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<title>AI-powered military neurotech: Mind enhancement or control?</title>
<Publication><i>Military Times</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2026-01-22</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/01/22/ai-powered-military-neurotech-mind-enhancement-or-control/</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.neurable.com/about&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Neurable&lt;/a&gt;, a consumer neurotechnology startup, has partnered with the Air Force to study whether electrode-studded headphones can track service members' cognitive fitness. The &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/search.do?indexName=awardfull&amp;templateName=1.5.3&amp;s=FPDS.GOV&amp;q=FA86492599003&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;$1.2 million project&lt;/a&gt; adds to the Pentagon's growing investment in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.precedenceresearch.com/brain-computer-interface-market&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;$3 billion market&lt;/a&gt; for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) &amp;ndash; helmets, earbuds, other wearable devices and medical implants that use artificial intelligence to make sense of brain signals. Now, advances in AI enable BCIs to interpret or change brain activity with unprecedented accuracy and speed. So much so that some scientists and neuroethicists say the capacity to monitor signals that reveal a warfighter's or a veteran's mental states, visual perceptions or inner dialogue may outpace the ability to shield that data from misuse. &quot;One could certainly imagine how enforced use of such devices could create a very dystopian basis for behavioral control,&quot; warned James Giordano, director of the National Defense University's Center for Disruptive Technology. Some neuroethicists, however, cautioned that the use of brain wearables may also invade troops' privacy and foster prejudice. &lt;strong&gt;&quot;We need to be much more reflective on, much more concerned about and much more focused on the implications of altering a person's brainwaves,&quot; through neurofeedback training, &quot;as compared to having them work out more or do more pull-ups,&quot; said Jared Genser&lt;/strong&gt;, a lawyer and co-founder of the Neurorights Foundation. &lt;/p&gt;

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<title>Life-changing brain tech, but with a chilling caveat</title>
<Publication><i>Harvard Gazette</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2025-03-10</PublicationDate>
<link>https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/hope-for-life-changing-therapies-comes-with-a-chilling-caveat/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;On Jan. 28, 2024, Noland Arbaugh &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/hope-for-life-changing-therapies-comes-with-a-chilling-caveat/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;became the first person&lt;/a&gt; to receive a brain chip implant from Neuralink, the neurotechnology company owned by Elon Musk. The implant seemed to work: Arbaugh, who is paralyzed, learned to control a computer mouse with his mind and even to play online chess. The device is part of a class of therapeutics, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), that show promise for helping people with disabilities. A new &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/24_Meier_02.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;discussion paper&lt;/a&gt; from the Carr Center for Human Rights welcomes the potential benefits but offers a note of caution. &quot;In the past, there have been actors who were interested in controlling people's minds,&quot; [said] Lukas Meier, the paper's author. &quot;It's not implausible that in the future there will be such actors, at whichever level, state or private sector, who might attempt the same but with improved technology.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Meier speculates that in addition to decoding our thoughts, BCIs could be used to change our behavior&lt;/strong&gt;. He describes research showing that some patients receiving deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease experience &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.e-jmd.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.14802/jmd.12004&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;manic symptoms&lt;/a&gt;, including a &lt;a href=&quot;https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00701-006-0795-4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2006 case&lt;/a&gt; in which a patient with no previous criminal record broke into a parked car when the stimulator was activated, then returned to normal when the stimulation stopped. &quot;Making somebody without any criminal record break into a car seems to be a pretty strong interference,&quot; he said. &quot;Technological innovations which are becoming available ... are at high risk of being misused in order to gain an advantage.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

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<title>Tech company claims its new caps and beanies can read your mind and put it on a screen &ndash; no brain implant required</title>
<Publication><i>New York Post</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2026-05-07</PublicationDate>
<link>https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/tech/tech-company-claims-its-new-caps-and-beanies-can-read-your-mind-and-put-it-on-a-screen-no-brain-implant-required/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;A new tech company claims it has developed a hat that can literally read your mind &amp;ndash; then translate it onto a computer. Much has been discussed about &lt;a href=&quot;https://nypost.com/2023/09/27/wireless-brain-implants-could-bring-mind-control-to-new-level-study/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;brain implants&lt;/a&gt; which require ... putting microchips directly onto your grey matter, but new company Sabi says that's not necessary for its beanies and caps. &lt;strong&gt;They have 70,000 to 100,000 sensors built in them which can &quot;pinpoint exactly what and where neural activity is happening ... to decode what a person is thinking,&quot; then translate it to a computer command, according to CEO Rahul Chhabra&lt;/strong&gt;. Tom Oxley, the CEO and founder of Synchron ... is working in the same field as Neuralink, trying to give severely disabled patients the ability to communicate through their brainwaves. The company are partnered with Apple and their chips are implanted through an injection into the jugular vein in the neck, then the chip moves up a blood vessel near the brain's motor cortex in order to read brainwaves. &quot;Non-invasive wearables sit outside the skull, so the signals they pick up are much weaker and less precise. That makes it very difficult to achieve the kind of speed and accuracy needed for real-time control, especially for clinical applications like restoring function in paralysis,&quot; said Oxley. Until Sabi's tech arrives and revolutionizes our brainwaves, we'll be stuck behind the keyboard in the near future, at least in America. China has recently approved their first implanted brain computer interface for commercial use.&lt;/p&gt;

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<title>The CIA Turned 6 Dogs Into Remote-Controlled Killers. It Was a Trial Run for a Far More Sinister Human Experiment.</title>
<Publication><i>Popular Mechanics</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2025-11-27</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a69561041/cia-remote-controlled-dogs-mkultra/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;The public is now well aware of the Central Intelligent Agency's misadventures in mind control throughout the 1950s and 1960s. MKUltra&amp;ndash;the agency's top-secret and wide-ranging human experimentation program&amp;ndash;involved 149 subprojects that made test subjects out of thousands of unsuspecting Americans, jolting them with high-voltage shocks, zapping them with radio waves, and dosing them with psychedelic drugs in a bid to develop brainwashing techniques. But humans weren't MKUltra's only non-consenting participants. Animal subjects also played a starring role. Surgeons &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.history.com/articles/cia-spy-cat-espionage-fail&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;implanted microphones&lt;/a&gt; into cats' ears. &lt;strong&gt;An elephant was allegedly &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/science/2004/feb/26/research.science#:~:text=The%20annals%20of%20science%20describe,three-tonne%20human%20might%20receive&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;injected&lt;/a&gt; with a massive amount of LSD. And ... scientists implanted electrodes into the brains of six dogs in an attempt to control their movement and turn them into remote-controlled assassins&lt;/strong&gt;. The goal of that last initiative, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/MKULTRA%20SUBPROJECT%2094%20%20(4[8145580].pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Subproject 94&lt;/a&gt; ... &quot;was to examine the feasibility of controlling the behavior of a dog, in an open field, by means of remotely triggered electrical stimulation of the brain,&quot; according to heavily &lt;a href=&quot;https://documents2.theblackvault.com/documents/cia/behavioral/C00021825.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;redacted documents&lt;/a&gt; declassified in 2002. During &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/unsuccessful-wwii-plot-fight-japanese-radioactive-foxes-180975932/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Operation Fantasia&lt;/a&gt;, in an effort to scare the Japanese into surrender, OSS scientists painted foxes with radioactive paint that glowed in the dark, hoping to recreate a Shinto portent of doom: the kitsune, a shapeshifting, supernatural fox spirit. The plan was eventually scrapped, but not before a trial run in which the OSS released 30 glowing foxes into Washington D.C. &lt;/p&gt;

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<title>The Privacy Battle in Our Brains</title>
<Publication><i>New York Times</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2025-11-20</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/world/privacy-battle-in-brains-technology-saudi-mamdani.html</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;During the Cold War, the first implants showing that we could control animal minds sparked panic. The C.I.A. had its own clandestine experimental mind-control program. People warned of brain warfare. Those fears [are] back, along with a conversation about what it means to have freedom of thought at a time when technology is literally being implanted in our brains. Brain computer interface, or B.C.I. ... are very small devices that go right on the surface of your brain, where they can pick up neural activity. The data is transmitted via Bluetooth to a computer program, which decodes the information. In a sense, they're hooked up to an artificial intelligence. So the neural network inside your mind communicates with a neural network outside. And through that, we are able to reconstruct people's intentions. For people with degenerative diseases, or who are paralyzed, or who otherwise have lost important abilities, these implants have been totally revolutionary. These patients can move their hands, type and in some cases, speak again. Optogenetics, a technique for turning isolated neurons on and off, has been used to implant false memories in mice, raising the possibility that, in the distant future, something similar could be done in humans. &lt;strong&gt;Neuroprivacy is the idea that we should have to give consent to anyone who wants access to our innermost selves. But there's a question: Does neuroprivacy apply only to my unspoken thoughts? Or does it apply to the electrical activity in my brain?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Read about the Pentagon's plans to &lt;a href='https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-weaponizing-reality-dawn-neurowarfare' target='_blank'&gt;use our brains as warfare&lt;/a&gt;, describing how the human body is war's next domain. Learn more about &lt;a href='https://www.wanttoknow.info/biotech-dangersnewsstories' target='_blank'&gt;biotech dangers&lt;/a&gt;. For more along these lines, read our concise summaries of &lt;a href=&quot;https://wanttoknow.info/big-techmediaarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on Big Tech&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsmediaarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>The Movement to Protect Your Mind From Brain-Computer Technologies</title>
<Publication><i>Gizmodo</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2021-05-31</PublicationDate>
<link>https://gizmodo.com/the-movement-to-protect-your-mind-from-brain-computer-t-1846943756</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Recording memories, reading thoughts, and manipulating what another person sees through a device in their brain may seem like science fiction plots about a distant and troubled future. But a team of multi-disciplinary researchers say the first steps to inventing these technologies have already arrived. Through a concept called &quot;neuro rights,&quot; they want to put in place safeguards for our most precious biological possessions: our mind. Headlining this growing effort today is the &lt;a href=&quot;https://neurorightsfoundation.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;NeuroRights Initiative&lt;/a&gt;, formed by Columbia University neuroscientist Rafael Yuste. Their proposition is to stay ahead of the tech by convincing governments across the world to create &quot;neuro rights&quot; legal protections, in line with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Universal Declaration of Human Rights&lt;/a&gt;, a document announced by the United Nations in 1948 as the standard for rights that should be universally protected for all people. &lt;strong&gt;Neuro rights advocates propose &lt;a href=&quot;https://neurorights-initiative.site.drupaldisttest.cc.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/content/The%20Five%20Ethical%20NeuroRights%20updated%20pdf_0.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;five additions&lt;/a&gt; to this standard: the rights to personal identity, free will, mental privacy, equal access to mental augmentation, and protection from algorithmic bias&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;This is a new frontier of privacy rights, in that the things that are inside of our heads are ours. They're intimate; we share them when we want to share them. And we don't want that to be made into a data field for experience,&quot; said Sara Goering, professor of philosophy and co-lead for the Neuroethics Group for the Center of Neurotechnology at University of Washington.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Watch a &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/BgPdpCAPfn4?si=_I_D-WvUmDwsArnh&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;new documentary&lt;/a&gt; titled, &quot;Cognitive Liberty: Neuroweapons and the Fight for Brain Privacy.&quot; For more along these lines, read our concise summaries of &lt;a href=&quot;https://wanttoknow.info/big-techmediaarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on Big Tech&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://wanttoknow.info/mindcontrolmediaarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mind control&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare</title>
<Publication><i>ScheerPost</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2024-03-25</PublicationDate>
<link>https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/25/weaponizing-reality-the-dawn-of-neurowarfare/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Billionaire Elon Musk's brain-computer interface (BCI) company &lt;a href=&quot;https://neuralink.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Neuralink&lt;/a&gt; made headlines earlier this year for &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00304-4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;inserting its first brain implant&lt;/a&gt; into a human being. Such implants ... are described as &quot;fully implantable, cosmetically invisible, and designed to let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go.&quot; They can help people regain abilities lost due to aging, ailments, accidents or injuries, thus improving quality of life. Yet, great ethical concerns arise with such advancements, and the tech is already being used for questionable purposes. Some Chinese employers have started using &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveillance-technology-2018-4&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;emotional surveillance technology&lt;/a&gt;&quot; to monitor workers' brainwaves. &lt;b&gt;Governments and militaries are already ... describing the human body and brain as &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stratagem.no/cognitive-warfare-and-the-use-of-force/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;war's next domain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;. On this new &quot;battlefield,&quot; an era of &lt;em&gt;neuroweapons&lt;/em&gt; ... has begun. The Pentagon's research arm DARPA directly or indirectly funds &lt;a href='https://medium.com/@_PoojaRao/funding-for-brain-computer-interface-ventures-c9f92c522274' target='_blank'&gt;about half&lt;/a&gt; of invasive neural interface technology companies in the US. DARPA has initiated &lt;a href='https://www.asimov.press/p/darpa-neurotech' target='_blank'&gt;at least 40 neurotechnology-related programs&lt;/a&gt; over the past 24 years. &lt;strong&gt;As a &lt;a href=&quot;https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24376031/rand_rra2520-1-1.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;2024 RAND report&lt;/a&gt; speculates, if BCI technologies are hacked or compromised, &quot;a malicious adversary could potentially inject fear, confusion, or anger into [a BCI] commander's brain and cause them to make decisions that result in serious harm.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; Academic Nicholas Evans speculates, further, that neuroimplants could &quot;control an individual's mental functions,&quot; perhaps to manipulate memories, emotions, or even to torture the wearer. In a &lt;a href='https://www.usafa.edu/app/uploads/Space_and_Defense_9_1.pdf' target='_blank'&gt;[military research paper] on neurowarfare&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;Microbiologists have recently discovered mind-controlling parasites that can manipulate the behavior of their hosts according to their needs by switching genes on or off. Since human behavior is at least partially influenced by their genetics, nonlethal behavior modifying genetic bioweapons that spread through a highly contagious virus could thus be, in principle, possible. &lt;/p&gt;

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<title>Pentagon Report Predicts New Age of COVID Bioweapons and Brain Chip Warfare</title>
<Publication>Lee Fang on Substack</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2024-01-25</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.leefang.com/p/pentagon-report-predicts-new-age</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Military strategists believe that a &quot;coronavirus bioweapon&quot; may lurk on the horizon&lt;/strong&gt;. This possibility is one of several outlined in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24376031-rand_rra2520-1-1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;new report&lt;/a&gt; sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The report &quot;Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War Research&quot; delves into how CRISPR gene-editing technology, mRNA vaccines, brain networking, and other technological advancements could unleash new forms of military conflict. &quot;We see a complex, high-threat landscape emerging where future wars are fought with humans controlling hyper-sophisticated machines with their thoughts&quot; and &quot;synthetically generated, genomically targeted plagues&quot; that cripple the American military-industrial base,&quot; the report warns. At the same time, authoritarian states might ... brutally suppress &quot;anti-vaccine populists&quot; and enforce compliance. &lt;strong&gt;The report claims this could hinder the U.S. due to its more relaxed regulatory environment that values individual liberties, where such crackdowns and forced vaccinations are more difficult to deploy. The report takes aim at Congress, criticizing the recent repeal of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members&lt;/strong&gt;. It urges lawmakers to resist &quot;anti-vaccine populism&quot; to ensure military readiness. Simultaneously, the report urges the Pentagon to consider using genetic screening to find qualified military recruits and develop clear plans for integrating bioweapon warfare capabilities.&lt;/p&gt;

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<title>The professor trying to protect our private thoughts from technology</title>
<Publication><i>The Guardian</i> (One of the UK's Leading Newspapers)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2023-03-26</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/26/nita-farahany-the-battle-for-your-brain-neurotechnology</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Private thoughts may not be private for much longer, heralding a nightmarish world where political views, thoughts, stray obsessions and feelings could be interrogated and punished all thanks to advances in neurotechnology&lt;/strong&gt;. In a new book, &lt;a href=&quot;https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250272966/thebattleforyourbrain&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Battle for Your Brain&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Duke University bioscience professor Nita Farahany argues that such intrusions into the human mind by technology are so close that a public discussion is long overdue and lawmakers should immediately establish brain protections as it would for any other area of personal liberty. Farahany, who served on Barack Obama's commission for the study of bioethical issues, believes that advances in neurotechnology mean that intrusions through the door of brain privacy, whether by way of military programs or by way of well-funded research labs at big tech companies, are at hand via brain-to-computer innovations like wearable tech. &quot;All of the major tech companies have massive investments in multifunctional devices that have brain sensors in them,&quot; Farahany said. &quot;Neural sensors will become part of our everyday technology and a part of how we interact with that technology.&quot; FranĂ§ois du Cluzel, a project manager at Nato Act Innovation Hub, issued a report in November 2020 entitled &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.innovationhub-act.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/20210113_CW%20Final%20v2%20.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Cognitive Warfare&lt;/a&gt; that, it said, &quot;is not limited to the military or institutional world. Since the early 1990s, this capability has tended to be applied to the political, economic, cultural and societal fields.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>U.S. regulators rejected Elon Musk's bid to test brain chips in humans, citing safety risks</title>
<Publication><i>Reuters</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2023-03-02</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/neuralink-musk-fda/</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;On at least four occasions since 2019, Elon Musk has predicted that his medical device company, Neuralink, would soon start human trials of a revolutionary brain implant to treat intractable conditions such as paralysis and blindness. Yet the company, founded in 2016, didn't seek permission from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until early 2022 &amp;ndash; and the agency rejected the application. &lt;strong&gt;Musk has detailed a bold vision for Neuralink: Both disabled and healthy people will pop into neighborhood facilities for speedy surgical insertions of devices with functions ranging from curing obesity, autism, depression or schizophrenia to web-surfing and telepathy&lt;/strong&gt;. Musk also has said Neuralink would restore full mobility to paralyzed patients. Reuters exclusively &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-faces-federal-probe-employee-backlash-over-animal-tests-2022-12-05/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; late last year that the federal government was investigating the company's treatment of its research animals. The probe was launched amid growing employee concern that the company is rushing experiments, causing additional suffering and deaths of pigs, sheep and monkeys. Musk's company ... trails at least one direct rival in the race for FDA approval. Synchron, a competitor making a BCI implant, has won the agency's blessing for human trials. The company first tested its device on four patients in Australia who successfully sent text messages with their minds. Synchron recently raised $75 million, including from funds backed by tech billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Implanted microchip could be used to verify COVID-19 vax status</title>
<Publication>ABC News (Arkansas affiliate)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2021-12-20</PublicationDate>
<link>https://katv.com/news/coronavirus/implanted-microchip-could-be-used-to-verify-covid-19-vax-status</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Microchip technology invented by Swedish startup company &quot;Epicenter&quot; is now being presented as a possible way to carry around a COVID-19 vaccine passport under a person's skin, according to a viral video. &quot;Beep boop beep: Your vaccination record has been verified,&quot; says the caption of the &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1471797322531049472?s=20&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;video&lt;/a&gt;. &quot;Imagine showing your COVID-19 passport with just a flash of your arm,&quot; the video says at its beginning, showing a person holding out their arm and scanning it with a mobile phone. The video explains the microchip uses pre-existing technology the startup company was already developing to employ &quot;near-field communication&quot; (NFC) and send data to any compatible device. Smartphones are listed as an example of a possible data receiver. &quot;Implants are a very versatile technology that can be used for many different things,&quot; says Epicenter's Chief Disruption Officer Hannes Sjoblad in the video. &quot;Right now it is very convenient to have a COVID passport always accessible on your implant.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;A microchip, about the size of a grain of rice, can be embedded under a person's skin, either under the arm or between the pointer finger and thumb, according to Sjoblad. After the chip is implanted, data such as a vaccine passport can be stored on it using NFC-compatible devices&lt;/strong&gt;. There is pushback on implants from lawmakers, advocacy groups, and the public. Hannes Sjoblad reportedly organized &quot;transplant parties&quot; for his employees starting in 2014, where they would gather in a fun, social setting to get chips embedded into themselves.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; According to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.france24.com/en/video/20211221-covid-19-in-sweden-a-vaccine-passport-on-a-microchip-implant&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, &quot;At the beginning of December, Sweden enacted new rules requiring individuals to have a passport at all events with more than 100 people. Following that announcement, the number of people who got microchips inserted under their skin rose: around 6,000 people in Sweden have so far had a chip inserted in their hands.&quot; For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; from reliable major media sources.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Scientists Drove Mice to Bond by Zapping Their Brains With Light</title>
<Publication><i>New York Times</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2021-05-25</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/science/optogenetics-brain-social-behavior.html</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Mingzheng Wu, a graduate student at Northwestern University, plopped two male mice into a cage and watched as they explored their modest new digs: sniffing, digging, fighting a little. With a few clicks on a nearby computer, Mr. Wu then switched on a blue light implanted in the front of each animal's brain. That light activated a tiny piece of cortex, spurring neurons there to fire. Mr. Wu zapped the two mice at the same time and at the same rapid frequency &amp;ndash; putting that portion of their brains quite literally in sync. &lt;strong&gt;Within a minute or two, any animus between the two creatures seemed to disappear, and they clung to each other like long-lost friends. &quot;After a few minutes, we saw that those animals actually stayed together, and one animal was grooming the other,&quot;&lt;/strong&gt; said Mr. Wu. [He] and his colleagues then repeated the experiment, but zapped each animal's cortex at frequencies different from the other's. This time, the mice displayed far less of an urge to bond. The experiment, published this month in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00849-x&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nature Neuroscience&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, was made possible thanks to an impressive new wireless technology that allows scientists to observe &amp;ndash; and manipulate &amp;ndash; the brains of multiple animals as they interact with one another. Their tool ... uses a tiny LED light, implanted into an animal's brain, to activate discrete groups of neurons. (A gene that encodes a light-sensitive protein ... is first inserted into the neurons of interest, to make them responsive.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; For more on this manipulative technology, see this &lt;a href=&quot;https://seek.rockefeller.edu/flipping-a-switch-inside-the-head/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;informative article&lt;/a&gt;. And remember that classified secret technologies in the military are often 10 years or more advanced than anything publicly released. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrolnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mind control&lt;/a&gt; from reliable major media sources.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Brain Implant Enables Paralyzed Man To Type Using Only His Thoughts</title>
<Publication><i>Forbes</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2021-05-15</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.forbes.com/sites/saibala/2021/05/15/brain-implant-enables-paralyzed-man-to-type-using-only-his-thoughts/</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Researchers achieved a breakthrough in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology. As outlined in a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hhmi.org/news/brain-computer-interface-turns-mental-handwriting-into-text-on-screen&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;statement&lt;/a&gt; by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and published in a &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt; journal &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03506-2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt;, scientists state that they have created a system to translate mental thoughts of handwriting into real-time text. HHMI investigator ... Krishna Shenoy is hopeful that this technology can, &quot;with further development, let people with paralysis rapidly type without using their hands.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;If scientists can indeed innovate a way where thoughts and imagination alone could be used to effectively communicate, this would be [an] unparalleled resource to millions of individuals facing paralysis or a wide variety of other neurological conditions which may cause loss of speech or movement&lt;/strong&gt;. Brain-computer/machine interface technology is potentially a significant boon for patients affected by neurological conditions. For many, it may become a source of improved mobility, communication, or expression. Although much work still remains to be done in this industry, if innovators are indeed able to create this technology in a scalable manner that prioritizes patient safety, it may potentially provide much-needed respite for millions of people.&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Pentagon scientists invent microchip which senses COVID-19 in the body</title>
<Publication>MSN News</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2021-04-11</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/pentagon-scientists-invent-microchip-which-senses-covid-19-in-the-body/ar-BB1fy3y7</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection, and a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the blood when attached to a dialysis machine. The team at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have been working for years on preventing and ending pandemics. One of their recent inventions, they told &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cbsnews.com/news/last-pandemic-science-military-60-minutes-2021-04-11/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&amp;linkId=115939030&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;60 Minutes&lt;/a&gt; on Sunday night, was a microchip which detects COVID infection in an individual before it can become an outbreak. &lt;strong&gt;The microchip is sure to spark worries among some about a government agency implanting a microchip in a citizen&lt;/strong&gt;. Retired Colonel Matt Hepburn, an army infectious disease physician leading DARPA's response to the pandemic, showed the 60 Minutes team a tissue-like gel, engineered to continuously test your blood. 'You put it underneath your skin and what that tells you is that there are chemical reactions going on inside the body, and that signal means you are going to have symptoms tomorrow,' he explained. 'It's like a &quot;check engine&quot; light,' said Hepburn. Troops are likely to be highly skeptical of the new invention. In February, &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/politics/coronavirus-vaccine-refusal-military.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; that&lt;strong&gt; a third of troops have refused to take the vaccine, sighting concerns that the vaccine contains a microchip devised to monitor recipients, that it will permanently disable the body's immune system or that it is some form of government control.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>The myth and reality of the super soldier</title>
<Publication>BBC News</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2021-02-08</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55905354</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;The possibility of a super soldier is not so outlandish and one that not just China is interested in. Enhancement is nothing new - since ancient times, troops have been bolstered by advancements in weaponry, kit and training. But today, enhancement could mean much more than merely giving an individual soldier a better gun. It could mean altering the individual soldier. In 2017, Russia's President Vladimir Putin warned that humanity could soon create something &quot;worse than a nuclear bomb&quot;. &quot;One may imagine that a man can create a man with some given characteristics, not only theoretically but also practically. He can be a genius mathematician, a brilliant musician or a soldier, a man who can fight without fear, compassion, regret or pain.&quot; &lt;strong&gt;Last year, the former US Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Ratcliffe, went further with a blunt accusation against China. &quot;China has even conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities&lt;/strong&gt;. There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power,&quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-national-security-threat-no-1-11607019599&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;he wrote&lt;/a&gt;. Prof [Patrick] Lin said &quot;a key challenge is that nearly all of this is dual-use research. For instance, exoskeleton research was first aimed at helping or curing people of medical conditions, such as to help paralysed patients walk again. But this therapeutic use can be easily weaponised. It's not obvious how to regulate it, without overly broad regulation that also frustrates therapeutic research.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Hacking Humans: How Neuralink May Give AI The Keys To Our Brains</title>
<Publication><i>Forbes</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2020-11-18</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2020/11/18/hacking-humans-how-neuralink-may-give-ai-the-keys-to-our-brains/?sh=256cb7dc5791</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;When Elon Musk gave the world a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/28/21406143/elon-musk-neuralink-ai-pigs-demo-brain-computer-interface&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;demo in August&lt;/a&gt; of his latest endeavor, the brain-computer interface (BCI) Neuralink, he reminded us that the lines between brain and machine are blurring quickly. It bears remembering, however, that Neuralink is, at its core, a computer &amp;ndash; and as with all computing advancements in human history, the more complex and smart computers become, the more attractive targets they become for hackers. Our brains hold information computers don't have. A brain linked to a computer/AI such as a BCI removes that barrier to the brain, potentially allowing hackers to rush in and cause problems we can't even fathom today. Might hacking humans via BCI be the next major evolution in hacking, carried out through a dangerous combination of past hacking methods? Previous eras were defined by obstacles between hackers and their targets. However, what happens when that disconnect between humans and tech is blurred? When they're essentially one and the same? &lt;strong&gt;Should a computing device literally connected to the brain, as Neuralink is, become hacked, the consequences could be catastrophic, giving hackers ultimate control over someone&lt;/strong&gt;. If Neuralink penetrates deep into the human brain with high fidelity, what might hacking a human look like? Following traditional patterns, hackers would likely target individuals with high net worths and perhaps attempt to manipulate them into wiring millions of dollars to a hacker's offshore bank account. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; For more on this, see an article &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/artificial-intelligence-brain-computer-cyborg-elon-musk-neuralink-a9673261.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;in the UK's &lt;em&gt;Independent&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; titled &quot;Groundbreaking new material 'could allow artificial intelligence to merge with the human brain'.&quot; Meanwhile, the military is &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/ai-just-beat-human-f-16-pilot-dogfight-again/167872/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;talking about&lt;/a&gt; &quot;human-machine symbiosis.&quot; And Yale professor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Morgan_III&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Charles Morgan&lt;/a&gt; describes in a military presentation how hypodermic needles can be used to alter a person's memory and much more in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAIp7NiFyk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this two-minute video&lt;/a&gt;. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; from reliable major media sources. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Invisible Ink Could Reveal whether Kids Have Been Vaccinated</title>
<Publication><i>Scientific American</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2019-12-18</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/invisible-ink-could-reveal-whether-kids-have-been-vaccinated/</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Keeping track of vaccinations remains a major challenge in the developing world. Now a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers has developed a novel way to address this problem: embedding the record directly into the skin. &lt;strong&gt;Along with the vaccine, a child would be injected with a bit of dye that is invisible to the naked eye but easily seen with a special cell-phone filter, combined with an app that shines near-infrared light onto the skin&lt;/strong&gt;. The dye would be expected to last up to five years, according to tests on pig and rat skin and human skin in a dish. The system - which has not yet been tested in children - would provide quick and easy access to vaccination history ... according to &lt;a href=&quot;https://stm.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.aay7162&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;the study&lt;/a&gt;. Delivering the dye required the researchers to find something that was safe and would last long enough to be useful. The team ended up using a technology called quantum dots, tiny semiconducting crystals that reflect light and were originally developed to label cells during research. The work was funded by the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation and came about because of a direct request from Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates himself. The researchers hope to add more detailed information to the dots, such as the date of vaccination. Along with them, the team eventually wants to inject sensors that could also potentially be used to track aspects of health such as insulin levels in diabetics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Bill Gates insists he never said we'd need digital vaccine passports. Yet researchers have found that his TED Talk which included this statement was edited to remove it. You can prove this with the evidence provided on &lt;a href=&quot;https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/yes-bill-gates-said-that/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this webpage&lt;/a&gt;. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/vaccinesnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on vaccines&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; from reliable major media sources.  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Scientists build army of 1 million microrobots that can fit inside a hypodermic needle</title>
<Publication>CNET</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2020-08-26</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-build-army-of-1-million-microrobots-that-can-fit-inside-a-hypodermic-needle/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;A four-inch wafer of silicon has been turned into an army of one million microscopic, walking robots, thanks to some clever engineering employed by researchers at Cornell University in New York. In a paper, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2626-9&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;published Wednesday in the journal &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, a team of roboticists detail the creation of their invisible army of robots, which are less than 0.1mm in size (about the width of a human hair) and cannot be seen with the naked eye. The robots ... take advantage of an innovative, new class of actuators, which are the legs of the microrobots. Controlling movement in these tiny machines requires the researchers to shine a laser on minuscule light-sensitive circuits on their backs, which propels their four legs forward. They've been designed to operate in all manner of environments such as extreme acidity and temperatures. One of their chief purposes, the researchers say, could be to investigate the human body &lt;em&gt;from the inside&lt;/em&gt;. The team was able to build incredibly small legs, which are connected to two different patches on the back of the robot - one for the front pair of legs, one for the back. Alternating light between the patches propels the microrobot forward. &lt;strong&gt;The research team were able to show the microrobots devices could fit within the narrowest hypodermic needle and thus, could be &quot;injected&quot; into the body&lt;/strong&gt;. The machines aren't intelligent enough to target a diseased cell or respond to stimuli, so there's no application for this invisible army. &lt;strong&gt;However, the researchers said that &quot;their capabilities can rapidly evolve&lt;/strong&gt;.&quot; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Remember that secret military projects are often 20 years or more advanced of anything made public. Could  this technology have already been developed in secret projects and used in military vaccines? Yale professor &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_A._Morgan_III&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Charles Morgan&lt;/a&gt; describes in &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAIp7NiFyk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this two-minute video&lt;/a&gt; (or &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=701382310&amp;attachment_id=1472548742954838&amp;message_id=mid.%24cAAAAAAVcZiV8j118PF2Xhgxh8y5O&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;)  how cells injected through hypodermic needles can cause foreign substances to be manufactured in our bodies, how they can alter a person's memory, and much more. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTtIPBPSv0U&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;His full presentation&lt;/a&gt; on psycho-neurobiology and war given at West Point Military Academy is quite disturbing.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Scientists develop AI that can turn brain activity into text</title>
<Publication><i>The Guardian</i> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2020-03-20</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/30/scientists-develop-ai-that-can-turn-brain-activity-into-text</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reading minds has just come a step closer to reality: scientists have developed artificial intelligence that can turn brain activity into text. While the system currently works on neural patterns detected while someone is speaking aloud, experts say it could eventually aid communication for patients who are unable to speak or type&lt;/strong&gt;. &quot;We are not there yet but we think this could be the basis of a speech prosthesis,&quot; said Dr Joseph Makin, co-author of the research from the University of California, San Francisco. Writing in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-020-0608-8&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;journal &lt;em&gt;Nature Neuroscience&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Makin and colleagues reveal how they developed their system by recruiting four participants who had electrode arrays implanted in their brain to monitor epileptic seizures. These participants were asked to read aloud from 50 set sentences multiple times, including &quot;Tina Turner is a pop singer&quot;, and &quot;Those thieves stole 30 jewels&quot;. The team tracked their neural activity while they were speaking. This data was then fed into a machine-learning algorithm, a type of artificial intelligence system that converted the brain activity data for each spoken sentence into a string of numbers. At first the system spat out nonsense sentences. But as the system compared each sequence of words with the sentences that were actually read aloud it improved, learning how the string of numbers related to words, and which words tend to follow each other. The system was not perfect. However, the team found the accuracy of the new system was far higher than previous approaches.&lt;/p&gt;
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<Publication><i>Popular Mechanics</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2018-09-25</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a23457329/augmented-super-soldiers-reversible/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;A soldier wears a skullcap that stimulates his brain to make him learn skills faster, or reads his thoughts as a way to control a drone. Another is plugged into a Tron-like active cyber defense system, in which she mentally teams up with computer systems to successfully multitask during complex military missions. The Pentagon is already researching these seemingly sci-fi concepts. The basics of brain-machine interfaces are being developedjust watch the videos of patients &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17611812/brain-controlled-robot-arm-supernumerary-bmi&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;moving prosthetic limbs with their minds&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;The Defense Department is examining newly scientific tools, like genetic engineering, brain chemistry, and shrinking robotics, for even more dramatic enhancements. But the real trick may not be granting superpowers, but rather making sure those effects are temporary&lt;/strong&gt;. Last year, three Canadian defense researchers published a &lt;a href=&quot;http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/maintaining-military-dominance-in-the-future-operating-environment-a-case-for-emerging-huma&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;paper&lt;/a&gt; that explored the intersection of human enhancement and ethics. They found that the permanence of the enhancement could have impacts on troops in the field ... as well as a return to civilian life. They also note that many soldier resilience human enhancement technologies raised health and safety questions. The Canadian researchers wrote: Are there unknown side effects or long term effects that could lead to unanticipated health problems during deployment or after discharge? Moreover, is it ethical to force a soldier to use the technology in question, or should he/she be allowed to consent to its use? Can consent be fully free from coercion in the military?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Read an &lt;a href=&quot;https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/military-vaccines/microchips-nanotechnology-and-implanted-biosensors-the-new-normal/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;excellent article&lt;/a&gt; detailing the risks of biosensors implanted under the skin which have already been developed. Some smaller than a grain of rice can be &lt;a href=&quot;https://profusa.com/injectable-body-sensors-take-personal-chemistry-to-a-cell-phone-closer-to-reality/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;injected with a needle&lt;/a&gt;. Watch a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwn7UoxiLNk&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;slick video&lt;/a&gt; promoting this brave new world. Learn how this is already &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/841982/SUPER-SOLDIER-DARPA-US-army&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;planned for use&lt;/a&gt; on soldiers. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/militarycorruptionnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on military corruption&lt;/a&gt; from reliable major media sources.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Brain Researcher Jose Delgado Asks - â€What Kind of Humans Would We Like to Construct?'</title>
<Publication><i>New York Times</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>1970-11-15</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/15/archives/brain-researcher-jose-delgado-asks-what-kind-of-humans-would-we.html</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Dr. Jose M. R. Delgado of [Yale University]  is one of the leading pioneers in ... E.S.B.: electrical stimulation of the brain. He is also the impassioned prophet of a new &quot;psychocivilized&quot; society whose members would influence and alter their own mental functions to create a &quot;happier, less destructive and better balanced man.&quot; [Delgado said,] &quot;We know that [E.S.B.] can delay a heartbeat, move a finger, bring a word to memory, evoke a sensation.&quot; [His] animals performed like electrical toys.  One monkey, Ludy, each time she was stimulated [would] stand up on two feet and circle to the right; climb a pole and then descend again. This &quot;automatism&quot; was repeated [by Ludy] through 20,000 stimulations! The tickling of a few electric volts can send a monkey into a deep sleep, or snap him awake. Similarly, human beings are unable to resist motor responses elicited by E.S.B. Large-scale studies of rats with electrodes in [a] &quot;pleasureful area&quot; found that they preferred E.S.B. above all else&amp;ndash;including water, sex and food. Sometimes ravenously hungry rats, ignoring nearby food, would stimulate themselves up to 5,000 times an hour&amp;ndash;persisting with manic singleness of purpose for more than a day running, until they keeled over on the floor in a faint! &quot;In humans also ... states of arousal and pleasure have been evoked&quot; ... Delgado added. &lt;strong&gt;One patient of ours was a rather reserved 30-year-old woman. E.S.B. at one cerebral point made her suddenly confess her passionate regard for the therapist&amp;ndash;whom she'd never seen before.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;strong&gt;According to one psychoanalyst, &quot;The danger of this being abused is ... tremendous.&quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Though quite long, this entire intriguing article is well worth reading. &lt;b&gt;If behavior manipulation was this advanced in 1970, what are they capable of now, and why is it being kept quiet?&lt;/b&gt; For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsarticles.media/mindcontrolnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles on mind control&lt;/a&gt; from reliable major media sources. Then explore the excellent, reliable resources provided in our &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrolinformation&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Mind Control Information Center&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; </description>
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<title>How the CIA Used Brain Surgery to Make Six Remote Control Dogs</title>
<Publication><i>Newsweek</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2018-12-07</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.newsweek.com/cia-mkultra-documents-files-remote-control-dogs-1250519</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Newly released files from “behavior modification,” or mind control, projects conducted as part of the infamous &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/050626mkultra&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Project MKUltra&lt;/a&gt; reveal the CIA experimented in more than &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/mind_control/cia_mind_control_experiments_sex_abuse&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;controlling humans&lt;/a&gt; with psychotropic drugs, electrical shocks and radio waves—they also created field operational, remote-controlled dogs&lt;/strong&gt;. The documents were provided under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by John Greenewald, founder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Black Vault&lt;/a&gt;, a site specializing in declassified government records. In one declassified letter (released as file C00021825) a redacted individual writes to a doctor (whose name has also been redacted) with advice about launching a laboratory for experiments in animal mind control. The writer of the letter is already an expert in the field, whose earlier work had culminated with the creation of six remote control dogs, which could be made to run, turn and stop. The letter writer characterizes the work with remote-controlling dogs as a success, describing “a demonstrated procedure for controlling the free-field behaviors of an unrestrained dog.” Attached to the letter is the writer’s final report from his earlier research, published in 1965, titled “Remote Control Behavior with Rewarding Electrical Stimulation of the Brain,” with the principle investigator’s name redacted. The prospect of a potential new laboratory seems to fire the letter writer’s imagination, who describes potential experimentation on “a range of species,” should they want to move past “basic research.” &lt;/p&gt;
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<title>Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control</title>
<Publication><i>Scientific American</i></Publication>
<PublicationDate>2017-09-25</PublicationDate>
<link>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Once among the world’s most acclaimed scientists, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado has become an urban legend. Delgado pioneered ... the brain chip, which manipulates the mind by electrically stimulating neural tissue with implanted electrodes. In 1965, [he] &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/650517nytimes&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;stopped a charging bull&lt;/a&gt; in its tracks by sending a radio signal to a device implanted in its brain. &lt;strong&gt;He also implanted radio-equipped electrode arrays, which he called “stimoceivers,” in dogs, cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, gibbons, and humans. With the push of a button, he could evoke smiles, snarls, bliss, terror, hunger, garrulousness, lust, and other responses&lt;/strong&gt;. Delgado also invented implantable “chemotrodes” that could release precise amounts of drugs directly into the brain. In 1952, Delgado co-authored ... the first peer-reviewed paper describing deep brain stimulation of humans. Over the next two decades, he implanted electrodes in some 25 subjects. Most were schizophrenics and epileptics at the now-defunct State Hospital for Mental Diseases in Howard, Rhode Island. The sponsorship of his experiments by the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Aeromedical Research Laboratory (as well as several civilian agencies) raised eyebrows. He invented a halo-like device and a helmet that could deliver electromagnetic pulses to specific neural regions. Testing the gadgets on animals and human volunteers, including himself and his daughter, Delgado discovered that he could induce drowsiness, alertness, and other states.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Read a &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/650517nytimes&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;1965 &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; article&lt;/a&gt; on Delgado's disturbing research. Imagine how far the military has gone with this microchip technology in the over 50 years since Delgado invented it. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrolnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mind control&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks – even emotions. Is your boss watching you?</title>
<Publication><i>The Guardian</i> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2018-05-14</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/is-your-boss-secretly-or-not-so-secretly-watching-you</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Last year an American company &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/04/surveillance-employers-spy-implanted-chipped&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchipped dozens of its workers&lt;/a&gt;. Of the 90 people who work at [Three Square Market] headquarters, 72 are now chipped. Two months ago, the company ... started chipping people with dementia. If someone wanders off and gets lost, police can scan the chip “and they will know all their medical information, what drugs they can and can’t have, they’ll know their identity.” &lt;strong&gt;So far, Three Square Market has chipped 100 people, but plans to do 10,000. The company has just launched a mobile phone app that pairs the chip with the phone’s GPS, enabling the implantee’s location to be tracked. Last week, it started using it with people released from prison on probation&lt;/strong&gt;. Some Chinese companies are using sensors in helmets and hats to scan workers’ brainwaves. There are tech companies selling products that can ... monitor keystrokes and web usage, and even photograph [employees] using their computers’ webcams. All this can be done remotely. Monitoring is built into many of the jobs that form the so-called “gig economy”. It’s not easy to object to the constant surveillance when you’re desperate for work. What has surprised [Cass Business School professor André Spicer] is how willingly people in better-paid jobs have taken to it. Spicer has watched the shift away from “monitoring something like emails to monitoring people’s bodies – the rise of bio-tracking basically. The monitoring of your vital signs, emotions, moods.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Author James Bloodworth describes the high tech monitoring of workers at Amazon warehouses in his new book, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Hired-Months-Undercover-Low-Wage-Britain/dp/1786490145/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1526686258&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Hired%3A+Six+Months+Undercover+in+Low-Wage+Britain&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/privacynewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;disappearance of privacy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Could A Zap To The Brain Derail Destructive Impulses?</title>
<Publication>NPR</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2017-12-18</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571679556/could-a-zap-to-the-brain-derail-destructive-impulses</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Picture this: While reaching for the cookie jar - or cigarette or bottle of booze or other temptation - a sudden slap denies your outstretched hand. When the urge returns, out comes another slap. Now imagine those &quot;slaps&quot; occurring inside the brain. In a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/12/1712214114.full&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;report&lt;/a&gt; published Monday in the &lt;em&gt;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences&lt;/em&gt;, Stanford neuroscientists say they've achieved this sort of mind-reading in binge-eating mice. &lt;strong&gt;They found a telltale pattern of brain activity that comes up seconds before the animals start to pig out - and delivering a quick zap to that part of the brain kept the mice from overindulging. Whether this strategy could block harmful impulses in people remains unclear&lt;/strong&gt;. The current study used a brain stimulation device already approved for hard-to-treat epilepsy. And based on the new findings, a clinical trial testing this off-the-shelf system for some forms of obesity could start as early as next summer, says Casey Halpern, the study's leader. He thinks the approach could also work for eating disorders and a range of other addictive or potentially life-threatening urges. As a physician-researcher, Halpern specializes in deep brain stimulation (DBS), a surgical treatment in which battery-powered implants send electrical pulses to brain areas where signals go awry. The Food and Drug Administration has approved DBS therapy for movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, tremor and dystonia. Occasionally DBS is a last-resort treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Remember that secret military and intelligence projects are usually 10 to 20 years ahead of anything being done in the public. Could some groups already have developed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; designed for behavior modification or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrolnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mind control&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>First digital pill approved despite worries about biomedical Big Brother</title>
<Publication><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> (San Francisco's leading newspaper)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2017-11-14</PublicationDate>
<link>http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/First-digital-pill-approved-despite-worries-about-12357627.php</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that alerts doctors when the medication has been taken&lt;/strong&gt;. The digital pill combines two existing products: the former blockbuster psychiatric medication Abilify - long used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - with a sensor tracking system first approved in 2012. Experts say the technology could be a useful tool, but it will also change how doctors relate to their patients as they’re able to see whether they are following instructions. The pill has not yet been shown to actually improve patients’ medication compliance, a feature insurers are likely to insist on before paying for the pill. Additionally, patients must be willing to allow their doctors and caregivers to access the digital information. The technology carries risks for patient privacy, too, if there are breaches of medical data or unauthorized use as a surveillance tool, said James Giordano, a professor of neurology at Georgetown University Medical Center. “&lt;strong&gt;Could this type of device be used for real-time surveillance? The answer is of course it could&lt;/strong&gt;,” said Giordano. The new pill, Abilify MyCite, is embedded with a digital sensor that is activated by stomach fluids, sending a signal to a patch worn by the patient and notifying a digital smartphone app that the medication has been taken.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; In 2010, it was quietly reported that Novartis AG would be seeking regulatory approval for such &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-novartis-developing-medications-with-microchips&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;chip-in-a-pill technology&lt;/a&gt;&quot;. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/privacynewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;disappearance of privacy&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Installing microchips in employees is 'the right thing to do,' CEO says</title>
<Publication>CNBC News</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2017-07-24</PublicationDate>
<link>https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/installing-microchips-in-employees-is-the-right-thing-to-do-ceo-says.html</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Forget swiping a credit card or badge to buy food at work. One Wisconsin-based tech firm is offering to install rice-size microchips in its employees' hands. Three Square Market will be the first firm in the U.S. to use the device, which was approved by the FDA in 2004&lt;/strong&gt;, CEO Todd Westby told CNBC on Monday. &quot;We think it's the right thing to do for advancing innovation just like the driverless car basically did in recent months,&quot; he said. The company, which provides technology for break-room markets or mini-market kiosks, is anticipating &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/24/wisconsin-company-to-install-rice-sized-microchips-in-employees.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;over 50 employees to be voluntarily chipped&lt;/a&gt;. Westby said he and his family will be chipped, too. The chip, which costs $300 per implant, is inserted with a needle between the thumb and forefinger. Once an employee has the chip installed, he or she can purchase food in the break room, open doors and log into computers. And for those who may be concerned about Big Brother watching, Westby said there is no way for employees to be tracked. &quot;Unlike your cell phone that is trackable and traceable pretty much no matter where you are, this device is only readable if you're within six inches of a proximity reader,&quot; he said. Three Square Market's partner, BioHax International in Sweden, has already started using the microchips in about 150 of its employees.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; A Swedish company's chief executive was recently &quot;chipped&quot; live on stage to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.wanttoknow.info/a-office-puts-chips-under-staffs-skin&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;promote this dubious technology&lt;/a&gt;. And do you really think they are not trackable? Read about the agenda to chip all people in this &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wanttoknow.info/totalcontrol#microchips&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;powerful essay&lt;/a&gt; and these &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;news articles&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Scientists develop 'proof of principle' that memories can be erased</title>
<Publication><i>The Independent</i> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2017-02-18</PublicationDate>
<link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/memories-erased-mind-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-ptsd-addiction-a7587816.html</link>
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;Scientists have demonstrated “proof of principle” that traumatic memories can be erased from the brain – as seen in the science fiction film Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Studies in mice demonstrated that fearful memories prompted by a sound associated with an electric shock could be turned off and on. &lt;strong&gt;The researchers said attempting to do this in humans was full of ethical problems. But their studies suggest it will be possible&lt;/strong&gt; at some point in the future. Professor Sheena Josselyn said they had been able to discover the specific brain cells where a particular memory was stored. “So we can target where in the brain a memory has gone,” she said. “We can then decrease the activity in these cells … And it is as if we erase the memory.” After this was done, the mice were unperturbed when they heard the sound they had previously learned to associate with the shock. Increasing the cells’ activity restored the memory. &lt;strong&gt;“We can turn memory on and turn memory off,” Professor Josselyn said.&lt;/strong&gt; “We can erase a fearful memory in mice, suggesting in people there might be a way of targeting just those cells that are important in just this traumatic memory, perhaps getting rid of this traumatic memory.” Asked about the ethical considerations, Professor Josselyn said ... that she did not see a future in which brain cells would be killed off to remove memories. But she added: “For something that really interferes with your everyday life ... a treatment that targets just those cells could be appropriate.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Remember that secret military and intelligence projects are usually 10 to 20 years ahead of anything being done in the public. Could some groups already have refined the ability to erase, and possibly even implant memories? For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wanttoknow.info/mindcontrolnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;mind control&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wanttoknow.info/microchipsimplantsnewsarticles&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;microchip implants&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Dog owners urged to break new microchipping law</title>
<Publication><i>The Telegraph</i> (One of the UK's leading newspapers)</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2016-04-01</PublicationDate>
<link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/01/dog-owners-urged-to-break-new-microchipping-law/</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dog owners should consider flouting new laws for mandatory microchipping, according to a specialist who warns the procedure can kill puppies and small breeds. Fines of up to Ł500 will be issued from April 6, the deadline for all dogs over the age of eight weeks to have the chips fitted to enable wardens to scan them for the name and address of their owner&lt;/strong&gt;. More than a million of the country’s 8.5 million dogs are still not registered and around three million more owners have failed to update their details after moving house. But Richard Allport, a senior vet and owner of the Natural Medicine Centre, said the chip can cause serious health problems for young and small dogs. “I think the age by which puppies must be microchipped – eight weeks – is far too young,” Mr Allport wrote in specialist magazine &lt;i&gt;Dogs Today&lt;/i&gt;. “My advice to people who don’t want their dogs microchipped is to sit tight and do nothing.” The procedure involves a sterile chip, the size of a grain of rice, implanted between the shoulder blades. If the new law fails to reduce numbers of strays, wardens could eventually be deployed to patrol parks carrying out random spot-checks. Last year 110,000 stray dogs were picked up off the streets, of which 47,596 went unclaimed in council kennels. So far 86 per cent of dogs have been chipped, but the Dogs Trust said a large percentage of details on databases were out of date. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Explore an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.noble-leon.com/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;excellent website&lt;/a&gt; on the risks and dangers of microchipping your pets. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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<title>Dog left in France after microchip pet passport fails</title>
<Publication>BBC News</Publication>
<PublicationDate>2010-09-20</PublicationDate>
<link>http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-11371288</link>
<description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Berkshire family say they are devastated at being forced to leave their pet dog in France after his pet passport microchip failed&lt;/strong&gt;. Matt Roberts and his family returned to Arborfield, near Reading, without their dog Indy because the technology had stopped working. Indy has undergone surgery costing Ł1,000 to remove the chip. It could take up to six months for him to be issued with a new pet passport. Mr Roberts had just finished a two week holiday in the south of France with his wife Dorota and six-month-old daughter Harriet when he tried to return to the UK via Dunkirk. However, when the dogs tried to re-enter the country the scanners could not read Indy's microchip. The family had spent spent Ł400 on pet passports for his two Shih Tzu dogs, Indy and Buzz. Indy will remain in kennels in France unless the manufacturer can confirm that the chip they have removed from him matches the documentation on the pet passport. However, vets have said that the chip has corrupted and will be difficult to read. Mr Roberts may have to apply for a new pet passport for Indy or put the dog into quarantine. He said he was reluctant to do this, and was already spending Ł15 a night to keep his dog in kennels. A Defra spokesman said: &quot;Around 100 pets a year have a failed or missing microchip on arrival to the UK. &quot;In the majority of cases the microchip number can be removed and identified or read by the manufacturer, and the pet eventually allowed to enter.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;margin: 0 0 11pt 0&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Another &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/family-traumatised-as-dog-needed-surgery-following-microchip-fitting-procedure/story-29428367-detail/story.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;media article&lt;/a&gt; shows the same thing happened to a second couple. Explore an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.noble-leon.com/index.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;excellent website&lt;/a&gt; on the risks and dangers of microchipping your pets. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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