The following are some examples of mission statements from real enterprises. . .
Mary Kay Cosmetics: "To give unlimited opportunity to women."
Right. And they do this by adding their weight to the ceaseless hammering of women through the media with the message, "Your natural body state is Ugly. You will be Unloved and Unhappy unless you use our Products." Oooh. Feel the power.
Merck: "To preserve and improve human life."
One word: "Vioxx".
Well, maybe a second word, "Thimerosal" (Mercury) in their various vaccines, including their flu shot.
Wal-Mart: "To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same thing as rich people."
Selling out the West to the Chinese might kill the economy altogether, which will certainly mean that the rich and the poor might share the same bread lines. Sort of a weird way to level the playing field if you ask me, but what do I know. . ?
Interestingly, another of Wal-Mart's mission statements was, "Become a $125 billion company by the year 2000". Ah. Greed; the very spirit of altruism! No conflict there, boy!
Walt Disney: "To make people happy."
Why does that send a chill up my spine? How about, "Offer happiness"? Or at least, offer media which some might find uplifting. In any case, I can't help but recall the episode where Disney security staff held the body of a boy who drowned on one of their rides under water until the park closed so that nobody would have their, "happiness" (or their PR) spoiled by the unpleasant aspect of a dead boy being returned to grieving parents before closing time. How about, "Disney: Where ignorance is bliss, and enforced."
McDonald's: "McDonald's vision is to be the world's best quick service restaurant experience. Being the best means providing outstanding quality, service, cleanliness, and value, so that we make every customer in every restaurant smile."
Another nice-sounding mission statement from a company which helps kill Americans with toxic food and destroys millions of acres of rainforest globally to do it. Cool.
So, is Google evil?
Spiderman said it best; "With great power. .." I use Google's search engine all the time. Their potential to reshape the world, as with all of the above corporate giants, is certainly there. And so is the corporate culture which allows amoral activities to rule their actions. So evil or not, I think a healthy amount of skepticism and observation and keeping brushed up on alternatives is very wise. --Because mission statements alone don't keep people honest.
Heck, walking is a kind of controlled falling using weight management and multiple levers; Lean forward and flip out your leg thingies to stop yourself from crashing. Repeat.
Rah rah for useless research! Science for the heck of it!
It might not go farther than a prototype too soon. It's because it's done independently by an university professor that doesn't appear to have the financial means or business prowess to make a commercial product out of it.
Cool hyperlink!
--I also like to consider. . .
If that's what an under-funded university prof can come up with in his spare time, what could a bunch of specially selected high-paid geniuses working in a top-secret corporate tech department come up with? --With billions of dollars at their disposal and direct instructions, "Invent huge storage. Oh, and you can also have access to all our previously researched top-secret stuff."
Heck, what could the military black-budget tech departments come up with, for that matter. . .
It is logical to assume that this stuff, and far, far better already exists. And the reason an under-funded university proff will NEVER be allowed to develop his creation into mainstream commercial industry is that the behind the scenes people can't abide by some upstart inventor mucking up their careful product release scheduling. Honestly. . , if you're clever enough with your inventions, you'll either be hired away into something top-secret, or you'll be hushed up.
North Pole's tubby toy titan remains fiction's richest character, despite ongoing strife with Elvish labor force. Elves bemoan low-wages, lack of health care coverage and union-busting tactics of "Claws." Factory operations also dogged by several documented instances of child-labor. Santa retorts that "immortal" Elves don't need health insurance, and says child-workers were being punished for being "naughty." Analysts expect impact on toy and candy production to be minimal. Claus' ultimate motivations for annual gift-giving orgy remain unclear. Speculated to be tormented by infinite wealth; embarks on annual around-the-world trip in a futile attempt to give it away. Others detect darker side, noting percentage of children receiving lumps of coal and ill-treatment of rare Finnish-bred flying reindeer. Claus himself plays it close to the vest, cryptically muttering "Ho! Ho! Ho!" Member since time immemorial. -- Michael Noer
Is it just me, or is that the most cynical, sick piece of shit you've read in a long time?
The number of Fnords in that paragraph were just plain. . . upsetting. "Strife" "Claws" "Orgy" "Child-labor" etc.
Ugh. It's Christmas for goodness sake! How about an attempt at a nice Rockwellian picture post-card version of the holidays? --I know the whole season is designed to make people feel lonely, poor, angry, stressed-out and willing to embrace the mighty god of oil-driven consumerism in the name of a propagandized Christian hero carefully marketed and designed to drive a few hundred million people insane to the point of their willingly launching the so-called 'apocalypse' by giving the land of Babylon, (Iraq) back to Israel. . , but vilifying Santa?
The whole reason blogs exist is to provide an alternative to the sham of Big Media. So who cares what they publish?
I stopped reading/listening/believing what came out of the Big Money Mouthpiece years ago. There are only two reasons to pay attention to Big Media. . .
1. To look for slipped truths through comparative readings of the same story/information as published by several different groups and outlets.
2. To see what herding techniques are being used on the population and thereby get a heads-up and prepare for whatever new scam is coming down the pike. The "Avian Flu Virus" bugaboo is an excellent case in point. When that much media hype is unleashed, your Goebbels Alarm should start ringing like crazy.
So if Big Media starts cutting and pasting your blog content, perhaps you should take a second look at what you're publishing. If your message is pure, chances are you'll be ignored or marginalized rather than given the seal of authoritarian approval. Just a thought.
is a couple of years worth of fear-based media hype about a bunch of man-made and deliberately distributed diseases, and people are willing to give away yet a few more inches and miles to the State.
This is why I avoid Television and media in general. Of COURSE the bad guys will be able to spin up a reasonable-sounding argument for why you should slit your wrists. The problem with TV is that you can't argue back at it. All you can do is sit on your arse and watch pre-fab 'debate' happening on your behalf which, of course, will always end up with the various anti-freedom, anti-privacy sharks presenting the lion's share of convincing argument.
The game is so very, very rigged.
The frustrating part is that I know I am right, but I'm not allowed to say why. It has to stay in the realm of, "Maybe he's making it up." --Otherwise, it gets dangerous for yourself and the people around you. Basically, if you dig deeply enough into areas such as this, then grudgingly or not, you eventually become a brick in the wall dividing knowledge and ignorance.
When it comes to individual rights, I thoroughly disagree with the argument which runs, "Why should you mind the police searching your home unless you have something to hide?"
But when it comes to the State, and it's employees, (like Diebold), the same logic is quite acceptable.
Let's all remember, the State is there to serve the public, not the other way around. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.
Thus, non-compliance with the most basic and rational doctrine, ("You must let us see how your voting machines work"), means to me that Diebold is hiding the fact that their machines are indeed faulty, and almost certainly deliberately faulty.
I'd love to see this break wide open, and have the journalists see the light and revolt against their Zionist-neo-con-Christian-brain-washed overseers, and publish the story far and wide. And then put Bush and his crew and the entire ruling elitist segment of the populace into prison. But I don't really expect this.
The most we'll see is a scapegoat being hung out to dry while the parade of evil continues.
The best way to resist is to do it on a personal level. Shine brightly and follow your internal compass as best you can. Defy The Lie. --Living in such a way will affect others in an ever-expanding ripple effect.
In case you missed it, people have been saying America is at war a lot on TV for the past few years. In times of war you hope that your nation's intelligence and millitary entities attract as many people as they can to prosecute the war.
Assumptions. I find it amusing how you seem to know how my mind works. Sorry. That's just plain conceit.
Second. . . Yes, I have noticed that there has been a lot of talk of war on TV these past few years, which is exactly why I question it. Those who watch television and believe it to present an accurate picture of reality are being made fools. Joseph Goebbels pioneered the science of mass persuasion and mind-control in Nazi Germany. Those sciences have been perfected and are in use today in Western Culture. This is not theory; everybody who knows, knows. Only those who don't pay attention are at risk.
You might want to look into the world a little more deeply and question things a little more thoroughly before name-calling.
This Slashdot article is an interesting article about small minds in control of big ideas. --Superman is part of our cultural mythology, and a few idiots in Hollywood have been trying to tell their own cruddy stories about it. With giant spiders. Big deal.
Well, actually, it is a big deal, movies being the powerful source of mind-control and social engineering that they are.
"Truth, Justice and the American Way!"
Ugh.
Interestingly. . , there was another version of the alien 'Superman' story which changed the way people thought and behaved, way back in the nineteen thirties. . . It was, in fact, one of the more subtle and screwed up ingredients which drove people into the second world war. In that particular version of the story, the alien race of supermen was blond haired and blue eyed. From a distant, lost planet, the ancient inhabitants known as the, 'Vril', were the blood-line from whom certain dictators and fascists believed the Aryans were descended. Some Germans who read the book believed, much in the way L. Ron Hubbard's followers believe, that Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book, "The Coming Race" was rather less fiction than the cover claimed. They formed the real life, 'Vril Society' (of which Hitler was a member), and the monies raised by them went on to fund the backbone of the Nazi party.
Bet they never taught you that in history class. Reality is a damned strange place when you start to get to know it. . .
"Truth, Justice and the American Way."
Now our current Christians demonstrate some similar very scary belief systems. For instance. . .
Armageddon cannot take place until the Jews have taken the lands of ancient Babylon. (Iraq). When this happens, the 'Christ' will come and the bloodbath will begin in earnest, where all the believers will be sent to Heaven and everybody else goes to swim in a lake of fire. --And of course, all the idiot Christians think that they will be among the few who are not, "Left Behind", and so many actually look forward for this creepy end of times event to happen. --In fact, many of them will vote Neo-Con and turn a blind eye to all the evils of war in the hopes that Armageddon will arrive in their life-time and so that all the people who laugh at them and have good sex will burn, burn, BURN!! --Which one would think, by the dogma of their own religion, would make them seem rather unsuitable for a Heavenly zip code in the afterlife. But who am I to judge?
Anyway, when 'Armageddon' arrives you can bet your pants that the powers that be will have something lined up to hit the stage. --I wonder what kind of superman they are planning to have show up? It certainly won't be Jesus. That guy is way too cool for the Neo-cons. ("Neo" = New. Thus, the "New Con". Get it. . ? Patterns, Patterns. ..)
If the FBI finds some domestic intel that would benefit the DoD in what they are doing overseas what's the problem. Again, nowhere in the article do I see that either agency gained new powers or has had the borders of their operational jurisdiction changed.
The problem is that, "It Just Doesn't Work Like That".
I note also in the article that the hiring levels among the various spy agencies has gone up dramatically. --I seriously doubt all those newly employed domestic spies are needed to move information back and forth between agencies. You don't hire people unless you intend to expand your operations, which means more surveillance on Americans, and interference with civilian life.
The law and what actually happens in the street with regards to the secret services are always at odds, otherwise the services wouldn't be secret. The up-front laws and the so-called 'rights of the people', etc., are just there for show. The scary part, the part which is making people upset in this article and ones like it, is that the up-front show is changing its tenor; people are being led into the belief pattern that the dark powers of the State are increasing, and thus the overt level of fascism is also increasing.
So pardon me for foaming at the mouth. Some of us can smell the way the wind is blowing.
I was reading about working models and all the technology being in place for full production of these holographic recording devices. In 1998!
This is moronic. This is annoying. I am beside myself with frustration. (Well, not really. --I don't actually care.)
The fundamental truth of the matter is that the technology which is readily possible, and the technology which is actually made available to the public, are decades apart. After all. . , why nip the spirit of profit in the bud when you can produce and sell entire production runs of stone-age computer tech one incrementally advanced stage after another? Heck, this keeps the economy 'healthy' during peace times, ensures jobs and an appetite for more and more junk technology. "Planned Obsolescence" is reality.
When everybody gets all excited about the big "new" thing, I groan. We're being led on and sold crap because there are miles and miles of money to be made between now and when the really good stuff is released, which of course, only happens when it doesn't matter anymore.
So who cares? Just let me have enough technology to do what I need to do. Those needs were well met about five years ago, so honestly, I don't really care about any new so-called 'advances'.
Nothing like a geocities page to get those conspiracy theory juices flowing. Microwave-heated water is bad science, but for reasons of efficiency; not tinfoil hats and black helicopters.
Whatever. It's your right not to look. Ignorance is a choice.
I'm in the planning stages of building my own house, and one of my goals is to create something which is heated and powered using techniques like the ones you outlined. I'm thinking along the lines of a greenhouse supported compost heap combined with solar collectors. Cooking seems to be the only area where the need for burning things will be necessary. I'll probably go with propane in big tanks on that front.
Those from the homeopathic schools of thinking go pale at the idea of consuming microwaved water.
There are some interesting arguments behind that to be certain, but the area which stunned me, (and I'm a confirmed skeptic of microwave products), was that microwave ovens can actually damage food in ways which conventional heating does not. I did some reading, and then realized that, once again, I'd fallen prey to letting the general populace think for me. --I'd bought the corporate/government line without batting an eyelash. "Microwave ovens just cause water molecules to vibrate and thus heat up. Perfectly safe." This is a lie, and the research has been done to back it up.
Essentially. . ,
The frequency of the microwave will affect different molecules in different ways. Water is just one 'tuning'. There are others, and it can cause some atoms to heat up and change their relationships to other atoms in weird ways. When I first started looking at the simple microwave oven with a skeptical eye, I was surprised by what I found. Numerous complex compounds found in various foods, enzymes, vitamins, proteins, etc., are destroyed by microwave heating which otherwise remain intact with conventional heating methods. Some even apparently turn toxic.
There are multiple sources on this, but they take a bit of work to dig up. The overwhelming belief that microwave food is safe is the major stumbling block. I didn't even bother looking until I randomly found an article on it last year.
Microwaves are not ionizing, all they do is cause the mocules in water to rub themselves together and make friction, causing heat.
The frequency of the microwave will affect different molecules in different ways. Water is just one 'tuning'. There are others, and it can cause some atoms to heat up and change their relationships to other atoms in weird ways. When I first started looking at the simple microwave oven with a skeptical eye, I was surprised by what I found. For instance, certain beneficial compounds in milk are destroyed by microwave heating which otherwise remain intact with conventional heating methods. Some even apparently turn toxic.
There are multiple sources on this, but they take a bit of work to dig up. The overwhelming belief that microwave food is safe is the major stumbling block. I didn't even bother looking until I randomly found an article on it last year.
I once built a small hot water demonstrator that used coils of hose inside of a big woodchip pile in a closed loop cycle using thermosiphoning to transfer the heat. Once it initially heated up due to normal composting action, I got a nice constant flow of hot water out of it.
Neat!
How long did you keep it running, and if it was long enough to see, how often did you have to replace the compost? Also, how hot did the water get?
lies in the fact that the new telescope will have the ability to replicate hot tea and perform delicate negotiations with stupid-looking aliens.
I just watched "ST Nemesis" yesterday on DVD.
My Suck-Alarm was ringing, but I ignored it. Woe is me.
So I think NASA should re-imburse me for the movie rental. They obviously have the disposable cash, and aren't they supposed to help make space travel look appealing? Sheesh.
a kid can learn is to question the foundation stones of the system.
There are good teachers out there; I've met a few and was lucky enough to have been taught by one or two of them when I was a kid. --Long after I left the school system, I asked a teacher I know if he is able to have a positive impact in spite of the politically inspired curriculum and various restrictions and idiocies built into the school system, and he told me that, Yes, when the classroom door is shut, a teacher can ignore the rules and follow his/her own instincts; Just be sure to give a nod to authority once in a while. The trick, I think, is in getting teachers into the system who also know how to question the foundation stones.
The system is about control, not liberation. In my view, that's a universal given.
Assuming I am correct in this, it is also a given that high intelligence in a student is a potential danger, because such a student is more capable of seeing through the veil and causing problems; disrupting the matrix, so to speak. So such students, from the system's point of view, must be carefully subdued with an extra dollop of mind-programming; give the kid extra attention, tell the kid just how special she/he is, and keep that flavor of 'love' flowing by making high marks seem like the most important thing; make high marks and adherence to systematic rules the valve through which 'love' and social acceptance flows. This works really well, particularly as the regular student body has been programmed to ostracize kids who appear too-smart, (or as it really is, to ostracize those kids who have chosen to not waste energy on fashion and playing the popularity game in favor of following their own interests and paths in life), and thereby starve suck kids of love and social acceptance. Thus, such kids turn to the adult world for love; When the System and Authority Figures become the sole providers of 'love', even a highly intelligent person can easily get sucked into the mind-game.
--I narrowly escaped the gifted program after being tested on two occasions. My brain, despite the elements it contained which made teachers notice me and send me for testing, turned out to not be quite fast enough, or be able to manipulate numbers well enough, or remember facts (unless I found them interesting), in enough quantity to place me among the ranks of the 'gifted'. So I lucked out and stayed among the ranks of the invisible muggles, which was easily one of the luckiest thing which could have happened to me.
The weird result at the tail end of the gifted program, (and I had several friends which hailed from those hallways to observe), was that the very kids who had the brain capacity to grasp the odd details and rogue patterns of the world were also among the most heavily and successfully mind-programmed; programmed to not see those same patterns. After all, you don't get good marks for noticing that which the Authority gets grouchy about. The regular kids, by contrast, were too immersed in fashion and social dramas based on the 'popularity' game to care about questioning the foundation stones of the world. They just wanted to get laid, get jobs, get pregnant, be 'cool' etc. The only kids who managed to slip through all these various herding techniques with their brains relatively un-washed were a paltry few in-between cases.
Ender Wiggins and crew, had they been processed the way our 'gifted' kids are processed today, would have been singularly ineffective in saving the world from aliens. --And this is precisely because everybody today has been heavily programmed not to believe in any paradigm outside that described by Officialdom, in which an alien reality is a marginalized possibility at best, and one which (if it were allowed to exist), could only do so within the false and deeply limited parameters of scientific possibility as enforced by our education system and the media. Spielberg's 'Men in Black' being a typical case in point. Linear thinking simply does not apply to aliens.
And if you somehow think that being a hard-working Iraqi civillian standing in line to join the police and make his country safer or even just visiting the market and getting killed by a suicide or car bomber or a few intentionally targeted mortar rounds is in any way better than frying insurgents with incendiaries, you're messed up in the head.
Messed up in the head is using propagandic terms like, "Insurgents" with a straight face.
Iraq is not an issue of Good Iraqis being terrorized by Bad Iraqis, and the Good Americans coming to the rescue.
Iraq is about creating scenarios where killing and chaos and fear are the main elements of the reigning paradigm. This is done so that a small group of people in the West can collect obscene amounts of wealth and power. The emotionally charged and over-simple arguments used to trick the average civilian into going along with this scheme require carefully crafted and marketed words like, "Insurgents" and "Terrorists", etc.
Find me one piece of reputable, published research supporting the ability of radio waves to generate earthquakes, hurricanes, or mind control.
First of all, it is nobody else's responsibility to pull you out of ignorance. If you want to stay in the dark, that's your choice. Any information another shares with you is a gift. If you want to dispute shared knowledge, or laugh at it, or thoughtlessly quote idiotic sayings from endless television court dramas which declare things about the Burden Of Proof as though they apply to your own growth as a human, then that is also your choice and you will no doubt stay blind. --And probably continue to use terms like, "Insurgent" and really mean it.
Secondly, the fact that you clearly haven't done any of your own searching on the subject of EM and the human brain is probably why you include hurricanes in your list of possibilities. Earthquakes are only marginally less silly.
The NYT article I clipped expired, but I uploaded the story and a copule of graphics here.
This is just a smattering of references. There are hundreds more out there. If you are interested in this stuff, and you really want to know the answers to the questions you ask, all I can say is, "GO LOOK!" It takes work, but in the end, you are the one who benefits.
Does anybody else remember reading a few years back about an anti-fear pill produced by the U.S. military? It could turn off fear in a soldier for a few hours but had otherwise zero effect on one's judgement.
In any case, I'd be pretty surprised if this science hasn't already been examined up the wazooo and applied somewhere. --One interesting thing about the big fast world today is that the same science keeps getting re-done by different departments and re-announced as new.
Imagine if researchers spent less time patenting, copyrighting and otherwise working under the veil of secrecy and spent more energy making research openly and easily available for anybody who wanted to access it?
Knowledge in this world might accelerate exponentially!
Couldn't have that, now, could we? Such a paradigm would prevent people from being so easily manipulated for fun and profit.
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Troops collapsing bridges by marching in time is a myth, or at best a weak excuse for a poorly constructed bridge.
A myth? Perhaps. I was quoting from an old high school science class.
The general idea under discussion at the time was that all objects, not just guitar strings, have a natural frequency at which they will vibrate when buffeted by wave forms of that frequency. The general point I was trying to illustrate holds even if the example itself is fictional.
Awesome! So if I stick a tuning fork that resonates at the brain wave pattern frequency up my butt while wearing a tinfoil hat (NOT aluminum!) I'll be safe right?
Careful. Ridicule is what people use when they do not wish to address areas they are frightened of.
On less sarcastic note (ha ha), where did you come up with the fairy tale about killing fish with sub-sonic sound waves? a) Fish hearts beat on average between 60 and 240 BPM. Thats would be 60Hz-240Hz, which is easily within the "sonic" range of frequencies. b) How do you make the leap from "sub-sonic" audio waves to VHF EM radio waves?
Modulation of high frequencies can be used to emulate lower frequencies. This is how a microwave emitter, like a cell phone, can have an effect on the human brain, which responds to much lower frequencies.
In any case, as per the fish example, I was quoting from memory; an article I read some years ago. While I clearly don't recall the specifics, I do know that it wasn't a children's story. If the general figures are off, the idea is still an interesting one, don't you think?
Soundless Music Shown to Produce Weird Sensations Sun September 7, 2003 07:09 PM ET By Patricia Reaney
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.
British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations.
"Normally you can't hear it," Dr Richard Lord, an acoustic scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in England who worked on the project, said Monday.
Lord and his colleagues, who produced infrasound with a seven meter (yard) pipe and tested its impact on 750 people at a concert, said infrasound is also generated by natural phenomena.
"Some scientists have suggested that this level of sound may be present at some allegedly haunted sites and so cause people to have odd sensations that they attribute to a ghost -- our findings support these ideas," said Professor Richard Wiseman, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire in southern England.
In the first controlled experiment of infrasound, Lord and Wiseman played four contemporary pieces of live music, including some laced with infrasound, at a London concert hall and asked the audience to describe their reactions to the music.
The audience did not know which pieces included infrasound but 22 percent reported more unusual experiences when it was present in the music.
Their unusual experiences included feeling uneasy or sorrowful, getting chills down the spine or nervous feelings of revulsion or fear.
"These results suggest that low frequency sound can cause people to have unusual experiences even though they cannot consciously detect infrasound," said Wiseman, who presented his findings to
Pluck a guitar string one one side of the room...
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and across the room, a second guitar string tuned to the same frequency will also start to vibrate. Sympathetic Resonance, right?
Okay. ..
During the big world wars, generals learned that they needed to march troops across bridges with their footfalls out of phase with each other. It was found that if the soldiers marched in perfect time with one another, the energy from a few thousand stomping feet would enter the bridge structure and set it to vibrating. A standing wave was able then to build until the bridge shook itself apart and collapsed. This isn't 'mystery school' stuff. It's basic, "Let's not kill our troops and destroy our bridges while marching across them," applied science.
Take the thought a step further. ..
"The Walls of Jericho came tumbling down."
"In the Old Testament, in Joshua chapter 6, the Israelites defeated the city of Jericho. According to the biblical account, after the Israelites marched around the city for six days, on the seventh day they encircled the city seven times. On the seventh time around, the priests blew the trumpets, the people shouted and the walls fell flat."
Some say, 'Divinely timed Earthquake'. Others say, 'Wrath of God'. I say, 'Maybe a standing waveform deliberately created by marching the army around the city for long enough to knock it down.' --Yeah it takes some creative editing of the biblical account to consider it, but hey, it's not like the bible hasn't been severely distorted over two thousand years of manipulative re-writes, (from the mind-control, social-engineering project heavily influenced by the Roman secret services it was originally, that is).
Okay. Back to reality. ..
Experiment: "You put a fish in a tank and mount a speaker to the side of the tank. Over the speaker, you emit a sub-sonic beat. Tune the beat to match the beating of the fish's heart and let the two beats stay in sync for a while. Then slowly start to turn down the frequency on the speaker and observe as the fish's heart also slows. Gradually reduce the frequency until the fish's heart stops altogether, killing the fish.
Hm.
Okay. So this HAARP thing. ..
Weather control? I don't think so. --The weather is messed up enough on it's own these days, and you can make a lot more money selling weapons to the people you want killing each other than you can by drying up their rice paddies. (Remember, the Carlyle Groups of the world don't own stocks in farming ventures. They sell guns.) --Of course, in an armchair-tactician, war-book reading, pipe-smoking, Napoleonic-War-Geek kind of way, a weather control weapon makes a lot of sense. However, in the real world of the Military Industrial Complex, where winning wars and playing Risk are only cursory concerns on the list of objectives, (all nations already being under one master and the illusion of politics being simply a distraction and misery engine), weather control is sort of pointless. --Simply an idea to toss out to the New Age crazies who can be counted upon to make everybody cough awkwardly and look the other way for fear of being associated with conspiracy theory.
What makes more sense is using the HAARP array to pump energy into a section of the ionosphere so that you create a standing wave in the medium of the ionosphere, which will vibrate at the same frequency as human brain wave patterns. . . (Like fish hearts, different states of awareness and feelings can be created in people through such EM manipulation.)
If you set up another couple of arrays in Europe and around the world, (which do indeed exist), performing the same task, suddenly you have the ability to create gridworks of standing wave interference patterns which cover the planet and which can be manipulated and tuned with accuracy, turning the Ionosphere into a sort of spherical television screen.
--You know those days when everybody in your town is feeling buzzed out and crazy and you blame it on the barometer, or the full moon,
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Mary Kay Cosmetics: "To give unlimited opportunity to women."
Merck: "To preserve and improve human life."
Wal-Mart: "To give ordinary folk the chance to buy the same thing as rich people."
Walt Disney: "To make people happy."
McDonald's: "McDonald's vision is to be the world's best quick service restaurant experience. Being the best means providing outstanding quality, service, cleanliness, and value, so that we make every customer in every restaurant smile."
So, is Google evil?
Spiderman said it best; "With great power. .
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Heck, walking is a kind of controlled falling using weight management and multiple levers; Lean forward and flip out your leg thingies to stop yourself from crashing. Repeat.
Rah rah for useless research! Science for the heck of it!
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Cool hyperlink!
--I also like to consider. . .
If that's what an under-funded university prof can come up with in his spare time, what could a bunch of specially selected high-paid geniuses working in a top-secret corporate tech department come up with? --With billions of dollars at their disposal and direct instructions, "Invent huge storage. Oh, and you can also have access to all our previously researched top-secret stuff."
Heck, what could the military black-budget tech departments come up with, for that matter. . .
It is logical to assume that this stuff, and far, far better already exists. And the reason an under-funded university proff will NEVER be allowed to develop his creation into mainstream commercial industry is that the behind the scenes people can't abide by some upstart inventor mucking up their careful product release scheduling. Honestly. . , if you're clever enough with your inventions, you'll either be hired away into something top-secret, or you'll be hushed up.
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Read "State and Revolution" V.I. Lenin.
Yes, I agree, because I was talking about popular ideals, not realities.
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#1 Santa Claus
North Pole's tubby toy titan remains fiction's richest character, despite ongoing strife with Elvish labor force. Elves bemoan low-wages, lack of health care coverage and union-busting tactics of "Claws." Factory operations also dogged by several documented instances of child-labor. Santa retorts that "immortal" Elves don't need health insurance, and says child-workers were being punished for being "naughty." Analysts expect impact on toy and candy production to be minimal. Claus' ultimate motivations for annual gift-giving orgy remain unclear. Speculated to be tormented by infinite wealth; embarks on annual around-the-world trip in a futile attempt to give it away. Others detect darker side, noting percentage of children receiving lumps of coal and ill-treatment of rare Finnish-bred flying reindeer. Claus himself plays it close to the vest, cryptically muttering "Ho! Ho! Ho!" Member since time immemorial. -- Michael Noer
Is it just me, or is that the most cynical, sick piece of shit you've read in a long time?
The number of Fnords in that paragraph were just plain. . . upsetting. "Strife" "Claws" "Orgy" "Child-labor" etc.
Ugh. It's Christmas for goodness sake! How about an attempt at a nice Rockwellian picture post-card version of the holidays? --I know the whole season is designed to make people feel lonely, poor, angry, stressed-out and willing to embrace the mighty god of oil-driven consumerism in the name of a propagandized Christian hero carefully marketed and designed to drive a few hundred million people insane to the point of their willingly launching the so-called 'apocalypse' by giving the land of Babylon, (Iraq) back to Israel. . , but vilifying Santa?
Sheesh. That's just low.
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I stopped reading/listening/believing what came out of the Big Money Mouthpiece years ago. There are only two reasons to pay attention to Big Media. . .
1. To look for slipped truths through comparative readings of the same story/information as published by several different groups and outlets.
2. To see what herding techniques are being used on the population and thereby get a heads-up and prepare for whatever new scam is coming down the pike. The "Avian Flu Virus" bugaboo is an excellent case in point. When that much media hype is unleashed, your Goebbels Alarm should start ringing like crazy.
So if Big Media starts cutting and pasting your blog content, perhaps you should take a second look at what you're publishing. If your message is pure, chances are you'll be ignored or marginalized rather than given the seal of authoritarian approval. Just a thought.
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This is why I avoid Television and media in general. Of COURSE the bad guys will be able to spin up a reasonable-sounding argument for why you should slit your wrists. The problem with TV is that you can't argue back at it. All you can do is sit on your arse and watch pre-fab 'debate' happening on your behalf which, of course, will always end up with the various anti-freedom, anti-privacy sharks presenting the lion's share of convincing argument.
The game is so very, very rigged.
The frustrating part is that I know I am right, but I'm not allowed to say why. It has to stay in the realm of, "Maybe he's making it up." --Otherwise, it gets dangerous for yourself and the people around you. Basically, if you dig deeply enough into areas such as this, then grudgingly or not, you eventually become a brick in the wall dividing knowledge and ignorance.
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When it comes to individual rights, I thoroughly disagree with the argument which runs, "Why should you mind the police searching your home unless you have something to hide?"
But when it comes to the State, and it's employees, (like Diebold), the same logic is quite acceptable.
Let's all remember, the State is there to serve the public, not the other way around. At least, that's how it's supposed to work.
Thus, non-compliance with the most basic and rational doctrine, ("You must let us see how your voting machines work"), means to me that Diebold is hiding the fact that their machines are indeed faulty, and almost certainly deliberately faulty.
I'd love to see this break wide open, and have the journalists see the light and revolt against their Zionist-neo-con-Christian-brain-washed overseers, and publish the story far and wide. And then put Bush and his crew and the entire ruling elitist segment of the populace into prison. But I don't really expect this.
The most we'll see is a scapegoat being hung out to dry while the parade of evil continues.
The best way to resist is to do it on a personal level. Shine brightly and follow your internal compass as best you can. Defy The Lie. --Living in such a way will affect others in an ever-expanding ripple effect.
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Assumptions. I find it amusing how you seem to know how my mind works. Sorry. That's just plain conceit.
Second. . . Yes, I have noticed that there has been a lot of talk of war on TV these past few years, which is exactly why I question it. Those who watch television and believe it to present an accurate picture of reality are being made fools. Joseph Goebbels pioneered the science of mass persuasion and mind-control in Nazi Germany. Those sciences have been perfected and are in use today in Western Culture. This is not theory; everybody who knows, knows. Only those who don't pay attention are at risk.
You might want to look into the world a little more deeply and question things a little more thoroughly before name-calling.
'Broken-minded' indeed.
Good luck out there. You'll need it.
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Well, actually, it is a big deal, movies being the powerful source of mind-control and social engineering that they are.
"Truth, Justice and the American Way!"
Ugh.
Interestingly. . , there was another version of the alien 'Superman' story which changed the way people thought and behaved, way back in the nineteen thirties. . . It was, in fact, one of the more subtle and screwed up ingredients which drove people into the second world war. In that particular version of the story, the alien race of supermen was blond haired and blue eyed. From a distant, lost planet, the ancient inhabitants known as the, 'Vril', were the blood-line from whom certain dictators and fascists believed the Aryans were descended. Some Germans who read the book believed, much in the way L. Ron Hubbard's followers believe, that Edward Bulwer-Lytton's book, "The Coming Race" was rather less fiction than the cover claimed. They formed the real life, 'Vril Society' (of which Hitler was a member), and the monies raised by them went on to fund the backbone of the Nazi party.
Bet they never taught you that in history class. Reality is a damned strange place when you start to get to know it. . .
"Truth, Justice and the American Way."
Now our current Christians demonstrate some similar very scary belief systems. For instance. . .
Armageddon cannot take place until the Jews have taken the lands of ancient Babylon. (Iraq). When this happens, the 'Christ' will come and the bloodbath will begin in earnest, where all the believers will be sent to Heaven and everybody else goes to swim in a lake of fire. --And of course, all the idiot Christians think that they will be among the few who are not, "Left Behind", and so many actually look forward for this creepy end of times event to happen. --In fact, many of them will vote Neo-Con and turn a blind eye to all the evils of war in the hopes that Armageddon will arrive in their life-time and so that all the people who laugh at them and have good sex will burn, burn, BURN!! --Which one would think, by the dogma of their own religion, would make them seem rather unsuitable for a Heavenly zip code in the afterlife. But who am I to judge?
Anyway, when 'Armageddon' arrives you can bet your pants that the powers that be will have something lined up to hit the stage. --I wonder what kind of superman they are planning to have show up? It certainly won't be Jesus. That guy is way too cool for the Neo-cons. ("Neo" = New. Thus, the "New Con". Get it. . ? Patterns, Patterns. .
Okay. It's late. I'm gone.
Up, Up and Away!
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The problem is that, "It Just Doesn't Work Like That".
I note also in the article that the hiring levels among the various spy agencies has gone up dramatically. --I seriously doubt all those newly employed domestic spies are needed to move information back and forth between agencies. You don't hire people unless you intend to expand your operations, which means more surveillance on Americans, and interference with civilian life.
The law and what actually happens in the street with regards to the secret services are always at odds, otherwise the services wouldn't be secret. The up-front laws and the so-called 'rights of the people', etc., are just there for show. The scary part, the part which is making people upset in this article and ones like it, is that the up-front show is changing its tenor; people are being led into the belief pattern that the dark powers of the State are increasing, and thus the overt level of fascism is also increasing.
So pardon me for foaming at the mouth. Some of us can smell the way the wind is blowing.
-FL
"Hulk SMASH!"
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This is moronic. This is annoying. I am beside myself with frustration. (Well, not really. --I don't actually care.)
The fundamental truth of the matter is that the technology which is readily possible, and the technology which is actually made available to the public, are decades apart. After all. . , why nip the spirit of profit in the bud when you can produce and sell entire production runs of stone-age computer tech one incrementally advanced stage after another? Heck, this keeps the economy 'healthy' during peace times, ensures jobs and an appetite for more and more junk technology. "Planned Obsolescence" is reality.
When everybody gets all excited about the big "new" thing, I groan. We're being led on and sold crap because there are miles and miles of money to be made between now and when the really good stuff is released, which of course, only happens when it doesn't matter anymore.
So who cares? Just let me have enough technology to do what I need to do. Those needs were well met about five years ago, so honestly, I don't really care about any new so-called 'advances'.
And the band plays on. . .
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Whatever. It's your right not to look. Ignorance is a choice.
-FL
I'm in the planning stages of building my own house, and one of my goals is to create something which is heated and powered using techniques like the ones you outlined. I'm thinking along the lines of a greenhouse supported compost heap combined with solar collectors. Cooking seems to be the only area where the need for burning things will be necessary. I'll probably go with propane in big tanks on that front.
Cheers!
-FL
There are some interesting arguments behind that to be certain, but the area which stunned me, (and I'm a confirmed skeptic of microwave products), was that microwave ovens can actually damage food in ways which conventional heating does not. I did some reading, and then realized that, once again, I'd fallen prey to letting the general populace think for me. --I'd bought the corporate/government line without batting an eyelash. "Microwave ovens just cause water molecules to vibrate and thus heat up. Perfectly safe." This is a lie, and the research has been done to back it up.
Essentially. . ,
The frequency of the microwave will affect different molecules in different ways. Water is just one 'tuning'. There are others, and it can cause some atoms to heat up and change their relationships to other atoms in weird ways. When I first started looking at the simple microwave oven with a skeptical eye, I was surprised by what I found. Numerous complex compounds found in various foods, enzymes, vitamins, proteins, etc., are destroyed by microwave heating which otherwise remain intact with conventional heating methods. Some even apparently turn toxic.
http://www.geocities.com/newlibertyvillage/earths
http://chetday.com/microwave.html
There are multiple sources on this, but they take a bit of work to dig up. The overwhelming belief that microwave food is safe is the major stumbling block. I didn't even bother looking until I randomly found an article on it last year.
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The frequency of the microwave will affect different molecules in different ways. Water is just one 'tuning'. There are others, and it can cause some atoms to heat up and change their relationships to other atoms in weird ways. When I first started looking at the simple microwave oven with a skeptical eye, I was surprised by what I found. For instance, certain beneficial compounds in milk are destroyed by microwave heating which otherwise remain intact with conventional heating methods. Some even apparently turn toxic.
http://www.geocities.com/newlibertyvillage/earths
There are multiple sources on this, but they take a bit of work to dig up. The overwhelming belief that microwave food is safe is the major stumbling block. I didn't even bother looking until I randomly found an article on it last year.
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I know how you feel, but apparently there is some good logic and science behind this. . .
http://www.geocities.com/newlibertyvillage/earths
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Neat!
How long did you keep it running, and if it was long enough to see, how often did you have to replace the compost? Also, how hot did the water get?
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I just watched "ST Nemesis" yesterday on DVD.
My Suck-Alarm was ringing, but I ignored it. Woe is me.
So I think NASA should re-imburse me for the movie rental. They obviously have the disposable cash, and aren't they supposed to help make space travel look appealing? Sheesh.
-FL
a kid can learn is to question the foundation stones of the system.
There are good teachers out there; I've met a few and was lucky enough to have been taught by one or two of them when I was a kid. --Long after I left the school system, I asked a teacher I know if he is able to have a positive impact in spite of the politically inspired curriculum and various restrictions and idiocies built into the school system, and he told me that, Yes, when the classroom door is shut, a teacher can ignore the rules and follow his/her own instincts; Just be sure to give a nod to authority once in a while. The trick, I think, is in getting teachers into the system who also know how to question the foundation stones.
The system is about control, not liberation. In my view, that's a universal given.
Assuming I am correct in this, it is also a given that high intelligence in a student is a potential danger, because such a student is more capable of seeing through the veil and causing problems; disrupting the matrix, so to speak. So such students, from the system's point of view, must be carefully subdued with an extra dollop of mind-programming; give the kid extra attention, tell the kid just how special she/he is, and keep that flavor of 'love' flowing by making high marks seem like the most important thing; make high marks and adherence to systematic rules the valve through which 'love' and social acceptance flows. This works really well, particularly as the regular student body has been programmed to ostracize kids who appear too-smart, (or as it really is, to ostracize those kids who have chosen to not waste energy on fashion and playing the popularity game in favor of following their own interests and paths in life), and thereby starve suck kids of love and social acceptance. Thus, such kids turn to the adult world for love; When the System and Authority Figures become the sole providers of 'love', even a highly intelligent person can easily get sucked into the mind-game.
--I narrowly escaped the gifted program after being tested on two occasions. My brain, despite the elements it contained which made teachers notice me and send me for testing, turned out to not be quite fast enough, or be able to manipulate numbers well enough, or remember facts (unless I found them interesting), in enough quantity to place me among the ranks of the 'gifted'. So I lucked out and stayed among the ranks of the invisible muggles, which was easily one of the luckiest thing which could have happened to me.
The weird result at the tail end of the gifted program, (and I had several friends which hailed from those hallways to observe), was that the very kids who had the brain capacity to grasp the odd details and rogue patterns of the world were also among the most heavily and successfully mind-programmed; programmed to not see those same patterns. After all, you don't get good marks for noticing that which the Authority gets grouchy about. The regular kids, by contrast, were too immersed in fashion and social dramas based on the 'popularity' game to care about questioning the foundation stones of the world. They just wanted to get laid, get jobs, get pregnant, be 'cool' etc. The only kids who managed to slip through all these various herding techniques with their brains relatively un-washed were a paltry few in-between cases.
Ender Wiggins and crew, had they been processed the way our 'gifted' kids are processed today, would have been singularly ineffective in saving the world from aliens. --And this is precisely because everybody today has been heavily programmed not to believe in any paradigm outside that described by Officialdom, in which an alien reality is a marginalized possibility at best, and one which (if it were allowed to exist), could only do so within the false and deeply limited parameters of scientific possibility as enforced by our education system and the media. Spielberg's 'Men in Black' being a typical case in point. Linear thinking simply does not apply to aliens.
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Messed up in the head is using propagandic terms like, "Insurgents" with a straight face.
Iraq is not an issue of Good Iraqis being terrorized by Bad Iraqis, and the Good Americans coming to the rescue.
Iraq is about creating scenarios where killing and chaos and fear are the main elements of the reigning paradigm. This is done so that a small group of people in the West can collect obscene amounts of wealth and power. The emotionally charged and over-simple arguments used to trick the average civilian into going along with this scheme require carefully crafted and marketed words like, "Insurgents" and "Terrorists", etc.
Find me one piece of reputable, published research supporting the ability of radio waves to generate earthquakes, hurricanes, or mind control.
First of all, it is nobody else's responsibility to pull you out of ignorance. If you want to stay in the dark, that's your choice. Any information another shares with you is a gift. If you want to dispute shared knowledge, or laugh at it, or thoughtlessly quote idiotic sayings from endless television court dramas which declare things about the Burden Of Proof as though they apply to your own growth as a human, then that is also your choice and you will no doubt stay blind. --And probably continue to use terms like, "Insurgent" and really mean it.
Secondly, the fact that you clearly haven't done any of your own searching on the subject of EM and the human brain is probably why you include hurricanes in your list of possibilities. Earthquakes are only marginally less silly.
Third. . .
Here is some of the information you requested:
Robert O. Becker wrote an excellent book on the subject. Here is an excerpt from that book I have taken the liberty of putting on-line. . . One mechanic by which EM can affect brain function
Also a few tidbits from the regular news sources. . .
Energy field used to cause temporary blindness (Scroll down to the 5th paragraph and consider what is said there. The rest of the article is somewhat interesting as well.)
Radio signals for the next generation of mobile phone services can cause headaches and nausea, according to a survey conducted by three Dutch ministries on the impact of tomorrow's data networks on health.
The NYT article I clipped expired, but I uploaded the story and a copule of graphics here.
This is just a smattering of references. There are hundreds more out there. If you are interested in this stuff, and you really want to know the answers to the questions you ask, all I can say is, "GO LOOK!" It takes work, but in the end, you are the one who benefits.
Good luck!
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In any case, I'd be pretty surprised if this science hasn't already been examined up the wazooo and applied somewhere. --One interesting thing about the big fast world today is that the same science keeps getting re-done by different departments and re-announced as new.
Imagine if researchers spent less time patenting, copyrighting and otherwise working under the veil of secrecy and spent more energy making research openly and easily available for anybody who wanted to access it?
Knowledge in this world might accelerate exponentially!
Couldn't have that, now, could we? Such a paradigm would prevent people from being so easily manipulated for fun and profit.
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A myth? Perhaps. I was quoting from an old high school science class.
The general idea under discussion at the time was that all objects, not just guitar strings, have a natural frequency at which they will vibrate when buffeted by wave forms of that frequency. The general point I was trying to illustrate holds even if the example itself is fictional.
Awesome! So if I stick a tuning fork that resonates at the brain wave pattern frequency up my butt while wearing a tinfoil hat (NOT aluminum!) I'll be safe right?
Careful. Ridicule is what people use when they do not wish to address areas they are frightened of.
On less sarcastic note (ha ha), where did you come up with the fairy tale about killing fish with sub-sonic sound waves? a) Fish hearts beat on average between 60 and 240 BPM. Thats would be 60Hz-240Hz, which is easily within the "sonic" range of frequencies. b) How do you make the leap from "sub-sonic" audio waves to VHF EM radio waves?
Modulation of high frequencies can be used to emulate lower frequencies. This is how a microwave emitter, like a cell phone, can have an effect on the human brain, which responds to much lower frequencies.
In any case, as per the fish example, I was quoting from memory; an article I read some years ago. While I clearly don't recall the specifics, I do know that it wasn't a children's story. If the general figures are off, the idea is still an interesting one, don't you think?
Here's an article I clipped a couple of years back which is the nearest thing I could find to the fish story. . . (I'm afraid the link, http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=sci enceNews&storyID=3401200 is a couple of years old and no longer active.)
Okay. .
During the big world wars, generals learned that they needed to march troops across bridges with their footfalls out of phase with each other. It was found that if the soldiers marched in perfect time with one another, the energy from a few thousand stomping feet would enter the bridge structure and set it to vibrating. A standing wave was able then to build until the bridge shook itself apart and collapsed. This isn't 'mystery school' stuff. It's basic, "Let's not kill our troops and destroy our bridges while marching across them," applied science.
Take the thought a step further. .
"The Walls of Jericho came tumbling down."
Some say, 'Divinely timed Earthquake'. Others say, 'Wrath of God'. I say, 'Maybe a standing waveform deliberately created by marching the army around the city for long enough to knock it down.' --Yeah it takes some creative editing of the biblical account to consider it, but hey, it's not like the bible hasn't been severely distorted over two thousand years of manipulative re-writes, (from the mind-control, social-engineering project heavily influenced by the Roman secret services it was originally, that is).
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Okay. Back to reality. .
Experiment: "You put a fish in a tank and mount a speaker to the side of the tank. Over the speaker, you emit a sub-sonic beat. Tune the beat to match the beating of the fish's heart and let the two beats stay in sync for a while. Then slowly start to turn down the frequency on the speaker and observe as the fish's heart also slows. Gradually reduce the frequency until the fish's heart stops altogether, killing the fish.
Hm.
Okay. So this HAARP thing. .
Weather control? I don't think so. --The weather is messed up enough on it's own these days, and you can make a lot more money selling weapons to the people you want killing each other than you can by drying up their rice paddies. (Remember, the Carlyle Groups of the world don't own stocks in farming ventures. They sell guns.) --Of course, in an armchair-tactician, war-book reading, pipe-smoking, Napoleonic-War-Geek kind of way, a weather control weapon makes a lot of sense. However, in the real world of the Military Industrial Complex, where winning wars and playing Risk are only cursory concerns on the list of objectives, (all nations already being under one master and the illusion of politics being simply a distraction and misery engine), weather control is sort of pointless. --Simply an idea to toss out to the New Age crazies who can be counted upon to make everybody cough awkwardly and look the other way for fear of being associated with conspiracy theory.
What makes more sense is using the HAARP array to pump energy into a section of the ionosphere so that you create a standing wave in the medium of the ionosphere, which will vibrate at the same frequency as human brain wave patterns. . . (Like fish hearts, different states of awareness and feelings can be created in people through such EM manipulation.)
If you set up another couple of arrays in Europe and around the world, (which do indeed exist), performing the same task, suddenly you have the ability to create gridworks of standing wave interference patterns which cover the planet and which can be manipulated and tuned with accuracy, turning the Ionosphere into a sort of spherical television screen.
--You know those days when everybody in your town is feeling buzzed out and crazy and you blame it on the barometer, or the full moon,