In mid 2008 it was revealed that the Us Department of Defenses Research center had asked a group of researchers. To conduct a strange experiment, the strange experiment range of ballistic cruise missiles or the astonishing speed of the new series of phantom jets, it wasnt pursuing Ronald Reagan star wars project in the 80s and it wasnt about the mysterious harp project and creating devastating earthquakes and the enemys lands either. Years long effort in the us army to create supermen and super women who could automatically reconstruct their body parts hadnt achieved any success and now the Us Department of Defenses Researcher had put something ordinary on the agenda. The research was about sleep, about setting sleep time and gaining control over it. What the bound wanted to find out was how it could manipulate soldiers. Sleep so they wouldnt get tired so soon, they would sleep less and of course fight more. In the 18th century, europeans had already got a penchant for both coffee and colonizing other countries. They took the seeds of the bitter evil fluid with them to other lands. The tropical countries near the equator had fertile plots of land as well as people who could work as slaves on those lands. The lands were supposed to supply the fuel the europeans, or in other words, european factories needed. Gradually, trading coffee and slaves became interwoven. The slaves were taken from less fertile countries to tropical countries. The high quality that coffee cultivated by them would directly go to modern european coffee houses. Coffee, slaves and money were the three sides of a triangle. The money side of the triangle would only benefit the colonizing countries that would somehow colonize the minds and bodies of their own countrymen as well. Trading two black items perched to top the list of lucrative businesses. It might be hard to believe, but today trading coffee is the second most money making business after oil. The scandal show that although the quality of producing coffee had improved a little, its dark and bleak history was as bitter as it was during the 18th and 19th centuries. Coffee might. Be more delicious than before, its presented to the customers in better and more colorful packaging, the companies that produce coffee compete with each other to supply coffee, but the common history of the coffee industry and the laborers on coffee farms doesnt taste any better and doesnt look any better compared to the era of slavery. The history is still as dark as a thick cup of coffee produced by a black slave. This scandal and similar scandals that have been revealed in recent years showed Something Else as well. Despite the bitter and shocking news, the number of customers in coffee shops hasnt decreased. In fact, coffee in todays world is more vital than we think, the rate of consumption isnt going to fade anytime soon. Today, coffee is inseparable part of the personal and professional life of workers. And employees worldwide, without coffee, you cant start a day or end it, but the thing is, only 6 hours after you drink a cup of coffee, its effects on your brain will be reduced to half. To improve your bodys function, you need to drink another cup of coffee to supply your brain cells with caffeine. In fact, the war between caffeine and the hours of the day is over one thing, sleep. Its obvious that if someone can sleep less, they can work more, and if they work more, the employer will make more money. Coffee is the weapon the capitalist system equips its employees with to send them to the front line in a battle with sleep every day. Its a daily war whose winner. Is clear from the night before. Owners of capital in the past centuries consider sleep as their most important enemy. They also have other weapons besides coffee and their arsenal to fight with. On december 31. First 1879, Thomas Edison was standing outside his lab in menlow park, new jersey, he was staring at the glamor in the eyes of the journalists in pitch dark at that night. After a while he raised his head and took a look around and extended his arms towards a lever. After he pushed the lever, hundreds of lights around lab and the dirt road leading to the lab turned on. All of sudden, the night and men. Park turned into day, what difference does it make who had stole the idea of making the lights from . The thing is, the attractive show won the hearts of the capitalists and got edison closer to his dream of establishing a large light bulb making factory in new york and selling his lights. That night, not many people thought that light could make a tangible effect on sleep. Of people in the world, after few decades though, as using electricity became commonplace, the concept night that used to be the and most appropriate time for sleep was dented. Besides the farm near the equator, the light emating from edisons pioneering spectacle was the other side of the capitalist double wamy, it cast a shadow on workers and employees. Having in the hospital i understand what that like, its just like been. Researchers at Oxford University have recently found that people on earth have been sleeping an hour or two average at least during the past half of a century. It means coffee and light have accomplished their mission. Mass production of toothpaste that release caffeine into the mouth and complementary pills and drinks that are supposed to help facilitate the entry of caffeine into body more objectively have had a surge in recenters. The interesting point is, as people sleep has been exposed to greater risks in recent decades, theyve come up with new solutions to tackle them. Some people call the solutions, the sleep industry, they include a large spectrum of products. The products which are at times costly are supposed to give people who are addicted to coffee a better sleep in return for. The money they earn, the sleep industry, like the coffee industry, has a whapping financial turnover, about 76 billion dollars annually, the duality in the capitalist system, inclination to create sleeplessness, and at the same time helping to tackle them doesnt look strange, who knows, maybe the stockholders of companies that produce smart pillows and mattresses for tighter slip, are the very owners of the farms that produce. Coffee and factories that make light bulbs, sleep, we all do it, but why . Sleep remains one of those remarkable puzzles, weve known the functions of eating, drinking and reproducing for thousands of years, however sleep remains a mystery. Why do some people ruminate all night, and other people, they see the pillow, theyre gone. The pattern of sleep among animals, like the birds that can remain awake for seven days, or a bird like common swift that sleeps only with one side of its brain, and of course, the sleeping habits of dolphins, elephants, toads and giraffes have attract attention of researchers, military institutions and capitalists. They try to study and mimic the lives of animals and manipulate human being sleep. The efforts are not related only to the recent studies by the pentagon. They date back to the post world war ii years. There is an unverified report from the late 1940s that says a soviet scientist conducted some secret experiments on human sleep. They wanted to understand the effects of sleeplessness and find a definitive way to stop sleep. They promise five Political Prisoners freedom and lock them up in a sealed room that was filled. With a chemical that stimulates sleeplessness, after over a week, some things happened that led to the deaths of two of them. The others were afflicted with serious irreparable physical harm and caused the conflict between the researchers and inmates. Although the narrative was never officially confirmed, efforts by the us in the following years confirmed that research on sleep and depriving the soldiers of sleep to prove their function were a reality. Using the lsd psychedelic drug, a 12 billion pound investment to create biological soldiers and widespread prescription of stimulant drugs and the magnetic stimulation of the skull. Are just few of their numerous efforts to materialize the dream of creating super soldiers who do not sleep. Meanwhile, the media have been largely advertising copy in recent years along with phenomena like artificial light in order to prove that sleeping less necessarily means more success. This is a frequently quoted myth and success conferences about successful people. To make more money, you have to sleep less. The fact that successful people sleep less is a claim that only capitalist like edison favor. Edisons business took off the ground after electricity was invented. Hed always say people should sleep less about three hours a day and not more. He used to say, in fact, that sleep is the inheritance of human beings from cave dwellers. It was obvious why he was saying that, the less people slept, the more they use his light bulbs. Now, nearly a century after edisons death, some people still favor his words. Reed hastings, the ceo of netflix, has recently said an interview, our main rival isnt other online streaming companies, but the number of hours that subscribers sleep. Whether we believe like edison, hastings and their capitalist buddy, that sleep is heritage from cave dwellers or oppose them, the fact not be refuted that coffee, or in fact caffeine has today turned into an essential need of human beings. According to a survey by food and chemical toxicology journal, 85 of the Us Population drink at least one caffenated beverage every day, and even if we dont drink coffee, we shouldnt feel complacent. The bad news is, caffeine isnt found only in coffee, you can find caffeine everywhere, chewing gums, toothpaste, tablets or even energized Sunflower Seeds and of course, more importantly in drinks like cocacola, whose secret and magical caffeinated formula gradually causes addiction. Is caffeine addiction really a Mental Illness . Well really technically it is. Ill explain, the dsm4 lists all diagnoses, all psychiatric diagnoses, things ranging from schizophrenia to depression, anxiety. Included in that has always been substance related issues, whether its alcohol. Or cocaine or heroin abuse or withdrawal, caffeine is a drug, and when you have those symptoms of withdraw, it is also included in the classification. Since caffeine changes the metabolism pattern in our brain, if we want to stop Drinking Coffee or other caffenated drinks, our body will start showing negative reactions, headaches, stomach aikes. Double vision, anxiety, depression, and similar complications. If you are really addicted to caffeine and then you suddenly stop, you have to to fall into this dsm category, you have to have three out of five uh different symptoms, they include things like depression, headache, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and even some flu like like symptoms, muscle aces and pains. The process of caffeine withdrawal is exactly like the. Process of stopping to take any kind of drugs. A researcher studied the effects of caffeine on his own body. At the end of his research, he concluded the caffeine is soft drug, soft, universal drug. Um, i actually at one point was up to pot of coffee a day in medical school. Really, i had just built up this huge tolerance. I went cold turkey, and this is why i believe in this diagnosis. I was definitely physically and even mentally ill. I felt horrible for a week. Well, you obviously did well in the exams though. Yeah, thats all that matters, yes, really, you got to keep my priorities together here. In the final days of 1963, two american teenagers decided to work a project about sleep for their school, chose the long nights of winter during the new year to break the record of going out sleep and study its effects on themselves. Theres turned the medias heads. Few months after the assassination of john f kennedy, which had become a frontpage story for all newspapers, the 17yearold randy garden sleep deprivation experiment had made headlines in america. Soon a physician affiliated with the pentagon went to him and monitored his activities. He and one of his friends spoke to randy. After 11 days and 25 minutes of remaining awake and setting the record, he was trans. Transferred to facilitated us Naval Hospital in a special ambulance so they could monitor him and his brain waves. The initial results indicated that after several nights randys sleep had gone back to normal and surprisingly he got up and went to school, but later on the project, some other results that were paid less attention. Randys brain was taking a napping all that time and his activities were done habitually and subconsciously. But after few years it was revealed that Randy Gardner was suffering from insomnia. Apparently there was no way to beat sleep without damaging the brain. What was inside the cups on the desks. The Us Defense Department researchers finally help them answer the question, how can we keep the soldiers awake . Like the history of coffee, the answer would help the researchers use other people. The revelation of the results and goals of the research by the pentagon, in fact confirm jonathan crarys claim in his book that sleep is natural barrier for abusing human beings, a strong barrier against the capitalist. Nocturnal colonization, the colonization fervently pursued by the pentagon, starbucks, nesley, netflix, and even factories that produce mattresses and light bulbs. As the berlin wall collapsed in 1989, soaded the once great superpower of the soviet union, the communist party leader michael gorbachov, ustured in new era of openness with the west. By 1991, pedastroika was failing and along came the new russian states first president , boris yeltson. This documentary tells the story of the eight years of yelson. Leadership under russias attempted transition from communism to capitalism, it is an often tragic store the fall of once proud superpower, the hardships of millions of ordinary people, and the ride new breed of ultra rich oligarchs, it is also the story of how russia has become the state it is today. It all started in 2019, uk marines illegally seized an oil cargo off the coast of gibraltar in july that year. They evoked suspicions that European Union sanctions on syria were being violated. What happened then was that iran decided that it could use levers of its own. The country was in control of major passage way, the straight of hormoz, through which dozens of oil tankers pass every day. If countries could evoke their domestic laws to seize iranian ships or shipments, iran could use International Law to sease wayward ships. After all, vessels could be seen violating International Regulations in the straight of hormos. This is look at how the british and other seazures of iranian oil in high seas has opened a new front in the western
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