Archive for May 14th, 2008
Occident : la stratégie de division vise le cœur du monde musulman
Occident :
la stratégie de division vise le cœur du monde musulman
Les images désolantes nous parviennent du Liban, de l’Irak, de l’Afghanistan …. La violence secoue la terre de l’Islam à la faveur d’une stratégie occidentales paralysantes dont les dimensions demandent à être éclairées.
Trois points mérites d’être soulignés : les dernières années de la première décennie du 21eme siècle semble marqué par une vague sans précédent d’attaque médiatique contre l’islam : des caricatures aux pamphlets, des articles aux longs métrages, le musulman et ses convictions font l’objet d’une vaste attaque en règle qui a certes suscité des réactions indignées mais pas autant qu’il le faut pour extirper les racines du mal.
A ceci s’ajoute l’action militaire ou menace d’une telle action qui vise à la fois plusieurs pays musulmans avec pour conséquence le massacre, l’humiliation, le pillage des richesses. La troisième menace, sans doute plus primordiale que les deux premières, c’est de nature endogène. Ce sont des courants au sein même des sociétés musulmanes qui sous l’impulsion occidentale semblent se résigner de tourner leur armes contre leurs frères et à plonger leur état dans le désordre et la violence.
Quasi inexistant au cours des dernières décades, le meurtre de « musulman » par « musulman » provoque dans de nombreux pays comme l’Irak, la Palestine, l’Afghanistan, le Liban des séquelles difficilement réparables pour ne pas dire incurables ; La conséquence de cet état des choses, on l’aura deviné, c’est davantage d’instabilité, de trouble, d’insécurité au cœur des pays musulmans avec le risque potentiel d’anéantissement des valeurs islamiques. Des violences qui traversent la terre de l’Islam, un phénomène indésirable risque de naître : la perte d’identité religieuse. Héritier des colonialistes du XIXe siècle, les Etats-Unis d’Amérique tentent par tous les moyens de déclencher puis d’accélérer ce processus de dénaturation : le « soft power » et le « hard power » américains se sont mariés pour contre la vague d’éveille religieux qui a sillonné ces dernières années le monde de l’Islam. De toute évidence, le siècle prochain sera celui de l’Islam, ce qui met Washington et ses alliés devant un défi de taille : comment se comporter en face de cette réalité ?
La stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine ne fait aucun mystère la dessus : pour elle, « l’Islam est à la fois armé et politique ». Le document stratégique emploie le néologisme l’Islam « néo-orthodoxe ». ce document élaboré en 1998 par el Pentagone pendant trois ans est destiné à définir les politiques américaines pour les 25 années à venir. C’est un document qui explique en détail les objectifs américain au Moyen Orient et les obstacles auxquels ces objectifs se heurtent. Le Moyen Orient et ses pays musulmans sont désignés par le qualificatif « Hautement importants » pour plusieurs raisons :
1) c’est une région qui renferme le gros des réserves fossiles du monde qui sont vitales pour les Américains et leurs alliés. Le Moyen Orient est l’unique partie du monde où les Américains sont maintenus depuis un siècle une présence ininterrompue.
2) C’est une région où est né l’Islam politique avec ses risques d’instabilités pour l’Occident.
3) C’est une région propice à la résurgence des différends interethniques, inter religieux, inter tribaux non seulement entre les états différents qui la constituent mais aussi à l’échelle de chaque état.
Le document stratégique se charge aussi d’une clause consacré à la catégorisation des musulmans : ceux-ci se divisent, selon les auteurs américains, en moderniste, fondamentaliste, traditionaliste, sécularistes. La priorité va évidemment à l’aide aux modernistes ou réformistes qui pourront jouer le rôle de catalyseur du processus de dénaturation souhaitée. L’aide en question serait évidemment de nature financière, culturelle, médiatique. Le document conseille vivement de semer le discorde entre les fondamentaliste au lieu de les réprimer, d’assaillir les traditionaliste avec des écoles déviantes tel le soufisme, de déclencher le feu des hostilités entre les sécularistes et les fondamentalistes tout en assurant les premiers du soutien américain.
Ce projet qui prévoit la fin de l’Islam au Moyen Orient s’axe sur l’élimination de l’adversaire via la destruction, la décomposition de ses convictions, de son idéologie. Le grand cheval de bataille des Américains c’est-à-dire la lutte contre le prétendu terrorisme islamiste se comprend dans ce même sens. Au Moyen Orient les Etats-Unis cherchent à planter leur drapeau définitivement grâce à un remodelage géopolitique qui sache homogénéiser toutes les croyances et les faire aligner sur les intérêts américains . c’est l’islam en sa qualité de rite de mode vie et de croyance qui est dans le viseur.
En Palestine, les divergences entre le Hamas et le Fatah, au Liban les différences entre le 14 mars et le Hezbollah en Irak les violence inter chiites ou entre chiites et sunnites ne donnent qu’un avant goût des dessins diaboliques des stratèges américains . Reste à savoir comment les musulmans se comporteront pour neutraliser ces dessins. Seront-ils assez habiles à éviter les fissures , à colmater les brèches pour éviter que le bateau prenne l’eau ou seront-il assez naïfs pour le laisser couler ?
In The Shadow of Catastrophe (III)
In The Shadow of Catastrophe (III)
NAYPYIDAW/PARIS/BERLIN
Under the pretext that Myanmar has refused to accept the conditions for deliveries of relief supplies set out by western nations, Berlin is using the natural disaster in that country for a new attack on international law. Several German ministers have declared that a “humanitarian intervention” may well be carried out, even in violation of Myanmarian sovereignty. Troops could also be deployed, says a leading German international jurist. Natural catastrophes are supposed to justify military operations anywhere in the world. French and US warships are already underway to this former European colony. Berlin is again using a humanitarian pretext to strengthen the German position in this geostrategically important country. Myanmar is of importance to its Asian neighbors because of its coastline. It provides China access to the Indian Ocean. Transit through Myanmar should facilitate trade with Europe and the Middle East, including also Chinese importation of raw materials. Already last year an intervention against Myanmar was being discussed in EU circles.
Unlimited Access
The Myanmar government’s refusal to give in to western demands to receive relief supplies is behind Berlin’s recent statements about an alleged justification for “humanitarian interventions” in cases of natural disasters. The government is continuing to refuse unconditional access to its country. Among the disputed issues is western relief workers’ access to the disaster zones. Whereas Myanmar insists that the deliveries be made by local personnel, Berlin is insisting on having unlimited access for Germans. Also at issue is the labeling on the relief supplies. Officials in the disaster areas are re-labeling the goods to neutralize their origins, because they suspect donor nations of propaganda motives. Southeast Asian nations, among them Thailand, are accepting this neutralization. Berlin fears a reinforcement of the military government in Naypyidaw and is laying down conditions.
Military in Action
This is how the German government joins the French/US offensive. Paris is demanding that the UN Security Council take up the issue of the Myanmar situation and force the government to grant western personnel access to its territory. French Foreign Minister Kouchner declared that “the decision to take action was taken,” independently “without waiting any longer.” Kouchner announced that therefore a French warship with relief supplies was on its way to the former European colony, that the supplies “would be distributed directly to those affected, either by the ship’s crew” – French military personnel – “or by French relief organizations.”1 Similar declarations were made in Washington that has also dispatched a warship to the area. If these threats are carried out, this would mean not only a breach of Myanmarian sovereignty, but an unauthorized deployment of western military personnel on Myanmarian soil could provoke an armed reaction from the Myanmarian armed forces – a worst-case scenario for the populations in the disaster areas.
Broad Interpretation
Berlin approves of the French government’s provocative approach, as is apparent from declarations by various ministers. “I explicitly support the French Foreign Minister’s initiative,” to “apply pressure to the government in Myanmar,” declared the Minister of Development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (SPD). The German Defense Minister, Franz-Josef Jung, CDU, affirmed that “if necessary, (…) a UN resolution has to be contemplated.”2 In the opinion of the prominent German jurist, Jochen Frowein, of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, in Heidelberg, a western intervention in Myanmar could be covered by Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, which allows for measures “necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.” International law has “evolved further” over the past decade, claims Frowein. Therefore the concept of “threat to the peace” is today more broadly interpreted and could even include “deadly catastrophes”.3 In this manner, the list of pretexts for military interventions could be extended at random.
Wars, Crises
If Berlin and Paris are successful in imposing their interpretation, the threshold erected by international law against military interventions will have reached a new low point. States struck by natural disasters will be forced to unconditionally cooperate with western powers in order to avoid the threat of invasion by European or US American troops. The spreading eradication of protective measures for weaker states – such as military governments as in Myanmar – has nothing to do with a humanizing of global living conditions. This can be seen in the growing criticism of the German government by human rights organizations. Germany, in this case, is playing itself up as the global proponent of humanitarian concerns. If it were really about saving human life, for years the outer borders of the European Union would have offered ample occasion. Already in 2005, because of the massive number of migrant deaths on these borders, the UN High Commission of Refugees classified them “a greater humanitarian crisis”.4 The same applies to the wars waged by the west in Afghanistan or Iraq, with direct or indirect German participation.5 Given Berlin’s probable implication in cases of kidnapping and torture of suspects, whose elucidation the government is still thwarting, European parliamentarians are warning against inner-European conditions sliding “into barbarism.”6
Interests
Myanmar is indeed the focus of geostrategic interests. Geographically the country is very important to China, enabling Beijing to open an overland trade route to the West, thereby reducing its dependence on the risky transport through the Malacca Straits (between Indonesia and Malaysia). But the Malacca Straits are not only being threatened by piracy. Berlin and Brussels have, for years, also been active in their focus on increasing German-European military influence over this pivotal Chinese maritime trade route. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.7) Therefore Beijing has been negotiating for years with Myanmar concerning the elaboration of transport links including oil and natural gas pipelines. Currently more than two thirds of China’s oil imports transit through the Malacca Straits. Last year, as the German EU Council Presidency intensified military cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), EU circles were already discussing possible operations against Myanmar – at the time, without any concrete pretext. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.8) Declarations concerning the political upheavals in the southeastern part of the country last year, clearly point to German-European interest in seeing a pro-western government in Naypyidaw.9
State Coordination
An indication of the direct exploitation for purposes of foreign policy, of humanitarian relief organizations, who are supposed to obtain direct access to the Myanmarian disaster areas, is given by the so called “Humanitarian Aid Coordinating Committee” that was convened last Friday, as usual at the invitation of the foreign ministry.10 The committee, which, according to the foreign ministry, is “the central instrument for coordinating the foreign ministry’s humanitarian aid with its civil society partners” and as such is “unique in Europe”,11 discussed German relief deliveries to the Myanmarian disaster zones. The committee includes not only representatives of the NGO’s committed to these problems but also representatives of all of the ministries concerned, including the foreign ministry, the ministry of development and the defense ministry. The ministries decide on the allocation of state funds to these relief organizations, whose “independence” is without material basis.
Politically Take Advantage
According to prominent German news magazines the massive state solicitation for humanitarian engagement in Myanmar is a smokescreen for political intentions. Spiegel-Online, for example, writes that “the Bush government” is attempting “to politically take advantage of the drama” while posing “as an unbureaucratic donor in the crisis”.12 The Myanmarian regime is afraid, “that in reality, a strategy for regime change is hidden behind the relief deliveries.” This is “somewhat hampering relief deliveries”. But similar criticism of German foreign policy is not to be found. Obviously this is taboo.
1, 2 Bundesregierung: Internationale Hilfe für Burma erzwingen; www.faz.net 10.05.2008
3 Völkerrechtler: Junta könnte zum Einlass von Helfern gezwungen werden; Der Standard 09.05.2008
4 see also Größere humanitäre Krise and our EXTRA-Dossier Festung Europa
5 see also Paramilitary, Söldner and Gulf State Military Partner
6 see also Sinking into Barbarism and Sinking Into Barbarism (II)
7 see also War Options, Subregional Arms Race and Expeditionary Navy
8 see also Subregional Arms Race
9 see also Prestigious and Mit langem Atem
10 Bundesminister Steinmeier leitet Sondersitzung des Koordinierungsausschusses Humanitäre Hilfe zur Lage in Myanmar; Pressemitteilung des Auswärtigen Amts 08.05.2008
11 Der Koordinierungssausschuss; www.auswaertiges-amt.de
12 Bushs versteckte Burma-Agenda; Spiegel Online 09.05.2008
HACKING THE MIND
“Carole Smith describes claims that neuroscientists are developing brain scans that can read people’s intentions in the absence of serious discussions about the ethical issues this raises, despite the fact that the research has been backed by government in the UK and US.”
HACKING THE MIND
“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.
The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.
Dr José Delgado.
Director of Neuropsychiatry, Yale University Medical School Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118 February 24, 1974.
The Guardian newspaper, that defender of truth in the United Kingdom, published an article by the Science Correspondent, Ian Sample, on 9 February 2007 entitled:
‘The Brain Scan that can read people’s intentions’, with the sub-heading: ‘Call for ethical debate over possible use of new technology in interrogation”.
“Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there’s no way you could possibly tell is in there. It’s like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall”, the scientists were reported as saying.
At the same time, London’s Science Museum was holding an exhibition entitled ‘Neurobotics: The Future of Thinking’. This venue had been chosen for the launch in October 2006 of the news that human thoughts could be read using a scanner. Dr Geraint Rees’ smiling face could be seen in a photograph at the Neurobotics website[1], under the heading “The Mind Reader”. Dr Rees is one of the scientists who have apparently cracked the problem which has preoccupied philosophers and scientists since before Plato: they had made entry into the conscious mind. Such a reversal of human historical evolution, announced in such a pedestrian fashion, makes one wonder what factors have been in play, and what omissions made, in getting together this show, at once banal and extraordinary. The announcement arrives as if out of a vacuum. The neuroscientist - modern-style hunter-gatherer of information and darling of the “Need to Know” policies of modern government – does little to explain how he achieved this goal of entering the conscious mind, nor does he put his work into any historical context. Instead, we are asked in the Science Museum’s programme notes:
How would you feel if someone could read your innermost thoughts? Geraint Rees of UCL says he can. By using brain-imaging technology he’s beginning to decode thought and explore the difference between the conscious and unconscious mind. But how far will it go? And shouldn’t your thoughts remain your personal business?
If Dr Rees has decoded the mind sufficiently for such an announcement to be made in an exhibition devoted to it, presumably somewhere is the mind which has been, and is continuing to be, decoded. He is not merely continuing his experiments using functional magnetic resolution scanning (fMRI) in the way neuroscientists have been observing their subjects under scanning devices for years, asking them to explain what they feel or think while the scientists watch to see which area lights up, and what the cerebral flow in the brain indicates for various brain areas. Dr Rees is decoding the mind in terms of conscious and unconscious processes. For that, one must have accessed consciousness itself. Whose consciousness? Where is the owner of that consciousness – and unconsciousness? How did he/she feel? Why not ask them to tell us how it feels, instead of asking us.
The Neurobotics Exhibition was clearly set up to make these exciting new discoveries an occasion for family fun, and there were lots of games for visitors to play. One gets the distinct impression that we are being softened up for the introduction of radical new technology which will, perhaps, make the mind a communal pool rather than an individual possession. Information technology seeks to connect us all to each other in as many ways as possible, but also, presumably, to those vast data banks which allow government control not only to access all information about our lives, but now also to our thoughts, even to our unconscious processing. Does anyone care?
One of the most popular exhibits was the ‘Mindball’ game, which required two players to go literally head-to-head in a battle for brainpower, and used ‘brainpower’ alone. Strapped up with headbands which pick up brain waves, the game uses neurofeedback, but the person who is calm and relaxed wins the game. One received the impression that this calmness was the spirit that the organisers wished to reinforce, to deflect any undue public panic that might arise from the news that private thoughts could now be read with a scanner.[2] The ingress into the mind as a private place was primarily an event to be enjoyed with the family on an afternoon out:
Imagine being able to control a computer with only the power of your mind. Or read people’s thoughts and know if they’re lying. And what if a magnetic shock to the brain could make you more creative…but should we be able to engineer our minds?
Think your thoughts are private? Ever told a lie and been caught red-handed? Using brain-scanning technology, scientists are beginning to probe our minds and tell if we’re lying. Other scientists are decoding our desires and exploring the difference between our conscious and unconscious mind. But can you really trust the technology?
Other searching questions are raised in the program notes, and more games:
Find out if you’ve got what it takes to be a modern-day spy in this new interactive family exhibition. After being recruited as a trainee spy, explore the skills and abilities required by real agents and use some of the latest technologies that help spies gather and analyse information. Later go on and discover what it’s like to be spied upon. Uncover a secret store of prototype gadgets that give you a glimpse into the future of spy technologies and finally use everything you’ve learnt to escape before qualifying as a fully-fledged agent!
There were also demonstrations of grateful paraplegics and quadriplegics showing how the gods of science have so unselfishly liberated them from their prisons: this was the serious Nobel Prize side of the show. But there was no-one representing Her Majesty’s government to demonstrate how these very same devices[3] can be used quite freely, and with relative ease, in our wireless age[4], to conduct experiments on free-ranging civilians tracked anywhere in the world, and using an infinitely extendable form of electrode which doesn’t require visible contact with the scalp at all. Electrodes, like electricity, can also take an invisible form – an electrode is a terminal of an electric source through which electrical energy or current may flow in or out. The brain itself is an electrical circuit. Every brain has its own unique resonating frequency. The brain is an infinitely more sensitive receiver and transmitter than the computer, and even in the wireless age, the comprehension of how wireless networks operate appears not to extend to the workings of the brain. The monotonous demonstration of scalps with electrodes attached to them, in order to demonstrate the contained conduction of electrical charges, is a scientific fatuity, in so far as it is intended to demonstrate comprehensively the capability of conveying charges to the brain, or for that matter, to any nerve in the body, as a form of invisible torture.
As Neurobotics claims: ‘Your brain is amazing’, but the power and control over brains and nervous systems achieved by targeting brain frequencies with radiowaves must have been secretly amazing government scientists for many years. The problem that now arises, at the point of readiness when so much has been achieved, is how to put the technology into action in such a way, as it will be acceptable in the public domain. This requires getting it through wider government and legal bodies, and for that, it must be seen to spring from the unbiased scientific investigations into the workings of the brain, in the best tradition of the leading universities. It is given over to Dr Rees and his colleague, Professor Haynes, endowed with the disclosure for weightier Guardian readers, to carry the torch for the government. Those involved may also have noted the need to show the neuroscientist in a more responsible light, following US neuroengineer for government sponsored Lockheed Martin, John Norseen’s, ingenuous comment, in 2000, about his belief about the consequences of his work in fMRI:
‘If this research pans out’, said Norseen, ‘you can begin to manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it.’ And added: “The ethics don’t concern me, but they should concern someone else.”
While the neuroscientists report their discovery (without even so much as the specific frequency of the light employed by this scanner/torch), issuing ethical warnings while incongruously continuing with their mind-blowing work, the government which sponsors them, remains absolutely mute. The present probing of people’s intentions, minds, background thoughts, hopes and emotions[5] is being expanded into the more complex and subtle aspects of thinking and feeling. We have, however, next to no technical information about their methods. The description of ‘shining a torch around the brain’ is as absurd a report as one could read of a scientific endeavour, especially one that carries such enormous implications for the future of mankind. What is this announcement, with its technical obfuscation, preparing us for?
Writing in Wired[6] contributing editor Steve Silberman points out that the lie-detection capability of fMRI is ‘poised to transform the security system, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy’. He quotes Cephos founder, Steven Laken, whose company plans to market the new technology for lie detection. Laken cites detainees held without charge at Guantanamo Bay as a potential example. ‘If these detainees have information we haven’t been able to extract that could prevent another 9/11, I think most Americans would agree that we should be doing whatever it takes to extract it’. Silberman also quotes Paul Root Wolpe, a senior fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, who describes the accelerated advances in fMRI as ‘ a textbook example of how something can be pushed forward by the convergence of basic science, the government directing research through funding, and special interests who desire a particular technology’. Are we to believe that with the implied capability to scan jurors’ brains, the judiciary, the accused and the defendant alike, influencing[7] one at the expense of the other, that the legal implications alone of mind-accessing scanners on university campuses, would not rouse the Minister for Justice from his bench to say a few words about these potential mind weapons?
So what of the ethical debate called for by the busy scientists and the Guardian’s science reporter?[8] Can this technology- more powerful in subverting thought itself than anything in prior history – really be confined to deciding whether the ubiquitously invoked terrorist has had the serious intention of blowing up the train, or whether it was perhaps a foolish prank to make a bomb out of chapatti flour? We can assume that the government would certainly not give the go-ahead to the Science Museum Exhibition, linked to Imperial College, a major government-sponsored institution in laser-physics, if it was detrimental to surveillance programs. It is salutary to bear in mind that government intelligence research is at least ten years ahead of any public disclosure. It is implicit from history that whatever affords the undetectable entry by the gatekeepers of society into the brain and mind, will not only be sanctioned, but funded and employed by the State, more specifically by trained operatives in the security forces, given powers over defenceless citizens, and unaccountable to them.[9]
The actual technology which is now said to be honing the technique ‘to distinguish between passing thoughts and genuine intentions’ is described by Professor John-Dylan Haynes in the Guardian in the most disarmingly untechnical language which must surely not have been intended to enlighten.
The Guardian piece ran as follows:
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person’s brain and read their intentions before they act.
The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists’ ability to probe people’s minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.
‘Using the scanner, we could look around the brain for this information and read out something that from the outside there’s no way you could possibly tell is in there. It’s like shining a torch around, looking for writing on a wall,’ said John-Dylan Haynes at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany, who led the study with colleagues at University College London and Oxford University.
We know therefore that they are using light, but fMRI has been used for many years to attempt the unravelling of neuronal activity, and while there have been many efforts to record conscious and unconscious processes, with particular emphasis on the visual cortex, there has been no progress into consciousness itself. We can be sure that we are not being told the real story.
Just as rats and chimpanzees have been used to demonstrate findings from remote experiments on humans, electrode implants used on cockroaches to remotely control them, lasers used to steer fruit-flies[10] [11], and worms engineered so that their nerves and muscles can be controlled with pinpricks of light[12], the information and techniques that have been ruthlessly forged using opportunistic onslaughts on defenceless humans as guinea pigs – used for myriad purposes from creating 3D haptic gloves in computer games to creating artificial intelligence to send visual processing into outer space – require appropriate replication for peer group approval and to meet ethical demands for scientific and public probity.
The use of light to peer into the brain is almost certainly that of terahertz, which occurs in the wavelengths which lie between 30mm and 1mm of the electromagnetic spectrum. Terahertz has the ability to penetrate deep into organic materials, without (it is said) the damage associated with ionising radiation such as x-rays. It can distinguish between materials with varying water content – for example fat versus lean meat. These properties lend themselves to applications in process and quality control as well as biomedical imaging. Terahertz can penetrate bricks, and also human skulls. Other applications can be learnt from the major developer of terahertz in the UK, Teraview, which is in Cambridge, and partially owned by Toshiba.
Efforts to alert human rights’ groups about the loss of the mind as a place to call your own, have met with little discernible reaction, in spite of reports about over decades of the dangers of remote manipulation using technology to access the mind[13], Dr Nick Begich’s book, Controlling the human mind[14], being an important recent contribution. A different approach did in fact, elicit a response. When informed of the use of terahertz at Heathrow and Luton airports in the UK to scan passengers, the news that passengers would be revealed naked by a machine which looked directly through their clothes produced a small, but highly indignant, article in the spring 2007 edition of the leading human rights organisation, Liberty.[15] If the reading of the mind met with no protest, seeing through one’s clothes certainly did. It seems humans’ assumption of the mind as a private place has been so secured by evolution that it will take a sustained battle to convince the public that, through events of which we are not yet fully informed, such former innocence has been lost.
Trained light, targeted atomic spectroscopy, the use of powerful magnets to absorb moisture from human tissues, the transfer of radiative energy – these have replaced the microwave harassment which was used to transmit auditory messages directly into the hearing.[16] With the discovery of light to disentangle thousands of neurons and encode signals from the complex circuitry of the brain, present programs will not even present the symptoms which simulated schizoid states. Medically, even if terahertz does not ionise, we do not yet know how the sustained application of intense light will affect the delicate workings of the brain and how cells might be damaged, dehydrated, stretched, obliterated.
This year, 2007, has also brought the news that terahertz lasers small enough to incorporate into portable devices had been developed.[17]
Sandia National Laboratories in the US in collaboration with MIT have produced a transmitter-receiver (transceiver) that enables a number of applications. In addition to scanning for explosives, we may also assume their integration into hand-held communication systems. ‘These semiconductor devices have output powers which previously could only be obtained by molecular gas lasers occupying cubic meters and weighing more than 100kg, or free electron lasers weighing tons and occupying buildings.’ As far back as 1996 the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board predicted that the development of electromagnetic energy sources would ‘open the door for the development of some novel capabilities that can be used in armed conflict, in terrorist/hostage situations, and in training’ and ‘new weapons that offer the opportunity of control of an adversary … can be developed around this concept’.[18]
The surveillance technology of today is the surveillance of the human mind and, through access to the brain and nervous system, the control of behaviour and the body’s functions. The messaging of auditory hallucinations has given way to silent techniques of influencing and implanting thoughts. The development of the terahertz technologies has illuminated the workings of the brain, facilitated the capture of emitted photons which are derived from the visual cortex which processes picture formation in the brain, and enabled the microelectronic receiver which has, in turn, been developed by growing unique semi-conductor crystals. In this way, the technology is now in place for the detection and reading of spectral ‘signatures’ of gases. All humans emit gases. Humans, like explosives, emit their own spectral signature in the form of a gas. With the reading of the brain’s electrical frequency, and of the spectral gas signature, the systems have been established for the control of populations – and with the necessary technology integrated into a cell-phone.
‘We are very optimistic about working in the terahertz electromagnetic spectrum,’ says the principal investigator of the Terahertz Microelectronics Transceiver at Sandia: ‘This is an unexplored area, and a lot of science can come out of it. We are just beginning to scratch the surface of what THz can do to improve national security’.
Carole Smith was born and educated in Australia, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts degree at Sydney University. She trained as a psychoanalyst in London where she has had a private practice. In recent years she has been a researcher into the invasive methods of accessing minds using technological means, and has published papers on the subject. She has written the first draft of a book entitled: “The Controlled Society”.
[1] http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/neurobotics/private/121.asp
At the time of writing it is still accessible. The exhibition ran from October 2006 to April 2007.
[2] Where are the scanners? Who controls them? Are they guarded by police to avoid them being stolen by terrorists? How many are they in number? Are they going into mass production? Do we have any say about their deployment? It is perhaps not unduly paranoid to want to have some answers to these questions.
[3] There is insufficient space here to deal with microchips, the covert implantation of radio transmitting devices which were referred to in Senator Glenn’s extraordinary speech to Congress on the occasion of his attempt to introduce the Human Research Subject Protection Act in 1997:
[4] Ref: The Coming Wireless revolution: When Everything Connects: The Economist: 26 April 2007.
http://www.economist.com/opinion/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9080024
[5] Guardian: ‘The Brain Scan that can read people’s intentions’: 9 February 2007. www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,2009229,00.html
[7] I say, ‘influencing’, advisedly since the technology that enables thoughts to be accessed, certainly also allows for the dulling of mental processes, the interference of memory, the excitation of mental or bodily processes, the infliction of pain on any organ or nerve, the increase of blood pressure, breathing or the slowing down of these, as well as the activation of rage, sadness, hysteria, or inappropriate behaviour. Ref:John Norseen’s work: Images of Mind: The Semiotic Alphabet. The implantation of silent messages, experienced as thoughts arising in the mind, is now possible.
[8] Despite three letters to the Guardian science correspondent, and Editor, I had no reply from them, having asked them to consider my points, as psychoanalyst and researcher, for the ethical debate which was called for. Nor was there any response from my approach to the Cambridge ethicists and scientists who were said to be forming a committee. I have seen no correspondence nor reference to the whole matter since February, 2007. There was some marked regression in the New Scientist about worms being used for experiments for remote control
See: Douglas Fox, ‘Remote Control Brains: a neuroscience revolution’, New Scientist, 18 July 2007.
[9] The covert action group in the newly formed CIA recommended to President Eisenhower in 1954 that the US must pursue “a fundamentally repugnant philosophy”, and that they must learn to “subvert, sabotage and destroy” its enemies by “more clever and more ruthless methods” than those of its opponents:
Ref: James Doolittle et al: “The Central Intelligence Agency: History and Documents (Univ.Alabama Press, 1984.
[10] Fruit flies share to a remarkable degree, the DNA of humans.
[11] Fruit Flies and You: NASA sends fruit flies into Space:
[12] Ref: New Scientist, 18 July 2007: ‘Remote Control Brains: a neuroscience revolution’:
[13] See author’s paper: http://www.btinternet.com/~psycho_social/Vol3/V3.html
[14] Nick Begich, Controlling the human mind: the technologies of political control or tools for peak performance, Earthpulse Press Publications.
[15] Liberty, and Lawyers for Liberty have staunchly maintained a thorough-going campaign against the protracted government plan to issue biometric ID cards, taking the case to the House of Lords where they have gained support. In view of the undisclosed work being carried out which will enable direct access to the brain through the technology coming to light, and using light, one cannot but suspect that the biometric ID card is but an adjunct to the tracking and data sourcing of citizens, and as such has fulfilled the function of a very effective smokescreen, having deflected the energies of the protectors of individual liberties in terms of thousands of hours of concentrated protest effort, with enormous expenditure spent on their campaign.
[16] Human subjects, once computers for research experiments program them, remain targeted, even if the original reasons for their usage have become obsolete. Some have been continuously abused for over thirty years.
[17] Thz Lasers Small Enough for Screening Devices:
www.photonics.com/content/ news/2007/February/7/86317.aspx
http://www.whatsnextnetwork.com/technology/index.php/2007/01/23/miniaturized_terahertz_transmitter_recei
Another Fatal H5N1 Cluster In Jakarta-Uvs Lake H5N1 In Suadi Arabian Falcon
Another Fatal H5N1 Cluster In Jakarta
Jakarta – the Aisyah Tear was still being not yet really dry when the son of the number of his seven, Ahmad Rizki (15), died.
He said, on Thursday May 8 2008 the night was brought to RS Gandaria with the assumption of early contracted typhus.
Istiqomah was forced to be carried to RS because high fiver achieved 38 levels.
Then on Sunday night, the adolescent was carried to RS Persahabatan and was stated positive bird flu.
10 days ago, his brother (Ahmad Rizki) also died.
His sign same, the high fever, the cough, and limp.
He was carried to RS Gandaria.
The above translation describes a lab confirmed fatal H5N1 cluster in Jakarta. Like previous cases, the initial diagnosis was typhus. However, the above translation indicates H5N1 has been lab confirmed in one member of the cluster. Once again no sample was taken from the index case, and once again the index case has died with bird flu symptoms.
Similar clusters were reported in March. In one cluster the index cases had respiratory problems and in the other case the index case was mis-diagnosed as dengue fever
. The second case in each cluster became of WHO confirmed case, but the index case in each cluster was not.
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Uvs Lake H5N1 In Suadi Arabian Falcon
The HA sequences from a falcon in Saudi Arabia, A/falcon/Saudi Atabia/6732-2/2007, is being released at Genbank.
The sequence is virtually identical to the earlier wild bird sequence from Saudi Arabia, A/houbara bustard/Saudi Arabia/6732-1/2007, and differs at one positive, A328G. Thus, this sequence is also the Uvs Lake strain of clade 2.2.3.
This close relationship suggest the NA sequence from the falcon will also have G743A, which was in the wild bird NA sequence as well as all Uvs Lake sequences isolated since early 2007.
The HA difference, A328G was present in the cat sequence from Germany in 2006. In 2007, in addition to the above falcon sequence, A328G was also found in a subset of Egyptian human and bird sequences (see list here) which were from mild human cases in central and upper Egypt or bird sequences from the same areas.
Thus, like G743A, A328G is found on a number of distinct clade 2.2 isolates supporting acquisitions via recombination. Moreover these acquisitions begin to define pathways which can be used to predict emerging sequences based on the movement of individual polymorphisms. These pathways are best defined by a robust database, which is beginning to emerge, although many relevant sequences are still be hoarded.
Recently WHO members have suggested it was time for a new paradigm in influenza research, involving more sharing of samples and resources. Of course such a new paradigm can begin with the WHO since they maintain a private database of H5N1 sequences and WHO regional centers are among the largest hoarders of sequence data.
The hoarding is across the board, but is quite glaring with respect to clade 2.2 sequences. These sequences are found in long range migratory birds and have spread throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Africa following the massive wild bird outbreak at Qinghai Lake in May of 2005. However, sequences from late 2005 and early 2006 from isolates in Europe and the Middle East still have not been released, creating giant holes in the sequence database. Release of these sequences is long overdue, and WHO certainly has the ability of withholding support from its regional centers to force the release of the data.
As the data trickles out, it is becoming increasingly clear that H5N1 is evolving via recombination, and this evolution is quite predictable. These observations are in conflict with the current influenza dogma which maintains that the changes described above are due to random errors and therefore cannot be predicted. This thinking (which is shared among WHO consultants and regional centers) has lead to the catastrophic plan to hold pandemic vaccines until after a pandemic begins. That plan is destined to fail because the stockpiled vaccine will be increasingly irrelevant due to H5N1 evolution away from the stockpiled vaccine, further evolution during the time for production of a new vaccine. This approach will chase the target, as it evolves away from the new vaccine.
The predictability of H5N1 evolution allows for the identification of vaccine targets before the new viruses emerge, which will increase the efficacy of the vaccines.
Clearly the time for the release of the sequences is long overdue, as is the critical analysis of the outmoded tenet of influenza genetics which indicates H5N1 evolution is via random copy errors.
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