British Psychiatry: From Eugenics to Assassination

A behavior control research project was begun in the 1950s , coordinated by the British psychological warfare unit called the Tavist J!Ck Institute, with the Scottish Rite Masons , the Central Intelligence Agency, and the British, U. S., Canadian, and United Nations agencies. The project became famous in the 1970s under a CIA code name, "MK-Ultra." Its notoriety for brain washing by drugs, hypnosis, electroshock, and other tortures caused many books tb be written about the project, and the U. S. Senate conducted hearings which exposed many of its abusive features. President Gerald Ford appointed a commission headed by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to correct the CIA's misconduct. There was a widespread anti-establishment view at the time, that here was e fox appointed to guard the hen house. The intelligence agencies offered a public rationale for the project: the need to counteract and compete with the mind-control capabilities of the communists. This was largely based on the fact that U.S....

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Adventures With an Ice Pick

AMERICA, 1847: a highly competent and, by all accounts, pleasant manual labourer of Irish extraction named Phineas Gage is involved in rock-blasting operations in mountainous terrain. In the course of one sadly uncontrolled explosion, an iron bar is picked up by the force of the blast and driven clean through the front part of his head. Phineas is sent flying, but, to everybody's surprise, he survives the removal of the protruding bar. As he recovers, however, it is observed that his personality has dramatically changed, though his memory and intelligence remain apparently unaffected. In 1868, a physician named Harlow from Boston writes about him: "His equilibrium, or balance, so to speak, between his intellectual faculties and animal propensities seems to have been destroyed. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging in the grossest profanity (which was not previously his custom), manifesting but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint or advice when it conflicts with his desires." The now extremely rude Phineas Gage is an...

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A Primer On Hypnosis And Mind Control

The purpose of this paper is to provide some primary research tools for the layman to explore the many myths about hypnosis (is hypnotic mind control feasible -- absolutely!) and where, in the scientific literature, can I go to find out about it. Some months ago I stumbled across a transcription of a talk given by D. C. Hammond at the Fourth Annual Eastern Regional Conference on Abuse and Multiple Personality, June 25,1992. If you are unfamiliar with mind control or have not heard of this speech, also known as the Greenbaum Speech, stop now and read it. It is very frightening in its implications. On October 30, 1993 I had the opportunity to observe, what amounted to, a stage demonstration of a UFO abduction regression. My domestic partner was the "volunteer from the audience" who was placed under hypnosis as part of this demonstration. I was sitting in about the fifth row and was observing the proceedings intensely. I walked away from that with significantly...

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Homicide Studies: Ten Years After Its Inception

The Homicide Research Working Group (HRWG) is an international and interdisciplinaryorganization of volunteers dedicated to cooperation among researchers and practitioners who are trying to understand and limit lethal violence. The HRWG has the following goals:

  •  to forge links between research, epidemiology and practical programs to reduce levels of
    mortality from violence;
  •  to promote improved data quality and the linking of diverse homicide data sources;
  •  to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research on lethal and non-lethal violence;
  •  to encourage more efficient sharing of techniques for measuring and analyzing homicide;
  • to create and maintain a communication network among those collecting, maintaining and analyzing homicide data sets; and  to generate a stronger working relationship among homicide researchers.
Homicide Research Working Group publications, which include the Proceedings of each annual Intensive Workshop (beginning in 1992), the HRWG Newsletter, and the contents of issues of the journal Homicide Studies (beginning in 1997), may be downloaded from the HRWG web site, which is maintained by the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research, at the foll

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Structural Factors And Black Interracial Homicide: A New Examination of The Casual Process

Abstract

This study evaluates the assumption that deprivation among African Americans and racial inequality lead to black interracial homicide due to racial conflict and antagonism. Using refined race‐adjusted Supplemental Homicide Report data, Uniform Crime Report data and census data, we test an alternative hypothesis that draws on the macrostructural opportunity theory to assess and more accurately specify the relationship between structural characteristics and black interracial homicide. We find that first, the relationship between economic factors and black interracial homicide can be explained in large part by high rates of financially motivated crime such as robbery, and second, that economic factors are associated with financially motivated but not expressive black interracial killings. Analyses of black intraracial killings are performed for comparison purposes. Collectively, the findings suggest that conflict‐based explanations rooted in racial antagonism and frustration aggression may be premature.

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Mental Illness Children and Education

A history of social adjustment issues also accompanies many emotionally disturbed youth to high school—almost three-fourths of them have been suspended or expelled at least once, a rate more than twice that of youth with disabilities as a whole (Wagner and Cameto, 2004).
• Children and youth with serious emotional behavioral disorders get lower grades, fail more courses and exams, miss more days of school, are retained at the same grade level more frequently, graduate at lower rates, get arrested more often (37% within one 1 year and 58% within 5 years), spend more time in the juvenile justice system, and are more frequently placed in restrictive educational environments (Wagner and Cameto, 2004; U.S. Department of Education, 2005; Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice; SAMHSA)
• Emotionally disturbed youth have had a dramatic increase over time in ever having been in disciplinary trouble at school, fired from a job, or arrested. Almost 9 in 10 youth with emotional disturbances had had one or more of these

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Disposition Of Dead Bodies Policy No. 12-03

Unclaimed dead bodies/remains disposition: In accordance with Florida Statutes (F.S.), section 406.50, the State Anatomical Board located at the University of Florida Health Science Center, must be immediately notified each time any public officers, agents, or employees of Hernando County and every person in charge of any prison, morgue, hospital, funeral parlor, or mortuary and all other persons coming into possession, charge, or control of any dead human body or remains which are unclaimed or which are required to be directly cremated at public expense.
Notification of the anatomical board is NOT required if the death was:
1) caused by crushing injury,
2) deceased had a contagious disease,
3) autopsy was required to determine cause of death,
4) body was in a severe state of decomposition,
5) relative, by blood or marriage, claims the body for burial at the expense of the relative,
6) any friend, or any representative of a fraternal society of which the deceased was a member, or a representative of any charitable or religious organization, or a governmental agency which was providing residential care to the indigent person at the time of his or her death claims the body for burial at their expense.

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Florida Department Of Law Enforcement Series of Homicides

The following criminal investigative analysis was prepared by Special Agent (SA) Leslie D’Ambrosia, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Miami Regional Operations Center, in consultation with, and review by, Detective Sergeant John Yarbrough, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (L.A.S.D.), Homicide Bureau. The analysis was based upon a review of the materials submitted by, and conversations with, Detective Harold Scott, Ventura Police Department, Investigator Larry Pool, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and Detective Larry Montgomery, Irvine Police Department. The conclusions are a result of knowledge drawn from personal investigative experience, educational background and research conducted by members of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC), FBI Academy, Quantico, Virginia. The final analysis is based on probabilities. It should be noted that no two criminal acts or criminal personalities are alike. The offender may not fit the analysis in every category. This analysis is provided exclusively for your investigative assistance. It should not be disseminated, except to other criminal justice agencies with investigative...

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The Supreme Court Committee On Standard Jury Instructions In Criminal Cases

THE GRAND JURY AS AN ACCUSING AND INVESTIGATING BODY
Our constitution provides that no person shall be brought to trial for a capital crime except upon indictment of a grand jury. This means that no one may be prosecuted for a capital crime except by a vote of the grand jury. Except for capital crimes, the state attorney (or the statewide prosecutor) may initiate all other criminal charges. The grand jury of course may indict for any crime that the evidence justifies. The wisdom of leaving to the state attorney (or the statewide prosecutor) the bringing of charges as to crimes less than capital crimes and traffic violations is readily apparent. If the grand jury was required to initiate the prosecution of less serious crimes through indictment, the grand jury would be so overwhelmed with complaints that it could not perform its more important duties. Charges of crime may be brought to your attention in several ways: by the court; by the state attorney (or the...

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The State of Mental Health Services in Florida

President’s Bush New Freedom Commission on Mental Health concluded its study less than a year ago, finding that the mental health system in the United States is in shambles, requiring revolutionary change. Florida had its own Commission that presaged those conclusions. Just three years ago, the Florida Commission on Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse told Governor Bush and the Florida state legislature that the mental health system in their state was: complex, fragmented, uncoordinated, and often ineffective. Multiple programs, numerous and often conflicting funding streams, and bureaucratic barriers frustrate access for many Floridians needing care. The Commission concluded that Floridians with severe mental illnesses were particularly under-served, with less than 25 percent of the 610,000 adults with serious mental illnesses receiving any care at all in the public mental health system. Overwhelmed emergency rooms as well as jails and prisons filled with individuals with mental illnesses provided the Commission’s evidence of a failed mental health system. Hospital emergency departments have patients who...

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Principles Of Communism

Question 1: What is Communism?
Answer : Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.

Question 2 : What is the proletariat?
Answer : The proletariat is that class in society which draws its means of livelihood wholly and solely from the sale of its labour and not from the profit from any kind of capital;[2] whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose whole existence depends on the demand for labour, hence, on the alternations of good times and bad in business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition. The proletariat, or class of proletarians, is, in a word, the working class of the nineteenth century.

Question 3 : Proletarians, then, have not always existed?
Answer : No. Poor folk and working classes have always existed, and the working classes have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under the conditions just stated; in other words, there have not always been proletarians any more...

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Non-Lethal Weapons

The year is 1997. A group of terrorists is holding hostages inside an American Embassy in Central America, and the President is receiving a Pentagon briefing on various options.

What about hauling out the isotropic radiator? Fired from a conventional weapon, an explosive burst superheats a surrounding gaseous plasma and inspires a laserbright flash. For the terrorists, it’s as if they just came out of a dark room and stared directly up at the sun. But the retinal damage is only temporary. Or how about using infrasound? From banks of speakers driven by highpowered amplifiers, very low frequency sound waves are generated that can easily penetrate most buildings and vehicles. Not only will the terrorists quickly become disoriented, before long they’ll also be vomiting and defecating.

Another option is always VSI – Visual Stimulus and Illusion. A holographic image is projected into the clouds right outside the embassy window. When the terrorists look out, one of their long-lost martyrs simply tells them to let everybody go...

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