Got to go. The band's playing.

Assigned to Tripler Army hospital where they were doing LSD testing on returning Korean conflict soldiers and marines.
Dad says he wasn't a normal kid growing up, but he changed badly after that assignment.
Uncle seemed to be stuck in both mind and time, reality was always shifting suddenly and he would retreat to a particular time in 1951 when he was going to go to Paris and become the next Arthur Millar or George Orwell; he had to be taken care of for the rest of his life.
As a friend told me once in the 1970's - your trip quality will depend on where your mind is at the time.

Or 2001 A Space Odyssey on an IMAX screening. Good times! I wish I could get some now!!! I need it daily to distract me from tRump's crazy distractions.

1953: Frank Olson, a chemist with the Army’s top secret Special Operations Division at Ft. Detrick was involved with biological weapons research and was tasked to the CIA for work on MKULTRA. In 1953, as Deputy Acting Head of Special Operations for the CIA, Olson is a close associate of psychiatrist William Sargant who was investigating the use of psychoactive drugs as an interrogation tool at Britain’s Biological Warfare Centre at Porton Down. After being dosed with LSD without his knowledge by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the Agency’s liaison to Ft. Detrick, Olson undergoes a severe psychological crisis. The scientist begins questioning the ethics of designing biological organisms as weapons of war. This does not sit well with his Agency and Army superiors. On November 24, 1953, Olson and a CIA minder, Robert Lashbrook, check into New York’s Staler Hotel. He never checked out. According to Lashbrook, Olson had thrown himself through the closed shade and window, plunging 170 feet to his death. But because of his knowledge of CIA “terminal experiments” and other horrors conducted under MKULTRA, the Olson family believes the researcher was murdered. When Olson’s son Eric has his father’s body exhumed in 1994, the forensic scientist in charge of the examination determines that Olson had suffered blunt force trauma to the head prior to his fall through the window; the evidence is called “rankly and starkly suggestive of homicide.” Norman G. Cournoyer, one of Olson’s closet friends at Ft. Detrick also believes the scientist was murdered. When asked by the Baltimore Sun in 2004 why Olson was killed, Cournoyer said, “To shut him up. … He wasn’t sure we should be in germ warfare, at the end.”

Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/biological-warfare-and-the-national-security-state/14708


Vincent Ruwet, the head of the Special Operations Division of the Army Chemical Corps and Frank Olson’s boss, gives a firsthand account of the last days and hours of Olson’s life, including comments on his state of mind during and in the days following the Deep Creek Lake experiment, in which he and other CIA and Army officials were unwittingly dosed with LSD.

Source: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/32724-document-09-statement-vincent-l-ruwet-frank-olson-death-december-1-1953


My heart aches for Dr. Olson’s family.

Given the lame shit I have seen I felt extra embittered it wasn’t even fun stuff like MKUltra’s LSD and just a bunch of tacky, annoying and snoopy ai agents which make work impossible, groping male creeps, Reefer Madness fraud, space grabs and coercion..

I demand higher (!) quality human experimentation and exploitation and minus the perverts! It is my human right to be defrauded and harassed by less inane creeps!
However, I can confirm that no creeps were hurt in the making of this infomercial! Except possibly the ones into S&M, Opus Dei* (the other dei!) etc.

*: Don’t they self-flagellate or something? I could see Scalia being into that as the only prominent figure in that sect I know of. I feel nostalgic for the rubbishy old days of HW. At least nukes weren’t on one’s mind then. Good grief, what would the GOP of 2046 be like at this rate? And the technoperverts? The latter would probably successfully shill some sort of thing made of sticks and string taped together as a super-intelligent god everyone should hand any remaining resources over to. It is hardly that different from those sad LLMs asjusted for the hype. My (mostly erroneous and generally mediocre) spell check is superintelligence!

…and we just might solve a few of our societal issues.

I’ll bring the frisbee and oranges!

What's the worst that could happen? MAGAts see reality for the first time?

I became more able to see through the BS.

Plus, I hardly think Iran would want to make Americans vote Republican.