Microwave Weapons and Havana Syndrome
Watch this politically-deferred excrement hit the fan in 2021
I followed this thread the morning of Monday 7 Dec 2020 (out of my “Endless Topic List”) and ended up at a point of informed perspective from which I (and perhaps YOU) will watch this techo-political drama unfold early in the next administration. So now we have a baseline of historical events. But what will happen next? #ff
And again, unless you see #ff, the text is pulled quotes from the referenced articles and the emphasis is mine.
“Directed, pulsed radio-frequency energy appears to be the most plausible cause” for Havana Syndrome
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Early reports from national experts from Cuba several years ago when this was first reported suggested the victim’s reported symptoms were just stress from working in the embassy. And maybe crickets??
#ff Anatomical changes have been identified in all parts of the brains of victims, changes not unlike those of concussion, but showing unusual variances from traumatic brain injury from an accident. This is not hysteria. And don't blame the poor crickets for brain damage. I’ll let you explore the sources below without comment, save for a couple:
It attributes the illnesses to “directed” and “pulsed” — rather than “continuous” — energy, implying that the victims’ exposure was targeted and not the result of more common sources of microwave energy, such as, for example, a cellphone.
It also said the committee found the immediate symptoms that patients reported — including strange sensations of pain, pressure and sound that often appeared to emanate from a particular direction, or occurred in a specific spot in a room — were more consistent with a directed “attack” of radio-frequency energy.
#ff It was not any perceptible NOISE (of grinding or buzzing or crickets chirping) that caused the symptoms but other radio-frequency energies.
📰 News: 'Sonic attacks' in Cuba and China:... (CNN News) - Behind the headlines - NLM Source of related leads from the National Library of Medicine but not the most recent updates
#ff This is going to come back after Trump leaves office and quits sucking up to Putin; it will cause a major stink (both Russia and China are involved).
The report by the National Academies also contains a stark warning about the possibility of future episodes, and the U.S. government’s ability to detect them, or to mount a response. The fact that American government employees reported afflictions not only in Cuba and China but also in Russia and other countries raises questions about how widespread the incidents may be.
“The larger issue is preparedness for new and unknown threats that might compromise the health and safety of U.S. diplomats serving abroad,” the report concludes. “The next event may be even more dispersed in time and place, and even more difficult to recognize quickly.”
AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY PLAYED A ROLE, OF COURSE #ff
Some victims said at the time that the Trump administration was trying to avoid addressing its shortfalls toward the safety of U.S. government employees overseas, especially ahead of the November elections.
the mysterious neurological condition that has afflicted US spies and State Department staff stationed in Cuba, China, and elsewhere since 2016.
The report indicates, without stating directly, that US personal stationed in Havana in 2016, and Guangzhou, China, in 2017, were deliberately attacked with a secret weapon that deploys technology US agencies don’t fully understand.
“This constellation of clinical features is unlike any disorder in the neurological or general medical literature,” wrote David Relman, a Stanford microbiologist who chaired the committee.
📰 'Havana Syndrome' likely caused by pulsed microwave energy, government study finds NBC NEWS
MILITARY APPLICATIONS
#ff I had to think that countermeasures and mine-is-bigger-than-yours were underway by our own geniuses at inflicting pain and loss on our enemies-du-jour (while, already, minor-by-comparison acoustic weapons have been used in crowd control and as a form of torture. Who was it (Noriega?) that suffered days upon end of hyper-loud music from Barney, Heavy Metal and Barry Manilow! I’d surrender pronto.
Got enemies? Click the link, turn up speakers and leave the house. Now! Almost two hours of Barney and Friends! This ought to violate the Geneva Convention! (Actually this is pretty tame compared to Headbanger Music.)
US Office of Naval Research is working on these weapons, playing catch-up
📰 Programs - Directed Energy Weapons: High Power Microwaves - Office of Naval Research
Directed energy weapons (DEWs) are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy and focusing it on a target, resulting in physical damage that degrades, neutralizes, defeats, or destroys an adversarial capability
DOD Officials Discuss Framework for Advancing Directed Energy Weapons The Defense Department is developing directed energy weapons — high-powered lasers and microwaves — in concert with industry in a way designed to achieve optimal outcomes.
OMG Fred!
That was really interesting. I had forgotten about these attacks.