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Title: Arms expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military
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Reuters
URL Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE57I4VL20090819?sp=true
Published: Aug 19, 2009
Author: Jonathan Lynn and Jon Hemming
Post Date: 2009-08-21 11:36:59 by X-15
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Views: 135
Comments: 8
GENEVA (Reuters) - A leading expert on chemical and biological arms control called Wednesday for urgent efforts to stop new mind-altering drugs developed for medical purposes from being adopted by the military for use in warfare. In an article in the U.S. journal Nature, British academic Malcolm Dando said civilian researchers in many countries seemed largely unaware of the danger and urged quick action to adapt a key arms pact to head it off. "In the past 20 years, modern warfare has changed from predominantly large-scale clashes of armies to messy civil strife," wrote Dando, citing the Bosnian conflict of the mid-1990s and current fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chemical agents and even gene therapy being developed in civilian life science laboratories "are particularly suited to this style of warfare; it is not hard to find people in the military world who think they would be useful," he declared. Dando, Professor of International Security at Britain's Bradford University, is a regular participant in U.N.-sponsored arms conferences and is due in Geneva next week for a meeting of experts on the 1972 biological weapons pact. But in Nature, he said attention should be focused on changing the 1993 global Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). "The CWC urgently needs modifying if it is to continue to help ensure that the modern life sciences are not used for hostile purposes," he wrote. Most pressing was how the pact dealt with non-lethal chemicals developed for law enforcement. "LOVE AND CUDDLE" DRUGS Currently the CWC, which went into effect in 1997 and to which 188 countries are signatories, bans all chemical weapons but excludes those used for law enforcement and riot control. "'Law enforcement' could be taken by some to cover more than domestic riot control, which in certain circumstances would make it legal for the military to use agents such as fentanyl," said Dando, referring to a powerful painkilling drug. Fentanyl, a strong painkiller, Dando said, was deployed in a still unrevealed mixture by Russian special forces in 2002 to subdue Chechen militants who had seized a Moscow theater. But its use led to the deaths of over 120 hostages among the theater-goers and Russian commandoes who went into the theater with protective gear shot dead the incapacitated hostage-takers. Other agents being developed, said Dando, include oxytocin, dubbed the "love and cuddle" chemical which induces trust and whose emergence "opens up the possibility of a drug that could be used to manipulate people's emotions in a military context." Although some backers of this idea argue that using incapacitating drugs as weapons could stop people being killed in conflicts, the scientist said, historical evidence like that of the Russian siege suggested otherwise. Dando said he was alarmed what he called a lack of engagement with the issue among life scientists whom he had questioned in some 13 countries around the world. "They are just not taking the problem on board," he told Reuters. Dando was not optimistic that changes to the CCW, next up for review in 2013, could be agreed by then. "It is a long diplomatic process and it is not clear that even governments fully recognize the problem," he said in a telephone interview.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
And what if turns the people psychotic instead.
It also induces labor and cramps in women. Sounds like militaries really want to induce "spontaneous" abortions to occur in civilian populations. I'll pass thank you.
Yeah, that's just what a sharp, primed military guy needs. To feel all warm and fuzzy and trusting of the enemy on the field of battle, such that he wants to cuddle with him. Wee!
Give 'em a rifle and push them towards the enemy du jour.
_________________________________________________________________________ Drop such a chemical bomb on a stadium full of people and watch them literally tear each other apart.
Wee! Our military is taking on functions that would have made Sun Tzu crazy, such as going around handing out bribe money to war lords. Yep hormones work in a variety of ways. Since they probably will be administered in aerosol form the soldiers will spend their lives in gas masks. And it will also affect all other mammals that come in contact. But knowing our modern military nothing has been thought out to this point.
Actually, it is pheromones that are suppose to be the "triggers" in such research.
"LOVE AND CUDDLE" DRUGS Currently the CWC, which went into effect in 1997 and to which 188 countries are signatories, bans all chemical weapons but excludes those used for law enforcement and riot control. "'Law enforcement' could be taken by some to cover more than domestic riot control, which in certain circumstances would make it legal for the military to use agents such as fentanyl," said Dando, referring to a powerful painkilling drug. Fentanyl, a strong painkiller, Dando said, was deployed in a still unrevealed mixture by Russian special forces in 2002 to subdue Chechen militants who had seized a Moscow theater. But its use led to the deaths of over 120 hostages among the theater-goers and Russian commandoes who went into the theater with protective gear shot dead the incapacitated hostage-takers. Other agents being developed, said Dando, include oxytocin, dubbed the "love and cuddle" chemical which induces trust and whose emergence "opens up the possibility of a drug that could be used to manipulate people's emotions in a military context." Sounds like Sorcha Faal was telling the truth: "US Reported In “Panic” After U.S. Military Chemtrail Planes Forced Down In India, Nigeria By: Sorcha Faal .....Most strange about the reports filed by Indian and Nigerian intelligence agencies about these aircraft, other than the armaments they were carrying, were their waste disposal systems that these reports say could hold in excess of 45,000 kg (100,000 pounds) and from which a “technologically sophisticated” network of nano-pipes led to the trailing edges of the wings and horizontal stabilizers for “dispersing” the contents of the waste tanks in an “aerial-type mist”. “Furious” demands made by the United States to both India and Nigeria for the release of their planes led to Indian Defense officials allowing the AN-124 they had captured to be released. Nigeria, however, had to be “forcefully persuaded” to release its captured US plane when after its initial refusal to do so than had one of their major oil pipelines blown up by one of the many American backed terrorist groups operating in their country. To the many, and conflicting, issues surrounding these chemtrails it is not in our expertise to examine in depth, other than to note that the American based Sunshine Project organization in a 2002 accused the US military of “conducting a chemical weapons research and development program in violation of international arms control law”, and stated: “JNLWD's [US Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate] secret program is not focusing on highly lethal agents such as VX or sarin. Rather, the emphasis is on "non-lethal" chemical weapons that incapacitate. JNLWD's science advisors define "non-lethal" as resulting in death or permanent injury in 1 in 100 victims.(1) JNLWD's Research Director told a US military magazine "We need something besides tear gas, like calmatives, anesthetic agents, that would put people to sleep or in a good mood." (2) These weapons are intended for use against "potentially hostile civilians", in anti-terrorism operations, counterinsurgency, and other military operations. The major focus of JNLWD's operation is on the use of drugs as weapons, particularly so-called "calmatives", a military term for mind-altering or sleep inducing chemical weapons.”....." "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Other agents being developed, said Dando, include oxytocin, dubbed the "love and cuddle" chemical which induces trust and whose emergence "opens up the possibility of a drug that could be used to manipulate people's emotions in a military context."
#2. To: X-15 (#0)
Other agents being developed, said Dando, include oxytocin, dubbed the "love and cuddle" chemical which induces trust and whose emergence "opens up the possibility of a drug that could be used to manipulate people's emotions in a military context."
#3. To: mininggold (#2)
Other agents being developed, said Dando, include oxytocin, dubbed the "love and cuddle" chemical which induces trust and whose emergence "opens up the possibility of a drug that could be used to manipulate people's emotions in a military context.
#4. To: PaulCJ (#1)
And what if turns the people psychotic instead.
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#5. To: X-15 (#4)
Give 'em a rifle and push them towards the enemy du jour.
#6. To: SonOfLiberty (#3)
Yeah, that's just what a sharp, primed military guy needs. To feel all warm and fuzzy and trusting of the enemy on the field of battle, such that he wants to cuddle with him.
#7. To: mininggold (#6)
Yep hormones work in a variety of ways.
#8. To: X-15 (#0)
Arms expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military....
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