Nonlethal Weapons Could Target Brain, Mimic Schizophenia

[American Dream]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/02/r ... letha.html

Report: Nonlethal Weapons Could Target Brain, Mimic Schizophrenia
By Sharon Weinberger February 18, 2008



Of all the crazy, bizarre less-lethal weapons that have been proposed, the use of microwaves to target the human mind remains the most disturbing. The question has always been: is this anything more than urban myth? We may not have the final answer to this question, but a newly declassified Pentagon report, Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons , obtained by a private citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, provides some fascinating tidbits on a variety of exotic weapons ideas.

Among those discussed are weapons that could disrupt the brain, as well as my longtime obsession, the "Voice of God" device, which creates voices in people's heads. As the report notes, "Application of the microwave hearing technology could facilitate a private message transmission. It may be useful to provide a disruptive condition to a person not aware of the technology. Not only might it be disruptive to the sense of hearing, it could be psychologically devastating if one suddenly heard 'voices within one's head.'"

Voices in your head disturbing? Heck, yeah, considering it's something most people associate with schizophrenia. The age-old question is whether such a weapon is possible. According to the report, it's not only possible, it's already been demonstrated in crude form:

Because the frequency of the sound heard is dependent on the pulse characteristics of the RF energy, it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except hat it could only be heard within a person's head. In one experiment, communication of the words from one to ten using "speech modulated" microwave energy was successfully demonstrated. Microphones next to the person experiencing the voice could not pick up the sound. Additional development of this would open up a wide range of possibilities.

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This technology requires no extrapolation to estimate its usefulness. Microwave energy can be applied at a distance, and the appropriate technology can be adapted from existing radar units. Aiming devices likewise are available but for special circumstances which require extreme specificity, there may be a need for additional development. Extreme directional specificity would be required to transmit a message to a single hostage surrounded by his captors. Signals can be transmitted long distances (hundreds of meters) using current technology. Longer distances and more sophisticated signal types will require more bulky equipment, but it seems possible to transmit some of the signals at closer ranges using man-portable equipment.

If voices in your head aren't disturbing enough, the report also goes on to theorize about a microwave weapon that could use electromagnetic pulses to disrupt the brain's functioning. It would work through "a rhythmic-activity synchronization of brain neurons that disrupts normal cortical control of the corticospinal and corticobulbar pathways that disrupts normal functioning of the spinal motor neurons which control muscle and body movements."

This concept is still very theoretical, the report notes:

Application of electromagnetic pulses is also a conceptual nonlethal technology that uses electromagnetic energy to induce neural synchrony and disruption of voluntary muscle control. The effectiveness of this concept has not been demonstrated. However, from past work in evaluating the potential for electromagnetic pulse generator to affect humans, it is estimated that sufficiently strong internal fields can be generated within the brain to trigger neurons.

Sadly, there's little context for the report, which is dated 1998, and no specific references to current programs or research, if any, about such weapons.

[philipacentaur]

Schizophrenia could also mimic this, with some "help" from the Internet.

[FourthBase]

Looks like Phil's unraveling.

[philipacentaur]

My posts are no different today than they've ever been, so drop the vulture act. Good day.

[lunarose]

wasn't there a thread recently about some advertiser using voice o god tech in some ad campaign? and after public protest it was turned off? but i don't think they were using microwaves, that idea has been around a looooooooooooooong time.

people hear voices in side their head all the time, its called 'talking to yourself'.

[Art Van De Lay]

Hear Voices? It May Be an Ad

Published on Tuesday, December 11, 2007.



An A&E Billboard 'Whispers' a Spooky Message Audible Only in Your Head in Push to Promote Its New 'Paranormal' Program


NEW YORK - New Yorker Alison Wilson was walking down Prince Street in SoHo last week when she heard a woman's voice right in her ear asking, "Who's there? Who's there?" She looked around to find no one in her immediate surroundings. Then the voice said, "It's not your imagination."


Indeed it isn't. It's an ad for "Paranormal State," a ghost-themed series premiering on A&E this week. The billboard uses technology manufactured by Holosonic that transmits an "audio spotlight" from a rooftop speaker so that the sound is contained within your cranium. The technology, ideal for museums and libraries or environments that require a quiet atmosphere for isolated audio slideshows, has rarely been used on such a scale before. For random passersby and residents who have to walk unwittingly through the area where the voice will penetrate their inner peace, it's another story.

Ms. Wilson, a New York-based stylist, said she expected the voice inside her head to be some type of creative project but could see how others might perceive it differently, particularly on a late-night stroll home. "I might be a little freaked out, and I wouldn't necessarily think it's coming from that billboard," she said.

Less-intrusive approach?

Joe Pompei, president and founder of Holosonics, said the creepy approach is key to drawing attention to A&E's show. But, he noted, the technology was designed to avoid adding to noise pollution. "If you really want to annoy a lot of people, a loudspeaker is the best way to do it," he said. "If you set up a loudspeaker on the top of a building, everybody's going to hear that noise. But if you're only directing that sound to a specific viewer, you're never going to hear a neighbor complaint from street vendors or pedestrians. The whole idea is to spare other people."

Holosonics has partnered with a cable network once before, when Court TV implemented the technology to promote its "Mystery Whisperer" in the mystery sections of select bookstores. Mr. Pompei said the company also has tested retail deployments in grocery stores with Procter & Gamble and Kraft for customized audio messaging. So a customer, for example, looking to buy laundry detergent could suddenly hear the sound of gurgling water and thus feel compelled to buy Tide as a result of the sonic experience.

Mr. Pompei contends that the technology will take time for consumers to get used to, much like the lights on digital signage and illuminated billboards did when they were first used. The website Gawker posted an itemabout the billboard last week with the headline "Schizophrenia is the new ad gimmick," and asked "How soon will it be until in addition to the do-not-call list, we'll have a 'do not beam commercial messages into my head' list?"

"There's going to be a certain population sensitive to it. But once people see what it does and hear for themselves, they'll see it's effective for getting attention," Mr. Pompei said.

More disruptions

A&E's $3 million to $5 million campaign for "Paranormal" includes other more disruptive elements than just the one audio ad in New York. In Los Angeles, a mechanical face creeps out of a billboard as if it's coming toward the viewer, and then recedes. In print, the marketing team persuaded two print players to surrender a full editorial page to their ads, flipping the gossip section in AM New York upside down and turning a page in this week's Parade into a checkerboard of ads for "Paranormal."

http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4978

[elfismiles]

Earlier this month I wrote an article with bookoo links to citations regarding these crossover issues of voice-in-the-head tech being used in advertising, ufology, and psyops:

Guided By Voices
http://www.AnomalyMagazine.com/2008/02/ ... by-voices/

[crikkett]

@ elfismiles

Great article!

[JackRiddler]

The guy justifying the A&E ad should be bagged, sent to Guantanomo and have white noise beamed into his hood for a year. Hey, it's just a way to get attention, ya know? No reason to be sensitive about it!

[starviego]

There is evidence in many of the headline-grabbing random-rage mass shootings of the past 15 years that does strongly suggest some kind of voice beam technology is being used. From the mouths of the killers:



12-16-92 Wayne Lo, 18, Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 2 dead, 4 wounded
-- .... he said the command to kill was a feeling. "It's not visual. It's not auditory," he said. "It's just, you realize it." He remains convinced, he said, that it was something outside of himself that gave him a message to do what he did.


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4-24-98 Andrew Wurst 14, Edinborough, PA, Parker Middle School(at off-campus school dance); 1 dead, 3 wounded
--"...Andrew had mentioned in a letter to a friend that 'the voices are coming again.' "
Wurst informed a forensic psychiatrist that, the government has programmed everyone, except for himself, by means of "time tablets" that control people's thoughts.

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5-22-98 Kip Kinkel, Springfield, OR, Thurston High School, 1 dead, 7 seriously wounded
--As to why he went on his rampage, Kip proclaimed, "my head kept telling me I had no other choice.... ."
--Kip.... couldn't remember driving to school and he battled the voices even as he entered the hallway at Thurston. "I talked to the voices. I said "I don't want to do this." " "He begged the voices not to make him do it. He knew it was wrong. He has a moral code."
The voices than cut a deal with Kip's suicidal aspirations. He could be free of them at last if he committed certain homicidal acts. Kip reported that after hearing the voices say hundreds of times, "You have to go to school! Kill everybody!" he begged them to "Promise me you'll let me kill myself after..." The voices assured him that he could do so......

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5-3-99 Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center, Costa Mesa, California, Steven Allen Abrams, 39 Killed two toddlers and seriously injured several more when he drove his car at high speed onto the school playground.

--He believed government agencies had devised machines ..that "may even insert thoughts of killing"

--psychiatric records portray Abrams as a man haunted by delusions that the CIA or some other government agency("an unknown government agency") wanted him to become a killer.

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5-20-99 T.J. Solomon, 15, Conyers, GA, Heritage High, 6 wounded-
-- A shrink hired by defense attorneys to examine T.J. said that T.J. had suicidal thoughts and believed to hear voices giving him commands. “He heard voices telling him to do strange things, but they were robotic voices, not human voices”

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3-2-05 Jason Clinard, 14, Stewart County High School, Cumberland City, TN
He shot his school bus driver six times, killing her as she stopped to pick him up. --The mother of the accused said she believes her son was not aware of his actions on the day..
--the teen told staff at Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute that he had been "hearing voices for about five years, which instructed Jason to harm others and himself"
--The boy told the psychiatrist, "it's like somebody else controlling my body."

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3-21-05 Jeff Weise, 18, Red Lake HS, (10 dead, 4 wounded)
Web postings: "Lately I've been having some really strange dreams, they seem very realistic and filled with colour and sounds, ....a few night's ago I had this dream where I saw this very evil, very creepy canine's face coming toward's me, and I heard someone say "shoot!," either way everything went black and I could feel my whole body jerking and shaking, and while this was happening I could hear very loud and very distinct gunshot's, mostly machine gun fire... I found it very weird and woke up immediately after feeling a little disoriented... ."

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10-9-06 Memorial Middle School, Joplin, MO
A 13-year-old student walked into the east side of Memorial Middle School where he pointed the gun at two men, asked them “not to make me do this” and then raised the gun and fired a shot into the ceiling of the school, breaking a water pipe. After firing the shot, he said again, “Please don’t make me do this.”

[American Dream]

starviego wrote:

There is evidence in many of the headline-grabbing random-rage mass shootings of the past 15 years that does strongly suggest some kind of voice beam technology is being used.

The evidence that you cite could be evidence of "paranoid schizophrenia", "command hallucinations" and/or electromagnetic mind control. The problem is: How do you tell the difference?

To me, there is abundant evidence that the technology exists to beam a voice inside somebody's head. A more difficult question would concern how to have the voice follow them. A black ops van outside their apartment likely would work. A satellite following their every move is more doubtful. Something that could remotely read their thoughts? Very doubtful.

So here's the rub: First person accounts from "targetted individuals" are therefore difficult to solely rely upon. Objective corroboration really helps.

My two cents, no disrespect meant to anyone.

[Joe Hillshoist]

The evidence that you cite could be evidence of "paranoid schizophrenia", "command hallucinations" and/or electromagnetic mind control. The problem is: How do you tell the difference?

Thats exactly the question.

The other points you raise are pretty good too.

How do you actually pull this off? From what I understand you have to be still for those things to work, or at least within a limited range of motion.

Those examples you gave, starviego, they need more detail, like when specifically did the people hear the voices.

I find it hard to accept that the technology, or technology that can cause people to act a certain way against their will, is developed enough to follow someone while they are driving, as some of those stories suggest.

[FourthBase]

Beam technology couldn't, but maybe little transistors? I dunno.

[elfismiles]

@ elfismiles

Great article!

Thanks Crikkett!


As for telling the diff, yeah, that's the rub. That's why I also mentioned the stimoceiver implant tech and pulsed microwave versions.

[Nordic]

Well, while I think it's far-fetched at this point in time to attribute this sort of schizophrenic behavior to nefarious conspiracies, those who are questioning how you could follow someone as they drove and moved about need look no farther than the Garmin GPS device on their dashboards.

Or the GPS device which now exists inside everybody's cell phone.

I'm to tired to look it up now, but it's been suggested in the past that such technology could be used via satellite.

Pretty easy to follow people around now, what with RFID chip technology being what it is as well. They even have RFID chips in "powder" form. They can just sprinkle the shit on you:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-F ... ewsNum=939

By the way, Elfsmiles, GREAT article. I just spent a whole ton of time reading it and checking out many of your links. I could spent a lot more time there. Awesome job.