STOP THE INFOWAR AGAINST CIVILIANS!

January 21, 2010

HELP THE VICTIMS!

Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance (FFCHS) Launches Online Petition Against Organized Stalking and Electronic Torture

Dear @Sir, @Madam,

Read more here:

FFCHS Launches Online Petition Against Organized Stalking and Electronic Torture, Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance (FFCHS), Vocus PRW Holdings, LLC, prweb.com, January 20, 2010, < http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3464994.htm >, < http://www.prweb.com/pdfdownload/3464994.pdf >.

Quote: < … >  On January 2 of this year, Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance (FFCHS) launched an online petition against organized stalking and electronic torture. This event coincides with January as National Stalking Awareness Month. Organized stalking, where the victim may not know his/her group of attackers and may not even know why the stalking is occurring, has emerged with the proliferation of advanced, and increasingly intrusive surveillance technologies, as one of the most intractable crimes of our time. < … >

Freedomfchs, Global Protest – USA, Canada, UK, 24.10.2009, youtube.com,

…in the case of organized stalking, the goal is to destroy a person’s life, first by isolation, then degradation, leading to despair and hopelessness as almost noone s/he goes to for assistance will help.< … >

Usually the surveillance occurs 24/7 with access to and use of all forms of communication to harass the person, including cellphones, landlines, the Internet, email, postal mail and faxes.

< … >

Every aspect of the person’s life is affected: friendships, family relationships, the workplace, social networks, finances, worship affiliations, and ultimately, physical health.

The DOJ lists the following behaviors as typical of stalking:

  • making unwanted phone calls
  • sending unsolicited or unwanted letters or e-mails
  • following or spying on the victim
  • showing up at places without a legitimate reason
  • waiting at places for the victim
  • leaving unwanted items, presents, or flowers
  • posting information or spreading rumors about the victim

on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth.

The report further states that “while individually these acts may not be criminal, collectively and repetitively these behaviors may cause a victim to fear for his or her safety or the safety of a family member. These behaviors constitute stalking.”

Generally, in the case of organized stalking, the goal is to destroy a person’s life, first by isolation, then degradation, leading to despair and hopelessness as almost noone s/he goes to for assistance will help. Not the police, or the FBI, neither his/her elected officials, nor most human or civil rights organizations, and in many instances neither will friends or family because they often do not understand the problem and may conclude the victim is delusional. < … >

Read full article:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/01/prweb3464994.htm

http://www.prweb.com/pdfdownload/3464994.pdf

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freedomfchs,  A Petition Against the Military and Intelligence Agencies’ Use of Organized Stalking and Electronic Torture, Category: Human Rights, gopetition.com, Jan 02, 2010, < http://www.gopetition.com/online/33163.html >.

Quote: < … >  Because of the secrecy surrounding these programs, government agencies will not acknowledge the existence or use of their invasive practices and technologies, which are designed to avoid detection or blame for the offending parties. The elements of power, control, and money have come together to make these instruments some of the most diabolical that man has ever created and have destroyed the lives and livelihoods of many thousands of law-abiding American citizens. And its victims so far have had nowhere to turn for help.  < … >

Read full article:

http://www.gopetition.com/online/33163.html

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Freedom From Covert Harassment and Surveillance (FFCHS),

http://www.freedomfchs.com/index.html

Watch this video:

freedomfchs, FFCHS – An Introduction, youtube.com, February 21, 2010, < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtrYF7pGZlM&feature=player_embedded >.

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Anatole, STOP BIO-ELECTRONIC/PSYCHOTRONIC TORTURE BRAINMIND/BODY CONTROL/ANNIHILATION ORGANIZED STALKING/TERROR SLAVERY ASSASSINATION WEAPONS!!!, Infotopic, FFCHS Town Hall, Message board for freedomfchs, FFCHS Town Hall Forum Index -> Weapons Technology, freedomfchs.com,  Apr 07, 2007 – Jun 21, 2009,

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NOTA BENE!: pdf,

http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563

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http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

NOTA BENE!: pdf,

http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

Thank you!

Yours sincerely.

January 17, 2010

HELP THE VICTIMS!

HELP THE VICTIMS!

 

Dear @Sir, @Madam,

 

Read more here:

Soleilmavis, Memorials of Mind Control and Directed Energy Weapon victims, peacepink, September 27, 2008, < http://peacepink.ning.com/forum/topics/memorials-of-mind-control-and >.

Quote: < … >  Memorials of Mind Control and Directed Energy Weapon victims < … >

Read full article:

http://peacepink.ning.com/forum/topics/memorials-of-mind-control-and

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Soleilmavis, God helped mind control victim, Video, peacepink.ning.com, November 7, 2009, <

“>http://peacepink.ning.com/video/god-helped-mind-control-victim >

Watch this video:

http://peacepink.ning.com/video/god-helped-mind-control-victim

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METRIC CLAY, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVE, mindcontrolvictim.blogspot.com, October 4, 2007, < http://mindcontrolvictim.blogspot.com/2007/10/metric-clay.html >.

Quote: < … > I AM SUPPORTING THE WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN AGAINST ABUSE OF DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS AND MANIPULATION TECHNOLOGY ON HUMANS. < … >

 

Read full article:

http://mindcontrolvictim.blogspot.com/2007/10/metric-clay.html

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Soleilmavis, Some lawsuits filed by Soleilmavis, peacepink,  peacepink.ning.com, December 31, 2009, < http://peacepink.ning.com/profiles/blogs/some-lawsuits-filed-by >.

 

Quote: < … >  (1) Patents numbers or sciences documents of the following weapons which can remotely attack victims and cause most of the following symptoms:
DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS; NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS; MIND CONTROL WEAPONS; BODY AND BRAIN MANIPULATION WEAPONS; PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS; SPACE WEAPONS; NON-LETHAL WEAPONS any other unacknowledged means inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations or the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations.

symptoms:
1)Hot and Cold Flashes
2)Nausea
3)severe sweating
4)Induced Sleep
5)Sleep deprivation
6)Extreme Fatigue
7)Blurred Vision
8)Sensations of pain in internal organs
9)Sensations of pain in Backbone, arms, legs, muscles
10)Numbness and tingling, Paresthesias, Loss of sensation
11)Muscle Cramps /Spasms/tension
12)Sudden Headaches
13)Irregular Heartbeat
14)False Heart Attacks
15)Tooth Pain
16)diarrhea.
17)Acute inflammation/autoimmunity reactions
18)autoimmune disorders like Fibromyalgia
19)Urinary tract infections
20)Skin problems and skin irritations
21)Change in growing of hair and nails
22)female problems which eventually lead to hysterectomy
23)Cancer
24)Fevers
25)Flulike Symptoms /Sneezing
26)Dizziness or Loss of Balance
27)Sudden loss of consciousness
28)Benign or Malignant Tumors
29)Sensation of Electric Current Running through the Body
30)Induced Thoughts/telepathic communication, messages
31)Hearing “voices” (reception of auditory acoustic weapon transmissions or similar)
32)Seeing “Holograms”
33)Dream Manipulation
34)Artificial Emotions (induced fear,anger,shame,joy,hate,sadness)
35)Sudden unexpected” Sexual Arousal
36)Genital manipulation
37)Induced Smells
38)Sudden extreme moodswings (depression – euphoria)
39)Induced pleasure-aversion reactions towards people or objects
40)Making you say things (forced speech)
41)General behaviour control in some situations
42)Manipulation of Memory (forgetting/remembering/screen memories)
43)Remote steering of eye movements
44)Remote steering of body movements /motor control
45)Virtual reality experiences while awake

< … >

 

Read full article:

http://peacepink.ning.com/profiles/blogs/some-lawsuits-filed-by

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Eleanor White, Mind Control Forum (Web Site), multistalkervictims.org, November 12, 2009, < http://www.multistalkervictims.org/mcf/ >, <

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/index.htm >.

Quote: < … >  Here below is a diagram showing the visitor how the specific form of electronic harassment called “mind control” fits in with the full crime of OS/EH:

crimehierarchy.17.01.10.3

Special thanks to Ed Light, Vicky Kindhart and others who have shepherded this huge collection of information over the past decade!  < … >

Read full article:

http://www.multistalkervictims.org/mcf/

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/index.htm

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Todd Lewan, Chips: High-tech aids or tools for Big Brother? Debate rages over proliferation of ever-more-precise tracking technologies, msnbc.msn.com, 23.07.2007, < http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19904543/ >.

Quote: (…) Chipping, these critics said, might start with Alzheimer’s patients or Army Rangers, but would eventually be suggested for convicts, then parolees, then sex offenders, then illegal aliens — until one day, a majority of Americans, falling into one category or another, would find themselves electronically tagged. (…)

Video: Alternative to nursing home care?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/19919328#19919328

(…) “Ultimately,” says Katherine Albrecht, a privacy advocate who specializes in consumer education and RFID technology, “the fear is that the government or your employer might someday say, ’Take a chip or starve.”’ (…)

88ab0420-ed2f-4ba7-8cda-85a76b1202ff.grid-6x2(…) Demonstrators prepare to march against microchip implants planned for Alzheimer’s patients, in front of the Alzheimer’s Community Care Headquarters in West Palm Beach, Fla. March organizer Katherine Albrecht, left, said a prayer before starting the march.    (…)

(…) SCAN: Image: http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/ap/88ab0420-ed2f-4ba7-8cda-85a76b1202ff.grid-6×2.jpg in  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19904543/ (…)

‘Surveillance society’
“We’re really on the verge of creating a surveillance society in America, where every movement, every action — some would even claim, our very thoughts — will be tracked, monitored, recorded and correlated,”
says Barry Steinhardt, director of the Technology and Liberty Program at the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C. (…)

Read full article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19904543/

Read full article:

Human-Chipping Presentation, March, Prayer Vigil West Palm Beach, Florida, spychips.com,12.05.2007,

http://www.spychips.com/slideshow-may12/index.html

Read full article:

http://www.spychips.com/

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NOTA BENE!


Heart and Survivors, Mind Control Forum Archives, multistalkervictims.org, 1995 – 2008,

http://www.multistalkervictims.org/mcf/archv-hm.htm

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/archv-hm.htm

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Heart and Survivors, Mind Control Forum, Resources / Other Sites, multistalkervictims.org, 1995 – 2008,

http://www.multistalkervictims.org/mcf/resrc-hm.htm

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/resrc-hm.htm

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Heart and Survivors, Mind Control Forum, Victims’ Accounts, multistalkervictims.org, 1995 – 2008,

http://www.multistalkervictims.org/mcf/victm-hm.htm

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/victm-hm.htm

NOTA BENE!

5.02.2010: Moving the MCF web site files:

 

Mind Control Forum (Web Site),

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/index.htm

 

Mind Control Forum,

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/restofsite.htm

 

Mind Control Forum, Resources / Other Sites,

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/resrc-hm.htm

Victims’ Accounts,

http://www.raven1.net/mcf/victm-hm.htm

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NOTA BENE!

Mindcon, Re: Persoonlijke ervaringen, Infotopic, volksopstand.net, 26.10.2008-7.03.2010, < http://www.volksopstand.net/forum/28-persoonlijke-ervaringen/1694-re-persoonlijke-ervaringen.html >.

PS!: Google Translate, Dutch – English,

http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en#nl|en|

NB! pdf, 16.05.2010,

Infotopic_Re_Persoonlijke_ervaringen.2008_23.03.2010

NB!

Google Translate, Dutch – English,

http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en#nl|en|

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Anatole, STOP BIO-ELECTRONIC/PSYCHOTRONIC TORTURE BRAINMIND/BODY CONTROL/ANNIHILATION ORGANIZED STALKING/TERROR SLAVERY ASSASSINATION WEAPONS!!!, Infotopic, FFCHS Town Hall, Message board for freedomfchs, FFCHS Town Hall Forum Index -> Weapons Technology, freedomfchs.com,  Apr 07, 2007 – Jun 21, 2009,

Page 1, http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563

NOTA BENE!: pdf,

http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563

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http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

NOTA BENE!: pdf,

http://www.freedomfchs.com/ffchsmessages/viewtopic.php?t=563&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

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6.11.2011

Fedame Nederlandstalige site Info Onzichtbare Manipulatie,

http://sites.google.com/site/onzichtbaremanipulatie/Home/contacts/testemonies-ti-s

Quote: (…)  Testemonies Ti’s

Here is the link to our over 820 DIRECTED ENERGY AND NEUROLOGICAL WEAPONS, AND ORGANISED STALKING TORTURE AND ABUSE VICTIMS’ CASE SUMMARIES FOR YOU TO WITNESS, RECORD AND OPPOSE – http://www.freedrive.com/folder/177784 OR  http://www.mydrive.ch username – johnfinch password – TORTURECASES (…)

Read full article:

http://sites.google.com/site/onzichtbaremanipulatie/Home/contacts/testemonies-ti-s

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STOP TORTURE NOW! 

PLEASE HELP THE VICTIMS!

 

Thank you!

Yours sincerely.

Brain Destruction

Dear @Sir, @Madam,

Read more here:

Chris Gourlay, Psychic computer shows your thoughts on screen, The Sunday Times, timesonline.co.uk, November 1, 2009, < http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article6898177.ece >.

Quote: < … >  Scientists have discovered how to “read” minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing — or even remembering. < … >

However, it could also herald a new Big Brother era, similar to that envisaged in the Hollywood film Minority Report, in which an individual’s private thoughts can be readily accessed by the authorities. < … >

Read full article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article6898177.ece

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Jessica Hamzelou, Brain scan reveals who will keep their promises,  Neuron, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.11.017, New Scientist,,  10 December 2009, < http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18266-brain-scan-reveals-who-will-keep-their-promises.html >.

Quote: < … >  The trustees had their brains scanned using fMRI during both runs; they spoke to the investor from inside the scanner via an intercom. < … >

These regions – the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala – are known to be involved in emotion. < … >

Quote: < … > Broken promises. The anterior cingulate cortex is one part of the brain that becomes more active when breaking a promise (Image: Indiana University) < … >

Read full article:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18266-brain-scan-reveals-who-will-keep-their-promises.html

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Brandon Keim, Wireless Brain-to-Computer Connection Synthesizes Speech, WIRED, wired.com, December 9, 2009, < http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/wireless-brain/ >.

Quote: < … > They’re so advanced that some researchers now worry about BCI ethics — what happens when healthy people get them? And they’re concerned about the threat posed by hackers..

But as amazing as these early BCIs are, they’re far from street-ready. Systems based on translating electrical signals captured by electrodes on patients’ scalps are notoriously slow, capable of producing about one word a minute. If researchers put electrodes directly into patients’ brains, the results are better — but that raises the possibility of dangerous infection. And from a purely practical point of view, wires just get in the way.  < … >

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2009/12/wirelessbci-f.jpg

Watch this video:

Video, From Brain to Computer to Sound, youtube.com, 9 december 2009,

Read full article:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/wireless-brain/

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NOTA BENE!


Mindcon, Welcome to the Machines, Infotopic, volksopstand.net, p.1, < http://www.volksopstand.net/forum/27-rfid/1487-welcome-to-the-machines.html >, p.2, < http://www.volksopstand.net/forum/27-rfid/1487-welcome-to-the-machines.html?limit=30&start=30 >.

Mindcon, Welcome to the Machines, Infotopic, volksopstand.net, pdf, 17.03.2010,

Infotopic_Welcome_to_the_Machine.2008.17.03.2010

http://mindcon.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/infotopic_welcome_to_the_machine-2008-17-03-2010.pdf

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Mindcon, Glazen huis … glazen lichaam … glazen brein … ?!, Infotopic, volksopstand.net, <

http://www.volksopstand.net/forum/18-privacy-overheid/1472-glazen-huis–glazen-lichaam–glazen-brein–.html >.

Mindcon, Glazen huis … glazen lichaam … glazen brein … ?!, Infotopic, volksopstand.net, pdf, 01.04.2010,

Google_cache_Glazen_huis_glazen _ichaam_glazen_brein.01.04.2010

http://mindcon.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/google_cache_glazen_huis_glazen-_ichaam_glazen_brein-01-04-2010.pdf

PS!: Google Translate, Dutch – English,

http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en#nl|en|

Thank you!

Yours sincerely.

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2.01.2011,

NOTA BENE!:

Ross, C.A., Ethics of CIA and military contracting by psychiatrists and psychologists, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2007, 9(1), 25-34 in Publishing Technology, ingentaconnect.com,http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/ehpp/2007/00000009/00000001/art00004 >.

Quote: (…) Abstract:

There have been extensive, systematic violations of human rights by American psychiatrists, psychologists, and neurosurgeons throughout the second half of the twentieth century. These violations have occurred at the leading medical schools with funding from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the U.S. military. Experiments have involved brain electrodes, LSD, hypnosis, the creation of Manchurian candidates, the development of biological, chemical, and nonlethal weapons, and the implantation of false memories and creation of amnesia. Many experiments were conducted on unwitting civilians and none involved documented consent, adequate outside review, or representation for the experimental subjects, or any meaningful follow-up. Because such still-classified mind control programs are undoubtedly ongoing, there should be disclosure requirements for psychologists and psychiatrists presenting or publishing in subject areas related to their CIA and military contracts, just as there are for civilians in relationships with drug companies.

Keywords: CIA; MILITARY MIND CONTROL; DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS; ETHICS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1891/152315007780493799

Publication date: 2007-03-01

(…)

Read full article:

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/ehpp/2007/00000009/00000001/art00004

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10.01.2011,

NOTA BENE!

David A. Fahrenthold and Clarence Williams, Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner appears to have posted bizarre messages, Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, 8.01.2011,http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010803961.html?sid=ST2011010802810 >.

Quote: (…) Another, posted Dec. 15, begins with a line of text reading “My Final Thoughts: Jared Lee Loughner!” What follows on the screen are seemingly unconnected thoughts about currency and dreams, and the words “I can’t trust the current government because of the ratifications: the government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.”

The videos also say that Loughner applied to join the U.S. Army. The Army issued a statement Saturday saying that he attempted to enlist but was rejected for reasons that officials would not disclose.  (…)

Read full article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/08/AR2011010803961.html?sid=ST2011010802810

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RICHARD ESPOSITO and LEE FERRAN, Gabrielle Giffords’ Suspected Shooter Identified, ABC News, abcnews.go.com, 8.01.2011, < http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jared-lee-loughner-gabriel-giffords-suspected-shooter-identified/story?id=12572164&page=1 >

Quote: (…) In another video, he accuses the government of mind control via grammar.

“In conclusion, reading the second United States Constitution, I can’t trust the current government because of the ratifications: The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar. No! I won’t pay debt with a currency that’s not backed by gold and silver! No! I won’t trust in God!” it says.  (…)

Read full article:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jared-lee-loughner-gabriel-giffords-suspected-shooter-identified/story?id=12572164&page=2

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Paul Joseph Watson, UPDATED: Arizona Assassin Obsessed With Mind Control, PRISON PLANET.com, prisonplanet.com, 8.01.2011, < http://www.prisonplanet.com/arizona-assassin-obsessed-with-mind-control.html >.

Quote: (…) Jared Loughner, the gunman who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and numerous other victims including a Federal Judge and a nine-year-old girl during a political event in Tucson today, was a US military recruit who was obsessed with mind control, mirroring the circumstances of many other mass shooters in history. (…)

The CIA’s use of mind control to create killers is a matter of historical record. MK-ULTRA was the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence that came to light in 1975 through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti insists that the program is ongoing and has not been abandoned.

Whether or not Jared Lee Loughner acted alone is being investigated by officials. A second suspect in the shootings is still being sought. However, Loughner’s obsession with mind control is confirmed and given the historical connection between such events and the use of Manchurian candidates, nothing can be ruled out at this stage. (…)

Read full article:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/arizona-assassin-obsessed-with-mind-control.html

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Schutter opgedoken op YouTube, De Telegraaf,  telegraaf.nl, 8.01.2011,http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/8687533/__Schutter_opgedoken_op_YouTube__.html >.

Quote: (…) In verwarde boodschappen hekelt hij de Amerikaanse autoriteiten: “Na het lezen van de Amerikaanse grondwet weet ik dat ik de regering niet kan vertrouwen. De overheid heeft controle over onze gedachten en brainwasht ons”, schrijft hij in een van zijn videoboodschappen.  (…)

SCREEN, 9.01.2011, Quote: (…)

Telegraaf.nl.8.01.2011.brainwash

(…)

Read full article:

http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/8687533/__Schutter_opgedoken_op_YouTube__.html

NB!

Google Translate, Dutch – English,

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PAUL KRUGMAN, Climate of Hate, The New York Times, nytimes.com, 9.01.2011,http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/opinion/10krugman.html?ref=politics >.

Quote: (…) It’s true that the shooter in Arizona appears to have been mentally troubled. But that doesn’t mean that his act can or should be treated as an isolated event, having nothing to do with the national climate.

Last spring Politico.com reported on a surge in threats against members of Congress, which were already up by 300 percent. A number of the people making those threats had a history of mental illness — but something about the current state of America has been causing far more disturbed people than before to act out their illness by threatening, or actually engaging in, political violence. (…)

It’s important to be clear here about the nature of our sickness. It’s not a general lack of “civility,” the favorite term of pundits who want to wish away fundamental policy disagreements. Politeness may be a virtue, but there’s a big difference between bad manners and calls, explicit or implicit, for violence; insults aren’t the same as incitement.

The point is that there’s room in a democracy for people who ridicule and denounce those who disagree with them; there isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary.

And it’s the saturation of our political discourse — and especially our airwaves — with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence. (…)

If Arizona promotes some real soul-searching, it could prove a turning point. If it doesn’t, Saturday’s atrocity will be just the beginning. (…)

Read full article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/opinion/10krugman.html?ref=politics

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Suzy Khimm, After Giffords Shooting, Rep. Grijalva Blames Rage-Fueled Political Climate, Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress, motherjones.com,  8.01.2011,http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/grijalva-giffords-shooting-tea-party-palin >.

Quote: (…) Grijalva—who was also the recent target of violent threats—went on to blame the polarized political climate for creating an atmosphere that fueled violence:

We never entered [politics] believing that we were taking our lives in our hands…we’re feeding anger, hatred, and division for quite a while. Maybe it is time for elected officials and leaders in this country that have been feeding that disease to realize that there are consequences to it. I hope people stop and think that we can be opponents, but we don’t have to be deadly enemies…to demonize another person because of a disagreement and to make them expendible is not a democracy, it’s not the America I know. (…)

Read full article:

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/01/grijalva-giffords-shooting-tea-party-palin

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See also:

Brain Destruction (1), January 14, 2010.

CIVILIAN PETITIONS, June 15, 2010.

STOP TORTURE NOW!

PLEASE HELP THE VICTIMS!

Thank you!

Yours sincerely.


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