Tony Blair's Govt Hires Psychics to Find Bin Laden

[AnnInLa]

via AmericaBlog, we learn that:

"Psychics were recruited by the Ministry of Defence to locate Osama Bin Laden's secret lair, it was claimed yesterday.

Newly declassified documents revealed that the MoD conducted an experiment to see if volunteers could 'see' objects hidden inside an envelope.



It is claimed the ministry hoped positive results would allow it to use psychics to 'remotely view' Bin Laden's base and also to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

However, after running up a bill of £18,000 of taxpayers' money, defence chiefs concluded there was 'little value' in using psychic powers in the defence of the nation and the research was taken no further.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=438062&in_page_id=1811

[Cabcere]

1. Wow.

When I saw that headline, I definitely thought it was from The Onion...scary how often that happens nowadays. :( Thanks for posting this.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Aha - I KNEW you were going to post this, and that...

other skeptics soon would join you, jesting with feeble wit.

- Presciently, PsychicHawk

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Don't worry, I had already whinged about it in the Skeptics group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=247x8538

[malaise]

3. These are the lunatics with WMDs

I need to jump off this planet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. We have used remote viewing as well

but folks, even if there is some potential in it, we really have no clue.

Wow, I'm just astounded

[Straight Shooter]

11. Operation Stargate, courtesy of the CIA

Efforts to determine intelligence applications for psychic abilities have centered around “remote viewing,” which is a purported clairvoyant ability to spy on distant enemies.

Operation Stargate was first brought to the attention of the American public by ABC TV’s Night Line news program on November 28, 1995. As a result of the program, at the request of the U.S. Senate appropriations committee, the CIA was asked to assess the project, which it had inherited from the Pentagon and had an operating budget of somewhere around 25 million dollars a year to determine whether more research would increase its efficiency and practicality.

The assessment concluded that despite its achievements as well as statistically significant results in the laboratory, remote viewing had not provided reliable operational applications in the collection of intelligence data for the purpose of national security.

However, the remarkable success that operation Stargate experienced in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s cannot be overlooked. The early successes were due largely to a group of six psychics known as “The Naturals.” Joe McMoneagle, a retired army intelligence officer, who claims that he left Stargate in 1984 after receiving a Legion of Merit award for “providing information on more than 150 targets that had been previously unavailable from other sources.”

http://www.webarticles.com/Education/Universities/Operation-Stargate-%E2%80%93-A-Closer-Look-at-a-Journalist-Work

This is not a joke. Russia engages in this, also.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Yep

and I incorproated the thing into my sci fi game

That said the Ninjas are said to also have the abiltiies as early as the 14th century

[Ignacio Upton]

5. Waahh?!!1?!1

:crazy:

[Liberal In Texas]

6. At least SOMEBODY is trying to find him. * isn't. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

7. "The answer is, Commander AWOL" - Carnac the Magnificent

Ed McMahon: "And the question is, who is unusually intimate with the whole Saudi bin Laden clan, and stands to keep his intimate cronies happy by not really going after Osama?"

[rock]

13. "Miss America"

"If a WMD is dropped, what do we hope it will do?" (A slightly updated rip-off of Carnac)

[LeftishBrit]

8. Blair uses psychics to determine all his policies, only most of them are the sort that wear suits

and refer to themselves as 'management consultants'.

And yes, it usually involves wasting a lot of taxpayers' money on stuff that doesn't work.

I assume that the psychics were fired after he'd spent the 18,000 because they didn't tell him that yes, Saddam has lots of WMD under his bed, and Bin Laden lives in Saddam's bedroom cupboard! Which is what he wanted to hear.

[Jeanette in FL]

9. I just sent helderheid a pm to help on this case

I am sure a little, ooga, booga, smooga, wooga, will help Tony out in his quest to find Osama.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Will they find out where Elvis is hanging out while they're at it?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

14. I think that they're going to have to use a psychic medium to find him. I think he's long

dead.

[Turbineguy]

15. They need to first shut down

the operation in the Pentagon that keeps ObL up to date of the latest plans.

[helderheid]

16. OOGA BOOGA SMOOGA WOOGA!

Should I send Tony a shirt?

:evilgrin:

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. "It's getting clearer..... ah! A resort in Bali!"

[gratuitous]

19. Only cost 18,000 pounds?

Talk about a bargain, and I'm guessing that nobody had to be killed or tortured to drill this dry well. Compared to what else the Brits and the U.S. have been doing, hiring psychics seems like a stroke of genius (talk about setting the bar low!).

[Cleita]

20. If they had used real psychics, they would have found out

that Osama is dead and the Bush administration knows he's dead. It's just convenient for them and the complicit Saudis involved to keep him "alive" in the collective minds of America and her allies because the fear of Osama is invaluable in helping to keep them in power and waging what is a very profitable war for the corporations involved.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. As opposed to the ones who chickened out, you mean?

How were they meant to get hold of 'real' psychics?

[Cleita]

22. I don't know and I don't care. It was a phrase to introduce the fact that

many well known psychics have claimed that Osama is dead, including some here at DU who post at the so-called moonbat forum. Ergo, I suppose I must be more careful in how I phrase things. Anyway they could have saved themselves all that money with a quick Google.

[marmar]

23. I think someone's a bit of a nutter....

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: