http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience
The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.
A government report just released provides for the first time a comprehensive official history of Britain's biological weapons trials between 1940 and 1979.
Many of these tests involved releasing potentially dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms over vast swaths of the population without the public being told.
While details of some secret trials have emerged in recent years, the 60-page report reveals new information about more than 100 covert experiments.
The report reveals that military personnel were briefed to tell any 'inquisitive inquirer' the trials were part of research projects into weather and air pollution.
The tests, carried out by government scientists at Porton Down, were designed to help the MoD assess Britain's vulnerability if the Russians were to have released clouds of deadly germs over the country.
In most cases, the trials did not use biological weapons but alternatives which scientists believed would mimic germ warfare and which the MoD claimed were harmless. But families in certain areas of the country who have children with birth defects are demanding a public inquiry.
One chapter of the report, 'The Fluorescent Particle Trials', reveals how between 1955 and 1963 planes flew from north-east England to the tip of Cornwall along the south and west coasts, dropping huge amounts of zinc cadmium sulphide on the population. The chemical drifted miles inland, its fluorescence allowing the spread to be monitored. In another trial using zinc cadmium sulphide, a generator was towed along a road near Frome in Somerset where it spewed the chemical for an hour.
While the Government has insisted the chemical is safe, cadmium is recognised as a cause of lung cancer and during the Second World War was considered by the Allies as a chemical weapon.
why do you want to characterise people as crazy for questioning things their government does. questioning our governments seems like uh, kinda what we should be doing as leftists
Ironicwarcriminal posted:as leftists
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libelous_slander posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:as leftists
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ABOUT TIME SOMEONE PUT THE LEFTISTS IN THEIR PLACE! THANK YOU!
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i cant fault USG for wanting to get rid of stlouis tbh
Keven posted:teh title of this thread conflates valid post colonialist jargon with conspiracy theory, not an uncommon tactic as we can see with the history of the quote unquote holocaust and the 9/11 war attacks but an unfortunate one that is less than i would expect from the vanguard of the modern left.
The modern left:
hey posted:What do the modern left think about that? Well they're pretty dirty and lonely people so cleaning up cum ain't on their list of priorities.
it has to be done on FRICTION ALONE or its rape thats all i know
Panopticon posted:deus ex is real
From Walter Eucken's Grundsätze, a foundational text for neo-liberalism:
"There is no doubt a limit to the action of economic policy on global facts. But each of them can be influenced. Even the climate of a country can be modified by human intervention. A fortiori other factors, like the size of the population, its knowledge, and its capabilities, etcetera. The broadest field of action is offered by the sixth fact, the legal and social order."
Foucault knew about the chemtrails but we didn't listen WE DIDN'T LISTEN!!!11
"What are organizing actions? Well, (they are) actions with the function of intervening on conditions of the market, but on more fundamental, structural, and general conditions of the market than those I have been talking about (the correction of market mechanisms, for example Keynesianism or welfare - marimite). In fact, we should never forget the principle that the market is a general social and economic regulator, but this does not mean it is a natural given to be found at the very basis of society. Rather it constitutes-- forgive me for saying once again-- a sort of fine and very reliable mechanism on condition that it functions well and nothing disturbs it. Consequently, the main and constant concern of governmental intervention, apart from these conjunctural moments I have just spoken about, must be the conditions of existence of the market, that is to say, what the ordoliberals call the 'framework.'
What is a framework policy? I think it will appear clearly if we consider a text from Eucken's Grundsätze, that is to say, from 1952, where he takes up the problem of German agriculture, although he says the same arguments apply to most of European agriculture. Basically, he says, agriculture has never been normally, fully, exhaustively integrated within the market economy. It has not been integrated within the market economy because of protective customs that, throughout Europe, have marked off, and cut out the spaces of European agriculture. These protective customs were made indispensable both by technical differences and generally by the technical inadequacy of each country's agriculture. These differences and inadequacies were entirely linked to an over-population that made intervention, the insertion of technical improvements, pointless, and in truth, undesirable. So, what must be done if we want European agriculture to function within a market economy? The text is from 1952. We will have to act on facts that are not directly economic facts, but which are conditioning facts for a possible market economy. So on what will it be necessary to act? Not on prices, and certainly not a particular sector, ensuring support for a scarcely profitable sector, since these are bad interventions. What will good interventions act on? Well, on the framework. That is to say, first, on the population. The agricultural population is too large, so it will have to be reduced by interventions enabling population transfers, migration, and so on. We will also have to intervene at the level of techniques, by making implements available, by the technical improvement of elements like fertilizers etcetera, and also by the training and education given to farmers, which will enable them to modify (agricultural) techniques. Third, we will also modify the legal framework of farms, and in particular the laws governing inheritance, governing tenant farms and the location of estates, trying to find the means to get the legislation, structures, and institutions of society to play a part through action in agriculture, and so on. Fourth, as far as possible we will modify the allocation of the soil and the extent, nature, and exploitation of the soil available. Finally, if necessary, we will have to be able to intervene on the climate."
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