#580 Book chapter 1 Humiliation, targeting pride and shame as a form of attackI'm going to write a book of this modern day COINTELPRO and how covert psychological warfare tactics and non-lethal directed energy weapons are used on unsuspecting people to control society, industry, profits, as revenge and above all as government liability by the rich and powerful.This subject is one most people won't talk about, it may be one of the most effective forms of attack where the target won't speak of it, the attack and the attackers get away with little worry of being exposed because it was performed in a way to bring humiliation and shame on the target to silence them. It does always come down to profiling the target especially pride and when used world wide, religion, traditions and customs very much come into play.It seems like my targeting goes further back than I could have imagined. It has been coordinated by business, law enforcement, organized crime, leveraged criminals or semi-criminals and the unsuspecting participate using, "Psychological Warfare Techniques".Unsuspecting participants would include staged witnesses, people made to be in a place and situation where they as well as the target would be influenced or manipulation by the theater orchestrated in an attack. If you think about it our ddesissions and reactions are based on the situation at the time. Using theater with people all playing there parts others can be easily confused, influensed and manipulated. They can get away with murder and do.Another type would be someone who is attacked while the obvious actual intended target appears to be the obvious perpetrator of the attack (falsely). Like programming a Manchurian candidate.I have even seen someone who was a perp grooming a decent normal person to be a character witness. In other words acting totally different while having that person over and grooming them for thier role in the future.Here is just one experience using this tactic. Only by fighting through the shame, knowing who I really am did I find that this was organized and went quite far up into government.This involves and attack on me while drugged far beyond the maximum dosages of deadly medicines so it takes place with me physically and mentally near total destruction. Possibly as a kick in the ass before I died, just for spite.At this point I had been put out of business, my marriage had been sabotaged and broken up. I had been setup to be attacked by another TI pointed at me and falsely arrested all by police mainly from my own town but with some participation from police in other towns and states. After all that police had maneuvered the brother of two police into the second floor apartment I rented. He did the harassment while others had me under 24/7 surveillance. I survived that and evicted him and the covert surveillance team only for the surveillance to start up again from across the street.This culminated in a MEDUSA attack leading to hospitalization and involuntary commitment where I was tortured while in St. Joesph's mental hospital in Rhode Island.Part of that humiliation and outrage was to suffer a forced suicide attempt and torture in a place that is supposed to help the mental health and stability of the patient.After that police had continued the surveillance and gotten in touch with a mental health clinic to contact me since I didn't follow through with an appointment based on a bullshit diagnosis because I described the effects of the MEDUSA directed energy attack that I had described as a, "radiation attack"(documented evidence on mca and mcf. They had also gotten my regular doctor to refuse to give me my normal medicine for anxiety in an effort to leave me with this as the only to receive it. It might have been thought that because I was on anxiety medicine that this would work in their favor so I wouldn't speak out about the attacks, they were mistaken.The original doctor was a decent man and did continue the anxiety medicine and I began to recover from the trauma anf humiliation. Police were even sent to my home to see how I was doing. I said to them, "Do you want to see what I'm about"? I then showed them the giant sequoias I was growing here in Rhode Island, my koi pond and koi, pictures of me and my family going to California for vacation. They seemed sincere and I think they were, police had already seen to it that my guns were taken and probably wanted to see what state of mind I was in. I thought that maybe I could end this all out assault that was being waged against me and by proxy on my family. This seemed to show me all police, doctors, FBI and who ever else are not in on these attacks at least not at that time.It is always when there has been a lull in attacks and I let my guard down that the next subtle covert attack starts. That would be when Dr. M Rosenbloom had me transferred to her care. She started by cutting down my anxiety medicine, then introducing a deadly psychotic medicine. In small amounts it can be used for anxiety like 50 mg, but she continued to reduce the real anxiety medicine and increased the psychotic meds to 1,400 mg among numerous other meds over twice the maximum dose(documented).How easily the public can be fooled into trusting a perp doctor when most all of the other doctors have instilled a sense of well being and trust in the public. They use what we have developed as reactionary responses and trust against,"Us", the target.But this is how a staged, orchestrated beating is made to happen with humiliation and shame to keep the target quiet. This also helped wake me up to the organization and coordination behind the attacks.I began to go down to a park along the water and had met some people, they were a rough crowd that that had a few beers after work and on the weekends. I genuinely enjoyed talking with them about the giant ships passing by or the locals shell fishing for Quahogs. I met them when walking the beach looking for fossils and picking up trash in the process. As always I was trying to satisfy a desire to make it a better world.It was at some point that things had changed maybe as much as a year after meeting these people and being befreinded. The set up came when people who hung at Jerry's garage in the square began to come down to have a beer. It did occurred to me that these people hung out at the same place as this cop F. Hurley involved in my attacks. He had taken the porno evidence which had been put on my trash to sabotage and traumatise my wife's daycare customers and used to sit in the Riverside square at this gas station drinking all day. Later I had a problem with him during my divorce I filed a complaint against him. He was also the arresting officer in the false arrest and staged attack by the other TI who was harassed and told I had file numerous complaints against his towing garage that the police had actually fabricated. Police documents later had shown the police had put this man or TI under investigation. This cop also has relatives on the force and one I was told was a lawyer for police. Recently I found out that he lives across the street from my brother-in-law and had fed them garbage about me to my in-laws sabotaging my reputation and marriage.Here is how it went down on this night everybody was drinking beers off to the side a bit. I knew police had everybody here under surveillance we were being watched by police. i should have wondered why some people can drink beer and get tickets fixed while I live in the other extreme, believe it or not this cop had told people about the police surveillance and that is how I knew. Of course I knew I was always under surveillance as a reality of my existance. I believe moving off to the side took us out of view of this surveillance so I could be set up by police. These people all had a tattoo on the inside of their lip. It didn't matter what it was but they all had one on the inside of their lip. This girl who happened to be the wife of the brother of the owner of Jerry's garage was teasing me. It seemed harmless, she kept showing me a tattoo of something on the inside of the bottom of her lip. Everybody was busting balls. It was definitely a rough crowd but I had always felt I could hang with anybody and never tried to judge them whether they were dock workers or executives. I guess it was a fish hook but I couldn't make out what it was and kept asking her what it was and she would just show me it.So at one point I asked was it an arrow and suggested it might indicate the direction of a body part. This would be the humiliation on my part for a stupid comment, and she flipped out trying to attack me. Maybe it is a gang sign or an identifier for perps? it could be that showing me it was meant as a threat of some kind I really don't know. I turned away and moved away as others tried to intervene.As I look back to my teens and early twenties I had been attacked by the captain of the football team two years older and a college wrestler both times from the behind in a sneak attack. The football payer got a broken jaw and the wrestler didn't do much better. This time I got hit from behind while turned the other way by one of the guys with her. I don't remember anything until sitting on the ground and being kneed and kicked in the face. Then they left, one person was saying don't worry about it, it happens everybody gets there ass kicked. I guess that is where my pride comes in because this wasn't the case with me at least since 12 or so.Then they came back with her husband and others, as he charged at me I tagged him and his teeth went flying and then someone jumped on my back and before I knew it I was on the ground getting kicked in the face again. It reminds me of those gang initiations although I wasn't being initiated.By the time I got home I realized that this was another set up, I was pissed and called an ambulance. I needed a few stitches and I was going to document this. All the while I felt the sting of humiliation for my crude words and damaged pride for getting my ass kicked. In my diminished capacity I didn't even realize I was close to dying from the medicine as it was, that would come later when I had something like a heart attack. At that time the doctors didn't say a word butb two women had come in to my hospital room and told me I was being killed and that if I didn't get off the medicine I would die. It was only then that I changed doctors and secretly began cutting the meds. Iy was then that I began putting everything together.I will post pictures of me on the groups that aren't public like mca and mcf of my face and a blood soaked shirt. Later a criminal cop wrote a police report for me in my name to stop me from filing a complaint. they had this guy all set up to play his part. he was later convicted of doing this to someone else and is no longer on the police force. Internal Investigations told me this when trying to file a complaint against him. They also told me they couldn't discuss him with me and could'nt tell me why. This was also when they suggested I write a book.What this incident did do was tell me how far up in government this went in my town, state and federal government. How they would use the media to manipulate the public and attack other to try and silence me. I found out that I and others in my town all had problems with police brutality and corruption and a crowd was gathered and ready to speak at a council meeting when another woman passed around a flyer to bring everyone together at this meeting. Only she and I would speak and I held up the bloody shirt in defiance to police. Next would come a political, law enforcement and news campaign to cover everything up and gather all the names of the people at the meeting, those who called the town hall when it was said the town Manager would look into it. I was quoted in the news paper and the fact that I held up the bloody shirt at the meeting had the town managers secretary tell me she had never gotten more calls in her life. still the town manager wouldn't take my calls even when the council had asked him to look into my accusations. Later town officials and police would invite the other woman who spoke to a meeting and grill her for names.I will go on with this in #580b,c up to z if needed as the attacks continued against me and others to silence me. The town and police never called me in to try and grill me. I am forever denied the right to speak or file charges or complaints. I did file to speak at the next meeting and catch the town manager lying though his teeth in a coverup and hiding that the cop who had already been convicted and that I meantioned had already been convicted attacking people for my town by filing false reports charging them with crimes. I have the meetings recorded and many news articles relating to this series of events and am only now understanding the importance and relevance. It has taken time to recover from the massive drug attack and I will likely never fully recover. If I'm even allowed to live long enough to finish this out, but I'm going to try.Peter Rosenholm
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Reality media never frames anyone is a positive light, there is always the dark, dirty little secrets, dirty laundry that they need to report on, throw out there like a net and hope to catch people’s eyes enough to buy their bullshit.There is an established status quo that these people maintain and uphold, and the moment that someone steps out of line, that person is put up on the chopping block and disseminated, picked apart, torn to sheds, usually right before everyone’s eyes.With the passing of Michael Jackson, this is a good time for the media to take a good hard look at itself and the kinds of ways their words, pictures and depictions have harmed an icon to the point of breaking him for good in death. But, what do you we see? We see Yahoo, now, not even 48 hours after Michael’s death, talking about all of his dirty laundry, questioning his every move over the past 2 decades, framing him in a negative light.The media will go on a witch hunt of anyone they think shies away from the cameras, their prodding, and they will not stop now, even after death, I’m sure they will continue to stalk Michael’s children and try to draw up any abnormality, drug use, or falling by the wayside that they can then blame Michael for.We need real change in this country, and I would love to see the every day people stop buying into all the negativity and back-biting and sordid preoccupation with stars and officials and people like us, targets.
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I support the worldwide campaign "Stop the (secret) Abuse of Mind Control Weapons/ Directed Energy Weapons/Manipulation weapons on Civilians".I am a Victim of mind control /Harassment /directed energy weapons /Organized Stalking and Torture.I am a man come from China. My Nationality is Chinese. I realized to be attacked on May, 1986 when I was a university student in HeFei, AnHui Province of China.受害案件的事实陈述受害23年了。从1986年到2009年的今天我每天24小时都处于被人偷窥和控制中。起初只是跟踪骚扰，以后上升到虐待，威胁到个体的生存。1986年5月在中国安徽省合肥市，初次意识到我被跟踪。我当时是一个大学毕业班的学生，年龄23岁。案中对受害人的残害方式是古往今来绝无仅有的，案犯对受害人所“造出”的痛苦也是常人无法想象的，更让人毛骨悚然的是这些人扭曲的内心和变态的人格。是谁？为了什么目的？能有耐心在这么长的时间里对我进行迫害目前还不得而之。这种迫害和常规直接面对面的、可以申辩的、知道原因的施暴相比。非常诡异，难以察觉。案犯躲在无法知晓的地方，对我的身体和思想进行远距离控制。起初感到个人的隐私被偷窥，后来感到被跟踪。慢慢感到周围的人和过去不一样了，各种外来错觉扰乱了我的感觉。身体也有被控制的不适。主要危害表现在几个方面：1.控制你日常的喜怒哀乐情绪。2.强行控制你的思维功能，虽然它们不能决定你思考的具体内容，但能通过控制大脑神经限制阻断你的思考。它们不仅要控制你的情绪，还要尽力让你的思想符合施害者的意图。当你在思考问题时，它们会经常闪断你的思路，堵塞你的大脑，等你的思想进入它们需要的内容后就通畅了，这是它们常用控制手段。3.影响你的思想并间接导控你的行为，恶化你的人际关系。使你变得自闭。控导你盲目地往外地跑。4.他们控制你不协调，在吃饭时噎一下，喝水时呛一点，说话时突然卡住停了下来。四肢的动作不协调，走路摔倒。手工操作时，做出自我伤害的动作等。5.制造正常状态下身体的疼痛，腹泻，呕吐等。强化你身体的不适感。这么多年来，和我没有利害冲突的案犯对我施害的目的似乎就是为了控制我，和发泄他们自己的情绪。国家领导人换了好几代了，我住得城市也换了好几次了。他们不知羞耻的，谁当政，就说是谁让他们来害我的，标榜他们可以无法无天。由于案犯作案手法超出常规，取证比较困难。他们作案的特点是24小时跟踪骚扰，给调查带来了一个思路。2003年9月8日浦东出至2004年6月29日乌鲁木齐入在莫斯科留学期间他们也跟去了，由于同航班只有几百人，通过海关记录或许可以查出案犯。2007年7月2日黑河出至7月3日黑河入到俄罗斯旅游，2009年1月26日东兴出至1月29日东兴入到越南旅游，案犯也高高兴兴的跟去了。值得欣慰的，通过神奇的互联网，知道了这世界上还有许多和我类似的受害者。当自己不是唯一的时候，就有了惩罚案犯的帮手。当更多的人发出呼救的时候，说明了问题的严重。姓名Name: jamesroad国籍Citizenship: 中国China 安徽 合肥受害年月日Year Torture/Abuse Began:1986年5月电子邮件Email: sy2050@163.com我支持世界性运动, "制止远距离操纵身体和大脑控制（精神控制）武器对平民的酷刑虐待"。我是一个远距离骚扰/大脑控制/定向能武器/有组织跟踪和酷刑虐待的受害者。我目前的地址和联系方式:广东省珠海市 qq:429335699 手机：15812708601我目前的职业: 自由职业
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You've got some pretty good ideas there, especially with the inclusion of things, concepts and devices not yet invented or conceptualized. The text of your statement needs to be rewritten though, to be taken seriously by any member of congress, let's face it, some of our ideas sound pretty far out, you need to correct misspelled words, grammatical errors and contextual errors. As much as I would like to, I can't very well sign on to the petition in it's present form. I would like very much, however, to further discuss some of these issues at length, in the eighties, and through Desert Storm I was a military intelligence analyst in the U.S. Air Force.Thanks,JB
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Posted by treelaw45 TI on June 27, 2009 at 12:27pm
#579 Kurt Vonnegut/Basically what is happening and where it might leadMarshal law may be how they are getting away with this although I never heard it declared. I think it is control, monitoring and punishment of anyone tagged with a label. Like difficult, dangerous, whistle blower, radical, subversive etc. Of course this is like an assassination but you are tortured until you kill yourself or do something or are setup to be put in the mental health system. There you can be imprisoned as punishment, drugged to submission or oblivion or even drugged to death.My police were written up in the early 1990's by a human rights watch group as the worst police other than New Orleans based on complaints. now if some one makes a complaint of tries to sue the city or police they are attacked by police. With surveillance they can arrest a good number of people on criminal charges. Myself and another person in my town were setup and falsely arrested. The other person's mother was killed in a police chase and he was in a comma for two weeks and suffered brain damage. both he and I had the same officer right up false police reports.I wonder if this cop is working for home land security or just part of a political criminal organization. In either case he was essentially liability protection for police and my town through what we would consider criminal actions. A Justice department writing of two hundred pages basically said that when promoting non-lethal weapons for law enforcement. This officer got convicted and I spoke of what he did. Internal investigation wouldn't allow me to file a complaint against him. The town council protected him and kept the knowledge that he had been convicted already from me. He won an appeal three days later after the council meeting.Now a state Trooper is the temporary chief of police because police keep killing people. Because of an earlier killing they were suposed to notifify the state police and attorney general in the event of another death but they fail to do that in the last beating death by police. Once they realize that they can do what ever they want then they do. Bodies are beginning to pile up and mine could have been one of them.On the other hand the same police telling me they are unable to talk about the officer convicted and now off on an appeal also tell me they are under increasing surveillance by there own camera's. Of course yhey are not allowing me to file a complaint.Take your self out of it for a moment and follow this to it's conclusion where all people and police are chipped monitored and punished on the spot by computers. No jails, if you commit a capital crime you have a heart attack on the spot. If you talk about the control you are punished. No police, they aren't needed except for a small just in case group. If there is a riot everyone feels a burning sensation until the go home(ADS), then a longer term punishment begins of curtailment of freedoms.Take it further and computers become sentient and they control us, We are slaves under total control. We maintain them and produce what they feel is required. Then the problem will be to stop the slaves from killing themselves until there are no more.There are other scenarios like more advanced chips are put in our heads and our thoughts are partly programming so we never have an unregulated thought again. Maybe we will have the feeling of happiness when we complete a task as reward and we become happiness junkies. If only Kurt Vonnegut was alive to write this one, he would probably have better insight than me. Of course all his books and stories will be out lawed in the future. < ;-)Peter Rosenholm
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Signal to NoiseCEI's Technology Policy DigestJune 25, 2009The National Broadband DebateFCC's National Broadband Plan for Our Futurehttp://broadbandcensus.com/2009/06/at-mondays-deadline-industry-advocacy-groups-weigh-in-on-fcc-broadband-plan/CEI's Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia Weigh Inhttp://cei.org/rcandtestimony/2009/06/08/cei-comments-national-broadband-plan-our-futureCEI in the BlogosphereFTC to Monitor Blogs for Undisclosed Compensationby Elizabeth Jacobson"The FTC. . . wants to extend its reach to Twitter and other social media services. Perhaps Twitter will have to increase its 140-character limit if users who tweet about a product will be required to include a “#CompensatedReviewFTCCompliant” hashtag."http://www.openmarket.org/2009/06/22/ftc-to-monitor-bloggers-for-undisclosed-compensation/Wasteful Regulationby Merin YuIn an attempt to soften the effects of this regulation, the government had the idea of offering $40 coupons to offset the costs of a converter box (which can run up to $80) that would be necessary for older televisions to continue to function. However, as of January 4, 2009, more than five months before the switch, the government had already run out of coupons. Estimates suggest that 1 in 4 households will dispose of a TV, many of them in perfect working condition, due to the switch to DTV.http://www.openmarket.org/2009/06/17/wasteful-regulation/U.S. Senate Investigates Mobile Phone Exclusivity Dealsby Elizabeth JacobsonIt’s far from clear that mobile phone exclusivity agreements have made the marketplace less competitive. More dubious still are claims that exclusive agreements are hurting consumers. Were the FCC to declare that exclusivity contracts are somehow anticompetitive, then the effort to benefit a few consumers would result in slower innovation, higher prices, and less overall choice for all consumers.http://www.openmarket.org/2009/06/21/us-senators-all-consumers-have-a-right-to-own-an-iphone/One Policy, One System, Universal Serviceby Jack O'ConnorToday, as the FCC invites comments on “a national broadband plan for our future,” no one seriously believes that telecom monopolies are a good idea. Even pro-regulation advocacy groups like Free Press now support “competition policies"http://www.openmarket.org/2009/06/15/one-policy-one-system-universal-service/Export Controls: Impediments to Tech Free Tradeby Alex HarrisLaws ostensibly designed to prevent terrorism and proliferation in fact control way more than weapons and chemicals - indeed, they regulate even extremely mundane goods like servers, software with encryption, and the technical data used to design and build such products.http://techliberation.com/2009/06/18/export-controls-and-other-impediments-to-free-trade/In The NewsWoman Found Liable in File-SharingThe Wall Street Journal, 06-19-09Broadband Internet Fairness Act Introduced to CongressPeter Smith, ITWorld.com, 06-18-09Congressman Files Bill to Stop Tiered Broadband PricingStacey Higginbotham, GigaOM, 06-17-09AT&T and Verizon Deny Price-Fixing AccusationsMarguerite Reardon, CNET.news, 06-16-09Questions Senators Should be Asking Julius GenachowskiRichard Morrison, Competitive Enterprise Institute, 06-15-09Will Web Poker Bust Spark Fight or Flight?Liz Benston, Las Vegas Sun, 06-15-09Lawmakers Blast Internet Data CollectionAmy Schatz, Wall Street Journal, 06-10-09Senators to Examine Exclusive Handset DealsNancy Gohring, ITWorld.com, 06-16-09Why We Love TechnologyThe Military Application of the iPhoneBenjamin Sutherland, Newsweek, 04-27-09June 23rd is Alan Turing's Birthday--Read More About the Father of Computer ScienceWikipeida's bioThe Turing Test from the Standford Encyclopdia of PhilosophyRyan LynchDirector of Web Development and ITCompetitive Enterprise Instituterlynch@cei.orghttp://www.cei.orghttp://www.openmarket.org202-331-1010Aerial Weapons & C4ISR and EW at the 2007 Paris Airshowhttp://defense-update.com/events/2007/summary/parisairshow07systems.htm#moreAESA radars continue to capture the imagination and enthusiasm of designers and air forces, as their development progress and systems becoming more mature and reliable. While only a few systems actually work with full functionality on a regular basis, Active Electronic Scanning Array (AESA) provides virtually unlimited growth potential, due to its inherent agility (as a software controlled, electronically steering device), and design flexibility. Apart from its basic radar functionality, AESA can be used actively or passively, in support of a broad range of applications – including high power jamming, communications datalink or electronic intelligence (ELINT) sensor, passively employing its sensitive receive modules. (more...)Communicating by RadarTapping the potential of non-traditional Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Raytheon and L-3 Communications teamed to exploit data transfer applications of AESA radars. During flight tests conducted by the team, AESA radars were used to communicate high bandwidth SAR image map data at extremely high speed – far exceeding the capabilities of current fighter communication systems. Images were sent at a TV speed of 30 frames per second, from the aircraft to a ground based processing center. When image exploitation was completed, it was transmitted back to the aircraft, with the analyst's annotations.This capability demonstrates the potential uses of AESA radars with tactical and surveillance aircraft as well as unmanned systems. This new capability is poised to become a key element in the Global Information Grid (GIG), adding potential secure communication links that will increase the GIG's information gathering and decision making utility for all users. As these radars proliferate among operational units and the transmit-receive infrastructure grows, these capabilities will support an increasing array of applications such as combat identification and homeland security, areas where communications interoperability and data fusion are essential.Email this • Digg This! (7 Diggs) • Technorati Links • Subscribe to this feed • Stumble It! (2 Reviews) • Discuss on Newsvine • Save to del.icio.us (113 saves, tagged: military defense news)Going Net Centric now!The thrust for net-centricity and overarching control via datalinks has also some negative effects, as it overloads the limited electromagnetic spectrum resources, driving users into ever higher frequencies. One of the ultimate solutions is the use narrow-band laser communications, carrying broadband point-to-point communications between airborne or surface bound terminals and specially equipped satellite. (Laser communications between satellites is already in development). The advantages of laser communications are numerous – they are discrete, resistant to countermeasures, extremely difficult to intercept and are immune to conventional eavesdropping techniques. Since these links do not require frequency coordination, they can establish connection rapidly and can sustain high transfer rates (and operating at high data-rate (100 MB/sec - 1 GB/sec).Live communications via the Laser Optical Link (LOLA) was demonstrated during the Paris Air Show by the French Ministry of Defense' armament development and procurement agency (DGA). The exhibit was linked, via satellite, to an airborne Mystère 20 aircraft, transmitting live imagery captured on board. The display transferred live video from the cabin sending clear views of the countryside below. LOLA rapidly established links, within less than one second, and consistently transferred data at rates of 50 Mb/sec.Advanced Integrated Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (I-ISTAR) technologies, developed by Thales, highlighted an accelerated processing cycle of the Observation, Orientation, Decision and Action (OODA). Thales is developing the Aeros Recon NG recce pod as an airborne recce EO system for the French Rafale. The pod has already been qualified for the Mirage 2000 and will enter service with Rafale F3 by 2009 for the French Air Force and Navy. One of the new technologies demonstrated by Thales this year, is the "Imagery on Demand" (IOD) technology, enabling the dissemination of real-time optimized optical or SAR images over low-bandwidth battlefield communications. Such systems enable analysts and end users to share images processed by the Thales MINDS systems deployed in fixed or forward locations.Non traditional ISR is becoming a popular element in the planning and support of joint operations. At the Paris Airshow DRS described now Advanced Fighter Aircraft Command and control system (AFACE) pod system could establish real-time, worldwide air-to-air and air-to-ground modular communications and intelligence sharing network. Current FACE pods, carried on standard missile launch rails by A-10s, F-15s, F-18 and CF-18s have accumulated over fifty thousand flight hours, offering faster response to time critical targets and significantly improving low altitude communications, since they reduce the aircraft dependency on UHF/VHF repeater towers. The advanced version will be available in pod, or internally mounted configurations, providing real-time flight tracking (via GPS and INS). It will include a flight data recorder providing mission planning and debriefing functions. AFACE will introduce more versatile communications including secure voice and data, video, support conference calls and pilot dial-out. It will also include broadband Iridium link and WiFi connection. The system is offered with two add-on modules, supporting non traditional ISR and counter IED missions. The geo-referenced targeting mission module will establish geo-referenced imagery database on board enabling users to download relevant images according to their preference. The system will also support 'cursor on target' functionality, extracting accurate target coordinates for geo-targeted weapons. For the Anti-IED (electronic attack) mission, the system could be used to augment other EW platforms covering high priority missions, rendering select ground threats ineffective.The Russian Communications specialist Polyot unveiled some of the new capabilities, driving the evolving command and control infrastructure supporting modern Russian fighters, used domestically and for export. Polyot claims that aircraft supported by their encrypted, jam resistant datalinks can achieve up to 25% increase in combat effectiveness, by establishing autonomous fighter groups and reducing pilot workload. The systems support high speed data networks and use universal interfaces for integration, linking the aircraft avionics and ground based communications.A more autonomous 'pilot associate' style system was introduced by Elbit Systems. Called "On-Board Decision Support and Mission Planning System – ODSS, this system is designed to arrange, process and display to the pilot, the most relevant mission critical information necessary for optimal flight path decision. Based on operational expertise, experience and input from combat pilots, Elbit Systems established the ODSS knowledge-base, employing artificial intelligence system to analyze current mission data, tactical and geographical information, generating a recommended flight path designed for each mission profile. For example, ODSS can recommend an optimal flight path which leaves optimal space for evasive maneuvers in a segment of the flight path exposed to enemy threats. The system is used on the ground, supporting an automated mission preparation. While airborne, ODSS contributes to faster, more accurate and efficient decisions, based on the rapid and continuous analysis of multiple possible options.Precision Attack Getting Cheaper?Few new weapons were on display here. Much of the work is being focused on reducing the 'cost of precision kill' by introducing affordable, high precision guidance systems, and lighter weapons both contributing to more precise effect with less collateral damage. To enhance future, low-cost guided weapons, low-cost strap-down dual-mode seekers employing Semi-Active Laser (SAL) and Infra-Red (IR) guidance systems are developed by MBDA. These components will be used with powerful, low-cost computing and actuating systems enhancing future 'smart' munitions, including 68/70mm guided rockets, 155mm guided artillery projectiles and 120mm mortar bombs.Elbit Systems also unveiled a laser guidance kit developed for aerial weapons. In the past, the company developed laser guidance kits for the Wizzard guided bomb; these have now been miniaturized into guidance kits, fitting bombs as well as much smaller 68/70mm rockets, converting these into ‘metric’ precision-guided weapons. The kit, designated "STAR" improves the accuracy and overall effectiveness of attack missions as well as reducing collateral damage. The STAR guidance kit was recently selected by Boeing, to upgrade the JDAM GPS guided bombs.Sagem displayed the growing family of AASM guided bombs, including 2,000, 1,000 and 500 pound weapons. Another version, a 250 pound guided bomb is currently in development. AASM is scheduled to enter service with the French Air Force Rafale squadrons this year (2007). Boeing recently received $28 million contract to fit laser guidance kits to 600 existing 500 pounds JDAMS (400 for the air force, 200 for the Navy) by 2009 to meet a quick reaction USAF program.Fighting over GPS ControlGPS has become so common and natural, that we can’t think how we could live without it. But GPS is also highly sensitive to interference and deception, especially at war, when GPS jammers are employed. Such systems were shown by the Russian company Aviaconversiya, the same company that, in 2003, sold GPS jammers to Saddam Hussein. Aviaconversiya presented a range of portable / airborne and remotely controlled jammers called "Umbrella" that can cover a wire area disabling GPS services over the entire country. The employment of such systems will deny both friendly and enemy use of GPS guided systems, such as simple UAVs and GPS guided weapons (such as JDAM). "We don’t know how many systems were sold to Iraq, since they were procured by middlemen" Aviaconversiya executive told Defense Update, ‘but there were plenty of them. Until then, our biggest customer was the US government, buying our systems for evaluation and testing". He added.The Pentagon is certainly concerned about the vulnerability of its GPS systems. Several programs were launched to eliminate this capability gap. In particular, extensive work is in progress to improve the capability of the GPS guided Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) to overcome GPS jamming. In June 2007 Boeing announced the successful completion of developmental flight testing of its integrated GPS Anti-Jam system (IGAS) for JDAM. According to Boeing’s program manager for IGAS, Dennis Kast, "IGAS uses digital signal processing to significantly reduce the impact of GPS jamming, allowing the warfighter to use the weapon with confidence in a variety of battlefield environments". Boeing will complete the system’s development in 2007 and plans initial deliveries in 2008.Another GPS counter-countermeasure, designed to protect GPS navigation systems against enemy jamming and deception was unveiled by Elisra, a member of the Elbit Systems group. The system went through successful flight trials exhibiting smooth and stable functioning. Throughout the test the system successfully annulled powerful jammers with its advanced spatial null steering technology, fully meeting the tests’ complex jamming challenge. The system, designated iSN/V1 ensures on-board GPS receivers are generating reliable, uninterrupted GPS solutions. The system covers extensive geographical areas, providing immunity for multiple satellite channels and handling multiple jammers operating on concurrent frequencies. It is designed for operation on board any system utilizing GPS, including aircraft, helicopters and UAVsGetting to Zero Update25 June 2009Please note, BASIC and Crisis Action have a bi-weekly update devoted solely to diplomatic developments related to Iran's nuclear program, which may be found at the following web address: www.basicint.org/update/iran.htm.Previous editions of BASIC's GTZ Update are available here.To subscribe or unsubscribe from this update, please visit the following page: www.basicint.org/contacts/index.php.IN THIS ISSUE:* BASIC and Getting to Zero (GTZ)* Commitments to Disarmament and Arms Control* Country Reportso United Stateso United Kingdomo Irano North Koreao Russiao Pakistan* Missile Defense* Additional PublicationsBASIC and Getting to Zero (GTZ)BASIC staff have been meeting with officials in Washington and London while the U.S. administration is conducting a Nuclear Posture Review and the British government is facing pressure to reconsider moving ahead with a replacement platform for its nuclear weapon system. Martin Butcher authored a background briefing on the NPR for BASIC in an effort to inform European officials about the process. The NPR will surely have consequences for NATO's Strategic Concept Review, which the alliance has now started. Paul Ingram, BASIC's Executive Director, and Ian Davis, founder of NATO Watch, warn in this blog entry for the Connect U.S. Fund that NATO will need to pay particular attention to its relationship with Russia in order to allow the Obama administration to pursue fully its nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament goals.* Obama's Nuclear Posture Review: Putting flesh on the bone of his nuclear diplomacy (PDF)Martin Butcher, Getting to Zero Special Briefing, June 23, 2009 http://www.basicint.org/pubs/Special-NPR%20(3).pdf* NATO reform critical to the Obama Administration's nuclear disarmament agendaPaul Ingram and Ian Davis, Connect U.S. Fund Blog, May 1, 2009http://www.connectusfund.org/blogs/nato-reform-critical-obama-administration%E2%80%99s-nuclear-disarmament-agendaCommitments to Disarmament and Arms ControlPreparatory Committee for 2010 NPT considered a successDelegates to the third and final session of the Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) agreed on a provisional agenda for the 2010 Review Conference - the first time one has been agreed upon in 15 years. The agenda includes consideration of provisions to protect non-nuclear weapons states from nuclear coercion, the establishment of more nuclear weapon-free zones, operationalizing the right of each nation to develop peaceful nuclear energy, and measures to deepen nonproliferation and disarmament.Delegates failed, despite attempts, to adopt a list of specific recommendations for the RevCon. The first draft, released by the Chair on May 7th, recommended concrete steps to be taken toward disarmament, including reducing the operational status of nuclear forces, marginalizing their role in security policies, and refraining from their "qualitative improvement." But the revised draft, released the following week, watered down the disarmament proposals putting greater emphasis on the implementation of nonproliferation initiatives and highlighting the 1995 Resolution on the Middle East (for a WMD free zone). Demands from some non-nuclear weapon states that the nuclear weapons states agree to legally-binding commitments to dismantle their nuclear arsenals and not to use their nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states were rejected. Members failed to adopt the second revision of recommendations. Nevertheless, the Prep Com was considered to be successful - few had expected any concrete agreements at this point, and the stage has been set for 2010.Conference on Disarmament - FM(c)TThe second session of the 2009 Conference on Disarmament also experienced a breakthrough. Soon after U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's opening remarks on May 18 made reference to the encouraging political climate for disarmament, the Conference created a working group to discuss the development of a Fissile Material (cut-off) Treaty (FM(c)T). The White House released a statement by U.S. President Barack Obama declaring, "Today's decision ends more than a decade of inactivity in the Conference on Disarmament, and signals a commitment to work together on this fundamental challenge."STARTThe first round of substantive negotiations for follow-on to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was held in Moscow from May 18-20, with a second round of negotiations held in Geneva from June 1-3. The U.S. delegation was led by Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller, and the Russian team was headed by Anatoly Antonov, the Russian Foreign Ministry's Chief of Security and Disarmament. The United States reported productive meetings, and a Russian spokeswoman for President Medvedev said that a draft document to replace the 1991 START agreements may be ready by the July 6-8 summit in Moscow. Negotiators began their third round of meetings on June 23 in Geneva. START expires on December 5 of this year.IAEA continues selection process for a new Director GeneralThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has not yet selected a new Director General to replace its current Director, General Mohamed ElBaradei, who steps down in November 2009. Currently there are five nominated candidates for the position: Mr. Yukya Amano (Japan); Mr. Luis Echavarri (Spain); Mr. Abdul Samad Minty (South Africa); Mr. Ernest Petric (Slovenia); and Mr. Jean-Pol Poncelet (Belgium). Following April's elections when all candidates failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority from the IAEA Board of Governors, a secret non-binding "straw poll" was held on June 9, and Japan's Amano received 20 of the 35 votes cast, leaving him just short of the required two-thirds majority, and South Africa's Minty received 11 votes. A formal vote is scheduled for July 2, and will be repeated until a candidate garners the two-thirds requirement. Diplomats fear that a protracted election process combined with the North-South tension already prevalent on the IAEA Board could damage the Agency.U.N Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon launches the "WMD-WeMustDisarm! Campaign"On June 13, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon marked the 100 days leading up to the International Day of Peace on September 21 by launching a new U.N. campaign to "raise awareness of the true costs and dangers of nuclear weapons." Each day during the 100-day campaign, a reason why the international community should support nuclear disarmament is shared via Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and other social networking and Internet media venues. The United Nations Foundation has a 'We Must Disarm Declaration' open for signatures on their webpage to support the campaign. On June 15 Ban Ki-Moon issued a statement on the importance of expediently bringing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty into force. He appealed to the nations that have not yet signed and ratified the Treaty to do so as quickly as possible.Further ReadingIndonesia will Ratify CTBT if U.S. doesUPI, June 9, 2009http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/06/09/Indonesia-to-ratify-CTBT-if-US-does/UPI-14461244588906/Obama seeks global uranium fuel bankBryan Bender, Boston Globe, June 8, 2009http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/ 2009/06/08/with_eye_on_iran_obama_seeks_creation_of_world_uranium_fuel_bank/No Nukes: Possibility or Pipe Dream?The Editors, The New York Times Blog: Room for Debate, June 7, 2009http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/no-nukes-possibility-or-pipedream/The Renaissance of Nuclear DisarmamentAnthony Salloum, Embassy, June 3, 2009http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/salloum-6-3-2009Case for Ratifying Nuclear Test Ban TreatySamuel Berger, Sam Nunn, and William Perry, Politico, June 2, 2009http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23191.htmlAfter Iraq, it's not just North Korea that wants a bombSeumas Milne, The Guardian, May 27, 2009http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/27/north-korea-nuclear-weapons-usReport from the NPT Preparatory Committee 2009Miles A. Pomper, MIIS James Martin Center for NonproliferationStudies, May 26, 2009http://cns.miis.edu/stories/090526_npt_report.htmObama Treaty Push Hinges on Global Nuclear 'Listening' NetCharles Hanley, The Associated Press, May 19, 2009http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/05/19/obama-treaty-push-hinges-on-global-nuclear-listening-net.htmlDeveloping Nations Seek Assurances on Nuclear ArmsColum Lynch, The Washington Post, May 16, 2009http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/15/AR2009051503518.htmlThe Trouble With ZeroPhilip Taubman, The New York Times, May 9, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/weekinreview/10taubman.htmlTurkey to face pressure over U.S. nukes on its soilLale Sariibrahimoglu, Today's Zaman, May 4, 2009http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=174286&bolum=100Electing the Nuclear PopeCharles D. Ferguson, Foreign Policy, May 2009http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4913Grading Progress on 13 Steps Toward Nuclear DisarmamentSharon Squassoni, Carnegie Endowment, Policy Outlook No. 45, May 2009http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/13_steps.pdfBeyond START: Negotiating the Next Step in U.S. and Russian StrategicNuclear Arms ReductionsSteven Pifer, Brookings Foreign Policy Paper Series Number 15, May, 2009http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/ 05_arms_reduction_pifer/05_arms_reduction_pifer.pdfReshaping Strategic Relationships: Expanding the Arms Control ToolboxLewis A. Dunn, Arms Control Today, May 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_5/DunnU.S., Russia Agree on Path for New Arms CutsCole Harvey, Arms Control Today, May 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_5/US-RussiaThe Logic of the Test Ban TreatyDaryl G. Kimball, Arms Control Today, May 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_5/focusConfronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World NuclearDisarmament MovementLawrence S. Wittner, Stanford University Press, California, 2009http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=9646Country ReportsUnited StatesSensitive, unclassified information on U.S. nuclear sites accidentally publishedOn June 2, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) accidentally published on its website a 286-page draft document that was prepared for the IAEA on the location and sensitive design details of U.S. nuclear facilities. Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists first reported on the FAS blog Secrecy News the appearance of the document. The GPO took down the report quickly although the document was not classified.Tauscher confirmation hearing for position in Administration's arms control teamRepresentative Ellen Tauscher (Chair of the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee) testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing considering her nomination as the new Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security on June 9. She said her immediate priorities will be negotiating a follow-up agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, the development of a Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, and the ratification and entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Tauscher reiterated President Obama's call for a world free of nuclear weapons, while confirming that the United States will "maintain a safe, secure and reliable deterrent against any adversary and an effective defense for our allies" while nuclear weapons continued to exist. Rep. Tauscher was still awaiting confirmation as of June 24.On June 1, Secretary of State Clinton named Robert Einhorn as her special advisor for disarmament and nonproliferation and Susan F. Burk was confirmed as the President's special representative for nuclear nonproliferation.Obama meets with Shultz, Perry, Kissinger and NunnOn May 19, the four Americans most widely associated with the current push for nuclear disarmament through their two notable op-eds in the Wall Street Journal in January 2007 and 2008, former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sam Nunn, and former Secretary of Defense William Perry, met with President Obama to discuss nuclear weapons strategy. Obama listed strengthening the NPT, pursuing ratification of the CTBT, and cooperating with Russia in arms reduction efforts as specific steps that must be taken to "lock down loose nuclear weapons" and, in the long term, eliminate them. "All four of us support enthusiastically what the president is doing," Shultz commented. After the meeting President Obama spoke with reporters:"I don't think anybody would accuse these four gentlemen of being dreamers. They're hard-headed, tough defenders of American interests and American security. But what they have come together to help galvanize is a recognition that we do not want a world of continued nuclear proliferation, and that in order for us to meet the security challenges of the future, America has to take leadership in this area."Senator John McCain also voices qualified support for a world without nuclear weaponsIn a June 3 speech honoring former President Ronald Reagan, Arizona Senator and former Republican Presidential candidate John McCain added his voice to the increasing number of U.S. politicians supporting the vision of nuclear disarmament. Quoting a Ronald Reagan speech from 1983, McCain said, "The only value in possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they can't be used ever. I know I speak for people everywhere when I say our dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth." The same day the White House released a statement by President Obama welcoming McCain's support of a "world without nuclear weapons" and expressing the President's commitment to working together with Congress on issues of arms control.Further ReadingNuclear PromisesZia Mian, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 4, 2009http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/6166Remarks by the President on a New Beginning (Cairo Speech)Barack Obama, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary,June 4, 2009http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052903108.htmlStatement of Thomas P. D'Agostino, Under Secretary for NuclearSecurity and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of EnergySenate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, June 3, 2009http://armedservices.senate.gov/statemnt/2009/June/D%27Agostino%2006-03-09.pdfThe Case for No First UseScott D. Sagan, Survival, Volume 51, Issue 3, June 2009, pp. 163-182(subscription or purchase required to access full article)http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a911401295~db=allNPR [Nuclear Posture Review] Terms of Reference Fact SheetDepartment of Defense, June 2, 2009http://www.defenselink.mil/news/d20090602NPR.pdfLots of Hedging, Little Leading: An Analysis of the CongressionalStrategic Posture Commission ReportHans M. Kristensen and Ivan Oelrich, Arms Control Association, June, 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_6/KristensenOelrichThe Hoped-For Laser MiraclesEditorial, The New York Times, May 28, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/opinion/29fri3.html?th&emc=thThe Test Ban TreatyEditorial, The New York Times, May 24, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/opinion/25mon1.html?emStatement of Secretary of Defense Robert M. GatesSenate Armed Services Committee, May 14, 2009http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2009/May/Gates%2005-14-09.pdfPosture Statement of Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN,Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffSenate Armed Services Committee, May 14, 2009http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2009/May/Mullen%2005-14-09.pdfTestimony on "NNSA's Fiscal Year 2010 President's BudgetRequest" by Thomas P. D'Agostino, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of EnergyHouse Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, May 13, 2009http://www.nnsa.energy.gov/news/2349.htmU.S. Warhead disposal in 15-year backlogPeter Eisler, USA Today, May 13, 2009http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-05-12-nukes_N.htmObama Administration is Bringing Nuclear Arms Control BackMary Beth Sheridan, The Washington Post, May 8, 2009http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/opinion/25mon1.html?emNuclear Bailout: The Costs and Consequences of Renovatingthe U.S. Nuclear Weapons ComplexWilliam D. Hartung, New America Foundation, May 7, 2009http://www.newamerica.net/publications/policy/nuclear_bailout_costsStrategic Failure: Congressional Strategic Posture CommissionReportIvan Oelrich, Hans M. Kristensen, FAS Strategic Security Blog,May 6, 2009http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2009/05/commission-2.phpDefense budget baloneyWinslow T. Wheeler, Politico, May 6, 2009http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22149.htmlUnited KingdomUK Commons Report suggests renewal of Trident could be seen as contradictory to UK goalsAfter receiving evidence from a variety of witnesses and groups, including BASIC, the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee published a report on June 14 on "Global Security: Non-Proliferation." It commended the British government for publicly acknowledging the connection between nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, but also stated that much more could be done. The Committee warned that the 2010 Review Conference could fail without "decisive movement by the five recognized nuclear weapons states as a whole on nuclear disarmament measures." It advised that the UK government's disarmament public diplomacy and transparency would be undermined by the decision to proceed full speed towards Trident replacement. This fall the British government is due to submit a full design contract [Initial Gate stage] for the new submarines. The report recommended, "that the Government should not take any decision at the Initial Gate stage until Parliament has had the chance to scrutinise the matter in a debate." The Committee also said that the Government should also come forward with an explanation of what it sees as a "minimum deterrent" posture and whether there are any conditions under which the Government "would be prepared to suspend the Trident renewal programme."Ministry of Defense confirms radioactive leakage from nuclear powered-submarinesIn April the Ministry of Defence released a report acknowledging multiple safety breaches at the nuclear submarine fleet's base at Faslane (HM Naval Base Clyde). The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has sought the right to inspect and control operations at the naval base and has sent "final warning" letters to the MoD, threatening to shut down nuclear operations at Faslane. The UK Government has refused to provide SEPA with direct legal authority, citing national security sensitivities.Further ReadingA naive approach to nuclear standoffHarry Phibbs, Comment is Free, The Guardian, June 18, 2009http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/18/nick-clegg-tridentNick Clegg says Lib Dems won't replace Trident because world has moved onPatrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, The Guardian, June 16, 2009http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/16/trident-liberal-democrats-nick-cleggBrown urged to review Trident proposalJames Blitz, Financial Times, June 15, 2009http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/311bb044-5944-11de-80b3-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1Global Security: Non-Proliferation Fourth Report of Session 200809Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, June 14, 2009http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmfaff/222/222.pdfTrident may be wrong size ... so we pay an extra GBP100mRob Edwards, The Sunday Herald, May 10, 2009http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20090510/ai_n31667649/IranPresidential electionThe current crisis within Iran, which has this last week included widespread violence, and the power struggle behind the scenes with an uncertain outcome, will have an enduring and fundamental impact on the international dispute over Iran's nuclear program. While all candidates have been committed to continuing the program, it is thought that the leading opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Moussavi, would be more open to diplomatic engagement with the West, and he has suggested that he would provide stronger guarantees that Iran's nuclear program is strictly for energy.Diplomacy, on hold prior to the elections, remains frozen. U.S. and European officials had hoped to receive an official response from Tehran to their invitation offered through Javier Solana to join the P-5+1 talks. During a diplomatic visit prior to the elections, French President Nicolas Sarkozy strongly urged Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki to support Iran's participation in the P-5+1 talks or risk increased international isolation. U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Rosemary DiCarlo reported to the Security Council that Iran has not officially responded to the invitation but, despite this, "The United States remains committed to direct diplomacy with Iran to resolve issues of concern to the international community and will engage on the basis of mutual respect." Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has also pressed Iran to respond to the invitation.IAEA report on Iran's nuclear programThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released their latest report on Iran on June 5, a week before the elections, that presented findings that were similar to previous reports: no confirmation of evidence of diversion; outstanding and unresolved questions; additional number of centrifuges added and greater stocks of enriched uranium accumulated; and an appeal to Iran to implement the Additional Protocol. Iranian officials again responded by reiterating the program's peaceful purposes and that they had cooperated with inspectors to the degree that is required of them.Ballistic missile testU.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates confirmed the May launch of an Iranian medium-range ballistic missile, the Sajjil-2, able to reach Israel and some of southern Europe. President Ahmadinejad had used the test to engage in aggressive electoral posturing during the Iranian Presidential Elections.Further ReadingIran Uprising Changes Nuclear CalculusJoe Cirincione, Huffington Post, June 17, 2009http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/iran-uprising-changes-nuc_b_216583.htmlIAEA Report on Iran: Centrifuge and LEU increases; access toArak reactor denied; no progress on outstanding issuesDavid Albright and Jacqueline Shire, Institute for Science andInternational Security, June 5, 2009http://isis-online.org/publications/iran/Iran_IAEA_Report_Analysis_5June2009.pdfIran Increases Uranium Enrichment Pace; Defies U.N. InspectorsJonathan Tirone, Bloomberg, June 5, 2009http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=azhpbOe1vsB8Agreement and relevant provisions of Security Council resolutions1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1835 (2008) in theIslamic Republic of Iran Report by the Director General, IAEA(available via the Institute for Science and International Security) June 5, 2009http://isis-online.org/publications/iran/IAEA_Iran_Report_5June2009.pdfU.S.-Iranian Engagement: The View from TehranInternational Crisis Group, Middle East Briefing No. 28, June 2, 2009http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/middle_east___north_africa/iraq_iran_gulf/b28_u.s._iranian_engagement___the_view_from_tehran.pdfFormer diplomat: Iran won't stop nuclear work (interview)Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2009http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-qa27-2009may27,0,7118239.storyIran's test could alter Europe's missile balanceNicholas Kralev, Washington Times, May 21, 2009http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/21/tehran-missile-test-stokes-debate/Iran's Nuclear Program: An Opportunity for DialogueKayhan Barzegar, Center for Strategic Research, May 2009http://www.csr.ir/departments.aspx?lng=en&depid=74&&abtid=06&&semid=1797Iran's Nuclear and Missile Potential: A Joint Threat Assessment by U.S. andRussian Technical ExpertsEastWest Institute, May 2009http://docs.ewi.info/JTA.pdfNorth KoreaNorth Korea Responses to North Korea's nuclear testOn May 25 North Korea conducted its second underground nuclear test in an effort to "bolster up its nuclear deterrent for self-defense." North Korea also announced that it is no longer bound by the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War and warned other countries not to disrupt or stop its ships suspected of transporting missiles and other weapons. The nuclear test also coincides with intensified speculation and rumors over the future succession to Kim Jong-il.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement which "strongly deplores the [...] underground nuclear test [...] in clear and grave violations of the relevant Security Council resolutions." The Security Council was swift to denounce North Korea's actions. On Friday, June 12, after extensive negotiations, the Security Council unanimously passed Security Council Resolution 1874, imposing heightened economic and military sanctions. The resolution also "Calls upon all States to inspect, in accordance with their national authorities and legislation, and consistent with international law, all cargo to and from the DPRK, in their territory, including seaports and airports, if the State concerned has information that provides reasonable grounds to believe the cargo contains items the supply, sale, transfer, or export of which is prohibited." As of June 24th, a U.S. ship was tracking one North Korean vessel, suspected of carrying illicit arms for Myanmar.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned North Korea's "belligerent behavior" and has indicated that the United States will consider placing North Korea back on its list of states that sponsor terrorism, in addition to developing a "mechanism [... to] interdict North Korean shipments." In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy, Ambassador Stephen Bosworth, reported that the United States remains open to diplomatic engagement, although there are no signs that North Korea is ready or willing to come to the table. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the U.S. is deploying its Terminal High Altitude Area and Defense (THADD) and Sea Based X-Band (SBX) radar off the coast of Hawaii. This announcement comes just days after a Japanese newspaper reported that North Korea may launch a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii, though many analysts doubt that North Korea has any with that range.Amid the controversy surrounding North Korea's weapons programs, two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were accused of illegally entering North Korean territory and sentenced to 12 years in a labor camp. American officials were quick to denounce the court's decision and called for the release of the two journalists on humanitarian grounds.Further ReadingNorth Korea: Getting Back to TalksAsia Report No 169, The International Crisis Group, June 18, 2009http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/north_korea/169_north_korea___getting_back_to_talks.pdfNorth Korea's Nuclear Program: Looking ForwardGraham Allison, Douglas Dillon, Martin Malin, Hui Zhang,Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, June 9, 2009http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/19105/north_koreas_nuclear_program.html?breadcrumb=%2FTesting the World's PatienceDaryl G. Kimball, Arms Control Today, June 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/2009_06/focusNorth Korea's Weapons TestingJohn S. Park, U.S. Institute of Peace, On the Issues: North Korea,May 28, 2009http://www.usip.org/on_the_issues/nk_weapons.htmlResponding to North Korea's Nuclear TestGareth Evans, The Age, May 28, 2009http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6119&l=1Next phase in the analysis of the announced DPRK nuclear testComprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, May 27, 2009http://www.ctbto.org/press-centre/press-releases/2009/next-phase-in-the-analysis-of-the-announced-dprk-nuclear-test/Analysts Worry Threatening N. Korea with Sanctions Could CreateEscalationAndre de Nesnera, Voice of America, May 26, 2009http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-05-26-voa51.cfmWhat to Do About North KoreaRobert Kagan, Dan Blumenthal, The Washington Post, May 26, 2009http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/05/25/ST2009052502476.htmlCommentary: North Korea blast is a test for U.S.Paul Carroll, Ploughshares Fund, CNN.com, May 26, 2009http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/26/carroll.korea.nuclear/index.html?section=cnn_latestNo Crisis for North KoreaEditorial, The Washington Post, May 26, 2009http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/25/AR2009052501505.htmlA path to peace with North KoreaMartin Butcher, Guardian, May 26, 2009http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/26/north-korea-nuclear-test-peaceNorth Korea Will Not Be IgnoredJoe Cirincione, Huffington Post, May 25, 2009http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/north-korea-will-not-be-i_b_207277.htmlRussiaRussia's National Security Strategy ReleasedOn May 13, five days before diplomats began their May 18-20 talks to prepare for the START negotiations, Russian President Medvedev released the new national security strategy detailing over-arching security challenges and policy priorities through 2020. The document [Russian] formalized energy as a key issue and important foreign policy factor, and promised to "make every effort to retain [nuclear] parity with the United States." Security Council head Nikolai Patrushev made clear after the release that NATO enlargement is a high security priority for Russia.Putin support for vision of world without nuclear weapons; while Commander has low expectations for START follow-on reductionsRussian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Russia could give up nuclear weapons if everyone else that had them did the same, during a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on June 10th. Steinmeier was reported to have focused heavily on issues of nuclear disarmament during his talks with Putin in Moscow and to have encouraged Russian President Medvedev and Putin to pursue improved relations with the United States and the European Union. On the same day, the commander of Russia's Strategic Nuclear Forces, Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov, was quoted as saying that Russia cannot cut its nuclear stockpile by more than a few hundred strategic warheads during START follow-on negotiations.Further ReadingNuclear Notebook: Russian Nuclear Forces, 2009Robert S. Norris and Hans M. Kristensen, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,May/June, 2009http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/h304370t70137734/fulltext.pdfThe Loose Russian NukesElizabeth Zolotukhina, GlobalSecurity.org, May 19, 2009http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/articles/090519345-the-loose-russian-nukes.htmPakistanPakistan augmenting its nuclear weapons programIn recent testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that Pakistan, which has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is substantially stepping up its nuclear weapons program, including the production of more fissile material. Congress is currently considering significantly increased civilian and military aid to Pakistan, as support for counterterrorism efforts, and Senators are seeking assurances the aid is not be spent on increasing the destructiveness of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The United States has provided funding intended specifically to address the security and safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, but has no control or clear audit ability to ensure the money is spent wisely. President Zardari, in an interview with Der Speigel, reassured those concerned that "the nuclear capability of Pakistan is in safe hands," but admitted that this was less certain if Pakistan's democracy were to fail. U.S. President Barack Obama said later in an interview with DAWN that he felt confident "that the Pakistani government has safeguarded its nuclear arsenal."Further ReadingAnother nuclear anniversaryPervez Hoodbhoy, DAWN, May 28, 2009http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/16-Another-nuclear-anniversary-hs-12ISIS Statement on Washington Post Report from May 28, 2009Institute for Science and International Security, May 28, 2009http://isis-online.org/publications/WP_Language_28May2009.pdfMissile DefenseMissile defense still hurdle in U.S.-Russian relationsThe U.S. proposal, involving ten missile interceptors in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic, is currently under review. Before Congressional budgetary hearings on June 9, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he believed American and Russian officials' assessments of Iran's missile program are now more closely aligned, and suggested that this may mean Russia becomes more amenable to a missile system based in the Czech Republic and Poland. Russian officials afterwards protested saying the plans were still unacceptable and must be abandoned. Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov, commander of Strategic Missile Forces, said they hope by 2016 to "modernize not only missile systems but also command-and-control systems in order to improve their ability to overcome missile defenses and increase the survivability of delivery vehicles." Poland expects a U.S. Patriot battery, part of a theater missile defense system, to be set up on its territory this year, regardless of the missile defense timetable. U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen was scheduled to travel to Moscow at the end of June to meet with General Nikolai Markarov, and they are expected to discuss the missile defense system.Gates proposes cuts to missile defense plansSecretary Gates has proposed budgetary cuts in missile defense systems in the FY 2010 budget. Roughly $7.8 billion will be allocated for missile defense programs, down $1.2 billion from the previous year. Cuts include the Multiple Kill Vehicle, the Kinetic Energy Interceptor, and Boeing's second Airborne Laser aircraft. The SM-3 and Theater High-Altitude Area Defense programs are due for increases in funding. Gates pledged that the Defense Department will continue to invest in augmenting defenses against long-range missiles.Further ReadingStrategic Missile Defense: A Reality CheckGreg Thielmann, Arms Control Association, May 21, 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/system/files/TAB2_5_21_2009_FINAL1.pdfHearing to receive testimony on military space programs inreview of the defense acquisition request for fiscal year 2010and the future years defense programTranscript, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, May, 20, 2009http://armed-services.senate.gov/Transcripts/2009/05%20May/09-32%20-%205-20-09.pdfSpace Security or Anti-Satellite WeaponsMichael Krepon and Sam Black, The Stimson Center Space SecurityProgram, May 2009http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/naic/NASIC2009.pdfAdditional PublicationsIran's Procurement of U.S. Military Aircraft Parts: Two casestudies in illicit tradeDavid Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel, Institute for Science andInternational Security, May 21, 2009http://isis-online.org/publications/expcontrol/Iran_Aircraft_ Procurement.pdfSteinmeier Calls for U.S. to Withdraw NukesOliver Meier, Arms Control Today, May 2009http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2009_5/SteinmeierThe Taming of the Great Nuclear PowersGodfried van Benthem van den Bergh, Carnegie Endowment Policy OutlookNo. 46, May 2009http://www.carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=23152&prog=zgp&proj=znppAn Opportune Moment for a Shared Euro-Atlantic Security StrategySimon Serfaty, Center for Strategic & International Studies, May 2009http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090506_serfaty_strategicconsensus_(2).pdfBallistic and Cruise Missile Threat ReportNational Air and Space Intelligence Center,Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, NASIC-1031-0985-09, April 2009(posted on the site of the Federation of American Scientists, June 2009).http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/missile/naic/NASIC2009.pdfPlease forward this email to individuals and organizations offering them the opportunity to subscribe to BASIC's Getting to Zero Update. 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The struggle for freedom,Will always defeat them.A lie is a lie andtruth is a path to the open sky.I believe in youand I believe in meAt that point we have reached the top of a most grand treeThe highest point nearest to GodA church does rise.A church where angels singand do ringA bell of truth is knownto both God and man.The liars have passedinto no man's land."You Shall know the truth, and the Truth shall set you free" JesusYou can go on,give it another try.The power of your youth is strong,and as big as the sky.Search all over the valley,Climb the mountains and you’ll see...Believing in yourself sets you free!(c)Ron AngellCamper Van Beethoven-"She Divines Water"Camper Van Beethoven- " Pictures of Matchstick Men (live)"Our shadows embrace and disappear in light We seek darkness to hold each other tightWithin our thoughts we do dreamWondering if awake we will gleamOur shadows are close and do transmitThe energy of lives that ask for us to commitAs shadows represent a silhouette of our livesWe always will strive to stay aliveAnd unlike our shadows that disappear at noonWe always will remain there for each other and swoonwhen my shadow meets yourswe draw ever closer on the floorsTwo shadows combine as oneOn top one another in forever funNight does fall and our shadows do growin the moonlit night we will flowGrab the shadow todayand embrace me right awayDay and night our shadows combineDay or night our shadows climbOnly at noon does our shadow almost disappearand at that moment know I am most near(c)Ron P AngellCamper Van Beethoven- "Sweethearts" Fires do start slow at firstFires sometimes need to be nursedI cover you with me and the fuelof our souls are the energy.blowing wind from heavens abovesupply the oxygen within our loveA tremble from within youmagnifies into a quake within meOur energy of "us" turns into a firewithin is ultimate love and desireOur senses hold within each otherIlluminated souls of forever loversRon P Angell(c)Camper Van Beethoven- "Take The Skinheads Bowling" Ceilings of stars Walls of clouds Heavens forever distant Terminate in the instantStorms do buildThunder does brewWhat I really wantIs to be there holding youLightning does strikeAnd we hold one another in the lightThe light show beginsAnd we smile into the windLook at me looking at youBehind your mirror I am nowOn the other side not far awayWe will wake rested to a new dayAtmosphere does extend andtouches the vacuum of spaceThere you will find no stormsOnly peace in Gods heavenly placeOur souls in the silver liningWe have each other to keep the bindingLet our rain fall down nowMix our drops of our shedding tearsWhen we are done cryingWe make a lake for diving(c)Ron P AngellCamper Van Beethoven-"All her favorite fruit"Read more…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM5spH6_vdE this is a video of some of my implants ifound in my teeth after my stay in dept ofcorrections colorado their are others are in my mouth in place of the molars removed and others yet to be discovered inserted through my scars .after i was released on parole i started to hear voices and body manipulations pain disorientation etc.
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We got realized that all of us practically are their hostages with their superweapon mind technology while the fact that thye have not attacked everyone except us TIs has shown the fact that they cannot simply just control the whole world as they wish.We have to fight back before it is too late.Every person in the world has to recognize what the real goal of the NWO is.They have been spies all these while who aim at sowing discord,and discrediting the TIs committee so as to control everyone better.We should just concentrate on dealing with the NWO above everything else.They are the one manipulating all of us,torturing us TIs days and nights without rest without anyone knowingly.It is all done behind the scene while they try to manipulate others to attack us in the name of good will,investigation frauds,experimentations and etc.We are all just part of their unwilling scarifices to achieve their agenda to control the whole world and ultimately destroy the whole world.To save the world,the mind control/DEW technology must be destroyed IN FRONT OF OUR OWN EYES as well as the mind controllers being prosecuted.
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The mentally ill must give up all rights once they shown they are a danger to themselves or to others, and either end up in prison, or in a mental hospital for some time. Other mentally ill people will tell other parents of the mentally ill that they are glad their parents intervened, strapped them down and forced hospitalization on them, because it is known all over the internet and in the psychiatric community that a person doesn't realize they are sick because this is part of schizophrenia, its inborn in the illness itself and therefore, it requires someone else to step in and force help, so its a running dialog that these people have thinking they are doing what is right.Many targets are never going to admit they have mental illness, and this is sometimes good, and sometimes bad. The good part is that the target doesn't stop thinking he is like everyone else, doesn't admit to being weak, weird, incompetent, and the things that through you off your automatic pilot way of living your life. The bad is that the person will suffer most if not all of his life with voices that they are convinced are coming from the government, never realizing that it takes 2 to 3 weeks on medication sometimes longer before the voices stop, so they tell themselves and other targets that medication doesn't help or work when its all remote.The moment you admit you are mentally ill and start taking medication, society stops believing your ranting that you are being tortured electronically, because they will pass it off as a fabrication of the brain or a condition that the person has as being a mental patient. The parents and family of this person will do what others have told them to do, and force hospitalization, force medication, force help upon a person who is convinced the only problem they have is coming remotely. So, the target is faced with a decision to become part of what society is saying and stay on the medication, or rebel and fight the whole system, plus the government or the enemy.The solutions: the APA can start to come to grips with the fact that targeting is real and may cause both symptoms and signs of mental illness without invalidating their claims of tampering. The media, radio or other outlets can finally once and for all start offering us the proof we need to show our families and others that we are being watched, monitored and therefore remotely tortured. We would be in a true holding period, where nothing would necessarily end, but the whole dynamic of the targeting would be open and honest and start treating these people like decent human beings. I pray for this.
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Means of information war threaten democracy and mankind -Thank you Mojmir Babacek from Czech and John Allman from the UK
Deepest thanks to Mojmir Babacek and John Allman. Very wonderfully written and very very helpful.Thank you so very very much!!Ron AngellDownload entire document in this Blog post from the below link:Means of Information War Threaten Democracy and Mankind.doc----- Forwarded Message ----From: Mojmir BabacekTo: ronSent: Monday, June 22, 2009 4:08:00 PMSubject: article which could break secrecy sorrouding mind control weaponsHello,in the attachement I am e-mailing you an article whose wide dissemination could break the secrecy surrounding mind control technology. I am e-mailing the article all aroung the world, asking people for help. Could you help with the dissemination? I have managed to publish it on the Czech Internet newspaper and on several information servers here. Isn't there any place where you could place it? I believe you would really help to a good thing to happen. I have already found people who are not victims of mind control experimentation and are willing to participate in this effort.Mojmir Babacekmeans of information war threaten democracy and mankindMojmir Babacek(edited by John Allman)In the report on U.S. military policy by Project for New American Century it is stated: "It is now commonly understood that information and other new technologies … are creating a dynamic that may threaten America's ability to exercise its dominant military power. Potential rivals, such as China are anxious to exploit those transformational technologies broadly, while adversaries like Iran, Iraq and North Korea are rushing to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons … the effects of information and other advanced technologies promise to revolutionize the nature of conventional armed forces" (ref. 13, pg. 4 and 11). The military concept of information technologies is, though, kept hidden from the world general public.In February 2000 the Russian daily Segodnya, in the article "Riders of Psychotronic Apocalypse" (1), informed that in 1996 Russian government's information agency FAPSI warned that the effect of "informational means of war" is comparable to "the effect of use of weapon of mass destruction" and produced a report entitled "Information Weapon as a Threat to National Security of Russia". In reaction the Russian State Duma and consequently Interparliamentary Assembly of the Union of Independent States addressed the United Nations, OBSE and European Council with a proposal for an international convention banning the development and use of informational weapons. According to the same newspaper Segodnya in March 1998, the matter was discussed with U.N. secretary general Kofi Anan, and included on the agenda of General Assembly of the U.N. Most probably the USA vetoed this proposal and in consequence the ban of informational weapons was not discussed by the General Assembly of the United Nations.In the Doctrine of Informational Security of the Russian Federation, signed by president Putin in September 2000, among the dangers threatening the informational security of Russian Federation, is listed “the threat to the constitutional rights and freedoms of people and citizens in the sphere of spiritual life… individual, group and societal consciousness” and “illegal use of special means affecting individual, group and societal consciousness.” (16). Among the major directions of the international cooperation toward the guaranteeing of the information security is listed “the ban of production, dissemination and use of ‘information weapons’.”(17).Segodnya, in the discussed article, described mostly "mysterious information-psychological" means capable not only of harming human health, but also of blocking human free will at the subconscious level, impairing human beings’ ability of “political, cultural and other self-identification" and even “causing destruction of indivisible informational and spiritual space of the Russian Federation”. According to Russian scientist A. F. Okhatrin, those means are also capable to kill people (2). Underneath the article, Segodnya published a review of weapons affecting human psyche which it obtained from the Russian Department of Defense. Together with ultrasound and microwave weapons, there are listed "psychotronic weapons" which, in addition to having the capability of "transfering information among people", are able to act on communication and electronic systems (1).In the Space Preservation Bill proposed by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2001, the following technologies enabling access to human brain, human health impairment or killing of people were named: "land-based, sea-based or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood managment or mind control of such persons or populations" (4). "Psychotronic weapon" listed in the Dennis J. Kucinich's bill is described as a weapon using "torsion fields" radiation in the book "Psychotronic Weapon and the Security of Russia" (6) by Russian scientist Vladimir Tsygankov and Vladimir Lopatin (a politician, who worked on Committees on Security in Russian Federal Republic, State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Union of Independent States). Among the possible sources of remote influence on human psyche those two authors list “generators of physical fields” of "known as well as unknown nature" (14). It is well known that both KGB and CIA carried out a large-scale research of psychic phenomena in the 70’s of the past century. It is not out of question that their scientists succeded in discovering the physical basis of those phenomena. The physical concept of non-local electron and photon connection can be certainly used to explain those phenomena.The ability of sound and light technologies to influence human psyche is exemplified by Psychowalkman industry. The existence of the electromagnetic mind control technology is confirmed in the Conclusion of the Committee on Security of the Russian State Duma [3] and can be deduced from scientific and military literature.Nerve impulses in the brain are carried by electrical signals triggered by changes in chemical balance. During the fifties and sixties of the past century, it was proved that human nervous system and behavior can be thoroughly controlled by electric signals imported to the brain by tiny electrodes (41). 100 stimulations of one point in the bull‘s brain made him 100 times bellow. When a man was asked to straighten his hand the bending of which was stimulated he replied “I think your electricity is stronger then my will.” By means of electrical stimulation of the brain the rhythm of breathing and heart beat [this was even stopped for several pulses] was affected as well as the function of the most of the viscera - alike the secretion of the gall bladder. The stimulation of points in the brain where feelings and emotions reside produced decisions. A passive, depressed woman tore up a piece of paper when her center of anger was stimulated: “I did not control myself. I had to get up and tear”, she commented. An aggressive woman, with the same point stimulated, got up and smashed against the wall the guitar she was playing until the moment of stimulation. The intensity of feelings could be controlled by turning the knob which controlled the intensity of the electric current. When the pleasure center was stimulated women offered marriage to therapists. Stimulation of a point in a monkey‘s brain stopped her maternal behavior toward a newborn baby. When the limbic system was stimulated the patients vigilance weakened, they lost capacity to think, often they began to undress or grope and when the stimulation stopped they did not remember it. The signals had to be delivered in specific frequencies to produce repetitive action of neurons. Spanish scientist Jose Delgado became world known when he, with the use of this technology, made a bull attack him by pressing one button on the small black box and stopped the bull few feet away from him by pressing another button.The idea that electric currents in the brain could be induced by electromagnetic energy is an obvious next step in this path of research. The information inside of the brain is processed digitally; in other words analog perceptions are “translated” and transferred by a number and frequency of nerve impulses, while the intensity of the feeling or perception usually corresponds to the intensity of electrical current. Walter J. Freeman, who had been for years measuring the brain activity in reaction to different stimuli by multitudes of microelectrodes, presented already in 1975 a hypothesis “that a novel external stimulus is broadly transmitted from the primary sensory cortex or thalamus to other parts of the cortex... transmission occurs at some characteristic frequency, and...reception occurs in ... sets tuned to that frequency” (37). In other words, when neurons cooperate in the processing of specific information they synchronize their activity and oscillate in the same frequency. In an experiment by Wolf Singer (20) the differences in brain activity in reaction to two different stimuli, presented to the tested subject at the same time, were represented by two different groups of neurons oscillating in different frequencies. In the modern scientific literature synchronization of frequencies of emitted nerve impulses in different parts of the brain as a principle of brain functioning is generally accepted (19). Electroencephalographers have no doubt that those synchronizations appear on the EEG recordings and are already able to “read” in those frequencies the single letters of a word perceived by the tested subject (21). Theoretically this means that the events in the brain can be produced “synthetically” from the outside when additional energy is pumped into the brain in specific frequencies corresponding to specific brain activities. John Marks, in his book on CIA mind control research, quotes one of the CIA research veterans recalling a colleague’s joke: “If you could find the natural radio frequency of a person‘s sphincter, you could make him run out of the room real fast” (22). Since most of the activity of human brain takes place in frequencies from 1 to 100 Hz and electromagnetic waves of this frequency are hundreds and even thousands of miles long, and, for that matter, could not target human brain, scientists started experimenting with pulsed microwaves. There exist “window” frequencies at which microwaves penetrate deep enough into the brain to produce activity of neurons.The interaction of electromagnetic radiation and chemicals in the brain was demonstrated for example by the experiment where irradiation of rats’ heads by 20 and 40 mW/cm2 microwaves pulsed at 300, 600 and 1000 Hz woke the rats up in 5 minutes from narcosis (23). Electrical signals of neurons in the brain are mediated by chemicals called neurotransmitters. At a conference on “Emerging Electromagnetic Medicine” in 1989 Capt. Paul Tyler, director of the U.S. Navy Electromagnetic Radiation Project between 1970 and 1977, quoted in his lecture the research of Dr. Merrit who measured the decrease of norepinephrine, serotonine and dopamine when a field of 80 mW/cm2 was applied (24). All those hormones act as neurotransmitters into the cortex. Dopamin influences the ability to learn and other cognitive abilities. Disruption in the biosynthesis or transmission of dopamine can lead to Parkinson’s disease. In another experiment a 500Hz signal produced release of neradrenaline in sympathetical neurons (25). Since those neurons control the muscles of internal organs and noraderenaline acts there as a neurotransmitter, an oposite signal should be able to reduce the activity of internal organs and eventually impair human health. The publication of the World Health Organization on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on living organisms from 1981 (25) gives many examples of the effects of microwave radiation on the excretion of glands and chemical composition of blood. Many of those effects could harm human health. Microwave radiation can also affect molecules of DNA and thus affect the development of organisms (25). This was proved by an experiment by Yale neurophysiologist, Jose Delgado, where the irradiation of chicken embryos by 10, 100 and 1000 Hz stopped their development including the development of hearts and veins. The experiment was replicated by the American Navy with the same results. Such attack by microwaves could have, in the long run, disastrous impact on targeted populations.A a matter of fact microwave radiation can produce many deadly effects. In the experiment by McAffee already mentioned, the microwaves pulsed at 300, 600 and 1000 Hz produced impairment in breathing (leading even to suffocation) in rats. A similar signal could also suffocate human beings. At the conference on Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological Systems in 1983 the experiment was presented where blood clots were formed by microwave radiation (26). This capability is also suitable for weaponisation. Similarly dangerous is the finding of Allan Frey that radio frequency radiation can weaken the blood-brain barrier that prevents poisonous chemicals from the access into the brain (30). In 1986 the American Air Force issued a book “Low Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology” (18). The chapter headed “Electromagnetic Spectrum in Low Intensity Conflict”, was written by Capt. Paul Tyler, who had been the director of the U.S. Navy Electromagnetic Radiation Project from 1970 until 1977. At the beginning of the chapter, Tyler quotes a source entitled “Final Report on Biotechnology Research Requirements for Aeronautical Systems Through the Year 2000” that had been issued by American Air Force in 1982: “Currently available data allow the projection that specially generated radiofrequency radiation (RFR) fields may pose a powerful and revolutionary antipersonnel military threats ... the passage of approximately 100 miliamperes through the myocardium can lead to cardiac standstill and death ... A rapidly scanning RFR system could provide an effective stun or kill capability over a large area. System effectiveness will be a function of wave form, field intensity, pulse width, repetition frequency, and carrier frequency.”In less draconian assault, the use of microwaves could be limited just to the influence of human behavior. In 1985 Kathleen McAuliffe visited Jose Delgado in his laboratory in Spain, where he experimented with electromagnetic stimulation of brain. She subsequently wrote an article for the magazine OMNI (27). Jose Delgado showed her how he could make an ape fall asleep, or make it overactive, or how he could calm down fighting fish using suitably modulated microwave radiation.The next series of experiments shows that human behavior can be controlled in even more intricate ways. In 1962 Allan H. Frey published in the “Journal of Applied Physiology” (28) the results of experimentation with transmission of sounds into the brain by electromagnetic radiation at a distance of up to 1000 feet. The “electromagnetic” sounds were heard by deaf as well as hearing people. In his report, Frey writes that, by then, only the visual system had been shown to respond to electromagnetic energy and he noted that, “With somewhat different transmission parameters we can induce the perception of severe buffeting of the head..” and ”Changing ... parameters again, one can induce a ‘pins-and-needles’ sensation.” Frey’s experiment was replicated several times by other scientists (28). Another, more advanced experiment that also involved the transmission of radio modulated with audible sounds into the brain, was published only inadvertently, when Don R. Justesen used, in the article on "Microwaves and Behavior" (29), the result of an experiment described to him over the telephone conversation by his colleague J. C. Sharp, who worked on a secret military project Pandora. Joseph C. Sharp at the Walter Reed Army Institute improved the method of Frey to the point that he was able to transmit into the experimental subject’s brain words which he could understand. The ability of U.S. military to produce perception of speech in humans by microwave radiation substantiates the article by Sharon Weinberger, “Mind Games”, which was published in The Washington Post in January 2007. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed for the article the Air Force released “records that note that the patent was based on human experimentation in October 1994 at the Air Force lab, where scientists were able to transmit phrases into the heads of human subjects” The article also states that “the research laboratory, citing classification, refused to discuss it or release other materials” (31).Robert Becker, who was twice nominated for Nobel price for his share in the discovery of the effects of pulsed fields at the healing of broken bones, wrote about the experiment by J. F. Schapitz, who stated: “In this investigation it will be shown that the spoken word of hypnotist may also be conveyed by modulated electromagnetic energy directly into the subconcscious parts of the human brain - i. e. without employing any technical devices for receiving or transcoding the messages and without the person exposed to such influence having a chance to control the information input consciously.” In one of the four experiments subjects were given a test of hundred questions, ranging from easy to technical ones. Later, not knowing they were being irradiated, they would be subjected to information beams suggesting the answers to the questions they had left blank, amnesia for some of their correct answers, and memory falsification for other correct answers. After 2 weeks they had to pass the test again (30). The results of those experiments were never published. Apparently in those experiments the messages were sent into human brain in ultrasound frequencies which the human brain perceives, but of which the subject is unaware. According to Russian newspapers, in this way, people may be programmed to perform different actions in the same way people can be programmed under hypnosis. The use of this method was questioned in the Russian press when general Lev Rokhlin was killed by his wife in his sleep at 2 a.m. after she had had a casual telephone conversation with a female friend. Did her friend use a sequence of words which were supposed to trigger the murderous action? Before his murder General Rokhlin planned for army protests against army reform and visited editor’s desks of Russian newspapers, telling them he might be soon killed in a car accident, during a drinking spree or during an argument with his wife (42).In his book “Cross Currents” Robert Becker presents the report coming from the Microwave Research Department at the Walter Reed Army Institute, where J.C. Sharp carried out his experiment with the transmission of words into the brain by radiofrequency radiation. The report deals with the effects of pulsed microwaves on the nervous system and describes the division of testing program into four parts: 1) prompt debilitating effects; 2) prompt stimulation auditory effects; 3) work interference (stoppage) effects; 4) effects on stimulus controlled behavior. The report presents this conclusion: “Microwave pulses appear to couple to the central nervous system and produce stimulation similar to electrical stimulation unrelated to heat” (32).The American Air Force, according to the Final Report on Biotechnology Research Requirements for Aeronautical Systems Through the Year 2000, divided the research of radiofrequency weapons into three areas: 1) Pulsed RFR Effects - projected research since 1980 until 1995; 2) “Mechanisms of RFR with Living Systems” referred to as “continuation of ongoing research” beginning in 1980 and forecast to conclude around 1997;3) “RFR forced disruptive phenomena” - starting around 1986 with the projectedcontinuation until 2010. In the second volume of this report, it was stated that the work on the project was progressing according to the schedule or in advance. The last-mentioned area of research is redefined in the second volume: “While initial attention should be toward degradation of human performance through thermal loading and electromagnetic field effects, subsequent work should address the possibilities of directing and interrogating mental functioning, using externally applied fields...” (33).In the Soviet Russia the ongoing research in this area was completely hidden from the public, but change of political system and actual use of this equipment during the putsch against Gorbachov brought this subject to newspapers headlines. According to Russian daily newspapers, during the failed coup d'etat against Gorbachov, General Kobets warned the defenders of the Russian White House that mind control technology could be used against them. After the putsch, respected Russian scientist Victor Sedlecki published a statement in the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda that psychotronic biogenerators were mass produced in the Soviet Union and were used during the failed coup d'etat [7], but failed to succeed due to the inexperience of the personel who operated them. In the following spree of articles on the subject of mind control, the experiment was published where manipulation of masses of people by microwave radiation was performed. Already in 1974, after successful testing on a military unit in Novosibirsk, the installation Radioson (Radiosleep) was registered with the Government Committee on the Matters of Inventions and Discoveries of the USSR, described as a method of induction of sleep by means of radio waves. Apparently, in 1974, the entire military unit was put to sleep (5).In the book “Low Intensity Conflict and Modern Technology” (18), Captain Tyler also wrote: “Because of the many parameters involved and the apparent specificity of each parameter, one can tailor a specific response. The ability to have this kind of flexibility provides an enormous range of options to the user. It opens the door for providing an appropriate response in warfare, be it conventional or unconventional” (18). If you object that the range of frequencies in which the human nervous system works is too narrow to provide for such a wide choice of reactions, Capt. Tyler writes: “There are unconfirmed reports that change of 0.01 Hz can make a difference.” Since many activities of human brain are represented by different sequences of frequencies, this provides for further large choices.At the end of 1994 the first tests of the most powerful radar system in the world were carried out in Alaska. This year its power should reach 10 billion watts and later 100 billion watts. The main features of the system include its ability to heat the ionosphere and in this way change the altitude of the ionosphere. By this kind of manipulation of the ionosphere, it is possible to bounce the electromagnetic waves back from the ionosphere to whichever region of the planet one wishes to target. According to the official information by the U.S. government the system HAARP is designed for scientific research. However, there are too many facts suggesting that the major reason for its construction are military purposes. The main patent of Bernard J. Eastlund (number 4,686,605) proposes the use of the system for destruction of navigation systems of airplanes and missiles wherever in the atmosphere they might be, and for interference with all communication systems anywhere on the planet, and the global weather control. Other patents connected with the system propose the use of the system for induction of detonations in the extent of nuclear explosions and other military uses (33).Evidently, the warning of Russian intelligence agency FAPSI to the Russian government and the article in the Russian daily “Segodnya” were amongst the recations to the installation of the U.S. system HAARP. The HAARP system can pulse microwave radiation begining from one thousandth of one Hertz and, in this case, there is hardly and doubt that it can change pulses of microwave radiation by 1 thousandth of Hertz, as well in frequencies from 1 to 100 Hertz which are crucial for the functioning of human nervous system. In June 1995, Michael Persinger, who apparently worked on the American Navy's project of non-lethal electromagnetic weapons “Sleeping Beauty”, published, in a scientific magazine Perception and Motor Skills the article where he states: “the technical capability to influence directly the major portion of the approximately six billion brains of the human species without mediation through classical sensory modalities by generating neural information within a physical medium within which all members of the species are immersed… is now marginally feasible” (34).John B. Alexander, who later became the Director of Non-lethal Programs in Los Alamos National Laboratory, wrote in his article in the Military Review in the year 1980: “whoever makes the first major breakthrough in this field will have a quantum lead over his opponent, an advantage similar to sole possession of nuclear weapons” (35). Samuel Koslov, a leading personality of the Pandora project that was dedicated to research of effects of microwave radiation on humans, and a researcher at the John Hopkins University, in his closing speech at the conference on Nonlinear Electrodynamics in Biological Systems in 1984, said that the conference had proven that the external electric fields can “become a key to the cellular control console. The implications, social, economic, and even military are enormous.” Koslov went on: “If much of what we have heard is indeed correct, it may be not less significant to the nation than the prospects that faced the physics community in 1939 when the long-time predicted fissionability of the nucleus was actually demonstrated. You may recall the famous letter of Albert Einstein to President Roosvelt. When we’re in a position to do so in terms of our proofs, I would propose that an analogous letter is required” (26).It is this perspective, of the revolutionary nature of these scientific developments, that gives us the title, “Revolution in Military Affairs and Conflict Short of War”, of a book published by the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College in 1994 (36). Since the national security information is in question, the book cannot tell the readers what technology exactly is making this revolution feasible. From the beginning the authors were aware that the use of this technology may run counter to basic moral and political values of the American society, and in consequence the revolution in military affairs would require a moral and political revolution to come first: ”In the pre-RMA days, psychological operations and psychological warfare were primitive. As they advanced into the electronic and bioelectronic era, it was necessary to rethink our ethical prohibitions on manipulating the minds of enemies (and potential enemies) both international and domestic... Through persistent efforts and very sophisticated domestic ”consciousness raising”, old-fashioned notions of personal privacy and national sovereignty changed.” Since it is difficult for them to imagine that the American society would accept the ethical and political revolution that would deprive the citizen of his privacy, they develop a scenario of events which would lead the American political leaders to back this revolution. The scenario is placed into the year 2000, and is based on the situation of growing terrorism, drug trafficking and criminality. In the document Rebuilding Americas Defenses, backed by the past U.S. government, we read: “To preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades, the Department of Defense must … seek to exploit the emerging revolution in military affairs … Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor” (ref. 13, pg. 51). Was it by accident that in 2001 a masive terrorist attack ocurred in the USA facilitated by questionable work of U.S. intelligence services and followed by anthrax attacks where the only indicted scientist, Bruce Ivins, did not have the technical means and scientific knowledge to turn the anthrax spores into a deadly aerosol which was used and that those two attacks were followed by an assault on privacy of U.S. Citizens and international law?The scenario goes on: “The president was thus amenable to the use of the sort of psychotechnology which formed the core of the RMA (revolution in military affairs) in conflict short of war ... As technology changed the way force was applied, things such as personal courage, face-to-face leadership, and the ‘warfighter’ mentality became irrelevant.” So the psychotechnology, which formed the core of the RMA, provided new methods for influencing the psyche of the adversary, in place of the classical strategy to make him fear his death. The book goes on: “Potential or possible supporters of the insurgency around the world were identified using the comprehensive Interagency Integrated Database. These were categorized as ‘potential’ or ‘active’, with sophisticated personality simulations used to develop, tailor and focus psychological campaigns for each. There is also potential for defensive psychotechnology such as ‘strategic personality simulations’ to aid national security decision makers.” (See Norman D. Livergood and Stephen D. Williams, “Strategic Personality Simulation: A New Strategic Concept”, unpublished draft paper, Carlisle Barracks, PAK: U.S. Army War College, 1994). In other words if there was, for example, a new Jesus Christ, U.S. agencies would simply engineer his personality to make sure he would not introduce any cultural changes. Once the strategy of computerized personality simulation is applied, the unfolding of human history will be totally controlled by elites having exclusive access to those technologies. The conclusion of the authors was: “Whether we opt for revolution or evolution, change will occur.”The concept of the “strategic personality stimulation” is probably tested on some of the people in the USA who claim to be mind control experiments victims, whose number, rapidly growing after 9/11 attacks, inspired the article in Washington Post, entitled “Mind Games” (31) in 2007. Cheryl Welsh, the director of the American organization Mind Justice (38) claims that she has received over 2500 complaints from U.S. citizens, that they fell victims to those experiments. Though some of those people may be mentally ill, many of them defend themselves in a rational way that suggests that they are mentally sound. A similar situation obtains in Russia. Russian politician Vladimir Lopatin admitted nonconcensual human-subject experiments had been conducted in Russia, when he wrote in the quoted book: “Compensation of damages and losses connected with social rehabilitation of persons suffering from destructive informational influence must be realized in legal trial…” (14). Growing numbers of complaints are coming as well from China and Japan (over 200).The European Parliament reacted to the installation of HAARP system by calling for “an international convention introducing a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings” (15, Paragraph 27). The body of the European Parliament STOA (Scientific and Technolgical Options Assessment) in the document “Crowd Control Technologies” (40) informed this resolution, originally proposed drafting of Paragraph 27 to say that the parliament called for “an international convention for a global ban on all research and development … which seeks to apply knowledge of the chemical, electrical, sound vibration or other functioning of the human brain to the development of weapons which might enable the manipulation of human beings, including a ban of any actual or possible deployment of such systems”. US Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, the author of a Bill introduced into the US Congress in October 2001 proposing a ban on the deployment of “mind control” weapons, was quoted to assert that those weapons actually exist and “those people who control them are deadly serious and intend to use them, if we don't stop the weaponisation of space” (10).Electromagnetic technology enabling remote control of the functioning of human organism is subjected to National Security Information law in the USA (8) and all technologies enabling access to human brain are subject to the same law in the Russian Federation (9). Under such conditions, the mass media cannot fully disclose the existence and capacities of those technologies and world public cannot be engaged in favour of a ban on the use of such capabilities. The ownership of those capabilities gives opportunity to governments to use them against individuals (and eventually against masses), without giving them any access to any legal remedy. The concept of the world respecting freedom and human rights is fundamentally corrupted in this way. In November 2000 the Committee on Security of the Russian State Duma stated that capabilities enabling remote control of human nervous system or the remote infliction of health impairment are available to many modern governments (3). This was confirmed by the article from the U.S. army weekly Defense News stating that mind control technologies were used by the Israelis against the Palestinians (12).Evidently the secret arms race among the world governments may continue until the information war actually breaks out. V. Lopatin, in the book “Psychotronic Weapon and the Security of Russia”, stated that psychotronic war is, as a matter of fact, “already taking place without declaration of war”. In this way the human world may sink into some kind of virtual reality where the independence of human thinking, feeling and decision making will be destroyed as a part of an “information war” or, in the worst case, into the reality where large masses of people will be killed, and unlike the aftermath of the deployment of nuclear weapons, the planet will still remain inhabitable for the survivors.With emerging energetic and climate crises and a presently-growing global economic crisis, either the next world war could erupt, or the means of remote manipulation of human brains and organisms could be applied to control dissatisfied citizens. Our elected democratic representatives are responsible for foreseeing the emerging crises and preventing them from happening by appropriate measures. However, they do not have mandate from citizens to allow those crises to happen, in order to create opportunities for them to experiment with attempts to solve the problems by use of technologies that allow them to manipulate their citizens’ minds. If this technology is once used against citizens it is questionable whether true democracy will ever be restored. The countries with the most advanced military technologies include the USA, which has never proposed any international initiative aimed at securing the ban of technologies enabling the remote control of human beings. According to the study “Crowd Control Technologies” published by the European Parliament’s STOA office, the USA are the major promoter of the use of those arms. (In fact, it was principally the efforts of the USA government to persuade this outcome that ensured the inclusion in NATO military doctrine of non-lethal technology.) The STOA states: “In October 1999 NATO announced a new policy on non-lethal weapons and their place in allied arsenals”; and “In 1996 non-lethal tools identified by the U.S. Army included… directed energy systems” and “radio frequency weapons” (40).According to the Russian government intelligence agency FAPSI, in the last 15 years, the U.S. expenses on the development and acquisition of the means of informational war grew four times and at the present time they occupy the first place among all military programs (17),(3). Though there are concepts of informational warfare other than the remote control of human beings, the unwillingnes of the USA to engage in the negotiations aimed at the ban of the manipulation of human brains suggests an intention to use those means in internal as well as in international affairs. If the USA achieve essential military preeminence in this area and if no global ban of the use of those technologies against civilians is negotiated, the USA may become a world totalitarian superpower of the new type.So far the only government who made a small step toward the ban of those technologies is the Russian Federation where the addendum to the article 6 of the Russian Federation law “On Weapons” was approved on July 26, 2001. It states: “within the territory of the Russian Federation is prohibited the circulation of weapons and other objects … the effects of the operation of which are based on the use of electromagnetic, light, thermal, infra-sonic or ultra-sonic radiations…”. Besides omitting the “psychotronic energy” The law does not provide any means for Russian citizens to defend themselves against the use of those weapons. Nor is there any compulsion upon the police or public health organizations to set up teams capable of detecting radiation that was enabling remote manipulation of human body and nervous system, or the source of such radiation. Nor does this law prohibit Russian government agencies from the use of such technology against their own citizens. In the USA alone, some of the federal states have enacted in their laws on firearms, new standards on electric and electromagnetic weapons (Michigan in 2003, Massachusetts in 2004, Maine in 2005). Sanctions go from 15 years in jail to life imprisonment, identically with weapons of mass destruction. As in Russia, those laws do not provide for the defense of citizens against the use of those weapons by government agencies.On February 25, 2009 Deputy Chief of General Staff of Russian Army, Anatoli Nogovicyn, stated that within 2 or 3 years a full fledged war in informational sphere, including “information-psychlogical influence on population and military units” may break out (39). So far politicians (especially in the USA) have not shown responsible intention to take action to stop this new arms race, which threatens to place human beings in a position subsidiary to machines and to destroy democracy. Humanitarian organizations apparently do not dare to challenge this National Security Information (on several occasions Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have refused to engage with this issue). Under such circumstances, it is left to citizens themselves to organize defense of their freedoms and elementary human rights, before those technologies are used, either at war or to suppress their dissatisfaction with governments who failed to prevent the emerging crises. They should coordinate their efforts internationally if they want to succeed.
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COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speechhttp://techliberation.com/2009/05/24/coppa-20-the-new-battle-over-privacy-age-verification-online-safety-free-speech/Adam Thierer & I have just released a detailed examination (PDF) of brewing efforts to expand the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to cover adolescents and potentially all social networking sites—an approach we call “COPPA 2.0.”As Adam explained on Larry Magid’s CNET podcast, COPPA mandates certain online privacy protections for children under 13, most importantly that websites obtain the “verifiable consent” of a child’s parent before collecting personal information about that child or giving that child access to interactive functionality that might allow the child to share their personal information with others. The law was intended primarily to “enhance parental involvement in a child’s online activities” as a means of protecting the online privacy and safety of children.Yet advocates of expanding COPPA—or “COPPA 2.0″—see COPPA’s verifiable parental consent framework as a means for imposing broad regulatory mandates in the name of online child safety and concerns about social networking, cyber-harassment, etc. Two COPPA 2.0 bills are currently pending in New Jersey and Illinois. The accelerated review of COPPA to be conducted by the FTC next year (five years ahead of schedule) is likely to bring to Washington serious talk of expanding COPPA—even though Congress clearly rejected covering adolescents age 13-16 when COPPA was first proposed back in 1998.We’ll discuss some of the key points of our paper in a series of blog posts, but here are the top nine reasons for rejecting COPPA 2.0, in that such an approach would:Burden the free speech rights of adults by imposing age verification mandates on many sites used by adults, thus restricting anonymous speech and essentially converging—in terms of practical consequences—with the unconstitutional Children’s Online Protection Act (COPA), another 1998 law sometimes confused with COPPA;Burden the free speech rights of adolescents to speak freely on—or gather information from—legal and socially beneficial websites;Hamper routine and socially beneficial communication between adolescents and adults;Reduce, rather than enhance, the privacy of adolescents, parents and other adults because of the massive volume of personal information that would have to be collected about users for authentication purposes (likely including credit card data);Would likely be the subject of massive fraud or evasion since it is not always possible to definitively verify the parent-child relationship, or because the system could be “gamed” in other ways by determined adolescents;Do nothing to prevent offshore sites and services from operating outside these rules;Present major practical challenges for law enforcement officials in the face of such evasion by both domestic users and offshore sites;Could destroy opportunities for new or smaller website operators to break into the market and offer competing services and innovations, thus contributing to consolidation of online content and services by erecting barriers to entry; andViolate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, since Internet activity clearly represents interstate commerce that states have no authority to regulate.Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG) Is Underwayhttp://techliberation.com/2009/06/04/online-safety-technology-working-group-ostwg-is-underway/The first meeting of the Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG) took place today and I just wanted to provide interested parties with relevant info and links in case they want to keep track of the task force’s work. As I mentioned back in late April, this new task force was established by the “Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act,” (part of the ‘‘Broadband Data Improvement Act’,’ Pub. L. No. 110-385) and it will report to the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).I’m happy to be serving on this new working group and I am particularly honored to be serving as the chairman of 1 of the 4 subcommittees. The four subcommittees will address: data retention, child pornography, educational efforts, and parental controls technologies. I am chairing that last subcommittee on parental controls. The task force has about 35 members and we have a year to conduct our research and report back to Congress. Here are some relevant links from the NTIA website that provide additional details about this task force:Online Safety and Technology Working Group BackgroundMeeting Webcast Archive (RealMedia)June 4, 2009, Public Meeting AgendaOf course, this is certainly not the first task force to explore online safety issues. There was the COPA Commission (2000), the “Thornburgh Commission” report (2002), the U.K. “Byron Commission” report (2008), the Harvard Berkman Center’s Internet Safety Technical Task Force (2008), and the NCTA-iKeepSafe-CommonSenseMedia “Point Smart, Click Safe” working group, which is due to issue its final report shortly. [Full disclosure: I was a member of that last two task forces as well.] I’m currently working on a short paper that attempts to summarize the remarkably similar findings of these important child safety working groups. Generally speaking, they all concluded that education and empowerment, not regulation, were the real keys to moving forward and making our kids safer online.Related TLF PostsVersion 3.1 release: “Parental Controls & Online Child Protection”http://techliberation.com/2008/09/16/version-31-release-parental-controls-online-child-protection/Just FYI, the latest update of my booklet on “Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools & Methods” is now live. The new version, Version 3.1, provides minor updates to all sections of the book and a new appendix of relevant research in the field. I issue major updates early each year and 1 or 2 tweaks during the course of the year to reflect the evolution of the parental control and online child safety market and debate.For those not familiar with the report, it explores the market for parental control tools, rating schemes, education efforts, and initiatives aimed at promoting online child safety. I believe that the parental controls and content management tools cataloged in the report represent a better, less restrictive alternative to government regulation. As I conclude after evaluating that state of the market: “There has never been a time in our nation’s history when parents have had more tools and methods at their disposal to help them decide what constitutes acceptable media content in their homes and in the lives of their children.”The report is available free-of-charge on the PFF website, and the previous editions of the report are housed there too in case you want to see how it has evolved over the past two years. For those interested in taking a quick look at the report, I have embedded it down below the fold as a Scribd file. Finally, as is always the case, I encourage readers to send me updates and suggestions for how to improve the report and I will incorporate them into future versions.Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to RegulationBy Berin Szoka & Adam Thiererhttp://techliberation.com/2009/06/19/cyberbullying-legislation-why-education-is-preferable-to-regulation/We’ve just released a new PFF white paper (PDF) entitled, “Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation.” In this 24-page study we note that, compared to previous fears about online predation, which have been greatly overblown, concerns about cyberbullying are more well-founded. Evidence suggests the cyberbullying is on the rise and that it can have profoundly damaging consequences for children.Unsurprisingly, in the wake of a handful of high-profile cyberbullying incidents that resulted in teen/tween suicides, some state lawmakers began floating legislation to address the issue. More recently, two very different federal approaches have been proposed. One approach is focused on the creation of a new federal crime to punish cyberbullying, which would include fines and jail time for violators. In April 2008, Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-CA) introduced H.R. 1966 (originally H.R. 6123), the “Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act,” a bill that would create a new federal felony:“Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”The other legislative approach is education-based and would create an Internet safety education grant program to address the issue in schools and communities. In mid-May, the “School and Family Education about the Internet (SAFE Internet) Act” (S. 1047) was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and in the House by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The measure proposes an Internet safety education grant program that will be administered by the Department of Justice, in concurrence with the Department of Education, and the Department of Health & Human Services. These agencies will also work in consultation with education, Internet safety, and other relevant experts to administer a five-year grant program, under which each grant will be awarded for a two-year period.In our paper, we argue that criminalizing what is mostly kid-on-kid behavior—and especially creating a new federal felony, as the Sánchez bill proposes—will not likely solve the age-old problem of kids mistreating each other. Moreover, this approach could raise thorny free speech and due process issues related to how the law defines harassing or intimidating speech. To the extent criminal sanctions are pursued as a solution, it may be preferable to allow state experimentation with varying models.By contrast, education and awareness-based approaches have a chance of effectively reducing truly harmful behavior, especially over the long-haul. Such approaches would have the added benefit of avoiding constitutional pitfalls and subsequent court challenges. Thus, if lawmakers feel the need to address cyberbullying concerns at this time, it is clear that regulation is, at best, premature and that education is the better approach.Our paper can be found on the PFF website or SSRN, and the Scribd version of the document is embedded down below. We welcome your comments on our conclusions.[In a follow-up post, we will address why the criminalization approach to addressing cyberbullying raises free speech concerns and other constitutional issues.]Read more…
Legally Divorced December 4th 2006 and then subject to Identity theft, Loans taken out in my name, microwaved, attempts on my life,murder of my father, torture of my entire familyDowns Law Office, P.C. 150 N. Wacker Suite 1870 Chicago IL312 781-1963Dear Bob Downs,I am number 148 on the petitoinProtest ongoing nonconsensual human experimentations ! Bring human rights abusers to justice. I signed as number 148-Ron Angellhttp://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/538388503Cantwell and Cantwell law firm in Chicago has access to the directed energy weapons and pscotronic weapons. I suspect they used these weapons on my law firm that was my lawyer for my divorce. I legally divorced December 4th 2006. A loan for $562,000 closed without me present on December 29th 2006 and was converted from a refianance to a second mortgate on my Identity alone. Then more torture was done to me and stiill continues to this day.I have been tortured by these weapons and many people have died. My entire family has been tortured and my father murdered during the divorce. I was formally Divorced Dec 4th 2006 and I will include in the below post a link, to the settlement. I was forced to move by threat of Death.by these weapons. There is an FBI case as well as a POLICE REPORT in regards to identity theft and money stolen 20 days after I was LEGALLY Divorced in Cook County.Ron Angell1-206 888-1706rpangell@umich.eduDivorce Decree Finalized and filed in Cook County Illinois Stamped and dated December 4th 2006Message From FBILetter From Wells Fargo Showing that the $562,000 Loan was taken out and "Closed In Error" - The money was wired out and was stolenHERE IS THE COMPLETE STORY WITH FBI Report Numbers as well as Police ReportsComplete StoryRead more…
Every time money is appropriated to large military projects where does it go? Who follows it to make sure it goes correctly to where it was suppose to go or is to go? What if financial computer systems and money transfers were stolen by other countries using mind weapons?After 911 the only way to obtain a job in the City of Chicago was to have FBI security Clearence I was told. Otherwise you would not be allowed to work in the LOOP. I had FBI securtiy clearence to work in the Chicago Board of Trade for the year 2000 system upgrade as well as financial institutions. I worked at National Bank of Detroit after sept 11th 2001 in what was once First Chicago Bank and now is Chase Manhattan bank. My job was to put all the formulas from all the 401K benefits of the employees back in place because a temporary employee erased all of the financial data. This was before Christmas 2001. I was told by a vice president of the bank that all the employees of NBD were afraid to come to work after 911 and that they were all home getting assistance for stress disorders.I do believe now that Chicago was attacked and those bank employees of NBD were all directed energy victims.My boss the VP of the bank was working on a special project to secure Bank Data so it could be safe. She also told me that on 911 One world trade center backed up the other in terms of electronic data. All financial data was lost that day of 911.She was very worried about banks and financial information.I do not even know if those people are still alive.Outsourcing financial institutions to other countries was a very large mistake. Perhaps the financial institutions were influenced to do so via mind control and manipulation.Read more…
Note the lack of North Korean, Chinese, and Russian victims. Follow the money trail and find the criminalsI signed as number 148-Ron AngellProtest ongoing nonconsensual human experimentations ! Bring human rights abusers to justice!!http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/538388503I am a victim of international human rights abuse. A victim of the ongoing nonconsensual human experimentations sponsored by the U.S. and my home country - Chinese government. A homeless international human "lab animal". An ongoing human experimentation victim and an international "human toy" who is victimized by Motorola. A victim who is labled as not elligible to claim my victimization. This crime has been going on for more than 3 years. Plesae help me to stop the human experimentations conducted on me and save my life out of the murders' hands !
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Holder Jr. at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Wiley A. Branton Awards LuncheonTuesday, June 16, 2009http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2009/ag-speech-090616.htmlIt is a pleasure for me to be here this afternoon, among so many friends and familiar faces. I am honored to join with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee in paying well-earned tribute to some of this area’s most dedicated lawyers and public servants – men and women who have given so much to the cause of equal rights for all Americans.The men and women we honor today have made extraordinary contributions – not just to their own communities, but to the cause of justice. Their service sets an example of civic leadership to which all of us should aspire, and I thank them for their efforts to build a more inclusive America. I would also like to thank the Lawyers’ Committee for its continuing work to address the issues of discrimination and poverty that are prevalent in too many of our nation’s most vulnerable communities.Over the years, the Justice Department has had occasion to work with the Lawyers’ Committee on these issues. I look forward to continuing that history of collaboration during my tenure as Attorney General. In many ways, the Lawyers’ Committee and the Department of Justice have parallel missions. Almost all of the Committees’ project areas have an analog in the Department of Justice, many in the Civil Rights Division – equal employment, fair housing, and disability rights, to name just a few. So I don’t need to tell you how vital it is for the Civil Rights Division to be well staffed and well funded – ready to vigorously enforce our nation’s civil rights and anti-discrimination laws.One of my highest priorities upon returning to the Justice Department has been to ensure that the Civil Rights Division continues its critical role of ensuring that our nation lives up to the ideal of Equal Protection enshrined so eloquently in the Declaration of Independence and the Fourteenth Amendment. Over the last four months, with help from Congress and the White House, we have provided the Civil Rights Division with the attention, the resources, and the leadership support that its dedicated professionals deserve.Today, I am proud to say that the "crown jewel" of the Justice Department is on its way to regaining its luster. And I can report that the Civil Rights Division has made important progress on several fronts since President Obama took office in January. The Civil Rights Division has reinvigorated its amicus practice, filing nine amicus briefs and seeking leave to file two more. The Division has continued its work enforcing our nation’s fair housing laws, filing 16 cases – including 7 pattern and practice cases – and obtaining 8 consent decrees. In fact, in recent months, the Civil Rights Division has won or settled enforcement actions in virtually every substantive area of civil rights law.These are important steps. But you and I know that there is much more work to be done. The reconstruction and progress we seek will take years to achieve, not weeks or months. And experience has taught us that the road to equality is long and sometimes treacherous, marked by detours and occasionally by setbacks.As you know, the Supreme Court is currently considering a case that challenges the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. No matter how the Court resolves this issue, I pledge that the Justice Department will continue working to enforce our nation’s voting rights laws. And we will fight efforts to discriminate in the voting booth just as earnestly as we fight efforts to discriminate in the job or housing markets. You have my word, my friends. Our commitment to Equal Protection – and to full participation in our nation’s elections – will not waiver. Never.And yet, even as the Department of Justice fulfills its traditional enforcement responsibilities, it must respond to new challenges and resurgent threats. Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed brazen acts of violence, committed in places that many would have considered unthinkable – a sacred memorial in the nation’s capital, a recruiting station for the nation’s armed forces, and a church in the nation’s heartland. The violence in Washington, Little Rock, and Wichita reminds us of the potential threat posed by violent extremists and the tragedy that ensues when reasoned discourse is replaced by armed confrontation.As the President noted during his recent address at Notre Dame, few topics provoke more intense or more personal disagreement than our nation’s debate about abortion. There are strong views on both sides. And the constitution guarantees each of us the right to express those views, regardless of viewpoint or political affiliation. Indeed, it is only through the frank and civil exchange of strongly-held views that people with different opinions can achieve the common ground that President Obama spoke of last month.But neither our respect for the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech, nor our earnest hope for common ground, can justify the violence we saw in Kansas. We will not tolerate murder, or the threat of violence, masquerading as political activism. So let me be clear, the Justice Department will use every tool at its disposal to protect the rights ensured under our constitution. And we will do all that we can to deter violence against reproductive health care providers and to prosecute those who commit such violence to the fullest extent of the law.Likewise, the Justice Department will do all that it can to bring the perpetrators of bias-motivated crimes to justice. That includes working with Congress to strengthen existing federal hate crimes laws. The House of Representatives has already passed legislation that would accomplish this goal and the Department of Justice is working with the Senate as it begins consideration of a similar hate crimes statute.I testified in support of stronger federal hate crimes legislation when I was Deputy Attorney General, almost ten years ago. My friends, that is far too long to wait. Too long to wait for the authority to prosecute offenses motivated by a person’s gender, disability or sexual orientation. Too long to wait for the tools necessary to staunch the rising tide of bias-motivated violence directed at the Latino community. Put simply, too long to wait for justice.The time has come for Congress to finish its work on this critically important legislation and we look forward to working with members on both sides of the aisle to achieve that goal.The violence we have seen during the last month may seem daunting to some. But I view these tragedies as a call to action. More than forty years ago, in the wake of devastating civil unrest in many of our nation’s largest cities, a group of lawyers and civic activists banded together to form the Lawyers’ Committee, convinced that they could leave a lasting and productive legacy for their community – convinced that they could help to build an America in which violence and injustice of the kind they had witnessed was a thing of the past. Against all odds, they succeeded. And so shall we. Let us commit ourselves – regardless of party affiliation or political viewpoint – to the difficult work ahead: building an America in which the kind of violence we have seen these last few weeks is but a distant memory. And building an America in which all of our Nation’s citizens, in equal measure, enjoy the fruits of our founding documents.Thank you.BRAIN INJURY DIRECTORYhttp://www.braininjurydirectory.net/Welcome to the Brain Injury Directory. It is intended to provide some resources for the many issues that people with brain injuries are confronting in their day-to-day lives. This is a cross-disciplinary directory. A human being who happened to have an acquired brain injury (abi) long ago edits this directory. This directory is a work in progress and more topics are planned. So far there are over 900 topics and 5,000 links. If you type your search term in the search box above, you may come upon more related links that are from other sections of the directory. Terribly sorry the directory is on the slow side to load and navigate, but with the Internet resources and software I have this is the best I can do. May the information available on this website be of assistance to you.http://www.tbinet.org/resources.htmTBI Support Groups / Mailing ListsMailing Lists hosted on TBINET's ServerTBINETs Email Support PageListserv™ Catalist - Search for a Mailing list of your likingReturn To IndexMedical/Drug ReferenceF.D.A. - Med-WatchNurses PDR Resource CenterPlant RX - Online drug reference/store.RxList The Internet Drug Index.Medicine Net Lots of medical info, search for drugs, treatments, medical dictionary, etc. PharmInfoNet.. A great site to find info on the drugs you are using. Also check out their Drug Searching page.Smart Basics For Enhanced Health, Well Being and Mental Performance. Check out their Smart Drugs glossary! Specifically on Piracetam which enhances brain function.MEDtropolis - Locate health care facilitiesThe Cognitive Enhancement Research Institute Good info on "Smart Drugs" and purchase info.Return To IndexArticles in USA Today about Brain InjuriesFall from horse ends careerYears after trauma, the tragedy multipliesA disability of capricious symptoms and effectsHelp available Via Phone & WebReturn To IndexLegalNeigborhood Legal Services - Protection and Advocacy.InjuryLawyerShop.Com - InjuryLawyerShop is an online resource that allows you to find information from lawyers in your area that practice Personal Injury Law including Wrongful Death.The Special Ed Advocate - Special Education LawHealth Care LawWebster & Associates- British ColumbiaSheri R, Abrams P.C. - Social Security Disability LawThe NeuroTrauma Law Nexus ..Great resource for TBI and the Law. Also have great info on TBI, fact and statistics.David Ferleger Disability Law, Civil Rights & JudaismBrain Injury Law GroupTraumatic Brain Injury: Proving a Lifetime DisabilityThe Consumer Law PageLaw -- Traumatic Brain Injury -- Search our Personal Injury ResourcesTraumatic Brain Injury: Evaluation and LitigationThe Traumatically Brain Injured and the LawLaw Offices of Herbert Monheit Covering Brain Injury and many other types of litigation.Shigley Law Firm, L.L.C. Focuses on representing individuals, families and small businesses in cases of catastrophic injury and wrongful death. Atlanta, Ga.Legal Rights Infocenter - legal rights information and access to attorneys who specialize in legal rights litigation.Attorneys Lee, Eadon, Isgett and Popwell, P.A. - is a plaintiff/claimant-oriented trial practice firm that focuses on representing people who have suffered personal injuries or wrongful death.DISABILITY LEGISLATION AND RELATED LAWMany of the following links point to information concerning the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA). Other sites point to information that may be helpful to those dealing with disability-related issues.Disability Rights Organization.Americans with Disabilities Act Document CenterAmericans with Disabilities Act Accessibility GuidelinesOverview of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990Technology-Related Assistance to Individuals with Disabilities ActTable of ADA CasesThe Legal Information Institute from Cornell Law SchoolU.S. Law: Primary Documents and Commentary from Cornell Law SchoolRules of Professional Conduct Involving Lawyers Table of Rule from Cornell Law SchoolADA Information Center On-Line from the Kansas Commission of Disability ConcernsThe World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law from the Indiana University School of Law - BloomingtonDisability Legal InfoDisability Laws and RegulationsReturn To IndexTBI Chat LinksMGH Neurology Chat Rooms - Chat with other brain injury folks, family members, and friends.TBI Chat Room This is a Web based Chat Room which can also be accessed via IRC. You will need a Java enabled web browser to interact via the WWW. Can now be used by AOL subscribers.TBI Professionals Home PagesDr. Appel Ph.D. Neuropsychologist, great page and info.Dr. Diane's Health-HelperDr. Sarah A. Raskin of Trinity College Home PageLen Ochs Ph.D. Home Page. In association with Center for NeurofunctioningReturn To IndexEpilepsy/Seizure InfoTBINET's Epilepsy PageThis site is about Service Dogs which are trained to detect forthcoming seizures in their owners.James Whitlock, M.D ..Epilepsy/Seizure Info & FAQ'sReturn To IndexMedical Case ManagementCase Management Society of AmericaNeurological Case Management AssociatesC.Q.I Health Care Management ServicesIndividual Case Management Association .. 1-800-664-2620Rehabilitation Case Management Consultants .. 1-800-968-4087They should be able to help you find a Certified Case Manager in your area.You should also contact your Local or State Brain Injury Assn. for recommendations, they probably have a list of known reputable Case Managers in your area. If do not yet know how to contact your Local or State Brain Injury Assn. see the next section below. To learn more about Case Management click HERE.Return To IndexTBI Specific OrganizationsU.S. - State Brain Injury AssociationsAlabama Head Injury FoundationAlaska - Brain Injury Assn.Colorado - Brain InjuryAssn.Connecticut - Brain Injury Assn.Delaware - Brain Injury Assn.Florida - Brain Injury AssnGeorgia - Brain Injury Assn.Illinois - Brain Injury Assn.Indiana - Brain Injury Assn.Kansas - Brain Injury Assn.Kentucky - Brain Injury Assn.Maine - Brain Injury Assn.Maryland - Brain Injury Assn.Massachusetts - Brain Injury Assn.Michigan - Brain Injury Assn.Minnesota - Brain Injury AssnMississippi Brain Injury Assn.Missouri - Head Injury Advisory CouncilNebraska - Brain Injury Assn.North Carolina - Brain Injury Assn.New Jersey - Brain Injury Assn.New Hampshire - Brain Injury Assn.Ohio - Brain Injury Assn.Oklahoma - Brain Injury Assn., IncOregon - Brain Injury Assn.Pacific Head Injury Assn. .. 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We want to be there for these people in their time of special and individual needs.Although not an organization, "While you are waiting" is a web site devoted to those waiting while their loved one is in a coma. This is a great source of information and support.National Resource Center for TBIComa Recovery Assn. - is a not-for-profit organization for coma and brain injury survivors, family members, friends and professionals.The Joseph Corpina Foundation - Dedicated to the enhancement of health and quality of life for children who have suffered traumatic brain injury.Virtual Hospital: Iowa Healthbook: Brain Injury - Basic information about brain injury and its treatment.Brain Injury Assn. Inc. is the new name for the National Head Injury Foundation.Traumatic Brain Inury Survival Guide - by Dr. Glen Johnson Clinical NeuropsychologistTBI Model Systems Project Developing and demonstrating a model system of care for persons with TBI. Good links and Reference material.The Ohio Head Injury Association gopher - Good articles and other resources.Toll-Free Consultation for TBI 24 hours a day.RehabNET Northeast U.S.Think First Foundation .. Nation Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program.Head Injury Com - head injury facts and infoLance's Brain Injury resource web page - People in the Victoria, B.C., Canada area will find these especially useful.Return To IndexSurvivors WWW PagesLarry Courtney's PageNick Ide's Place - There's people in the guest book from around the world. My goal now is to educate the world... Thank You All.Mrs. Hooks TBI Home - For TBI survivors and caregivers for info and fun thingsJosh's Web PageBruce Robb Home PageDavid R's Home PageLinda Hunt's Home PageSharon Gorman's Brain Injury Pages.Yaron Hillel Home PageFrank Ford's Home PageGeorgia's TBI PageK. Stoeffler (aka OregonRose) New Beginnings SOBI (Survivors Of Brain Injuries)Judith Kuster's Home Page .. Deals mainly with Communications Disorders, speech/language, hearing and stuttering.Michael Gagnon .. Home Page, New Brunswick Canada.Chris & Debbie Wilson's .. Home PageKaren Cuno-Stoeffler's New Beginnings Survivor of Brain InjuriesSteve Drake's Home Page is not really about TBI, it's about Hydrocephalus (Water on the Brain). He has links to the Hydrocephalus Association also to the HYCEPH-L, a Hydrocephalus E-mail support mailing list.Return To IndexTBI Related Organizations/InfoThe Capper Foundation - The Capper Foundation's Mission is to enhance the independence of people with physical disabilities, primarily children.Coma Recovery Assn.Brain Surgery Information CenterT.H.E. BRAIN TRUSTNational Academy of Neuropsychology's page on "Mild" Brain Injury.TBI Survival Guide Good info.The Cerebral Palsy NetworkMed-Sell - Your Resource Guide for New & Previously Owned Medical Equipment, Assistive Devices & Services.Disability Related Products & Service - Links Very Good!Communication Aids - for disabled.National Down Syndrome Society, NDSSAmerican Academy Of NeurologyTraumatic Brain Injury - The Washington Association of Optometric Physicians have provided information on how a TBI can affect vision, and what can be done to help correct the problems.Traumatic Brain Injury - Information for Caregivers - Information for those caring for loved ones with TBI. Relaxation techniques, an adapted leisure catalog, and even some mindless games (when you need a break!)The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic StressTM Look up TBI related Doctors.INDIE ..The Integrated Network of Disability Information and Education. A comprehensive one-stop resources for products, services, and information for the world wide disability community.Disability Rights ActivistMad Nation - People working together for Social Justice and Human Rights in Mental Health.Support Coalition International - Winning human rights in the “mental health system”National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems, Inc.Mental Health Com This is a huge site which has lots of info on mental health and info related to brain injuries.Browse NARIC Databases: Brain injuries.Search NARIC Databases.The Handle Institute's TBI Page.The National Institute on Life Planning For Persons with Disabilities, Inc. is a non-profit with a site for general disability information that looks pretty good.National Brain Aneurysm FoundationResources Guide Spinal Cord Injury, Stroke and Paralysis.American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Home Page.A page with many neuropsych links is at Neuropsychology Central.Social Security Administration Home Page.Department of Health and Human Services - Programs for Children and Families.American Brain Tumor Association HomepageNDLline - Nonverbal Learning DisordersCNS - Centre for Neuro skillsRest Ministries, Inc. -a service ministry for people who live with chronic illness or pain.Return To Index
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When I drive in my car, I get this pulsating tail bone, something I thought was coming from my car seat, its like a vibration, its electric. The same thing happens when I sleep, and it usually wakes me up, I don't sleep well. It feels like I'm laying on a electronic device, sometimes this vibration comes out of me like a control over my bowels or my sex, but usually its inside of me at my tail bone pulsating energy. I may start dreaming then about the targeting, something I do just about every night, and then I am given head pain during sleep. There is barely any time in which I am left alone and not toyed with. The vibration to my body, lower spine, feels like a slight earthquake, it rattles my whole foundation. I am starting to see that this hold over me is much worse than I've been letting on.
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Live Webcasts and Pre-Recorded Programming (24 Hours)http://www.un.org/webcast/2009.htmlArchivedPages: 2001 2002 Jan-May03 Jun-Sept 03 Oct-Dec03Jan-Mar 04 Apr-May04 June-Sept 04 Sep-Dec04Jan-Apr 2005 May- Aug 2005 Sept-Dec 2005Jan-Apr 2006 May-Aug 2006 Sept-Dec 2006 2007Jan-Apr 2008 May-Aug 2008 Sept-Dec 2008200915 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Georgia, H.E. Mr. Alexander Lomaia, on the situation in Georgia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]15 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in Georgia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]15 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the delegations of Germany, France, United States of America, United Kingdom and Croatia, on the situation in Georgia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 9 minutes ]H.E. Mr. Thomas Matussek, Permanent Representative of Germany[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]H.E. Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, Permanent Representative of France[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs of the United States, H.E. Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]H.E. Mr. Philip John Parham, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]H.E. Mr. Neven Jurica, Permanent Representative of Croatia[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]15 June 09 Security Council: The situation in Georgia.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 57 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 57 minutes ]15 June 09 Special Event: Launch of the 2009 Report on the Global Campaign for the Health MDGs.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 15 minutes ]15 June 09 Special Event: Secretary-General's forum on Advancing Global Health in the Face of Crisis.Morning Meeting:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 54 minutes ]Afternoon Meeting:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours and 6 minutes ]Opening Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]Closing Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 13 minutes ]15 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in Georgia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 15 minutes ]15 June 09 Press Conference: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Haiti Alrich Nicolas, to formally announce President Clinton's appointment as UN Special Envoy for Haiti.[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]15 June 09 Security Council: Non-proliferation - Briefing by the Chairman of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1737 (2006).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 23 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 23 minutes ]15 June 09 Media Stakeout: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, following the opening of the “Advancing global health in the face of crisis” forum. (Programme) pdf[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]12 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 15 minutes ]12 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Vietnam, H.E. Mr. Le Luong Minh, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]12 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of China, H.E. Mr. Zhang Yesui, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]12 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Mr. Philip John Parham, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]12 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of France, H.E. Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]12 June 09 Security Council: Non-proliferation/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Letter dated 25 May 2009 from the Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2009/271).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 56 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 56 minutes ]12 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 23 minutes ]12 June 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President-elect of the 64th Session of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]12 June 09 Press Conference: Ambassador Piet de Klerk, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Netherlands; Peter de Ruiter, author of A World for Children: Growing up without Child Labour; and Oscar Pekelder, Executive Director of World Vision in the Netherlands, to brief on the occasion of the World Day Against Child Labour.[Webcast: Archived Video - 46 minutes ]11 June 09 Press Conference: United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon.[Webcast: Archived Video - 49 minutes ]11 June 09 Press Conference (Geneva): Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the issue of Influenza A (H1N1).[Webcast: Archived Video - 13 minutes ]11 June 09 Press Conference (Geneva): Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) on the issue of Influenza A (H1N1).[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]11 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs on the situation in Sudan.[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]11 June 09 Security Council: Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan. Briefing by John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 17 minutes ]10 June 09 Press Conference: Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein and President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court on the work of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC.[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]10 June 09 Special Event: Peacebuilding Commission - Third session / Sierra Leone configuration.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours and 28 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 3 hours and 28 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]10 June 09 General Assembly: 86th plenary meetingElection of the President of the sixty-fourth session, Vice-Presidents, Chairpersons and Bureaux of the Main Committees.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]10 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 14 minutes ]10 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]10 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 9 minutes ]10 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki İlkin, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]10 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]9 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guest at noon: Michael Schulenburg, Executive Representative of the Secretary-General for Sierra Leone, to brief on the situation in that country.[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]9 June 09 Media Stakeout: Press statement on Guinea-Bissau by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki İlkin and informal comments to the media on other matters.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]9 June 09 Media Stakeout: Press statement on Burundi by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki İlkin.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]9 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]9 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]9 June 09 Security Council: The situation in Burundi. Fifth Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi (S/2009/270).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 42 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 42 minutes ]8 June 09 UN in action: Programme 1183-1187 - 5 video clips[Webcast: Archived Video - 22 minutes ]8 June 09 Press Conference: Ambassador Hasjim Djalal, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia, and David Freestone, Professor at George Washington University Law School and Visiting Professor at UN University, to mark World Oceans Day.[Webcast: Archived Video - 53 minutes ]8 June 09 Security Council: The situation in Sierra Leone - Second report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (S/2009/267).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 2 hours ]8 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]5 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka, H.E. Mr. H. M. G. S. Palihakkara, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]5 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]5 June 09 Media Stakeout: United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, following the meeting with the Security Council Informal Interactive Discussion on Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]5 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by Ms. Mia Farrow on the situation in Sudan.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]5 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on the situation in Sudan.[Webcast: Archived Video - 16 minutes ]5 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Sudan, H.E. Mr. Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad on the situation in Sudan.[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ]5 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 22 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 22 minutes ]5 June 09 Security Council: Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan. Briefing by Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).[Webcast: Archived Video - 28 minutes ]4 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]4 June 09 Press Conference: The Coalition for the International Criminal Court, to brief on Darfur. Speakers will be: Richard Dicker, Director, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch; and Omer Ismail, Vice President, Advocacy, Darfur Peace and Development and Advisor, The Enough Project.[Webcast: Archived Video - 55 minutes ]4 June 09 Security Council: International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (S/2009/252) and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (S/2009/247).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours and 3 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 3 hours and 3 minutes ]4 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Prime Minister of Croatia, H.E. Mr. Ivo Sanader, on the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]3 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guests at noon: Michael Adlerstein, Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Capital Master Plan (CMP), to provide an update on the CMP.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 21 minutes ]3 June 09 General Assembly: 85th plenary meetingFollow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit (draft resolution A/63/L.8/Rev.1) “Climate change and its possible security implications”.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 9 minutes][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 9 minutes]2 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development of Israel, H.E. Mr. Silvan Shalom, following his meeting with the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 22 minutes ]2 June 09 Press Conference: Ambassador Baki Ilkin, Permanent Representative of Turkey and President of the Security Council for June, to brief on the Council's programme of work for the month.[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]2 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]2 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Prime Minister of Croatia, H.E. Mr. Ivo Sanader, following his meeting with the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]2 June 09 Special Event: International student video conference in observance of UN World Environment Day with interactive dialogue on climate change among students from Bangladesh, Kenya, Panama, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 40 minutes ]1 June 09 Special Event: 2009 UN Population Award Ceremony. The Secretary-General will present the Population Award to the laureates.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 50 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]1 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]1 June 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]1 June 09 Media Stakeout: H.E. Mr. Ehud Barak, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Israel to brief the press following his meeting with the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]1 June 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 27 minutes ]29 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by H.E. Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar, Foreign Minister of Somalia, on the Piracy off the Coast of Somalia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ]29 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by Mr. Greg Delawie, United States of America. Acting Assistant Secretary, in the office of Political and Military Affairs (US States Department) on the Piracy off the Coast of Somalia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 12 minutes ]29 May 09 Special Event: International Day of U.N. Peacekeepers -Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Alain Le Roy will award medals at Headquarters to the military and police officers currently serving in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 26 minutes ]29 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, Special Representative for Somalia, to brief on the situation in Somalia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 22 minutes ]29 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Mohamed Abdullahi Omaar, Foreign Minister of Somalia, to brief on the situation in Somalia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 44 minutes ]29 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guests at noon: Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Susana Malcorra, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, to brief on the occasion of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 2 minutes ]29 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki İlkin, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]29 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]29 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Cyprus, H.E. Mr. Minas A. Hadjimichael, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]29 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Côte d’Ivoire (S/2009/248)[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 7 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 7 minutes ]29 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Cyprus[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 6 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 6 minutes ]29 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Amre Moussa, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States.[Webcast: Archived Video - 50 minutes ]29 May 09 Special Event: International Day of U.N. Peacekeepers - Dag Hammarskjöld Medals will be awarded posthumously to the military, police and civilian personnel who lost their lives last year serving in United Nations peacekeeping operations. The medals will be received by representatives of the respective Permanent Missions to be forwarded on to the next of kin.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 38 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]29 May 09 Special Event: International Day of U.N. Peacekeepers - Solemn wreath-laying ceremony in honour of the 132 peacekeeping personnel, 10 of them women, who lost their lives whether through attacks, illnesses or accidents in 2008 in the service of peace.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 9 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]28 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]28 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]28 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]28 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 minute ]28 May 09 Security Council: Briefing by Security Council mission to Africa (14 to 21 May 2009).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 39 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 39 minutes ]28 May 09 Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, to launch a revised humanitarian response plan for Pakistan.[Webcast: Archived Video - 21 minutes ]28 May 09 Special Event: Partial coverage of the Graduation Ceremony for the Class of 2009 of the United Nations International School (UNIS)[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 26 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]28 May 09 Press Conference: Sheila Sisulu, World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Executive Director for Hunger Solutions and Henk-Jan Brinkman, WFP Senior Advisor for Economic Policy, to brief on the subject of hunger amid the financial and food crises.[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]28 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guest at noon: Maxwell Gaylard, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and UN Coordinator for humanitarian and development activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, to provide a humanitarian update on the situation in Gaza.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 1 minute ]28 May 09 Press Conference: Rob Vos, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division at Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), to launch the joint United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AU) report “Developing African Agriculture through Regional Value Chains.”[Webcast: Archived Video - 48 minutes ]28 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (S/2009/246).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 55 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 1 hour and 55 minutes ]27 May 09 Press Conference: Alexander Lomaia, Permanent Representative of Georgia, to brief in connection with the Secretary-General's report pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1808 (2008), 1839 (2008) and 1866 (2009).[Webcast: Archived Video - 28 minutes ]27 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guests at noon: Guest: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, to brief on 8th Session of the Forum (18-29 May).[Webcast: Archived Video - 45 minutes ]27 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in Georgia and on Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]27 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]27 May 09 Press Conference: Rob Vos, Director of the Development Policy and Analysis Division at Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) will launch the mid-year report “World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009.”[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]26 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]26 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]26 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guests at noon: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs (via teleconference), and Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, will brief on the Secretary-General's recent trip to Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour ]26 May 09 Security Council: Briefings by Chairmen of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council.Morning meeting:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 45 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 2 hours and 45 minutes ]Afternoon meeting:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 46 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 1 hour and 46 minutes ]26 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Somalia[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 5 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 5 minutes ]26 May 09 General Assembly: 84th plenary meeting1. Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions: Note by the Secretary-General (A/63/102/Add.1)2. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the preparation of the 2008 Review Conference[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 22 minutes]26 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the situation in Somalia and on Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]25 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]25 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Deputy Permanent Representative of France, Mr. Jean-Pierre Lacroix, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]25 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]25 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, in connection with Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]22 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki Ilkin, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]22 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the United States Ambassador and Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs, H.E. Ms. Rosemary A. DiCarlo, on the situation in Myanmar and the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]22 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the situation in Myanmar and the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]22 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]21 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guests at noon: Angela Kane, Under-Secretary-General for Management, and Jun Yamazaki, Assistant Secretary-General and Controller to brief on the financial situation of the United Nations.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour ]21 May 09 Special Event: DPI/NGO Briefing - "May I ask a question, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict?" (Radhika Coomaraswamy).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 14 minutes ]20 May 09 Special Event: Presentation on “Bosnia and Herzegovina –– Moving forward”[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 55 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 55 minutes ]20 May 09 Press Conference: Joana Caparrós, President of Women Together, Pilar Ribal, Vice-president of Women Together, Petra Mateos, President of Hispasat, and Patricia Velásquez, actress and model, to present their activities at UNHQ on 20 and 21 May.[Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]20 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guest at noon: Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, and Susana Malcorra, Under-Secretary-General for Field Support, to brief on the latest developments and challenges in peacekeeping.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 2 minutes ]20 May 09 Media Stakeout: Raymond Wolfe, Permanent Representative of Jamaica and Russell Simmons, hip-hop musician, will speak to the press, following an event to appoint Mr. Simmons as UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Permanent Memorial to honour the victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (A/RES/63/5).[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]20 May 09 Special Event: Launch of the Trust Fund and Goodwill Ambassador Ceremony for the Permanent Memorial to honour the memory of the victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade (A/RES/63/5). Appointement of Mr. Simmons as UN Goodwill Ambassador for the Permanent Memorial.[Webcast: Archived Video - 54 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (delivered by Kiyo Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information)[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]19 May 09 21st Century: Programme #30[Webcast: Archived Video - 26 minutes ]19 May 09 UN in action (in French): Programme 1178-1182 - 5 video clips[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]19 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]19 May 09 Press Conference: Sarbuland Khan from the UN Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) and Shai Reshef from the University of the People to brief on an online initiative aimed at bridging the gap between unprecedented access to the Internet, dropping technology costs and rising tuitions worldwide.[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]18 May 09 Press Conference: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Lars Anders Baer and Carsten Smith from the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to brief on the opening of the 8th Session of the Forum.[Webcast: Archived Video - 48 minutes ]18 May 09 Special Event: Opening meeting of the eight session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 29 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 29 minutes ]Statement by Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 18 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Spanish / English: 18 minutes ]Statement by Deputy Secretary-General Asha‑Rose Migiro[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]18 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guest at noon: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, to brief on the situation in Sri Lanka and Pakistan.[Webcast: Archived Video - 55 minutes ]15 May 09 Special Event: On the occasion of the International recognition of the Day of Vesak (coordinated by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea).[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 hours and 29 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]15 May 09 Press Conference: Ambassador Eric Danon, Representative of France to the UN Conference on Disarmament, to brief on the 3rd Preparatory Committee for 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.[Webcast: Archived Video - 39 minutes ]15 May 09 Press Conference: Ambassador Boniface G. Chidyausiku of Zimbabwe will brief on the 3rd Preparatory Committee for 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference.[Webcast: Archived Video - 21 minutes ]15 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]15 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Somalia.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 4 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original language: 4 minutes ]15 May 09 Special Event: 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (4-15 May 2009). Summaries of the rountable / Closing of the sessionArchived Videos (Complete list of speakers)14 May 09 Special Event: Opening of the UNA-USA High School Model UN.Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations followed by questions and answers from the students[Webcast: Archived Video - 27 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 8 minutes ]14 May 09 Press Conference: Nirupam Sen and Michael Clark, senior advisors to the President of the General Assembly, to brief on the upcoming UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development. The briefing will focus on Asia and the Pacific region.[Webcast: Archived Video - 48 minutes ]14 May 09 Special Event: H.E. Ms. Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden, will present the report of the International Commission on Climate Change and Development.Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - 50 minutes ]14 May 09 Press Conference: Ambassador John McNee, Permanent Representative of Canada to brief, in his capacity as the President of the Economic and Social Council’s Ad-Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti, on the Group’s recent visit to the country.[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]14 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guests at noon: Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will provide an update on the climate change negotiations.[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]14 May 09 Special Event: 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (4-15 May 2009). Round tables:Realizing a sustainable green revolution in AfricaLand and Water Resources for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development.Archived Videos (Complete list of speakers)13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Austria, H.E. Mr. Thomas Mayr-Harting, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the situation in Sri Lanka and the Middle East.[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Press Statement read by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in the Middle East.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of France, H.E. Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, on the situation in Sri Lanka, Somalia, the Middle East and other matters.[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ] (French and English)13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in Somalia and Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]13 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on the situation in Somalia and Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ]13 May 09 Special Event: Cheque presentation ceremony to Play 31 [NGO].Informal remarks by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations.[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]13 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Andrei Dapkiunas, Permanent Representative of Belarus and H.E. Mr. Maged Abdelaziz, Permanent Representative of Egypt, to brief on the Interactive Thematic Dialogue of the General Assembly on "Taking collective action to end human trafficking" and on the global plan of action on preventing trafficking in persons.[Webcast: Archived Video - 40 minutes ]13 May 09 Press Conference: Hariharan Pakshi Rajan from the Secretariat of the Commission on the Limit of the Continental Shelf, to brief on submissions by State Parties to U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 37 minutes ]13 May 09 Press Conference: Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Nestor Arbito Chica, Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Ecuador, and Saisuree Chutikul from the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women to brief on the Interactive Thematic Dialogue of the General Assembly on "Taking collective action to end human trafficking.[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]13 May 09 General Assembly: Interactive Thematic Dialogue “Taking collective action to end human trafficking”. [Programme] pdf.Statement by Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, President of the General Assembly (read by the Vice-President of the General Assembly).[Webcast: Archived Video - 12 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]Morning Meeting:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 3 hours]Afternoon Meeting:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 3 hours]13 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]13 May 09 Press Conference: Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.[Webcast: Archived Video - 20 minutes ]13 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Somalia (S/2009/210).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 55 minutes ]13 May 09 Special Event: 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (4-15 May 2009). High Level Segment / Round table on food crisis.Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]Archived Videos (Complete list of speakers)12 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guests at noon: Paul Hoeffel from the Office of President of the General Assembly and Craig Mokhiber, Deputy Director of the New York office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will brief on the Human Rights Council elections.[Webcast: Archived Video - 47 minutes ]12 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by Mr. Steve Crawshaw, Human Rights Watch, following the results of the elections of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]12 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, following the results of the elections of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]12 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by a representative of the NGO "Eye on the UN", following the results of the elections of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]12 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Mexico, H.E. Mr. Claude Heller, following the results of the elections of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]12 May 09 General Assembly: 83rd plenary meeting:Elections of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 50 minutes]11 May 09 Special Event: Side event during the 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development on the theme of "Gender and food security".Participants: Cheryl Morden from International Fund for Agricultural Development, Martha Hirpa from Heifer International and Linda Nghatsane, a farmer from South Africa.The event is organized by Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN) in Partnership with Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 28 minutes ]11 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Observer of Palestine, H.E. Mr. Riyad Mansour, on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]11 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by H.E. Mr. David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the UK; H.E. Mr. Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France; and H.E. Mr. Michael Spindelegger, Federal Minister of European and International Affairs of Austria, on the situation in Sri Lanka, the Middle East and other matters.[Webcast: Archived Video - 14 minutes ]11 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, to brief following Security Council debate on the Middle East.[Webcast: Archived Video - 17 minutes ]11 May 09 Security Council: The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 18 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 18 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]11 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - 19 minutes ]11 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by H.E. Mr. David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]8 May 09 Security Council: Presidential Statement. The situation in Chad and the Central African Republic.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 5 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 5 minutes ]8 May 09 Press Conference: President of the General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann to brief on the draft outcome document of the upcoming UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development (1-3 June 2009).[Webcast: Archived Video - 17 minutes ]8 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 15 minutes ]8 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Sudan, H.E. Mr. Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad on the situation in Chad.[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]8 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of France, H.E. Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, on the situation in Chad and Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ] (French and English)8 May 09 General Assembly: 82nd plenary meeting:1. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects: report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/63/402/Add.1)2. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the preparation of the 2008 Review Conference: draft decision (A/63/L.71)[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 33 minutes][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 1 hour and 33 minutes]8 May 09 Security Council: The situation in Chad, the Central African Republic and the subregion (S/2009/232).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 45 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 45 minutes ]7 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Nirupam Sen, Permanent Representative of India, and Michael Clark, senior adviser to the President of the General Assembly, to brief on the General Assembly's upcoming Economic Crisis Summit.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 2 minutes ]7 May 09 Special Event: Co-sponsored by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.Presentations by: U.N. High Representative Sergio Duarte, U.N. Messenger of Peace Michael Douglas, Former Under-Secretary General Nobuyasu Abe, Former Under-Secretary General Jayantha Dhanapala and Chaired by GSI President Jonathan Granoff.[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 35 minutes ]7 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation, H.E. Mr. Vitaly I. Churkin, on the situation in the Middle-East, Chad and other matters.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]7 May 09 Special Event: NGO Briefing on "Media, Dialogue, Mutual Understanding, and Reconciliation: A Look at the Arab World" - In Observance of World Press Freedom Day (3 May).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 34 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 34 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 7 minutes ]7 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 19 minutes ]7 May 09 Security Council: The situation in the Middle East. Ninth Semi-Annual Report of the Secretary-General on the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004) (S/2009/218).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 25 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 25 minutes ]6 May 09 Special Event: Panel Discussion "Progressive Initiatives" - Mr. Gareth Evans of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, Ms. Christie Brinkley, GSI Board Member, Hideo Hiraoka, Member of the Japanese Diet, chaired by Mr. Henrik Salander. (more)[Webcast: Archived Video - 1 hour and 22 minutes ]6 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 34 minutes ]6 May 09 Media Stakeout: H.E. Mr. Shimon Peres, President of Israel.[Webcast: Archived Video - 15 minutes ]6 May 09 Press Conference: Julia Freedson from Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, Jo Becker from Human Rights Watch and Htoo Htoo from the Karen Human Rights Group to launch Watchlist’s new report on children and armed conflict in Myanmar.[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]6 May 09 Press Conference: Connie Hedegaard, Minister for Climate and Energy of Denmark, to brief on the UN climate change negotiations and prospects for reaching a global climate change agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) to take place in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009.[Webcast: Archived Video - 27 minutes ]5 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by H.E. Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi and H.E. Mr. Gareth Evans, Co-chairs, International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.[Webcast: Archived Video - 18 minutes ]5 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Alexander Lomaia, Permanent Representative of Georgia.[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]5 May 09 Press Conference: United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon and Dr. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Influenza.[Webcast: Archived Video - 54 minutes ]5 May 09 Security Council: Report of the Secretary-General on the request of Nepal for United Nations assistance in support of its peace process (S/2009/221) .[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 30 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 1 hour and 30 minutes ]5 May 09 Security Council: Presidential Statement - Peace and security in Africa.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 7 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 7 minutes ]5 May 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Head of the United States of America Delegation to the Preparatory Committee for the 2010 Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Mrs. Rose Gottemoeller, Assistant Secretary of States.[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ]4 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guest at noon: Dr. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Influenza.[Webcast: Archived Video - 50 minutes ]4 May 09 Special Event: Opening of the 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (4-15 May 2009).Archived Video (Complete list of speakers)4 May 09 General Assembly: Informal meeting on the (H1N1) influenza.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour]Opening statement by Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann , President of the General Assembly[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ]Statement by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO)[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]Statement by Mr. David Nabarro, Senior UN System Coordinator for Influenza[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]4 May 09 Press Conference: H.E. Mr. Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation and President of the Security Council for May, to brief on the Council's programme of work for the month.[Webcast: Archived Video - 32 minutes ]1 May 09 Press Conference: Michael Clark, senior adviser to the President of the General Assembly, to brief on the upcoming General Assembly Economic Crisis Summit (1-3 June)[Webcast: Archived Video - 42 minutes ]1 May 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 21 minutes ]30 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Morocco, H.E. Mr.Mohammed Loulichki, on the situation in Western Sahara.[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ] (English and Arabic)30 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Mexico, H.E. Mr. Claude Heller, on the situation in Western Sahara.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]30 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]30 April 09 Security Council: The situation in Western Sahara.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 44 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 44 minutes ]30 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 16 minutes ]30 April 09 Press Conference: World Health Organization. (Audio only)[Webcast: Archived Audio - 26 minutes ]30 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki Ilkin, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]30 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus, H.E. Mr. Alexander Downer, on the situation in Cyprus.[Webcast: Archived Video - 15 minutes ]29 April 09 Press Conference: Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO), to brief on the current situation of the Swine Flu.[Statement by WHO Director-General][Webcast: Archived Audio - 50 minutes ]29 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Ambassador of France for Human Rights, H.E. Mr. François Zimeray, on Children and armed conflict.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ] (English and French)29 April 09 Press Conference: John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, to brief on his recent mission to Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 29 minutes ]29 April 09 Security Council: Children and armed conflict. Report of the Secretary-General on the Children and armed conflict (S/2009/158).Statement by H.E. Ms. Patricia Espinosa, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 10 minutes ]Morning Session:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours and 9 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 3 hours and 9 minutes ]Afternoon Session:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 4 hours and 28 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 4 hours and 28 minutes ]29 April 09 Press Conference: Carlos Lopes, Executive Director of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), and William Lacy Swing, Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), to discuss the Migration and Development Seminar Series.[Webcast: Archived Video - 31 minutes ]29 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.[Webcast: Archived Video - 44 minutes ]28 April 09 Special Event: Powhiri (traditional Maori ceremony) to welcome UNDP Administrator Helen Clark.The powhiri is the traditional Maori ceremony which takes place when manuhiri (visitors) and tangata whenua (people of the land) meet. The ceremony is a dynamic part of public life in New Zealand today. In this case, the ceremony will provide the framework for the "delivery" of Helen Clark by New Zealand Maori leaders to UNDP. New Zealand's Maori leaders have travelled to New York to support Helen Clark in their personal capacity to carry out this powhiri.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 54 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 54 minutes ]28 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 24 minutes ]28 April 09 Security Council: The situation in Côte d'Ivoire. Twentieth progress report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (S/2009/196).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 17 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 17 minutes ]27 April 09 Press Conference: Dr. Keiji Fukuda, Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment of WHO briefs on the swine flu situation.[Webcast: Archived Video - 38 minutes ]27 April 09 Special Event: Special High-level Meeting of the Economic and Social Council with the Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.[Website]Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 8 minutes ]Morning Session:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 4 hours and 12 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 4 hours and 12 minutes ]Afternoon Session:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 3 hours and 40 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 3 hours and 40 minutes ]27 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. Guest at noon: Rodolphe Adada, Joint AU-UN Special Representative for Darfur, briefs the press following Security Council consultations on AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - 36 minutes ]27 April 09 Security Council: Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan. Report of the Secretary-General on the deployment of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (S/2009/201).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 19 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 19 minutes ]24 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Japan, H.E. Mr. Yukio Takasu, on Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]24 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Democratic Peoples's Republic of Korea, Mr. Pak Tok Hun on non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]24 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Turkey, H.E. Mr. Baki Ilkin, on Non-proliferation/Democratic People's Republic of Korea.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]24 April 09 Special Event: Event on the theme "The tsunami global lessons learned", to present the report entitled "The tsunami legacy: Innovation, breakthroughs and change", co-chaired by the newly appointed Administrator of UNDP, in her capacity as Head of UNDG, and the Permanent Representative of Indonesia.Statement by H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations[Webcast: Archived Video - 9 minutes ]Statement by Mr. Bill Clinton, former US President and UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery[Webcast: Archived Video - 17 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 41 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 41 minutes ]24 April 09 Special Event: Video message of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, on "Women for Peace".[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 minutes ]24 April 09 Press Conference: Amin Awad, Representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Sri Lanka, to brief on the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka.Press Statement by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Mexico, H.E. Mr. Claude Heller[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - 30 minutes ]24 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guest at noon: Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, to present the latest Annual Report of the Secretary General on the situation of children and armed conflict, and brief on her recent trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[Webcast: Archived Video - 43 minutes ]24 April 09 General Assembly: 81st plenary meetingSpecial economic assistance to individual countries or regions: draft resolution A/63/L.67[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 15 minutes][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 15 minutes]24 April 09 Security Council: The situation in Chad, the Central African Republic and the subregion. Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (S/2009/199).[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 42 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 42 minutes ]23 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General and the Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly. Guest at noon: Catherine Bragg, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, to brief on the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 52 minutes ]23 April 09 Special Event: NGO Briefing on "Towards the End of the Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries" in observance of World Malaria Day 2009.[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 6 minutes ]22 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka, H.E. Mr. H.M.G.S. Palihakkara, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 9 minutes ]22 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Ms. Catherine Bragg, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 4 minutes ]22 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the President of the Security Council and Permanent Representative of Mexico, H.E. Mr. Claude Heller, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 6 minutes ]22 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America, H.E. Ms. Susan E. Rice, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 3 minutes ]22 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, H.E. Sir John Sawers, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 5 minutes ]22 April 09 Special Event: Mother Earth Day special event.Opening statement by Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann , President of the General Assembly[Webcast: Archived Video - 11 minutes ]Statement by H.E. Mr. Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia[Webcast: English | Original language - 15 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 22 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 22 minutes ]22 April 09 Press Conference: Evo Morales, President of Bolivia, and Paul Oquist, Senior Advisor to the President of the General Assembly, to brief on the General Assembly's plenary meeting on International Mother Earth Day.[Webcast: Archived Video - 59 minutes ]22 April 09 Daily Noon Press Briefing: By the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.[Webcast: Archived Video - 21 minutes ]22 April 09 Media Stakeout: Informal comments to the Media by the Permanent Representative of France, H.E. Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 2 minutes ]22 April 09 General Assembly: 80th plenary meetingProtection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind (draft resolution A/63/L.69).Statement by H.E. Mr. Evo Morales Ayma, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia[Webcast: English | Original language - 13 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - English: 1 hour and 2 minutes][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 1 hour and 2 minutes]22 April 09 Press Conference: Joseph Cornelius Donnelly from CARITAS Internationalis, Anna Neistat from Human Rights Watch, Robert Templer from International Crisis Group and Nimmi Gowrinathan from Operation USA to brief on the situation in Sri Lanka.[Webcast: Archived Video - 57 minutes ]21 April 09 Security Council: Maintenance of international peace and security: Mediation and settlement of disputes. Report of the Secretary-General on enhancing mediation and its support activities (S/2009/189).Morning session:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 50 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 50 minutes ]Afternoon session:[Webcast: Archived Video - English: 2 hours and 27 minutes ][Webcast: Archived Video - Original Language: 2 hours and 27 minutes ]2Read more…
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(c)Ron P AngellCamper Van Beethoven- "Sweethearts" 
Fires do start slow at firstFires sometimes need to be nursedI cover you with me and the fuelof our souls are the energy.blowing wind from heavens abovesupply the oxygen within our loveA tremble from within youmagnifies into a quake within meOur energy of "us" turns into a firewithin is ultimate love and desireOur senses hold within each otherIlluminated souls of forever loversRon P Angell(c)Camper Van Beethoven- "Take The Skinheads Bowling" Ceilings of stars Walls of clouds Heavens forever distant Terminate in the instantStorms do buildThunder does brewWhat I really wantIs to be there holding youLightning does strikeAnd we hold one another in the lightThe light show beginsAnd we smile into the windLook at me looking at youBehind your mirror I am nowOn the other side not far awayWe will wake rested to a new dayAtmosphere does extend andtouches the vacuum of spaceThere you will find no stormsOnly peace in Gods heavenly placeOur souls in the silver liningWe have each other to keep the bindingLet our rain fall down nowMix our drops of our shedding tearsWhen we are done cryingWe make a lake for diving(c)Ron P AngellCamper Van Beethoven-"All her favorite fruit"
