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  EDITORIAL
  RATION PRICES.....more
  BANK RATE .......more
  HERE AND THERE
  Dog testicles can be implanted in
  men
  From B L Kak
  United Airlines. Its employee, Jim Webb, has created
  history of sorts. He did not care if he became a big joke
  after ......more
  Will Kashmiris spurn
  jehad call?
  By J N Raina
  Is war between India and Pakistan in the offing?
  Certainly not. Apparently, the die has not been cast. It
  has ...more
  No soft options,
  but key factor is oil
  By Padma Waheed
  The Union Budget 2000-2001 is a harsh one, but the
  Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant Sinha, had cautioned us....more
  Psychic warfare :
  Military exploitation of paranormal
  By Gurmeet Kanwal
  Imagine psychic intelligence agents capable of remotely
  reading top secret files ......more. Earlier to this
  sugar prices were enhanced. While Centre justifies
  reduction in subsidies in foodgrains as an economic
  necessity, the State Government tends to attribute it to
  what the Centre has done leaving no option whatsoever. In
  the process not only middle class but also those living
  below the poverty line are squeezed. Token or minor
  increase is alright but when the increase in one go is
  more than 30%, it calls for critical comments.
  In many cases the items
  supplied through ration outlets are now priced higher
  than the prevailing market prices. For instance price of
  atta has been fixed at Rs 10.75 per kg while in the open
  market it can be had in retail at Rs 8.25. Quality-wise,
  weight-wise and otherwise, open-market atta is definitely
  better than what is retailed in PDS shops. With this
  substantial price difference one wonders who would buy
  the atta from ration shops and what for large
  establishment is created for the public distribution
  system. Controlled ration concept was initiated in the
  State in early forties in the wake of 'roti agitation'
  that took a heavy toll of 9 innocent lives in police
  firing. In fact, J&K happens to be the first State in
  India to introduce this concept of supplying foodgrains
  to the people at reasonable prices. It is interesting to
  elaborate the concept in that in the post-partition era
  even pure desi-ghee was supplied through ration shops at
  fixed prices due to dislocation in supplies from
  traditional channels. Further, the necessity for putting
  desi ghee on the controlled commodity arose because
  import of vanaspati ghee (Dalda) was banned in the State.
  The concept thus has its origin in the welfare of the
  people of this State. Further, it is to be noted that
  there was a time when foodgrains were heavily subsidised
  in this State so much so nowhere else in the world these
  items could be had at such low administered rates. It was
  during the stewardship of the tallest man Sheikh Sahib
  that such subsidy was withdrawn or diluted because
  according to him it affected dignity of the people of
  this State to have such 'cheap ration' doles. The people
  readily responded and there were only muted and hush-hush
  protests. But now the concept stands totally vitiated in
  that the prices stand increased more than the prevailing
  market prices thereby making a mockery of rationing
  system maintained at huge cost to the exchequer. One
  begins to wonder if the system has outlived its utility
  and the time for scrapping the same lock, stock and
  barrel has come.
  Another factors that
  warrants rationing system relates to disciplining the
  market. With present hikes open market is being helped
  openly by diverting customers which traditionally
  purchased their requirements from the ration outlets.
  Market discipline is relevant only if market prices are
  more than the rationed priced. Right now it is the other
  way round as far as rationees above poverty line are
  concerned (APL). It is to be noted that even those Below
  Poverty Line have not been spared. They too have to pay
  almost double the price of what they have been paying
  till recently. BPL are those whose monthly income is less
  than Rs 1500. Ascertaining of this income and endorsement
  of ration cards thereof has been left to the 'discretion'
  of F&S Inspectors and there is no denying the fact
  that the game and assessment of BPL has not been fair. To
  that extent even bonafides stand denied while those
  having income much more than 1500 continue to get rations
  at highly subsidised rate. The only consolation is that
  instead of 10 kg per card BPL category can now draw 20 kg
  per card but have to pay double the earlier price. All
  this and much more indicates that Government has not
  applied its mind constructively by announcing such
  indiscriminate increases which are well above the market
  prices. It indeed makes mockery of the system in vogue
  that fails to subserve the interests of the hapless
  consumers. It is the Government that has enhanced gas and
  kerosene prices. It is the Government that has increased
  sugar prices. It is the Government that has hiked
  foodgrain prices now. Obviously, it is mandatory and
  obligatory on the Government not to grudge increase in
  dearness allowance to its employees whenever it falls
  due. the situation before making the
  announcement. To be precise, one could expect further
  reduction if inflation rate remains below 5%. God
  forbids, if inflation shoots up due to various hikes
  effected in the administered prices of various essential
  commodities, Government would be compelled to enhance
  interest rates again. Bank Rate in any case is Government
  by rate of inflation. Lower the inflation, lower is the
  bank rate and vice versa.
  It may be mentioned that
  rates of interest for fixed term deposits is left to the
  discretion of individual banks. Same is true of Prime
  lending Rate (PLR). Lower PLR means industry, including
  agriculture, gets credit cheap. It also reduces interest
  burden of the banks and the Government alike. Cheap
  credit is a boost to all commercial, housing and
  agricultural activities. To that extent it indicates good
  health of the economy. Its impact is however viewed
  differently by the investors and retirees who get lower
  return for their savings. Bank Deposit thus becomes
  unattractive for them and they could be seeking diversion
  of their funds to high-return mutual funds and other
  instruments. Exim Policy recently announced necessitates
  more demand for money and the maximum source happens to
  be Banks. They shall have to maintain momentum of
  deposits to meet the growing market demand. As an
  immediate measure RBI has announced cut in CRR which puts
  around Rs 7000 crore more at the disposal of banks for
  lending and meeting demand from the customers. This means
  inter-bank call rate which has shown marked increase will
  go down to reasonable level. Industry is thus sure of
  getting cheap credit for boosting production. Same is
  true of agriculture and other activities. Banks
  themselves however will have to reduce their servicing
  expenses because reduction in interests is bound to put
  additional burden on banks. As aptly advised by Finance
  Minister they must improve efficiency, go for better
  financial management techniques to correspond to
  international level and they must urgently address to the
  ever mounting Non-Performing Assets which have already
  made three nationalised banks sick. NPAs remain the major
  villain in banking industry with habitual defaulters
  playing havoc and recoveries accumulating. Banks shall
  have to streamline the entire financial management to
  bring down the level of NPAs.
  Small investors and
  retirees however should prepare themselves for further
  reduction in interest in about six month time.
  HERE
  AND THERE
  Dog testicles can be implanted in
  men
  From B L Kak
  United Airlines. Its
  employee, Jim Webb, has created history of sorts. He did
  not care if he became a big joke after he went public
  last year with his wish to have an artificial dog
  testicles implanted in his body. And he placed himself on
  record by saying: "I have a serious problem that
  thousands of other men share".
  Jim Webb suffered from a
  severe, nagging infection. After years of crippling pain,
  in 1988, doctors removed his left testicles. He felt
  better, but deformed and embarrassed in intimate
  situations. "It is ridiculous how all plastic
  surgeons are willing to do penis enlargement and plastic
  surgery. All I want is reconstructive surgery to look
  normal", he has been quoted as saying.
  Last fall, when Webb
  contacted the makers of Neuticles-artificial testicles
  for dogs, cats and other animals-he knew he would become
  a media sensation. "I was prepared to achieve
  freak-of-the-weak status", he says.
  An estimated 8,000 men
  lose one or both of their testicles each other because of
  cancer, injuries or other misfortunes. Until the
  mid-1990s, testicular implants were available. But
  several years after the public scare involving silicone
  breast implants, the Food and Drug Administration,
  according to ABC news, halted the manufacture of
  prosthetic testicles until they could be proven safe.
  ABC news has reported that
  while Webb was searching for answers to his problem,
  business was booming for Gregg Miller, the inventor of
  Neuticles. Since the mid-1990s, more than 36,000 animals,
  mostly dogs, can now hold their shaggy heads high-and so
  can their owners, who often feel "pot traumatic
  stress" from neutering their pets, Miller says.
  Now an interesting piece
  of information from Chigao. DPA, a news agency, stated in
  a news item circulated by it recently that on October 8,
  1871, a cow kicked over an oil lamp in its shed on the
  OLeary farm in Chicago and unwittingly opened the
  way forward for the construction of the worlds
  first skyscraper.
  The shed caught fire. And
  soon afterwards half of the city was in flames. About
  18,000 of the Chicagos wooden houses were destroyed
  in the enormous blaze which ensued. The ashed scattered
  around and soon fell under the feet of construction
  engineers with grand plans for the first block of flats.
  According to the news
  item, William le Baron Jenney was responsible for the
  construction in 1879 of the seven-storey, 40-metre-high
  building, the first building in the world to be
  constructed using a steel skeleton.This construction
  system meant that the walls no longer acted as
  load-bearing components but rather the foundation as
  support system.
  According to Architecture
  and Living, a magazine published in Hamburg, Elisha Otis
  invented, in the second half of the 19th century, the
  elevator, thus saving people the burden of clambering up
  multiple flights of stairs. It was another milestone on
  the way up.
  Following the Chicago
  sky-scraper, architects in the United States competed
  with each other for the tallest. The Empire State
  building was the tallest sky-scrapper by the end of the
  19th century.
  Will
  Kashmiris spurn jehad call?
  By J N Raina
  Is war between
  India and Pakistan in the offing? Certainly not.
  Apparently, the die has not been cast. It has
  remained unchanged since Kargil conflict, for our
  hostile neighbour believes in the dictum that
  low-cost unrestricted proxy war it has waged
  across India is quite sustainable. Obviously, a
  certain section of people in Pakistan, backing
  its politicised army, is imbued with hegemonistic
  hopes and an obsession that prolonging the
  15-year-old war is the only tool to humble this
  country of one billion people.
  It is perhaps
  keeping this in view that General Parvez
  Musharraf of Pakistan has cast aspersion on
  Indians, dubbing our leaders as cowards, who
  (Indians) for him would not dare repulse Pakistan
  attacks or resort to proactive stance.
  But coming to
  brass tacks, Kargil has verily shown that
  Pakistan army does not have the guts to face the
  Indian army in an eye-ball-to-eye-ball
  confrontation. Gen Musharraf, styling himself as
  his country's Chief Executive (CE), knows it very
  well that Pakistan's defence forces are no match
  for the Indian army. So our petulant neighbour
  has relied on terrorist trade.
  The sordid
  hijacking incident was a continuation, if not the
  culmination of the Pakistan sponsored full-scale
  proxy war, which is sheer manifestation of
  cowardly tactics being employed by the foreign
  mercenaries against a much disciplined and strong
  Indian army. Proxy war gained momentum soon after
  Pakistan's debacle in Kargil. It had a
  snowballing effect in Pakistan, which was
  virtually on the verge of civil war, before Gen
  Musharraf staged a bloodless coup d'etat to
  overthrow democratically-elected Government of
  Nawaz Sharif. The CE, brain beind the Kargil
  imbroglio, wanted to stall Lahore peace process
  against the wishes of Pakistanis in general. It
  is Gen. Musharraf, who has revived the dying
  militancy in Kashmir, were peace had almost been
  restored. Call for jehad is now a catchword in
  Pakistan. For the first time, army camps and
  establishments of other security forces like the
  BSF and the CRPF are the main targets of attack
  by the foreign mercenaries, who are equipped with
  sophisticated weapons like rocket launchers. In
  the presence of shrinking local support, the
  foreign militants have been engaged in the
  Kashmir Valley and elsewhere in Jammu Division,
  paying them exorbitant wages.
  I was in Srinagar
  when the militants, owing allegiance to the
  Lashker-e-Toiba resorted to heavy rocket attack
  on Badami Bagh army cantonment, on November 3
  last. It was a bizarre event when three militants
  sneaked into the army's prestigious establishment
  under cover of rocket attack from across the
  national highway bypass, killing seven security
  personnel, including Public Relations Officers,
  Major Purshottam. Since the Badami Bagh incident,
  there is no let-up in such attacks.
  The militants got
  more emboldened after five Pakistani hijacked
  forced the release of three hard-core militants,
  including Pakistani national, Maulana Azhar, a
  radical fundamentalist, who to India's dismay has
  given a call for Jehad in Jammu and Kashmir. On
  the day, of Id-ul-Fitr, Azhar even vowed to
  recruit five lakh mujahideen to carry out
  campaign of terror in Jammu and Kashmir. What
  further proof is needed by the United States to
  combat Islamic terrorism with its international
  ramifications?
  But who is to
  blame for the release of this prized catch? It is
  the Indian judiciary which is to be blamed
  partly. Azhar was arrested in 1994, but it is
  quite intriguing as to how charges were not
  framed against him and several other terrorists
  during all these years. Azhar was lodged in the
  high-security Kot Balwal jail in Jammu, with the
  State authorities taking a fainthearted view of
  the entire issue. Ironically, on the following
  day of Azhar's release, a local court in Jammu
  issued a notice to Jammu Central jail
  Superintendent for his failure to produce Azhar
  in a jailbreak case. Such an action was sought to
  be taken only after the dreaded militant was
  released in exchange of hostages of the hijacked
  plane. He was one of the accused in the jailbreak
  attempt which took place at Kot Balwal jail last
  year. Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence
  (ISI) received a tremendous boost after the
  hijacking episode, which can be described as a
  shameful event. ISI is now a household name in
  India. It has asked several militant outfits
  under its command in Jammu and Kashmir to form
  fidayan (suicide) groups to carry out series of
  subversive activities against the security
  forces. "Act or perish", the Kashmiri
  militants being trained in PoK and elsewhere in
  Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been specifically
  instructed to do the assigned task.
  The ISI has
  directed the waiting militants in PoK's Bagh
  district to target the temple city of Jammu and
  engineer communal trouble, to drive out Hindus,
  who have concentrated there, following the exodus
  of Kashmiri Pandits and others from Doda
  district.
  The ISI has
  already established its bases in the
  Muslim-dominated regions of Hyderabad, Uttar
  Pradesh, north Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Mumbai. The
  metropolitan cities are a safe haven for the
  militants, where they cannot be suspected so
  easily. The ISI has designed to destroy India's
  strong economic base. To fund its various
  subversive activities in India, ISI has now
  set-up full-fledged facility in Peshawar to print
  counterfeit Indian currency notes.
  The arrest of a
  Pakistani Embassy official in Kathmandu on the
  charge of circulating counterfeit notes is just a
  tip of the iceberg. To cap it all, a 500 rupee
  fake note was detected among the currency notes
  deposited as fee by a Pakistani High Commission
  Official in Delhi recently.
  The time is ripe
  for seeking world support to declare Pakistan a
  terrorist state. India willy-nilly can garner the
  desired support from the United States and
  Russia, as both countries are facing trouble from
  Islamic terrorism. We should not have gone into
  stupor after the Kargil war, India should have
  nipped into bud the proxy war when the plan for
  "Liberation of Kashmir" was hatched in
  1987-88. Dr Farooq Abdullah's bold statement,
  asking the then authorities in New Delhi to
  checkmate Pakistan by invading PoK, which is
  legally a part of India, was taken non-seriously.
  He had been repeatedly saying that "If
  Kashmir goes, India goes", but, his views
  were not adhered to. In fact, proactive policy
  should have been given proper shape in right
  earnest instead of considering the desirability
  of fighting war on our soil. The total effect is
  that army and other paramilitary forces have
  started reeling into a state of despondency. Why
  should the security forces be on the defensive
  for ever?
  India needs to get
  rid of its state of somnolence on the Kashmir
  issue, which went on dragging for five decades. A
  sea change has to be brought about in the Kashmir
  policy, and any talk of "greater
  autonomy" or "sky is the limit"
  should no more be a debating point. Time is
  running fast and it does not wait endlessly. We
  have exhibited enough of patience and restraint
  in our dealing with Pakistan, making compromises
  in 1965 and 1971 at the cost of national
  security.
  Even if the
  maximum autonomy is granted to Jammu and Kashmir,
  people in the region would continue to be
  browbeaten by Pakistan and Afghanistan in the
  name of Islam. Afghanistan had once ruled over
  Kashmiris ruthlessly. If the people of Kashmir
  are interested in real peace, they should
  themselves pave way for abrogation of Article
  370. During the past fifty years, people have
  'enjoyed' the fruits of so-called autonomy. After
  all, there are nearly 12 crore Muslims in India.
  Kashmiris need not sleep, and tomorrow will be
  too late.
  Everlasting peace
  can only be established if late Kashmiri leader
  Sheikh Abdullah's dream is fully realised --- he
  had likened the Valley to a garden, where flowers
  of all hue could bloom under one sun. He wanted
  all communities to flourish -- Hindus, Muslims,
  Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians. The Sheikh, who
  was the real architect of Kashmir's accession
  with India, had spurned the hand of Pakistan for
  its obsession with the two-nation theory. The
  Sheikh had been lambasting Afghanistan and even
  Mughals for subjugating the Kashmiris.
  Emergence of
  Bangla Desh was a turning point in his thinking
  when reportedly nearly thirty lakh Muslims were
  butchered in the erstwhile East Pakistan by Pak
  soldiers, before they surrendered. Let the
  Kashmiris assert at the dawn of new millennium
  and spurn Pakistan's call for jihad.
  No soft options, but key
  factor is oil
  By Padma Waheed
  The Union Budget 2000-2001
  is a harsh one, but the Finance Minister, Mr Yashwant
  Sinha, had cautioned us against soft options. If he has
  not gone the whole hog in privatisation of, say, the
  banks, despite lowering Government equity to 33%, it is
  explained by the constraints of democracy, world's
  largest, with a vast population base which is 70%
  illiterate, and the terrifying sceptre of retrenchment
  and unemployment.
  Even then, half-hearted
  measures spell doom; cut in fertiliser subsidy has
  brought the Haryana Chief Minister, O. P. Chautala, on
  the side of Punjab in protests evoking apprehension of an
  increase in the price of the daily bread.
  The big fiscal deficit
  will necessitate more market borrowings, enhancing the
  public debt and interest payment liability. The small
  man, the pensioner, is bewildered. Instead of increasing
  interest rates on postal deposits, these are going down -
  forcing the hapless pensioner and the small man to equity
  risks.
  Government has not grown
  out of its predilections in favour of public sector,
  otherwise how can one explain HMT watches of Rs 500 and
  below becoming cheaper and energy efficient pressure
  cookers going up in costs.
  The hefty and an all-time
  high hike in defence allocation does not seem adequate
  enough without a defence plan perspective and change in
  the system of placing orders and subsequent with hunting,
  going by the comment of General Raghavan, prominent
  defence analyst, and even the Army Chief.
  I am not unhappy because
  reading between the lines, it is Pax Vajpayeeiana policy
  of keeping the powder dry while resolving all disputes
  with our intractable neighbour Pakistan through
  discussion and peaceful means. Thus, India is not at war,
  and the Budget is only directed to defend the country.
  Finance Minister lays store by token provisions. Where is
  one such for the population policy just announced ?
  No sooner that the Soviet
  Union broke up, Russia and its other constituent units
  gave short shrift to the monopoly of public sector in
  petroleum, assigning a free hand to the multi-nationals
  for exploration of crude oil and natural gas. However,
  the tattered legacy remains intact in India even as the
  import bill on account of deficit crude and petroleum
  products is poised to cross the Rs 60,000 crore per annum
  mark. Custom and excise relief postpones the evil day of
  price enhancement just for a while.
  Thus, the Finance Minister
  will not either strike or draw blood in so far as
  Petroleum Sector is concerned. But why blame him alone.
  P. Chidambaram, who vaxed eloquent on the subject of
  expenditure control as an expenditure commission
  galvanised throwing good money after bad in exploration,
  refining, and pipe-laying, declared these white elephants
  as navratnas, and gave them vast powers of
  financial inputs. His policy has failed because crude oil
  production has declined. This declining trend can only be
  arrested by parcelling out blocks of 500 sq. kms or less
  in prospective areas to multinationals for exploration
  with no conditions except the rider to produce crude oil
  to the extent of gas availed of, so that we also make a
  beginning in the redemption of nearly a billion cubic
  metres of gas being flared at our oilfields day in and
  day out.
  To me, the silver lining
  to the cloud is the exemption of tax on donations to
  Sports - Let us gear ourselves up to bid and win the 2006
  international Olympics event for India. Several sites
  like Lakshedweep Islands, coastal Kerala, Port Blair,
  Chandigarh come to mind. However, going by the manifesto
  of the Haryana Congress Committee, one could develop a
  site like the Gurgaon - Pataudi - Jaipur highway;
  Faridabad - Ballabhgarh - Palwal belt, which could later
  serve as the capital of Haryana. This will kill two birds
  with one stone; assure Punjab that Haryana will no tread
  on their toes and tender corns in Chandigarh, and at the
  same time go closer to the Capital and reap benefits of
  the revolution in Information Technology and cyberspace. -
  CNF Service
  By Gurmeet Kanwal
  Imagine psychic
  intelligence agents capable of remotely reading top
  secret files and visualising the exact layout of military
  installations thousands of kilometres away, reading the
  minds of the enemy's civilian and military leaders and
  altering their thought processes, even killing them
  through psychic attacks. This is not a science-fiction
  scenario conjured up by the fertile imagination of an
  Isaac Asimov or an Arthur C. Clark, but research being
  conducted in the intelligence laboratories of several
  countries. The Orwellian prophecy has finally come true,
  No matter where you hide, Big Brother is
  watching.
  In a book entitled,
  remote viewing, Tim Rifat has revealed for
  the first time how, at the height of the Cold War, the
  Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in
  exploring paranormal phenomena in a search for developing
  new intelligence technologies and psychic weapons. Thus,
  began the relatively little known inner-space
  arms race between the two superpowers, based on
  bio-physical and psychotronic weapons, which
  had the potential to drive mad and even kill entire
  populations.
  Scientists in Russia have
  studied parapsychology since the early 1920s. Though
  Stalin had banned research into the paranormal on the
  grounds that it smacked of superstition, the taboo was
  lifted in 1960 and a scientific exploration of the
  potential of psychic energy (PSI) was undertaken. A
  nation-wide search was carried out to spot talented
  psychics. Mystics with extra sensory perception (ESP)
  capabilities were rounded up from Siberia. Soviet
  cosmonauts were trained to receive coded telepathic
  messages and experiments were undertaken to establish
  telepathic communications with submarines under the
  Arctic ice pack.
  The study of psychic
  phenomena was expected to lead the Soviet Union towards
  knowledge of the mysteries of the human mind, which were
  then planned to be exploited to gain mastery over the
  world. Funds in excess of 20 million roubles were
  earmarked for research into developing psychotronic
  weapons in 1973. The author estimates that by 1992,
  funding from the Military-Industrial Commission and the
  KGB had grown to 500 million roubles.
  According to U.S. Defence
  Intelligence Agency (DIA), Soviet research into
  parapsychology was aimed at, "Remotely viewing the
  contents of top secret U.S. documents, monitoring the
  movement of troops and ships, moulding the
  thoughts of key U.S. military and civilian leaders,
  causing the instant death of any U.S. official and
  disabling U.S. military equipment, including space
  craft."
  Much of the Soviet effort
  involved attempts to gain mastery over the processes of
  controlling people's minds through an amalgam of
  psychic force and electronics. Research revealed
  that naturally gifted clairvoyants changed the magnetic
  fields around them during a trance. If trained psychics
  could remotely influence the energy field around targeted
  people, it would be possible to discern their thoughts as
  well as attach a harmful energy field to them to make
  them ill or infect them with subliminal
  commands.
  The Soviets also carried
  out extensive research into out-of-the-body phenomenon in
  Yogis to develop the ability for a psychic agent to
  transport his energy body to a remote site
  and abduct and transfer an actual object to friendly
  territory. Objects so picked up are known as
  apports and this science is called
  telekinesis or psychokinesis. It
  has been conjectured that such energy bodies
  could be employed to disable military equipment and even
  to kill military and civilian officials.
  Psychotronic generators
  were developed to influence individuals or even a whole
  crowd of people to affect their psyche so as to cause
  mental disorientation, physical fatigue and alter their
  behaviour. Psychotronic warfare could be used to charge
  water with negative psi energy that could shrivel plants
  and cause cancer. U.S. subjects were allegedly given this
  negatively charged water in their drinks at State
  functions. U.S. paranormal warfare experts are reported
  to have paid back in the same coin. Former KGB Major
  General Oleg Kalugin revealed in an ABC TV interview that
  remote influencing had been used against President Boris
  Yeltsin to undermine his health.
  Initial psi-warfare
  efforts in U.S. focussed on the use of remote viewing as
  an intelligence gathering tool to examine a selection of
  Soviet and Chinese military bases under projects
  Star Gate and Grill Flame. Only
  after some notable successes were achieved, was U.S.
  military establishment convinced of the efficacy of
  utilising parapsychology as a tool to further national
  security interests.
  Former President Jimmy
  Carter has described a remote viewing success story as
  the single most memorable event of his
  presidency. A psychic was consulted by the CIA to
  locate a missing plane when all other efforts had failed.
  The psychic went into a trance and gave some latitude and
  longitude figures. We focussed our satellite cameras on
  that point and the plane was there. Among other publicly
  known success stories are the accurate prediction of an
  assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and the
  hijacking of a U.S. airliner by Islamic terrorists.
  In Britain, a great deal
  of work was done on the application of microwave
  technology to mind control. British researchers
  discovered that the Soviet Union had been bombarding many
  parts of the world with extremely low frequency (ELF)
  transmitters. The sustained use of ELF waves by the
  Russians was reportedly the cause of terminal diseases in
  three U.S. ambassadors in Moscow. ELF waves were found to
  be capable of inducing behavioural modifications. ELF
  signals are psychoactive and are said to be capable of
  causing mental depression at 6.66 Hertz (Hz). At 11 Hz,
  these can lead to manic and riotous behaviour in humans.
  Prolonged exposure to ELF can alter the human brain's
  neural wiring circuit and can stimulate abnormal
  behaviour and emotions. The transmission of ELC signals
  can give a Government the ability to mind-control the
  population, if it so desires - a chilling prospect.
  Though remote viewing
  appears to be a dangerous cocktail of hitherto
  unexplained natural psychic clairvoyance and induced
  paranormal capabilities, researchers the world over are
  now endeavouring to rationalise a scientific
  understanding of the phenomenon. Even the average, not
  naturally gifted person, can be trained in the art of
  remote viewing. Tim Rifat has listed seven stages of
  remote viewing and his book contains several appendices
  of original DIA documents regarding Soviet and other
  Warsaw Pact countries' research into remote viewing.
  It would be interesting to
  see similar KGB documents detailing U.S. and other
  Western countries' research and learn how they have
  employed psychotronic weapons to target their enemies.
  The art and science of remote viewing is a revelation
  about the devious extent to which human beings can go to
  harm other human beings for the sake of national
  security.
  It is clear that eventual
  mastery over this new frontier would be too dangerous for
  research in it to be allowed to proliferate unchecked and
  unsafeguarded. Perhaps the time has come for a United
  Nations protocol to regulate research into remote viewing
  and psychic targeting, if these paranormal processes that
  are clearly violative of human rights cannot be banned
  completely.
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