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You are what you exfoliate

This is not a joke.  It is not science fiction.  It may be a beauty tip.

Turns out one of the CIA’s countless tentacles, its venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, has a stake in a US company producing cosmetic products that claim to erase blemishes and soften skin.

Clearista adImage: Clearista.com

Why?  It’s not enough for Big Brother to watch and listen to everything we do, say, write, or think.  He also wants to know what we exfoliate.

All in a day’s work for the Central Intelligence Agency, which never rests in its mission of protecting The Free World from democracy.  As the heading on their website proclaims: The Work of a Nation.  The Center of Intelligence.

Here’s the skinny from investigative journalist Lee Fang at The Intercept: CIA Funds Skin Care Products That Collect DNA.


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First, do no harm

“I have seen what happens when standards of decency, human rights and ethics are thrown out in a wave of totalitarian or government zeal.” Steven Reisner, member of the Council, American Psychological Association, and co-founder of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology.

Torture, Guantanamo

A shining moment: On Friday, August 7 in Toronto, Canada, the American Psychological Association voted to bar its 80,000 members from any further collaboration in ‘national security interrogations,’ ie torture by the American government and its agencies.

This historic shift was hard won, after a decade of grassroots organizing to counter APA executive deceit and collusion with the CIA.

Details here, in three short videos from Democracy Now!

A report on collusion between the CIA and the former executive of the APA, is here.

For a provocative critique of psychological/psychiatric abuse of power, see Bold Scientists.  An excerpt is here.  Scroll down to chapter 7, ODD.