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  by Judy Wall
 
			excerpts from Nexus Volume 5, Issue 6October/November 1998
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						About the Author:Judy Wall is Editor and Publisher of Resonance, 
						the Newsletter of the Bioelectromagnetics Special 
						Interest Group. pp.11--13,15-16
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			This article shows clearly the military's intent to use every 
			possible thought-influencing technology. This technology is largely 
			classified but there are leaks, like this article.
 
			  
			We involuntary test subjects can tell 
			you from first hand experience that far more invasive devices now 
			exist.
 This article represents one of the two parallel "tracks" on which 
			thought-influencing technology is being used and further developed:
 
				
					
					
					Radio frequency signals, based 
					on the WW II phenomenon called "radar hearing"  
					
					Ultrasound signals, which can be 
					transmitted through the air or piggybacked on to
					
					radio/TV signals 
					 
			  
			  
			  
			PSY-OPS 
			WEAPONRY USED IN THE PERSIAN GULF WAR
 
			For years, rumors have persisted that the United States Department 
			of Defense has been engaged in research and development of 
			ultra-sophisticated mind- altering technology. Confirmation of this 
			came to me recently in the form of two ITV News Bureau Ltd (London) 
			wire service bulletins.[1]
 
 
			The March 23, 1991 news-brief, 
			"High-Tech Psychological Warfare Arrives in the Middle East", 
			describes a US Psychological Operations (PsyOps) 
			tactic directed against Iraqi troops in Kuwait during Operation 
			Desert Storm.  
			  
			The maneuver consisted of a system in which 
			subliminal mind-altering technology was carried on standard 
			radiofrequency broadcasts. The March 26, 1991 news-brief states that 
			among the standard military planning groups in the centre of US war 
			planning operations at Riyadh was "an unbelievable and highly 
			classified PsyOps program utilizing ‘silent sound’ techniques". 
			  
			The opportunity to use this method 
			occurred when Saddam Hussein’s military command-and-control system 
			was destroyed. The Iraqi troops were then forced to use commercial 
			FM radio stations to carry encoded commands, which were broadcast on 
			the 100 MHz frequency. The US PsyOps team set up its own portable FM 
			transmitter, utilizing the same frequency, in the deserted city of 
			Al Khafji.  
			  
			This US transmitter overpowered the 
			local Iraqi station. Along with patriotic and religious music, 
			PsyOps transmitted "vague, confusing and contradictory military 
			orders and information". 
			  
			Subliminally, a much more powerful 
			technology was at work: a sophisticated electronic system to ‘speak’ 
			directly to the mind of the listener, to alter and entrain his 
			brainwaves, to manipulate his brain’s electroencephalograph i.e. (EEG) 
			patterns and artificially implant negative emotional states-feelings 
			of fear, anxiety, despair and hopelessness.  
			  
			This subliminal system doesn’t just tell 
			a person to feel an emotion, it makes them feel it; it implants that 
			emotion in their minds.[2] 
			I noticed that the ITV wire service was from outside the United 
			States. Readers of Resonance may recall that in the Electromagnetic 
			Weapons Timeline in issue no. 29, reference is made to the 
			documentary video, Waco: The Big Lie Continues, which contained 
			video footage of three EM weapons. This segment of the film was from 
			the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). I wondered if there was 
			any significance to this.
 
			At the library I pulled up back issues of my local newspaper for the 
			same time-period of the Gulf War to see what the American wire 
			services had said, if anything, about the use of this special PsyOps 
			weapon.
 
			  
			There was nothing said about it 
			directly, but three news articles seemed related. In a news release 
			from Associated Press during the same timeframe of the Gulf War 
			truce, I read: 
				
				"The American pilot who shot down 
				the second Iraqi warplane in 48 hours said Friday that continued 
				Iraqi flights suggested that US warnings were not filtering down 
				to Iraqi pilots…  
				  
				He said he hopes Saddam gets the message now.  
					
					‘It’s really too 
					bad that these people have to die for their unwillingness to 
					heed our warnings... What I really think is, they don’t 
					communicate down to the people,’ he said. ‘If they have a 
					communications problem, I suggest they fix it.’" [3] 
			That may have been coincidence but two 
			earlier news articles, dated March 1, 1991, apparently have a common 
			origin with the ITV news bulletin.  
			  
			The first article[4] tells us 
			that approximately 100 members of the US 101st Airborne Division, 
			fluent in Arabic, talked the enemy into surrendering. These soldiers 
			rode in the Apache helicopter gunships that were involved in the 
			longest helicopter-borne assault in history.  
			  
			They told the Iraqi troops that they 
			would be slaughtered if they didn’t give up. 
				
				"They got the point," one soldier is 
				quoted as saying. 
			This all sounds very unremarkable, 
			except when you read the editor’s note:  
				
				"The following 
				dispatch was subject to US military censorship."  
			Now why would they want to censor such a 
			mundane tactic, except out of embarrassment that the US Army 
			fighting forces had fallen to the level of a cheer-leading squad?... 
			in which case they would have nixed the thing entirely. 
			But upon re-reading the article, we may pick out certain key 
			phrases:
 
				
				"He [the soldier 
				interviewed] was one of dozens of Arabic speakers that played a 
				key role in the allied ground attack against Iraq, and part of 
				an attempt by the US Army to use finesse, intelligence work and 
				tactics to complement brute strength." 
			If we fill in the missing blanks with 
			such descriptions as "the megaphone was used to direct 
			psychoacoustic frequencies that engaged the neural networks of the 
			enemy’s brain, causing him to think any thought and feel any emotion 
			that the Americans chose to lay on him", then it starts to make 
			sense.  
			  
			And it would no longer seem so 
			surprising that one soldier could talk 450 enemy soldiers into 
			surrendering. The possibilities are there, and, as the next article[5] 
			documents, that is exactly what happened. Iraqi troops gave up en 
			masse. 
			We quote:
 
				
				"They were 
				surrendering in droves, almost too fast for us to keep up 
				with..." 
				"...two Iraqi majors, 
				both brigade commanders, who gave up their entire units..." 
				"...one of them gave up to an RPV 
				[remotely piloted vehicle]. Here’s this guy with his hands up, 
				turning in a circle to give himself up to a model airplane with 
				a camera in it." 
			Irrational? Not if there was also a 
			voice being beamed into his head from that little flying toy, 
			saying, "Give up, give up!" 
			  
			Otherwise, how do we account for the 
			editor’s note at the beginning of the article:  
				
				"The following is 
				based on pool dispatches that were subject to military 
				censorship." 
				 
			Without that note, we could smugly think 
			that the Iraqi soldiers were cowards or crazy, but why censor that 
			idea? 
			  
			  
			  
			MIND CONTROL 
			WITH SILENT SOUNDS
 
			The mind-altering mechanism is based on a subliminal carrier 
			technology: the Silent Sound Spread Spectrum (SSSS), 
			sometimes called "S-quad" or "Squad".
 
			  
			It was developed by Dr 
			Oliver Lowery of Norcross, Georgia, and is described in
			
			US Patent #5,159,703, "Silent 
			Subliminal Presentation System", dated October 27, 1992. 
			The abstract for the patent reads:
 
				
				"A silent communications system in 
				which non-aural carriers, in the very low or very high 
				audio-frequency range or in the adjacent ultrasonic frequency 
				spectrum are amplitude- or frequency-modulated with the desired 
				intelligence and propagated acoustically or vibrationally, for 
				inducement into the brain, typically through the use of 
				loudspeakers, earphones, or piezoelectric transducers. 
				   
				The modulated 
				carriers may be transmitted directly in real time or may be 
				conveniently recorded and stored on mechanical, magnetic, or 
				optical media for delayed or repeated transmission to the 
				listener." 
			According to literature by Silent 
			Sounds, Inc., it is now possible, using supercomputers, to analyze 
			human emotional EEG patterns and replicate them, then store these 
			"emotion signature clusters" on another computer and, at will, "silently induce and change the emotional state in a human being". 
			Silent Sounds, Inc. states that it is interested only in 
			positive emotions, but the military is not so limited. That this is 
			a US Department of Defense project is obvious.
 
			Edward Tilton, President of Silent Sounds, Inc., says 
			this about S-quad in a letter dated December 13, 1996:
 
				
				"All schematics, 
				however, have been classified by the US Government and we are 
				not allowed to reveal the exact details... ... we make tapes and 
				CDs for the German Government, even the former Soviet Union 
				countries! All with the permission of the US State Department, 
				of course... The system was used throughout Operation Desert 
				Storm (Iraq) quite successfully." 
			The graphic illustration, 
			"Induced Alpha 
			to Theta Biofeedback Cluster Movement", which accompanies the 
			literature, is labeled #AB 116-394-95 UNCLASSIFIED" and is an output 
			from "the world’s most versatile and most sensitive 
			electroencephalograph (EEG) machine".  
			  
			It has a gain capability of 200,000, as 
			compared to other EEG machines in use which have gain capability of 
			approximately 50,000. It is software-driven by the "fastest of 
			computers" using a noise-nulling technology similar to that used by 
			nuclear submarines for detecting small objects underwater at extreme 
			range.[6] 
			The purpose of all this high technology is to plot and display a 
			moving cluster of periodic brainwave signals. The illustration shows 
			an EEG display from a single individual, taken of left and right 
			hemispheres simultaneously.
 
			  
			The readout from the two sides of the 
			brain appear to be quite different, but in fact are the same 
			(discounting normal left-right brain variations). 
			  
			  
			  
			CLONING THE 
			EMOTIONS
 
			By using these computer-enhanced EEGs, scientists can identify and 
			isolate the brain’s low-amplitude "emotion signature clusters", 
			synthesize them and store them on another computer.
 
			  
			In other words, by studying the subtle 
			characteristic brainwave patterns that occur when a subject 
			experiences a particular emotion, scientists have been able to 
			identify the concomitant brainwave pattern and can now duplicate it.
			 
				
				"These clusters are then placed on 
				the Silent Sound[TM] carrier frequencies and will 
				silently trigger the occurrence of the same basic emotion in 
				another human being!" 
			  
			  
			  
			SYSTEM DELIVERY AND 
			APPLICATIONS 
			There is a lot more involved here than a simple subliminal sound 
			system.
 
			  
			There are numerous patented technologies which can be 
			piggybacked individually or collectively onto a carrier frequency to 
			elicit all kinds of effects. 
			There appear to be two methods of delivery with the system. One is 
			direct microwave induction into the brain of the subject, limited to 
			short-range operations. The other, as described above, utilizes 
			ordinary radio and television carrier frequencies.
 
			Far from necessarily being used as a weapon against a person, the 
			system does have limitless positive applications. However, the fact 
			that the sounds are subliminal makes them virtually undetectable and 
			possibly dangerous to the general public.
 
			In more conventional use, the Silent Sounds Subliminal System 
			might utilize voice commands, e.g., as an adjunct to security 
			systems. Beneath the musical broadcast that you hear in stores and 
			shopping malls may be a hidden message which exhorts against 
			shoplifting. And while voice commands alone are powerful, when the 
			subliminal presentation system carries cloned emotional signatures, 
			the result is overwhelming.
 
			Free-market uses for this technology are the common self-help tapes; 
			positive affirmation, relaxation and meditation tapes; as well as 
			methods to increase learning capabilities.
 
			In a medical context, these systems can be used to great advantage 
			to treat psychiatric and psychosomatic problems. As a system for 
			remediating the profoundly deaf, it is unequalled.
 
			  
			(Promises, promises. This is the most 
			common positive use touted for this technology over the past 30 
			years. But the deaf are still deaf, and the military now has a 
			weapon to use on unsuspecting people with perfectly normal hearing.) 
			  
			  
			  
			OFFICIAL 
			DENIALS
 
			In fact, the US Government 
			has denied or refused to comment on mind-altering weapons for years.
 
			  
			Only last year, US News & 
			World Report ran an article titled "Wonder 
			Weapons" basically a review of the new so-called 
			‘non-lethal’ or ‘less-than -lethal’ weapons.’ Not one word about 
			S-quad, although the technology had been used six years earlier! 
			Excerpts from the article read:
 
				
				"Says Charles 
				Bernard, a former Navy weapons-research director: ‘I have yet to 
				see one of these ray-gun things that actually works…"   
				"And DARPA (Defense 
				Advanced Research Projects Agency) has come to us every few 
				years to see if there are ways to incapacitate the central 
				nervous system remotely,’ Dr F. Terry Hambrecht, head of the 
				Neural Prostheses Program at NIH, told US News, ‘but nothing has 
				ever come of if,’ he said. ‘That is too science-fiction and 
				far-fetched."’ 
			It may sound "science fiction and 
			far-fetched" but it is not.  
			  
			However, that is just what the 
			powers-that-be want you to believe, so as to leave them alone in 
			their relentless pursuit of... what? 
			The idea behind non-lethal weapons is to incapacitate the 
			enemy without actually killing them, or, in the case of riot control 
			or hostage situations, to disable the participants without permanent 
			injury, preferably without their knowing it. The electromagnetic 
			mind-altering technologies would all fall into this class of 
			weapons, but since they are all officially non-existent, who is to 
			decide when and where they will be used?
 
			And why should selected companies in the entertainment industry 
			reportedly be allowed access to this technology when the very fact 
			of its existence is denied to the general public?
 
			As recently as last month [February], this stonewall approach of 
			total denial or silence on the subject still held fast, even toward 
			committees of the US Congress!
 
				
				"The Joint Economics Committee, 
				chaired by Jim Saxton (R-NJ), convened on February 25, 1998 for 
				the 'Hearing on Radio Frequency Weapons and Proliferation: 
				Potential Impact on the Economy'".  
			Invited testimony included statements by 
			several authorities from the military: 
				
					
					
					Dr Alan Kehs, of the US Army 
					Laboratories, discussed the overall RF threat.
					
					Mr James O’Bryon, Deputy 
					Director of Operational Testing and Director of live fire 
					testing for the Office of Secretary of Defense at the 
					Pentagon, discussed the role of Live Fire Testing and how it 
					plays a role in testing military equipment with RF weapons.
					
					Mr David Schriner, Principal 
					Engineer of Directed Energy Studies with Electronic Warfare 
					Associates and recently retired as an engineer with a naval 
					weapons testing facility, talked about the difficulty in 
					building an RF weapon and about the terrorist threat.
					
					Dr Ira Merritt, Chief of 
					Concepts Identification and Applications Analysis Division, 
					Advanced Technology Directorate, Missile Defense and Space 
					Technology Center, Huntsville, Alabama, discussed the 
					proliferation of RF weapons primarily from the former Soviet 
					Union. 
			Although these statements gave 
			information of technical interest, they are perhaps more important 
			for the information they did not give: information on the existence 
			of radiofrequency weapons that directly affect the human brain and 
			nervous system. 
			  
			  
			  
			KGB 
			PSYCHOTRONICS
 
			This technology did not spring up overnight. It has a long history 
			of development and denials of development-by the US Government and 
			probably half of the other governments of the world as well.
 
			We know that the former Soviet Union was actively engaged in this 
			type of research. In a previous article we reported that during the 
			1970s the Soviet KGB developed a Psychotronic Influence System 
			(PIS) that was used to turn soldiers into programmable ‘human 
			weapons’. The system employed a combination of high-frequency 
			radiowaves and hypnosis.
 
			  
			The PIS project was begun in response to a 
			similar training scheme launched in the US by President Carter, 
			according to Yuri Malin, former security adviser to USSR 
			President Gorbachev.[8] 
			In my Electromagnetic Weapons Timeline[9] I covered a 
			period of 60 years of interest and development in EM 
			weapons—information gathered from the many articles and news 
			clippings sent in by readers of Resonance. In my article on 
			synthetic telepathy[10]
 
			  
			I traced the development of the ‘voice 
			in your head’ technology dating back to 1961, all my references 
			coming from the open scientific literature. 
			  
			  
			  
			POWER OF THE 
			MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
 
			Jan Wiesemann has written an apt description of the situation 
			which now exists in the United States, about the ‘forces that be’ 
			and how the situation came about:
 
				
				"During the Cold War the United 
				States not only engaged in a relatively open nuclear arms race 
				with the Soviet Union, but also engaged in a secret race 
				developing unconventional weapons.    
				As the intelligence agencies (which 
				prior to the Second World War had merely played a supporting 
				role within the government) continued to increase their power, 
				so did the funds spent on developing techniques designed to 
				outsmart each other.   
				"And as the US intelligence 
				community began to grow, a secret culture sprang about which 
				enabled the intelligence players to implement the various 
				developed techniques to cleverly circumvent the democratic 
				processes and institutions... 
				"Like many other democracies, the US Government is made up of 
				two basic parts the elected constituency, i.e., the various 
				governors, judges, congressmen and the President; and the 
				unelected bureaucracies, as represented by the numerous federal 
				agencies.
 
				"In a well-balanced and correctly functioning democracy, the 
				elected part of the government is in charge of its unelected 
				bureaucratic part, giving the people a real voice in the agenda 
				set by their government.
 
				"While a significant part of the US Government no doubt follows 
				this democratic principle, a considerable portion of the US 
				Government operates in complete secrecy and follows its own 
				unaccountable agenda which, unacknowledged, very often is quite 
				different from the public agenda."[11]
 
			Jan goes on to quote one of the United 
			States’ most popular war heroes: Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as 
			Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II and was later 
			elected 34th President of the United States.  
			  
			In his farewell address to the nation in 
			1961, President Eisenhower said: 
				
				"...we have been compelled to create 
				a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to 
				this, three and a half million men and women are directly 
				engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on 
				military security more than the net income of all United States 
				corporations. 
				"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a 
				large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total 
				influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every 
				city, every state house, every office of the federal government. 
				We recognise the imperative need for this development. Yet we 
				must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, 
				resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very 
				structure of our society.
 
				"In the councils of government, we must guard against the 
				acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or 
				unsought, by the military -industrial complex. The potential for 
				the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. 
				We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our 
				liberties or our democratic processes."
 
			  
			  
			INTERNATIONAL 
			CONCERNS OVER NEW WEAPONS
 
			The United Nations was 
			established in 1945 with the aim of "saving 
			succeeding generations from the scourge of war".
 
			  
			In 1975 the General Assembly considered 
			a draft first proposed by the Soviet Union:  
				
				"Prohibition of the Development and 
				Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New 
				Systems of Such Weapons". 
			In 1979 the Soviet Union added a list of 
			some types of potential weapons of mass destruction: 
				
					
					
					Radiological weapons (using 
					radioactive materials) which could produce harmful effects 
					similar to those of a nuclear explosion
					
					Particle beam weapons, based on 
					charged or neutral particles, to affect biological targets
					
					Infrasonic acoustic radiation 
					weapons
					
					Electromagnetic weapons 
					operating at certain radio-frequency radiations which could 
					have injurious effects on human organs.[12] 
			In response, the US and other Western 
			nations stalled.  
			  
			They gave a long, convoluted reason, but 
			the result was the same. In an article entitled "Non-Lethal Weapons 
			May Violate Treaties" [13] (below insert), the author 
			notes that the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention[14] 
			covers many of the non-conventional weapons—"those that utilize 
			infrasound or electromagnetic energy (including lasers, microwave or 
			radiofrequency radiation, or visible light pulsed at brainwave 
			frequency) for their effects". 
			  
			  
			  
				
					
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						"Non-lethal" weapons may violate 
						treaties
 
						by Barbara Hatch 
						Rosenberg  
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						Development of many of the proposed weapons described on 
						these pages has been undertaken by NATO, the United 
						States, and probably other nations as well. Most of the 
						weapons could be considered "pre-lethal" rather than 
						non-lethal.
 
						  
						They would actually 
						provide a continuum of effects ranging from mild to 
						lethal, with varying degrees of controllability. Serious 
						questions arise about the legality of these expensive 
						and highly classified development programs. 
						  
						Four international 
						treaties are particularly relevant.
 
						The Biological Weapons Convention
 
						The development of 
						biological agents for "non-lethal" uses such as 
						degradation of aircraft fuel, lubricants, or electrical 
						insulation would appear to violate the Biological 
						Weapons Convention (BWC), which prohibits the 
						development, production, or possession of biological 
						agents that have no justification for prophylactic, 
						protective, or other peaceful purposes.
 Although "protective purposes" is not defined in the 
						treaty, by analogy with the Chemical Weapons Convention 
						(CWC) it can be presumed to mean protection against 
						dangerous biological agents. U.S. law implementing the 
						treaty provides criminal penalties for the development 
						or possession of "any biological agent" for use as a 
						weapon; "biological agent" is defined to include any 
						microorganism capable of causing "deterioration of food, 
						water, equipment, supplies, or material of any kind; or 
						deleterious alteration of the environment."
 
						  
						There is no exemption for 
						use in law enforcement.
 
						The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Geneva 
						Protocol
 
						The development of 
						"non-lethal" chemical weapons, such as sedatives 
						delivered in aerosols absorbed through the skin or 
						supercaustics that corrode roads and tires (and 
						inevitably also clothing, shoes, skin, and flesh), 
						threatens to violate the Chemical Weapons Convention. 
						  
						The convention is expected 
						to come into force next year. It prohibits the 
						development, production, or retention for prohibited 
						purposes of toxic chemicals, defined as "any chemical 
						which through its chemical action on life processes can 
						cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm 
						to humans or animals." The definition would include 
						substances such as caustics and other harmful chemicals 
						not usually classified as poisons.
 The convention permits the production of toxic chemicals 
						if they are used for peaceful purposes, as in 
						agriculture; protective purposes (against toxic 
						chemicals); "military purposes not connected with the 
						use of chemical weapons and not dependent on the use of 
						the toxic properties of chemicals as a method of 
						warfare"; and "law enforcement including domestic riot 
						control purposes." The third of these permissible 
						purposes might be construed to include chemicals such as 
						supercaustics, on the grounds that "life processes" are 
						not the intended target, provided that use of the 
						chemicals as weapons would entail little contact with 
						living things. For some weapons, this would be difficult 
						to establish.
 
 The Geneva Protocol of 1925 prohibits "the use in war of 
						asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all 
						analogous liquid materials or devices." The "or other" 
						appears to broaden the prohibition beyond asphyxiating 
						or toxic substances. Thus, the use in warfare of harmful 
						chemicals such as supercaustics and sticky foams (which, 
						in addition to forming a kind of "roach motel" for 
						people, could act as asphyxiating agents) may be 
						illegal, and the use of metal embrittlement agents, 
						superlubricants, chemicals that interfere with fuel 
						combustion, and so forth could also be questioned.
 
 Under the CWC, the fourth permissible purpose for 
						developing chemical weapons agents-law enforcement, 
						including domestic riot control-is the major reason 
						currently offered for developing non-lethal weapons. 
						This permissible purpose, however, contains an ambiguity 
						in urgent need of clarification. "Law enforcement" is 
						not defined in the treaty. Does it include anything more 
						than riot control? If so, what? And what law?
 
 In contrast, the convention defines "riot control 
						agents" narrowly and prohibits their use in warfare. 
						Regarding law enforcement, it excludes the use of 
						"Schedule 1" chemicals (one of several categories of 
						chemical weapon agents) but says no more. This implies 
						that for any law enforcement purposes other than 
						domestic riot control, any nonSchedule 1 chemical may 
						be developed, produced, acquired, stockpiled, or 
						transferred as a weapon. Furthermore, although riot 
						control agents must be declared, the treaty says nothing 
						about declaring other agents that might be developed or 
						held for law enforcement.
 
 In the report containing the final text of the CWC, 
						several of the national delegations to the negotiating 
						body pointed out the problems raised by the undefined 
						term "law enforcement' as a permissible purpose.1
 
						  
						One delegation stated that 
						"this might give rise to far-fetched interpretations of 
						what the negotiators intended." Indeed, the three 
						delegations that commented on this issue interpreted 
						this permissible purpose in widely different ways: as 
						limited to domestic actions, as applicable outside 
						national boundaries, or as including only domestic and 
						U.N. peacekeeping activities. Unless the CWC Preparatory 
						Commission takes steps to define more closely and limit 
						this wild card, it could subvert much of the intent of 
						the convention and render its elaborate verification 
						mechanism futile.
 For domestic riot control, the development of chemical 
						agents is clearly permissible under the CWC, although 
						their use in warfare is prohibited. Riot control agents 
						are defined in the CWC as chemicals "which can produce 
						rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling 
						physical effects which disappear within a short time 
						following termination of exposure." This might be true 
						of certain sedatives, depending on the dose; it is 
						certainly not true of corrosive chemicals or 
						immobilizing glues. No agent that causes a deleterious 
						effect not automatically reversible can be considered 
						acceptable and humane for use in domestic riot control; 
						it would be unethical to subject innocent bystanders, 
						children, or hostages to severe psychological stress, 
						possible permanent injury, or death.
 
 The development of chemical weapons in the guise of 
						domestic riot control agents must not be allowed as a 
						means of circumventing the CWC. The treaty states that 
						every chemical held for domestic riot control purposes 
						must be declared; the CWC Preparatory Commission needs 
						to specify that these chemicals must fit the 
						convention's humanitarian definition of a riot control 
						agent.
 
 
						The Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (also 
						known as the Inhumane Weapons Convention)2
 
						Many of the non-lethal 
						weapons under consideration utilize infrasound or 
						electromagnetic energy (including lasers, microwave or 
						radio-frequency radiation, or visible light pulsed at 
						brain-wave frequency) for their effects. 
						  
						These weapons are said to 
						cause temporary or permanent blinding, interference with 
						mental processes, modification of behavior and emotional 
						response, seizures, severe pain, dizziness, nausea and 
						diarrhea, or disruption of internal organ functions in 
						various other ways. In addition, the use of high-power 
						microwaves to melt down electronic systems would 
						incidentally cook every person in the vicinity.
 Typically, the biological effects of these weapons 
						depend on a number of variables that, theoretically, 
						could be tuned to control the severity of the effects. 
						However, the precision of control is questionable. The 
						use of such weapons for law enforcement might constitute 
						severe bodily punishment without due process.
 
 In warfare, the use of these weapons in a non-lethal 
						mode would be analogous to the use of riot control 
						agents in the Vietnam War, a practice now outlawed by 
						the CWC. Regardless of the level of injury inflicted, 
						the use of many non-lethal weapons is likely to violate 
						international humanitarian law on the basis of 
						superfluous suffering and/or indiscriminate effects.3
   
						In addition, under the 
						Certain Conventional Weapons Convention, international 
						discussions are now under way that may lead to the 
						development of specific new protocols covering 
						electromagnetic weapons; a report is expected sometime 
						next year.    
						The current surge of 
						interest in electromagnetic and similar technologies 
						makes the adoption of a protocol explicitly outlawing 
						the use of these dehumanizing weapons an urgent matter. 
							
							1. Conference on 
							Disarmament, Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on 
							Chemical Weapons to the Conference on Disarmament, 
							Aug. 26, 1992, Nos. 22, 25, 34 (CD/1170).
 
 2. The full name of 
							this treaty is "Convention on Prohibition or 
							Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional 
							Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively 
							Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects."
 
 3. Louise Doswald-Beck, 
							ed., Blinding Weapons: Reports of the Meetings of 
							Experts Convened by the International Committee of 
							the Red Cross on Battlefield Laser Weapons, 
							19891991 (Geneva: Internal Committee of the Red 
							Cross, 1993)
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			Harlan Girard, Managing Director of the International 
			Committee Against Offensive Microwave Weapons, told me he 
			believes the strategy behind the government’s recent push for 
			less-than-lethal weapons is a subterfuge.  
			  
			The ones that are now getting all the 
			publicity are put up for scrutiny to get the public’s approval. The 
			electromagnetic mind-altering technologies are not mentioned, but 
			would be brought in later under the umbrella of less-than- lethal 
			weapons. These weapons were recently transferred from the Department 
			of Defense over to the Department of Justice.  
			  
			Why?  
			  
			Because there are several international 
			treaties that specifically limit or exclude weapons of this nature 
			from being used in international warfare. 
			In other words, weapons that are barred from use against our 
			country’s worst enemies (notwithstanding the fact that the US did 
			use this weapon against Iraqi troops!) can now be used against 
			our own citizens by the local police departments against such 
			groups as peaceful protestors of US nuclear policies.
 
			  
			  
			  
			TOWARDS GLOBAL 
			MIND CONTROL
 
			The secrecy involved in the development of the electromagnetic 
			mind-altering technology reflects the tremendous power that is 
			inherent in it. To put it bluntly, whoever controls this technology 
			can control the minds of men-all men.
 
			There is evidence that the US Government has plans to extend the 
			range of this technology to envelop all peoples, all countries. This 
			can be accomplished, is being accomplished, by utilizing the nearly 
			completed 
			HAARP project [15,16] 
			for overseas areas and
			
			the GWEN network now in place in 
			the US.
 
			  
			The US Government denies all this. 
			Dr Michael Persinger is a Professor of Psychology and 
			Neuroscience at Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada. You have 
			met him before in the pages of Resonance where we reported on his 
			findings that strong electromagnetic fields can affect a person’s 
			brain.
 
				
				"Temporal lobe stimulation," he 
				said, "can evoke the feeling of a presence, disorientation, and 
				perceptual irregularities. It can activate images stored in the 
				subject’s memory, including nightmares and monsters that are 
				normally suppressed." [17] 
			Dr Persinger wrote an 
			article a few years ago, titled "On 
			the Possibility of Directly Accessing Every Human Brain by 
			Electromagnetic Induction of Fundamental Algorithms".[18]
			 
			  
			The abstract reads: 
				
				"Contemporary neuroscience suggests 
				the existence of fundamental algorithms by which all sensory 
				transduction is translated into an intrinsic, brain-specific 
				code. Direct stimulation of these codes within the human 
				temporal or limbic cortices by applied electromagnetic patterns 
				may require energy levels which are within the range of both 
				geomagnetic activity and contemporary communication networks.
				   
				A process which is 
				coupled to the narrow band of brain temperature could allow all 
				normal human brains to be affected by a sub-harmonic whose 
				frequency range at about 10 Hz would only vary by 0.1 Hz." 
			He concludes the article with this: 
				
				"Within the last two decades a 
				potential has emerged which was improbable, but which is now 
				marginally feasible. This potential is the technical capability 
				to influence directly the major portion of the approximately six 
				billion brains of the human species, without mediation through 
				classical sensory modalities, by generating neural information 
				within a physical medium within which all members of the species 
				are immersed.   
				"The historical 
				emergence of such possibilities, which have ranged from 
				gunpowder to atomic fission, have resulted in major changes in 
				the social evolution that occurred inordinately quickly after 
				the implementation. Reduction of the risk of the inappropriate 
				application of these technologies requires the continued and 
				open discussion of their realistic feasibility and implications 
				within the scientific and public domain." 
			It doesn’t get any plainer than that. 
			And we do not have open discussion because the US Government has 
			totally denied the existence of this technology. 
			  
			  
			Acknowledgements
 
			  
			I would like to give special thanks to:
			 
				
					
					
					Jan Wiesemann for sending the 
					Silent Sounds[TM] statement and patents which were the 
					keystone of this article
					
					Mike Coyle, whose computer 
					search turned up many more related patents
					
					Harlan Girard, who has provided 
					numerous official government documents
					
					to the many who have provided 
					newsclippings and articles, moral and financial support to 
					Resonance, without which we’d have ceased publication long 
					ago. 
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