OTHER MICROWAVE CRIMINAL ATTACKS REPORTED
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It isn't widely publicized -- although it does leak into the mainstream media, occasionally, as in this case -- but thousands of people are reporting that criminals are using microwave radiation to attack them.
This is not just in the USA -- also in Britain, France, Germany.
Almost all the posts I've scanned, at least those that are on topic, immediately dismiss these people's claims as absurd.
WHY? I'm sure you could easily modify a microwave oven yourself, and use it to harass your neihbors, if you wanted. I guess if you have such an inclination, you now know you are safe to go ahead. Anyone who complains about your attacks will be dismissed as paranoid. Hey, why not place a microwave oven where you can activate and control it by remote, and give this theory a test. It will be almost impossible for you to be caught, so why not?
Potential military and covert use of microwave radiation is an active area of research. (Obviously not just microwave, but rather all forms of beamable radiation. Actually, implanted devices as well.)
Consenting adults should not be legally prohibited from engaging in any activity or speech they want, whatsoever, the only exception being to protect some overriding societal interest.
Unfortunately this principle isn't explicitly stated in the US Constitution, so instead an implicit right to privacy has been used in its place.
Why do we need limitations surveillance and the collection of information? I don't mind if I have to withstand peer pressure in order to act, think, and speak as I like, within the law -- so long as others can only express disapproval through their own free speech.
It is a good thing if the government, private organizations, and the public are all aware of what one another are doing, but only react to that information in ways allowed by the law.
COINTELPRO-like efforts by federal agents to infiltrate and disrupt private groups would be ineffective if the public could rapidly become aware of such activity and organize against it. This is a current concern, because the DOD is poised to resume the domestic spying program it gave up in the 60's: http://cryptome.org/dod-homespy.htm
Laws restricing surveillance make it more difficult to expose activity that is potentially threatening and may require legislative attention. For example, are religious groups and secret socities infilitrating our corporations and public institutions? Here is a web site raising such concerns about activities of the Unification Church (aka "moonies"): http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2005/01/moon-funnel s-250000-to-bush.html. There are similar concerns about activities of Scientologists, other religious groups, and possible secret socities.
Were the PATRIOT Act abuse complaints that the DOJ Inspector General dismissed without investigation really so unbelievable? The Inspector General's report states:
Approximately three-quarters of the
1,748 complaints made allegations that did not warrant an investigation. For
example, some of the complaints alleged that government agents were
broadcasting signals that interfere with a person's thoughts or dreams or that
prison officials had laced the prison food with hallucinogenic drugs.
-- Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act -- U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General
-- March 11, 2005, page 5
-- http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0503/final.pdf
I've read about Russian research, and other research, on the non-thermal biological effects of EM radiation. Apparently, the non-thermal effects depend sensitively on the pulse-shape, i.e. frequency spectrum, of the incident radiation. Appropriately pulsed EM radiation is able to effect biological processes, particularly neural, by coupling to "resonant" frequencies. Effects often depend on the frequency of the carrier which is beig modulated, and also on the carrier's amplitude, so it is all extremely complicated.
In the early 1980's, Dr. Eldon Byrd, working for the US Marine Corps, investigated these these weird, non-thermal effects, presumably for possible military purposes:
From 1980 to 1983, a man named Eldon Byrd ran the Marine Crops Non-lethal Electromagnetic Weapons project... "We were looking at electrical activiy in the brain and how to influence it," he says. Byrd, a specialist in medical engineering and bioeffects, funded small research projects... He conducted experiments on animals - and even himself - to see if brain waves would move in sync with waves impinging on them from the outside. (He found that they woud, but the effect was short lived.)
By using very low frequency electromagnetic radiation - the waves way below radio frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum - he found he could induce the brain to release behavior-regulating chemicals. "We could put animals into a stupor," he says, by hitting them with these frequencies. "We got chick brains in-vitro to dump 80 percent of the natural opiods in their brains," Byrd says. He even ran a small project that used magnetic fields to cause certain brain cells in rats to release histamine. In humans, this would cause instant flu-like symptoms and produce nausea. "These fields were extremely weak. They were undetectable," says Byrd. "The effects were non-lethatl and reversible. You could disable a person temporarily," Byrd hypothesizes. "It (would have been) like a stun gun."...
Byrd says he was told his workd be unclassified, "unless it works." Because it worked, he suspects that the program "went black."
Another weird effect that occurs at microwave radiation exposure levels much, much lower than the US safety standard of 10mW/cm^2 , is the ability of a high-intensity microwave beam, when turned on and off in a pattern corresponding to a sound, to cause a person to actually hear that sound when his head is illuminated with the beam. Although the beam is high-intensity, the average power level can be much lower than US safety standards because the beam is only "on" for a small fraction of a cycle. It's easy to understand how it works -- the beam causes tissue heating during its "on" moments, and the tissue, as it heats and cools, naturally expands and contracts, giving rise to a pressure wave, i.e. sound:
A decoy and deception concept presently being considered is to remotely create the perception of noise in the heads of personnel by exposing them to low power, pulsed microwaves. When people are illuminated with properly modulated low power microwaves the sensation is reported as a buzzing, clicking, or hissing which seems to originate (regardless of the person's position in the field) within or just behind the head. The phenomena occurs at average power densities as low as microwatts per square centimeter with carrier frequencies from 0.4 to 3.0 GHz. By proper choice of pulse characteristics, intelligible speech may be created.
-- Effects of low power microwaves on the local
-- cerebral blood flow of conscious rats
-- NASA Tech
Re:PARENT OVERRATED, MOD DOWN ( "Pop Sci Garbage"
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You made only one substantive criticism:
>> "and don't actually provide any >> citations for your random claims....."
I change my mind, you've never really read that article, have you? Perhaps you're not a disinformation agent, you're just too dumb.
Goes to show you should never be too quick to assume malice for what can be attributed to simple stupidity.
Re:larger drops in solar output seem questionable
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An interesting point, one possible explanation is that the Global Dimming effect seems to be, to a large extent, just making cloudy skies darker, with a much smaller (perhaps negligible) effect on clear skies.
The growth of plants is non-linear, in terms of response to sunlight. The food crop plants you mention, peppers and tomatoes, I tend to think of growing in areas with pleanty of clear-sky days, and so probably do almost all their growing on those bright, sunny days. So they are not effected by the fact that cloudy days are a lot darker, they weren't growing much at those times anyway.
PARENT OVERRATED, MOD DOWN ( "Pop Sci Garbage" )
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Nobody could be this stupid by accident, this comment is the work of a disinformation agent. These guys are have itchy trigger fingers, they manage to slip thier poison in within the first few posts.
Global warming is a train-wreck towards which we're all headed, and I guess Big Bro' wants to downplay it to avoid panic.
Mad poster wrote: "I like when news outlets use this type of language. 'Woke up'."
The article does not try to imply scientists are closed-minded or doddards. The portion of the article "mad poster" is referring to is simply pointing out that light-meter measurements indicating the Global Dimming pattern did not receive much attention until they had been corroborated by a completely different method of measurement: water evaporation rates.
Global Dimming required corroboration by multiple methods of measurement because it was very surprising, very surprising for two reasons: (1) the effect was so large that scientists found it hard to believe nobody had mentioned it before (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence), and (2) it seems to contradict Global Warming.
These two kinds of measurements, light-meter, and water evaporation rates, have been made at least back to the 1950's, and both indicate that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface has declined by 10 to 30 percent, depending on location, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.
Mad poster wrote: "To suggest that little or no climate changed is being 'caused' by something man made without backing it up goes beyond the bounds of irresponsible journalism... We observe less solar radiation all over the world, and the next thing you know, we're jumping straight into the conclusion that two man made pollutants are cancelling each other out and keeping the greenhouse effect"
I'm not even sure what the first sentence means. The article didn't give evidence why humans aren't causing climate change? What? He was in a hurry to be one of the first posts, I suppose -- before a TRULY informative post was submitted, which would make it harder for the slashdot disinformtion network to manipulate the modding process.
The article actually presents the following evidence that Global Dimming has been caused by pollution particles in the air:
Project INDOEX, a multinational climate study which took place in the Maldives, a nation of many separate islands in the Indian ocean, compared sunlight levels on northern islands, over which flows a current of pollution-laden air from India, and southern islands, which experience lower polltion levels do to air streams of Antartic origin.
Project INDOEX found a 10 percent reduction in sunlight reaching the Earth's surface due to pollution particles in the air. This was attributed to pollution particles making clouds more reflective. Clouds are formed by water vapor condensing on the surface of airborne particles. The presence of air pollutant particles causes these droplets to be smaller and so more reflective. The droplets are smaller because there are ten times as many particles for droplets to form about. Why smaller droplets are more reflective the article does not say.
Dr. David Travis at the University of Wisconsin found there was a sudden 1 degree celsius jump in the temperature extremes between night and day during the three days that aircraft were grounded after the 9/11 attacks. This 1 degree celsius jump in temperature extremes was so large nothing like it had ever been seen before, during thirty years of observation. He inferred that this was caused by the sudden drop in the number of airborne pollutant particles, resulting from the absence of jet contrails from air traffic during those three days after 9
This will be a dud. It may have a niche market among hikers and campers, but that is about it.
People buy coffee at Starbucks because they like the ritual and the atmosphere. It is a kind of human contact that, although shallow, provides some satisfaction without there being any accompanying obligations. ( Am I supposed to wail at the alienation and isolation of the modern world here? Well, real relationships like we had in the good ol' days still exist, now we have something extra in addition to that. )
It's the same reason people would go to a cinema to see a movie, even if they could see it at home on a home theatre system that provided an equal quality presentation. It's the same reason that fast-food restaurants, and cafes like Starbucks, haven't been automated with machines replacing human help to the extent that they could be.
So it won't replace Starbucks cafes, and it won't be a quick-grab-a-cup convenience store seller either, because convenience stores sale brewed coffee already at a lower price.
Since the cold war ended, the US government doesn't feel as much need to respect the civil rights of its citizens. Who are we going to run to? Who will grant us asylum, when the US is the sole military superpower?
Please, please EU, become a military superpower, and tell Bush to take his "Hertz Doctrine" and stuff it.
The EU becoming a military superpower would be the best thing that could possibly happen for political stability and civil rights in the US.
If you look at some of the news stories that have come out about cold fusion, there is really no way to explain the comments by some of the scientists, and the behavior of some fo the reporters, except as part of an intentional, secret effort to suppress this research.
For example, in the article DOE Warms to Cold Fusion, Physics Today, look at the comment by chemist Allen Bard:
"The critical question is, How good and different are [the cold fusion researchers'] new results?" says Allen Bard, a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin. "If they are saying, 'We are now able to reproduce our results,' that's not good enough. But if they are saying, 'We are getting 10 times as much heat out now, and we understand things,' that would be interesting. I don't see anything wrong with giving these people a new hearing." In ERAB's cold fusion review in 1989, he adds, "there were phenomena described to us where you could not offer alternative, more reasonable explanations. You could not explain it away like UFOs."
Isn't this basically a smoking gun? New fundamentl physics is often revealed by results that differ by as little as one part in a million from preditictions of current theory, or one part in whatever. If there is any discrepancy, whatsoever, within the statistical and systematic errors, that is enough. Your old theory is incorrect. This is completely bonkers. He is saying that consistent excess heat production is not enough, unless it is bigger than before.
Personally I suspsect the writer of this article, Toni Feder, intentionally tricked Dr. Bard into revealing this on the record. That last bit -- about phenomena that you can't just "explain away" -- seems as though Dr. Bard thinks he is speaking to a member of the group that is sympatico to repressing cold fusion research, doesn't it?
There is known to have been disputes between editorial staff and management at Physics Today over the coverage given to less mainstream areas of research. The following exerpt from a letter to the American Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics Today, protests the treatment suffered by a past editor, Jeff Scmidt:
Indeed, we understand that you were displeased with Jeff's workplace activism and had tried to silence him through a number of very repressive measures short of dismissal.
As you know, Jeff worked with other Physics Today staff members to... increase staff participation in decision-making, broaden the narrow range of viewpoints allowed in the magazine...
By the way, Jeff Schmidt is the author of Disciplined Minds [disciplined-minds.com], and I think this book includes more coverage of this editorial dispute at Physics Today.
Back to the question of how anomalous the results have to be, we move from the comments of scientists to the behavior of the reporters, in this case Gary Taubes, with What If Cold Fusion Is Real?, Wired, November 1998:
Meanwhile, electrochemist John Bockris announced that one of his graduate students at Texas A&M, Nigel Packham, had collaborated on a successful cold fusion experiment. Packham had even detected small amounts of tritium, a radioactive by-product virtually guaranteeing that fusion had taken place.
A science writer named Gary Taubes, who has written two books and several articles investigating allegations of fraudulent activity in science, went to Texas A&M on a fact-finding mission.
"We thought Taubes was genuine at first," Bockris told me recently, speaking in a clipped, precise British accent that he acquired before he moved to the U
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It isn't widely publicized -- although it does leak into the mainstream media, occasionally, as in this case -- but thousands of people are reporting that criminals are using microwave radiation to attack them.
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This is not just in the USA -- also in Britain, France, Germany.
For example, Germany: http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/
Almost all the posts I've scanned, at least those that are on topic, immediately dismiss these people's claims as absurd.
WHY? I'm sure you could easily modify a microwave oven yourself, and use it to harass your neihbors, if you wanted. I guess if you have such an inclination, you now know you are safe to go ahead. Anyone who complains about your attacks will be dismissed as paranoid. Hey, why not place a microwave oven where you can activate and control it by remote, and give this theory a test. It will be almost impossible for you to be caught, so why not?
Potential military and covert use of microwave radiation is an active area of research. (Obviously not just microwave, but rather all forms of beamable radiation. Actually, implanted devices as well.)
I believe I am a victim of involuntary experimentation in this research, my story is at http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko
Another informative site (perhaps the best, actually): http://www.datafilter.com/mc
I agree.
Consenting adults should not be legally prohibited from engaging in any activity or speech they want, whatsoever, the only exception being to protect some overriding societal interest.
Unfortunately this principle isn't explicitly stated in the US Constitution, so instead an implicit right to privacy has been used in its place.
Why do we need limitations surveillance and the collection of information? I don't mind if I have to withstand peer pressure in order to act, think, and speak as I like, within the law -- so long as others can only express disapproval through their own free speech.
It is a good thing if the government, private organizations, and the public are all aware of what one another are doing, but only react to that information in ways allowed by the law.
COINTELPRO-like efforts by federal agents to infiltrate and disrupt private groups would be ineffective if the public could rapidly become aware of such activity and organize against it. This is a current concern, because the DOD is poised to resume the domestic spying program it gave up in the 60's: http://cryptome.org/dod-homespy.htm
Laws restricing surveillance make it more difficult to expose activity that is potentially threatening and may require legislative attention. For example, are religious groups and secret socities infilitrating our corporations and public institutions? Here is a web site raising such concerns about activities of the Unification Church (aka "moonies"): http://iapprovethismessiah.com/2005/01/moon-funnel s-250000-to-bush.html. There are similar concerns about activities of Scientologists, other religious groups, and possible secret socities.
Were the PATRIOT Act abuse complaints that the DOJ Inspector General dismissed without investigation really so unbelievable? The Inspector General's report states:
Judge for yourself:
A current US program of involuntary human experimentation
New Technologies Threaten Human Rights
Electromagnetics and the Mind
http://www.geocities.com/mrmistermicko
http://www.datafilter.com/mc
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl
I've read about Russian research, and other research, on the non-thermal biological effects of EM radiation. Apparently, the non-thermal effects depend sensitively on the pulse-shape, i.e. frequency spectrum, of the incident radiation. Appropriately pulsed EM radiation is able to effect biological processes, particularly neural, by coupling to "resonant" frequencies. Effects often depend on the frequency of the carrier which is beig modulated, and also on the carrier's amplitude, so it is all extremely complicated.
In the early 1980's, Dr. Eldon Byrd, working for the US Marine Corps, investigated these these weird, non-thermal effects, presumably for possible military purposes:
Another weird effect that occurs at microwave radiation exposure levels much, much lower than the US safety standard of 10mW/cm^2 , is the ability of a high-intensity microwave beam, when turned on and off in a pattern corresponding to a sound, to cause a person to actually hear that sound when his head is illuminated with the beam. Although the beam is high-intensity, the average power level can be much lower than US safety standards because the beam is only "on" for a small fraction of a cycle. It's easy to understand how it works -- the beam causes tissue heating during its "on" moments, and the tissue, as it heats and cools, naturally expands and contracts, giving rise to a pressure wave, i.e. sound:
You made only one substantive criticism:
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>> "and don't actually provide any
>> citations for your random claims....."
The citation for all my claims was the ORIGINAL article we are all supposedly discussing:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizo
I change my mind, you've never really read that article, have you? Perhaps you're not a disinformation agent, you're just too dumb.
Goes to show you should never be too quick to assume malice for what can be attributed to simple stupidity.
An interesting point, one possible explanation is that the Global Dimming effect seems to be, to a large extent, just making cloudy skies darker, with a much smaller (perhaps negligible) effect on clear skies. The growth of plants is non-linear, in terms of response to sunlight. The food crop plants you mention, peppers and tomatoes, I tend to think of growing in areas with pleanty of clear-sky days, and so probably do almost all their growing on those bright, sunny days. So they are not effected by the fact that cloudy days are a lot darker, they weren't growing much at those times anyway.
Global warming is a train-wreck towards which we're all headed, and I guess Big Bro' wants to downplay it to avoid panic.
YOU CAN (AND SHOULD) READ THE ARTICLE YOURSELF AT http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon
Mad poster wrote: "I like when news outlets use this type of language. 'Woke up'."
The article does not try to imply scientists are closed-minded or doddards. The portion of the article "mad poster" is referring to is simply pointing out that light-meter measurements indicating the Global Dimming pattern did not receive much attention until they had been corroborated by a completely different method of measurement: water evaporation rates.
Global Dimming required corroboration by multiple methods of measurement because it was very surprising, very surprising for two reasons: (1) the effect was so large that scientists found it hard to believe nobody had mentioned it before (extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence), and (2) it seems to contradict Global Warming.
These two kinds of measurements, light-meter, and water evaporation rates, have been made at least back to the 1950's, and both indicate that the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface has declined by 10 to 30 percent, depending on location, from the 1950s to the early 1990s.
Mad poster wrote: "To suggest that little or no climate changed is being 'caused' by something man made without backing it up goes beyond the bounds of irresponsible journalism
I'm not even sure what the first sentence means. The article didn't give evidence why humans aren't causing climate change? What? He was in a hurry to be one of the first posts, I suppose -- before a TRULY informative post was submitted, which would make it harder for the slashdot disinformtion network to manipulate the modding process.
The article actually presents the following evidence that Global Dimming has been caused by pollution particles in the air:
Project INDOEX found a 10 percent reduction in sunlight reaching the Earth's surface due to pollution particles in the air. This was attributed to pollution particles making clouds more reflective. Clouds are formed by water vapor condensing on the surface of airborne particles. The presence of air pollutant particles causes these droplets to be smaller and so more reflective. The droplets are smaller because there are ten times as many particles for droplets to form about. Why smaller droplets are more reflective the article does not say.
This will be a dud. It may have a niche market among hikers and campers, but that is about it.
People buy coffee at Starbucks because they like the ritual and the atmosphere. It is a kind of human contact that, although shallow, provides some satisfaction without there being any accompanying obligations. ( Am I supposed to wail at the alienation and isolation of the modern world here? Well, real relationships like we had in the good ol' days still exist, now we have something extra in addition to that. )
It's the same reason people would go to a cinema to see a movie, even if they could see it at home on a home theatre system that provided an equal quality presentation. It's the same reason that fast-food restaurants, and cafes like Starbucks, haven't been automated with machines replacing human help to the extent that they could be.
So it won't replace Starbucks cafes, and it won't be a quick-grab-a-cup convenience store seller either, because convenience stores sale brewed coffee already at a lower price.
Since the cold war ended, the US government doesn't feel as much need to respect the civil rights of its citizens. Who are we going to run to? Who will grant us asylum, when the US is the sole military superpower?
Please, please EU, become a military superpower, and tell Bush to take his "Hertz Doctrine" and stuff it.
The EU becoming a military superpower would be the best thing that could possibly happen for political stability and civil rights in the US.
For example, in the article DOE Warms to Cold Fusion, Physics Today, look at the comment by chemist Allen Bard:
Isn't this basically a smoking gun? New fundamentl physics is often revealed by results that differ by as little as one part in a million from preditictions of current theory, or one part in whatever. If there is any discrepancy, whatsoever, within the statistical and systematic errors, that is enough. Your old theory is incorrect. This is completely bonkers. He is saying that consistent excess heat production is not enough, unless it is bigger than before.
Personally I suspsect the writer of this article, Toni Feder, intentionally tricked Dr. Bard into revealing this on the record. That last bit -- about phenomena that you can't just "explain away" -- seems as though Dr. Bard thinks he is speaking to a member of the group that is sympatico to repressing cold fusion research, doesn't it?
There is known to have been disputes between editorial staff and management at Physics Today over the coverage given to less mainstream areas of research. The following exerpt from a letter to the American Institute of Physics, which publishes Physics Today, protests the treatment suffered by a past editor, Jeff Scmidt:
By the way, Jeff Schmidt is the author of Disciplined Minds [disciplined-minds.com], and I think this book includes more coverage of this editorial dispute at Physics Today.
Back to the question of how anomalous the results have to be, we move from the comments of scientists to the behavior of the reporters, in this case Gary Taubes, with What If Cold Fusion Is Real?, Wired, November 1998: