick as bondo and
> > cheap paint at a used car
> > lot. For example, the title of the conference was:
> > 'Harvesting Biology for
> > Defense Technology,' while the subheading of the
> > section on human
> > 'bioengineering' was entitled, rather ominously,
> in
> > light of the military's
> > history, 'Enhancing Human Performance.'
> >
> > So how does the Bush DARPA seek to 'enhance' human
> > performance? In a kinder,
> > gentler administration, the solution would be
> better
> > training, better food,
> > better pay, more leave time, and greater use of
> > stress-reducing duty
> > rotations. But this is not a kinder, gentler -or
> > even rational-
> > administration. Bush and Company plan to enhance
> > soldier performance by
> > squeezing the most that can be humanly -and not so
> > humanly- squeezed from
> > troops without having to resort to anything as
> > primitive as decent pay.
> > Their motto: Get the most human output for the
> least
> > human input: After all,
> > it's the corporate way!
> >
> > Here are some examples of DARPA 'Human-enhancing'
> > schemes:
> >
> > The 'Brain Interface Program' is the most lavishly
> > funded of nearly all the
> > DARPA bioengineering efforts (the project has been
> > given $24 million for the
> > next two years). It is aimed at developing ways to
> > 'integrate' soldiers into
> > machines -literally- by wiring them (remotely or
> > directly) to their planes,
> > tanks, or computers. An implantable brain chip is
> > now under development in
> > this sick program, which has already proudly
> > demonstrated how rats can be
> > turned into living robots through the manipulation
> > of stimulus-response
> > signals in the brain via electrodes. The Pentagon
> > hopes to use these
> > pathetic, 'modified' creatures (you should see the
> > photos -makes you want to
> > join People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals!)
> > in mine clearance.
> >
> > "The use of animals in warfare is ugly enough
> > without the further insult to
> > their dignity involved in turning them into
> > involuntary cyborgs," writes
> > James Meek in the Guardian. "And a military
> command
> > committed to the use of
> > creatures which are part-animal, part-machine, is
> > going to be that bit less
> > reluctant to interfere in its soldiers in similar
> > ways."
> >
> > But, as the conference heading would have you
> > believe, DARPA isn't
> > interfering -it is merely 'enhancing.' After all,
> as
> > an official at DARPA
> > recently observed, "The human is becoming the
> > weakest link in defense
> > systems."
> >
> > Enhancement efforts at the Brain Interface Program
> > are now progressing
> > nicely. The chief Frankenstein of the project, one
> > Alan S. Rudolph, now
> > wants to be able to transmit images or sound
> > directly into the brains of
> > rats -and of course, later, soldiers...or
> prisoners
> > of war (just imagine the
> > torture potential here!).
> >
> > The 'Metabolic Dominance and Engineered Tissue'
> > program is aimed at being
> > able to artificially pump up soldier endurance and
> > muscle strength.
> >
> > The 'Persistence in Combat' program is a bizarre
> > self-treatment scheme which
> > would include pain-reducing and blood-stopping
> > devices and techniques
> > soldiers would apply to their own wounds -even
> > moderately severe ones-
> > thereby bypassing the need for a medic and
> enabling
> > a soldier to keep
> > fighting, despite serious wounds! Yep, just keep
> on
> > runnin' through the
> > jungle on that broken leg or with that bullet in
> the
> > gut! Once that
> > pain-obliterating electrode in your brain is
> > activated, you won't feel a
> > thing!
> >
> > The 'Continuous Assisted Perfomance' program hopes
> > to find biotechnological
> > ways (implants, metabolic manipulation, etc) to
> make
> > it possible to push
> > exhausted soldiers on without loss of performance
> > for up to seven days
> > without sleep.
> >
> > The above technologies are referred to by DARPA
> > under the subheading of
> > 'neuroengineering.' Neuroengineering was played
> > around with back in the
> > early 1990s (no doubt given the initial green
> light
> > by Bush I), but became a
> > rather minor and exotic 'side line' of research in
> > the Clinton years. Since
> > Bush II came on the scene, however,
> neuroengineering
> > programs have been
> > shoved into a position of major importance.
> >
> > The wording of the descriptions of all the 'human
> > enhancement' programs is
> > extremely deceptive -even deliberately misleading.
> > For example, having read
> > the Brain Interface Program background in Nature
> > magazine, I know for a fact
> > that 'noninvasive' technologies (contrary to what
> is
> > claimed in the
> > description) are not currently the project
> priority
> > and are considered at
> > best a remote goal. What is in the works right now
> > is a microprocessing chip
> > that can be implanted beneath the skull and
> remotely
> > manipulated. In a June
> > 19 Nature article, Rudolph estimated that a usable
> > chip that could be
> > field-tested in rats is about two years away,
> while
> > noninvasive technologies
> > (whatever that means -how can it not be when you
> are
> > manipulating someone's
> > neurons?) is only an aspired-to ideal.
> >
> > The researchers also try to hide behind
> > grandiose-sounding claims of working
> > to the greater good as a way to fool the public,
> and
> > possibly themselves,
> > into believing that these projects really do have
> > some benign reasons for
> > being, if only to promote the cause of 'science.'
> > That is why nearly every
> > program in the conference guide comes with a
> > 'suggested benign use' (my own
> > flippant phrase). After all, whines Rudolph,
> today's
> > soldier's brain chip
> > may be tomorrow's brain damage therapy. We should
> be
> > impressed? After all,
> > the same argument was used by Hitler's researchers
> > to justify their
> > heartless 'medical' experiments on Jews, gypsies,
> > retarded children, enemy
> > soldiers, prisoners, et al.). What is truly
> chilling
> > is that these
> > technologies, in essence, are seeking to turn our
> > soldiers into human
> > fighting machines, sacrificing their autonomy and,
> > very likely, long-term
> > quality of life for short term military savings
> > -savings that will go right
> > into the pockets of the government's beloved
> defense
> > contractors. There is
> > no way these technologies can be benign -the whole
> > concept is totally
> > against what America stands for and against any
> > other reasonable code of
> > ethics, for that matter. In addition, with the way
> > they are being rushed
> > through the research gamut, there is no way they
> can
> > be proven safe,
> > especially long-term. I can just imagine the
> > residual tissue damage,
> > cancers, post-traumatic stress disorders, etc,
> that
> > DARPA-style 'human
> > enhancement' will inflict on our guys and gals in
> > uniform. Remember Agent
> > Orange? Remember aboveground nuke testing?
> Remember
> > submarine sailors being
> > gassed as a DARPA 'experiment,' or those soldiers,
> > most of them black or
> > Hispanic, fed '___'? As it is, more than half of all
> > Gulf War vets have now
> > filed for disability because of the devastating
> > effects of Gulf War
> > Syndrome.
> >
> > The only variable that has been conclusively
> linked
> > to the syndrome is the
> > ingestion by US Gulf War soldiers (and some
> British
> > troops) of a 'cocktail'
> > of anti-bacterial inoculations (including the
> > anthrax vaccine) and an
> > anti-nerve gas agent. A clear pattern was shown:
> > Soldiers who did not
> > receive the 'cocktail' (including all French
> > soldiers) did not later report
> > Gulf War syndrome symptoms, even if exposed to
> > depleted uranium (another
> > suspected cause). This finding came out in
> European
> > journals way back in the
> > mid-1990s. French commanders and many British
> > commanders seriously
> > questioned the wisdom of the cocktail at the time.
> > But not the Pentagon!
> > After all, the cocktail was 'human enhancing.' So
> > now, will
> > beneath-the-skull implants for soldiers become as
> > mandatory as anthrax
> > vaccines? (for my theory of Gulf War syndrome,
> read
> > the paragraph after this
> > article).
> >
> > With the insane Bush DARPA plunging forward with
> its
> > Darth Vader research,
> > the possibilities for horrific misuse and
> long-term
> > consequences are
> > staggering. For example, one of the DARPA
> > Frankensteins, one Ted Berger of
> > the University of Southern California, envisions
> > pilots who would be able to
> > pilot their planes by thought alone, thanks to
> brain
> > implants. This concept,
> > like so much military research, fails to consider
> > realistic variables. To
> > name just a few of these: what about the impact of
> > fear, exhaustion, pain,
> > or dizziness on effective neural function? Whoops
> > -didn't mean to crash into
> > that busy highway! Or how about ruthless generals
> > turning their pilots into
> > 'instant Kamikazes' as a shortcut to winning a
> > battle? Or, for that matter,
> > who's to stop the enemy or a lone terrorist who
> has
> > gained access to the
> > technology from finding a way to repeat 9/11
> > scenarios using our own pilots
> > or soldiers? At the very least, there can be no
> > benign consequence to
> > pushing men and women beyond their 'unassisted'
> > endurance. The risk of brain
> > damage, brain tumors, cancers, catastrophic immune
> > responses similar to
> > host-graft disease, heart attacks (from electronic
> > signals triggering
> > arrhythmias), and other assaults on the body seem
> > the most imminent dangers.
> > But who knows what unforeseen consequences may
> > emerge? For example, the
> > children conceived during and right after the
> first
> > above-ground nuclear
> > tests are just now approaching 60 - who knows what
> > sort of long smoldering
> > cancers may yet erupt into 'epidemics.'
> >
> > One chief neuroethicist at the Center for
> Cognitive
> > Neurosciences at the
> > University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia has
> > questioned not just the
> > ethics of some of DARPA's research, but the ethics
> > of those researchers who
> > accept DARPA money. If they do so knowing the
> > research is questionable, she
> > asserts, then they have compromised their ethics.
> >
> > And, I might add, our soldier's lives.
> >
> > Resources on DARPA's Neuroengineering Project
> >
> > Click here for information on the DARPA-sponsored
> > convention.
> >
>
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> > Click here for James Meek's Roborat Ethics
> article.
www.wireheading.com...
> >
> > Click here for tips on how to investigate military
> > research at your
> > university.
> >
>
www.geocities.com...
> >
> > To help get you started, here's a list of names of
> > DARPA 'human enhancement'
> > program research fund recipients and their
> > universities. Miguel Nicolelis,
> > Duke University at Durham, North Carolina; Tomaso
> > Poggio, James DiCarlo and
> > Christof Koch, Massachusetts Institute of
> > Technology; Sam Deadwyler, Wake
> > Forest University; Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt
> University,
> > Nashville, Tennessee;
> > Ted Berger, University of Southern California.
> >
> > Afterword: My Gulf War Syndrome Theory
> >
> > Based on hundreds of readings I have done on the
> > human immune system in the
> > course of my abstracting job, I have formulated
> the
> > following theory:
> >
> > All vaccines cause a temporary weakening of the
> > immune system as they 'kick
> > in,' including the common flu vaccine. This effect
> > lasts from about 7-14
> > days. If you combine a mishmash of powerful and,
> > let's face it, largely
> > unproven vaccines, along with an anti-nerve gas
> > agent, you will be dealing a
> > formidable temporary blow to your natural immune
> > system. Because the immune
> > system is responsible not just for warding off
> > viruses and bacteria, but for
> > confronting all other sorts of foreign 'invaders'
> > including irritants such
> > as toxic particles in the air, chemical sprays
> (bug
> > spray, sun screen,
> > etc.), a slammed immune system (ask any AIDS
> > patient) can leave you wide
> > open to all sorts of nasty stuff, from skin
> lesions
> > to tumors. So, I believe
> > the cocktail was a secondary agent of damage
> > -primary elements of the
> > soldiers' immune systems were knocked out, then
> > assaulted by carcinogens,
> > irritants, and other elements that ordinarily
> could
> > have been resisted, as
> > they were by most troops who did not receive the
> > vaccines. This would also
> > explain why the symptoms of the Syndrome are so
> > diverse. It all depended on
> > what you happened to get exposed to out in the
> field
> > following the cocktail
> > and how, specifically, your immune system
> responded
> > to the assault on it by
> > the vaccine cocktail.
> >
> >
> > Copyright � 2003 by the News Insider and Cheryl
> Seal
> >
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