US officials have issued a health alert in China after a US government employee stationed there reported "abnormal sensations of sound and pressure" that indicated a mild brain injury.
The US State Department is looking into whether the incident is a "sonic attack," a US diplomatic official told CNN, similar to what happened in Cuba in 2016 and 2017, which led to a reduction in staffing at the nation's US embassy in Havana....
Cuban officials previously denied they had anything to do with the diplomats' health problems and said the whole affair might be the result of mass hysteria.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/cubas-sonic-attacks-show-us-just-how-susceptible-our-brains-are-to-mass-hysteria.html
Glad to see it's spreading
By Steven Jiang, Ben Westcott and Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 12:05 PM EDT, Wed May 23, 2018
It appears Pompeo has confirmed that this, too, is made up
b) it's cool that US foreign service are literally going insane publicly, keep it up everyone
6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 8.
dipshit420 posted:7, 2, 2, 5, 4, 9.
6, 4, 5, 5, 4, 8.
gyrofry posted:
Psychotronics explored phenomena such as telepathy , psychokinesis and telegnosis (clairvoyance), whose existence it considered to be proven, and profiled them with the emphasis on their scientific explanations in line with at that time official Marxist-Leninist materialism
machine translated wiki here to get a taste:
lo posted:iirc in some 60s/70s western esp/paranormal books they specifically talk about how the soviets are taking many of the ideas seriously and doing experiments, but im not sure where they got their information from
*the words "they got it from the cia" glitter then morph into "google MK-ULTRA"*
lo posted:iirc in some 60s/70s western esp/paranormal books they specifically talk about how the soviets are taking many of the ideas seriously and doing experiments, but im not sure where they got their information from or the accuracy of it. some ufo stuff from the same time has a similar 'the russians know about this and are much more advanced than us!!' thing going on though so it may have just been cold war paranoia among alternative weirdos.
yeah, i think someone posted about this a few weeks back, MKULTRA came about in large part because rumored Soviet paranormal research was a big serious deal to a lot of government-linked Cold War academics in the West, probably more than it was to the Soviets, at least past a certain point. those Western academics seemed to 100% genuinely believe that people in the USSR/Warsaw Pact supported their governments because of some sort of real, no-fooling telepathic influence from Moscow. many people in the U.S. & UK governments believed it, too. it was easier for them to believe that than it was for them to buy that people wouldn't immediately help overthrow their own country's governments based on the supposed temptation of Western consumer goods.
honestly, i think that overriding U.S./UK theology of black ops/"regime change"/destabilization persisted up until years after the second Iraq warβthat people in modernized countries would jump en masse to support the demolishing of local governance hostile to the United States and immediately integrate themselves into empire based on a relative trickle of development dollars, unless they were forced to do otherwise by some "unnatural" influence. i know when i was in school, black markets for blue jeans in the Soviet Union were still cited seriously in IR as a major symptom of the reasons why the USSR fell apart. it seemed to take, first, the disappearance of the Soviet Union as scapegoat, and, second, a major military defeat by local post-war power centers, to force scholars and officials to understand that the mechanisms of imperialism over time diminish the appeal of the carrots offered to people within new satrapies, and pressure national-bourgeois elements in those satrapies to act in ways that dissatisfy their counterparts in the West.
in Iraq, there were all sorts of problems that came down the pike from previous Western adventures: the existing mass opposition to the presence & actions of Israel's military in its occupied territories, the impossibility of satisfying all of the rival groups that had wanted to depose the Baathists, the futile attempts to rebuild an Iraqi armed forces on a different power base, and so on down the line. but looking back at that "blue jeans" line, what might have been most important was the friction between payola for Western contractors and business for local producers, among a population that could very well remember the level of development under Saddam Hussein and how thoroughly the U.S. had smashed so many of the conveniences and so much of the stability of the past.
the result of the resistance that followed was the sudden resurgence of an extremely old and Cold-War-tarnished idea in influential Western liberal circles, that Islam was a sort of ancient hoodoo mind-bending technique that built people into beings fundamentally and irrevocably opposed to "civilization". that was such a left turn from media relations strategy, designed to support the mujahideen in Afghanistan, friendly Arab monarchies and the like, that the Bush White House couldn't even acknowledge the idea in public, even though everyone knew the people espousing it had greatly influenced the outlook of key members of the administration. it was also a majorly goofy theory to a lot of people who studied Middle East history at a slight remove from Washington, D.C., but most of them knew to shut up for a few years and accept their new wealth of public-speaker gigs rather than call it out immediately.
cars posted:yeah, i think someone posted about this a few weeks back, MKULTRA came about in large part because rumored Soviet paranormal research was a big serious deal to a lot of government-linked Cold War academics in the West, probably more than it was to the Soviets, at least past a certain point. those Western academics seemed to 100% genuinely believe that people in the USSR/Warsaw Pact supported their governments because of some sort of real, no-fooling telepathic influence from Moscow.
It wasn't just the fed either. "Mind control" saturated the western imagination including the flimsy excuse for a left opposition, usually to hilariously depressing effect. There was a serious level of paranoia that fellow dissenters could be secret cops and not even know it themselves, which of course utterly destroys trust and morale making any kind of realistic internal security practices impossible.
On top of that a lot of crackpot fringe political leaders of the time like the trot Michael Vale (who ran the American Deserters Committee into the ground) and Lyndon LaRouche (perennial weird bastard of the National Congress of Labor Committees) had their own proprietary "mind control" techniques, which were nothing but "be a domineering shithead to everyone and you will collect people vulnerable to being bossed around by domineering shitheads" dressed up in cheap psychobabble. Of course once the two crossed paths LaRouche accused Vale of being CIA, which was incorrect, but for all the damage both of them did to the left they might as well have been.
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toyotathon posted:this means amerika/DARPA has developed sonic weapons and is lying here, for precedent for their use, right? saw a week straight in the press coverage of a supposed chinese DNA database and i'm just thinkin, amerika will reduce your felony to a misdemeanor if you give em a blood sample for their archive out here in CA
that "dna database" is actually a free physicals for all program
if i'm not mistaken, a big part of a physical is taking various measurements and samples, of the human body, to make sure you aren't sick.