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Court offers Raila the best exit strategy to secure his legacy

In the 1970s, the US Military was convinced that they could use psychic powers as a weapon, especially to enhance their intelligence gathering capability. They set up a secret project called ‘Stargate,’ which included a “Goat Lab” where their men would attempt to stare goats to death. This was the subject of the 2004 book by Welsh author, Jon Ronson, ‘The Men who stare at Goats’. Goats, as anyone would have guessed, simply refused to die merely from being stared at.

Common knowledge aside, the US Military simply refused to take the most obvious and time-tested way of killing a goat; slit the throat with a sharp knife. Well, you could also shoot it in the head. Because of how seemingly obvious this is, when men choose to stare at goats, we must ask why.

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