Check it out folks. Here is some crazy shit being put up for a vote without a lot of public awareness. A bill that will affect us all deeply. Check out the details at :
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/lenhorowitzcoderedvaccine20oct05.shtml
Monday, November 07, 2005
Great Quote
I want to say more on this later but this gets to the heart of the psychology of these criminals.
Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote the opening quote in the aforementioned bestseller. He claims, "To do evil, a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. . . . Ideology is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors."
Article: Max Pain
Here is an interesting article on a weapon the government can use on people it doesn't like. It's funny as more and more of these weapons and technologies get known and exposed the more they yell that they are for The War Against Terrorism and last but not least National Security.
Maximum pain is aim of new US weapon
- 19:00 02 March 2005
- Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition
- David Hambling
The US military is funding development of a weapon that delivers a bout of excruciating pain from up to 2 kilometres away. Intended for use against rioters, it is meant to leave victims unharmed. But pain researchers are furious that work aimed at controlling pain has been used to develop a weapon. And they fear that the technology will be used for torture.
"I am deeply concerned about the ethical aspects of this research," says Andrew Rice, a consultant in pain medicine at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London, UK. "Even if the use of temporary severe pain can be justified as a restraining measure, which I do not believe it can, the long-term physical and psychological effects are unknown."
The research came to light in documents unearthed by the Sunshine Project, an organisation based in Texas and in Hamburg, Germany, that exposes biological weapons research. The papers were released under the US's Freedom of Information Act.
One document, a research contract between the Office of Naval Research and the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, is entitled "Sensory consequences of electromagnetic pulses emitted by laser induced plasmas".
It concerns so-called Pulsed Energy Projectiles (PEPs), which fire a laser pulse that generates a burst of expanding plasma when it hits something solid, like a person (New Scientist print edition, 12 October 2002). The weapon, destined for use in 2007, could literally knock rioters off their feet.
Pain trigger
According to a 2003 review of non-lethal weapons by the US Naval Studies Board, which advises the navy and marine corps, PEPs produced "pain and temporary paralysis" in tests on animals. This appears to be the result of an electromagnetic pulse produced by the expanding plasma which triggers impulses in nerve cells.
The new study, which runs until July and will be carried out with researchers at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, aims to optimise this effect. The idea is to work out how to generate a pulse which triggers pain neurons without damaging tissue.
The contract, heavily censored before release, asks researchers to look for "optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation" - in other words, cause the maximum pain possible. Studies on cells grown in the lab will identify how much pain can be inflicted on someone before causing injury or death.
Long-term risk
New Scientist contacted two researchers working on the project. Martin Richardson, a laser expert at the University of Central Florida, US, refused to comment. Brian Cooper, an expert in dental pain at the University of Florida, distanced himself from the work, saying "I don't have anything interesting to convey. I was just providing some background for the group." His name appears on a public list of the university's research projects next to the $500,000-plus grant.
John Wood of University College London, UK, an expert in how the brain perceives pain, says the researchers involved in the project should face censure. "It could be used for torture," he says, "the [researchers] must be aware of this."
Amanda Williams, a clinical psychologist at University College London, fears that victims risk long-term harm. "Persistent pain can result from a range of supposedly non-destructive stimuli which nevertheless change the functioning of the nervous system," she says. She is concerned that studies of cultured cells will fall short of demonstrating a safe level for a plasma burst. "They cannot tell us about the pain and psychological consequences of such a painful experience."
Related Articles
- Top US biologists oppose biodefence boom
- http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7074
- 01 March 2005
- Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons
- http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524823.800
- 15 January 2005
- Sweeping stun guns to target crowds
- http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6014
- 16 June 2004
Weblinks
- Sunshine Project
- http://www.sunshine-project.org/
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London
- http://www.chelwest.nhs.uk/jobs/index.asp
- Office of Naval Research
- http://www.onr.navy.mil/
- Neuroscience, University of Florida
- http://www.neuroscience.ufl.edu/
- Department of Physiology, University College London
- http://www.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/
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