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Declassified MKUltra documents. Project MKUltra [a] was a human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. [1]
Banachek (born Steven Shaw; 30 November 1960) [a] is an English mentalist, magician, and "thought reader". [2]He first came to public attention as a teenager for his role in James Randi's Project Alpha experiment, which exposed the lack of objectivity in parapsychology research. [3]
Arnold Rothstein (January 17, 1882 – November 6, 1928), [1] nicknamed "The Brain", was an American racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish Mob in New York City. Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, including conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series.
The technique aims to reach and sustain a state of mental functioning, called alpha state, where brainwave frequency is seven to fourteen Hz. [8]:p19-20 Daydreaming and the transition to sleeping are alpha states. [8]:p19-20. Silva claimed to have developed a program that trained people to enter certain brain states of enhanced awareness.
U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents. Abscam, sometimes written ABSCAM, was a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members from both chambers of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. British and American programmer and businessman (1945–2021) John McAfee McAfee at Politicon in 2016 Born John David McAfee (1945-09-18) 18 September 1945 Cinderford, Gloucestershire, England Died 23 June 2021 (2021-06-23) (aged 75) Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Catalonia, Spain Cause of ...
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders is a true crime television documentary series about the 1991 death of writer Danny Casolaro amid his conspiracy theories of a supposed international cabal that he labeled "the Octopus". [1]
Sokal in 2011. In an interview on the U.S. radio program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known leftist thinkers.