http://www.epa.gov/cheers/"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."Frank Herbert
the mobilizing social force:
"And even though V.I. Lenin, at the end of 1917, in order to establish "strictly revolutionary order," demanded "merciless suppression of attempts at anarchy on the part of drunkards, hooligans, counterrevolutionaries, and other persons" – in other words, foresaw that drunkards and hooligans represented the principal danger to the October Revolution, with counterrevolutionaries somewhere back in third place – he nonetheless put the problem more broadly. In his essay, "How to Organize the Competition" (January 7 and 10, 1918), V.I. Lenin proclaimed the common purpose of "purging the Russian land of all kinds of harmful insects." And under the term "insects" he included not only all class enemies but also "workers malingering at their work" – for example, the typesetters of the Petrograd Party printing shops. (This is what time does. It is difficult for us nowadays to understand how workers who had just become dictators were immediately inclined to malinger at work they were doing for themselves.) And then again: "In what block of a big city, in what factory, in what village… are there not saboteurs who call themselves intellectuals?" True, the form of insect-purging which Lenin conceived of in this essay was most varied: in some places they would be placed under arrest, in other places set to cleaning latrines; in some, "after having served their time in punishment cells, they would be handed yellow tickets [such as prostitutes were given]"; in others, parasites would be shot; elsewhere you could take your pick of imprisonment or "punishment at forced labor of the hardest kind." Even though he perceived and suggested the basic directions punishment should take, Vladimir Ilych proposed that "communes and communities" should compete to find the best methods of purging.
It is not possible for us at this time fully to investigate exactly who fell within the broad definition of insects; the population of Russia was too heterogeneous and encompassed small, special groups, entirely superfluous and, today, utterly forgotten. The people in the local zemstvo self-governing bodies in the provinces were, of course, insects. People in the cooperative movement were also insects, as were all owners of their own homes. There were not a few insects among the teachers in the gymnasiums. The church parish councils were made up almost exclusively of insects, and it was insects, of course, who sang in church choirs. All priests were insects – and monks and nuns even more so. And all those Tolstoyans who, when they undertook to serve the Soviet government on, for example, the railroads, refused to sign the required oath to defend the Soviet government with gun in hand thereby showed themselves to be insects, too. (We will later see some of them on trial.) The railroads were particularly important, for there were indeed many insects hidden beneath railroad uniforms, and they had to be rooted out and some of them slapped down. And telegraphers, for some reason, were, for the most part, inveterate insects who had no sympathy for the Soviets. Nor could you say a good word about Vikzhel, the All-Russian Executive Committee of the Union of Railroad Workers, nor about the other trade unions, which were often filled with insects, hostile to the working class..."
(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. I, pp. 27-28.)
Like my friend's mom used to say to the unruly ones in the bunch
"You might try to get away with things, but you WILL get caught."
It's despicable what all goes on with the unruly "scientists" until they get caught, even in developing non-ionizing e-weapons and then how they are used against people. When microwave weapons are used against people, it essentially makes the water molecules in the skin vibrate fast enough to cause friction which of course causes heat. Think about what happens to your eyeballs.
Last night President Obama talked about making Libya's military stop hurting its citizens. He was very adamant about it. I wonder if he would feel the same about his very own FBI & CIA and about local level law enforcement harassment...even if he were informed of just the basic psychological tactics against people.
FYI to all - the US will be sending their electronic warfare crews over to Libya as soon as they get the green light, so it will be interesting to follow that in the news.
This study ... I cannot even put into words how I feel about it.
(1) the study intentionally exposed children to pesticides, (2) the study targeted low-income people of color, (3) the incentives to participate in the study amounted to coercion or undue influence, ... .
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"And even though V.I. Lenin, at the end of 1917, in order to establish "strictly revolutionary order," demanded "merciless suppression of attempts at anarchy on the part of drunkards, hooligans, counterrevolutionaries, and other persons" – in other words, foresaw that drunkards and hooligans represented the principal danger to the October Revolution, with counterrevolutionaries somewhere back in third place – he nonetheless put the problem more broadly. In his essay, "How to Organize the Competition" (January 7 and 10, 1918), V.I. Lenin proclaimed the common purpose of "purging the Russian land of all kinds of harmful insects." And under the term "insects" he included not only all class enemies but also "workers malingering at their work" – for example, the typesetters of the Petrograd Party printing shops. (This is what time does. It is difficult for us nowadays to understand how workers who had just become dictators were immediately inclined to malinger at work they were doing for themselves.) And then again: "In what block of a big city, in what factory, in what village… are there not saboteurs who call themselves intellectuals?" True, the form of insect-purging which Lenin conceived of in this essay was most varied: in some places they would be placed under arrest, in other places set to cleaning latrines; in some, "after having served their time in punishment cells, they would be handed yellow tickets [such as prostitutes were given]"; in others, parasites would be shot; elsewhere you could take your pick of imprisonment or "punishment at forced labor of the hardest kind." Even though he perceived and suggested the basic directions punishment should take, Vladimir Ilych proposed that "communes and communities" should compete to find the best methods of purging.
It is not possible for us at this time fully to investigate exactly who fell within the broad definition of insects; the population of Russia was too heterogeneous and encompassed small, special groups, entirely superfluous and, today, utterly forgotten. The people in the local zemstvo self-governing bodies in the provinces were, of course, insects. People in the cooperative movement were also insects, as were all owners of their own homes. There were not a few insects among the teachers in the gymnasiums. The church parish councils were made up almost exclusively of insects, and it was insects, of course, who sang in church choirs. All priests were insects – and monks and nuns even more so. And all those Tolstoyans who, when they undertook to serve the Soviet government on, for example, the railroads, refused to sign the required oath to defend the Soviet government with gun in hand thereby showed themselves to be insects, too. (We will later see some of them on trial.) The railroads were particularly important, for there were indeed many insects hidden beneath railroad uniforms, and they had to be rooted out and some of them slapped down. And telegraphers, for some reason, were, for the most part, inveterate insects who had no sympathy for the Soviets. Nor could you say a good word about Vikzhel, the All-Russian Executive Committee of the Union of Railroad Workers, nor about the other trade unions, which were often filled with insects, hostile to the working class..."
(Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. I, pp. 27-28.)
Like my friend's mom used to say to the unruly ones in the bunch
"You might try to get away with things, but you WILL get caught."
It's despicable what all goes on with the unruly "scientists" until they get caught, even in developing non-ionizing e-weapons and then how they are used against people. When microwave weapons are used against people, it essentially makes the water molecules in the skin vibrate fast enough to cause friction which of course causes heat. Think about what happens to your eyeballs.
Last night President Obama talked about making Libya's military stop hurting its citizens. He was very adamant about it. I wonder if he would feel the same about his very own FBI & CIA and about local level law enforcement harassment...even if he were informed of just the basic psychological tactics against people.
FYI to all - the US will be sending their electronic warfare crews over to Libya as soon as they get the green light, so it will be interesting to follow that in the news.
This study ... I cannot even put into words how I feel about it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1805023/