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http://www.groundzeromedia.org/2017/08/14/814-turning-the-screws-creating-the-perfect-psychotronic-riot-w-dr-john-hall/

TURNING THE SCREWS

CREATING THE PERFECT PSYCHOTRONIC RIOT

MONOLOGUE WRITTEN BY CLYDE LEWIS

One of the most frustrating and vindicating aspects of what I do is when I report stories and make predictions that wind up being right. It is not that I want my ego stroked or I expect brownie points for being on top of trends. I am frustrated and gratified because I am constantly demonstrating how the mainstream media with its relentless agendas are appearing to collaborate with the Deep State in creating divisive stories that pit American against American.

We can’t separate truth from fiction because it is now being blurred with distracting news speak that focuses on the wrong issues and breeds racist and so called counter racist rhetoric.

It is especially true with the situation in Charlottesville, Virginia. While I am not intending to discuss who is right and who is wrong with the issue of KKK and Antifa – it should be clear that extremists are everywhere and that people with brains should stay clear of any demonstration or gathering where extremist ideas can breed.

Both sides are running blind and those in the Deep State know this and it is all part of the agenda to create a controlled demolition of the republic and hardening the resolve of the police state.

What people fail to realize when events like Charlottesville happen and why so-called peaceful rallies don’t work anymore is because the new crowd dynamics are now breeding a common enemy mentality.

It’s not that everyone in the protest crowd suddenly assumes the identity of a violent criminal – it’s that many peaceful protestors feel a sort of kinship with those they see as a threat. In Charlottesville, it was the KKK and the white supremacists being seen as a common enemy with Antifa. The police stood down because in this case, the enemy wasn’t clear to them. In other clashes, it is the protesters fighting the police, while in Charlottesville, it was people against people.

The truth is that crowd’s social identity was pushed into two warring factions – racists against anti-fascists, the police eventually saw both as a threat. The warring groups at this point did not care that the police were even there.

Usually the militarized crowd intervention changes the psychology of the very crowd members it’s designed to protect, and not for the better.

The police were standing down.

The riot was caught up in some weird collective trance and the trance was broken with the final act of a car barreling into the crowd killing one protester.

Now, while the urge to talk about who is right or who was wrong at the riot would be tempting, I choose to point out a coincidence that may or may not indicate there is something more to this horrible tragedy than meets the eye.

Before we were hearing about what happened in Virginia, there was a story that was reported by the mainstream media where the subject matter was something that I would talked about on my show and not something that a network would even have the guts to report.

The media reported that American and Canadian diplomats were complaining of irritation, fatigue and hearing loss while working at the US Embassy in Cuba.

In the Autumn of 2016, a series of US diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing, according to officials with knowledge of the investigation into the case. Several of the diplomats were recent arrivals at the embassy, which reopened in 2015 as part of President Barack Obama’s re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Some of the US diplomats’ symptoms were so severe they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, officials said. After months of investigation US officials concluded that the diplomats had been attacked with an advanced sonic weapon that operated outside the range of audible sound and had been deployed either inside or outside their residences.

It was not immediately clear if the device was a weapon used in a deliberate attack, or had some other purpose. The US officials weren’t authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The media seemed so surprised that this could happen and said it sounded like something out of a science fiction story.

Well, if they knew anything about history they would know that bioelectromagnetics and brainwave manipulation is not something new – it has been around since the 1960’s and has been used successfully to induce violent and passive behaviors.

What is used is a low frequency pulse that can be raised or lowered to get the desired effect. The carrier pulse can’t be hears but it covertly creates heart rate increase and it raises adrenaline levels when the pulses are increased.

This carrier technology is described in U.S. Patent #5,159,703, “Silent Subliminal Presentation System”. According to company literature, this technology has been leased out to six U.S. government agencies, (including the U.S. Army’s Psychological Warfare Operations), it can be used along selected music and other sounds to create tension.

The U.S. Military has developed this highly sophisticated mind- altering technology for use as a weapon. It was used during Operation Desert Storm against Iraqi troops to induce in them feelings of hopelessness and despair that resulted in “mass surrenders”. The use of this Psy-Ops weapon was reported by ITV News Bureau (London) in two bulletins, dated March 23 and 26, 1991 but the U.S. press was subject to military censorship that suppressed this information.

In addition to land based broadcasts, this mind altering technology has been incorporated into USAF aircraft EC-130E, code named Commando Solo. The USAF acknowledges use of this technology in the following operations: Urgent Fury, Just Cause, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Desert Thunder, Uphold Democracy, and Joint Guard. The last two were directed against civilian populations to influence elections in Haiti and Bosnia and create riots.

The mind altering technology is officially listed as part of the new “non-lethal” weapons. These non-lethal weapons are being transferred by the Department of Defense over to the Department of Justice to be available to the local police force.

Now, many people are familiar with the infamous church scene in the movie “The Kingsman.” This scene showed the complete annihilation of a congregation by Colin Firth who plays the character of Harry Hart, an agent that is under the control of a neural inhibitor l at the time that he was killing the congregation.

A pulse from a cell phone triggered Hart and the entire congregation began attacking one another.

After the movie was released you may remember that there was a church shooting in South Carolina.

The Charleston, South Carolina shootings where 9 black parishioners were killed by a young white supremacist, triggered discussion of a race war.

When church shooting suspect Dylann Roof took a police-escorted flight to South Carolina Thursday evening, he did so wearing a striped jail jumpsuit courtesy of the Charleston County Sheriff’s Department.

Jailers booked Roof in at 7:28 p.m., less than 24 hours after the reportedly self-avowed racist allegedly massacred nine people during a Bible study session, sparking a regional manhunt. Roof was assigned Cell 1141B in a part of the jail where suicidal and other high-risk inmates get more oversight.

Roof’s cellblock neighbor was former North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager, who is jailed in a high-profile, racially charged murder case. Dylann Storm Roof appeared to hold some decidedly racist beliefs, and subscribed to displaying symbols reinforcing these stances.

This is similar to the suspect in the Charlottesville, Virginia case.

Twenty year old James Alex Fields Jr. is the driver that allegedly intentionally plowed into a crowd at the rally that happened Saturday.

His Facebook page also displayed pictures of Pepe the Frog, a baby picture of Adolf Hitler and a picture of him standing with a group called, Vanguard America. A white nationalist group that helped organize the protest.

This incident and the one in South Carolina seem to have elements of triggered responses and in Charlottesville, there were activities that don’t fit most crowd dynamics.

Some two hours away from Charlottesville, Virginia Tech hosts “The Farm,” where mind control experimentation is conducted under the aegis of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The United States Government has been experimenting with non-lethal aural weapons called active denial systems that have been used for crowd control. There is also non-lethal psychological experiments that have been used on groups of people and the new digital systems can open the door for potential abuse in this arena. It has nothing to do with gateway drugging or even illegal drug use. It is simply a way to create hysteria and an excuse to acclimate the young people into getting used to trance states for the implementation of subliminal neuro-linguistic programming.

Musical torture and binaural audio torture has been used effectively by the 361st Psychological Operations Company against prisoners of war. Heavy metal songs are interpreted by prisoners as songs of rage and rap music also affects them.

During the Vietnam War there was a psychological operation called “Operation Wandering Soul” where a tape called Ghost Tape Number 10 was used against the communists in North Vietnam. The sound was funeral music and the sound of what was supposed to be a dead Vietcong soldier wandering in the jungle.

The Vietcong believed that the unburied dead would walk the earth aimlessly suffering. The sound was terrifying and was played throughout the night.

One of the more famous audio assaults came during the Waco Siege.

The agents at the compound used an aural composite of animals being slaughtered, horns honking and binaural beats to irritate the followers of David Koresh.

However, one doesn’t have to hear an audible scream or horn to be triggered into violence.

There is a Pentagon psychotronics technology known as the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum that has been fully operational since the early 1990s. Not only does this technology work to control the mind but there have been trial runs of similar technologies in other countries. There have been stories that have been reported showing that it is a powerful and non-lethal tool.

The Silent Sound Spectrum can be used with a combination of the HAARP transmitters, GWEN towers, microwave cell phone towers, and High Definition DIGITAL TV boxes and receivers.

All you need is a good pulse from the cell phone and you could see a violent apprising.

The new systems of control that the U.S. Military are using are sophisticated electronic systems designed to ‘speak’ directly to the mind of the target in order to alter and entrain the target’s brainwaves, to manipulate the brain’s electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns and thus artificially implant negative emotional states feelings of intense fear, anxiety, despair and hopelessness as well as feelings of hope and desire for things not generally desired.

The scary part is that if you can fine tune ELF you may have the ultimate mind control machine. The human brain works in extremely low frequency ranges, messages are sent to parts of the body with these ELF signals.

These frequencies can be used for crowd control in order to maintain order. The frequencies can be used to produce mild to severe physiological disruption or perceptual distortion or disorientation. It can also be used to create rage and irritation.

It has been revealed that during the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union battled on many fronts to demonstrate their superior technical and scientific achievements. For many years there have been reports of mind control and unconventional research into the field of psychotronics.

The technique of remote influence on the brain spins all kinds of thoughts about the MK Ultra program and the eventual advanced techniques in using mind control and torture programs in interrogation procedures.

Serge Kernbach at the Research Center of Advanced Robotics and Environmental Science in Stuttgart, Germany has uncovered some very important information about the extent of mind control programs in the former Soviet Union and how billions of dollars were used in order to compete with the United States in mind control endeavors.

The Moscow Signal was the name given by intelligence insiders to the low-power microwave beams claimed to have been broadcast into the US embassy for more than two decades, from 1953 until 1976. No members of the public were to hear of it until 1976, not even the staff of the US embassy in Moscow.

The signal went undiscovered until 1962 when a security sweep for listening devices revealed the presence of an unusual pulsed series of microwaves. The Department of Defense had only recently terminated its Tri-Service Program, a microwave studies “health and safety” evaluation operated from 1957 to 1961.

In 1965, a project in the U.S. called Project Pandora was undertaken in which chimpanzees were exposed to microwave radiation. The potential for exerting a degree of control on human behavior by low level microwave radiation now exists because of these tests.

Social engineers or master magicians have more power over us than we realize. It is uncomfortable to think that governments have spent billions of dollars to ring sophisticated Pavlovian bells to get their dogs to do tricks without being told.

Governments today have sophisticated LRADD weapons and have been known to turn the screws on the human brain. From Waco, to the LA Riots, there is reason to believe that the people were subjected to a civil experiment and the police were told to stand down as people started ripping each other apart and destroy property.

Those who rob us of our cognitive liberty see it as some sort of human alchemy, where they wish to change us psychologically. The reasons are not quite clear; however the prevailing theory is that we are being programmed to accept a new philosophy or ideology that will save us from the pratfalls of a so called “flawed world.”

One can argue that the world today is flawed; however, the flaws may be the result of mixed messages and sophisticated mind control that is effective in generating a schism meant to obfuscate the knowledge and information that we have obtained.

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https://www.rt.com/uk/370001-homeless-sprayed-water-streets/

Targeted homeless people sprayed with freezing water on ‘hostile’ British streets

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Homeless people are facing increasingly hostile streets as more rough sleepers find their nights disturbed by “deliberate noise pollution” and “defensive architecture,” as well as attempts to spray them with water as they sleep.

Crisis, a homelessness charity, said 20 percent of those it surveyed claimed to experience deliberate attempts to disturb their sleep and force them away from public spaces.

Respondents to the survey said these measures included playing loud music, bird song and traffic noise from speakers, as well as metal spikes embedded into infrastructure.

John, one of 458 people Crisis spoke to who were sleeping rough or have slept rough in the last year, said he has experienced noise pollution in a tunnel that prevented him sleeping there.

You just couldn’t sleep, because of the noise, it was boats, trains, bird noises, animal noises, it was strange, it was altogether, you know, and it was weird, it was horrible,” he said.

Steve, also homeless, said the noise “wasn’t music it was like, bird’s noises, boats… and then trains.”

A third of those surveyed said these measures prevented them from finding anywhere to sleep at night, while some 60 percent said they have also seen a rise in spikes and other types of “defensive architecture.”

Some 21 percent also reported being “wetted down” – when their sleeping bags and bedding is sprayed with water while they are still in them.

Two-thirds of respondents said they have seen an increase in security guards and wardens in public spaces who moved them along if they tried to sleep.

One homeless woman, Shelly, said police attitudes towards homeless people have changed in the UK.

Before they’d leave you alone, whereas now, you know, they’ll come actually looking for you, and either arrest you or move you on.”

Earlier this month homelessness charity Shelter published findings indicating the number of homeless people in the UK has surpassed a quarter of a million.

Some 255,000 people are forced to live in hostels and other types of temporary accommodation or to sleep rough on the streets, the group found.

A homeless man was found dead on the streets of Birmingham just a day after the report was published, with some bystanders speculating he “froze to death” on one of the coldest nights of the year.

Crisis Chief Executive Jon Sparkes said: “The rise of anti-homeless spikes, noise pollution and other hostile measures is a sad indictment of how we treat the most vulnerable people in our society.

Rough sleeping is devastating enough without homeless people having to endure such hostility from their surroundings.

We can all be guilty of adopting an out of sight, out of mind attitude when it comes to homelessness. Instead we need to acknowledge that it is rising and that we need to work together to end it.”

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The stress-free way to beat fear: Scientists reveal how subconscious brain training can cure phobias

  • People were trained to associate a visual cure with a mild electric shock
  • This created a memory in their brain with a unique signature of activity
  • But the researchers were able to coax people into subconsciously overwriting these memories over time, offering hope for clinical therapy 

Whether it is a phobia of spiders or a traumatic event in the past, the effects of fear can reverberate through a person’s life.

But with the right training we can rid ourselves of them, according to a study.

Researchers have found a method for tricking the brain into letting go of specific fears, which they claim could lead to new treatments for phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

By combining functional brain imaging with artificial intelligence, researchers have been able to zero in on memories related to fear and retrain them. Pictured is a scan of a brain showing information associated with a fear memory

By combining functional brain imaging with artificial intelligence, researchers have been able to zero in on memories related to fear and retrain them. Pictured is a scan of a brain showing information associated with a fear memory

For people suffering from phobias, a common course of treatment is aversion therapy, bringing someone into contact with their fear.

In the case of spiders, a person could be gradually introduced to the arachnids through photos, images and eventually the real thing, learning that their fear is far greater than any actual risk a spider poses.

This course of treatment is not for everyone however, with many opting out of facing their phobia head on.

Taking a different approach, an international team, including researchers at the University of Cambridge, was able to zero in on the memory of a specific fear using a new technique involving brain scans and artificial intelligence (AI).

In order to retrain people with fear memories, researchers combined functional MRI scans with artificial intelligence, helping them to target a specific memory and enable people to overwrite the response

In order to retrain people with fear memories, researchers combined functional MRI scans with artificial intelligence, helping them to target a specific memory and enable people to overwrite the response

Researchers were able to coax people into subconsciously overwriting these memories over time, offering hope for clinical therapy for PTSD and phobias (stock image)

Researchers were able to coax people into subconsciously overwriting these memories over time, offering hope for clinical therapy for PTSD and phobias (stock image)

In an experiment, they planted the seed of fear in the brains of 17 healthy participants by training them to associate specific visual cues with mild electric shocks.

At the heart of the approach was Pavlovian conditioning – the same process by which dogs were trained to salivate when they heard a ringing bell.

DECODED NEUROFEEDBACK (DECNEF): HOW IT WORKS

In order to retrain people with fear memories, researchers combined functional MRI scans with artificial intelligence.

In an initial session, volunteers watched a screen and when a certain image flashed, they received a mild electric shock.

Through this conditioning, they learned to associate a red coloured disc with a negative outcome, so creating an aversive memory.

The resulting brain activity was analysed by an AI algorithm, which picked up on the signature of aversive response.

After the initial sessions, volunteers were subtly trained to associate a reward with the negative stimulus, without being made consciously aware.

Over time, the researches showed that the brain activity associated with the aversive response died down, indicating they had been trained to 'overwrite' the memory.

When a set colour appeared on a screen the volunteers were zapped, resulting in them linking certain images with mild discomfort and creating a ‘fear’ memory, detected using brain imaging.

Different coloured discs were used, with red and green easier to spot on the scans due to signature activity in the visual cortex – the large region of the brain which deals with visual information.

By using AI algorithms, the team was able to spot different activity patterns from the scans.

Once they had the pattern of a fear memory, they attempted to ‘overwrite’ the response, by offering their guinea pigs a monetary reward.

Dr Ben Seymour, a researcher at the University of Cambridge and one of the study’s authors, said: ‘When we induced a mild fear memory in the brain, we were able to develop a fast and accurate method of reading it by using AI algorithms.

‘The challenge then was to find a way to reduce or remove the fear memory, without ever consciously evoking it.’

Dr Seymour added: ‘We realised that even when the volunteers were simply resting, we could see brief moments when the pattern of fluctuating brain activity had partial features of the specific fear memory, even though the volunteers weren't consciously aware of it.

‘Because we could decode these brain patterns quickly, we decided to give subjects a reward - a small amount of money - every time we picked up these features of the memory.’  

Rather than rewarding people for consciously overcoming the fear memory, like in aversion therapy, people were rewarded for subtly overriding their response unconsciously over time.

Writing in a paper published in the new journal Nature Human Behaviour, the researchers explain: ‘Overall, the fear reduction effect achieved…appears robust.’

They add: ‘Our current findings may eventually benefit clinical treatments for fear-related disorders.’ 

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The creepy website that tracks your every move: ClickClickClick reveals how much browsers know about you

  • ClickClickClick details actions in real-time, both in writing and vocally
  • For example, if you move the mouse, it will write 'subject has moved right'
  • The unnerving tool does not do any damage to your computer, but is a reminder to be wary about who is watching you on the web

While you might think that clearing your browsing history is enough to keep your activity private, a new website could make you think again.

A creepy website called ClickClickClick has been developed to show how your online behaviour is constantly being measured by your browser.

The website details your actions in real-time, from your movements on the page, to the other websites you have visited, in the hope of creating awareness on privacy in a playful manner.

A creepy website called clickclickclick has been developed to show how your online behaviour is constantly being measured by your computer. The website details your actions in real-time showing just how much your browser knows about your behaviour online

A creepy website called clickclickclick has been developed to show how your online behaviour is constantly being measured by your computer. The website details your actions in real-time showing just how much your browser knows about your behaviour online

HOW DOES IT WORK? 

The website – which does not cause damage to your computer - is very simple, with a white screen and large green button, reading 'Button.'

But from the second you visit the page, it starts detailing your actions in real-time.

For example, the website will write 'Subject has visited seven websites before coming here' or 'Subject has clicked the button five times.'

As well as typing out what you're doing in real time, the site also encourages users to turn on their sound, allowing them to hear an English voice comment on every behaviour.

After a few minutes of this, the website will give users the option of seeing their 'achievements' – a list of all the activities it has tracked so far, and those that it is yet to observe.

Clickclickclick.click was developed by VPRO, a Dutch media company, and Studio Moniker, an interactive design company.

Roel Wouters, a designer at Studio Moniker, told MailOnline: 'We wanted to create awareness on privacy in a playful manner.

'We took the idea that all your online behaviour can have value literally.

'We listed all possible interactions we could come up with. We interpret these interactions in a direct and specific way by mirroring them back to the user.'

The website – which does not cause damage to your computer - is simple, with a white screen and large green button, reading 'Button.'

But from the second you visit the page, it starts detailing your actions in real-time.

For example, the website will write 'Subject has visited seven websites before coming here' or 'Subject has clicked the button five times.'

As well as typing out what you're doing in real time, the site also encourages users to turn on their sound, allowing them to hear an English voice comment on every behaviour.

After a few minutes of this, the website will give users the option of seeing their 'achievements' – a list of all the activities it has tracked so far, and those that it is yet to, but capable of, observing.

The technology used to create the site isn't anything revolutionary, and could be used by any web developer.

The simple tool does not do any damage to your computer, but is a reminder to be wary about who is watching you on the web (stock image) 

The simple tool does not do any damage to your computer, but is a reminder to be wary about who is watching you on the web (stock image) 

Mr Wouters said: 'All these interactions are basic HTML 5 browser events – basically it's all javascript.

'They are in the hands of every web developer today.'

The simple tool does not do any damage to your computer, but is a reminder to be wary about who is watching you on the web. 

FIVE STEPS TO MORE SECURE ONLINE OPERATIONS 

Even using this checklist can't guarantee stopping every attack or preventing every breach. But following these steps will make it significantly harder for hackers to succeed. 

And it will help us all develop security consciousness and ultimately better cyberhygiene.

1) Enable two-factor authentication (2FA). Most major online services, from Amazon to Apple, today support 2FA. 

When it's set up, the system asks for a login and password just like usual – but then sends a unique numeric code to another device, using text message, email or a specialized app. 

Without access to that other device, the login is refused. That makes it much harder to hack into someone's account – but users have to enable it themselves.

2) Encrypt your internet traffic. A virtual private network (VPN) service encrypts digital communications, making it hard for hackers to intercept them. 

Everyone should subscribe to a VPN service, some of which are free, and use it whenever connecting a device to a public or unknown Wi-Fi network.

3) Tighten up your password security. This is easier than it sounds, and the danger is real: Hackers often steal a login and password from one site and try to use it on others. 

To make it simple to generate – and remember – long, strong and unique passwords, subscribe to a reputable password manager that suggests strong passwords and stores them in an encrypted file on your own computer.

4) Monitor your devices' behind-the-scenes activities. Many computer programs and mobile apps keep running even when they are not actively in use. 

Most computers, phones and tablets have a built-in activity monitor that lets users see the device's memory use and network traffic in real time. 

You can see which apps are sending and receiving internet data, for example. If you see something happening that shouldn't be, the activity monitor will also let you close the offending program completely.

5) Never open hyperlinks or attachments in any emails that are suspicious. 

Even when they appear to come from a friend or coworker, use extreme caution – their email address might have been compromised by someone trying to attack you. 

When in doubt, call the person or company directly to check first – and do so using an official number, never the phone number listed in the email. 

- Arun Vishwanath, Associate Professor of Communication, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

 

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Greetings, everyone.
 
Monday night's webcast went very well and we are now starting to become accustomed to the Zoom webinar interface and its features which are superb!
 
 
We are receiving consistently positive feedback from attendees about the programs we have offered thus far, which tells me we're on the right track!  Thanks to Neal and Dave for their presentations.
 
People appreciated being able to see the devices, documents, pictures as well as the presenters themselves as the added visual component helps to absorb the information being presented.  
 
Our Zoom account provides for up to 100 attendees at a time and at one point we were up to 95, very close to our account limit.  Therefore, in the future, we will have our Talkshoe room open simultaneously to handle the overflow of participants.
 
The material itself was such that we will need to have more of these presentations until people become familiar with the subject matter.  There were some who felt overloaded by the technical information and specifications.  All of that is totally understandable as we are also learning to tweak the message. 

At this time we are planning some really valuable programs that will be greatly beneficial to our community.  There are several topics and presenters that we hope to feature in the weeks and months to come.
 
We are also hoping that more of you will become PACTS, International members so that we can continue to provide this service to the community which is $54.99/month to maintain - a reasonable cost.  The 200-attendee level - the next level up - is about twice that at about $105.00/month.  At some point in the future when we are more financially grounded, we will consider this pricing level.
 
We will also need to pay a small storage fee - up to about $10/month - to contain the video files if we want to keep show archives.  This one show with video was 1 GB which exceeded our Zoom storage limit.  So we will need to start an online storage account before we do any more video-recording.   
 
I believe that adding this video interface is the next step up in our evolution as an activist community with the issues that concern us.  I also believe this format will enable us to impart more information and increase our sense of community, all of  which we will need in great abundance to successfully reach our goals of liberty and justice for all.
 
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[url]https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/07/us-military-successfully-tests-electrical-brain-stimulation-to-enhance-staff-skills[/url]

Study paves way for personnel such as drone operators to have electrical pulses sent into their brains to improve effectiveness in high pressure situations

Performance of military personnel can slump if the demands of the job become too intense. The study found that electrical brain stimulation can stave off the drop in performance.

Performance of military personnel can slump if the demands of the job become too intense. The study found that electrical brain stimulation can stave off the drop in performance. Photograph: Christian Science Monitor/Getty

US military scientists have used electrical brain stimulators to enhance mental skills of staff, in research that aims to boost the performance of air crews, drone operators and others in the armed forces’ most demanding roles.

The successful tests of the devices pave the way for servicemen and women to be wired up at critical times of duty, so that electrical pulses can be beamed into their brains to improve their effectiveness in high pressure situations.

The brain stimulation kits use five electrodes to send weak electric currents through the skull and into specific parts of the cortex. Previous studies have found evidence that by helping neurons to fire, these minor brain zaps can boost cognitive ability.

The technology is seen as a safer alternative to prescription drugs, such as modafinil and ritalin, both of which have been used off-label as performance enhancing drugs in the armed forces.

But while electrical brain stimulation appears to have no harmful side effects, some experts say its long-term safety is unknown, and raise concerns about staff being forced to use the equipment if it is approved for military operations.

Others are worried about the broader implications of the science on the general workforce because of the advance of an unregulated technology.

In a new report, scientists at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio describe how the performance of military personnel can slump soon after they start work if the demands of the job become too intense.

“Within the air force, various operations such as remotely piloted and manned aircraft operations require a human operator to monitor and respond to multiple events simultaneously over a long period of time,” they write. “With the monotonous nature of these tasks, the operator’s performance may decline shortly after their work shift commences.”

But in a series of experiments at the air force base, the researchers found that electrical brain stimulation can improve people’s multitasking skills and stave off the drop in performance that comes with information overload. Writing in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, they say that the technology, known as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), has a “profound effect”.

For the study, the scientists had men and women at the base take a test developed by Nasa to assess multitasking skills. The test requires people to keep a crosshair inside a moving circle on a computer screen, while constantly monitoring and responding to three other tasks on the screen.

To investigate whether tDCS boosted people’s scores, half of the volunteers had a constant two milliamp current beamed into the brain for the 36-minute-long test. The other half formed a control group and had only 30 seconds of stimulation at the start of the test.

According to the report, the brain stimulation group started to perform better than the control group four minutes into the test. “The findings provide new evidence that tDCS has the ability to augment and enhance multitasking capability in a human operator,” the researchers write. Larger studies must now look at whether the improvement in performance is real and, if so, how long it lasts.

The tests are not the first to claim beneficial effects from electrical brain stimulation. Last year, researchers at the same US facility found that tDCS seemed to work better than caffeine at keeping military target analysts vigilant after long hours at the desk. Brain stimulation has also been tested for its potential to help soldiers spot snipers more quickly in VR training programmes.

Neil Levy, deputy director of the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, said that compared with prescription drugs, electrical brain stimulation could actually be a safer way to boost the performance of those in the armed forces. “I have more serious worries about the extent to which participants can give informed consent, and whether they can opt out once it is approved for use,” he said. “Even for those jobs where attention is absolutely critical, you want to be very careful about making it compulsory, or there being a strong social pressure to use it, before we are really sure about its long-term safety.”

But while the devices may be safe in the hands of experts, the technology is freely available, because the sale of brain stimulation kits is unregulated. They can be bought on the internet or assembled from simple components, which raises a greater concern, according to Levy. Young people whose brains are still developing may be tempted to experiment with the devices, and try higher currents than those used in laboratories, he says. “If you use high currents you can damage the brain,” he says.

In 2014 another Oxford scientist, Roi Cohen Kadosh, warned that while brain stimulation could improve performance at some tasks, it made people worse at others. In light of the work, Kadosh urged people not to use brain stimulators at home.

If the technology is proved safe in the long run though, it could help those who need it most, said Levy. “It may have a levelling-up effect, because it is cheap and enhancers tend to benefit the people that perform less well,” he said.

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https://everydayconcerned.net/2016/10/16/nsa-whistleblower-powerhouses-william-binney-and-kirk-wiebe-stand-up-to-support-targeted-individuals-worldwide/

NSA Whistleblower Powerhouses William Binney and Kirk Wiebe Stand Up to Support “Targeted Individuals” Worldwide

by Ramola D/The Everyday Concerned Citizen/Posted 10/16/2016

(With information from Ella Felder, Cait Ryan, Paul Baird, and other human rights activists)

In a breakthrough historic and supportive move on a Talkshoe call-in show last week—and a first in terms of notable public figures publicly acknowledging covert targeting with electromagnetic and neuro-weapons as real–NSA whistleblower powerhouses William Binney and Kirk Wiebe stepped forward to announce their support, concern for, and distinct plans to assist the entire community of “Targeted Individuals” in the United States and worldwide.

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William Binney, Retired Technical Director, NSA
Kirk Wiebe, Retired Senior Analyst, NSA

Informed observers will know that “TIs” –often outspoken people of integrity in their communities who become the targets of wrongful surveillance–have long sought redress through civil liberties and human rights groups for their experience of long-term, continuous, and profoundly inhumane remote assault with radiation and sonic weapons, directed-energy weapons (also labeled “non-lethal” weapons), and classified technologies, as well as community slander, stalking, and psychiatric discrediting in what many have suspected are clandestine and illegal programs of biometric surveillance, COINTELPRO, and non-consensual weapons-testing and neuro-experimentation.

(While data continues to trickle in, it is currently estimated by various activists that there are up to 10,000 Targeted Individuals in the US and guesstimates of up to 30 million worldwide.)

The call was hosted and arranged by activist and Talkshoe host, Ella Felder, a media-savvy activist from Oregon with training in broadcasting from Juillard, a career background in fashion-modeling and advertising from New York and California, and a warm and generous persona well-suited to putting her guests and callers at ease on the supportive call-in show she hosts twice weekly for those being wrongfully assaulted by classified technologies and radar/microwave surveillance devices.

This particular late night show garnered a lot of interest among TIs nationwide with 211 callers, 87 live participants, and 160 downloads (and hundreds more since the first week) of the nearly four-hour long show, which is still online at Talkshoe and can be accessed here. Ella Felder, a long-time foster-mother and currently adoptive mom to three siblings offered an intellectual probing of NSA surveillance and security issues yet projected a warm and nurturing tone to the conversation which felt like it was taking place under mellow lamplight in a family living-room, with both illustrious guests seemingly as candid and eager to talk as the many callers who offered their appreciation and support.

In consequence, both Mr. Wiebe and Mr. Binney offered quite candid retrospectives of their experience at the NSA post 9-11, of uncovering illegal programs of surveillance violative of the US Constitution, more vivid in many ways than previous national reportage on these subjects (more below).

Proving the Reality of Remote Radiation Targeting, Tracking, and Assault

chc_2014_facebookWhen asked how they had heard about the darker programs of targeting, Bill Binney said he had been introduced to the phenomenon of “Targeted Individuals” when he was invited to give a talk in Brussels at the Covert Harassment Conference in 2014, by well-known Swedish mind control activist Magnus Olsson, and heard the testimonies and talks there by several speakers. Kirk Wiebe said he was first informed about this kind of abusive targeting by Phil Marie in Connecticut, host of the Wheel of Freedom radio show, which has featured several NSA whistleblowers including Kirk Wiebe, Karen Stewart, and Thomas Drake.

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Wheel of Freedom

Mr. Binney, who assured his audience his and Mr. Wiebe’s over-40 years of experience with data analysis, crypto-mathematics, and scientific process is being brought to bear on this task, is seeking to prove to an all-too-under-informed world the absolute reality of assault with remote radiation neuroweaponry in our midst and described his plan to do so.

Kirk and I have agreed to look at data that is being compiled by other TIs–and they’re looking at the community around the world and trying to gather information. Here’s what we’re attempting to do.

We need to have some kind of irrefutable process to prove what kinds of things are happening …and what the consequences are and how it’s affecting people. So we want to collect all the symptoms people have–not emotional or feeling, but just the basic facts–what is happening and exactly what it is, not burying it in any kind of emotion, but assembling the basic facts—on specifically how they are affected.”

The next step, he says, comes from “assembling information from publications and so on from the government—on non-lethal weapons that are being developed, and the kinds of consequences that can accrue from these kinds of weapons–and then we’ll be matching one with the other… putting together ways and means of looking at the spectrum within which these devices operate, and seeing how it will be possible to detect and verify that these things are occurring.

And then finally, we’ll try to put together recommendations on how people should proceed, to try and prove what is happening with them specifically with compiled evidence–in such a way that you can bring the evidence into a court of law, without emotion, a straightforward means of documenting events and happenings and evidence. We’re trying to use the discipline that we use for our data analysis, the kind of process that Kirk and I have experience in for over 40 years–trying to put it in this kind of scientific process that would be demonstrable in a court of law.”

Concealed High-Tech Side of NSA Surveillance: Remote Brain Targeting

Offering supportive responses to the many callers who thanked them for their courage in standing up for TIs, as for instance, a man from Florida, who informed them his teenage sons were also targeted, and said, “It takes courage to stand up to a government out of control,” Kirk Wiebe responded to a question by long-time activist Todd Giffen on what they knew of NSA’s more high-tech satellite tracking capabilities. Todd remarked he had done much investigative research, and had documentation to prove his case yet lacked funding and lawyers, to which Wiebe responded:

We understand the predicament you are in, we have been in similar situations–just because we haven’t seen it at NSA or CIA doesn’t mean a doggone thing…NSA and CIA work in compartmented areas, or on a Need to Know basis. We do know government has a history of experimentation against people, and the DOD has authorization to conduct experiments on people, some with consent, some without consent–they have the power and the money to deliver all kinds of electronic methods against people. We need to do some correlation as a group. Thank God we have people like you.”

us_military_satellite_network2Todd Giffen, who created and runs the informative websites, obamasweapon.com, and drrobertduncan.com, had pointed out that although much information now exists, thanks to Snowden and other whistleblowers about “the low tech side, the fiber-optic bulk acquisition through telecommunications,” we don’t hear at all about the high-tech side, and space capabilities, which he said Russell Tice has spoken about. He mentioned satellite technologies, remote electron spin resonance scans, 3-d holograph scans from military satellites, as well as remote brain scans—described in Malech’s patent of 1974—and through-wall surveillance technology. From his experience of time spent at Oregon State Hospital, he mentioned also that he had seen “security audio and video of staff spying on people, doing a full brain scan.” Bill Binney responded that he could only say he knew of “some of the capabilities they have, but nothing of the nature of what you’re talking about–I’d like to see documentation.”

malech1Todd Giffen suggested they might look up “military radar MRI,” technology which has been around for 40 years, which, he says, is being used now for counter-Intelligence, to torture people who have witnessed Government crimes. In comment, Todd adds, “In fact, military radar does MRI, and all MRI machines are adapted from military radar/satellite tech.”

Targeted Individuals” Call in With Information on Covert Brain Targeting and Directed-Energy Weapons Assault

Other notable callers to the show included David Voigts, former US Navy officer who has been walking across America to raise awareness about Targeted Individuals and the covert human-machine-interface program experimentation he says they are being subjected to, Dave Case, an electronics engineer who said he was targeted following an invention on photonic processes he tried to patent, and who offered a countermeasure to beat the tinnitus and induced brain damage from continuous Remote Neural Monitoring, James Lico, another long-term activist who spoke about radar tracking from satellites and directed-energy weapon use from neighbors, and Rosanne Marie Schneider who has compiled much useful information in a book titled Surveillance, Torture and Control in the Modern World, and offered advice on toxicology analysis and SCADA analysis, methodologies she noted of determining the content of radio-frequency nanotrancievers in human bodies, related to targeting with remote surveillance radar.

51oozfom-zlaAdditionally, various callers called in to report the traumatic and deleterious effects of the abusive targeting they are currently experiencing, with a few in tears as they reported round-the-clock assaults with directed-energy weapons that cause all kinds of damage to health including radiation burns, tinnitus, hypertension, organ damage, electric shocks, painful remote neural monitoring, and EMF attacks on their children. Callers expressed outrage and distress over the use of covert weaponry in a program of 24/7 surveillance which is apparently being hidden glibly by our Surveillance State as rightful “surveillance,” under false cover of a blitz of National Security Letters to communities, local vigilanteism, and wrongful secret charges of Patriot Act/Freedom Act-extended “terrorism” and “espionage”.

Non-Consensual Neuro-Experimentation

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David Voigts

Ex-Navy Officer and whistleblower David Voigts, introducing himself, mentioned his Naval training as a systems engineer specializing in Nuclear warfare and Electronic warfare, where he had learned that a covert program of non-consensual neuro-experimentation with brain-computer interfaces was underway and ruining the lives of thousands of people across America and worldwide. As a whistleblower, he intimated, he too had had to weigh his own options of disclosure; the path he chose was to find a way to have himself be targeted or entered into the program, so he could work from the inside to speak out and reveal its existence.

Dave Case, an electronic engineer who said he tries to come on as many calls as he can and offers his invention freely as a countermeasure to help targets defeat the remote brain link and sleep better, explained both his targeting and his invention: “I tried to make a photonic processor and a photonic memory system–I was attacked by an agency with very high technology–ringing tinnitus in my ear absolutely destroyed my life. My countermeasure helped 29 people reduce or eliminate tinnitus.” He said he learned “that a patent on my photonic processor already exists and it’s called National Security, that’s why I was targeted, I have documentation of a NSA lawsuit.”

brain2Describing the system of remote brain targeting, he said:

“NSA Signals Intelligence uses remote brain stimulation for Remote Neural Monitoring and Electronic Brain Link–what my invention does is jam the spectrum they are using, it’s called a bio-relevant feedback loop. If you target a individual, you have to get their heart rate, their body temperature, brain waves, many sets of data, and I believe they’re using the GPS signal as a main carrier and these photonic processors in a magic tree formation and they’re using this to target a large number of individuals…they are using the skin as a transducer, in other words, the skin is transforming a higher frequency to an audible frequency.”

Questioned by Kirk Wiebe about the audible frequency, he said “it is a range of about 5 khz to 35 khz,” and that his countermeasure created a signal played via CD and headphones that “contaminates the bio-relevant feed-back loop and breaks down the loop and then the brain is free from brain-link and your brain is allowed to heal—because they’re actually damaging the brain, they are interfering with the brain chemistry.” Both Binney and Wiebe expressed interest in hearing more and in working more closely with Mr. Case.

dsm5Other callers included one from Tomo Shibata, an activist in the Bay Area working on setting up class-action lawsuits, one aimed at the American Psychiatric Association for permitting and creating the duplicitous superstructure for psychiatrists to issue wrongful diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia for all those reporting remote electronic assaults with EMFs. She reported that initial conversations with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, had been encouraging, with EFF suggesting they might get involved as co-counsel.

Another caller mentioned the need for scientific and technical expert assistance with measuring, documenting, and proving the reality of assaults with electromagnetic weapons. In both cases, Mr. Wiebe was encouraging and helpful, offering advice and contact information for people he knew who might be able to help, and stating that their survey project was intended to lead to eventual identification of the right scientific and medical team, who could assist further.

Notably, one caller asked if Snowden may have downloaded a document covering this EMF targeting, and Kirk Wiebe mentioned the names of journalists Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman among those in charge of Snowden’s 1.5 million-document cache as the right people to ask about this. Bill Binney mentioned the difficulties in parsing through such vast amounts of data, including the need for unique descriptors and keywords. The book, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project) by Chalmers Johnson, a historic treatment of the rise of the US military/Intelligence state was recommended by another caller.

Scrapping the Constitution in Secret and Creating a Secret Government Within the Government”

The framework for this call of course was Ella Felder’s interview with both high-profile whistleblowers, whom she had first contacted in relation to possible shows with Sean Stone, actor, TV producer, and documentary film-maker (and son of Oliver Stone), featured in Jesse Ventura’s show, Conspiracy Theory/Brain Invaders, with whom she had struck a connection after reaching out to him on social media.

Re-living their own experience at the NSA just around the time of 9/11 offers startling insights into the atmosphere and secrecy of covert government programs originating at that time.

In describing his own latter work supporting Bill Binney’s efforts to extract “nuggets of Intelligence gold” from the vast cache of data available on the Internet, Kirk Wiebe, retired Senior Analyst at the NSA said he was “appalled that NSA completely ignored what Bill had done in that effort and left the ballgame to private industry, no doubt to curry favor financially after that—it’s part of a normal tradition for senior government workers: they leave government life and take lucrative jobs with private contractors essentially, so money took a fair amount of importance at the cost of American lives–money took precedence over normal lives.”

Turning the System Loose Against Americans

An important question posed by Ms. Felder was: When did these whistleblowers first realize the lack of integrity in the NSA and notice violations of the Constitution?

Kirk Wiebe narrated how a sudden storing of servers in the hallway and being kept out of “sensitive discussions” at a meeting helped raise suspicions that something at the NSA wasn’t quite right. Confirmation came, he said, when the contractor Bill Binney was working with “was asked by NSA authorities to begin using some of the tools Bill had put together for analysis, to look at the private data of American phone calls, in other words, US citizens, even though they hadn’t done anything wrong. And that contractor asked Bill: Bill, do you realize what they are doing…they are turning the system loose against Americans.”

And of course when you hear something like that, that’s the worst thing possible. And it had been drilled into our heads that one does not spy, and turn the machinery of spies against the American people. We had gone through that kind of illegal behavior in 1975. Severe penalties were put against the NSA, two Congressional Intelligence committees were set up to make sure it never happened again—and here we are in the 2000s now, years later, and the Intelligence committees are actually in bed with NSA, they act in concert to protect what NSA is doing, rather than doing the oversight for the American people that they were empowered to do in 1975. What an utter catastrophe for privacy and freedom in the United States.

Bill Binney picked up the narrative:

Of course I discussed it with Kirk–we couldn’t stay there and be accessories to all these crimes they were committing. They were scrapping the Constitution in secret and creating basically a secret government within the government–and they got it by bringing in initially only 4 people from Congress: Chair and Ranking Member of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees; on the House that was Porter Goss, Chair, and Nancy Pelosi was the Ranking Member. And (Bob) Graham and (Richard) Shelby were Members on the Senate side. They brought those 4 people in on the 4th of Oct, 2001, and gave them a briefing on it, they were not allowed to bring any staff or talk to anyone about it and they all agreed to these programs at that time–and at the same time they got briefed on all the torture programs and such out of the CIA. Once they agreed, you see, they were now co-opted in, they had to defend the programs in their respective Houses of Congress.

At that point we decided we couldn’t stick around for all this and we had to get out there as fast as we could. It took us two and a half weeks to get out of the place.”

Bill Binney also notes that since he knew all the leadership at the NSA, since he was, himself, in a top management position, working for the Deputy Director, NSA, he “didn’t think it was necessary to talk to them because they were all committed to this–obviously their orders came from the White House. I mean, Richard Nixon got impeached for a fraction of what was happening today. It was obvious to me it was pointless to talk to them, we had to go directly to the Congressional Committees–it was their job, their charter, the Committees were created to protect against this, but you see, we didn’t know that the leadership of those Committees were both committed to this–so that was a pointless effort.”

And Diane Rourke was the one we went to initially, she attempted to try to get it across to them, she wrote internal memos about it too at that time, this was late 2001, early 2002–but that didn’t work–after that we attempted to go to the third branch, the Supreme Court, get a meeting with Chief Justice Rehnquist at the time.” He details, interestingly, how this effort was conducted through social connections. “We were going outside channels, because we knew that channels would stifle it—but that didn’t work at all either–eventually we complained to the DOJ and DOD Inspector Generals, and also some members of Congress—but after that, that’s when the FBI and the DOJ attempted to falsify evidence to indict us–the only reason they didn’t was we caught them at it, and we had evidence of malicious prosecution, and they dropped us like a hot potato at that point.”

Sabotage, Framing, Fabrication, Blacklisting

Discussing his program Thin Thread at NSA, Bill Binney emphasized that filters it used to detect threats focused primarily on known targets, identified through zone-of-suspicion graphing via specific social media activity, and excluded Americans communicating with Americans unless a known target was involved, but these filters, among others, were dropped, as the more sweeping and less-focused Trailblazer was adopted instead.

Kirk Wiebe recounted how “after we left the building, we decided to get together with Ed Loomis (Senior Computer Systems Analyst) who also managed that research with Bill at the NSA” and use typical court-procedures based on probable-cause information to apply to their own data analysis of high volume digital communications, for clients such as the CIA and DHS, in ways that did not violate the Constitution or the Fourth Amendment.

This was repeatedly sabotaged:

Every time we succeeded we were shut down…even though we were demonstrating success with several clients, including DHS and Boeing Corporation. Contracts were terminated….When I spoke to a senior executive at Boeing and showed him a basic graph (how) we would protect the IDs of innocents, he said ‘Nobody cares about that!’–and this guy had high contacts in government. And Bill and I were appalled to hear that response–‘Nobody cares about that.’ That was a rude awakening for me, finding out that your government didn’t really care about the Constitution and the rights of the people.”

Bill Binney also notes, about the heavily-redacted DOD Inspector General’s report (following whose release the FBI raided the homes [on the 26th of July, 2007], of complaint-signers Binney, Wiebe, Loomis, and Roark simultaneously) investigating their complaints of fraud, waste, and corruption at the NSA: “The IG report is redacted because it catches them in all their lies—the corruption, the fraud, and the waste.”

Then-insider NSA official Thomas Drake, instrumental in the research and creation of the IG Report, was also raided, six months later. In both cases, Binney notes, fabrications and wrongful attempts to tie them to wrongdoing were evident: “It’s framing people. That’s basically what they tried to do to us, to fabricate evidence to convict us, to put us away for thirty-five years just like they tried to do with Tom.”

Binney notes that after three times of being charged in this way after the FBI raid, Binney and Wiebe unloaded all their evidence (on a known-to-be-tapped phone-call to Thomas Drake) so as to inform the tapping-in FBI they would sue them for fabrication of evidence and malicious prosecution if they tried to indict them, not long after which, unsolicited, they were quietly provided letters of immunity by the Department of Justice and the charges dropped.

The point to be made here, Mr. Wiebe stressed, was that the NSA sought desperately to make examples of Thomas Drake as well as these whistleblowers, suspending clearances, stooping to fabricate evidence in attempts to “put the fear of God” into any future whistleblower, and punish them.

Bill Binney stated that taxpayers were being bilked out of hundreds of billions of dollars by the NSA, where a steady pipeline runs from the non-solving of the problem to keeping contractors contracting and profiting. “What they’re doing is cover up the biggest swindle the world has ever seen.” The vision statement for the NSA that Binney provided to Thomas Drake’s campaign ran: “Keep the problem going, so the money keeps flowing.”

Consequences outside these charges also persisted; Binney mentioned being warrantlessly wiretapped and blacklisted, so neither could obtain further employment in their field and continue to use their security analysis expertise in service to the nation. “The FBI would come behind us and say we’re investigating these people,” so job opportunities and contracts fell through. Thomas Drake, as well, was subject to these attempts at complete career destruction.

Were these the country’s most high-profile Targeted Individuals themselves then? Blacklisting and employment sabotage along with character ruination in the community, TIs know, are hallmarks of the inexplicable assault on their character and integrity. Both whistleblowers aver commitment to exposing government wrongdoing. “Now the target is to get the word out on how the government is shredding the Constitution…we’re not even able to get redressal in the courts.” Kirk Wiebe mentioned the case Jewel vs the NSA in the 9th Circuit Court, as the only case that is still ongoing, that might offer some hope.

The recently-released films, A Good American and Oliver Stone’s Snowden, Bill Binney recommended, are means for letting Americans see more clearly “what kind of evil government we really have”.

Intelligence Agency Exemptions from Whistleblower Protections & Government Audits: “A Set-Up For Corruption”

Very relevant to the issue of covert targeting and covert electronic surveillance today are the issues of blanket exemptions for Intelligence agencies, who don’t have to protect whistleblowers, and are permitted to keep all their expenditures hidden, even from Congress, by dodging audits.

Kirk Wiebe notes, “There are laws to protect whistleblowers everywhere in government except the Intelligence Community—so we’re exempted, and I wonder why.”

Bill Binney points out also that “NSA and Intelligence agencies are exempt from auditing by the US government…Which means, as Head of NSA, you get 10-15 billion dollars a year to spend, and no-one checks to see where you spent it…it’s a set-up for corruption and that’s exactly what’s going on.”

Kirk Wiebe marked the inexplicable refusal by Congressional Committees to address NSA corruption, surveillance over-reach, and denial of rights:

While we’re helping educate the average person about these issues, we’re making no headway in the political arena. We’ve been invited to the Hill to talk to Congresspeople but nothing changes, and we’re never even invited–we have testified before the Council of Europe, in the British Parliament, the Austrian Parliament, and other EU Parliamentarians–but not once have we sat down with a Committee of Congressmen to discuss what we could bring to the government in the way of fixing what is now a Constitutional crisis of mass surveillance and denial of rights–never once.”

A rejoinder from Bill Binney caps the irony here of Intelligence Committees failing to gather intelligence:

“I also testified to the German Bundestaag, and the Intelligence Committees of the US government sent representatives over to listen–I looked at them and said, you know I’m only just 20 miles up the road, why don’t you give me a call, I’ll come down. Instead, they sent them all the way to Germany, Berlin to listen to my testimony–that tells you the kind of corruption and insecurity involved in our own government.”

Deeper and Darker NSA Today: “A Raft of Failures”

To Ella’s closing question about their thoughts on the current NSA, whether they think it’s gotten better, or just deeper and darker, both former NSA officials indicated the latter.

nsa-1aBill Binney said “They like to stay deeper and darker…They left vulnerabilities in place in source code for years and permitted exposure of data, leaving everyone in the world vulnerable to attack–and that’s how the OPMs got hacked, millions of citizens applying for clearances…and now they’re using this information that we are being attacked to drum up much more money for Cybersecurity.”

Direct in his assessment, he spelled out: “It’s a process of trying to swindle money out of the population–so it’s been a swindle all along with these Intelligence Communities and Committees. This is what Eisenhower warned about–the Military-Industrial complex—now, it’s the Military-Industrial-Intelligence complex.”

Kirk Wiebe pointed to the inefficiencies of massive bulk collection of data, and NSA’s inability to stop terrorism:

The other thing I would add, Ella, is it’s shocking to hear of attacks in Paris, Brussels, the shootings, it’s been a raft of failures—NSA failed to stop any of them, that is shocking–the only reason NSA exists is to stop threats and they’re failing miserably, and every year they ask for more money, and more access to data, and they continue to argue that they are failing because they don’t have enough, but no, they are failing because they are dying on too much data–they can’t pick out the needles from a monstrous haystack–this lunacy of getting more and more about innocent people is ridiculous; we need to focus on getting data only from those with most suspicion of committing terror on people.”

Care and Concern For Those Being Targeted, Tortured with Remote Radiation Weapons

Outstanding on this call, which commends itself for so many reasons, and should be listened to by any and every citizen worldwide with an interest in the truth, human rights, and humanity, was the true concern and kindness evinced by both Kirk Wiebe and Billl Binney, who frequently said, “I wish we could do more to help all these people,” “Someone had to do something,” and “We are going to get this addressed.” Interviewer Ella Felder’s care and concern, as well, to support and connect all callers shone through.

Considering that the issue of Targeted Individuals and remote attacks with radiation/psychotronic/Mind Control weapons—much maligned, lied-about online at places like Wikipedia, Rational Wiki, (and, surprisingly, even the moderated Comments section at The Intercept), clearly propagandaized by mainstream media, including stalwarts like the New York Times—has been suppressed, repressed, and kept covert for decades now (all in the service of “National Security”?) this public endorsement by these two whistleblowers of integrity and conscience seems to represent a huge step forward both for “TI”s and all of humanity.

Ella Felder spoke truly for all being covertly assaulted worldwide, no doubt, when she mentioned the relief of TIs at finally being recognized: “We are beyond grateful.”

Robert Duncan, author of Project Soulcatcher, and cybernetics expert who has spoken out about covert military and Intelligence “mind-hacking projects” marks the moment rather portentously for the world on Facebook: “You have the right team. You have embarked on an important and remarkable journey. The world will never be the same. Innocence will be lost.”

Information for Those Being Targeted

The team working with both whistleblowers to collect information and documentation is being led by Cait Ryan, Director of US CACH, United States Coalition Against Covert Harassment.

Those targeted, both here in the USA and worldwide, are advised to patiently wait for the Survey which will be sent out soon, via listservs, Facebook, websites, and other means, and which will offer a precise framework to send in the details of their targeting.

Those wishing and able to send in information on Government publications, patents on technologies, relevant papers, and research are advised to send these in immediately, on an ongoing basis, to the US CACH team, email id (please use either or both): caitrye@gmail.com or cait.uscach@gmail.com. Participation of all being targeted worldwide is requested.

Updating information will be posted at US CACH and also at this site, The Everyday Concerned Citizen.

Stay tuned, as this massive establishment cover-up of covert targeting with stealth weapons worldwide continues to unfold. One more blow for the global totalitarian Surveillance State? Let’s hope so.

Related:

Government Accountability Project/Bio: William Binney and Kirk Wiebe

Democracy Now/Inside the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Apparatus: Whistleblower William Binney Speaks Out

Democracy Now/NSA Whistleblower Kirk Wiebe Details Gov’t Retaliation After Helping Expose “Gross Mismanagement”

Tim Shorrock/The Nation: Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers/The NSA Four reveal how a toxic mix of cronyism and fraud blinded the agency before 9/11

Ramola D/Washington’s Blog: NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart Speaks Candidly About Illegal and Criminal NSA & FBI Programs of Organized Stalking and Electronic Harassment in the USA & Abroad

NSA Whistleblower Karen Stewart says Intel Community Now Full of People More Dangerous to Freedom than ISIS

Ex-CIA and MI5 Agent and Whistleblower Carl Clark Reveals Covert Electromagnetic Torture of Civilians by Intel Agencies in US/UK/Europe/Asia with Directed Energy “Non-Lethal” Neuroweapons

US CACH/Whistleblowers, Honorable Advisors To US and World CACH

WORLD CACH/Magnus Olsson Launches World CACH/Against AI-CIA-NSA DEW transhumanist neural robotoid agenda

Deborah Dupre/Targeted Individuals’ 24/7 Nightmare: NSA Whistleblower Tells EU Parliament

Paul Baird, Surveillance Issues/Hard Evidence: Social Engineering–Crimes Against Humanity

Cheryl Welsh/MindJustice/Targeted Individuals of Experimentation and Harassment Using ElectroMagnetic Radiation and “Non-Lethal” Weapons

Soleil Mavis/Peace Pink: Mind Control with Electromagnetic Frequency

Soleil Mavis/Peace Pink (via Nicole Schmidt’s blog): Laws Against Criminal Uses of Electromagnetic Energy Weapons

Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation/Sonoma State University: US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights

Spencer Carter/Bigger than Snowden: Stealth Weapons Are Being Used to Torture and Subjugate Countless American Citizens

Ramola D/Washington’s Blog: The American Public Informs President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues About Ongoing Non-Consensual Human Experimentation in the USA Today

John Finch: Message to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

No Waivers of Informed Consent, PERIOD: The Public Reports Ongoing Non-Consensual Experimentation and Demands the Common Rule Protect Citizens, Not Covert Activities

2015: “Targeted Individuals” are Non-Consensual Subjects in Criminal, Clandestine, Classified “Top Secret” MKULTRA-Extended Mind & Behavior Control/Torture Experimentation by Joint Military/Intel/Justice/Academic Institutions, as well as Targets of COINTELPRO and Electronic Warfare

How Secret Policing With Deadly “Non-Lethal” EMF/Scalar/Sonic Neuroweaponry Has Been Installed Domestically Inside the US, & Globally

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We had a great conference call Monday night as we discussed first, various types of radiofrequency (RF) detection devices and then a very important discussion about Magnus Olsson's blood test and its significance for our community.
 
I also feel I should point out that during this call my speech was under attack; something the perpetrators have started doing lately which some have incorrectly presumed to be mental illness.  I would urge you all to be aware of this tactic and to not succumb to this false impression that the perps are trying to convey.  I am dealing with that as best I can.  It is a smoke-and-mirrors routine from the perps that occurs during conference calls.
 
For the past few weeks, some of us have been venturing forth and making doctor visits to get blood tests which could show electromagnetic radiation exposure.  Those efforts thus far had been in various stages of fruition - until now.
 
On Monday, Magnus Olsson revealed on his facebook page, a picture of his recent blood test which I am publishing here.
 
At left is a picture of healthy red blood cells.  At right is a picture of Magnus Olsson's red blood cells.
 
 
 
Healthy Red Blood Cells
 
Notice how round and smooth the cells are which provides for an easy flow of blood and nutrients throughout this person's system.
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Magnus Olsson's Red Blood Cells with Crystal Structure
 
This picture shows how Magnus' red blood cells are clumped together due to the presence of microwave radiation which impedes circulation and therefore inhibits the flow of oxygen and nutrients to his system.  There is even a clear, crystaline-like structure which further impedes circulation.
 
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A similar scenario was posted in our newsletter a few weeks ago in a video showing red blood cell damage to 3 volunteers after standing for 2 minutes at a distance of 1 foot from a smart meter.  The subject on the far right shows red blood cell clumping similar to Magnus' cells.
 
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Magnus' list of symptoms from his facebook page:

    "makes my blood, not circulate in a natural manner ( blood is too dense )
    damage DNA
    Influence memory ( lack of memory )
    you can not walk normally nor run
    destroy your skin ( you may have albinism )
    having a hard time sleeping
    easy access to the brain
    lack of oxygen"

 
The above are some symptoms of microwave/RF radiation exposure.  Some others include:
 
 

    insomnia and other sleep disturbances
    headaches
    swollen lymph nodes
    anxiety
    loss of appetite
    hypoxia (lack of oxygen getting to your tissues)
    weakened immune system
    allergies
    frequent urination
    night sweat

    

    inability to concentrate
    forgetfulness
    fatigue
    dizziness
    vision problems
    dry eyes
    inflammation
    depression
    irritability
    nausea
    hyperactivity
    extreme thirst

 
 
What this means for our community...
 
What this means for us is a reliable and easily-affordable source of evidence that would potentially be even more signifcant than RF device readings, since blood tests are much more readily understood and more widely accepted than RF device analyses.  For example, blood test results would likely be undisputed in a court of law whereas RF claims may come under scrutiny.
 
If we can gather enough similar reports in our community - such as in the hundreds - hopefully, this evidence would tremendously substantiate our claims of microwave/RF attacks.
 
Once presented to officials, the question that immediately follows is 'where is the source'? That is where the RF devices can provide key supporting evidence in terms of signal direction-finding which may lead to the apprehension and prosecution of the perpetrators.
 
With blood tests and RF device readings as evidence in hand, we will present a much stronger case to our city coucilmembers concerning injurious attacks from neighbors or persons in the community.  There is even one city that has expressed its willingness to take action in terms of arrests if presented with definitive proof of microwave assaults.
 
 
    
Blood Test Campaign
 
Therefore, we are urging as many as possible, particularly those who are severely targeted, to do as Magnus did and get a blood test.  Just a sample droplet from the fingertip which can be collected and  then examined under a microscope is all that's needed.
 
 
 
You may need to explain to your doctor, particularly if you are exhibiting any of the symptoms mentioned above, that you feel that you may be exposed to excessive electromagnetic radiation from your environment (which most of us may have due to computers, TV monitors, radios, and other electrical appliances) and you would like a blood test that shows any sign of red blood cell damage. If you could also get a photograph of your sample as Magnus did, that would be priceless.  
 
We would like to compare our results and if many of us are showing what Magnus Olsson's test has revealed, we will then have significant evidence of our claims of microwave attacks, which we could then show in court, to city councilmembers, or to disbelieving family or friends.
 
Guys, these are major, major developments in our activism and incredibly good news!  We are continually making great progress!  THE INVISIBLE CRIME IS FINALLY BECOMING MORE VISIBLE!
 
We will speaking more of these and other developments in the coming weeks...[/QUOTE]

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New Indie Documentary on Targeted Individuals...

New Indie Documentary on Targeted Individuals...

http://www.freedomsos.com/blog/new-indie-documentary-on-targeted-individuals

Ese Lebb, a photographer from California, has recently completed a documentary on Targeted Individuals that has been released on YouTube. It's rare to find films on this subject due to the extreme torture the victim's experience, along with the sophisticated tactics used to repress information on this topic. You can find links to Ese's videos below: 
Documentary Chapters

1. Opening Scene
https://youtu.be/hSiJVAMC1x0
2. Definitions 
https://youtu.be/FXSLuBVX9Zw
3. The Vocal Aspect
https://youtu.be/MotMvEvdjBg
4. Images
https://youtu.be/42uIeN4lWM4
5. Body Shocks
https://youtu.be/FIakV6J8DaE
6. Sleep Deprivation
https://youtu.be/Yh2zJD7m_MI
7. A day in the life of a targeted individual.
https://youtu.be/ikGB4jAYHL4
8. Remote Neural Monitoring
https://youtu.be/n0qMgVyf29M
9. How I got in this situation.
https://youtu.be/Y_hPQExpOwM
10. The night the guys showed up.
http://bit.do/thntgsu
11. Mike Military
https://youtu.be/sa92dwK6JpM
12. Blood over degrees
http://bit.do/bod567
13. Ambitions of a Perpetrator
https://youtu.be/zMJ1SUxS3bk
14. The Stack
https://youtu.be/wrHJ01Uma9E
15. Doesn't He have a job?
https://youtu.be/J5tVM_lSI4U
16. Mr. President
https://youtu.be/U9xnap7LDNs
Interview Section

1. You're not alone.
https://youtu.be/fbB9C5b_VuI
2. You're not Delusional.
http://bit.do/nwspCM
3. Deedee up in LA.
https://youtu.be/jFeYumTb10s
4. How does it work?
http://bit.do/nwspDrD

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https://www.rt.com/uk/356717-secret-drug-trials-children

Home Office backed secret drug trials on ‘irritable & restless’ children

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Home Office employees approved plans to carry out experimental drug trials on children at two schools for disruptive teenagers in the 1960s, newly-declassified documents reveal.

Government psychiatrists gave the green light to testing new behavior-modifying drugs on boys at Richmond Hill Approved School in North Yorkshire and girls at Springhead Park Approved School in Rothwell, near Leeds.

The boys, aged 15 and above, were given an anticonvulsant drug in a bid to control their behavior.

But plans for drug trials at Springhead Park were shelved after the headmistress and school managers rejected them.

Approved Schools were used to house disruptive minors and were at a level between a children’s home and a Borstal – a notorious youth detention center abolished in the UK.

Children in these schools were sent there by juvenile courts, but they weren’t imprisoned.

According to BBC Radio 4, newly-released files at the National Archives show how Home Office psychiatrist Dr. Pamela Mason backed plans to test drugs on boys at Richmond Hill.

The trial went ahead after Dr. JR Hawkings, a psychiatrist attached to the school, wrote to the Home Office asking for permission to carry out the tests on boys who were “impulsive, explosive, irritable, restless and aggressive.”

As part of the trial, a group of boys were given Beclamide, an anticonvulsant which was prescribed for epilepsy and is no longer in common use.

Another group was given a placebo as part of the ‘double blind’ experiment.

According to the BBC, there is no evidence that parents of the children or the boys themselves were consulted about the trial, which went ahead in 1968 and lasted for six months.

The outcome of the tests is unknown, as there is no record in official documents or medical journals.

A similar plan to give girls aged 14 and 15 a powerful sedative called Haloperidol, now mostly used as an anti-psychotic, was dropped after Springhead Park Headmistress Shelagh Sunner opposed the plan.

They weren't mentally sick kids" Sunner told the BBC. "They needed to work through their emotions.

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What went on at the hospital that 'experimented' on child patients?



In today's Magazine


Dozens of people who were child patients at a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s and 70s claim they were experimented on with a so-called truth serum. It has left them with disturbing memories and troubling questions.

"I was your typical 60s teenager," says Marianne, a softly-spoken woman in her sixties.

Framed posters of musicians like Bob Dylan and John Lennon still hang on the walls of the living room in her quiet semi in Derby and a feathered dream-catcher twirls in the window.

"I liked fashion, I liked music. It was a good time to be young."

But Marianne's memories of the time aren't all so idyllic.

At the age of 14, she found out from a teacher that she was adopted. Things became difficult at home and after getting into trouble with the police, she was given probation and sent to Aston Hall, a "mental deficiency hospital" treating adults and children.

All that's left today of the complex in Derbyshire is a grand white house where the hospital's staff once lived. The site of the patient dormitories is being redeveloped to make way for new homes.


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Image copyright Nottingham City Council/Picturethepast.org Image caption The patient dormitories at Aston Hall

File on 4: What happened at Aston Hall Hospital? is on BBC Radio 4, 19 July at 20:00 BST - catch up on BBC iPlayer Radio


But before the hospital was demolished, a group of urban explorers photographed the derelict site and posted eerie photos online. Former patients like Marianne (not her real name) found the forum and started leaving comments about their experiences there.

They set up a support group for former patients, and more started coming forwards with troubling stories about the drugs they were given, the treatments they were subjected to and the long-term effects which still plague them today.


Image copyright Project Mayhem

Image copyright Project Mayhem Image caption Pictures of the now-deserted Aston Hall hospital, posted on the Project Mayhem website

Many claim they were experimented on by the hospital's medical superintendent Dr Kenneth Milner using a drug called sodium amytal. It is known as a "truth serum" for its supposed ability to retrieve locked-away memories.

Marianne recalls a session with the doctor where she was stripped, made to wear a stiff white gown and told she would be asked some questions. Then he injected her with a drug that heavily sedated her.

"I can remember equating it to being drunk and I was going: 'I feel like I've had about a bottle of gin, I feel like I've had about two bottles of gin'. And I can remember going: 'Happy Christmas, doctor'."

Her account is similar to those of other former patients at the time, who remember being locked in a small treatment room with a mattress on the floor. Some say their hands were tied with bandages before they were injected. Their medical records show the typical dose of sodium amytal was 60mg.

Standards of institutional care for children during the 1960s and 70s have come under close scrutiny in recent years, as accusations of abuse at the time have grown. So what was going on under Dr Milner at Aston Hall?


Image copyright Fred Loasby Image caption Dr Kenneth Milner, Aston Hall's medical superintendant, is alleged to have used sodium amytal on child patients

One expert believes Dr Milner was practising "narcoanalysis", a therapy used during World War Two to treat soldiers with shell-shock.

It was thought men who had experienced the horror of battle sometimes repressed what had happened to them. And this turned the trauma into severe physical paralysis or depression.

Traditional psychotherapy, where patients were asked to talk about their dreams in the hope of uncovering the hidden trauma, took too long. Soldiers were needed back on the frontline. So psychiatrists began using sodium amytal, which made the traumatised servicemen less inhibited.


Image copyright Wellcome Trust Image caption Sodium amytal - the so-called "truth drug" - was thought to make trauma victims less inhibited about their suffering

Dr Norman Poole, a psychiatrist from St George's Hospital in London, sets out the theory: "Once you'd found this traumatic event and the patient was able to express this, then almost like a psychic abscess, you could prick it and the trauma, the grief, the emotions that were connected with it would come out and then the symptoms would resolve."

A 1946 documentary by the Hollywood director John Huston follows the rehabilitation of traumatised US servicemen, and shows narcoanalysis at work. In one scene, a soldier is treated with sodium amytal, questioned by a medic and then seen walking around the room unaided, having entered it unable to stand.

Media captionJohn Huston's 1946 documentary, Let There Be Light, shows a US serviceman being treated with sodium amytal

Narcoanalysis quickly fell out of fashion after the war, says Dr Poole, as alternative treatments emerged and psychiatrists became concerned about the lack of supporting evidence. However, evidence from Aston Hall shows it was being used into the late 1970s - not on grown male soldiers but vulnerable children and adolescents.

The UK's first-ever professor of child psychiatry, Michael Rutter from King's College London, was practising in the 1960s. The treatment, he says today, was not standard practice.

"As far as I knew nobody was using [sodium amytal] with children at that time," he says.

He is concerned by the use of the drug on children and the way it was administered. And he says he "would have been concerned even in those days".


Image copyright Wellcome Trust

Other experts say Dr Milner should have published research if he was using treatment on young patients that wasn't being widely used elsewhere. We weren't able to find any.

It wasn't just the use of the drug itself that was questionable, but what Dr Milner is alleged to have done when patients were under its influence.

Marianne says she had an internal examination in the room, which was embarrassing and unnecessary, and other patients have alleged sexual abuse by Dr Milner.


Image caption 'Marianne' recorded her memories of Aston Hall later in writing

Dr Milner died in 1975, making it impossible to put these allegations to him. However, his family point to another former patient who says she was treated with sodium amytal by Dr Milner after seeking his help voluntarily in the 1950s. She describes him as "wonderful" and says the treatment had made her life worth living.

Whatever the truth of these allegations, nearly all the patients we spoke to agreed Dr Milner asked very personal sexual questions during treatment.

"He asked me who'd interfered with me, and I went: 'Nobody'. And he said: 'Somebody's interfered with you'."


Image copyright SWNS

She remembers a young friend at the hospital having a similar experience, and asking Marianne to tell Dr Milner "my dad didn't abuse me".

"For her to have said that about her dad, I think it really hurt her, but I can understand it because he coerced you into thinking these things."

Some experts believe Dr Milner was trying to help his young patients talk about a sexual trauma they had either repressed or were uncomfortable talking about when fully conscious.

But because patients under the influence of sodium amytal are semi-conscious, in a highly suggestible state, there is a danger that asking leading questions can make them believe something happened that, in fact, didn't.

In the 1980s and 90s, the drug was at the centre of a number of law suits of so-called false memory, where patients mistakenly believed they had been the victims of abuse. In one notorious case, an executive from California sued a psychotherapist and was awarded half a million dollars after his daughter accused him of sexually abusing her following therapy. Sodium amytal had been used as part of the treatment.


Image caption The medical records of a patient at Aston Hall (name blanked out) show the prescription of sodium amytal

"It is not a truth serum," says Prof Elizabeth Loftus, an expert in memory from the University of California, Irvine. "When it comes to the recovery of pristine, accurate, allegedly repressed memories, it's a danger."

Another former patient of Aston Hall, Sandra, thinks she may have been encouraged to develop false memories.

After nine or 10 sessions at the hospital, Dr Milner told her: "We've got to the bottom of it, you were a hard nut to crack!"

During treatment, he said, she had revealed her father had sexually abused her as a child. This floored her. "I was just so upset, totally devastated."


Image caption Parts of Aston Hall are now being redeveloped

Sandra's sister thought words had been put into her mouth. But she disagreed.

"You believe what the doctor says don't you?" she explains.

The accusation caused a rift with her family. Her sisters doubted it could have happened as they looked after her when she was little and say she was never alone with her father.

Eventually, though, Sandra changed her mind.

"It came to me, that perhaps this only did happen under treatment, and for 51 years I have been accusing my father of maybe doing something he did not do. And the worst part about it, if it didn't happen, I've got to live the rest of my life knowing that I've told people that he's done this. And accused him of doing it."


Image copyright SWNS

The authorities are now investigating what happened at Aston Hall Hospital. A police inquiry has been launched and the Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board, a multi-agency body including police, health and social services, says it is working to ensure the allegations are thoroughly investigated and the appropriate support is in place for people who need it.

While former patients search for answers about what really happened to them, they may have to live with the harmful effects of the treatment for the rest of their lives.

If there is a story you would like File on 4 to investigate then please email fileon4@bbc.co.uk

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Tucson Shooter Sues Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Claims Mind Control - See more at:

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Five years after he went on a shooting spree that killed six people and wounded 13 others, Jared Loughner has filed a federal lawsuit against one of his victims, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

In his rambling two-page complaint filed at the U.S. District Court in Phoenix, the convicted mass killer seeks $25 million from Giffords, whom he shot in the head on Jan. 11, 2011, outside a Safeway grocery store in Casas Adobes, Arizona.

Loughner, now 27, claims he was “framed” and was “handpicked illegally to be a sleeper assassin.” He says that “the govt. put a chip in my head to control my mind,” according to the Arizona Republic.

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While awaiting trial, Loughner was diagnosed as schizophrenic, causing his case to be delayed until medical treatment rendered him competent. He eventually pleaded guilty to avoid a potential death sentence and, in November 2012, was sentenced to life plus 140 years in federal prison.

“My incarceration is illegal. I am actually innocent. I was Framed. I am a victim of project mk-ultra the govt. put a chip in my head to control my mind,” the former Pima Community College student wrote in the filing.

“Gabby Giffords never got shot, it was all an act, Giffords watches Ronald Reagan movies and pretened (sic) she was hit,” he continued.

The mass killer went on to refer to “the Illuminati,” which he claims Giffords is a member of, and says he is being subjected to “microwave testing” and waterboarding “on defendant’s direct orders,” and references the recent mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.

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He also claimed that Mark Kelly, Giffords’ former astronaut husband, planted illegal spy equipment in the skies to spy on Americans.

Along with the rest of his grievances, Loughner complains that his prison food contains “no peppers, steaks, fruit juices,” and that he cannot get C-SPAN on TV.

Giffords, co-founder of the national gun-control organization, Americans for Responsible Solutions, was initially placed in a medically-induced coma and underwent cranioplasty surgery the following May to replace part of her skull that had been removed.

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She was finally released from hospital that June, and continued speech, music, physical and occupational therapy from home.

Loughner is currently serving his life sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Rochester, Minnesota, which houses inmates with specialized health issues.
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There is only one type of brain that is not fooled by this optical illusion

http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/there-is-only-one-type-of-brain-that-is-not-fooled-by-this-optical-illusion--ZyfxgnVRJW?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

There is only one type of brain that is not fooled by this optical illusion

Posted 16 hours ago by  in discover optical illusions are fascinating because of their ability to suspend reality tricking people into seeing a false image.

And research indicates that one particular illusion fails to fool those who suffer from schizophrenia.

The hollow mask is an illusion in which healthy viewers (i.e. the majority) perceive a convex, rather than a concave face - while those with schizophrenia see it for what it really is.

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The average brain perceives the world using a combination of bottom-up (what it sees) and top-down processing (the expectation based on experience), Wired reports.

Danai Dima, Hannover Medical University and Jonathan Roiser of UCL put 16 healthy subjects and 13 schizophrenia patients through an fMRI machine, and measured their brain activity when they were presented with the image.

Danai said:

Our top-down processing holds memories, like stock models, all the models in our head have a face coming out, so whenever we see a face, of course it has to come out.

When a healthy person looked at the image, links strengthened between the top-down process and the visual areas of the brain receiving the image.

Such is the strength of the connection, it makes the person perceive the illusion even when they know it to be one.

A schizophrenia patient however, prone to delusions and hallucinations, does not have this connection, and sees the image as it is.

Whether an image appears to be moving, growing or changing colour, scientists continue to use optical illusions as a way to understand how the brain works.


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Health care takes on the fight against trafficking

http://www.marketplace.org/2016/03/02/health-care/health-care-takes-fight-against-trafficking

4j4a0128A hallway in Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. - Courtesy: Michelle Cerulli

Note: This is the first of a three-part series about human trafficking and health care. You can find to the second part, about what happens to victims when they get a chance to run, hereFind the third part, about how the health care system can start making a difference, here.

Dr. A rolled his eyes.

It was last October, and he had just come across a triage note that said, “I have a tracker in me.”

Dr. A  — we’re not using his name or identifying his hospital, which is in a major American city, to protect patient safety  is 28 years old, a resident and about as green as they come.

And he’s got a patient who claims she’s got a GPS tracking device implanted in her side.

“When you work on the east side of our hospital, psychiatric patients are a dime a dozen,” he said.

But this patient is different. She’s put together. She’s lucid. She’s got an incision.

A group crowded around the computer to see her x-ray.

“Embedded in the right side of her flank is a small metallic object only a little bit larger than a grain of rice,” he said. “But it's there. It's unequivocally there. She has a tracker in her. And no one was speaking for like five seconds  and in a busy ER that's saying something.”

ImplantA tracking chip was removed in October 2015 from a patient who was a victim of human trafficking. - 

It turns out this 20-something woman was being pimped out by her boyfriend, forced to sell herself for sex and hand him the money.

 “It was a small glass capsule with a little almost like a circuit board inside of it,” he said. “It's an RFID chip. It's used to tag cats and dogs. And someone had tagged her like an animal, like she was somebody's pet that they owned.”

This is human trafficking. It’s a marginal issue here in the U.S. for most of us. Part of that is because the average person isn’t sure what human trafficking – or modern day slavery – actually means.

“Very plainly, human trafficking is when one person takes advantage of another person for some profit,” said Katherine Chon, director of the newly created Office on Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Trafficking can mean being locked in a room, having an RFID chip injected under your skin, or something like your employer holding your passport. It’s found in industries from prostitution to manufacturing to domestic service.

Breaking this cycle of violence traditionally has been left to law enforcement. But in the last three years, people in healthcare are waking up to the fact that they can play a critical role.

“I can guarantee you that I’ve placed my hands and I’ve examined and I’ve spoken to more trafficking victims than I know I have,” said Wendy Macias, an ER doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Macias is one of the nation’s leading advocates to get doctors, nurses and hospital executives involved. 

One report finds as many as 88 percent of sex trafficking victims end up in ERs and clinics at some point while being held.

Much different than law enforcement, healthcare providers get these moments  a sort of a privileged access into the lives of people who often are out of reach

“You know traffickers are really smart, they will move their patients around from one city to the next all across the country,” she said. “I want us to help them when we have them in our midst because it may be the last time that they’re there.”

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But here’s the challenge: you’ve got to convince doctors and nurses that they are the ones uniquely placed to break the cycle of violence.

One study shows just one-quarter of providers think human trafficking touches their patients.

The Justice Department says 83 percent of confirmed sex trafficking victims are U.S. citizens.

Dr. Dale Carrison at the University Medical Center in Las Vegas hopes the case with the tracking device is so disturbing that it pushes people in healthcare to action.

“There's so many sci-fi movies where they stick a device in somebody. Well guess what? It's real. It happened,” he said. “That was a big wake up call for me personally that ‘Uh-oh we're going to another level now.’ And I need to get the word out to all my colleagues, don’t blow this off.”

There are some signs of life.

Money is beginning to flow to train clinicians to identify patients. More than half a dozen professional societies – including the American Medical Association – have passed resolutions highlighting the problem. The grass-roots group Heal Trafficking made up of some 600 providers  has formed.

The first step is simple awareness.

Knowledge certainly has helped change how Dr. A approaches his patients. 

“It’s always important to simply consider the possibility that something not obvious might be going on. And recognizing that is the first step to diagnose it,” he said.

Since that October afternoon, Dr. A says he’s pulled about five patients aside, checking for signs of trafficking.

He’s come up empty each time. He explains, that’s what he does, rule out the bad stuff.

That, he says, is his job. 


We've collected more resources related to human trafficking, particularly in health care, here.

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Why are the intelligence agencies revealing their spying techniques?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/03/intelligence-agencies-spying-security-services-phones-privacy-impossible

Now that the security services are allowed to record us through our phones, privacy has become impossible – unless we renounce modern telecoms
Banksy’s mural depicting agents monitoring a phone box near GCHQ in Cheltenham.

Banksy’s mural depicting agents monitoring a phone box near GCHQ in Cheltenham. The spy agency now admits it can take control of a phone or computer. Photograph: Jules Annan/Bancroft

Legalised hacking in the UK now allows a third party to take control remotely of a phone’s camera or microphone and record video and conversations taking place, the Guardian’s Alan Travis reported this week. What’s the point of Apple trying to encrypt its iPhones if the spooks can switch them on remotely and monitor what we are doing?

Until recently, the security services have gone to great lengths not to disclose their operational capabilities. If the bad guys know how their communications can be monitored, they’ll look for other ways of exchanging information.

So it’s something of a surprise to see how open the agencies have now become. Ciaran Martin, director of cybersecurity at GCHQ, gave evidence recently to the investigatory powers tribunal about what’s now called “equipment interference”. If the new investigatory powers bill becomes law, warrants permitting interference with equipment will be issued by a secretary of state and approved by a judicial commissioner. Under clause 88, this would include “observing or listening to a person’s communications or other activities”.

In evidence to the tribunal, Martin explained that equipment interference might involve installing an implant into a laptop or mobile, perhaps by persuading a user to click on a link.

A simple implant would transmit information over the internet. But others “might monitor the activity of the user of the target device or take control of the computer”. This presumably includes switching on a device’s camera and microphone, even when it’s not being used to make calls. Martin accepted that such operations could be “highly intrusive”. But so is someone hiding a camera in your bedroom, which will not require prior judicial authorisation.

We can see how this works from a case study published by the Home Office in its response to the bill’s pre-legislative scrutiny. It refers to intelligence that several suspects were at large after being involved in an attempted murder.

“Equipment interference and other intelligence-gathering techniques were used to identify and locate the suspects, leading to their arrest before further offences could be committed,” it says.

“Without the use of equipment interference, it would not have been possible to arrest the suspects simultaneously, which was critical to preserving the evidence.”

It seems clear from this example that investigators managed, at the very least, to activate the suspects’ phones or computers remotely without their knowledge.

Many more examples, real or hypothetical, are given in the government’s 83-page draft code of practice for equipment interference, with the caveat that they should “not be taken as confirmation that any particular … agency undertakes the activity described”.

Agencies are advised to consider carefully whether they should conduct equipment interference against a person who is not of direct intelligence interest in order to enable surveillance through that person’s device of a wanted associate – given that this surveillance would inevitably pick up private information about the original person’s innocent family.

Other examples deal with cases in which an agency might want to acquire private information from a computer as well as intercepting a live video call. A combined warrant would be needed. There is also guidance on how analysts can use their knowledge of a particular software package commonly used by terrorist groups in the Middle East to retrieve the communications of a “Daesh [Isis]-inspired cell”.

GCHQ admits how simple it is to transmit information over the internet from your laptop or phone. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters

More examples of how equipment interference can be used are to be found in the government’s operational case for “bulk powers”, which enable the collection of vast amounts of data. These are said to be real examples, although edited to avoid “handing an advantage to those who mean us harm”. Classified details have been given to parliament’s intelligence and security committee.

We can be sure that GCHQ officials debated long and hard before allowing examples such as these to be published. They tell us the ways in which the agencies seek to use their powers, the nature of their targets and the limits the agencies impose to avoid “collateral intrusion” (the unintentional gathering of material such as a background conversation). Whether we believe them or not is for us to decide, but at least we have something to go on.

Do these revelations damage the agencies’ operational capabilities? The assumption must be that their targets have a pretty good idea of what they can do already. Sometimes it suits the agencies to make people think that their techniques are more effective than they actually are, especially if it persuades targets to switch from a secure method of communication to one that the agencies have already penetrated.

And is it a good idea to take a chainsaw to your computer or incinerate your iPhone? Certainly, if you have something illegal to hide – although doing so will inevitably limit your ability to commit more crimes. For the rest of us, it all depends on whether we value our personal privacy more highly than the convenience of using modern communications – and whether we think the agencies are on our side.

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MKUltra Researcher Put Electrodes in People’s Brains for the US Government

mindcontrol2By Melissa Dykes

In the mid-1950s, neurophysiologist Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacobsen built his own EEG lab at Gaustad psychiatric hospital in Norway with copious funding from the Rockefeller, Ford, and other “charitable” foundations. He soon took on multiple US government contracts from the Air Force, the Navy, and NASA for research using electrodes implanted in the brains of psych patients to carry out what many have said was unethical research on them. It is widely believed today that Sem-Jacobsen was really doing his brain research, which continued for years, under the auspices of MKUltra.

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Of particular note is the fact, admitted by the Norwegian government, that Sem-Jacobsen wrote a letter claiming this kind of questionable research would be easier to do in his country because he did not have to worry about lawsuits or patient consent like doctors in America do.

Screenshot-2016-03-02-at-10.16.08-AMStill, the real question is, what exactly was the goal of Sem-Jacobsen’s brain research for the US government?

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Melissa Dykes is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up!

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Spies in the sky: The top secret military technology found in covert planes that could be watching at this very moment

Spies in the sky: The top secret military technology found in covert planes that could be watching at this very moment

  • Famous Cold War spy plane the U-2 is still going strong and currently works for Nasa conducting atmospheric tests
  • Lockheed Martin's 'Son of Blackbird' will use a hybrid system to cross an entire continent in an hour
  • Bulging 'Global Hawk' drone looks less conventional and could carry our pre-programmed missions
  • TR-X - another Lockheed invention - is set to combine best spy plane technology and could be airborne by 2030 

Before the advent of the Lockheed U-2, gaining intelligence about the Soviet Union’s secretive actions during the Cold War was almost impossible for surveillance planes flying low over Russia.

But the U-2 spy plane, which was able to fly out of reach of enemy fighters and missiles and take detailed aerial photographs of airfields, factories and shipyards, was a game changer.

Knowledge is power, and these images proved to the US that there was no immediate threat and so a deadly arms race - and potential nuclear war - was averted.

Despite their ability to prevent crises and lack of on-board weapons, over the course of their history, spy planes have become the most feared aircraft and a new generation is taking to the skies with using increasingly smart technology, explain experts from How It Works magazine. 

Explore the technologies using the zoomable modules below 

Before the advent of the Lockheed U-2 (illustrated above), gaining intelligence about the Soviet Union’s secretive actions during the Cold War was almost impossible for surveillance planes flying low over Russia

Before the advent of the Lockheed U-2 (illustrated above), gaining intelligence about the Soviet Union’s secretive actions during the Cold War was almost impossible for surveillance planes flying low over Russia

The U-2 is able to climb to 50,000ft (15,240 metres) in around 20 minutes and 65,000ft (19,812 metres) within an hour of take-off. Hover your mouse above the graphic to zoom in for other details and facts 

Deployed by government and military forces, these eyes in the sky can be used for many different tasks, from patrolling borders and gathering information behind enemy lines, to monitoring battlefields for strategic decision-making.

Getting the information they need quickly and discreetly is the key aim for engineers.

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division, for example, is developing a faster, unmanned successor to its legendary SR-71 Blackbird spy plane called the SR-72, which is nicknamed the 'Son of the Blackbird'.

THE ICONIC U-2 SPYPLANE: STATISTICS AND FEATURES 

Altitude: The U-2 is able to climb to 50,000ft (15,240 metres) in 20 minutes and 65,000ft (19,812 metres) within an hour of take-off.

Wingpan: The U-2 spy plane has a tip-to-tip wingspan of 103ft (31.4metres) and is tuned to provide lift for its high-altitude missions.

Payload: While the plane carries no weapons, it holds 5,004lbs (2,270kg) of sensors and other mission-specific equipment.

Cabin pressure: To prevent decompression sickness, the cockpit pressure was recently adjusted from the equivalent of 29,002ft (8,840 metres, or the height of Mount Everest) to 14,993ft (4,570 metres).

Sensors and display: Electro-optical/infrared sensors feed data into the cockpit, presenting information clearly to the pilot.

Landing gear: The wheels are behind one another and the plane comes to a stop with one wingtip scraping the ground.

Safety car: Landing a U-2 is difficult, another pilot gives instructions from a safety car.

The SR-71 was built in the analogue age, taking off in 1964 and performing reconnaissance missions until its retirement in 1990.

Despite being 105ft (32 metres) long with a 56ft (17-metre) wingspan, this black behemoth could fly faster than a rifle bullet, hitting Mach 3 – three times the speed of sound, over 2,299mph (3,700 km/h)

Its distinctive curved shape with a sharp edge that ran along the body of the plane presented very few surfaces for radar detection, and using top-of-the-range photographic equipment for the time, Blackbird captured images of the ground from an altitude three times the height of Everest. 

Although some were lost in accidents, none were ever shot down or captured.

By comparison, its successor's engines will use a hybrid system to reach hypersonic speeds, enabling the aircraft to cross an entire continent in an hour.

The air friction of this speed alone could melt steel, so the SR-72 is likely to be made of composite materials, similar to those used for space shuttles and missiles. 

It will need to be capable of withstanding temperatures in excess of 1,000°C (1,832°F) and be sealed to stop lethal air leaks.

The technology needed to take photographs at this kind of speed will also be an incredible feat, and the exact makeup of this aircraft's gadgetry has not been confirmed, or perhaps even invented yet.

What experts do know is that it won't just be an observer.

This new unmanned plane will be armed to the teeth, launching bombs to hit targets from altitudes of around 15 miles (24km) up in the stratosphere.

Aerodynamics play a huge part in spy plane technology and aircraft like the SR-72 needs to be designed to cope with stresses experienced when travelling at such high speeds.

The Son of the Blackbird will need to be incredibly well balanced to deal with the changes between subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic flight to ensure that the craft is not ripped apart by the shifting centre of lift.

Supersonic is when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier or tops Mach 1, while hypersonic is when it reaches Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.  

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division is developing the 'Son of the Blackbird' (illustrated above). The engines will use a hybrid system to reach hypersonic speeds, enabling the aircraft to cross an entire continent in an hour. The air friction of this speed alone could melt steel, so the SR-72 is likely to be made of composite materials, similar to those used for space shuttles and missiles

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works division is developing the 'Son of the Blackbird' (illustrated above). The engines will use a hybrid system to reach hypersonic speeds, enabling the aircraft to cross an entire continent in an hour. The air friction of this speed alone could melt steel, so the SR-72 is likely to be made of composite materials, similar to those used for space shuttles and missiles

HOW SPY PLANS FIND AND TRACK MOBILE SIGNALS 

Spy planes can detect mobile phone signals to give away a person's location from the air.They are often equipped with technology known as a 'dirtbox' which stand for digital receiver technology. 

It works by mimicking the job of telecommunication towers, tricking mobile phones into sending unique registration to a device.

Explore the diagram below by hovering your mouse of each section 

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Modern spy planes can find and track mobile communications signals (hover over graphic to magnify). They usually use 'dirtboxes' that mimic telecommunications towers, tricking mobile phones into sending unique registration data to the dirtbox device

The dirtbox can scan thousands of phones before it reaches its intended target. Once the suspect has been located and locked on to, the dirtbox disregards the other phones and focuses on collecting information.

The plane manoeuvres into the best location to get a clear signal from the mobile phone in question. It can detect signal strength and the geographical location of the user as well as obtain identifying information about the phone's owner.

Using this information from the mobile phone signal, a suspect's location can then be pinpointed to within 10ft (three metres). The dirtbox can even help to track a person down to a specific room in a building.

However, the Global Hawk, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle made by Northrup Grumman, looks dramatically different to a spy plane you might imagine.

It has a bulging front profile and a somewhat chunky tail end, but this amazing surveillance drone is able to fly across the world to deliver real-time ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) data to its controllers at US Air Force ground bases.

Unmanned aircraft offer numerous advantages when it comes to spying from the air.

First of all, engineers do not need to construct a cockpit that safeguards human life.  

The Global Hawk (pictured), an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle made by Northrup Grumman, looks dramatically different to a spy plane you might imagine. It has a bulging front profile and a somewhat chunky tail end, but this amazing surveillance drone is able to fly across the world to deliver real-time ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) data to its controllers at US Air Force ground bases

The Global Hawk (pictured), an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle made by Northrup Grumman, looks dramatically different to a spy plane you might imagine. It has a bulging front profile and a somewhat chunky tail end, but this amazing surveillance drone is able to fly across the world to deliver real-time ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) data to its controllers at US Air Force ground bases

When it comes to creating a monster machine that operates on the very edges of space, this is a money, time and space-saving bonus.

The other benefit of using a spy drone instead is that it can keep going for longer than a mission with an on-board pilot.

Many drones can also be pre-programmed to carry out assignments even if contact is lost with its base team.

One such spy drone causing ripples in aerial reconnaissance is Northrop Grumman's RQ-180. 

THE FAMOUS LOCKHEED U-2 SPY PLANE AND ITS SUCCESSORS

The plane that peeked around the Iron Curtain is still going strong.

Named 'Dragon Lady' by the US Air Force, the U-2 was the brainchild of engineer Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson and went from design to test flight in just nine months.

The slender body and long wingspan allow it to fly a range of over 2,983 miles (4,800km) at an altitude of over 13 miles (21 km).

The plane that peeked around the Iron Curtain is still going strong. Named 'Dragon Lady' by the US Air Force, the U-2 (silhouette pictured) was the brainchild of engineer Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson and went from design to test flight in just nine months

The plane that peeked around the Iron Curtain is still going strong. Named 'Dragon Lady' by the US Air Force, the U-2 (silhouette pictured) was the brainchild of engineer Clarence 'Kelly' Johnson and went from design to test flight in just nine months

The next-generation U-2 family, the U-2S, was built in the 1980s and is expected to be operational beyond 2050. 

These planes are fitted with state-of-the-art sensor systems that are able to collect data day and night, in all weather. 

The intelligence is distributed in real time for analysis and exploitation over super-fast digital links.

Today, some of the U-2's work is for Nasa, equipped with various sensors to conduct atmospheric tests. 

U-2s have also patrolled the skies above Iraq and Afghanistan, intercepting insurgent communications and using their incredible imaging sensors to detect small disturbances on the ground, alerting troops to the presence of improvised explosive devices and mines.

Not much is known about this robot apart from the fact that it exists and that the stealth drone is designated for flying in defended airspace for spying on heavily armed rival nations. 

It's thought that to evade radar detection, this drone may be designed with the 'cranked kite' formation, where the shape is a fusion of the 'kite' and 'flying' wing formations. 

The chunky and angular shapes are designed to scatter oncoming radar waves, so that they can't be bounced back to their location and the plane can fly undetected. 

Modern spy planes use cutting-edge science and technology to do this, but historical planes were able to achieve amazing feats too. One such example is the SR-71 Blackbird (stock image). It was built in the analogue age, taking off in 1964 and performing reconnaissance missions until its retirement in 1990

Modern spy planes use cutting-edge science and technology to do this, but historical planes were able to achieve amazing feats too. One such example is the SR-71 Blackbird (stock image). It was built in the analogue age, taking off in 1964 and performing reconnaissance missions until its retirement in 1990

This diagram shows how the Boeing P-8 scans waters for submarines. It features in the latest issue of How It Works magazine

This diagram shows how the Boeing P-8 scans waters for submarines. It features in the latest issue of How It Works magazine

As well as the shape of the aircraft, radar-absorbent materials can also be used to make it less visible.

When the waves from the seeking radar hit it, these coatings can deflect the waves and send them in another direction, or in such a manner that the deflected waves cancel out the incoming ones.

This renders the craft practically undiscoverable.

Stealth, speed and strength are all very well, but if a spy plane can't carry a decent payload then it's not worth its salt.

There are countless different gadgets and gizmos that can be attached, built in, added or upgraded in order to turn an ordinary military aircraft into a hub of digital sensory perception.

Radar and sonar, for example, use radio and sound waves (respectively) that bounce off objects to pinpoint their location.

Reconnaissance aircraft will often carry high-resolution imaging equipment, with top-level zooms and digital video streaming and recording capabilities.

Thermal imaging and infrared sensors are other payload regulars, along with a plethora of communications interceptors, acoustic monitoring and many other ways to listen in on the rest of the world.

The data is delivered to analysts either on-board or on the ground via high-speed real-time links, so the intelligence gathered can be used advantageously.

It would seem that the future for ISR missions involves plenty of speed, power and altitude with the benefit of automated features.

Although there are no plans to retire the old faithfuls like Lockheed's U-2 Dragon Lady just yet, there are also plenty of rumours circulating about plans for faster, meaner, more multifunctional spy planes.

One such concept is the TR-X – another Lockheed invention from its famous Skunk Works spy plane creation station in California.

The planning stages are still in their infancy, but Lockheed has stated this spy plane will take the best bits of all the other great spy planes in the skies today and roll them into one mega plane that could be deployed by 2030.  

The full feature is available in How It Works magazine, on sale now 

THE SUBMARINE HUNTER: BOEING'S P-8 SCANS WATERS FOR UNWANTED VISITORS 

Boeing’s Poseidon P-8 sub hunter scans the waters for unwanted aquatic visitors

Based upon the tried-and-tested body of the Boeing 737-800 commercial airliner and the wings of Boeing's 737-900, the Poseidon P-8 is an advanced maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.

Featuring all kinds of task-specific technology, the P-8 is able to fly fast and low, cruising above the sea to seek out submarines that can pose threats to aircraft carriers.

Boeing’s Poseidon P-8 sub hunter scans the waters for unwanted aquatic visitors. Based upon the tried-and-tested body of the Boeing 737-800 airliner and the wings of Boeing's 737-900, the Poseidon P-8 is an advanced maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. Hover your mouse above the graphic to zoom into details 

Six extra body fuel tanks extend the plane's range to find the subs. Some variants of the Poseidon P-8 model use radar, a magnetic anomaly detector and electronic intelligence sensors to monitor telecommunications and infrared imaging to keep tabs on shipping.

It can also deploy expendable sonobuoys to act as satellite sensors in the field.

But that's not all this spy plane can do. With its strengthened fuselage, the Poseidon also boasts missiles, mines and torpedoes in its arsenal, making it ready to aim, fire and dispatch a rebel submarine if ever required.

 

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DARPA Cortical Modem connects brain directly to computer for 'electronic telepathy and telekinesis'

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DARPA cortical modem augmented realityDARPA's cortical modem implant could restore sight loss and provide eyes with a heads-up displayGetty Images

A brain-computer interface has been developed by the US Defence Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that is capable of laying a heads-up display over a user's natural vision.

The "cortical modem" also holds the potential to cure sight loss and enable "electronic telepathy and telekinesis" according to noted futurist Peter Rothman, writing for H+ Magazine.

While still a long way from production, the direct neural interface (DNI) chip would be shaped like a coin, around 1cm wide, and could conceivably cost as little as $10 (£6.50).

As outlined at the Biology is Technology conference in Silicon Valley last week, the interface provides a direct link between the brain and an external device or software through manipulation of the visual cortex.

Phillip Alvelda, chief of DARPA's Biological Technologies, told the conference how the device could replace all virtual reality glasses, such as the Oculus Rift, by bypassing the visual sensory system entirely

DARPA Projects

The project builds on the work of Karl Deisseroth in the field of optogenetics, according to H+ Magazine which was in attendance at the California conference.

Optogenetics involves the controlling of light-responsive proteins within the brain through targeted light emission.

DARPA has led the way in a number of futurist and transhumanist projects, including a tiny implant that assists the body's organs in healing themselves when injured.

The secretive agency was established by the US Government in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik by the USSR.

DARPA described its purpose in a 2005 document as follows: "DARPA's original mission, established in 1958, was to prevent technological surprise like the launch of Sputnik, which signalled that the Soviets had beaten the US into space.

The mission statement has evolved over time. Today, DARPA's mission is still to prevent technological surprise to the US, but also to create technological surprise for our enemies."

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GCHQ hacking phones and computers is legal, says top UK court

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GCHQ hacking phones and computers is legal, says top UK court

The ruling includes remotely activating microphones and cameras on electronic devices without the owner’s knowledge

The government has not commented on whether GCHQ is monitoring parliamentarians' communications It's the first time that GCHQ have admitted to carrying out hacking in the UK (Ministry of Defence - Wikimedia Commons)

Computer, smartphone and network hacking by UK intelligence agency GCHQ is legal, a security tribunal has said.

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled on Friday that computer network exploitation (CNE) – which can include remotely activating microphones and cameras on electronic devices such as iPhones without the owner’s knowledge – is legal.

The case, which was heard in 2015, was the first time that GCHQ admitted to carrying out hacking in the UK and overseas. Previously, their policy had been to "neither confirm nor deny". The IPT, which deals with complaints about surveillance and the intelligence services, found in favour of the Cheltenham-based monitoring agency and the Foreign Office.

The ruling comes after Campaigners Privacy International’s legal challenge claiming GCHQ's hacking operations are too intrusive and break European law. Whistleblower Edward Snowden described the spying agency as “worse than the US”.

The case cannot be appealed to any higher UK court, but it could be taken to Europe.

During proceedings, GCHQ admitted that it carries out CNE outside the UK, and that in 2013 about a fifth of its intelligence reports contained information derived from hacking.

The Home Office has now published a code of practice for hacking, or "equipment interference" as it is also known, and aims to put it on a firmer legal footing in its Investigatory Powers Bill, which is due to become law later this year.

The IPT judgment said: “The use of CNE by GCHQ, now avowed, has obviously raised a number of serious questions, which we have done our best to resolve.

“Plainly, it again emphasises the requirement for a balance to be drawn between the urgent need of the intelligence agencies to safeguard the public and the protection of an individual’s privacy and/or freedom of expression.

“We are satisfied that with the new [equipment interference code] and whatever the outcome of parliamentary consideration of the investigatory powers bill, a proper balance is being struck in regard to the matters we have been asked to consider.”

According to the judgment, the legal structure under which warrants are issued for GCHQ to carry out equipment interference in the UK is compatible with the European convention on human rights.

Philip Hammond, the foreign secretary, who welcomed the ruling, said: "The ability to exploit computer networks plays a crucial part in our ability to protect the British public.”

“A proper balance is being struck between the need to keep Britain safe and the protection of individuals’ privacy.”

Scarlet Kim, a legal officer at Privacy International, said: “We are disappointed by the IPT’s judgment, which has found government hacking lawful based on a broad interpretation of a law dating back to 1994, when the internet and mobile phone technology were in their infancy.

“Until we brought this case, GCHQ would neither confirm nor deny that they were engaging in mass hacking of computers, mobile devices and entire computer networks.

“During the course of the proceedings, the government sought to create law ‘on the hoof’, changing anti-hacking laws [the 1990 Computer Misuse Act] through an addition to the 2015 Serious Crime Act and producing a code of practice for hacking. Hacking is one of the most intrusive surveillance capabilities available to intelligence agencies.

“The IPT has decided that GCHQ can use ‘thematic warrants’, which means GCHQ can hack an entire class of property or persons, such as ‘all phones in Birmingham’.

“In doing so, it has upended a longstanding English common law principle that such general warrants are unlawful. Allowing governments to hack places the security and stability of the internet and the information we exchange on it at stake.”

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Scenes from the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie Universal Soldier may become reality, as the US military is working on the development of an implantable chip which could turn soldiers into real-life cyborgs by attaching their brains to computers, Tech Times reported.

The new interface is being developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The project plans to connect the human brain and modern electronics, the source said.

A bio-compatible chip would be no larger than 1 cubic centimeter and act as a translator to convert "electrochemical language used by neurons in the brain and the ones and zeros that constitute the language of information technology," ScienceAlert reported.

If things turn out as planned, the new interface would allow the US military to have cyborg-soldiers with enhanced battle capabilities through a digital system, the science news source said.

Although the military use would most likely be the first use for the new interface, its potential uses go far beyond the battlefield. The device could become a breakthrough advancement for neuroscience, synthetic biology and low-power electronics, just to name a few things, according to ScienceAlert.

The US military hopes that major defense companies will partner with the DARPA, so the agency could work on further research.    

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