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Denied trade screening. Denied trade screening is the process of screening parties involved in both domestic and export transactions for the purpose of complying with the safety standards of the U.S. Government. Effective trade screening not only includes denied parties but also controlled products and embargoed or sanctioned countries.
Nintendo of America vice president Howard Lincoln, testifying before the U.S. Congress on the video game violence controversy in 1993 The Mortal Kombat series, particularly its "Fatalities", was a source of major controversy in at the time of its release. A moral panic over the series, fueled by outrage from the mass media, resulted in a Congressional hearing and helped to pave the way for the ...
MKUltra. Declassified MKUltra documents. Project MKUltra [a] [b] was an illegal human experiments program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used during interrogations to weaken people and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture.
In psychoanalytic theory, denial is a defense mechanism in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. The concept of denial is important in twelve-step programs where the abandonment or reversal of denial that substance ...
A Mark 77 bomb being loaded on an F/A-18 Hornet, 1993. The Mark 77 bomb (MK-77) is a United States 750-pound (340 kg) air-dropped incendiary bomb carrying 110 U.S. gallons (416 L; 92 imp gal) of a fuel gel mix which is the direct successor to napalm . The MK-77 is the primary incendiary weapon currently in use by the United States military.
Denial is a 2016 biographical film directed by Mick Jackson and written by David Hare, based on Deborah Lipstadt 's 2005 book History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier. It dramatises the Irving v Penguin Books Ltd case, in which Lipstadt, a Holocaust scholar, was sued by David Irving, a Holocaust denier, for libel.
Manipulation (psychology) In psychology, manipulation is defined as subterfuge designed to influence or control another, usually in a underhanded manner which facilitates one's personal aims. [1] Methods used to distort the individual's perception of reality may include seduction, suggestion, persuasion and blackmail to induce submission.
Active Denial System. The Active Denial System ( ADS) is a non-lethal directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military, [2] designed for area denial, perimeter security and crowd control. [3] Informally, the weapon is also called the heat ray [4] since it works by heating the surface of targets, such as the skin of targeted human beings.