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Fascinatingly spooky...among the realms of possibility...from The Ecologist

Pentagon dark lord Donald Rumsfeld is shovelling billions of tax dollars into the research furnaces of federal laboratories and private universities across the US in a wide-ranging bid to spawn ‘super soldiers’. Fired by drugs and electromagnetic ‘brain zaps’, the super soldiers will fight without ceasing for days on end. The work is being directed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – yes, the same outfit now labouring under convicted terrorist-conspirator John Poindexter to build the ‘Total Information Awareness’ network that will allow Washington to monitor the electronic records and communications of every US citizens. The DARPA ‘war fighter enhancement’ programme – an acceleration of bi-partisan bio-tinkering that’s been going on for years – will involve injecting young men and women with hormonal, neurological and genetic concoctions; implanting microchips and electrodes in their bodies to control their internal organs and brain functions; and plying them with drugs that deaden some of their normal human tendencies – the need for sleep, the fear of death, the reluctance to kill their fellow human beings. The research is ‘very aggressive and wide open’, says Admiral Stephen Baker of the Center for Defense Information.Indeed, the US Special Operations Command envisions the creation of ‘iron-bodied and iron-willed personnel’, who can ‘resist the mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation’ while relying on ‘ergogenic substances’ to ‘manage’ the ‘environmental and mentally induced stress’ of the battlefield. Their bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in a Prozacian haze, the enhanced fighters can churn relentlessly, remorselessly towards dominion.

This is so me..
Iron-willed with mental and physiological effects of sleep deprivation’ while relying on ‘caffeinated substances’ to ‘manage’ the ‘environmental, mental and internal combustion engine related induced stress’ of (home)the battlefield. Their bodies juiced, their brains swaddled in a Effexorian haze
.................maybe 2 teenage sons had something to do with it.