{"id":13719,"date":"2005-01-18T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/wacky-non-lethal-weapons-research\/"},"modified":"2005-01-18T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T23:34:00","slug":"wacky-non-lethal-weapons-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/wacky-non-lethal-weapons-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Wacky Non-Lethal Weapons Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to develop an &lsquo;aphrodisiac&rsquo; to spur homosexual activity among enemy troops but is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/01\/17\/arms.homosexual.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">hard at work on other less-than-lethal weapons<\/a>.&rdquo;  Other suggestions included &ldquo;using chemicals that could be sprayed on enemy positions to attract stinging and biting bugs, rodents and larger animals&rdquo; and &ldquo;creating &#8216;severe and lasting halitosis&rsquo; to help sniff out fighters trying to blend with civilians.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>So basically the taxpayers&rsquo; money was used to fund research into creating flamboyant, pungent enemies&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110597805446111493?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that &ldquo;The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to develop an &lsquo;aphrodisiac&rsquo; to spur homosexual activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other less-than-lethal weapons.&rdquo; Other suggestions included &ldquo;using chemicals that could be sprayed on enemy positions to attract stinging and biting bugs, rodents and larger animals&rdquo; and &ldquo;creating &#8216;severe &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/18\/wacky-non-lethal-weapons-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wacky Non-Lethal Weapons Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}