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Mind control etc

Someone pointed out to me that Lobster 42 ranged from Gladstone to UFOs, a spread probably unique today. But this range has a downside: things get picked up and then sidelined. One such area is the field bounded on one side by what is known as mind control and on the other by non-lethal technologies. I'm still collecting material in these areas and below is a summary of some recent developments.

Active Denial

Developed jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate, Active Denial is a narrow beam of millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy which heats up the skin and causes burns. In other words a non-lethal - so they say - electro-magnetic ray gun. This was announced by the Office of Public Affairs of the Air Force Research laboratory on 1 March 2001.

Verichip

'The VeriChip is an implantable, 12mm by 2.1mm radio frequency device about the size of the point of a typical ballpoint pen. Each VeriChip will contain a unique identification number and other critical data. Utilizing an external scanner, radio frequency energy passes through the skin energizing the dormant VeriChip, which then emits a radio frequency signal transmitting the identification number and other data contained in the VeriChip.'

So wrote Robert O'Harrow Jr. of the Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62663-2001Dec 18.html (1) There are lots of obvious uses for such a device, some of them positive but most of them ominous.

Mobile phones

'Mobile telephones in new brain tumour alert' - was the headline to a story by Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, filed on 5 September 2001. Uhlig wrote:

'Using a mobile telephone more than doubles the risk of developing brain cancer on the side of the head where the phone is held, the British Association festival of science was told yesterday.... by Lennart Hardell, professor of oncology at Orebro University in Sweden....He found that people who used cell phones were two and a half times more likely to have a temporal brain tumour on the side of the head where they held their phone.......'

Which is bad enough. But at the foot of piece the Telegraph were good enough to list related stories.

These show how the story ran: initial warnings; then industry-funded inquiry which offered reassurance; then independent research; and the bad news reappears. The interesting story is the last on 13 July 2001 referring to a new police communications system using microwave technology now being slowly introduced nation-wide. Police using it are already reporting a wide variety of symptoms typical of microwave exposure.

The pressure against acknowledging that mobile phones cause cancer is enormous. Not only are there vast economic interests involved - class action lawsuits are already being assembled in the United Strates - there are also a whole range of other implications. If this is a health hazard, what else is? There is a considerable amount of anecdotal evidence that radar operators, for example, suffer higher than normal rates of cancer. In the United States radar-based speed guns have been found to cause cancer among police personnel using them. The legal ramifications in this area are enormous and potentially both very expensive for states using the technology and with very awkward implications for policy.

Mind control: implants

The first French putative victim of this technology I have seen announced her presence in an e-mail. Lioudmila Leverd-Peliou-chenko, originally a Russian, claims that she was implanted in a series of operations beginning in 1973 in France. Ms Leverd-Peliouchenko gave an e-mail address but didn't reply to my e-mail asking if she had any evidence.

HAARP

A powerful, detailed and documented version of the paranoids' case against HAARP, 'Playing God' by Michel Chussodovsky, was posted at http://www.guerrillanews.com/government/doc288.html in early January 2002.

The official version is that HAARP is being used (a) to facilitate over-the-horizon-radar and to develop ground-penetrating imagery. (I saw - but have lost - a reference to this being used in Afghanistan to locate people inside caves.)

The Chussodovsky piece assembles all the known unofficial claims about HAARP but to me doesn't quite stand up its central claims:

'Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions.'

Both the sentences above contain the word 'potentially'.

Notes

1 See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1869000/1869457.stm

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