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Idiocracy:
During World War II, Louis Leterrier, a biological geneticist at the Rockefeller University in New York City, in collaboration with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the U.S. government’s intelligence branch, developed a unique biological weapon. This weapon was created in the Nazi death camps, and used for the purpose of DNA-splicing an engineered strain of the H.I.V. virus. It was codenamed ORION and it was derived from the principle of natural selection. Orion saved the lives of many, but also gave rise to the ELF, a super-intelligent alien race that soon invaded earth.This invasion was called the CLOUD (or the FISH). Since it was the beginning of the colonization of earth by an alien race called the DIGNITARS, the ELF virus and the CLOUD were used to form a psychic fence around the planet. The DIGNITARS cut off the planet’s primary energy source, water, in an effort to destroy life on earth. The result was a self-sustaining civilization of the ELF, consisting of an insignificant fraction of the earth’s population, on an insignificant fraction of the planet’s surface.
Thousands of years later, most of the planet is either desert, or rainforest, or mountains. The inner cities of the continent, with their marble and glass towers, are the only places inhabited by humans. The animals are inured to the voices of the voices in the forests. Humans are safe in their domed cities, but the animals live in caves and jungles, and are oblivious to the presence of the beings who have come to be known as the CLOUD.
This vast change is the result of the ORION project. The ORION project was a covert weapons development program conducted under the auspices of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), an intelligence organization of the U.S. government. The ORION project created a brand new species of intelligent life form, with one purpose: to serve as a biological weapon, which would be able to genetically modify or even genetically engineer any organism, living or dead, by splicing DNA from the organism’s original genome with DNA from another organism’s genome.
The ORION project was undertaken, in fact, at the direct request of Adolf Hitler. It is believed that Hitler requested the creation of the CLOUD to obtain information on the structure of life, an answer to the unfulfilled need he felt as a scientist for such a theoretical science as biochemistry. Adolf Hitler believed that the greater his knowledge on biochemistry, the greater his power as a leader.
The ORION project was not a one-shot research project. There were ongoing programs. During World War II, the projects were called the OSS program and the MKUltra program. Operation Paperclip, as the project was renamed, was a clandestine, top-secret, planned-for transfer of top-secret government personnel into high-ranking positions in industry and government, typically with the express purpose of introducing Soviet and Nazi scientists and technology into the United States, as part of a Cold War strategy for defeating the Soviet Union. Once America was at war, this was changed to the Black Project, and they are widely believed to have conducted illegal experiments on American prisoners of war and other American citizens, and on countless numbers of foreign nationals in Southeast Asia, in an effort to find better ways to kill people. Operation Paperclip had been primarily conducted in the early 1950s, but in the mid-1950s, CIA covert actions were conducted into Operation Paperclip and the projects they were a part of. There were ongoing, secret, top-secret, covert, that continued until the late 1970s and, for a time, into the 1980s. Operation Paperclip and the Projects it was a part of are widely believed to have been responsible for a great deal of human suffering and murder. The Office of Strategic Services, as the organization was known, was dedicated to the American people and their use as weapons in the Cold War.
The ORION project is most well known for creating the CLOUD. It also, though, created a new threat: a vast, artificially intelligent alien race, the DIGNITARS, capable of manipulating human minds.
These shadowy organizations, often referred to as “The Agency,” “The Brotherhood,” “The Organization,” and “The Shadow Government,” perform strange, often deadly, occult, sometimes mundane, and very often apparently inane, jobs for the U.S. government, which are most often kept hidden from the public, though not necessarily for any good reason. Some of the most famous and famous of these shadowy organizations include:
In the mid-1990s, William Tompkins, a vice president at the CIA, revealed that the agency would, at its own behest, use any means necessary to take out its political enemies, so long as those enemies were left-wing. The Agency would concoct plots to obtain damaging information against its opponents in exchange for not using those means against its friends. Many people have been swayed by Tompkins’ revelations; however, today, many people are aware that he was, in fact, a government plant, who was manipulating the public to ensure his removal from his position as CIA director.
One project of the ORION project, which is perhaps the most famous example, was Project Monarch. It was an elaborate plan, undertaken by CIA employees, that set out to create a genetically modified super-intelligence, capable of using mind control on the planet at large. It was to be genetically engineered by the ORION project, and would have been the first and most successful example of a mind control project. It was the brainchild of Dr. Martin Orne, a conservative pediatrician in Berkeley, California. He is now generally considered to be responsible for a number of minds-control schemes, including Operation Paperclip, MKUltra, and The Organization.
Dr. Orne began work on Project Monarch at the age of 29, while he was attending medical school. He had gained a reputation as a forward-thinking, young research scientist, who was beginning to think about the ways in which his work would affect the course of his career. His political affiliations were relatively limited.
By the time he completed his Ph.D. thesis, in 1964, Dr. Orne felt that he had achieved an understanding of the principles underlying human behavior that, in principle, he might use to modify human behavior. But, he says, he wasn’t willing to give up his chance of advancing in the scientific community by embracing an experiment with grim scientific implications. This remained the case until his death in 2004.
By 1966, Dr. Orne was convinced that his research methods had stalled. In particular, he says, he felt that he had not yet succeeded in describing fully how his subjects behaved, and which aspects of their behavior he could change.
In 1968, the year before he completed his Ph.D. thesis, Dr. Orne began to build a prototype for the prototype mind-control project. It was an apparatus that involved the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which he called “EMD”. Dr. Orne used ECT on people without their knowledge or consent as part of the research for his mind control prototype.
As part of his mind control research, Dr. Orne studied which parts of the brain were activated by various psychiatric drugs, and which were not. Using this method, Dr. Orne developed what he called “autopilot.” This was an algorithm that made decisions based on the subjects’ responses to a number of different drugs. In Dr. Orne’s minds-control project, “autopilot” was one of the key components that allowed his computerized model to do its thing.
In the 1960s, Dr. Orne secretly participated in Project MKUltra, a mind control program run by the CIA. Dr. Orne acknowledges that he participated in Project MKUltra but maintains that he was not involved in the most horrific aspects of the project. In fact, he views himself as the victim of conspiracy and oppression. He is a well-known alternative medicine practitioner and his books include: Telepathy, Hypnosis, and Related Psychic Phenomena and Mind Control: The Global Conspiracy.
You know, I can believe this entire scenario occurred, so long as we know exactly which CIA we’re talking about…
My friend gives me a $20 bill and it contains a portrait of an imaginary fascist dictator
I knew Dr. Martin Orne as a child, my mother used to work for him. He lived in Philadelphia. That said, it does seem in character with what I learned of him later.