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letter to Google attorney Albert Gidari, saying that the five core areas: emotional, physical, family, social and FTC has ended its inquiry into the matter, with little spiritual. The spiritual component of the assessment more than an assurance from Google that it will make contains questions written predominantly for soldiers "improvements to its internal processes" and "continue —_ who believe in God or another deity. This means that its dialogue with the FTC". Why was nothing done _ tens of thousands of non-believers will score poorly and about it? be forced to use religious imagery exercises that are Less than a week before the FTC's decision to drop the ~— counter to their personal beliefs—and not likely to inquiry, President Obama attended a $30,000-a-person _ foster resilience. Democratic Party fundraiser at the Palo Alto, California, home of Google executive Marissa Mayer. Also, 8. The Fairytale of Clean and Safe Nuclear Power Google's former head of public policy, Andrew Nuclear power presents a security threat of McLaughlin, joined the Obama administration as the unprecedented proportions. It's capable of a deputy chief technology officer in mid-2009. Other catastrophic accident that can kill hundreds of Obama administration officials include Eric Schmidt, | thousands of people with a byproduct that is toxic for Google's executive chairman, who millennia. To call nuclear power serves as a member of the President's "clean" is an affront to science, Council of Advisors on Science and common sense and the English Technology. Katie Stanton joined the . anguage itself, yet industry backers, administration as the Director of ...the American inside and outside government, are Citizen Participation after serving as a Psychological attempting to establish a new Clean Google project manager. The former 05 Energy Standard to promote nuclear ead of Google's global development, Association power. These proposals suffer from Sonal Shah, is now the head of the i hree fundamental misconceptions, levote articles White House's Office of Social _ hat: nnovation. These facts suggest that to detailing and 1) pollutants other than carbon he Obama administration may have a celebrating a dioxide are irrelevant when defining a conflict of interest in its handling of _ "clean energy’; he company's civil rights violations. USSII7 million 2) because radiation is invisible and 4 . odourless, it is not a toxic pollutant; colapration with 3) nuclear power is carbon-free. e rmy, None of these is true. 7. US Army and Psychology In the January 2011 issue of American Psychologist, the American ll d In its most recent report, Psychological Association calle . released in 2005, the US National devoted 13 articles to detailing Comprehensive Academy of Sciences determined and celebrating a US$117 million Soldier Fitness that no safe level of radiation collaboration with the US Army, called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF). It's being marketed as resilience training to reduce if not prevent adverse psychological consequences to soldiers who endure combat. exposure exists; every exposure to radiation increases the risk of cancer, birth defects and other disease. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepts the linear no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis, which states that any (CSF). Because of the CSF emphasis on "positive psychology", increase in the dose of radiation, no matter how small, advocates call it "an holistic approach to warrior results in an incremental increase in risk, as a raining". conservative model for estimating radiation risk. Criticism arose shortly after the initiative was announced. It included ethical questions about 9. Government-Sponsored Weather Modification whether soldiers should be trained to be desensitised to Rising global temperatures, increasing population and raumatic events, and methodological concerns about degradation of water supplies have created broad arge-scale programs similar to this which have not — support for the growing field of weather modification. worked or have had adverse effects in the past. Also The US government has conducted weather problematic is that this program is adapted primarily | modification experiments for over half a century, and tom the Penn Resiliency Program, which had very little the military-industrial complex stands poised to success with a non-military population. Now, on its first capitalise on these discoveries. rial run, it is going to train 1.1 million soldiers. How One of the latest programs is HAARP, the High- about trying it out on small groups of soldiers first? frequency Active Auroral Research Program. This The CSF program measures soldiers’ "resilience" in technology can potentially trigger floods, droughts, five core areas: emotional, physical, family, social and spiritual. The spiritual component of the assessment contains questions written predominantly for soldiers who believe in God or another deity. This means that tens of thousands of non-believers will score poorly and be forced to use religious imagery exercises that are counter to their personal beliefs—and not likely to foster resilience. Psychological Association - to detailing and celebrating a USSII7 million _ called Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF). 9. Government-Sponsored Weather Modification Rising global temperatures, increasing population and degradation of water supplies have created broad support for the growing field of weather modification. The US government has conducted weather modification experiments for over half a century, and the military-industrial complex stands poised to capitalise on these discoveries. One of the latest programs is HAARP, the High- frequency Active Auroral Research Program. This technology can potentially trigger floods, droughts, NEXUS 25 ...the American devoted B articles collaboration with the US Army, DECEMBER 2011 - JANUARY 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com