Shocking Menace of Satellite Surveillance

[just_me]

By John Fleming
08.09.2008 Source: Pravda.Ru URL:
Part I: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106313-Satellite_Surveillance-0 (http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106313-Satellite_Surveillance-0)
Part II: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106328-Satellite_Surveillance-0 (http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106328-Satellite_Surveillance-0)

Unknown to most of the world, satellites can perform astonishing and often menacing feats. This should come as no surprise when one reflects on the massive effort poured into satellite technology since the Soviet satellite Sputnik, launched in 1957, caused panic in the U.S. A spy satellite can monitor a person’s every movement, even when the “target” is indoors or deep in the interior of a building or traveling rapidly down the highway in a car, in any kind of weather (cloudy, rainy, stormy). There is no place to hide on the face of the earth. It takes just three satellites to blanket the world with detection capacity. Besides tracking a person’s every action and relaying the data to a computer screen on earth, amazing powers of satellites include reading a person’s mind, monitoring conversations, manipulating electronic instruments and physically assaulting someone with a laser beam. Remote reading of someone’s mind through satellite technology is quite bizarre, yet it is being done; it is a reality at present, not a chimera from a futuristic dystopia! To those who might disbelieve my description of satellite surveillance, I’d simply cite a tried-and-true Roman proverb: Time reveals all things (tempus omnia revelat)....

Released for public perusal on 5 September 2007 by U.S. Special Operations Command:
The Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (CTTL) system
http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007disrupt/Richardson_Continuous.pdf (http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007disrupt/Richardson_Continuous.pdf)

What can it do?

1. The Ability to Locate, Track, and Identify Human Beings and Other Important Targets
2. Directly Supports DoD’s Ability to Prosecute the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT)
3. Forces Require an Ability to Apply and Monitor Tags
4. Detect and Identify Targets Based on Their Unique Observable Characteristics Without Undue Exposure of Personnel to Risks and With Devices That are Sufficiently Clandestine to be Effective

Stated Approach:

1. Transition Existing State-of-the-Art Technologies in Nanotechnology, Chemistry, and Biology to Operational Systems Through the USSOCOM Acquisition Process and Conduct RDT&E From Basic 2. Research Through Prototyping to Provide Continuous Improvements in the CTTL Technology Available for Transition to the Operators. Specific Capability Projections Are Classified.

Technical Goals:

1. Reduce the Size, Weight, and Power Requirements for Tags and Sensors to Allow Improved Clandestine Operations
2. Introduce New Capabilities for Detecting, Identifying, and Tracking Targets Based on Unique Observables
2.a. Natural Signatures: e.g. Biometrics and Unique Mechanical Defects
2.b. Augmentation of Natural Signatures: e.g. 'Perfumes' and 'Stains'
2.c. Extend the Range
3. Provide New Mechanisms to Deploy, Monitor, and Manage Clandestine Devices with Reduced Exposure of Operational Personnel

Key Enabling Technologies:

Nanotechnology
1. Clandestine Devices
2. High Functional-density Devices
3. Self-organizing, Self-deploying Devices
4. Processing and Communications

Energy Harvesting
1. Biotechnology
2. Biomimetic Devices for Detection and Identification (ID) at Long Distance
3. Bio-based Devices for Detection and ID at Long Distance
4. Taggants for Biological Signature Amplification, Translation
5. Natural Signature Detection and ID

Chemistry
1. Signature Enhancing Taggants
2. Chemical/Biochemical Sensors for Natural Signatures

Human Signature Detection:

Goal: Verification of Capability and Operational Value Within 2 Years

Human Thermal Fingerprint at Long Distance
1. Skin Spectral Emissivities Measured
2. Thermal Fingerprints Determined
3. 'Target' Reacquired 90 Minutes Later

Goal: Demonstration of Fieldable 'Bioelectronics' Within 5 Years

Synthetic Dog’s Nose Sensor
1. Develop sensor systems that directly incorporate cells as sensors to transduce chemical stimuli to externally readable electric outputs
1.a. Biological specificity, sensitivity, and adaptability
2. Develop understanding of constraints and opportunities in cell-based systems
2.a. Sample delivery, cell health, robustness

Signature Amplification/Translation:

Goal: Move Basic Research to Advanced Development in 3 Years

Current Capability/Bioreactive Taggant
Photo of human arm/surface skin reaction

Current Science/Bioengineered Signature Translation
Photo of computer generated signature translation

Nano Nano-scale scale Devices:

Goal: Micro-scale in 12 Months, Nano-scale in 4 to 5 Years
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Twelve months has passed since this information was released.
We need to talk about this... openly. The research has been done right out in the open and information about it is still available if you know where to go to find it. Much of the advancements are the result of Reagan's Star Wars Initiative. I.e., remember the program of which he proposed in a Presidential Debate to give the results to Russia?

The threat isn't going away and John Fleming did not exaggerate in the article quoted above. Technologists on the receiving end of the information acquired through this technology can know which way you wipe your arse. *wink*

[just_me]

The following ties in with this discussion topic. However irrelevant it may seem at first, the subjects are interconnected.

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=225191

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=225191&page=2

Peace.

[just_me]

...I'll provide some links for you which I hope you will pursue in your own research and, perhaps, we can share insights.

The following links are all within the U.S. Air Force, Air University, Cyberspace & Information Operations Study Center:

Home Page:
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/index.htm

Research and Theory
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/theory.htm

Cyberwar, Cyberspace, and Cyber Security
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/cyberspace.htm

Perception Warfare
http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/perception.htm

Semiotic Fundamentals of Information Processing in the Human Brain
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/afrl/perlovsky.pdf

An article from the Air & Space Power Journal entitled, Legal and Practical Constraints on Information Warfare:
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/cc/kuschner.html

Here's a quote from the above:
"In this same era, as armed forces became increasingly dependent on advanced technology and information systems, careful planners began to think about protecting them. Simultaneously, others realized that attacking the enemy's systems might yield great advantage. In the 1980s, these ideas gave birth to the concept of Command and Control Countermeasures, and, at the end of that decade, Command and Control Warfare. During that same period, a broad range of technology-much of it highly classified-was evaluated for its ability to directly affect the enemy's information flow and degrade his ability to react. All these technologies are now considered to be a part of the concept of "information warfare."2

The term "information warfare" has thus caught the attention of an entire generation of military thinkers. While the term encompasses both offensive and defensive measures, much of the imaginative thinking has concerned attacks on an enemy's command and control and information systems-using methods as diverse as computer viruses and laser beams. Much of this thought goes into understanding the possibilities-and maximizing the effects-of high technology in information warfare. Here is an example: Let's consider the consequences if the following systems were targeted.... for disablement: financial markets, nuclear power plants, telephone systems, power distribution systems, traffic lights, or air traffic control and airline reservations systems.3

"The ability to destroy precisely and completely the enemy's command and control system, and the ability to attack his information infrastructure, will bring new questions to the minds of the operational commander. The question of "what can I do" with information weaponry already has a chorus of answers, and will find no shortage of additional ones in the near future. Perhaps a more important question, and one that is only recently receiving the attention it deserves, is: "when shouldn't I use" these high-technology weapons?

"If there is something which history teaches about new weapons or methods of warfare, it is that they will often encounter unforeseen limitations in their use...."

The author goes on to discuss the legal requirements of the use of these weapons; however, those cautions do not apply during a time of war and Bush's War on Terror essentially nullifies legal concerns.

Of course, the above is just an introduction. I also want to give you the link to the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command:
http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil/

U.S. Strategic Command (founded after 9/11):
http://www.stratcom.mil/

formerly U.S. Space Command:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/agency/usspacecom.htm

The Air Force and Army also have Space War sites.

It's nice to know that visitors are welcome at these sites. *smile*

[kaksteen]

Joke

Idiots cant even deal with common weather and man made disasters.Never mind their garbatech.

And talking about weather 3 days at the most they have been able to predict weather.Clear skyes only.Clouds can deal some major problems to satellites.

[just_me]

Joke

Idiots...

First you're ridiculed, right? It's predictable. I've maintained my integrity. What you've done is to give an example of Jesus' admonition, "Those with eyes see. Those with ears hear." In other words, you are personally not ready. However devastating the topic may be, nonetheless, awareness of these technologies may be your best protection against them.

I would not call those involved with the research and development of these technologies "Idiots." And, I do not call the topic a "Joke." At one time, these cats were my heroes. That was when I still believed in the founding Ideals of America and thought that I could fight (a hearts and minds war) to preserve them.

The Internet Archive has stored pages from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) going back to 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://darpa.mil

Try following some of the links, esp. those prior to 11 Sep 2001. This research has been going on for quite some time.

The Total Information Awareness Project is within those links.

http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/darpa_iao_seal.jpg

When I have time, I'll try to find it and post a direct link to it. But, it would be better if readers would take the time to find it themselves. The courage required builds character. *wink*

Peace.

[telly2]

Whilst I have no doubt that satellite surveillance can do amazing things I don't think it can read minds and locate people deep inside buildings (unless they are wearing a pager or cellphone). If this were the case Osama Bin Laden would already be Osama Bin Toast.

[fu2]

Whilst I have no doubt that satellite surveillance can do amazing things I don't think it can read minds and locate people deep inside buildings (unless they are wearing a pager or cellphone). If this were the case Osama Bin Laden would already be Osama Bin Toast.


Actually the wood material used to built the yankistani houses is transparent for mm lenght microwaves, so it is possible to detect from a distance for presence of any warm objects inside the house. Naturaly the resolution due to long wavelengths is not good enough to tell between a dog and a human, and this don't work on a brick houses.

Regardin trace of cellphones, no satellite is necessary to do the job (except fo long distance communications) - the cellphones position is triangulated by the celltowers and the data is available even if the cellphone is turned off, as the italisn special services used to trace the braindead CIA agents involved in abduction of suspected islamists in the country, because the CIA morons forget to completly shutt down their cellphones by removing the battery :lol:

So obviously Obama is a lot smarter than the braindead CIA retrds, whi are supposed to capture him, if his family friend Bush have no fvcken idea where on the world is Karmen San Diego, heh, heh, heh :lafn:

[Ajax]

Actually the wood material used to built the yankistani houses is transparent for mm lenght microwaves, so it is possible to detect from a distance for presence of any warm objects inside the house. Naturaly the resolution due to long wavelengths is not good enough to tell between a dog and a human, and this don't work on a brick houses.

Regardin trace of cellphones, no satellite is necessary to do the job (except fo long distance communications) - the cellphones position is triangulated by the celltowers and the data is available even if the cellphone is turned off, as the italisn special services used to trace the braindead CIA agents involved in abduction of suspected islamists in the country, because the CIA morons forget to completly shutt down their cellphones by removing the battery :lol:

So obviously Obama is a lot smarter than the braindead CIA retrds, whi are supposed to capture him, if his family friend Bush have no fvcken idea where on the world is Karmen San Diego, heh, heh, heh :lafn:

Heh, heh, heh. Plus high school phyiscs tells us that a simple practical Faraday cage i.e. elevator can combat high freq aka microwave signals. A nicely bar reinforced concrete building can resist even EMP-based equipment i.e weaponry.
Thermal scan can hardly get beyond surface temperatures. Aerial thermal scan can make only external i.e. building, water pipe network or general infrastructure profile and very difficult to look inside.

[Ajax]

"...amazing powers of satellites include reading a person’s mind''
Seriously doubt it. Bet they have to employ Pattern Recognition systems i.e. Neural Networks (brain model systems) to do it. Yet these have to be trained on BILLIONS of example cases i.e. mind thoughts (brain EM emissions) :wonder:which have to TRAIN the system on its initial phase to do it, speak by PERSONAL experience. In the real deployment case, when system is presented with UNSEEN BEFORE case will fail by misclassifying it - period. Artificial Intelligence is DEFINITELY BOOMING but feel has long way to go to achieve these goals you mentioned IN REAL WORLD PROBLEMS i.e. outside lab conditions.

[just_me]

Okay. Close your minds. Believe what you will.

The one thing I will take issue with is the general tendency among posters to criticize Americans for being blind to what their government has been and is doing in their names.

This is one American to whom that criticism DOES NOT APPLY!

I've been trying for nine years to open peoples' eyes while I've been opening my own.

I don't know if the satellite technology, star wars initiative inspired techologies, have advanced to the levels claimed. It would be nice to learn together with someone.

I've often wondered about Osama bin Laden relative to the rise of the machines. *smile* But, if it's true that there is U.S. government/corporate/multinationist complicity in 9/11, then bin Laden is a non-issue. I recall reading a quote from Bush where he said (paraphrased) that he didn't really care if bin Laden was found. He got his war in Iraq. He got the corporate conquest of the U.S. of A..

Truth be known, most of the people whose attention I've tried to attract to this information admit that they would believe in aliens and UFO's before they would believe in contemporary advancements in science being used militarily.

Myths are effective devices to control peoples' choices of what to believe.

And, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

So long.

Peace.

[Ajax]

Okay. Close your minds. Believe what you will.

TERMINATOR - Rise of the machines's nice movie, but that's all to it.:lol: I would take it that you studied Electronics Engineering but proved wrong. You also seem to neglect the HUMAN FACTOR (that fu2 implied): No matter how cutting-edge system you've got there's always gonna be a HUMAN OPERATOR TO TAKE DECISIONS on the i.e. Neural Net verdict. So it's still prone to FATAL ERRORS. Bye bye.

[just_me]

Since this thread:

Shocking Menace of Satellite Surveillance

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=226270

...and this thread:

On the Soul - Digital Physics

http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=225191

...appear on the first and second pages of a Google Search on this subject:

Continuous Clandestine Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (CTTL) system

http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007disrupt/Richardson_Continuous.pdf

...it's important to keep this discussion going, even if I'm talking to myself.

"...amazing powers of satellites include reading a person’s mind''
Seriously doubt it. Bet they have to employ Pattern Recognition systems i.e. Neural Networks (brain model systems) to do it. Yet these have to be trained on BILLIONS of example cases i.e. mind thoughts (brain EM emissions) which have to TRAIN the system on its initial phase to do it, speak by PERSONAL experience.

Ajax, your emphasis on "PERSONAL experience" indicates that you may be party to research in the area of 'mind reading'. If you have suffient knowledge to truly support your claims, then your research is classified (i.e., Top Secret, Q-level or above), in which case, I sure hope you haven't lost your security clearance in the process of defending your ego.

I would take it that you studied Electronics Engineering but proved wrong.

I actually studied French in conjunction with a Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential at U.C. Berkeley. I didn't finish my degree; but, I learned how to learn. And, I've studied across many fields... enough to paint a picture of where this kind of research is heading.

I am most gifted in philosophy/metaphysics, to include religion as a subcategory.

It seems odd to me that, of all the information I've provided within the above two threads and accompanying links, the strawman raised against probing further is that mind-reading from the distance of a satellite is impossible.

From the time I was a small child (i.e., 51 years old now), I've believed in an intelligence greater than my own. Through that process, I've developed a conscience. Consequently, the potential that my thoughts might be read through technology is the least of my worries [except to the extent that to create a PostHuman Virtual Simulation of our world, it is necessary to mimick PHI, i.e., a mind/brain state to which few humans attain:

"For the sake of being definite, we will call the standard computer that runs all simulations 'Phi'."

-Ed Fredkin quote from On the Soul (Digital Philosophy)

http://web.archive.org/web/20041208114550/digitalphilosophy.org/
download_documents/on_the_soul.pdf (http://web.archive.org/web/20041208114550/digitalphilosophy.org/download_documents/on_the_soul.pdf)

IBM Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global-Scale Computer

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/kittyhawk.index.html

http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/kittyhawk.index.html/$FILE/Kittyhawk%20OSR%2008.pdf

Ed Fredkin talk at IBM, Five Big Questions:

http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/481/fredkin.html

In the microcosm of classified research, only a handful of people hold all the cards of the macrocosmic purpose behind the development of research results. Although I may be getting ahead of myself and esp. of those reading who are new to these issues, here are a few of my questions:

1. Is the PostHuman Singularity the goal of this research?

2. Is the PostHuman Singularity a myth, conspired by those holding all the cards, to inspire those who would do the actual microcosmic work towards the ultimate macrocosmic purpose?

3. Given the state of the world, the obvious abuse of power and authority on the part of world leaders, the apparent impending collapse/restructuring of world economies, etc., ad nauseum, is there any
reason to trust the guidance of so called 'experts' with regard to the direction of this research?

4. I would like to know the percentage of the general public who is aware that this PostHuman research is taking place. Because it is obvious to me that the great majority is being left out of a race toward what might very well be termed, The Completion of the Fall of Man.

It is the way they are going about it, stupid!

...to be continued.

[just_me]

Human Signature Detection:

Goal: Verification of Capability and Operational Value Within 2 Years

Army Research Laboratory
Adelphi, MD 20783-1197

ARL-TR-4403 March 2008

Validation of Xpatch Computer Models for Human Body Radar Signature

http://www.arl.army.mil/arlreports/2008/ARL-TR-4403.pdf

Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, ARL

Approved for public release; distribution unlimited.

14. ABSTRACT

This technical report compares the radar signatures of a human body as computed by the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) and Xpatch modeling techniques. Our main purpose is to validate the Xpatch (approximate) models with an exact electromagnetic solver (FDTD). We achieve this by comparing the radar cross section (RCS), range profiles and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the human body, as computed by the two methods. This work is important in validating Xpatch as an accurate tool for modeling general STTW radar scenarios, where a major goal consists in detecting and identifying humans enclosed in building structures.

Acknowledgments

This study was partially funded by the Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate (I2WD) at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. The synthetic aperture radar images in section 3.4 were created by Lam
Nguyen.
-----------------------------------------------

Given that I2WD has partially funded the above research and, given that this report has been released to the public, release of this information may be the U.S. Army Research Lab's propogandistic way of hiding failure to achieve success which would call into question the Lab's further qualification to receive public/taxpayer funds for continued research.

On the other hand, the released report could portray genuine research findings while the release process itself could be used to gauge public interest/outrage.

In the context of the global economic crisis, either scenario could be justified from DOD point of view, esp. since the U.S. Defense Department Budget has contributed mightily to America's multi-trillion dollar National Debt.

If enough citizens were to catch onto how their tax money is being spent by the DOD, they could actually force Congress to drastically reduce military spending and initiate an open public debate on the furtherance of these technologies.

[just_me]

I can imagine all sorts of abuses for this kind of technology, not the least of which is a clear violation of an American's Fourth Amendment "right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures... and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Of course the "Future Attribute Screening Technology," aka "FAST" system or MALINTENT, doesn't actually 'read your mind' as the article title portrays in the way you might imagine mind reading would be done. But, if you follow the link below, there are graphics that depict how the system works.

Way back when Americans used to have a choice as to whether or not to wear a seatbelt, I recall that those in favor of legislation that would require seatbelts to be worn had assured those who were against limiting a driver's freedom of choice that a driver would never be targeted solely for failure to buckle-up. I've lived to see that assurance evaporate such that in some American states, a driver can be stopped, cited, and fined as much as $95 for failure to wear a seatbelt.

Another example goes back to the 1970's and early days of cable television. Because we had to pay for cable television, advertising on cable channels was prohibited. Now, digital t.v. is set to replace free t.v. and, on top of that, cable channels are filled with countless hours of advertising.

So, I'm curious to know how long it will be before current assurances are dissolved like the others: "DHS says this is not Big Brother. Once you are through the FAST portal, your scrutiny is over and records aren't kept. 'Your data is dumped', said Burns. 'The information is not maintained — it doesn't track who you are'."

What on Earth could ever justify these means?

My hunch is that once there's a computer large enough to store the information, the information will be stored. The direction emerging technologies are taking reminds me of the 1970's move, Logan's Run where population control is of primary concern...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Logan%27s+Run&btnG=Google+Search

...not a happy future, indeed.

Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind
Tuesday , September 23, 2008
By Allison Barrie

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.

Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.

MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security's directorate for Science and Technology, searches your body for non-verbal cues that predict whether you mean harm to your fellow passengers.

It has a series of sensors and imagers that read your body temperature, heart rate and respiration for unconscious tells invisible to the naked eye — signals terrorists and criminals may display in advance of an attack....

...As cold and inhuman as the electric eye may be, DHS says scanners are unbiased and nonjudgmental. "It does not predict who you are and make a judgment, it only provides an assessment in situations," said Burns. "It analyzes you against baseline stats when you walk in the door, it measures reactions and variations when you approach and go through the portal."

But the testing — and the device itself — are not without their problems. This invasive scanner, which catalogues your vital signs for non-medical reasons, seems like an uninvited doctor's exam and raises many privacy issues.

But DHS says this is not Big Brother. Once you are through the FAST portal, your scrutiny is over and records aren't kept. "Your data is dumped," said Burns. "The information is not maintained — it doesn't track who you are."

DHS is now planning an even wider array of screening technology, including an eye scanner next year and pheromone-reading technology by 2010.

The team will also be adding equipment that reads body movements, called "illustrative and emblem cues." According to Burns, this is achievable because people "move in reaction to what they are thinking, more or less based on the context of the situation."

FAST may also incorporate biological, radiological and explosive detection, but for now the primary focus is on identifying and isolating potential human threats.

And because FAST is a mobile screening laboratory, it could be set up at entrances to stadiums, malls and in airports, making it ever more difficult for terrorists to live and work among us.

Burns noted his team's goal is to "restore a sense of freedom." Once MALINTENT is rolled out in airports, it could give us a future where we can once again wander onto planes with super-sized cosmetics and all the bottles of water we can carry — and most importantly without that sense of foreboding that has haunted Americans since Sept. 11.

© Associated Press. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Copyright 2008 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

[just_me]

Anyone familiar with Operant Conditioning understands that it takes time to recondition/rehabituate people to accept/perform new ways. This article and the one above it, also from Fox, is an example of the Operant Conditioning process at play.

Human Energy Harvesting:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ng&btnG=Search

Energy Harvesting Forum:

http://www.energyharvesting.net/

Thermo Life Energy Corp. (a subsidiary of Digital Angel):

http://www.poweredbythermolife.com/

Recharge: American Troops May Become Their Own Batteries
Friday , July 11, 2008
By Allison Barrie

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,380602,00.html

...Lockheed Martin, "plans to turn a soldier's body armor into a power source, making the armor rechargeable and its total weight minuscule...."

...With the race to solve the power puzzle, the folks at Lockheed aren't the only ones who see a future in rechargeable technology.

Scientists at Georgia Tech have created a wearable power source they call the "power shirt," a device packed with nanowires that could harness the body's kinetic motion, even down to the flow of blood beneath the skin.

Tiny wires attach to fibers in the shirt and tap into a soldier's body movement, combining the electrical flow from many fiber pairs woven together. It could generate enough electricity to power a range of small electronic devices.

More than just shirts could become power sources; by weaving the fibers into other materials, Kevlar jackets and even tents could utilize the technology to draw energy from sound vibrations or wind motion....

© Associated Press. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Copyright 2008 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

[bruce]

Sounds a lot like the matrix ...in nanotech they have cameras as small as dust and can go anyplace .And as far as weather goes they can do that too using Harp here ,and other names in other places.Tesla did earth Quakes in New York all the time.Maybe nobody is really looking for OBL...

[just_me]

Whole-heartedly fascist and entirely un-American in character, the Shock & Awe: Rapid Dominance Doctrine lays out a plan to make Iraq a test case for an ever expanding Theater of Operations. The same tactics were and are being used to justify 'Perpetual War' to and against the public. The all-encompassing War on Terror provides the context in which the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) has become possible.

To quote from George Bush, in a speech given 12 December, 2001, at the Citadel (military school):

http://web.archive.org/web/20061002232243/www.jinsa.org/
articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1082/documentid/
1337/history/3,2360,656,1082,1337 (http://web.archive.org/web/20061002232243/www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/1082/documentid/1337/history/3,2360,656,1082,1337)

"The authors of mass murder must be defeated and never allowed to gain or use the weapons of mass destruction...."

"...We are fighting shadowy, entrenched enemies, enemies using the tools of terror and guerrilla war. Yet we are finding new tactics and new weapons to attack and defeat them. This revolution in our military is only beginning, and it promises to change the face of battle. Afghanistan has been a proving ground for this new approach...."

The Origin of ‘Shock & Awe’
U.S. ‘Hyperwar’ Doctrine Laid Out in 1996 Study Co-Authored by
Jewish Institute for National Security, aka JINSA, Advisor

http://web.archive.org/web/20051026225646/http://www.jinsa.org/
articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/140/documentid/
1945/history/3,645,140,1945 (http://web.archive.org/web/20051026225646/http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/140/documentid/1945/history/3,645,140,1945)

Excerpts:

"The aim of Rapid Dominance is to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fit or respond to our strategic policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe. Clearly, the traditional military aim of destroying, defeating, or neutralizing the adversary’s military capability is a fundamental and necessary component of Rapid Dominance. Our intent, however, is to field a range of capabilities to induce sufficient Shock and Awe to render the adversary impotent. This means that physical and psychological effects must be obtained.

"Rapid Dominance would therefore provide the ability to control, on an immediate basis, the entire region of operational interest and the environment, broadly defined, in and around that area of interest. Beyond achieving decisive force and dominant battlefield awareness, we envisage Rapid Dominance producing a capability that can more effectively and efficiently achieve the stated political [ed. i.e., fascist economic] or military objectives underwriting the use of force by rendering the adversary completely impotent.

"In Rapid Dominance, 'rapid' means the ability to move quickly before an adversary can react. This notion of rapidity applies throughout the spectrum of combat from pre-conflict deployment to all stages of battle and conflict resolution.

"'Dominance' means the ability to affect and dominate an adversary’s will both physically and psychologically. Physical dominance includes the ability to destroy, disarm, disrupt, neutralize, and to render impotent. Psychological dominance means the ability to destroy, defeat, and neuter the will of an adversary to resist; or convince the adversary to accept our terms and aims short of using force. The target is the adversary’s will, perception, and understanding. The principal mechanism for achieving this dominance is through imposing sufficient conditions of “Shock and Awe” on the adversary to convince or compel it to accept our strategic aims and military objectives. Clearly, deception, confusion, misinformation, and disinformation, perhaps in massive amounts, must be employed.

"The key objective of Rapid Dominance is to impose this overwhelming level of Shock and Awe against an adversary on an immediate or sufficiently timely basis to paralyze its will to carry on. In crude terms, Rapid Dominance would seize control of the environment and paralyze or so overload an adversary’s perceptions and understanding of events that the enemy would be incapable of resistance at tactical and strategic levels. An adversary would be rendered totally impotent and vulnerable to our actions. To the degree that non-lethal weaponry is useful, it would be incorporated in the ability to Shock and Awe and achieve Rapid Dominance."

"...Can Rapid Dominance produce a force structure with more effective capacity to deal with grey areas such as OOTW [Operations Other Than War]?"

"...Suppose a Desert Storm-type campaign were fought 20 years from now based on a plan that exploited the concept of Rapid Dominance. Further assume that Iraq has improved (and rebuilt) its military and that, in a series of simultaneous and nearly instantaneous actions, our primary objective was still to shut Iraq down, threaten or destroy its leadership, and isolate and destroy its military forces as we did in 1991. However, two decades hence, Rapid Dominance might conceivably achieve this objective in a matter of days (or perhaps hours) and not after the 6 months or the 500,000 troops that were required in 1990 to 1991. Rapid Dominance may even offer the prospect of stopping an invasion in its tracks.

"Shutting the country down would entail both the physical destruction of appropriate infrastructure and the shutdown and control of the flow of all vital information and associated commerce so rapidly as to achieve a level of national shock akin to the effect that dropping nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on the Japanese. (ed. If I recall correctly, Cheney was recently quoted as saying that our country was currently involved in/committed to a program he equated with the Manhattan Project.) Simultaneously, Iraq’s armed forces would be paralyzed with the neutralization or destruction of its capabilities. Deception, disinformation, and misinformation would be applied massively."

"...To develop the proper combination of forces and future technology investment for Rapid Dominance, extensive experimentation with this core concept will be required. This experimentation must apply to all levels of military educational institutions; it must be joint; it can be accelerated by availability of recent advances in simulation technology; and it must have operational trials in the field."

"...Control is defined in the broadest sense: physical control of the land, air, sea, and space and control of the 'ether' in which information is passed and received. This requires signature management throughout the full conflict spectrum—deception, disinformation, verification, information control, and target management—all with rapidity in both physical and psychological impact. By depriving an adversary of the physical use of time, space, and the ether, we play on the adversary’s will and offer the prospect of certain destruction should resistance follow."

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George Bush is a Skull and Bones-man and, according to the credible Anthony Sutton, Skull and Bones-men are followers of Hegel, i.e., Thesis/Antithesis/Synthesis culminating in the End of History, a utopian dream of a golden age. The success of communist USSR was supposed to prove the Synthesis. But, what I see operating in the world is Socialism/Communism/Captialism, culminating in Fascism, with the End of History being the PostHuman Singularity, utopian or dystopian, dependent upon your position on the economic heap.

Ironically, it does not require intelligence to become wealthy, esp. where money/property is inherited. On the other hand, there are those whose intangible values are such that they have chosen not to pursue material wealth because they understand a life of excessive materialism as superficial vanity, e.g., Sarah Palin.

Hegel's philosophy is exercised by the wealthy (i.e., statists, where Reason is God, the State is Absolute) to promote an unjust, insane solution to global problems that, as monopolists, they, themselves, have created.

How many today will sacrifice their wealth to save their souls?

Is that what the technologists behind PostHumanism and the Singularity believe they are doing?

Are they correct?

Is a computer generated likeness of me, me?

[just_me]

Sounds a lot like the matrix...

In the case of Hollywood movies, life mirrors art. I remember several years back Paramount Pictures offered a VCR collection of movies under the sales pitch, "The movies that shaped our lives."

...in nanotech they have cameras as small as dust and can go anyplace.

In Engines of Creation, The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Chapter 11, Engines of Destruction (http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Chapter_11.html), Eric Drexler writes:

"Despite their potential as engines of destruction, nanotechnology and AI systems will lend themselves to more subtle uses than do nuclear weapons. A bomb can only blast things, but nanomachines and AI systems could be used to infiltrate, seize, change, and govern a territory or a world. Even the most ruthless police have no use for nuclear weapons, but they do have use for bugs, drugs, assassins, and other flexible engines of power. With advanced technology, states will be able to consolidate their power over people.

"...States could become more like organisms by dominating their parts more completely. Using replicating assemblers, states could fill the human environment with miniature surveillance devices. Using an abundance of speech-understanding AI systems, they could listen to everyone without employing half the population as listeners. Using nanotechnology like that proposed for cell repair machines, they could cheaply tranquilize, lobotomize, or otherwise modify entire populations. This would simply extend an all too familiar pattern. The world already holds governments that spy, torture, and drug; advanced technology will merely extend the possibilities."

And as far as weather goes they can do that too using Harp here ,and other names in other places.Tesla did earth Quakes in New York all the time.

Maybe you could enlighten us more about those technologies? I am familiar with HAARP and scalar magnetics but getting my mind around all this is somewhat overwhelming. I would appreciate some help.

Maybe nobody is really looking for OBL...

Well, why hasn't he been found?

And, why is George Bush passed off as a hero when it was under his command that America was attacked?

Unless, of course, Rapid Dominance was waiting in the wings, just like the Patriot Act.

Peace.

[a sheep]

). If this were the case Osama Bin Laden would already be Osama Bin Toast.


He has been dead since 2002

[Mandrake]

Vaccines are the delivery vehicle to insert nano chips and robotics into your bodies. When you have surgery in state run hospitals, doctors put things in you.

The governments transmit subliminal messages through electrical wiring in your house or apartment.

Toshiba uses microwave technology to make you do things.

[Mandrake]

Vaccines are the delivery vehicle to insert nano chips and robotics into your bodies. When you have surgery in state run hospitals, doctors put things in you.

The governments transmit subliminal messages through electrical wiring in your house or apartment.

Toshiba uses microwave technology to make you do things.

I loined all dis on Pravda.:lol:

[just_me]

When I was a child, I was taught that altering DNA was the sort of science that Hitler's cohorts pursued. If it were possible to alter DNA to eliminate suffering, might it be possible to alter DNA to remove any memory of our ancestory, such that we might forget the values and ideals of freedom, e.g., those enshrined in the Declaration of Independence?

What kind of people would want to rule over that?

At one time, the FreeMasons were enemies of Hitler:

http://www.grandlodgescotland.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=50&Itemid=126

Rosicrucianism and FreeMasonry were two branches of the same perennial/esoteric tradition during the Rennaisance of which the Masters are few:

http://www.crcsite.org/intromono.htm

"...if you don't have the key which is only presented through initiation, all you will have (assuming you manage to find the authentic documents) are some 'pretty' symbolical drawings, a lot of allegorical references, and more than a few alchemical explanations. All of which are insightful and may lead to rare initiation if they are meditated upon ... but by themselves, serve more to launch an endless array of academic speculations and meaningless interpretations that accomplish little more than debates for the sake of debating."

Am I just too old school, Old Europe, Old Rosie Qveene (http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/elizabeth_rose.jpg), to think that the key to Eternal Life is through hard Work (The Great Work) with my own Mind (http://www-physics.lbl.gov/~stapp/stappfiles.html) as the vehicle to carry me to the Other Side (http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/pentagram.jpg)?

I'm not afraid of Death.

[just_me]

http://www.bltc.com/

BLTC RESEARCH was founded in 1995 to promote paradise-engineering. We are dedicated to an ambitious global technology project. BLTC seek to abolish the biological substrates of suffering. Not just in humans, but in all sentient life.

Absurdly fanciful? No. The blueprint for a Post-Darwinian Transition to a cruelty-free world is conceptually simple, technically feasible and morally urgent.

At present, life on earth is controlled by self-replicating DNA. Selfish genes ensure that pain and malaise are endemic to the living world.

Yet all traditional religions, all social and economic ideologies, and all political parties, are alike in one respect. They ignore the biochemical roots of our ill-being. So the noisy trivia of party politics distract us from what needs to be done.

Fortunately, the old Darwinian order - driven by blind natural selection acting on random genetic mutations - is destined to pass into evolutionary history.

For third-millennium bioscience allows us to:

rewrite the vertebrate genome
redesign the global ecosystem
deliver genetically pre-programmed well-being

In the new reproductive era ahead, biotechnology will make us smarter, happier and just possibly nicer. Post-Darwinian superminds can abolish "physical" and "mental" pain altogether.

The ethical importance of the decisions we take can scarcely be exaggerated. For soon we'll be forced to choose how much suffering in the living world we want to conserve and create. Or we can choose instead to abolish suffering completely.

Life on earth can be animated by gradients of ecstatic well-being beyond the bounds of normal human experience.

In the end, the greatest obstacles to lifelong superhealth and a cruelty-free world may prove ideological, not technical. BLTC RESEARCH campaign to promote paradise-engineering as a rigorous academic discipline and a mature applied science.

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What is the meaning of happiness if there is no sorrow?

If Perfect Mind is both happy and sad, what will it mean to eliminate half of the equation?

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html

I was sent forth from the power,
and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
and I have been found among those who seek after me.
Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
and you hearers, hear me.
You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.
And do not banish me from your sight.
And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.
Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time. Be on your guard!
Do not be ignorant of me.
For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am <the mother> and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren one
and many are her sons.
I am she whose wedding is great,
and I have not taken a husband.
I am the midwife and she who does not bear.
I am the solace of my labor pains.
I am the bride and the bridegroom,
and it is my husband who begot me.
I am the mother of my father
and the sister of my husband
and he is my offspring.
I am the slave of him who prepared me.
I am the ruler of my offspring.
But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday.
And he is my offspring in (due) time,
and my power is from him.
I am the staff of his power in his youth,
and he is the rod of my old age.
And whatever he wills happens to me.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
and the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am the utterance of my name.
Why, you who hate me, do you love me,
and hate those who love me?
You who deny me, confess me,
and you who confess me, deny me.
You who tell the truth about me, lie about me,
and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me.
You who know me, be ignorant of me,
and those who have not known me, let them know me.
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
Give heed to me.
I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.
Give heed to my poverty and my wealth.
Do not be arrogant to me when I am cast out upon the earth,
and you will find me in those that are to come.
And do not look upon me on the dung-heap
nor go and leave me cast out,
and you will find me in the kingdoms.
And do not look upon me when I am cast out among those who
are disgraced and in the least places,
nor laugh at me.
And do not cast me out among those who are slain in violence.
But I, I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Be on your guard!
Do not hate my obedience
and do not love my self-control.
In my weakness, do not forsake me,
and do not be afraid of my power.
For why do you despise my fear
and curse my pride?
But I am she who exists in all fears
and strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
and I am well in a pleasant place.
I am senseless and I am wise.
Why have you hated me in your counsels?
For I shall be silent among those who are silent,
and I shall appear and speak,
Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?
Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?
For I am the wisdom of the Greeks
and the knowledge of the barbarians.
I am the judgement of the Greeks and of the barbarians.
I am the one whose image is great in Egypt
and the one who has no image among the barbarians.
I am the one who has been hated everywhere
and who has been loved everywhere.
I am the one whom they call Life,
and you have called Death.
I am the one whom they call Law,
and you have called Lawlessness.
I am the one whom you have pursued,
and I am the one whom you have seized.
I am the one whom you have scattered,
and you have gathered me together.
I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,
and you have been shameless to me.
I am she who does not keep festival,
and I am she whose festivals are many.
I, I am godless,
and I am the one whose God is great.
I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
and you have scorned me.
I am unlearned,
and they learn from me.
I am the one that you have despised,
and you reflect upon me.
I am the one whom you have hidden from,
and you appear to me.
But whenever you hide yourselves,
I myself will appear.
For whenever you appear,
I myself will hide from you.
Those who have [...] to it [...] senselessly [...].
Take me [... understanding] from grief.
and take me to yourselves from understanding and grief.
And take me to yourselves from places that are ugly and in ruin,
and rob from those which are good even though in ugliness.
Out of shame, take me to yourselves shamelessly;
and out of shamelessness and shame,
upbraid my members in yourselves.
And come forward to me, you who know me
and you who know my members,
and establish the great ones among the small first creatures.
Come forward to childhood,
and do not despise it because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallnesses,
for the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses.
Why do you curse me and honor me?
You have wounded and you have had mercy.
Do not separate me from the first ones whom you have known.
And do not cast anyone out nor turn anyone away
[...] turn you away and [... know] him not.
[...].
What is mine [...].
I know the first ones and those after them know me.
But I am the mind of [...] and the rest of [...].
I am the knowledge of my inquiry,
and the finding of those who seek after me,
and the command of those who ask of me,
and the power of the powers in my knowledge
of the angels, who have been sent at my word,
and of gods in their seasons by my counsel,
and of spirits of every man who exists with me,
and of women who dwell within me.
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
and who is despised scornfully.
I am peace,
and war has come because of me.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me,
and those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.
Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,
and those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me.
On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me,
and on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you.
[I am ...] within.
[I am ...] of the natures.
I am [...] of the creation of the spirits.
[...] request of the souls.
I am control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
I am the abiding and I am the dissolution.
I am the one below,
and they come up to me.
I am the judgment and the acquittal.
I, I am sinless,
and the root of sin derives from me.
I am lust in (outward) appearance,
and interior self-control exists within me.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am a mute who does not speak,
and great is my multitude of words.
Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.
I am she who cries out,
and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.
I prepare the bread and my mind within.
I am the knowledge of my name.
I am the one who cries out,
and I listen.
I appear and [...] walk in [...] seal of my [...].
I am [...] the defense [...].
I am the one who is called Truth
and iniquity [...].
You honor me [...] and you whisper against me.
You who are vanquished, judge them (who vanquish you)
before they give judgment against you,
because the judge and partiality exist in you.
If you are condemned by this one, who will acquit you?
Or, if you are acquitted by him, who will be able to detain you?
For what is inside of you is what is outside of you,
and the one who fashions you on the outside
is the one who shaped the inside of you.
And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you;
it is visible and it is your garment.
Hear me, you hearers
and learn of my words, you who know me.
I am the hearing that is attainable to everything;
I am the speech that cannot be grasped.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of the name.
I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division.
And I [...].
(3 lines missing)
[...] light [...].
[...] hearers [...] to you
[...] the great power.
And [...] will not move the name.
[...] to the one who created me.
And I will speak his name.
Look then at his words
and all the writings which have been completed.
Give heed then, you hearers
and you also, the angels and those who have been sent,
and you spirits who have arisen from the dead.
For I am the one who alone exists,
and I have no one who will judge me.
For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
and incontinencies,
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures,
which (men) embrace until they become sober
and go up to their resting place.
And they will find me there,
and they will live,
and they will not die again.

Selection made from James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, revised edition. HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1990

[just_me]

Would you cut off your arm to spite your face?

Further altering DNA Research:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BLTC+Research&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BLTC+Research+projects&start=10&sa=N

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=BLTC+Research+projects&start=20&sa=N

Key words/search phrase: BLTC Research projects

http://nootropics.com/smartdrugs/smart-drug.html

"One group in particular is quite interested in finding ways to improve cognition: the US military. Research projects in drug enhancement are underway at the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (http://www.darpa.mil/), the research and development organization for the Department of Defense...."

http://www.bltc.biz/

"I'm a high-school student. What should I study to promote paradise-engineering?

In the short-to-medium term, clinical psychopharmacology, molecular genetics and genomic medicine are useful disciplines. In the long run, the challenge of rewriting the vertebrate genome and redesigning the global ecosystem will take advances in quantum computing and nanotechnology. Studying philosophy, and in particular Ethics, can be valuable as well."

http://www.nanorobotdesign.com/newsnet/

Center for Automation in Nanobiotech

http://www.kheper.net/topics/transhumanism/ (http://www.kheper.net/topics/transhumanism/transhumanism_and_extropianism.htm)
transhumanism_and_extropianism.htm (http://www.kheper.net/topics/transhumanism/transhumanism_and_extropianism.htm)

"There are many definitions of Transhumanism, but basically it is the philosophy that we can and should consciously evolve beyond our present human limitations, most usually through scientific means. Through advanced technology (http://engforum.pravda.ru/gaia/noosphere/technology/technology.htm) individuals will soon be able to transcend the present "human condition," and so become posthuman or transhuman entities. This may be sooner than you think, if the Singularitymeme (http://engforum.pravda.ru/singularity/index.htm) has any factual merit to it."

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Where is the public discussion?

[just_me]

BATTLE HYMN OF THE ENLIGHTENED

Mine eyes have seen the horrors
Of the coming antichrist.
He hath 'shocked and awed' the nations
To extinguish Reason's might.
He hath loosed another blitzkrieg
To claim glory over Light.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

He confounds Christ's love and purpose,
And the guidance of Christ's ways.
He hath turned a once great nation
Into those who love to hate.
He hath squandered long-time friendships
In the name of Christian fate.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage,
Rush Limbaugh, and his minions
Beat the wounds of painful mem'ries
To legitimize revenge,
While Sharon nips his bottle,
America's on his binge.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

In collusion with big business,
He hath sworn to dominate
The Earth and all Her peoples.
Children starve. This fake eats steak.
Through undemocratic violence,
He hath claimed to liberate.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

He manipulates the minds
Of our dear Lord's compatriots.
By confusing war with peace and love with hate,
He steals our hearts.
His pride is gonna do him in.
False pride, it is his art.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

His doctrine of preemption
Once was known to be a crime.
But, through crafted propaganda,
He hath altered some men's minds
To promote his dreadful policy
That starting war is fine.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

To destroy the Constitution
Is this tyrant's highest aim.
He seeks a New World Order.
Martial law is this guy's game.
See with your eyes and hear with your ears.
The devil is his name.
His lies we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

Inspired in Enlightenment,
We question his designs.
His 'coalition of the willing'
Mocks the sacrifice of Christ.
Democracy is what we are.
To question him is Right.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

If it angers you to hear these words,
Then ask yourself just this:
If you were him, what would you do
To confuse the populace?
When he sends us off to fight his wars,
We kill to make him rich.
His lies, we do reveal.

[CHORUS]

Come join with us in victory
Against THIS antichrist.
We are trampling out the ignorance
His followers entice.
In humility, we stand with Grace,
Christ's Gift of Living Light.
God's Love, we do proclaim.

[CHORUS]

Call him Jesus, call him Allah,
Call him Reason, call him Right.
Call him Buddha, or Jehovah,
Call him Krishna, call him Light.
The Child of God still chooses
To speak Truth to power's fright.
God's Love, we do proclaim.

CHORUS:

The antichrist creates delusion.
The antichrist creates delusion.
The antichrist creates delusion.
God's Love, we do proclaim.

March 24, 2003
© 2003-2005 Calm as a tiger...
[The 400th Anniversary of Elizabeth Tudor's death.]

Why on Earth would we celebrate the Death of the Virgin Qveene?

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause.

Today, he's crying, in PAIN.

http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/st_nicholas.jpg

St. Nicholas; Copyright Mt. Athos, 2003

[just_me]

Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind
Tuesday , September 23, 2008
By Allison Barrie

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.

Coming to Europe, 2010:

EU to introduce 'virtual strip searches' at airports by 2010 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/3110533/EU-to-introduce-virtual-strip-searches-at-airports-by-2010.html)
Digital body scanners which leave little to the imagination will be used by airport security on passengers travelling across the European Union within two years.

By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 7:58AM BST 01 Oct 2008

http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/X-Ray-Scan-460_1001494c.jpg

The new imaging technology creates an image of an unclothed body which privacy critics argue 'amounts to a virtual strip search' Photo: PA

According to a draft European Commission regulation, seen by The Daily Telegraph, the new millimetre wave imaging scanners are to be used "individually or in combination, as a primary or secondary means and under defined conditions" to provide a "virtual strip search" of travellers.

The new EU regulation, which will be binding on Britain, is intended to enter into force across the continent by the end of April 2010.

Dominic Grieve, Shadow Home Secretary, stressed that while body scanners may be an effective security tool "the implementation must be carried out by the British government in a proportionate manner, based on UK security requirements rather than the dictates of Brussels".

"Ministers need to explain publicly and transparently what these proposals are and why they are suitable to the UK," he said.

The new imaging technology creates an image of an unclothed body which privacy critics argue "amounts to a virtual strip search" has been tested on a voluntary basis at Heathrow's Terminal Four.

But the trial has now been discontinued, said a Heathrow spokeswoman.
Air passengers scanned by the new technology walk into a large booth where electromagnetic waves are beamed on to their body to create a virtual three-dimensional "naked" image from reflected energy.

Many travellers have been alarmed by the graphic nature of the black and white images body scanners generate – including revealing outlines of genitalia – raising concerns about privacy.

Gareth Crossman, Director of Policy at Liberty, said: "I don't think people are aware of what these scanners can do and how demeaning it is to have your body on display. Heathrow was right to discontinue their use and they should not be used in Britain except as an alternative to strip searches."

Security officials in the United States have pioneered use of the scanners at New York and Los Angeles airports because the technology reveals the contours of the body, picking up hidden items, such as guns or knives, more effectively than standard physical "pat-down" checks.

Tony Bunyan, the editor of Statewatch, fears that Brussels is rushing to follow the US by introducing a technology that could subject "people including women, old people and children to such a shameful and undignified experience".

He added: "It would appear that this is yet another case of 'if it is technologically possible it should be used' without any consideration of proportionality, privacy and civil liberties."

Paolo Costa, Chairman of the European Parliament's Transport Committee, is concerned over the safety of the new technology and how "nude" images of passengers will be viewed, then stored, by security officials.

"What will the impact of the use of body scanners be on passenger health? What will the impact be on passenger privacy?," he wrote in a letter to the Commission last week.

"How will the image data be held and how will it be destroyed?

Timothy Kirkhope, a Conservative Euro-MP who sits on the transport committee, is concerned that the new security regulations will be introduced without discussion or consultation with the travelling public.

"It must not be the case that unelected Commission officials, or security bureaucrats, can introduce these measures without elected MEPs or MPs being able to anything about it," he said.

© Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2008

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Digital body scanners which leave little to the imagination will be used by airport security on passengers travelling across the European Union within two years.

http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/X-Ray-Scan-460_1001494c.jpg

The new imaging technology creates an image of an unclothed body which privacy critics argue 'amounts to a virtual strip search' Photo: PA

"How will the image data be held and how will it be destroyed?"
What if the image data is not destroyed, despite assurances to the contrary?

What if the scanner technology is necessary to get us one step closer to: Trans - Post Humanism; even if its proposed use is simply to condition us toward future goals?

http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/trans_post_human_image.jpg

Mind Uploading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading):

In transhumanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism) and science fiction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction), mind uploading (also occasionally referred to by other terms such as mind transfer, whole brain emulation, or whole body emulation) refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human mind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind) to an artificial substrate, such as a detailed computer simulation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_simulation) of an individual human brain.

The Wiki Article emphasizes that, Mind uploading is completely speculative at this point in time; no technology exists which can accomplish this.

However, back in 2000, Time.com had this article at it's site, which is still accessible, though it appears to be a dead part of the site:

Will the Mind Figure Out How the Brain Works?

"...The synapse scanner has been perfected, and you can download a backup copy of your mind into a brainlike computer that will outlast your body. Unfortunately the scanner destroys the tissue it scans, so you have to choose between your old brain and a new one. The new brain will react and behave exactly like you—but would it be you? If you say yes, are you confident enough to step into the scanner?"

Visions of the 21st Century, Copyright 2000, Time.com

http://www.time.com/time/reports/v21/science/brain.html

http://www.time.com/time/reports/v21...ce/brain2.html

Hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money is being spent to develop transitional Trans - Post Human technologies. The research is being done under the guise and protection of the War on Terror.

We should be demanding accountability.

But, one person can't do it alone.

We need tens of millions together to stand up against this.

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Technologies which have become the focus of transhumanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Transhumanism):

Anti-aging (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aging)
Artificial intelligence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence)
Bionics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionics)
Biotechnology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology)
Brain-computer interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interface)
Cognitive science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science)
Cryonics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics)
Cyberware (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberware)
Cyborg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg)
Designer baby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designer_baby)
Emerging technologies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies)
Genetic engineering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering)
Cloning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloning)
Human cloning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning)
Human enhancement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_enhancement)
Human-machine interface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-machine_interface)
Information technology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology)
Life extension (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension)
Mind uploading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading)
Mind transfer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_transfer)
Nanotechnology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology)
Molecular nanotechnology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_nanotechnology)
Buckyballs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckyball)
Molecular assemblers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_assembler)
Neurohacking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurohacking)
Personal development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_development)
Prosthetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthetics)
Rejuvenation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation_(aging))
Robotics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics)
Reprogenetics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprogenetics)
Simulated reality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality)
Space colonization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization)
Suspended animation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation)
Wetware hacking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware_hacker)

Transhumanist concepts Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converging_Technologies_for_Improving_Human_Perfor mance) Cognitive liberty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_liberty) Democratic transhumanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_transhumanism) Differential technological development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_technological_development) Emerging technologies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies) Existential risks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk) Extropy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropy) Extropianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extropianism) Futures studies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_studies) Futurology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology) Friendly artificial intelligence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_artificial_intelligence) Human condition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition) Human enhancement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_enhancement) Human extinction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_extinction) Immortality (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality) Indefinite lifespan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_lifespan) Liberal eugenics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_eugenics) Libertarian transhumanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_transhumanism) Longevity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity) Megatrajectory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatrajectory) Mind children (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_children) Morphological freedom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_freedom) Neophile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophile) Noosphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere) Omega point (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_point) Parahuman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parahuman) Participant evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participant_evolution) Posthuman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthuman_(Human_evolution)) Posthuman God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthuman_God) Posthumanity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posthumanity) Procreative beneficence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procreative_beneficence) Procreative liberty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procreative_liberty) Proactionary Principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proactionary_Principle) Rejuvenation (aging) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvenation_(aging)) Singularitarianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularitarianism) Superhuman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhuman) Technogaianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technogaianism) Technological evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_evolution) Technological singularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity) Technophilia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technophilia) Techno-utopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-utopia) Techno-utopianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-utopianism) Theory of everything (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything_(philosophy)) Transgenderism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenderism) Ãœbermensch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%83%C2%9Cbermensch) Utopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia) World view (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view)

Notable persons in the field of transhumanism Anders Sandberg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Sandberg) Antonei Csoka (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonei_Csoka) Aubrey de Grey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey) Alexander Chislenko (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Chislenko) Danila Medvedev (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danila_Medvedev) David Pearce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pearce_(philosopher)) FM-2030 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-2030) Frank J. Tipler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler) George Dvorsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dvorsky) Giulio Prisco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Prisco) Hans Moravec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec) Hugo de Garis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_de_Garis) Julian Huxley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley) Eric Drexler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Eric_Drexler) Keith Henson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson) Max More (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_More) Natasha Vita-More (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Vita-More) Nick Bostrom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom) Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Fyodorovich_Fyodorov) Raymond Kurzweil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kurzweil) Robert Bradbury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bradbury) Robert Ettinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ettinger) Stephen Euin Cobb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Euin_Cobb)

Transhumanist organizations Applied Foresight Network (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Foresight_Network) Foresight Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foresight_Institute) Alcor Life Extension Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcor_Life_Extension_Foundation) Immortality Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality_Institute) Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Institute_for_Artificial_Intelligence) World Transhumanist Association (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Transhumanist_Association)

Related topics Bioethics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioethics)

Related Portals

Artifical intelligence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Artificial_intelligence) Mind and Brain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mind_and_Brain) Psychology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Psychology) Cell & Molecular Biology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology) Medicine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Medicine) Computer science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Computer_science) Robotics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Robotics) Philosophy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Philosophy) Nanotechnology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Nanotechnology)


Quite a bit of experimentation needs to take place for this technology to achieve its stated goals. We would be fools to think they would not experiment on the general population without first obtaining our informed consent and providing for remuneration in the event the human research subject were harmed.

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Quite a bit of experimentation needs to take place for this technology to achieve its stated goals. We would be fools to think they would not experiment on the general population without first obtaining our informed consent and providing for remuneration in the event the human research subject were harmed.

According to 32 CFR 219 TITLE 32 (http://www.dtic.mil/biosys/downloads/32cfr219.pdf)--NATIONAL DEFENSE CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PART 219--PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS, informed consent may be waived under the following conditions:

Sec. 219.116 General requirements for informed consent.

...(d) An IRB may approve a consent procedure which does not include, or which alters, some or all of the elements of informed consent set forth in this section, or waive the requirements to obtain informed consent provided the IRB finds and documents that:
(1) The research involves no more than minimal risk to the subjects;
(2) The waiver or alteration will not adversely affect the rights and welfare of the subjects;
(3) The research could not practicably be carried out without the waiver or alteration; and
(4) [I]Whenever appropriate (emphasis mine), the subjects will be provided with additional pertinent information after participation.

These conditions are arbitrary and provide a catch-all release from the main body of the law.

Peace.

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Homeland Security's Space-Based Spying Goes Live
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:15:00
By Tom Burghardt

(The Intelligence Daily) -- While America's attention has shifted to the economic meltdown and the presidential race between corporate favorites John McCain and Barack Obama, The Wall Street Journal reported (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122282336428992785.html) Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) National Applications Office (NAO) "will proceed with the first phase of a controversial satellite-surveillance program, even though an independent review found the department hasn't yet ensured the program will comply with privacy laws."

As I wrote (http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/06/homeland-securitys-space-based-spies.html) in June, NAO will coordinate how domestic law enforcement and "disaster relief" agencies such as FEMA use satellite imagery intelligence (IMINT) generated by U.S. spy satellites. Based on available evidence, hard to come by since these programs are classified "above top secret," the technological power of these military assets are truly terrifying.

Unlike commercial satellites that beam TV programs, forecast the weather or provide global positioning services, their military cousins are far more flexible, have greater resolution and therefore, more power to monitor human activity. By utilizing different parts of the light- and infrared spectrum, spy satellites, in addition to taking ultra high-resolution photographs to within a meter of their "target," can also track the heat signatures generated by people inside a building. ("Homeland Security's Space-Based Spies," Antifascist Calling, June 4, 2008)

In other words, when combined with illegal NSA and FBI domestic surveillance programs--from data-mining to the massive interception of telephone and internet communications--NAO will furnish DHS and outsourced corporate grifters who actually run the program, with the blanket coverage of American citizens long sought by securocrats. Aside from The Wall Street Journal and The Raw Story, not a single media outlet has disclosed this vital information to the public.

Despite the absence of rigorous oversight that would determine whether or not NAO complies with what's left of privacy laws, DHS is proceeding full speed ahead. The Journal reports,

A new 60-page Government Accountability Office report said the department "lacks assurance that NAO operations will comply with applicable laws and privacy and civil liberties standards," according to a person familiar with the document. The report, which is unclassified but considered sensitive, hasn't been publicly released, but was described and quoted by several people who have read it.

The report cites gaps in privacy safeguards. The department, it found, lacks controls to prevent improper use of domestic-intelligence data by other agencies and provided insufficient assurance that requests for classified information will be fully reviewed to ensure it can be legally provided. ( Siobhan Gorman, "Satellite-Surveillance Program to Begin Despite Privacy Concerns," The Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2008) [emphasis added]

Reporting on the shocking absence of oversight features built into the program, Nick Juliano writes (http://rawstory.com/news/2008/DHS_satellite_spy_program_going_forward_1002.html) ,

Essentially, the bill only requires the Homeland Security Secretary to assure lawmakers that NAO programs comply with exisiting laws. Congress also has required the DHS Inspector General to provide quarterly classified reports on how much information has been collected by the domestic satellite surveillance, although the bill required those reports be made to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, not the Homeland Security Committees that are traditionally in charge of DHS oversight. ("DHS satellite spy program going forward despite objections," The Raw Story, October 2, 2008)

The GAO's suppressed report is not the first to criticize the breathtaking scope of this repressive program. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a study (http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL34421.pdf) in June raising critical questions about NAO's legality.

Members of Congress and outside groups have raised concerns that using satellites for law enforcement purposes may infringe on the privacy and Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. persons. Other commentators have questioned whether the proposed surveillance will violate the Posse Comitatus Act or other restrictions on military involvement in civilian law enforcement, or would otherwise exceed the statutory mandates of the agencies involved. Such concerns led Congress to preclude any funds in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008 (H.R. 2764, P.L. 110-161), from being used to "commence operations of the National Applications Office ... until the Secretary [of the Department of Homeland Security] certifies that these programs comply with all existing laws, including all applicable privacy and civil liberties standards, and that certification is reviewed by the Government Accountability Office." (Section 525.) Similar language has been included in FY2009 homeland security appropriations bills. (Richard A. Best Jr. and Jennifer K. Elsea, "Satellite Surveillance: Domestic Issues," Congressional Research Service, June 27, 2008)

Full story (http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=126&a=8374)

[Pro-Zion]

The KGB would love to have these toys but they cant built a light bulb let alone one of this toys. No more Jewish-Communist spies giving you technical secrets right russkies? :lol:

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Brain cells fused with computer chips
Tests with neurons could lead to better computers, brain treatments
By Ker Than
LiveScience
updated 11:01 a.m. MT, Mon., March. 27, 2006

The line between living organisms and machines has just become a whole lot blurrier. European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together.

The achievement could one day enable the creation of sophisticated neural prostheses to treat neurological disorders, or the development of organic computers that crunch numbers using living neurons.

To create the neuro-chip, researchers squeezed more than 16,000 electronic transistors and hundreds of capacitors onto a silicon chip just 1 millimeter square in size.

They used special proteins found in the brain to glue brain cells, called neurons, onto the chip. However, the proteins acted as more than just a simple adhesive.

"They also provided the link between ionic channels of the neurons and semiconductor material in a way that neural electrical signals could be passed to the silicon chip," said study team member Stefano Vassanelli from the University of Padua in Italy.

The proteins allowed the neuro-chip's electronic components and its living cells to communicate with each other. Electrical signals from neurons were recorded using the chip's transistors, while the chip's capacitors were used to stimulate the neurons.

It could still be decades before the technology is advanced enough to treat neurological disorders or create living computers, the researchers say, but in the nearer term, the chips could provide an advanced method of screening drugs for the pharmaceutical industry.

"Pharmaceutical companies could use the chip to test the effect of drugs on neurons, to quickly discover promising avenues of research," Vassanelli said.

The researchers are now working on ways to avoid damaging the neurons during stimulation. The team is also exploring the possibility of using a neuron's genetic instructions to control the neuro-chip.

© 2008 LiveScience.com. All rights reserved.
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12037941/ (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12037941/)

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Systems for Human-Powered Mobile Computing
Joseph A. Paradiso
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/pubs/papers/2006-07-DAC-Paper.pdf

2. METABOLIC SOURCES

In [4], Starner tabulates different estimates of the energy available from various kinds of human movements and bodily sources that might be "parasitically" siphoned off. These are useful, although somewhat optimistic, numbers that are ideal for starting a discussion. Starner estimates 370 mW to be available from blood pressure, 400 mW to be available from exhaling, and 830 mW to be available from breathing, but these sources of energy are avoided in this paper, as it’s generally impractical and potentially dangerous to tap into them. That said, research by Heller and collaborators works towards producing glucose/O2-powered fuel cell "stents" for in vivo energy generation from the blood stream [5]. Small amounts of power could available (e.g., up to 1 mW in a 1 cm long by 4 mm wide device), although much work remains on building biologically transparent electrodes that can support long-term operation without dedgradation from biofouling (an equivalent-sized battery can last for up to a few weeks before discharging). Applications of such low-power, in-vivo sources include things like implantable biosensors or electromechanical devices like a valve to relieve incontinence.

Body heat suggests a quiescent reservoir of human energy. The low temperature difference between the body and its typical environment, however, cause the properties of existing thermoelectric materials and the overall Carnot limit to restrict the conversion efficiencies to within a percent or so – to make matters worse, the body also tends to constrict blood vessels in an area with excess heat transfer to limit heat loss. Nonetheless, low-power thermoelectrically-driven products have appeared. Produced during the 1990’s, the Seiko Thermic wristwatch [2] used ten thermoelectric modules to generate a microwatt or so to run its mechanical clock movement from the small thermal gradient provided by body heat over ambient temperature. Applied Digital Solutions’ Thermo Life is a thermoelectric generator measuring 0.5 cm2 in area by 1.6-millimeter thickness. Comprising a dense array of low-temperature thermopiles, it can generate 10 A at 3 V (6 V open circuit) with only 5° C of temperature difference [6]. The ThermoLife is designed for powering low-current biosensor electronics when in contact with the skin. These systems typically come with batteries that store extra energy produced during periods of higher temperature differences so they can continue to run during warmer, less efficient ambient temperatures.

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Harvesting Humans For Energy
Presentation by: Emily Inskeep
einskeep@kentlaw.edu (einskeep@kentlaw.edu)
For Energy Law – Spring 2007
Chicago-Kent College of Law

http://www.kentlaw.edu/faculty/fbosselman/classes/EnergyLawSp07/
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INTRODUCTION

Steadily increasing global energy consumption causes growing numbers of environmental problems.
The United States and other countries throughout the world often cannot or are not willing to comply with the Kyoto agreements on CO2 reductions.
For this reason, societal and political pressure to develop products with lower energy consumption is building.
Volatility of oil prices highlights the dependence of the United States and other nation’s vulnerable economies on this precious oil. This situation is not likely to improve.
One Solution to the Problem?
HUMAN-POWERED ENERGY SYSTEMS
Energy Self-Sufficiency

Human Powered Energy is the idea of energy self-sufficiency brought down to an individual scale.
However, human power could be enlarged to include a number of local renewable energy needs, such as
Home power, the electricity independent home
Factory power, the firm
City power and possibly (hopefully) more
Similar to the first wind-up phone, human powered products may appear to be "out of touch" with the times.

However, remember that the internal combustion engine is over 100 years old. Therefore, the problem is not outdated technology, but just poor performance.
Environmental and Societal Benefits

These products do not consume energy from non-renewable sources during the "use-phase".
Human energy is non-polluting
Societal Impact: human power is 100% green. More importantly, human powered products help their users to think in a different way: by encouraging your effort in ‘producing’ your own energy, the waste of energy is made apparent for once.
Finally, sustainable development might mandate a shift from global to local production consumption. Usually, this is a positive thing....
Challenges: most obstacles are subjective and can be viewed as unique challenges for designers.

Need to find situations of use in which this concept is adopted and accepted by consumers. [emphasis mine]

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On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology
by Carole Smith
October 18, 2007
Journal of Psycho-Social Studies, 2003.

For those of us who were trained in a psychoanalytical approach to the patient which was characterised as patient centred, and which acknowledged that the effort to understand the world of the other person entailed an awareness that the treatment was essentially one of mutuality and trust, the American Psychiatry Association’s Diagnostic Criteria for Schizotypal personality was always a cause for alarm. The Third Edition (1987) of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) required that there be at least four of the characteristics set out for a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and an approved selection of four could be: magical thinking, telepathy or sixth sense; limited social contact; odd speech; and over-sensitivity to criticism. By 1994, the required number of qualifying characteristics were reduced to two or more, including, say, hallucinations and ‘negative ‘ symptoms such as affective flattening, or disorganised or incoherent speech – or only one if the delusions were bizarre or the hallucination consisted of a voice keeping up a running commentary on the person’s behaviour or thoughts. The next edition of the DSM is not due until the year 2010.

In place of a process of a labelling which brought alienation and often detention, sectioning, and mind altering anti-psychotic medication, many psychoanalysts and psychotherapists felt that even in severe cases of schizoid withdrawal we were not necessarily wasting our time in attempting to restore health by the difficult work of unravelling experiences in order to make sense of an illness. In this way, psychoanalysis has been, in its most radical form, a critic of a society, which failed to exercise imaginative empathy when passing judgement on people. The work of Harry Stack Sullivan, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Harold Searles or R.D. Laing - all trained as psychiatrists and all of them rebels against the standard procedures – provided a way of working with people very different from the psychiatric model, which seemed to encourage a society to repress its sickness by making a clearly split off group the carriers of it. A psychiatrist in a mental hospital once joked to me, with some truth, when I commented on the number of carrier bags carried by many of the medicated patients around the hospital grounds, that they assessed the progress of the patient in terms of the reduction of the number of carrier bags. It is too often difficult to believe, however, when hearing the history of a life, that the "schizophrenic" was not suffering the effects of having been made, consciously and unconsciously, the carefully concealed carrier of the ills of the family.

For someone who felt his mind was going to pieces, to be put into the stressful situation of the psychiatric examination, even when the psychiatrist acquitted himself with kindness, the situation of the assessment procedure itself, can be ‘an effective way to drive someone crazy, or more crazy.’ (Laing, 1985, p 17). But if the accounting of bizarre experiences more or less guaranteed you a new label or a trip to the psychiatric ward, there is even more reason for a new group of people to be outraged about how their symptoms are being diagnosed. A doubly cruel sentence is being imposed on people who are the victims of the most appalling abuse by scientific-military experiments, and a totally uncomprehending society is indifferent to their evidence. For the development of a new class of weaponry now has the capability of entering the brain and mind and body of another person by technological means.

Harnessing neuroscience to military capability (http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=5445), this technology is the result of decades of research and experimentation, most particularly in the Soviet Union and the United States. (Welsh, 1997, 2000) We have failed to comprehend that the result of the technology that originated in the years of the arms race between the Soviet Union and the West, has resulted in using satellite technology not only for surveillance and communication systems but also to lock on to human beings, manipulating brain frequencies by directing laser beams, neural-particle beams, electro-magnetic radiation, sonar waves, radiofrequency radiation (RFR), soliton waves, torsion fields and by use of these or other energy fields which form the areas of study for astro-physics. Since the operations are characterised by secrecy, it seems inevitable that the methods that we do know about, that is, the exploitation of the ionosphere, our natural shield, are already outdated as we begin to grasp the implications of their use. The patents deriving from Bernard J. Eastlund’s work provide the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth’s atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level, particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than accomplished by the prior art, the detonation of nuclear devices at various yields and various altitudes. (ref High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project, HAARP).

Some patents, now owned by Raytheon, describe how to make "nuclear sized explosions without radiation" and describe power beam systems, electromagnetic pulses and over-the-horizon detection systems. A more disturbing use is the system developed for manipulating and disturbing the human mental process using pulsed radio frequency radiation (RFR), and their use as a device for causing negative effects on human health and thinking. The victim, the innocent civilian target is locked on to, and unable to evade the menace by moving around. The beam is administered from space. The Haarp facility as military technology could be used to broadcast global mind-control, as a system for manipulating and disturbing the human mental process using pulsed radio frequency (RFR). The super-powerful radio waves are beamed to the ionosphere, heating those areas, thereby lifting them. The electromagnetic waves bounce back to the earth and penetrate human tissue.

Dr Igor Smirnov, of the Institute of Psycho-Correction in Moscow, says: "It is easily conceivable that some Russian ‘Satan’, or let’s say Iranian – or any other ‘Satan’, as long as he owns the appropriate means and finances, can inject himself into every conceivable computer network, into every conceivable radio or television broadcast, with relative technological ease, even without disconnecting cables…and intercept the radio waves in the ether and modulate every conceivable suggestion into it. This is why such technology is rightfully feared."(German TV documentary, 1998).

If we were concerned before about diagnostic criteria being imposed according to the classification of recognizable symptoms, we have reason now to submit them to even harsher scrutiny. The development over the last decades since the Cold War arms race has included as a major strategic category, psycho-electronic weaponry, the ultimate aim of which is to enter the brain and mind. Unannounced, undebated and largely unacknowledged by scientists or by the governments who employ them – technology to enter and control minds from a distance has been unleashed upon us. The only witnesses who are speaking about this terrible technology with its appalling implications for the future, are the victims themselves and those who are given the task of diagnosing mental illness are attempting to silence them by classifying their evidence and accounts as the symptoms of schizophrenia, while the dispensers of psychic mutilation and programmed pain continue with their work, aided and unopposed.

If it was always crucial, under the threat of psychiatric sectioning, to carefully screen out any sign of confused speech, negativity, coldness, suspicion, bizarre thoughts, sixth sense, telepathy, premonitions, but above all the sense that "others can feel my feelings, and that someone seemed to be keeping up a running commentary on your thoughts and behaviour," then reporting these to a psychiatrist, or anyone else for that matter who was not of a mind to believe that such things as mind-control could exist, would be the end of your claim to sanity and probably your freedom. For one of the salient characteristics of mind-control is the running commentary, which replicates so exactly, and surely not without design, the symptoms of schizophrenia. Part of the effort is to remind the victim that they are constantly under control or surveillance. Programmes vary, but common forms of reminders are electronic prods and nudges, body noises, twinges and cramps to all parts of the body, increasing heart beats, applying pressures to internal organs – all with a personally codified system of comments on thoughts and events, designed to create stress, panic and desperation. This is mind control at its most benign. There is reason to fear the use of beamed energy to deliver lethal assaults on humans, including cardiac arrest, and bleeding in the brain.

It is the government system of secrecy, which has facilitated this appalling prospect. There have been warning voices. "…the government secrecy system as a whole is among the most poisonous legacies of the Cold War …the Cold War secrecy (which) also mandate(s) Active Deception…a security manual for special access programs authorizing contractors to employ ‘cover stories to disguise their activities. The only condition is that cover stories must be believable." (Aftergood & Rosenberg, 1994; Bulletin of Atomic Scientist). Paranoia has been aided and abetted by government intelligence agencies.

Amongst medical circles, however, it has so far not been possible for the writer to find a neuroscientist, neurologist or a psychiatrist, nor for that matter, a general medical practitioner, who acknowledges even the potential for technological manipulation of the nervous system as a problem requiring their professional interest. There has been exactly this response from some of England’s most eminent practitioners of the legal profession, not surprisingly, because the information about such technology is not made available to them. They would refer anyone attempting to communicate mind-harassment as a psychiatric problem, ignoring the crime that is being committed.

...We are concerned here with reinforcing in the strongest possible terms:

i) The need for such abuses to human rights and the threats to democracy to be called to consciousness, and without further delay.

ii) To analyse the reasons why people might defend themselves from becoming conscious of the existence of such threats.

iii) To address the urgent need for intelligence, imagination, and information - not to mention compassion - in dealing with the victims of persecution from this technology, and

iv) To alert a sleeping society, to the imminent threats to their freedom from the threat from fascist and covert operations who have in all probability gained control of potentially lethal weaponry of the type we are describing.

It is necessary to emphasise that at present there is not even the means for victims to gain medical attention for the effects of radiation from this targeting. Denied the respect of credulity of being used as human guinea pigs, driven to suicide by the breakdown of their lives, they are treated as insane – at best regarded as ‘sad cases’. Since the presence of a permanent ‘other’ in one’s mind and body is by definition an act of the most intolerable cruelty, people who are forced to bear it but who refuse to be broken by it, have no other option than to turn themselves into activists, their lives consumed by the battle against such atrocities, their energies directed to alerting and informing the public of things they don’t want to hear or understand about evil forces at work in their society.

It is necessary, at this point, to briefly outline a few – one might say the precious few – attempts by public servants to verify the existence and dangers inherent in this field:

In January 1998, an annual public meeting of the French National Bioethics Committee was held in Paris. Its chairman, Jean-Pierre Changeux, a neuroscientist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, told the meeting that "advances in cerebral imaging make the scope for invasion of privacy immense. Although the equipment needed is still highly specialized, it will become commonplace and capable of being used at a distance. That will open the way for abuses such as invasion of personal liberty, control of behaviour and brainwashing. These are far from being science-fiction concerns…and constitute "a serious risk to society." ("Nature." Vol 391, 1998.

In January 1999, the European Parliament passed a resolution where it calls "for an international convention introducing a global ban on all development and deployment of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings. It is our conviction that this ban can not be implemented without the global pressure of the informed general public on the governments. Our major objective is to get across to the general public the real threat which these weapons represent for human rights and democracy and to apply pressure on the governments and parliaments around the world to enact legislature which would prohibit the use of these devices to both government and private organisations as well as individuals." (Plenary sessions/Europarliament, 1999)

In October 2001, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich introduced a bill to the House of Representatives which, it was hoped would be extremely important in the fight to expose and stop psycho-electronic mind control experimentation on involuntary, non-consensual citizens. The Bill was referred to the Committee on Science, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services and International Relations. In the original bill a ban was sought on ‘exotic weapons’ including electronic, psychotronic or information weapons, chemtrails, particle beams, plasmas, electromagnetic radiation, extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation, or mind control technologies. Despite the inclusion of a prohibition of the basing of weapons in space, and the use of weapons to destroy objects or damage objects in space, there is no mention in the revised bill of any of the aforementioned mind-invasive weaponry, nor of the use of satellite or radar or other energy based technology for deploying or developing technology designed for deployment against the minds of human beings. (Space Preservation Act, 2002) [ed. note: 107th Congress, H.R. 2977]

In reviewing the development of the art of mind-invasive technology– there are a few outstanding achievements to note:

In 1969 Dr Jose Delgado, a Yale psychologist, published a book: "Physical Control of the Mind: Towards a Psychocivilized Society". In essence, he displayed in practical demonstrations how, by means of electrical stimulation of the brain which had been mapped out in its relations between different points and activities, functions and sensations, - by means of electrical stimulation, how the rhythm of breathing and heartbeat could be changed, as well as the function of most of the viscera, and gall bladder secretion. Frowning, opening and closing of eyes and mouth, chewing, yawning, sleep, dizziness, epileptic seizures in healthy persons were induced. The intensity of feelings could be controlled by turning the knob, which controlled the intensity of the electric current. He states at the end of his book the hope that the new power will remain limited to scientists or some charitable elite for the benefit of a "psychocivilized society."

In the 1980’s the neuromagnetometer was developed which functions as an antenna and could monitor the patterns emerging from the brain. (In the seventies the scientists had discovered that electromagnetic pulses enabled the brain to be stimulated through the skull and other tissues, so there was no more need to implant electrodes in the brain). The antenna, combined with the computer, could localize the points in the brain where the brain events occur. The whole product is called the magnetoencephalograph.

In January 2000 the Lockheed Martin neuroengineer Dr John D. Norseen, was quoted (US News and World Report, 2000) as hoping to turn the electrohypnomentalaphone, a mind reading machine, into science fact. Dr Norseen, a former Navy pilot, claims his interest in the brain stemmed from reading a Soviet book in the 1980’s claiming that research on the mind would revolutionize the military and society at large. By a process of deciphering the brain’s electrical activity, electromagnetic pulsations would trigger the release of the brain’s own transmitters to fight off disease, enhance learning, or alter the mind’s visual images, creating a ‘synthetic reality’. By this process of BioFusion, (Lockheed Martin, 2000) information is placed in a database, and a composite model of the brain is created. By viewing a brain scan recorded by (functional) magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, scientists can tell what the person was doing at the time of recording – say reading or writing, or recognise emotions from love to hate. "If this research pans out", says Norseen, "you can begin to manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it." But Norseen says he is ‘agnostic’ on the moral ramifications, that he’s not a mad scientist – just a dedicated one. "The ethics don’t concern me," he says, "but they should concern someone else."

The next big thing looks like being something which we might refer to as a neurocomputer but it need not resemble a laptop – it may be reducible to whatever size is convenient for use, such as a small mobile phone. Arising from a break-through and exploitation of PSI-phenomena, it may be modelled on the nervous-psychic activity of the brain – that is, as an unbalanced, unstable system of neurotransmitters and interacting neurones, the work having been derived from the creation of a copy of a living brain – accessed by chance, and ESP and worked on by design.

On receiving a communication from the writer on the feasibility of a machine being on the horizon which, based on the project of collecting electromagnetic waves emanating from the brain and transmitting them into another brain that would read a person’s thoughts, or using the same procedure in order to impose somebody else’s thoughts on another brain and in this way direct his actions – there was an unequivocal answer from IBM at executive level that there was no existing technology to create such a computer in the foreseeable future. This is at some variance with the locating of a patent numbered 03951134 [1974? not available through US Patent search online] on the Internet pages of IBM Intellectual Property Network for a device, described in the patent, as capable of picking up at a distance the brain waves of a person, process them by computer and emit correcting waves which will change the original brain waves....

...There are, according to Lewer, plans for ‘pulsed microwave beams (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pulsed+microwave+beams%2C+Iraq&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=)' to destroy enemy electronics, and separate plans for very-low-frequency sound beams to induce vomiting, bowel spasm, epileptic seizures and also crumble masonry." Further, the article states, "There are plans for ‘mind control’ with the use of 'psycho-correction messages’ transmitted by subliminal audio and visual stimuli. There is also a plan for ‘psychotronic weapons’ – apparently the projection of consciousness to other locations – and another to use holographic projection to disseminate propaganda and misinformation." (Welsh, Timeline). Apart from this notable exception it is difficult to locate any public statement of the problem in the United Kingdom.

Unfortunately, the problem of credulity does not necessarily cease with frequent mention, as in the United States, in spite of the number of reported cases, there is still not sufficient public will to make strenuous protest against what is not only already happening, but against what will develop if left unchecked. It appears that the administration believes that it is necessary and justifiable, in the interests of national security, to make experimental human sacrifices, to have regrettable casualties, for there to be collateral damage, to suffer losses in place of strife or war. This is, of course, totally incompatible with any claims to be a democratic nation which respects the values of human life and democracy, and such an administration which tutors its servants in the ways of such barbaric tortures must be completely condemned as uncivilised and hypocritical.

Disbelief as a Defence Mechanism

In the face of widespread disbelief about mind-control, it seems worth analysing the basis of the mechanisms employed to maintain disbelief:

i) In the sixties, Soviet dissidents received a significant measure of sympathy and indignant protest from western democracies on account of their treatment, most notedly the abuse of psychiatric methods of torture to which they were subjected. It is noteworthy that we seem to be able to access credulity, express feelings of indignant support when we can identify with victims, who share and support our own value system, and who, in this particular historical case, reinforced our own values, since they were protesting against a political system which also threatened us at that time. Psychologically, it is equally important to observe that support from a safe distance, and the benefits to the psyche of attacking a split-off ‘bad father’, the soviet authorities in this case, presents no threat to one’s internal system; indeed it relieves internal pressures. On the other hand, recognizing and denouncing a similar offence makes very much greater psychic demands of us when it brings us into conflict with our own environment, our own security, our own reality. The defence against disillusion serves to suppress paranoia that our father figure, the president, the prime minister, our governments - might not be what they would like to be seen to be.

ii) The need to deposit destructive envy and bad feelings elsewhere, on account of the inability of the ego to acknowledge ownership of them - reinforces the usefulness of persons or groups, which will serve to contain those, disowned, projected feelings which arouse paranoid anxieties. The concepts of mind-invasion strike at the very heart of paranoid anxiety, causing considerable efforts to dislodge them from the psyche. The unconscious identification of madness with dirt or excrement is an important aspect of anal aggression, triggering projective identification as a defence.

iii) To lay oneself open to believing that a person is undergoing the experience of being invaded mentally and physically by an unseen manipulator requires very great efforts in the self to manage dread.

iv) The defence against the unknown finds expression in the split between theory and practice; between the scientist as innovator and the society who can make the moral decisions about his inventions; between fact and science fiction, the latter of which can present preposterous challenges to the imagination without undue threat, because it serves to reinforce a separation from the real.

v) Identification with the aggressor. Sadistic fantasies, unconscious and conscious, being transferred on to the aggressor and identified with, aid the repression of fear of passivity, or a dread of punishment. This mechanism acts to deny credulity to the victim who represents weakness. This is a common feature of satanic sects.

vi) The liberal humanist tradition which denies the worst destructive capacities of man in the effort to sustain the belief in the great continuity of cultural and scientific tradition; the fear, in one’s own past development, of not being ‘ongoing’, can produce the psychic effect of reversal into the opposite to shield against aggressive feelings. This becomes then the exaggerated celebration of the ‘new’ as the affirmation of human genius which will ultimately be for the good of mankind, and which opposes warning voices about scientific advances as being pessimistic, unenlightened, unprogressive and Luddite. Strict adherence to this liberal position can act as overcompensation for a fear of envious spoiling of good possessions, i.e. cultural and intellectual goods.

vii) Denial by displacement is also employed to ignore the harmful aspects of technology. What may be harmful for the freedom and good of society can be masked and concealed by the distribution of new and entertaining novelties. The technology, which puts a camera down your gut for medical purposes, is also used to limit your freedom by surveillance. The purveyors of innovative technology come up with all sorts of new gadgets, which divert, entertain and feed the acquisitive needs of insatiable shoppers, and bolster the economy. The theme of "Everything’s up to date in Kansas City" only takes on a downside when individual experience – exploding breast implants, say – takes the gilt off the gingerbread. Out of every innovation for evil (i.e. designed for harming and destroying) some ‘good’ (i.e. public diversion or entertainment) can be promoted for profit or crowd-pleasing.

viii) Nasa is sending a spacecraft to Mars, or so we are told. They plan to trundle across the Martian surface searching for signs of water and life. We do not hear dissenting voices about its feasibility.

Why is it that, when a person accounts that their mind is being disrupted and they are being persecuted by an unseen method of invasive technology, that we cannot bring ourselves to believe them? Could it be that the horror involved in the empathic identification required brings the shutters down? Conversely, the shared experience of the blasting of objects into space brings with it the possibilities of shared potency or the relief that resonates in the unconscious of a massive projection or evacuation – a shared experience which is blessed in the name of man’s scientific genius.

ix) The desire ‘not to be taken in’, not to be taken for a fool, provides one of the most powerful and common defence mechanism against credulity.

Power, Paranoia and Unhealthy Governments

The ability to be the bearer and container of great power without succumbing to the pressures of latent narcissistic psychoses is an important matter too little considered. The effect of holding power and the expectation and the need to be seen as capable of sustaining it, if not exercising it, encourages omnipotence of thought. In the wake of this, a narcissistic overevaluation of the subject’s own mental processes may set in. In the effort to hold himself together as the possessor, container and executor of power, he (or indeed, she) may also, undergo a process of splitting which allows him, along with others, to bear enthralled witness of himself in this illustrious role. This may mean that the seat of authority is vacated, at least at times. The splitting process between the experiencing ego and the perceiving ego allows the powerful leader to alternate his perception of himself inside and outside, sometimes beside, himself. With the reinforcement of himself from others as his own narcissistic object, reality testing is constrained. In this last respect, he has much in common with the other powerful figure of the age, the movie star. or by those, in Freud’s words, who are "ruined by success."

In a world, which is facing increasing disillusion about the gulf between the public platforms on which governments are elected, and the contingencies and pragmatics of retaining defence strategies and economic investments, the role of military and intelligence departments, with their respective tools of domination and covert infiltration, is increasingly alarming. Unaccountable to the public, protected from exposure and prosecution by their immunity, licensed to lie as well as to kill, it is in the hands of these agents that very grave threats to human rights and freedom lies. Empowered to carry out aggression through classified weapon experimentation which is undetectable, these men and women are also open to corruption from lucrative offers of financial reward from powerful and sinister groups who can utilize their skills, privileged knowledge and expertise for frankly criminal and fascist purposes.

Our information about the psychological profiles of those who are employed to practice surveillance on others is limited, but it is not difficult to imagine the effects on the personality that would ensue with the persistent practice of such an occupation, so constantly exposed to the perversions. One gains little snatches of insight here and there. In his book on CIA mind control research (Marks, 1988), John Marks quotes a CIA colleague’s joke (always revealing for personality characteristics): "If you could find the natural radio frequency of a person’s sphincter, you could make him run out of the room real fast." (One wonders if the same amusement is derived from the ability to apply, say infra-sound above 130 decibels, which is said to cause stoppage of the heart, according to one victim/activist from his readings of a report for the Russian Parliament.)

Left to themselves, these servants of the state may well feel exempt from the process of moral self-scrutiny, but the work must be dehumanising for the predator as well as the prey. It is probably true that the need to control their agents in the field was an incentive to develop the methods in use today. It is also an effectively brutalising training for persecuting others. Meanwhile the object, the prey, in a bid for not only for survival but also in a desperate effort to warn his or her fellows about what is going on, attempts to turn himself into a quantum physicist, a political researcher, a legal sleuth, an activist, a neurologist, a psychologist, a physiologist – his own doctor, since he cannot know what effects this freakish treatment might have on his body, let alone his mind....

Science and Scepticism

Scientists can be bought, not just by governments, but also by sinister and secret societies. Universities can be funded by governments to develop technology for unacceptably inhumane uses. ...There are scientists who have refused to continue to do work when they were approached by CIA and Soviet representatives. These are the real heroes of science.

In the power struggle, much lies at stake in being the first to gain control of ultimate mind-reading and mind-controlling technology. Like the nuclear bomb, common ownership would seem by any sane calculations to cancel out the advantage of possession, but there is always a race to be the first to possess the latest ultimate means of mass destruction. The most desirable form is one that can be directed at others without contaminating oneself in the process - one that can be undetected and neatly, economically and strategically delivered. We should be foolish to rule out secret organisations, seeing threat only from undemocratic countries and known terrorist groups.

As consumers in a world which is increasingly one in which shopping is the main leisure activity, we should concern ourselves to becoming alert to the ways in which human welfare may have been sacrificed to produce an awesome new gadget. It may be the cause for celebration for the ‘innovator’, but brought about as the result of plugging in or dialling up the living neuronal processes of an enforced experimentee. If we are concerned not to eat boiled eggs laid by battery hens, we might not regard it morally irrelevant to scrutinise the large corporations producing electronically innovative ‘software.’ We might also be wary about the origins of the sort of bland enticements of dating agencies who propose finding your ideal partner by matching up brain frequencies and ‘bio-rhythms’.

We do not know enough about the background of such technology, nor how to evaluate it ethically. We do not know about its effects on the future, because we are not properly informed. If governments persist in concealing the extent of their weapon capability in the interests of defence, they are also leaving their citizens disempowered of the right to protest against their deployment. More alarmingly, they are leaving their citizens exposed to their deployment by ruthless organisations whose concerns are exactly the opposite of democracy and human rights.

Back in the United Kingdom

Meanwhile, back in England, the Director of the Oxford Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Professor Colin Blakemore, also the elective Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council writes to the author that he "... knows of no technology (not even in the wildest speculations of neuroscientists) for scanning and collecting ‘neuronal data’ at a distance." (Blakemore, 2003, ) This certitude is at distinct variance with the fears of other scientists in Russia and the United States, and not least of all with the fears of the French neuroscientist, Jean-Pierre Changeux of the French National Bioethics Committee already quoted (see page 5). It is also very much at odds with the writing of Dr Michael Persinger from the Behavioural Neuroscience Laboratory at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. His article "On the Possibility of Directly Accessing Every Human Brain by Electromagnetic Induction of Algorithms (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7567396?dopt=Abstract)" (1995), he describes the ways that individual differences among human brains can be overcome and comes to a conclusion about the technological possibilities of influencing a major part of the approximately six billion people on this planet without mediation through classical sensory modalities but by generating electromagnetic induction of fundamental algorithms in the atmosphere....

Very recently the leading weekly cultural BBC radio review had as one of its guests, the eminent astro-physicist and astronomer royal, Sir Martin Rees, who has recently published a book, "Our Final Century", in which he makes a sober and reasoned case for the fifty-fifty chance that millions of people, probably in a ‘third-world country’ could be wiped out in the near future through biotechnology and bio-terrorism – "by error or malign release." He spoke of this devastation as possibly coming from small groups or cults, based in the United States. "…few individuals with the right technology to cause absolute mayhem." He also said that in this century, human nature is no longer a fixed commodity, that perhaps we should contemplate the possibility that humans would even have implants in the brain.

The other guests on this programme were both concerned with Shakespeare, one a theatre producer and the other a writer on Shakespeare, while his remaining guest was a young woman who had a website called "Spiked", the current theme of which was Panic Attack, that is to say, Attack on Panic. This guest vigorously opposed what she felt was the pessimism of Sir Martin, regarding his ideas as essentially eroding trust, and inducing panic. This reaction seems to typify one way of dealing with threat and anxiety, and demonstrates the difficulty that a warning voice, even from a man of the academic distinction of Martin Rees, has in alerting people to that which they do not want to hear. This flight reaction was reinforced by the presenter who summed up the morning’s discussion at the end of the programme with the words: "We have a moral! Less panic, more Shakespeare!"

The New Barbarism

Since access to a mind-reading machine will enable the operator to access the ideas of another person, we should prepare ourselves for a new world order in which ideas will be, as it were, up for grabs. We need not doubt that the contents of another’s mind will be scooped up, scooped out, sorted through as if the event was a jumble sale....

The brave new science of neuropsychiatry and brain mapping hopes to find very soon, with the fMRI scanner - this "brand new toy that scientists have got their hands on" - "the blob for love" and "the blob for guilt", (BBC Radio 4: All in the Mind, 5 March, 2003). Soon we will be able to order a brain scan for anyone whose behaviour strikes us as odd or bizarre, and the vicissitudes of a life need no longer trouble us in our diagnostic assessments....

It is, however, lamentable that a neuroscientist with a professed interest in understanding schizophrenia should seek to provide light relief to his audience by making jokes about schizophrenics being people who are "convinced that the CIA has implanted devices in their brain to control their thoughts and actions, or that aliens are controlling them." (Reith Lecture, No 5, 2003)....

Facing up to the Dread and Fear of the Uncanny

...Freud’s analysis of the uncanny led him back to the old animistic conception of the universe: "…it seems as if each one of us has been through a phase of individual development corresponding to the animistic phase in primitive men, that none of us has passed through it without preserving certain residues and traces of it which are still capable of manifesting themselves, and that everything which now strikes us as ‘uncanny’ fulfils the condition of touching those residues of animistic mental activity within us and bringing them to expression." (Freud: 1919. p.362)

The separation of birth, and the childhood fear of ‘spooks in the night’, also leave their traces in each and every one of us. The individual experience of being alone in one’s mind – the solitary fate of man which has never been questioned before, and upon which the whole history of civilised nurture is based - is now assaulted head-on. Since growing up is largely synonymous with acceptance of one’s aloneness, the effort to assuage it is the basis for compassion and protection of others; it is the matrix for the greatest good, that of ordinary human kindness, and is at the heart of the communicating power of great art. Even if we must all live and die alone, we can at least share this knowledge in acts of tenderness which atone for our lonely state. In times of loss and mental breakdown, the starkness of this aloneness is all too clear. The best of social and group constructiveness is an effort to allay the psychotic anxieties that lie at the base of every one of us, and which may be provoked under extreme enough conditions.

The calculated and technological entry into another person’s mind is an act of monumental barbarism which obliterates– perhaps with the twiddling of a dial – the history and civilisation of man’s mental development. It is more than an abuse of human rights, it is the destruction of meaning. For any one who is forced into the hell of living with an unseen mental rapist, the effort to stay sane is beyond the scope of tolerable endurance. The imaginative capacity of the ordinary mind cannot encompass the horror of it. We have attempted to come to terms with the experiments of the Nazis in concentration camps. We now have the prospect of systematic control authorised by men who issue instructions through satellite communications for the destruction of societies....

This is essentially about humiliation, and disempowerment. It is a manifestation of rage acted out by those who fear impotence with such dread, that their whole effort is directed into the emasculation and destruction of the terrifying rival of their unconscious fantasies. In this apocalypse of the mind the punitive figure wells up as if out of the bowels of the opera stage, and this phantasmagoria is acted out on a global scale. These men may be mad enough to believe they are creating a ‘psychocivilised world order". For anyone who has studied damaged children, it is more resonant of the re-enactment from the unconscious, reinforced by a life devoid of the capacity for empathic identification, of the obscenities of the abused and abusing child in the savage nursery. Other people -which were to them like Action Man toys to be dismembered, or Barbie Dolls to be obscenely defiled - become as meaningless in their humanity as pixillated dots on a screen.

Although forced entry into a mind is by definition obscene, an abbreviated assessment of the effects that mind-invaded people describe testifies to the perverted nature of the experiments. Bizarre noises are emitted from the body, a body known well enough by its owner to recognise the noises as extrinsic; air is pumped in and out of orifices as if by a bicycle pump. Gradually the repertoire is augmented - twinges and spasms to the eyes, nose, lips, strange tics, pains in the head, ringing in the ears, obstructions in the throat, pressure on the bowel and bladder causing incontinence; tingling in the fingers, feet, pressures on the heart, on breathing, dizziness, eye problems leading to cataracts; running eyes, running nose; speeding up of heart beats and the raising of pressure in the heart and chest; breathing and chest complaints leading to bronchitis and deterioration of the lungs; agonizing migraines; being woken up at night, sometimes with terrifying jolts ; insomnia; intolerable levels of stress from the loss of one’s privacy. This collection of assorted symptoms is a challenge to any medical practitioner to diagnose.

There are, more seriously, if the afore-going is characterised as non-lethal, the potential lethal effects since the capability of ultrasound and infra-sound to cause cardiac arrest, and brain lesions, paralysis and blindness, as well as blinding by laser beam, or inducing asphyxia by altering the frequencies which control breathing in the brain, epileptic seizure – all these and others may be at the fingertips of those who are developing them....

Finally – if the victims at this point in the new history of this mind-control, cannot yet prove their abuse, it must be asserted that, faced with the available information about technological development – it is certainly not possible for those seeking to evade such claims – to disprove them. To wait until the effects become widespread will be too late.

For these and other reasons which this paper has attempted to address, we would call for an acknowledgement of such technology at a national and international level. Politicians, scientists and neurologists, neuroscientists, physicists and the legal profession should, without further delay, demand public debate on the existence and deployment of psychotronic technology; and for the declassification of information about such devices which abuse helpless people, and threaten democratic freedom.

Victims’ accounts of abuse should be admitted to public account, and the use of psycho-electronic weapons should be made illegal and criminal.

The medical profession should be helped to recognise the symptoms of mind-control and psychotronic abuse, and intelligence about their deployment should be declassified so that this abuse can be seen to be what it is, and not interpreted automatically as an indication of mental illness.

If, in the present confusion and insecurity about the search for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, we conclude that failure to locate them - whatever the truth of the matter –encourages us to be generally complacent, then we shall be colluding with very dark forces at work if we conclude that a course of extreme vigilance signifies paranoia. For there may well be other weapons of mass destruction being developed and not so far from home; weapons which, being even more difficult to locate, are developed invisibly, unobstructed, unheeded in our midst, using human beings as test-beds. Like ESP, the methods being used on humans have not been detectable using conventional detection equipment. It is likely that the signals being used are part of a physics not known to scientists without the highest level of security clearance. To ignore the evidence of victims is to deny, perhaps with catastrophic results, the only evidence which might otherwise lead the defenders of freedom to becoming alert to the development of fearful new methods of destruction. Manipulating terrorist groups and governments alike, these sinister and covert forces may well be very thankful for the professional derision of the victims, and for public ignorance.

© Copyright Carole Smith, Journal of Psycho-Social Studies, 2003., 2007

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Intrusive Brain Reading Surveillance Technology: Hacking the Mind
by Carole Smith
December 13, 2007
Dissent Magazine, Australia, Summer 2007/2008

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.
"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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn1), 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?....

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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn3) can be used quite freely, and with relative ease, in our wireless age[4] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn4), 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn5) 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn6) 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’. [ed. note: And, to hell with the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination!] 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn7) 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn8) 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn9)

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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn10) [11] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn11), and worms engineered so that their nerves and muscles can be controlled with pinp.r.i.c.k.s. of light[12] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn12), 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn13), Dr Nick Begich’s book, Controlling the human mind[14] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn14), 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn15) 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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn16) 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 (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm#_edn17)]

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] (http://www.slavery.org.uk/HackingTheMind.htm////////l_edn18)

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 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DNA+emits+photons&aq=f&oq=) 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’.

© Copyright Carole Smith, Dissent Magazine, Australia, Summer 2007/2008, 2007

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The economic disaster that is military keynesianism
Why the US has really gone broke

http://mondediplo.com/2008/02/05military

February 2008

Global confidence in the US economy has reached zero, as was proved by last month’s stock market meltdown. But there is an enormous anomaly in the US economy above and beyond the subprime mortgage crisis, the housing bubble and the prospect of recession: 60 years of misallocation of resources, and borrowings, to the establishment and maintenance of a military-industrial complex as the basis of the nation’s economic life

By Chalmers Johnson

The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room" — the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination.

As a result, going into 2008, the United States finds itself in the anomalous position of being unable to pay for its own elevated living standards or its wasteful, overly large military establishment. Its government no longer even attempts to reduce the ruinous expenses of maintaining huge standing armies, replacing the equipment that seven years of wars have destroyed or worn out, or preparing for a war in outer space against unknown adversaries. Instead, the Bush administration puts off these costs for future generations to pay or repudiate. This fiscal irresponsibility has been disguised through many manipulative financial schemes (causing poorer countries to lend us unprecedented sums of money), but the time of reckoning is fast approaching....

Fiscal disaster

It is virtually impossible to overstate the profligacy of what our government spends on the military. The Department of Defense’s planned expenditures for the fiscal year 2008 are larger than all other nations’ military budgets combined. The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defence budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defence-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The US has become the largest single seller of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth. Leaving out President Bush’s two on-going wars, defence spending has doubled since the mid-1990s. The defence budget for fiscal 2008 is the largest since the second world war.

Before we try to break down and analyse this gargantuan sum, there is one important caveat. Figures on defence spending are notoriously unreliable. The numbers released by the Congressional Reference Service and the Congressional Budget Office do not agree with each other. Robert Higgs, senior fellow for political economy at the Independent Institute, says: "A well-founded rule of thumb is to take the Pentagon’s (always well publicised) basic budget total and double it" (1 (http://mondediplo.com/2008/02/05military////////lnb1)). Even a cursory reading of newspaper articles about the Department of Defense will turn up major differences in statistics about its expenses. Some 30-40% of the defence budget is "black"," meaning that these sections contain hidden expenditures for classified projects. There is no possible way to know what they include or whether their total amounts are accurate....

The top spenders

...Our excessive military expenditures did not occur over just a few short years or simply because of the Bush administration’s policies. They have been going on for a very long time in accordance with a superficially plausible ideology, and have now become so entrenched in our democratic political system that they are starting to wreak havoc. This is military Keynesianism — the determination to maintain a permanent war economy and to treat military output as an ordinary economic product, even though it makes no contribution to either production or consumption.

This ideology goes back to the first years of the cold war. During the late 1940s, the US was haunted by economic anxieties. The great depression of the 1930s had been overcome only by the war production boom of the second world war. With peace and demobilisation, there was a pervasive fear that the depression would return. During 1949, alarmed by the Soviet Union’s detonation of an atomic bomb, the looming Communist victory in the Chinese civil war, a domestic recession, and the lowering of the Iron Curtain around the USSR’s European satellites, the US sought to draft basic strategy for the emerging cold war. The result was the militaristic National Security Council Report 68 (NSC-68) drafted under the supervision of Paul Nitze, then head of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department. Dated 14 April 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman on 30 September 1950, it laid out the basic public economic policies that the US pursues to the present day.

In its conclusions, NSC-68 asserted: "One of the most significant lessons of our World War II experience was that the American economy, when it operates at a level approaching full efficiency, can provide enormous resources for purposes other than civilian consumption while simultaneously providing a high standard of living" (4 (http://mondediplo.com/2008/02/05military////////lnb4)).

With this understanding, US strategists began to build up a massive munitions industry, both to counter the military might of the Soviet Union (which they consistently overstated) and also to maintain full employment, as well as ward off a possible return of the depression. The result was that, under Pentagon leadership, entire new industries were created to manufacture large aircraft, nuclear-powered submarines, nuclear warheads, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and surveillance and communications satellites. This led to what President Eisenhower warned against in his farewell address of 6 February 1961: "The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience" — the military-industrial complex.

By 1990 the value of the weapons, equipment and factories devoted to the Department of Defense was 83% of the value of all plants and equipment in US manufacturing. From 1947 to 1990, the combined US military budgets amounted to $8.7 trillion. Even though the Soviet Union no longer exists, US reliance on military Keynesianism has, if anything, ratcheted up, thanks to the massive vested interests that have become entrenched around the military establishment. Over time, a commitment to both guns and butter has proven an unstable configuration. Military industries crowd out the civilian economy and lead to severe economic weaknesses. Devotion to military Keynesianism is a form of slow economic suicide.

Higher spending, fewer jobs

...These are only some of the many deleterious effects of military Keynesianism.

It was believed that the US could afford both a massive military establishment and a high standard of living, and that it needed both to maintain full employment. But it did not work out that way. By the 1960s it was becoming apparent that turning over the nation’s largest manufacturing enterprises to the Department of Defense and producing goods without any investment or consumption value was starting to crowd out civilian economic activities. The historian Thomas E Woods Jr observes that, during the 1950s and 1960s, between one-third and two-thirds of all US research talent was siphoned off into the military sector (6 (http://mondediplo.com/2008/02/05military////////lnb6)). It is, of course, impossible to know what innovations never appeared as a result of this diversion of resources and brainpower into the service of the military, but it was during the 1960s that we first began to notice Japan was outpacing us in the design and quality of a range of consumer goods, including household electronics and automobiles.

Can we reverse the trend?

...The pioneer in analysing what has been lost as a result of military Keynesianism was the late Seymour Melman (1917-2004), a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University. His 1970 book, Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War, was a prescient analysis of the unintended consequences of the US preoccupation with its armed forces and their weaponry since the onset of the cold war. Melman wrote: "From 1946 to 1969, the United States government spent over $1,000bn on the military, more than half of this under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations — the period during which the [Pentagon-dominated] state management was established as a formal institution. This sum of staggering size (try to visualize a billion of something) does not express the cost of the military establishment to the nation as a whole. The true cost is measured by what has been foregone, by the accumulated deterioration in many facets of life, by the inability to alleviate human wretchedness of long duration."

In an important exegesis on Melman’s relevance to the current American economic situation, Thomas Woods writes: "According to the US Department of Defense, during the four decades from 1947 through 1987 it used (in 1982 dollars) $7.62 trillion in capital resources. In 1985, the Department of Commerce estimated the value of the nation’s plant and equipment, and infrastructure, at just over _$7.29 trillion… The amount spent over that period could have doubled the American capital stock or modernized and replaced its existing stock" (7 (http://mondediplo.com/2008/02/05military////////lnb7)).

The fact that we did not modernise or replace our capital assets is one of the main reasons why, by the turn of the 21st century, our manufacturing base had all but evaporated. Machine tools, an industry on which Melman was an authority, are a particularly important symptom. In November 1968, a five-year inventory disclosed "that 64% of the metalworking machine tools used in US industry were 10 years old or older. The age of this industrial equipment (drills, lathes, etc.) marks the United States’ machine tool stock as the oldest among all major industrial nations, and it marks the continuation of a deterioration process that began with the end of the second world war. This deterioration at the base of the industrial system certifies to the continuous debilitating and depleting effect that the military use of capital and research and development talent has had on American industry."

...Some of the damage can never be rectified. There are, however, some steps that the US urgently needs to take. These include reversing Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the wealthy, beginning to liquidate our global empire of over 800 military bases, cutting from the defence budget all projects that bear no relationship to national security and ceasing to use the defence budget as a Keynesian jobs programme.

If we do these things we have a chance of squeaking by. If we don’t, we face probable national insolvency and a long depression. [emphasis mine]

English language editorial director: Wendy Kristianasen - all rights reserved © 1997-2008 Le Monde diplomatique.

[just_me]

From The Sunday Times
December 21, 2008
by John Harlow

What a turn-on: science develops bionic sex chip (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article5375573.ece)

FORGET Viagra: scientists are working on an electronic "sex chip" that will be able to stimulate pleasure centres in the brain.

The prospect of the chip, which could be a decade away, is emerging from progress in deep brain stimulation, in which tiny shocks from implanted electrodes are given to the brain. The technology has been used in America to treat Parkinson’s disease.

In recent months scientists have been focusing on an area of the brain just behind the eyes known as the orbitofrontal cortex. This is associated with feelings of pleasure derived from eating and sex.

A research survey conducted by Morten Kringelbach, senior fellow at Oxford University’s department of psychiatry, and reported in the Nature Reviews Neuroscience journal, found that the orbitofrontal cortex could be a "new stimulation target" to help people suffering from anhedonia, an inability to experience pleasure from such activities. Stimulating this area can produce pleasure as intense as "devouring a delicious pastry", he said.

His colleague Tipu Aziz, a professor of neurosurgery at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, predicted a significant breakthrough in the science behind a "sex chip" within 10 years.

"There is evidence that this chip will work," Aziz said last week. "A few years ago a scientist implanted such a device into the brain of a woman with a low sex drive and turned her into a very sexually active woman. She didn’t like the sudden change, so the wiring in her head was removed."
The wiring remains a hurdle: Aziz says current technology, which requires surgery to connect a wire from a heart pacemaker into the brain, causes bleeding in some patients and is "intrusive and crude".

By 2015, he predicts, micro-computers in the brain with a range of applications could be self-powered and controlled by hand-held transmitters.

"When the technology is improved, we can use deep brain stimulation in many new areas. It will be more subtle, with more control over the power so you may be able to turn the chip on and off when needed.

"In 10 years’ time the range of therapies available will be amazing – we don’t know half the possibilities yet," he said.

An electronic machine that generates sexual sensations is already under development by a North Carolina doctor, Stuart Meloy, who is modifying a spinal cord stimulator to produce pleasure in women. He calls it the Orgasmatron, a name taken from an orgasm-producing device in the 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper. A similar device, the Excessive Machine, featured in Jane Fonda’s 1968 film, Barbarella.

Some critics regard the techniques as only a step away from brain washing.

"We are being led to big philosophical questions by rapid technological advances," said Mahlon DeLong of Emory University in Atlanta, who has pioneered breakthroughs in brain stimulation to help Parkinson’s sufferers. "If we don’t discuss them now, they may be taking place before we can resolve the issues."

Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd.

[just_me]

bump...bump

[Hansel]

http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/winking/winking0064.gif

….you are hot! but thanks for it anyway

[911NewWorld]

Some would be true.
But under Yankee Gov't abusive system, it is a horrible disaster for all.
Their war teams are playing underground with payroll of over $20,000/daily for each group gang for the garbage information colletion task. Yankees paid much taxes and their bloody hard water money for Yankee Gov't wasting war games.
:girl:

[911NewWorld]

...
The Origin of ‘Shock & Awe’
U.S. ‘Hyperwar’ Doctrine Laid Out in 1996 Study Co-Authored by
Jewish Institute for National Security, aka JINSA, Advisor

http://web.archive.org/web/20051026225646/http://www.jinsa.org/
articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/140/documentid/
1945/history/3,645,140,1945 (http://web.archive.org/web/20051026225646/http://www.jinsa.org/articles/articles.html/function/view/categoryid/140/documentid/1945/history/3,645,140,1945)

Excerpts:

"The aim of Rapid Dominance is to affect the will, perception, and understanding of the adversary to fit or respond to our strategic policy ends through imposing a regime of Shock and Awe. Clearly, the traditional military aim of destroying, defeating, or neutralizing the adversary’s military capability is a fundamental and necessary component of Rapid Dominance. Our intent, however, is to field a range of capabilities to induce sufficient Shock and Awe to render the adversary impotent. This means that physical and psychological effects must be obtained.

That sounds for real. Conventional weaponries are known; nuclear and aka are known too; bio ones are known too, but not fit in US SHOCK & AWE 21st warfare doctrine. What is for that?
There is a very war sphere only US secretly and silently at most working on for many years with billions of dollars for that warfare, starwar weaponry. These starwar weaponry could do that doctrine. It could shock and awe to render the adversary impotent from a far distant away to target. Abusing head of an opponent might be the best fit to that doctrine. Awareness!
:Potstir:

[just_me]

That sounds for real. Conventional weaponries are known; nuclear and aka are known too; bio ones are known too, but not fit in US SHOCK & AWE 21st warfare doctrine. What is for that?
There is a very war sphere only US secretly and silently at most working on for many years with billions of dollars for that warfare, starwar weaponry. These starwar weaponry could do that doctrine. It could shock and awe to render the adversary impotent from a far distant away to target. Abusing head of an opponent might be the best fit to that doctrine. Awareness!
:Potstir:

Hey, 911... you're brave enough to talk about it. That's more than most. I'm impressed. It seems that you are not a native English speaker; however, I gather the basic intent of your notes.

I'll start with your closing. Awareness. That will be what saves you; if you can be saved. It's that serious and threacherous. The whole process has qualities unsettlingly like those of pedophilia that it boggles the mind... and, the taboo is just as powerful. I try to think that my life is my learning experience and there are experiences I've had that I'm grateful for today that I might have suffered for before. *smile*

So, will you work with me since you're so courageous? Courage is a Cardinal Virtue.

I could use help digging deeper into some of those links.

The costs of these programs is exorbitant (sp?) and who holds all the cards? Meaning... what is the ultimate goal? Are these katz after eternal life... unlimited longevity? Are they using us as guinea pigs with these minor building block projects to attain that ultimate goal?

What gives here? Why isn't there public discussion and why isn't this front page, top of the hour, news?

Peace.

P.S. Glad to be back online after a three week reprieve.

[911NewWorld]

Hey, 911... you're brave enough to talk about it. That's more than most. I'm impressed.

The costs of these programs is exorbitant (sp?) and who holds all the cards? Meaning... what is the ultimate goal? Are these katz after eternal life... unlimited longevity? Are they using us as guinea pigs with these minor building block projects to attain that ultimate goal?

What gives here? Why isn't there public discussion and why isn't this front page, top of the hour, news?

Peace.

P.S. Glad to be back online after a three week reprieve.

What side you are on? Alert! You are going to be under their attacks.:ghug:

[just_me]

What side you are on? Alert! You are going to be under their attacks.:ghug:

I made myself a target a long time ago. For example, it came as no surprise to me to learn in December, 2005, of the NSA spying via telecommunications. Rather, I wondered what-the-***** took so long for the story to be told. Trouble with me was that way back then, I still believed the folks running the show were heroes. I learned the hard way that ain't so. Pedophiles and Sociopaths more likely than not.

In any event, Courage is a Cardinal Virtue and sorely lacking in this world.

Too bad, too.

[goth1856]

...bunk!! we cant even do the weather right!!
...just a few months ago we had forcast of 0%
of rain...well later that day we woundup with
one the worst deluges in recent memory - :devil:
about 6-8 inches fell in four hours...had major
flooding...how was this missed?:confused: it blew in off
the gulf!! duh! and with centcom here too! <--tampa:crazy:

:cool:

[just_me]

...bunk!! we cant even do the weather right!!
...just a few months ago we had forcast of 0%
of rain...well later that day we woundup with
one the worst deluges in recent memory - :devil:
about 6-8 inches fell in four hours...had major
flooding...how was this missed?:confused: it blew in off
the gulf!! duh! and with centcom here too! <--tampa:crazy:

:cool:

Your response is as idiotic as your face.

[goth1856]

Your response is as idiotic as your face.

...oh i'm just.....:scrollhah:scrollhah:scrollhah:scrollhah

:cool:

[just_me]

...oh i'm just.....:scrollhah:scrollhah:scrollhah:scrollhah

:cool:

It's because of imbeciles like yourself that these technologies have advanced thus far.

[911NewWorld]

You, a like others, agents of Yankee Govt and its allies are promoting yankee Govt's crimes against peoples.
You do not have a fact, provide a fact of its action existence, rather you are copying. Consequently, you do not know how badly abusive, chicken sh*t lying ankee govt is; like 911. :lafn:
Be Alert on you are going to be under its abuses soon.:ghug::kowt:

[just_me]

You, a like others, agents of Yankee Govt and its allies are promoting yankee Govt's crimes against peoples.
You do not have a fact, provide a fact of its action existence, rather you are copying. Consequently, you do not know how badly abusive, chicken sh*t lying ankee govt is; like 911. :lafn:
Be Alert on you are going to be under its abuses soon.:ghug::kowt:

I've been trying for two days to understand to whom do you address this post?

[911NewWorld]

I've been trying for two days to understand to whom do you address this post?
That was for you and others like you.:girl:
YOu are just copying things from internet; You do not know and have any real life facts on the topic you printing here. Show us some real life facts. You are on yankee govt paychecks for trying playing good perception of secret damage dirty crimes yankee govt doing.
:cry::hi:offtopic::pray::bravo::baby:

[just_me]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtt0GDVKp2kUEw39aEGal9yfYmjgD961JH500

alternate: http://cryptogon.com/?p=6578

By DINESH RAMDE
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there's a slim — but growing — chance the ad is watching you too.

Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The makers of the tracking systems say the software can determine the viewer's gender, approximate age range and, in some cases, ethnicity — and can change the ads accordingly.

That could mean razor ads for men, cosmetics ads for women and video-game ads for teens.

And even if the ads don't shift based on which people are watching, the technology's ability to determine the viewers' demographics is golden for advertisers who want to know how effectively they're reaching their target audience.

While the technology remains in limited use for now, advertising industry analysts say it is finally beginning to live up to its promise. The manufacturers say their systems can accurately determine gender 85 to 90 percent of the time, while accuracy for the other measures continues to be refined.

The concept is reminiscent of the science-fiction movie "Minority Report," in which Tom Cruise's character enters a mall and finds that retinal scanners identify him and prompt personalized ads that greet him by name.
But this technology doesn't go nearly that far. It doesn't identify people individually — it simply categorizes them by outward appearances.
So a video screen might show a motorcycle ad for a group of men, but switch to a minivan ad when women and children join them, said Vicki Rabenou, the chief measurement officer of Tampa, Fla.-based TruMedia Technologies Inc., one of the leaders in developing the technology.
"This is proactive merchandising," Rabenou said. "You're targeting people with smart ads."

Because the tracking industry is still in its infancy, there isn't yet consensus on how to refer to the technology. Some call it face reading, face counting, gaze tracking or, more generally, face-based audience measurement.

Whatever it's called, advertisers are finally ready to try it, said advertising consultant Jack Sullivan, a senior vice president of Starcom USA in Chicago. "I think you're going to see a lot of movement toward it by the end of this year in the top 10 markets," he said.

Because face tracking might feel reminiscent of Big Brother, manufacturers are racing to offer reassurances. When the systems capture an image of who's watching the screen, a computer instantly analyzes it. The systems' manufacturers insist, however, that nothing is ever stored and no identifying information is ever associated with the pictures. That makes the system less intrusive than a surveillance camera that records what it sees, the developers say.

[ed. note: But, the technology does give advertisers/marketers a manipulative advantage over unsuspecting consumers.]

The idea still worries Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group in San Francisco. Tien said it's not enough to say some system is "not as bad as some other technology," and argues that cameras that study people contribute to an erosion of privacy.

In general, the tracking systems work like this: A sensor or camera in or near the screen identifies viewers' faces by picking up shapes, colors and the relative speed of movement. The concept is similar to the way consumer cameras now can automatically make sure faces are in focus.
When the ad system pinpoints a face, it compares shapes and patterns to faces that are already identified in a database as male or female. That lets the system predict the person's gender almost immediately.

"The most important features seem to be cheekbones, fullness of lips and the gap between the eyebrows," said Paolo Prandoni, chief scientific officer of Quividi, a French company that is another player in face-tracking technology. Others include Studio IMC Inc. in New York.

The companies say their systems have become adept at determining a viewer's gender, but age is trickier: The software can categorize age only in broad ranges — teens, younger to middle-aged folks and seniors. There's moderate demand for ads based on ethnic information, but the companies acknowledge that determining ethnicity is more challenging than figuring out gender and age range.

Prandoni provided The Associated Press a limited version of Quividi's software, which uses an ordinary webcam to stream video to a computer. The trial version tracked gender only, using color-coded circles to distinguish male and female faces.

The sample size was too small to be statistically significant, but it was accurate about 80 to 90 percent of the time.

That might be as precise as the systems ever get, said Deborah Mitchell, a professor of consumer psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Even the human brain can't always determine gender, age or ethnicity.
Still, "even if it gets to 70 percent accuracy, that's still giving you a wealth of information," said Mitchell, who teaches in the Wisconsin School of Business.

That information is certainly valuable to Bill Ketcham, the chief marketing officer of Adspace Networks Inc. His New York company sells video advertising on 1,400 video screens at 105 malls around the nation.

Adspace is testing six TruMedia systems at malls in Winston-Salem, N.C., Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The kiosks display a daily list of top 10 sales at the mall, as well as paid advertising that comes largely from movie studios and TV networks.

[ed. note: Advertising is Propaganda.]

A 15-second video ad that replays across Adspace's national network can cost as much as $765,000 per month. So advertisers expect rigorous information about who sees the spots — information that face tracking can now provide, Ketcham said.

For now, at least, Adspace isn't changing the ads based on who's watching — Ketcham said the kiosks' audiences are so large that it wouldn't be practical to personalize ads to individuals.

While advertisers like the face-tracking technology, another privacy advocate, Harley Geiger, questions whether it should be used on consumers without their knowledge. Geiger, staff counsel for the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C., said advertisers should be telling consumers what details about them are being collected and for what purpose.

"With the technology proliferating, now or the short-term is the time to consider privacy protections," he said. "If you don't build it in at an early stage it becomes very difficult to build it into an already established system."

Hosted by Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[just_me]

Making the enemy of World War II (i.e., in part, renegade science) the trivial pursuit of the PostHuman Age:

Army Assembles 'Mad Scientist' Conference. Seriously.
By Noah Shachtman January 09, 2009 | 5:25:00 PM
Categories: Bizarro

Last August, the U.S. Army held a three-day conference in Portsmouth, Virginia, to look at new developments in military science and hardware. The confab was called the "2008 Mad Scientist Future Technology Seminar." Really. It was.

"The objective of the seminar was to investigate proliferating technologies with the potential to empower individuals and groups in the next 10-25 years," according to an unclassified summary of the Mad Scientist gathering, obtained by Danger Room.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/images/2009/01/09/641pxmad_scientistsvg.png

As you'd expect from such a colorfully-titled gathering, the collected brains predicted a world in which individuals would have easy access to everything from ray guns to nano-bots to bioengineered weapons to arms for creating international chaos online.

"The U.S. must accept the reality that it can no longer assume technological superiority over the rest of the world. Ready access to scientific information and technological know-how has and will continue to level the playing field," the Mad Scientist summary notes.

"In the operational environment of 2030 and beyond, the destructive/disruptive capability of the individual and small group will be more effective, more lethal, more easily developed/acquired, more efficiently delivered, and more easily concealed and transported ...

Individuals with access to the global information grid can easily acquire the knowledge needed to develop lethal bio agents, literally in their kitchen sink. Nanotechnology and robotics will offer opportunities to introduce and spread bio and chemical agents into targeted populations."

Turning to forward-looking thinkers is a time-honored government tradition. Shortly after 9/11, for instance, the Army met with Hollywood screenwriters and directors to forecast terrorist scenarios. Last year, the Department of Homeland Security held a gathering of science-fiction writers to solicit advice on which technology programs to fund. In comparison, the Mad Scientist gathering of Ivy League researchers, defense contractors, think tankers, and NASA scientists seems rather conventional.

The Mad Scientist group sees more than just a world of danger in the 2030s.

"Most likely results include an increased life span, a solution to the energy crisis, ready availability of food and fresh water to all, a global distribution of technology, education, economics, and -- therefore -- wealth. This will reduce the tension between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' while the capabilities of robotics and access to virtual reality to both care for and entertain will create the perception of well-being almost universally around the globe. Advancements are limited only by imagination and resources."

Who knows what they'll dream up after that?

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/armys-mad-scien.html (http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/armys-mad-scien.html)

[911NewWorld]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtt0GDVKp2kUEw39aEGal9yfYmjgD961JH500

alternate: http://cryptogon.com/?p=6578

By DINESH RAMDE
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Watch an advertisement on a video screen in a mall, health club or grocery store and there's a slim — but growing — chance the ad is watching you too.

Small cameras can now be embedded in the screen or hidden around it, tracking who looks at the screen and for how long. The makers of the tracking systems say the software can determine the viewer's gender, approximate age range and, in some cases, ethnicity — and can change the ads accordingly.

....

"With the technology proliferating, now or the short-term is the time to consider privacy protections," he said. "If you don't build it in at an early stage it becomes very difficult to build it into an already established system."

Hosted by Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

You are posting copies of things on other sites. Did you know that on the loose and in the wilds, yankee government is carpet bombing peoples around in a similar way to it unproven claimed on the incident of USSR beamed U.S. staffs working in U.S. Embassy House in Moscow in cold war age long time ago? Of course, U.S. technology on this now is more efficient and more silent than that was such as it can do it from 10,000miles away of the targets. Did you know that rather than your copying materials.:rose::clap:

Of course, this type of attack

[just_me]

In Their Own Words (http://www.elliotinstitute.org/mad.htm)

"Chimeras [human-animal crossbreads] or parahumans might legitimately be fashioned to do dangerous or demeaning jobs. As it is now, low-grade work is shoved off on moronic and retarded individuals, the victims of uncontrolled reproduction. Should we not program such workers 'thoughtfully' instead of accidentally, by means of hybridization?" — Dr. Joseph Fletcher, Harvard University professor widely recognized as the "patriarch of bioethics"

"The horizons of the new eugenics are, in principle, boundless. For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future..." — Dr. Robert Sinsheimer, molecular biologist, Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, initiator of the Human Genome Project.

"No newborn infant should be declared human until it has passed certain tests regarding its genetic endowment, and that if it fails these tests it forfeits the right to live.” —Dr. Francis Crick, Nobel Prize Laureate 1962, co-discovery of DNA. Crick also favored a scheme for licensing parenthood or a tax on children to encourage "those people who are more socially desirable to have more children.”

"If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease...so I'd like to get rid of that....People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great." — Dr. James Watson, president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York, Nobel Prize Laureate, co-discovery of DNA, advocating for manipulation of the human genome.

"Science is moving at such a fast pace that scientists have proven that they can create headless mice through removal of genes in the embryo that control development of the head. But the body would have the capacity to keep the organs functional for use as transplants.... Embryonic stem cells, which holds promise of cure of any organ, is but a slow move towards immortality." — Dr. P.B. Desai, world renowned oncologist in India

"If biological manipulation is indeed a slippery slope, then we are already sliding down that slope now and may as well enjoy the ride.''— Gregory Stock, Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society at UCLA’s School of Public Health and author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future (http://research.arc2.ucla.edu/pmts/nytimesrdh.htm)

"There is a close analogy between a human body invaded by a cancer and a nation afflicted with subpopulations whose inborn defects cause them to become social liabilities. Just as in cancer the best treatment is to eradicate the parasitic growth as quickly as possible, the eugenic defense against the dysgenic social effects of afflicted subpopulations is of necessity limited to equally drastic measures.... When these inferior elements are not effectively eliminated from a population, then—just as when the cells of a malignant tumor are allowed to proliferate throughout a human body—they destroy the host body as well as themselves." — Dr. Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1973. (Taking Eugenics Seriously)

Advocates of Human Engineering

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (http://ieet.org/)

Journal of Evolution and Technology (http://jetpress.org/)

World Transhumanist Association (http://www.transhumanism.org/)

Incipient Posthuman (http://www.incipientposthuman.com/)

Creative Conscious Evolution - Transhuman (http://www.euvolution.com/index2.htm)

Children of the Millennium (http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/eugenics.htm)

Future of Humanity Institute (http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/)

Transtopia -- Transhumanism Evolved (http://www.transtopia.org/)

Prometheism (http://www.prometheism.net/)

Reason (http://www.reason.com/rb/rb081104.shtml)

Peter Singer (http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/singer6)

Critics of Transhumanism (http://www.elliotinstitute.org/#)

The Transhumanists: The next great threat to human dignity. (http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-smith092002.asp)

Human Genetics Alert (http://www.hgalert.org/)

[just_me]

You are posting copies of things on other sites. Did you know that on the loose and in the wilds, yankee government is carpet bombing peoples around in a similar way to it unproven claimed on the incident of USSR beamed U.S. staffs working in U.S. Embassy House in Moscow in cold war age long time ago? Of course, U.S. technology on this now is more efficient and more silent than that was such as it can do it from 10,000miles away of the targets. Did you know that rather than your copying materials.:rose::clap:

Of course, this type of attack

Ever heard of The Looney Tunes?

You're a looney tune, man. You can't even speak intelligently.

Get the phuch away from me and my thread.

It's because of people like you that this subject is so difficult to discuss.

But, it must be discussed because knowledge of it may be the one thing that saves us from it.

[Mainbeach]

Even if we stick to the basic claims, such as ' satellites can track you anywhere on earth in 9 seconds or less even if your mobile phone is turned off ' --- the results defy the claims


They couldn't even track the fire-front and evacuate people and townships during the latest bushfire tragedy in Australia


Yet we're being assured 'they' can read people's minds, remotely ?

[just_me]

Even if we stick to the basic claims, such as ' satellites can track you anywhere on earth in 9 seconds or less even if your mobile phone is turned off ' --- the results defy the claims


They couldn't even track the fire-front and evacuate people and townships during the latest bushfire tragedy in Australia


Yet we're being assured 'they' can read people's minds, remotely ?

Well, if I can't stop them, at least until there's been adequate public discourse, the least I can do is to help them to find the idiots.

"There is a close analogy between a human body invaded by a cancer and a nation afflicted with subpopulations whose inborn defects cause them to become social liabilities. Just as in cancer the best treatment is to eradicate the parasitic growth as quickly as possible, the eugenic defense against the dysgenic social effects of afflicted subpopulations is of necessity limited to equally drastic measures.... When these inferior elements are not effectively eliminated from a population, then—just as when the cells of a malignant tumor are allowed to proliferate throughout a human body—they destroy the host body as well as themselves." — Dr. Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1973. (Taking Eugenics Seriously)

Any more volunteers?

[just_me]

Whistleblower: NSA Spied on Everyone, Targeted Journalists (http://cryptogon.com/?p=6393)

January 22nd, 2009

Via: Rawstory (http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Whistleblower_Bushs_NSA_targeted_reporters_0121.ht ml):

Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted journalists.

“The National Security Agency had access to all Americans’ communications — faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications,” Tice claimed. “It didn’t matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications.”

Tice further explained that “even for the NSA it’s impossible to literally collect all communications. … What was done was sort of an ability to look at the metadata … and ferret that information to determine what communications would ultimately be collected.”

According to Tice, in addition to this “low-tech, dragnet” approach, the NSA also had the ability to hone in on specific groups, and that was the aspect he himself was involved with. However, even within the NSA there was a cover story meant to prevent people like Tice from realizing what they were doing.

“In one of the operations that I was in, we looked at organizations, just supposedly so that we would not target them,” Tice told Olbermann. “What I was finding out, though, is that the collection on those organizations was 24/7 and 365 days a year — and it made no sense. … I started to investigate that. That’s about the time when they came after me to fire me.”

When Olbermann pressed him for specifics, Tice offered, “An organization that was collected on were US news organizations and reporters and journalists.”

“To what purpose?” Olbermann asked. “I mean, is there a file somewhere full of every email sent by all the reporters at the New York Times? Is there a recording somewhere of every conversation I had with my little nephew in upstate New York?”

Tice did not answer directly, but simply stated, “If it was involved in this specific avenue of collection, it would be everything.” He added, however, that he had no idea what was ultimately done with the information, except that he was sure it “was digitized and put on databases somewhere.”

Tice first began alleging that there were illegal activities going on at both the NSA and the Defense Intelligence Agency in December 2005, several months after being fired by the NSA. He also served at that time as a source for the New York Times story which revealed the existence of the NSA’s wireless wiretapping program.

Over the next several months, however, Tice was frustrated in his attempts to testify before Congress, had his credibility attacked by Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh, and was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in an apparent attempt at intimidation.

Tice is now coming forward again now because George Bush is finally out of office. He told Olbermann that the Obama administration has not been in touch with him about his latest revelations, but, “I did send a letter to, I think it’s [Obama intelligence adviser John] Brennan — a handwritten letter, because I knew all my communications were tapped, my phones, my computer, and I’ve had the FBI on me like flies on you-know-what … and I’m assuming that he gave the note to our current president — that I intended to say a little bit more than I had in the past.”

[just_me]

Study Takes Step Toward Erasing Bad Memories (http://cryptogon.com/?p=6949)

February 16th, 2009
Via: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSTRE51E1H520090215):

A widely available blood pressure pill could one day help people erase bad memories, perhaps treating some anxiety disorders and phobias, according to a Dutch study published on Sunday.

The generic beta-blocker propranolol significantly weakened people’s fearful memories of spiders among a group of healthy volunteers who took it, said Merel Kindt, a psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, who led the study.

“We could show that the fear response went away, which suggests the memory was weakened,” Kindt said in a telephone interview.
The findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience are important because the drug may offer another way to help people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other problems related to bad memories.

Traditionally, therapists seek to teach people with such disorders strategies to build new associations and block bad memories. The problem, Kindt said, is the memories remain and people often relapse.

Animal studies have shown that fear memories can change when recalled, a process known as reconsolidation. At this stage they are also vulnerable to beta-blockers like propranolol, which target neurons in the brain, the researchers said.

Kindt and her team’s experiment included 60 men and women who learned to associate pictures of spiders with a mild shock. This experience created a fearful memory, the researchers said.

Other participants saw the same picture but did not receive an electrical shock. For these people this established a “safe” association without a fear response or bad memory.

One day later people given the drug had a greatly decreased fear response compared with people on the placebo when shown the picture and given a mild shock, the researchers said.

“There was no difference to the fear spider and the safe spider,” Kindt said. “This shows it is possible to weaken the underlying memory by interfering with it.”

The next steps are to look at how long the drug’s effects on memory last, and testing the treatment in people who actually are suffering from some kind of disorder or phobia, Kindt said.

[just_me]

Well, DigitalAngel didn't go over too well. So, here we go again.

Humans 'will be implanted with microchips' (http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/735519/humans-will-be-implanted-with-microchips)

alternate: http://cryptogon.com/?p=6562

14:00 AEST Fri Jan 30 2009
By Josephine Asher

This VeriChip microchip contains identity and health information and is embedded under the skin. (AAP)
A protest against microchip implants planned for Alzheimers patients in Florida. (AAP)

All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.

Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong's School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term "uberveillance" to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance.

"Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, but on the inside looking out through a microchip that is embedded in our bodies," Dr Michael told ninemsn.

Microchips are commonly implanted into animals to reveal identification details when scanned and similar devices have been used with Alzheimers patients.

US company VeriChip is already using implantable microchips, which store a 16-digit unique identification number, on humans for medical purposes.
"Our focus is on high-risk patients, and our product's ability to identify them and their medical records in an emergency," spokesperson Allison Tomek said.

"We do not know when or if someone will develop an implantable microchip with GPS technology, but it is not an application we are pursuing."
Another form of uberveillance is the use of bracelets worn by dangerous prisoners which use global positioning systems to pinpoint their movements.

But Dr Michael said the technology behind uberveillance would eventually lead to a black box small enough to fit on a tiny microchip and implanted in our bodies.

This could also allow someone to be located in an emergency or for the identification of corpses after a large scale disaster or terrorist attack.
"This black box will then be a witness to our actual movements, words — perhaps even our thoughts —-and play a similar role to the black box placed in an aircraft," he said.

He also predicted that microchip implants and their infrastructure could eliminate the need for e-passports, e-tags, and secure ID cards.
"Microchipping I think will eventually become compulsory in the context of identification within the frame of national security," he said.

Although uberveillance was only in its early phases, Dr Michael's wife, Katina Michael — a senior lecturer from UOW's School of Information Systems and Technology — said the ability to track and identify any individual was already possible.

"Anyone with a mobile phone can be tracked to 15m now," she said, pointing out that most mobile phone handsets now contained GPS receivers and radio frequency identification (RFID) readers.

"The worst scenario is the absolute loss of human rights," she said.
Wisconsin, North Dakota and four other states in the US have already outlawed the use of enforced microchipping.

"Australia hasn't got specific regulations addressing these applications," she said.

"We need to address the potential for misuse by amending privacy laws to ensure personal data protection."

Uberveillance has been nominated for Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year 2008.

[just_me]

Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce (http://www.infowars.com/defense-department-announces-civilian-expeditionary-workforce/)

January 30th, 2009
Via: Infowars:

The Defense Department has established a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions.

The move is seen by some as an initial step towards fulfilling president Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. military.

The intent of the program “is to maximize the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel to be fully utilized for operational requirements,” according to a Defense Department report.

The program was officially implemented one week ago, on the 23rd January, when Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England signed Defense Department Directive 1404.10 (PDF), which provides a summation of the duties the workforce will undertake.

The directive, which is effective immediately, states that civilian employees of the DoD will be asked to sign agreements stating that they will deploy in support of military missions for up to two years if needed.

Workforce members, who are divided into different designations under the directive, will serve overseas in support of humanitarian, reconstruction and, if necessary, combat-support missions.

“If the employee does not wish to deploy, every effort will be made to reassign the employee to a nondeploying position.” the DoD report states.
While the directive suggests that the DoD will at first seek volunteers to serve in the civilian workforce, section 4, subsection (e) paragraph (2) states:

Management retains the authority to direct and assign civilian employees, either voluntarily, involuntarily, or on an unexpected basis to accomplish the DoD mission.

In addition, the directive states that all workforce members will be subject to physical and psychological testing, both before and after deployment.

The directive refers several times to the civilian workforce as a component of the “Total Force”, which it describes as “The organizations, units, and individuals that compromise the DoD resources for implementing the National Security Strategy.” This “Total Force” includes active, reserve and retired military personnel in addition to DoD civilian employees.

Examples of intelligent commentary:

MOVING TOWARD FASCIST SYNTHESIS:

4 Responses to “Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce”

ltcolonelnemo Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Hmmm . . . no jobs for the 18-25 bracket, so . . . indentured servitude disguised as military service! Oh wait, they’re the same thing.
lagavulin Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
“Management retains the authority to direct and assign civilian employees, either voluntarily, involuntarily, or on an unexpected basis to accomplish the DoD mission.”
I just thought I’d repeat that in case anyone missed it.
“‘Civilian’?…not anymore, SOLDIER!”
anothernut Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
The war machine is hungry… for more people.
Miraculix Says:
January 31st, 2009 at 10:32 am
Hail Sparta!

[just_me]

Teleportation Milestone
23 January 2009 11:35 am ET

The U.S. Air Force recently took a look into teleportation.

Overview of experimental setup for recent teleportation achievement. Credit: JQI/University of Maryland Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.

This is a significant milestone in a field known as quantum information processing, said Christopher Monroe of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, who led the effort.

Teleportation is one of nature's most mysterious forms of transport: Quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without traveling through any physical medium. It has previously been achieved between photons (a unit, or quantum, of electromagnetic radiation, such as light) over very large distances, between photons and ensembles of atoms, and between two nearby atoms through the intermediary action of a third.

None of those, however, provides a feasible means of holding and managing quantum information over long distances.

Now the JQI team, along with colleagues at the University of Michigan, has succeeded in teleporting a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a meter. That capability is necessary for workable quantum information systems because they will require memory storage at both the sending and receiving ends of the transmission.

In the Jan. 23 issue of the journal Science, the scientists report that, by using their protocol, atom-to-atom teleported information can be recovered with perfect accuracy about 90 percent of the time — and that figure can be improved.

"Our system has the potential to form the basis for a large-scale 'quantum repeater' that can network quantum memories over vast distances," Monroe said. "Moreover, our methods can be used in conjunction with quantum bit operations to create a key component needed for quantum computation."

A quantum computer could perform certain tasks, such as encryption-related calculations and searches of giant databases, considerably faster than conventional machines. The effort to devise a working model is a matter of intense interest worldwide.

Teleportation and entanglement

Physicist Richard Feynman is quoted as having said that "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understands quantum mechanics." Or sometimes he is cited thusly: "I think I can safely say that nobody understand(s) (sic) quantum mechanics."

Nonetheless, here is how the University of Maryland describes Monroe's work.

Teleportation works because of a remarkable quantum phenomenon called entanglement which only occurs on the atomic and subatomic scale. Once two objects are put in an entangled state, their properties are inextricably entwined. Although those properties are inherently unknowable until a measurement is made, measuring either one of the objects instantly determines the characteristics of the other, no matter how far apart they are.

The JQI team set out to entangle the quantum states of two individual ytterbium ions so that information embodied in the condition of one could be teleported to the other. Each ion was isolated in a separate high-vacuum trap, suspended in an invisible cage of electromagnetic fields and surrounded by metal electrodes.

The researchers identified two readily discernible ground (lowest energy) states of the ions that would serve as the alternative "bit" values of an atomic quantum bit, or qubit.

Conventional electronic bits (short for binary digits), such as those in a personal computer, are always in one of two states: off or on, 0 or 1, high or low voltage, etc. Quantum bits, however, can be in some combination, called a "superposition," of both states at the same time, like a coin that is simultaneously heads and tails — until a measurement is made. It is this phenomenon that gives quantum computation its extraordinary power.

Laser pulse initiates process

At the start of the experimental process, each ion (designated A and B) is initialized in a given ground state.

Then ion A is irradiated with a specially tailored microwave burst from one of its cage electrodes, placing the ion in some desired superposition of the two qubit states — in effect "writing" into "memory" the information to be teleported.

Immediately thereafter, both ions are excited by a picosecond (one trillionth of a second) laser pulse. The pulse duration is so short that each ion emits only a single photon as it sheds the energy gained by the laser and falls back to one or the other of the two qubit ground states.
Depending on which one it falls into, the ion emits one of two kinds of photons of slightly different wavelengths (designated red and blue) that correspond to the two atomic qubit states. It is the relationship between those photons that will eventually provide the telltale signal that entanglement has occurred.

Beamsplitter encounter

Each emitted photon is captured by a lens, routed to a separate strand of fiber-optic cable, and carried to a 50-50 beamsplitter where it is equally probable for the photon to pass straight through the splitter or to be reflected. On either side of the beamsplitter are detectors that can record the arrival of a single photon.

Before it reaches the beamsplitter, each photon is in an unknowable superposition of states. After encountering the beamsplitter, however, each takes on specific characteristics.

As a result, for each pair of photons, four color combinations are possible — blue-blue, red-red, blue-red and red-blue — as well as one of two polarizations: horizontal or vertical. In nearly all of those variations, the photons either cancel each other out or both end up in the same detector. But there is one — and only one — combination in which both detectors will record a photon at exactly the same time.

In that case, however, it is physically impossible to tell which ion produced which photon because it cannot be known whether the photon arriving at a detector passed through the beamsplitter or was reflected by it.

Thanks to the peculiar laws of quantum mechanics, that inherent uncertainty projects the ions into an entangled state. That is, each ion is in a superposition of the two possible qubit states. The simultaneous detection of photons at the detectors does not occur often, so the laser stimulus and photon emission process has to be repeated many thousands of times per second. But when a photon appears in each detector, it is an unambiguous signature of entanglement between the ions.

When an entangled condition is identified, the scientists immediately take a measurement of ion A. The act of measurement forces it out of superposition and into a definite condition: one of the two qubit states.
But because ion A's state is irreversibly tied to ion B's, the measurement also forces B into the complementary state. Depending on which state ion A is found in, the researchers now know precisely what kind of microwave pulse to apply to ion B in order to recover the exact information that had been written to ion A by the original microwave burst. Doing so results in the accurate teleportation of the information.

Teleportation vs. other communications

What distinguishes this outcome as teleportation, rather than any other form of communication, is that no information pertaining to the original memory actually passes between ion A and ion B. Instead, the information disappears when ion A is measured and reappears when the microwave pulse is applied to ion B.

"One particularly attractive aspect of our method is that it combines the unique advantages of both photons and atoms," says Monroe. "Photons are ideal for transferring information fast over long distances, whereas atoms offer a valuable medium for long-lived quantum memory ... Also, the teleportation of quantum information in this way could form the basis of a new type of quantum internet that could outperform any conventional type of classical network for certain tasks."

The work was supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity program under U.S. Army Research Office contract, the National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics at the Information Frontier Program, and the NSF Physics Frontier Center at the Joint Quantum Institute.

[just_me]

posted: July 5, 2001

As of March, 2000, THEY represent about 95 to 98 percent of the total Earth population. YOU KNOW IT. YOU FEEL IT.

THEY have been growing in numbers since a "spiritual hurricane" swept up this planet from 1993 to the present day. YOU are a SURVIVOR of this situation. YOU KNOW IT. YOU REMEMBER IT.

THEY live in two different realities at the same time : THE STAGE and THE BACKSTAGE. You live in one. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY read your mind all the time, and manipulate language and synchronicity to keep what you call "your life" under their control. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to bend your belief system through falacies, false dichotomies and false premises, in order to sell you distorted ideas about their SECOND reality, which is presently only a reality-to-be to you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY sell a dreamworld that doesn't exist, which is quite different from their REAL second reality (the so-called BACKSTAGE), and force you to deliriously fantasize about it. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY create DELIRIOUS RULES and sell you free access to their BACKSTAGE if you follow these sick rules. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to describe your day-to-day reality in a distorted way, using their sick beliefs to convince you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to turn what you do in your ordinary "life" - for good or for bad - against you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY manipulate every aspect of your "life," from your innermost fears, to the future your heart truly wishes to live, to the tiny details of your day-to-day routine (for instance, the decision you will take to have your coffee with sugar, sweetner or none of them). YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to turn your thoughts against you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY may even manipulate facts and change realities in the "society" you may think you live in, in case you try to "change," "improve" or "fix" things in your STAGE-WORLD reality. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY give you the sensation that you are being JUDGED by them. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY manipulate your nightly dreams, through symbols, archetypes, toons or comics, controlling and hypnotizing your behavior in these dreams. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY create false news, performing like actors in your world, just to keep you "tuned" into their PRISON, or ZOO, or CIRCUS, or MAZE, or whatever name you give it. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY use key words or symbols in the very sentences you hear and situations you watch all the time, so as to keep you under their control and manipulate your mind. YOU KNOW IT.

Words apparently innocent like : FIRE, MOTHER, POOL, HAIR, DOG, RAIN, TICKET, DEATH, DISABLED PERSON, ALLIGATOR, CAR, WHITE, HELICOPTER, ALCOHOL, PRINCE, BIRTHDAY, ANGEL, HOME, HORSE, PHONE, SHOES, MEAT, LOOKING-GLASS, LEFT AND RIGHT, TEACHER, PHYSICIAN, DENTIST, JAPANESE, KEYS, BANANA, PREGNANT, MILITARY RANKS, WINDOW, JEW, WAVE, BABY, LOTTERY, FOREIGNER, NAKED, ASSIGNMENT, ICE-CREAM, CUBAN, CONTEST, SMOKE, GLASSES, INJECTION, PLAYER, WATERFALL, and so many others. Words that shoot. YOU KNOW IT. YOU KNOW THEM VERY WELL.

THEY have turned you into a mesmerized puppet, and your mind into a slavery condition. YOU KNOW IT.

But if you open up your mouth and try to unmask them, THEY will DENY everything and call you a CRAZY person. If you insist, THEY may even get you literally under arrest or take you to a madhouse. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY ARE CHARACTERS. YOU ARE NOT.

THEY LIVE. DO YOU?
-piece_of_nothing-
Artificial Synchronicity, Language Manipulation, Kundalini and the Corners of Reality

[911NewWorld]

posted: July 5, 2001 (who did it, you know it)

As of March, 2000, THEY represent about 95 to 98 percent of the total Earth population. YOU KNOW IT. YOU FEEL IT.

THEY have been growing in numbers since a "spiritual hurricane" swept up this planet from 1993 to the present day. YOU are a SURVIVOR of this situation. YOU KNOW IT. YOU REMEMBER IT.

THEY live in two different realities at the same time : THE STAGE and THE BACKSTAGE. You live in one. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY read your mind all the time, and manipulate language and synchronicity to keep what you call "your life" under their control. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to bend your belief system through falacies, false dichotomies and false premises, in order to sell you distorted ideas about their SECOND reality, which is presently only a reality-to-be to you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY sell a dreamworld that doesn't exist, which is quite different from their REAL second reality (the so-called BACKSTAGE), and force you to deliriously fantasize about it. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY create DELIRIOUS RULES and sell you free access to their BACKSTAGE if you follow these sick rules. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to describe your day-to-day reality in a distorted way, using their sick beliefs to convince you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to turn what you do in your ordinary "life" - for good or for bad - against you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY manipulate every aspect of your "life," from your innermost fears, to the future your heart truly wishes to live, to the tiny details of your day-to-day routine (for instance, the decision you will take to have your coffee with sugar, sweetner or none of them). YOU KNOW IT.

THEY try to turn your thoughts against you. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY may even manipulate facts and change realities in the "society" you may think you live in, in case you try to "change," "improve" or "fix" things in your STAGE-WORLD reality. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY give you the sensation that you are being JUDGED by them. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY manipulate your nightly dreams, through symbols, archetypes, toons or comics, controlling and hypnotizing your behavior in these dreams. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY create false news, performing like actors in your world, just to keep you "tuned" into their PRISON, or ZOO, or CIRCUS, or MAZE, or whatever name you give it. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY use key words or symbols in the very sentences you hear and situations you watch all the time, so as to keep you under their control and manipulate your mind. YOU KNOW IT.

Words apparently innocent like : FIRE, MOTHER, POOL, HAIR, DOG, RAIN, TICKET, DEATH, DISABLED PERSON, ALLIGATOR, CAR, WHITE, HELICOPTER, ALCOHOL, PRINCE, BIRTHDAY, ANGEL, HOME, HORSE, PHONE, SHOES, MEAT, LOOKING-GLASS, LEFT AND RIGHT, TEACHER, PHYSICIAN, DENTIST, JAPANESE, KEYS, BANANA, PREGNANT, MILITARY RANKS, WINDOW, JEW, WAVE, BABY, LOTTERY, FOREIGNER, NAKED, ASSIGNMENT, ICE-CREAM, CUBAN, CONTEST, SMOKE, GLASSES, INJECTION, PLAYER, WATERFALL, and so many others. Words that shoot. YOU KNOW IT. YOU KNOW THEM VERY WELL.

THEY have turned you into a mesmerized puppet, and your mind into a slavery condition. YOU KNOW IT.

But if you open up your mouth and try to unmask them, THEY will DENY everything and call you a CRAZY person. If you insist, THEY may even get you literally under arrest or take you to a madhouse. YOU KNOW IT.

THEY ARE CHARACTERS. YOU ARE NOT.

THEY LIVE. DO YOU?
-piece_of_nothing-
Artificial Synchronicity, Language Manipulation, Kundalini and the Corners of Reality




:rose:U.S. is on the Loose and in the Wilds committing crimes all over the world and peoples, you know it.
Are they virtually threatening you? And, you are the survivor. It doubts. No one can do that. Are you on kicking their asszyourockYou know it.
How about its secret prisons around the world with no electronics fences? relate to this. :pray: You know it. :silence:

[just_me]

The Last Man Standing (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Last+Man+Standing%2C+***uyama&aq=o&oq=)

http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/little_girl_with_flowers.jpg

Little Girl With Flowers (http://www.emiledelobre.com/gallery.asp?id=367)
Little Elisabeth (http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/seal_of_god_elizabeth.jpg) holding a bouquet of wildflowers (http://www.bmi.net/~calicotiger/graphics/tjs_wild_rose.jpg).
by Emile Delobre (http://www.emiledelobre.com/bio.asp)

[911NewWorld]

You seem not knowing about what you saying and the information of u.s. govt's crimes.

[just_me]

You seem not knowing about what you saying and the information of u.s. govt's crimes.

Your ignorance is impenetrable.

[just_me]

You seem not knowing about what you saying and the information of u.s. govt's crimes.

I could just as well call you tenacious (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showpost.php?p=2740037&postcount=9):


The Methods of Fixing Belief


PRAGMATICISM
Realist Idealism


The Scientific Method
(applied to everyday life)
*************************


The A Priori Method
(informal discussion derived from direct and indirect experiential reality)
**************************************


The Method of Authority
( parents, government, churches, schools, universities, etc.)
************************************************** *


The Method of Tenacity
(relying solely on one's senses, biases, and prejudices)

Were one to follow Peirce's Pragmaticism, as outlined above, one might still discover the spiritual realm, the Lord, God, the Mind of Universe, without any requirement that one adhere to any established religion.

[911NewWorld]

your ignorance persists to yours.
if you really knew it, you must admit U.S. is committing immoral crimes in quiet, and which crimes it commits. Which crimes U.S. being committed you knew of on those spheres you posted here and there? You did not know even one. Show the world you know one in currently involves what you posted here.

[just_me]

The people actively involved in promoting these devices are worse than Pedophiles. They are absolute Predators (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=241617).

Quotes from the above link:

“They don’t get hungry,” Gordon Johnson, who headed a program on unmanned systems at the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon told the New York Times in 2005. “They’re not afraid. They don’t forget their orders. They don’t care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes.”

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman writes in his 1996 book On Killing that despite the portrayal in our popular culture of violence being easy, “There is within most men an intense resistance to killing their fellow man. A resistance so strong that, in many circumstances, soldiers on the battlefield will die before they can overcome it.”

By giving the Army and Marines the capability to kill from greater distances, armed robots will make it easier for soldiers to take life without troubling their consciences.

The Rev. G. Simon Harak, an ethicist and the director of the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking, says, “Effectively, what these remote control robots are doing is removing people farther and farther from the consequences of their actions.”

Robot soldiers will be similar to mercenaries in at least one more respect. They both serve to further erode the state’s longstanding monopoly on the use of force.

“If war no longer requires people, and robots are able to conduct war or acts of war on a large scale, then governments will no longer be needed to conduct war,” Col. Thomas Cowan Jr. wrote in a March 2007 paper for the U.S. Army War College. “Non-state actors with plenty of money, access to the technology and a few controllers will be able to take on an entire nation, particularly one which is not as technologically advanced.”

Technological development without Conscience is not Science.

New Instruments of Surveillance and Social Control: Wireless Technologies which Target the Neuronal Functioning of the Brain

By Dr. Kingsley Dennis

Global Research (http://www.globalresearch.ca/), March 9, 2008

Increasingly there are indications that the uses of wireless technologies have been developed to target an individual’s biological body, with specific focus upon the neuronal functioning of the brain. In this paper I examine how some of these uses have had detrimental effects, and what this implies for both present and upcoming developments for particular wireless/sensor technologies. I consider whether this is not shifting dangerously towards a psycho–civilised society, where greater emphasis is placed upon social control and pre–emptive strategies.

Introduction

The rate of technological innovation in some fields is developing exponentially with new advances in wireless sensor networks, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, motes, nodes, grids, and media platforms. Information flows are increasing not only in their quantity and density, but also in their immersive quality. The historical developments of information communication systems can be said to have traced a similar path to how nation states have organised their global power base and dominance. First, power over the land and dominance in waging war on one’s neighbours through ground battle, the domesticated horse and the infantry soldier. Second, domination of the seas and the strongest Navy gave advantage to sea–faring Empires, such as Portugal, Spain, and Britain. The end of naval dominance then gave rise to the advent of the railroad and the dynamic change in transport technology, both in routes and in speed. The transcontinental scope of the railroads finally gave out to air power, winning the World Wars through dominance in the skies. And now, finally, the ‘final frontier’ is space, for ‘the vast potential resource base of outer space is presumably so enormous, effectively inexhaustible, that any state that can control it will ultimately dominate the earth’ [1].

Likewise, modern communication technologies have moved from the land (the telegraph); to the sea (wireless radio; radar); back to land (cables; fibre optics); and to the intermediate land/air stage (masts/antenna); to the outer frontier of space (satellites); and finally now even beyond these frontiers towards a solar system Internet (Turner, 2007). Whoever controls these channels for communication can, in some degree, to be said to ‘dominate the earth’. And the possible uses of wireless communications for the dissemination, targeting, and receiving of clandestine ‘communications’ is an active industry.

The aim of this paper is to examine some of the examples and instances where the use of wireless technologies have been developed to target an individual’s biological body, with specific focus upon the neuronal functioning of the brain. I also show how some of these uses have had detrimental effects, and what this implies for both present and upcoming developments in particular wireless/sensor technologies. This paper shows that an upcoming area of importance is neurotechnology, a discipline that places brain functioning and knowledge of the human brain as primary. Technologies are now being researched and trialled that seek to penetrate and, to a degree, intervene in neural functioning. Whilst some have termed this positively as a coming ‘neural society’ (Lynch, 2004), I consider whether this is not shifting dangerously towards a psycho–civilised society, where greater emphasis is placed upon social control and pre–emptive strategies. I trace a timeline that follows developments from a historical context to the present; and finally to future scenarios and implications. It may be that the social pursuit of increasingly connective and immersive technologies has the potential to open up a Pandora’s box of problematics.

Opening Pandora’s box

The background to this narrative begins with the story of a true Pandora’s box — a U.S. project titled Project Pandora that was organized and administered by the psychology division of the psychiatry research section of Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR). This project was set–up to specifically research programs on the health effects of microwave exposure following the ‘Moscow Embassy’ incident. From 1953 to 1976, the Soviets directed microwave radiation at the U.S. embassy in Moscow from the roof of an adjacent building. Whilst this clandestine microwave targeting was allegedly known for some time by U.S. officials, the event was not made public until 1976 when the U.S. State Department finally accused the Soviet Union of bombarding the U.S. embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation for illicit purposes. It was initially reported as a harmless procedure for charging Soviet spy–bugs: ‘Soviet antennas, which are beaming the waves in both to charge up the batteries of their listening devices and to jam embassy–based U.S. electronic monitoring of Russian communications’ (Time, 1976a; 1976b). However, the State Department soon indicated that, in addition to interference mechanisms, the microwave radiation could have serious adverse effects on the health of the occupants of the embassy (O’Connor, 1993). This was supported by Soviet data in which Soviet non–ionising electromagnetic energy (NIEM) ‘research literature reported adverse health effects in laboratory animals and in Soviet radar workers at levels well below the 10 mW/cm2 U.S. ANSI safety recommendations’ [2]. Despite this being below the U.S. recommended levels the Soviet standards excluded military personnel whilst the U.S. did not, according to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP), 1986 (O’Connor, 1993).

Soviet studies in the area of electromagnetic microwave radiation reported psychological symptoms in human subjects that included lethargy, lack of concentration, headaches, depression, and impotence [3]. O’Connor notes how the Soviet medical journals termed these collective symptoms microwave sickness whilst the U.S. literature referred to the symptoms as neurasthenia (1993). Time magazine reported in March 1976 that the State Department launched:

"a medical investigation of the thousands of U.S. diplomats and their families who served in Moscow since the early 1960s. In the wake of the microwave disclosures, former embassy employees and their families have recalled suffering strange ailments during their tenure in Moscow, ranging from eye tics and headaches to heavy menstrual flows. Some point out that former Ambassadors to Moscow Charles Bohlen and Llewellyn Thompson both died of cancer, within the last two years one other Moscow diplomat died of cancer, and five women who lived there have undergone cancer–related mastectomies — although no medical authorities attribute these deaths and illnesses to radiation. (Time, 1976b)"

U.S. officials and military, long before the public exposure, were aware and concerned about the consequences of microwave bombardment of civilian and military targets. In 1972 the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released an internal report (later declassified through the Freedom Of Information Act [FOIA] Program [4]) that had been previously prepared by the U.S. Army Office of the Surgeon General Medical Intelligence Office titled ‘Controlled Offensive Behaviour — USSR’ (initially released in July 1972). The report states that

"This report summarizes the information available on Soviet research on human vulnerability as it relates to incapacitating individuals or small groups. The information contained in this study is a review and evaluation of Soviet research in this field of revolutionary methods of influencing human behavior and is intended as an aid in the development of countermeasures for the protection of U.S. or allied personnel. Due to the nature of the Soviet research in the area of reorientation or incapacitation of human behavior, this report emphasises the individual as opposed to groups. (LaMothe, 1972)"

It is interesting to note that the Report authors believed the Soviet research to be in the area of ‘reorientation’; suggesting that the U.S. were worried over concerns that the Soviets may be planning a mass zapping of U.S. citizens with the hope of ‘brainwashing’ them into a newly orientated ideological outlook. The 174–page Report is extensive, with much material extended upon various forms of beamed energies and wireless strategies. On the opening section on Electromagnetic Energy the report concludes that

"Super–high frequency electromagnetic oscillations (SHF) may have potential use as a technique for altering human behavior. Soviet Union and other foreign literature sources contain over 500 studies devoted to the biological effect of SHF. Lethal and non–lethal aspects have been shown to exist. In certain non–lethal exposures, definite behavioural changes have occurred. [5]"

During this time the U.S. establishment was not naïve to the potential of conducting neurological at–a–distance effects upon human behaviour.
In the 1970s José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado was a controversial figure in neuroscience; a professor of physiology at Yale University, he was an acclaimed neuroscientist. In 1970 "the New York Times Magazine hailed him in a cover story as the impassioned prophet of a new ‘psychocivilized society’ whose members would influence and alter their own mental functions" [6]. Yet two decades earlier, in 1952, Delgado co–authored the first peer–reviewed paper describing long–term implantation of electrodes in humans (Horgan, 2005). As an example of the achievement into wireless–neurological devices Delgado’s most famous experiment took place in 1963 at a bull–breeding ranch in Cordoba, Spain. Delgado implanted radio equipped electrodes, which he termed ‘stimoceivers’, into the brains of several ‘fighting’ bulls and stood in a bullring with one bull at a time and attempted to control the actions of the bull by pressing buttons on a handheld transmitter. In one instance Delgado was able to stop a charging bull in its tracks only a few feet away from him by the press of a button. The New York Times published a front page story on the event, "calling it ‘the most spectacular demonstration ever performed of the deliberate modification of animal behavior through external control of the brain’" [7]. In 1969 Delgado described wireless brain–behaviour modification and its implications in his book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (1969). Delgado’s research during this time was supported not only by academic grants but also by the U.S. Office of Naval Research. This research is now over forty years old, and much has happened in the intervening four decades.

Technologies that can wirelessly transmit information from and to the body is an area of research that has attracted various interested parties post–World War II. Such energy–information distribution and targeting within the electromagnetic spectrum can variously be used for medical, industrial, military, and telecommunications purposes. I now turn to examine some of the military–industrial research and uses of wireless technologies.

Beams, firewalls and brain scanning: Inside the military–industrial complex

Researcher Igor Smirnov of the Russian Academy of Sciences is by all accounts an odd person, referred to by a Newsweek article as ‘A Subliminal Dr. Strangelove’ (Elliott and Barry, 1994). Smirnov was apparently contacted by the FBI during the Davidian sect siege in Waco, Texas in 1993. Experts from the FBI Counter–Terrorism Center met with Smirnov in Arlington, Virginia to discuss ways of affecting the behaviour of Davidian sect leader David Koresh. Smirnov’s plan was to send subliminal messages through the phone lines during negotiations; and for targeting David Koresh the plan was to use the voice of Charlton Heston to subliminally play God (Elliott and Barry, 1994). Smirnov’s strategies, whilst sounding eccentric, are closely tied with military research into behaviour modification via wireless transmissions. Smirnov’s laboratory in Moscow is named the Institute of Psycho–Correction and using electroencephalograph scanning (EEG) he measures brain waves which he then computes to create a map of various human impulses–brain waves correlation. This data can then be used for experimenting upon affecting brain–body modification at–a–distance. Asked in a 2004 interview whether it was possible to defeat terrorism Smirnov replied that

"Only informational war is capable of defeating terrorism completely. And we possess this weapon. Peoples’ actions can in fact be controlled by unnoticed acoustic influence. Look — it’s easy. All I have to do is record my voice, apply special coding, which converts my voice to mere noise and afterwards, all we have to do is record some music on top of that. The words are indistinguishable to your conscious; however, your unconscious can hear them clearly. If we were to play this music over and over again on the radio for instance, people will soon start developing paranoia. This is the simplest weapon. (Pravda, 2004)"

Smirnov’s capabilities were demonstrated to U.S. observers as far back as 1991 when infra–sound — a very low frequency transmission — was shown to be able to transmit acoustic messages via bone conduction [8].

Military strategist Timothy Thomas examined these implications in his paper ‘The Mind Has No Firewall’ in which he states that ‘We are on the threshold of an era in which these data processors of the human body may be manipulated or debilitated. Examples of unplanned attacks on the body’s data–processing capability are well–documented’ [9]. He references a Russian military article on the same subject which declared that "‘humanity stands on the brink of a psychotronic war’ with the mind and body as the focus" [10]. The context here is that the human body is a complex communication system that is constantly receiving signal inputs, both external and internal. Thus,

"The 'data' the body receives from external sources — such as electromagnetic, vortex, or acoustic energy waves — or creates through its own electrical or chemical stimuli can be manipulated or changed just as the data (information) in any hardware system can be altered. [11]

Military thinking in this area is beginning to shift towards a systemic viewpoint which considers the human as an open system rather than as a closed, bounded system.

In this new systemic approach the human communicates with, and can be communicated by, the environment through information flows and communications media. By this understanding military thinking has begun to openly declare that ‘one’s physical environment, whether through electromagnetic, gravitational, acoustic, or other effects, can cause a change in the psycho–physiological condition of an organism’ [12]. Simpson’s investigations into the sociological discipline of communication research, which crystallised in the U.S. in the early 1950s, shows that it was financed and mentored by governmental psychological warfare programs:

"Government psychological warfare programs helped shape mass communication research into a distinct scholarly field, strongly influencing the choice of leaders and determining which of the competing scientific paradigms of communication would be funded, elaborated, and encouraged to prosper. [13]"

Dominance over the airwaves, and the capability to exert coercive control over information communications is a vital area in military planning. Documented and declassified evidence shows that what may have begun as a program in standardized propaganda and psychological warfare has now developed into research on wireless information targeting and ‘psychocivilized’ control practices. To this effect the term ‘psycho–terrorism’ was coined by Anisimov of the Moscow Anti–Psychotronic Center and Anisimov admits to testing such devices as are said to ‘take away a part of the information which is stored in a man’s brain. It is sent to a computer, which reworks it to the level needed for those who need to control the man, and the modified information is then reinserted into the brain’ [14]. In such cases there is concern that the ‘mind has no firewall’ and may be vulnerable to accidental, unwanted and/or rogue interventions. Thomas’s paper concludes by stating that "In reality, the game is about protecting or affecting signals, waves, and impulses that can influence the data–processing elements of systems, computers, or people. We are potentially the biggest victims of information warfare (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showpost.php?p=2588933&postcount=17), because we have neglected to protect ourselves [15]."

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) brief on this subject titled ‘Controlled Effects’ also noted the power to use the electromagnetic spectrum for wirelessly interfering into human subjects’ thinking and behaviour. By this stage the strategy had been dubbed ‘non–lethal weapons’, as explored more fully in the work of non–lethal defence at Los Alamos by retired Army Colonel John B. Alexander (Alexander, 1999). The AFRL report states that

"the panel investigated the potential for using electromagnetic and other nonconventional force capabilities to achieve strategic, tactical, lethal, and nonlethal force projection ... . For the Controlled Personnel Effects capability, the S&T panel explored the potential for targeting individuals with nonlethal force, from a militarily useful range, to make selected adversaries think or act according to our needs. (AFRL, 2004)"

These theories and concerns to affect command and control at–a–distance were echoing the conclusions from a much larger and significant military report that was published and made available in 1996 titled ‘New World Vistas’. ‘New World Vistas’ was a major undertaking by the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board to examine future developments in weapons, and totalled 14 volumes of studies. The fifteenth ‘ancillary’ volume concluded by putting forth some potential developments for a possible future man–machine integration. In a section dealing with

‘Biological Process Control’ the Report states that

"One can envision the development of electromagnetic energy sources, the output of which can be pulsed, shaped, and focused, that can couple with the human body in a fashion that will allow one to prevent voluntary muscular movements, control emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short–term and long–term memory, produce an experience set, and delete an experience set. (USAF Scientific Advisory Board, 1995)"
In military–speak the term ‘experience set’ implies a person’s stored memories and life experiences; thus suggesting that such a technology could delete and then replace a person’s memories, or ‘experience set’. Research and development along these lines have so far materialised a technology dubbed by the military as active denial system (ADS).

The Active Denial System is a non–lethal, directed–energy weapon system recently unveiled by the U.S. military and which directs, or pulses, electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of 95 Gigahertz (GHz) towards the target subjects. The radiated beam of millimetre–wave energy can travel over a range of 500m and heats the water molecules in the epidermis skin up to 54C (130F) (BBC, 2007). The result can be an intensely painful burning sensation. Such a system was designed for such uses as crowd control. A fully operational and mounted system was demonstrated to journalists by U.S. military personnel at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, on 24 January 2007. A Reuters correspondent who volunteered to be shot with the beam during the demonstration described it as ‘similar to a blast from a very hot oven — too painful to bear without diving for cover’ (BBC, 2007). The diagram below illustrates the active denial system (ADS).

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Figure 1: The active denial system (ADS).
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These technologies show uses of wireless–to–body communication and directed energy weapons for possible military attack or defence purposes. Another area for research and development is in both military and industrial uses for operator enhancement.

Real–time brain scanning of pilots and similar operators under stress is an increasingly active area for research involving military and industrial partnerships. Since the early 1990s research has been made into detecting and interpreting brain and body signals, especially brainwaves, for computerized monitoring of pilots. This information can be used to measure pilot fatigue and to compensate for this with increased automation of the airplane in order to avoid pilot error. Initially this was conducted by measuring the pilot’s brain waves through unobtrusive sponge sensors in the flight helmet:

"By measuring the amplitude of the brain waves generated, fatigue of the pilot can be recognized. By increasing the brightness of the instrumental panel lights, the amplitude of the brain waves can be returned to their normal height, thus compensating for fatigue. To get the "evoked response" from the pilot’s brain, the instrument panel lights could be made to flash so fast that the pilot would not be aware of the flashes. [16]"

Researchers have said that the brain can ‘register’ up to 145 flickers per second, which can then be followed up by beaming a near infrared light into the subject’s eye, causing a spot of light to be reflected off the cornea in order to track eye movement and measure the degree of pilot concentration. This type of research, which is still ongoing, has been referred to by at least one current R&D laboratory as ‘Real–Time EEG for Operator State’ [17]. Brain monitoring of people in situations where fatigue could be fatal now involves real–time analysis and observation of motorists. A technology now being considered is one called ‘Sensation’.

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"This technology is non–intrusive and includes a small camera that monitors a driver’s eye movements, looking out for repeated blinking, which can be evidence of tiredness. To compliment this the driver’s seat is also lined with a material which monitors changes in body temperature. The steering wheel too checks for handling pressure. Finally, other sensors, if needed, can be fitted to the finger and ear to send out measurements of pressure to indicate fatigue and levels of concentration. The driver is now wirelessly monitored, both by camera and wireless sensors, to create a more extensive immersive driving experience (Millward, 2006)."

This research and these innovations indicate that a shift is occurring in how the human is enmeshed into an increasingly information saturated environment. These developments recognise that the human body is itself becoming the most capable data–processing subject. The rest of this paper explores how these trends to envelop the body–brain into an environment of information flows are being developed into social and commercial applications.

Emotional gaming and dangerous intentions: Inside the social–civil sphere

The use of EEG brain scanning has now moved into the gaming industry with up–to–date developments in sensory gaming. Recently Emotiv publicly released information on their upcoming ‘Project Epoc’, a developmental technology that interprets electrical signals emitted by the brain and converts them into actions on a computer. In this way the user/gamer is able to direct actions via their thoughts in the online environment. Below are pictures of two prototypes which the company expects to market some time in 2008 [18].

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The company Web site claims that they provide the ultimate human–computer interface and that they are pioneers in brain computer interface technology. In their press release of 7 March 2007 they state that
"Emotiv has created the first brain computer interface technology that can detect and process both human conscious thoughts and non–conscious emotions. The technology, which comprises a headset and a suite of applications, allows computers to differentiate between particular thoughts such as lifting an object or rotating it; detect and mimic a user’s expressions, such as a smile or wink; and respond to emotions such as excitement or calmness. [19]"

In the same press release the company foresees in the future that ‘Emotiv’s technology has the potential to be applied to numerous industries, including interactive television, accessibility design, market research, medicine, and security’ [20]. A similar corporate gaming company, NeuroSky, claims to have gone even further than Emotiv and reduced ‘the brainwave pickup to the minimum specification imaginable — a single electrode. Existing versions of this electrode are small enough to fit into a mobile phone and ... they will soon be shrunk to the size of a thumbnail, enabling people to wear them without noticing’ (Economist, 2007). The company Web site claims its ‘bio sensor and signal processing system for the consumer market’ will unlock ‘worlds of new applications such as consumer electronics, health, wellness, education and training’ [21].

Clearly there is a potential commercial market envisioned here for wireless–brain technology that goes beyond the sphere of gaming. Somewhat on the extreme to this, wireless acoustic transmissions have now been developed to ‘stop’ people from over–gaming; in other words, as a treatment for gaming addiction. In highly technologised Asian countries such as South Korea teenagers are spending an unhealthy amount of time at their computers in gaming environments. There have even been instances where gamers have died after extensively long sessions in front of a computer without a break, such as in MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role–Playing Game). South Korean company Xtive, established in 2005, spent a year of research to develop a system of acoustic sound waves that act as subliminal transmissions during the gaming experience:

"We incorporated messages into an acoustic sound wave telling gamers to stop playing. The messages are told 10,000 to 20,000 times per second ... . Game users can’t recognize the sounds. But their subconscious is aware of them and the chances are high they will quit playing .... Game companies can install a system, which delivers the inaudible sounds after it recognizes a young user has kept playing after a preset period of time. (Tae–gyu, 2007)"

This emphasises that research into techno–information flows are increasingly being developed that wirelessly interact with a person as a biological construct, utilising the already present bio–neural functioning. And this is a trend that is attracting more corporate players wishing to enter the field.

Gaming giant Sony Corporation has submitted and been granted a patent on a device for transmitting sensory data directly into the human brain. Sony’s patent describes the device as firing "pulses of ultrasound at the head to modify firing patterns in targeted parts of the brain, creating ‘sensory experiences’ ranging from moving images to tastes and sounds" (Hogan and Fox, 2005). This is based upon a technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation that activates the nerves by using rapidly changing magnetic fields to induce currents in brain tissue. The patent also claims that this technology could give blind or deaf people the chance to see or hear. Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tübingen in Germany who has himself developed similar devices, examined the Sony patent and commented that ‘I looked at it and found it plausible’ (Hogan and Fox, 2005). Since Sony’s initial patent application in 2000 (granted in March 2003), a series of further patents have been applied for. However, this line of research is not totally new.

For several years there has been research conducted into decoding thoughts from the brain for sending signals to an external device such as manipulating cursors on a screen, which has been developed for disabled people, as in the case of Matthew Nagle (Pollack, 2006). In recent years several other companies have emerged claiming to offer brain–computer wireless interaction for either gaming purposes or for various health impairment benefits. One example is S.M.A.R.T. BrainGames, a company based in California that offers EEG caps designed to treat people with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. The company claims to offer superior neurofeedback technology at what it calls ‘affordable prices’ [22].

The body–brain is increasingly shifting towards becoming a biologically–enhanced data processor for wireless reception and transmission. Computer software giant Microsoft is aware of this and already ahead of the game.

In 2004 Microsoft was awarded U.S. Patent 6,754,472, titled ‘Method and apparatus for transmitting power and data using the human body’ [23]. In this patent Microsoft is granted exclusive rights to a technology that uses the electrical capacity of the human body to act as a computer network (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showpost.php?p=2661258&postcount=33) (Adam, 2004). Microsoft envisages ‘using the human skin’s conductive properties to link a host of electronic devices around the body, from pagers and personal data assistants (PDA) to mobile phones and microphones, although the company is uncharacteristically coy about exactly what it may have in mind’ (Adam, 2004). This supports what Bill Gates himself has said about the computer finally disappearing into the environment and the world around us (Gibson, 2005). This may be the ultimate wireless network, using the complete skin of the body, from fingers to toes, receiving and transmitting flows of information. The patent also proposes that an area of skin could even act as a keypad making a person capable of typing by tapping on their arm (Adam, 2004).

This is a powerful example of how technologies and technological thinking is shifting away from external hardware devices towards using the natural bio-properties of the human body for integration into a global informational environment. As way of some examples, here are just two from many of the patents filed that claim to develop wireless transmission technologies: patents 4,395,600 and 5,507,291. Patent No. 4,395,600 is titled ‘Auditory subliminal message system and method’ and is geared towards subliminal messaging to influence consumer shoppers:

"Ambient audio signals from the customer shopping area within a store are sensed and fed to a signal processing circuit that produces a control signal which varies with variations in the amplitude of the sensed audio signals. A control circuit adjusts the amplitude of an auditory subliminal anti–shoplifting message to increase with increasing amplitudes of sensed audio signals and decrease with decreasing amplitudes of sensed audio signals. This amplitude controlled subliminal message may be mixed with background music and transmitted to the shopping area. [24]"

In a similar manner for affecting an individual’s mental state is patent no. 5,507,291 — ‘Method and an associated apparatus for remotely determining information as to person’s emotional state’ — which comes very close to what has been discussed on military uses of information warfare (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showpost.php?p=2588933&postcount=17):

"In a method for remotely determining information relating to a person’s emotional state, a waveform energy having a predetermined frequency and a predetermined intensity is generated and wirelessly transmitted towards a remotely located subject. Waveform energy emitted from the subject is detected and automatically analyzed to derive information relating to the individual’s emotional state. [25]"
In this scenario information flows are two-way with the body-brain emitting as well as receiving. Yet with the human body–brain becoming a site for data transfer and reception, there are concerns that it is increasingly becoming a target for various corporate interests. And not only corporate interests are involved in these developments, however, for there are also recent innovative technologies in this area that offer serious implications for social privacy and liberty at a state level.

At first the idea sounds like nothing more than science fiction. Indeed, it even appeared as a central feature in the film ‘Minority Report’. This is the notion of pre–cognition: to be able to know a person’s actions before those actions are committed. Yet now a team of neuroscientists have developed a technique that can scan a brain and learn from the patterns of neuronal activity what a person is thinking or intending to do. This research is the culmination of recent studies where brain imaging has been used to identify particular brain patterns pertaining to such behaviour as violence, lying, and racial prejudice (Sample, 2007). To achieve this the team ‘used high–resolution brain scans to identify patterns of activity before translating them into meaningful thoughts, revealing what a person planned to do in the near future’ (Sample, 2007). This is the first acknowledged instance of having the technical capacity to judge whether people have the intention to commit a criminal act regardless of actual hard physical evidence of the crime. According to Prof Haynes: ‘We see the danger that this might become compulsory one day, but we have to be aware that if we prohibit it, we are also denying people who aren’t going to commit any crime the possibility of proving their innocence’ (Sample, 2007). Since this technology is so new there are no current ethical or moral debates on this issue and the implications for its civil use are worrying. If developed these ‘techniques may eventually have wide–ranging implications for everything from criminal interrogations to airline security checks. And that alarms some ethicists who fear the technology could one day be abused by authorities, marketers or employers’ (Cheng, 2007).

A hypothetical situation in the future might place these scanning devices within regular x–ray scanning machines at airports. On passing through to the passenger lounge all travellers will be scanned not only for potentially dangerous physical objects but also for dangerous intentions. Yet who has not had a ‘dangerous intention’? Or rather, to quote a more familiar phrase: ‘He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone’ [26]. In this manner all travellers will have to safeguard their thoughts at all times; who is to know whether such scanning devices are embedded into the walls of the airport lounge and corridors? Or in the toilets; on board the airplane? This uncertain and somewhat dystopian scenario is one that could shift technologised states into psycho–civilised societies where thoughts and intentions become part of terrorist discourse. This could be seen as an extreme case of convergence between the social compromises required to facilitate efficient physical–digital infrastructures and the need for securitised mobilities (Wood and Graham, 2006). It also resembles the extremity of constructing an all–inclusive technological web of complex information flows that bypasses traditional forms of interface.

This sees a shift away from earlier prototypes of the hardware–heavy cyborg, such as the early ‘wearcam’ work of Steve Mann [27], towards people actively engaging with their informational environments both in terms of security and surveillance. In some ways these developments have contributed to a rise in acts of self–surveillance, or sousveillance.

(In)Securities, self–sensoring and sousveillance: Inside the social panopticon

Fears over security and safety have reached new levels in the opening decade of the twenty–first century. It is, in all respects, a post–millennium state of insecurity. The older and more familiar paradigms of warfare and security were based upon binaries (e.g., Democracy vs. Communism; friend vs. foe). To some degree this binary distinction is still maintained and played out in media and cultural discourse as Freedom vs. Anti–Freedom, or West vs. Islam. Yet upon deeper scrutiny this manifests as an asymmetrical arrangement: order/authority vs. guerrilla non–compliance. A terror suspect can therefore no longer be easily identified as ‘the enemy’ which requires that all civilians be categorised in a state of ‘potential terrorist’. This is especially so since the notion of ‘home–grown terrorist’ is playing out the role of insurgency and resistance from within. This subtle shift in categorisation has seen a parallel move in the increase of the militarization of the civil sphere. By this I argue that civil space is increasingly becoming a ‘censor/sensored zone’ where security issues — surveillance, tracking, identification — are played out.

This zone, which mobile bodies pass through and negotiate, is characterised by a pervasive field of information, code, and signifiers that increasingly constructs the ‘social’. Such a coded environment has the potential to be extremely intrusive and goes beyond the normal ken of so–called civil liberties. Under the sway of a post September 11 scenario and amid an orchestrated ‘war on terror’ many of these intrusive technologies are in rapid development, so much so that the U.K. Government’s Information Commissioner himself states that we live in a surveillance society (Information Commissioner, 2006) [28]. These systems of tracking and tracing surveillance involve step changes that are taking place gradually in many industrialised societies, especially in the U.S. and the U.K. [29].

Developments in sensor technologies and ubiquitous computing often focus on the interfaces between person and environment such that interconnectivity is likely to become more pervasive, intrusive, and ‘everywhere’. In a seminal essay from 1996 computer engineers Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown coined the term ‘ubiquitous computing’ and envisioned the ‘social impact of imbedded computers may be analogous to ... electricity, which surges invisibly through the walls of every home, office, and car’ (Weiser and Brown, 1996). True to form, within a decade from this pronouncement computing interfaces developed from fixed locations of access to increased wireless connectivity. And it is predicted to become ever more ubiquitous in a manner that will dissolve connectivity into embedded environments (Greenfield, 2006). Greenfield considers this to be, in one form or another, an inevitability, and refers to this ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) paradigm as ‘everyware’: "Everyware is information processing embedded in the objects and surfaces of everyday life ... the extension of information–sensing, –processing, and –networking capabilities to entire classes of things we‘ve never before thought of as ‘technology’" [30]. This in turn is likely to trigger the ‘always–on’ surveillance of people in both public life and in private affairs. This inevitably blurs the boundaries between what is external and what is internal, and leads to forms of surveillance that turn inwards and emanates from the ‘self’ — an idea somewhat akin to that of sousveillance.

Sousveillance was coined by Mann (1998) who describes it as form of ‘reflectionism’ or as a ‘watchful vigilance from underneath’, which is a form of inverse surveillance. Yet it more than inverses the notion; it embellishes it with a self–reflective responsibility. For Mann, reflectionism "holds up the mirror and asks the question: ‘Do you like what you see?’" (Mann, et al., 2003). Also, in this form, it requires that surveillance is enacted as a form of self–control, as self–maintenance. It is the discipline of being inwardly secure; firstly vigilant towards the self; secondly towards other people/selves. This form of discipline seems to suggest that there is little room for negligence when watchfulness is the order of the day. Yet it also prompts the ‘user’ of sousveillance to be active and participate in the surrounding environment. Sousveillance, whilst it can encourage social responsibility, also suggests the need for the person to be guarded against unwanted intrusions and possible violations.

Mann went on to transmit, in the mid ’90s, his daily life experiences for others to experience and interact with. This created opportunities for establishing a sousveillance network between Mann and his ‘readers’, or rather social network. This participatory/social panopticon into human–environment interactions was a forerunner to how ‘wearable computing’ might one day emerge as a form of modern ‘intelligent image processing’ (Mann, 2002). Mann’s performance constructs a lived experience where the observation, recording, and dissemination of civic events have shifted towards a social panopticon, infiltrating daily physical encounters. It is a communal watchfulness of civil responsibility merged with a technical mandate for collective commentary, social analysis, and security of the self. It is also an enactment of performance ethnography, at the same time playful with notions of socialisation and breaching norms (Mann, et al., 2003).

However, the question this raises, I argue, is whether social domains might not be in danger of becoming over–sensory realms, and what may emerge as the most convenient and/or efficient strategy for coping with this. Stross’s (2002) essay ‘The Panopticon Singularity’ considers this trend in a dystopian fashion as ‘the emergence of a situation in which human behaviour is deterministically governed by processes outside human control’. Stross argues, reminiscent of Foucault, that while the effectiveness of societal surveillance is dependent on the number of people involved ‘systems of mechanised surveillance may well increase in efficiency as a power function of the number of deployed monitoring points’ (Stross, 2002). In other words, as more people join the social panopticon, or sousveillant society, this will have a knock–on effect that encourages more people to join the securitisation of the self, rather than being left vulnerable and un–sensored.

There is no denying that such panopticon devices are proliferating — they are carried around with us, increasingly as our own willing appendages. The debates at present are largely centred on surveillance, as state practices of pervasive and ubiquitous top–down monitoring of civil space, rather than forms of self–monitoring, as in sousveillance. Perhaps the next step will be further towards practices of immersive surveillance and control, as indicated in this paper as a psycho–civilized society.

The current surge in research and development of wireless sensor networks is likely to have a significant future impact upon not only how the human body is configured in terms of medical applications but, perhaps more importantly, how the human is cognitively configured in terms of the information–rich environment. One of the scenarios of ubiquitous, pervasive computing is to embed the environment with non–invasive informational systems that merge physical–digital infrastructures. Already much of our atmosphere is saturated with informational flows in various spectrum bandwidths — we are constantly walking through TV programs, mobile phone conversations, and even military broadcasts. Yet we are not decoding these transmissions. The transformation that these various scenarios in this paper suggest is that the human body is becoming re–configured — or re–wired — into a biological antenna. Not only will this greatly facilitate our access onto the Net but will also re–form the human presence, or identity, into a coded wavelength. A wavelength that is more readily readable to various technologies. This may seem far–fetched yet such a future may not be a far leap away.

Conclusion: The future a quantum leap too far?

Socio–technical evolutionary trends predict a future that is wholly immersed in and conversant with an integral informational–digitised environment. Informational flows are envisioned to go beyond the bits and bytes of present computing into the qubits (quantum bits) and subatomic circuitry of quantum computing (Schwartz, et al., 2006). Researchers into quantum computing are working with subatomic spins for exponential and staggering computational capacity. A possible future may look a little like this:

"Inside the hatband is Sharon’s communication center and intelligent assistant, which has scanned and sorted the 500,000 e–mails she received overnight. By the time she reaches the car, it has beamed the 10 most urgent ones and her travel schedule to her visual cortex. The text scrolls down in the bottom of her field of vision ... . At the airport there is no ticket check–in or security line. Sharon simply walks through the revolving door, which scans her for dangerous items, picks up her identity, confirms her reservation, and delivers her gate number, all in the space of a second. (Schwartz, et al., 2006)"

Perhaps the most common prediction prevalent amongst computer engineers is that computers — pervasive and non–perceptible — will be seeded and woven throughout the environment. They will be painted onto walls, on furniture and objects, inside the body, ‘communicating with one another constantly and requiring no more power than that which they can glean from radio frequencies in the air’ (Schwartz, et al., 2006). Quantum researcher and physicist Stuart Wolf anticipates that the next two decades will usher in a type of communications he calls ‘network–enabled telepathy’. Despite the fanciful name the method basically involves wearable devices (such as a ‘quantum headband’) sharing identity and downloaded information with others in the person’s social network; and all driven by the power of thought alone. However, as Wolf points out, ‘it will probably take a new generation raised to think of quantum headbands as normal for its potential to be truly realized’ (Schwartz, et al., 2006). Yet Wolf isn’t alone in his thinking.

Princeton physicist Freeman Dyson has speculated upon the possibility of what he calls radioneurology. Radioneurology refers to a hypothetical future technology of observing neural processes inside a brain by means of locally deployed radio transmitters (Dyson, 1997). For this to be feasible, speculates Dyson, requires a technology to allow for the building and deployment of small transmitters inside a living brain similar to integrated circuit technology on a silicon chip:

"We know that high–frequency electromagnetic signals can be propagated through brain tissue for distances of the order of centimeters. We know that microscopic generators and receivers of electromagnetic radiation are possible. We know that modern digital data–handling technology is capable of recording and analyzing the signals emerging from millions of tiny transmitters simultaneaously. All that is lacking in order to transform these possibilities into an effective observational tool is the neurological equivalent of integrated–circuit technology. [31]"

Given these speculations, and what has been discussed in this paper, it is likely that the major technology for the future is neurotechnology. The information age that emerged out of post–war technologies, and which has guided most of the technologies of the early twenty–first century, has made it possible to collect, utilize, and transfer information/data at unparalleled speeds. Communication, information, and data have been flowing at exponential rates. However, they are yet to merge into a systemic environment.

Neurotechnologies are set to change this with the rise of ‘nanobiochips’ and brain imaging and scanning technologies that will eventually lower the cost of neurological techniques and analysis as well as making the procedures efficient and profitable. Neurotechnologies, combined with wireless sensors, may possibly usher in a communications revolution greater than that caused by the arrival of the transistor and the microchip. Zack Lynch, executive director of the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO), writes that ‘When data from advanced biochips and brain imaging are combined they will accelerate the development of neurotechnology, the set of tools that can influence the human central nervous system, especially the brain’ (Lynch, 2004). Although neurotechnologies are likely to be put to therapeutic and medical uses, such as for improving emotional stability and mental clarity, they also open opportunities for intrusive strategies of control and manipulation.

Part of this paper has been focused on the dangers of an increasingly wireless world. These dangers may include the potential for invasive technologies, based upon transmitted/received signals and wavelengths, to shift social order towards a psycho–civilized society. By psycho–civilised I mean a society that manages and controls social behaviour predominantly through non–obvious methods of psychological manipulations, yet at a level far beyond that of the ‘normalised’ social manipulations of propaganda and social institutions. What I refer to are the technologised methods of psychological interference and privacy intrusions in the manner of creating a docile and constrained society. And here this brings us back to the problematics involved in opening a Pandora’s box.

In this paper I have asked whether innovations in wireless and neuro–technologies are not in danger of shifting human behaviour towards a psycho–civilised society, where greater emphasis is placed upon forms of social control and pre–emptive strategies. What are the moral and ethical implications of using wireless scanning surveillance technologies for evaluating pre–emptive behaviour based on thoughts and intentions alone? Is this not a dangerous path towards psycho–terrorising the social public?As Thomas (1998) reminds us, the mind has no firewall, and is thus vulnerable to viruses, Trojan horses, and spam. It is also vulnerable to hackers, cyber–terrorists, and state surveillance. Whilst this may sound a little too far out, they are reasonable questions to ask if technologies are racing ahead of us in order to better get into our heads.

Becoming wireless also means becoming increasingly immersed within an information–saturated environment. From the evidence of present trends and developments it seems likely that a greater systemic interconnectedness and interdependence is being formed between human–object–environment facilitated through and by information flows. This may herald the coming of a ‘wonderful wireless world’, yet it may also signal unforeseen dangers in protection, privacy, and security of the human biological body within these new relationships. It is the suggestion of this paper that such issues and concerns need to become more public, visible, and open; the very opposite of these technologies.

Kingsley Dennis is a Research Associate in the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) based at the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, U.K. His doctoral work focused on complexity theory and information communication technologies. Post–doctoral research now involves examining physical–digital convergences and how these might impact upon social processes. He is concerned with the digital rendition of identity and the implications of surveillance technologies.

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Notes

1. Dolman, 2002, p. 41.
2. O’Connor, 1993, p. 35.
3. Ibid.
4. See http://www.dia.mil/publicaffairs
/Foia/foia.htm for list of declassified reports, accessed 11 November 2007.
5. LaMothe, 1972, p. 18.
6. Horgan, 2005, p. 67.
7. Horgan, 2005, p. 70.
8. Thomas, 1998, p. 84.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Thomas, 1998, p. 85.
12. Thomas, 1998, p. 86.
13. Simpson, 1994, p. 3.
14. Thomas, 1998, p. 87.
15. Thomas, 1998, p. 89.
16. Welsh, 1998, p. 37.
17. Part of ongoing research at the QinetiQ Group — see http://www.qinetiq.com/.
18. See http://crunchgear.com/2007/03/08/
emotiv-project-epoc-sensory-gaming-for-the-masses/, accessed 15 January 2008.
19. http://emotiv.com/3_0/pr/pr022607a.htm, accessed 5 November 2007.
20. http://emotiv.com/3_0/pr/pr022607a.htm, accessed 5 November 2007.
21. See http://www.neurosky.com/, accessed 5 November 2007.
22. http://www.smartbraingames.com/, accessed 5 November 2007.
23. For patent, see http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6754472&id=30YSAAAAEBAJ&dq=6,754,472.
24. See Google patents http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT4395600&id=V_ItAAAAEBAJ&dq=4,395,600.
25. See Google patents http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5507291&id=940lAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,507,291.
26. John 8:1–9.
27. See http://wearcam.org/mann.html, accessed 17 January 2008.
28. See also BBC Report — http://news.bbc.co.uk/
1/hi/uk/6108496.stm, accessed 5 November 2007. For general information see the journal Surveillance and Society, at http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/index.htm, accessed 5 November 2007.
29. There are up to 4.2m CCTV cameras in Britain — about one for every 14 people — more than other industrialised Western states.
30. Greenfield, 2006, p. 18.
31. Dyson, 1997, pp. 133–134.

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[911NewWorld]

You sound not really knowing of U.S. military secrets most covered up ever upto now for its new warfare preparation and deployment have been going on for years and now. you just read, copy and past selectively things off the Internet, and then, post it here.
Do you really know of U.S. weaponry of attack beaming technology being used by U.S' space vehicles? Do you really know of its targets, the number? What is the scope of the operation that is totally in silence? What weaponry is? How worse it is? How waste it does? What it does? How international laws and human rights it has been breaking at most at large scale?...You absolutely do not know a bit! Silent at bet.

[just_me]

http://seedmagazine.com/content/print/the_living_robot/

SEEDMAGAZINE.COM March 30, 2009

The Living Robot (http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_living_robot/)

New Ideas by Joe Kloc / March 26, 2009

Researchers have developed a robot capable of learning and interacting with the world using a biological brain.

Kevin Warwick’s new robot behaves like a child. "Sometimes it does what you want it to, and sometimes it doesn’t," he says. And while it may seem strange for a professor of cybernetics to be concerning himself with such an unreliable machine, Warwick’s creation has something that even today’s most sophisticated robots lack: a living brain.

Life for Warwick’s robot began when his team at the University of Reading spread rat neurons onto an array of electrodes. After about 20 minutes, the neurons began to form connections with one another. "It’s an innate response of the neurons," says Warwick, "they try to link up and start communicating."

For the next week the team fed the developing brain a liquid containing nutrients and minerals. And once the neurons established a network sufficiently capable of responding to electrical inputs from the electrode array, they connected the newly formed brain to a simple robot body consisting of two wheels and a sonar sensor.

A relay of signals between the sensor, motors, and brain dictate the robot’s behavior. When it approaches an object, the number of electrical pulses sent from the sonar device to the brain increases. This heightened electrical stimulation causes certain neurons in the robot’s brain to fire. When the electrodes on which the firing neurons rest detect this activity, they signal the robot’s wheels to change direction. The end result is a robot that can avoid obstacles in its path.

At first, the young robot spent a lot of time crashing into things. But after a few weeks of practice, its performance began to improve as the connections between the active neurons in its brain strengthened. "This is a specific type of learning, called Hebbian learning," says Warwick, "where, by doing something habitually, you get better at doing it."

The robot now gets around well enough. "But it has a biological brain, and not a computer," says Warwick, and so it must navigate based solely on the very limited amount of information it receives from a single sensory device. If the number of sensory devices connected to its brain increases, it will gain a better understanding of its surroundings. "I have another student now who has started to work on an audio input, so in some way we can start communicating with it," he says.

But it would be a bit shortsighted to say that adding sensory input devices to the robot would make it more human, as theoretically there is no limit to how many sensory devices a robot equipped with a biological brain could have. "We are looking to increase the range of sensory input potentially with infrared and other signals," says Warwick.

A robot that experiences its environment through devices like sonar detectors and infrared sensors would perceive the world quite differently from a person. Imagine having a Geiger counter plugged into your brain—or perhaps better yet, an X-ray detector. For future generations of Warwick’s robot, this isn’t just a thought experiment.

But Warwick isn’t interested only in building a robot with a wide range of sensory inputs. "It’s fun just looking at it as a robot life form, but I think it may also contribute to a better understanding of how our brain works," he says. Studying the ways in which his robot learns and stores memories in its brain may provide new insights into neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s disease.

Warwick’s robot is dependent upon biological cells, so it won’t live forever. After a few months, the neurons in its brain will grow sluggish and less responsive as learning becomes more difficult and the robot’s mortal coil begins to take hold. A sad thought perhaps—but such is life.

[911NewWorld]

You are just reading and posting things from internet things and books. You definitely do not know anything for real of the U.S. in daily real life with things you are posting in , do you.
Let us ask you guys one more time.

- Does the U.S. already have mind based attack weaponry? And it is running space attack with this weaponry through the globe? What your respond on this threat in real for years and now?

- Do you know really of how worse immoral crimes the U.S. in shadow have been committing on peoples with using this weaponry on attacks? How many peoples have been under such attacks? How badly damaged and painful for those victims in mental and physical? How is the U.S. breaking all moral ethnics and international laws when it has been doing such attacks? At least, its satellite mind based attack operation is in operative for 24/7 globally. It is crossing into other countries from outer space scope unlawfully to attack and spy on peoples and the countries' - that is the current threat to National Security of others'. HOW DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING REAL THINGS OF ITS OPERATION?

- Do you really know of how they have been being on satellite mind based torture and abuse activities unlawfully on peoples at large scale using beam weaponry and 3 combination torture and assault techniques of CIA? It consists of sensory disorientation, self-inflicted pain, the newly added - cultural sensitivity and individual fears and phobia. All are done in Remote Untouch not as to conventional methods. With remote mind based attack weaponry, effects of the water-boarding torture is easily to do with, for example. Did you know those in real?:rose:
- Let say do you really know of one country its operation in there now?


You definitely are on promotion game in attempt making up faking good perception of the U.S.

[just_me]

...Did you know those in real?:rose:
- Let say do you really know of one country its operation in there now?

Checks and balances have failed.

There is no where to turn (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showpost.php?p=2751561&postcount=86) and no one to turn (http://engforum.pravda.ru/showpost.php?p=2751568&postcount=143) to for help.

The state of the world speaks for itself.

I'm doing what I set out to do here on this thread. As of writing, this thread has more than 1,300 page views. I will call that a success despite your chronic criticisms.

[just_me]

bump... bump...

[targetedinusa]

Trust me, plenty in the USA have personal experience with psychotronic weapons and understand what is being done to them.

[targetedinusa]

A user wrote:
" I don't think it can read minds and locate people deep inside buildings (unless they are wearing a pager or cellphone). If this were the case Osama Bin Laden would already be Osama Bin Toast."

You're assuming that the people with these capabilities are even the slightest bit interested in finding Osama bin Laden. Wasn't the only plane allowed out of the country in the wake of 9/11 a government plane carrying bin Laden's family?

However, you do raise a good point, even if you didn't mean to. Part of the reason capabilities like this are kept hidden is, it would be highly embarrassing to the US government if it were revealed that they could have zeroed in on bin Laden's neural signature, anywhere on the planet, about 30 seconds after he was fingered as the bad guy. It would be highly embarrassing if it were revealed that they didn't need to torture Gitmo bay detainees at all to get valuable intelligence. Are you getting the picture yet?