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A recently resurfaced CIA document, which was declassified in 2017, has shed light on an experiment conducted on May 22, 1984. The experiment—part of a larger program often referred to as “Project Stargate”—allegedly transported the subject’s consciousness back in time, approximately one million years B.C. Project Stargate was a secret U.S. Army initiative established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International. Its primary objective was to investigate the potential use of psychic phenomena, including remote viewing, telepathy, and psychokinesis, for military and intelligence applications, according to Daily Mail. The news outlet added,...

TPG deal in China at risk over dispute By Henny Sender in New York Published: November 20 2008 00:01 | Last updated: November 20 2008 00:01 TPG, the US private equity firm, risks losing a substantial investment in a Chinese leasing venture after a business dispute in which the company’s local staff called in police to remove TPG’s representatives, people familiar with the matter say. The difficulties that developed between TPG and local managers of Nissin Leasing (China), a subsidiary of Japan’s Nissin Group, underscore the risks of investing in China and come at a particularly bad time for the...

Portland General Electric has sailed past its first legal hurdle in breaking free from its troubled and broke parent, Enron Corp. Ignoring a letter from city officials saying Portland could pay more, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur Gonzalez on Thursday quickly approved the $2.35 billion sale of PGE to the Texas Pacific Group, a San Francisco-based private investment group with $13 billion in assets. Gonzalez's stamp of approval follows 10 months of intense negotiations among Enron management, its attorneys and creditor groups, said the company's managing director, Mitchell Taylor, during Thursday's bankruptcy hearing in New York City. "We're pleased the court...