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April 30 30 Apr 07 (刘墉的传说)可能大多数人熟识刘墉，是来自《宰相刘罗锅》。而历史上的刘墉也的确是可以称得上好官的官。关于刘墉的后人，历史书上记载很少，传说却很多。在我爷爷的父亲那里，也留下了一个关于刘墉后人的传说。我老爷爷一直说：“我们家是刘墉的后人。后因战乱流落到此。”刘墉生前清廉，并且一再告戒他的孩子，不得利用他的名声在外为自己谋名牟利。死时告戒他的孩子，丧事一切从简。而且死前把家谱烧掉，不准孩子将来利用自己的名声为自己谋取利益。我们家的家谱的确也只是记载了从我爷爷的爷爷开始的，再往上就没有记载了。我爷爷的爷爷起,就一直是那个小山村的族长. 而我家的祖坟也只有7-8个小土包而已。我在这里写下这个故事，并不是要跟刘墉来攀亲。当目前很多人在想方设法寻根求渊，然后为死去的祖宗大兴土木，甚至也在为自己大兴土木建立陵墓时，是否也可以来想想烧掉家谱的做法的可贵之处呢？寻根求渊是很好的，您可以记得自己的祖先，并且把祖先中那些优良传统继承下来。但是大兴土木，大建宗祠，甚至重修陵墓，然后每年花大把的金钱前来祭祀。这些做法就不可取了。我们家也祭祀祖先，即使没有家谱，每年过年时点上三拄香，摆上点儿过年吃的年夜饭，饺子，水果等，然后磕三个响头。我想如果祖先真的在看着您，一定不会喜欢您花大把的金钱的浪费做法。您必恭必敬的三个响头，及您一家和和美美的幸福生活才是他们最想看到的。April 29 27 Apr 07 MASS PETITION- Europe227 April 2007 MASS PETITION ---Europe2 EVERYONE'S PARTICIPATION IS URGENTLY NEEDED FOR THIS MASS PETITION.PLEASE EVERYONE SEND YOUR CASE SUMMARIES OR PETITIONS TO -1.UK PARLIAMENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTSAddress: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Committee Office
House of Commons
7 Millbank
London SW1P 3JATel: 020 7219 2797 Fax: 020 7219 8393 Email: jchr@parliament.ukhttp://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/joint_committee_on_human_rights.cfm 2.LAW LORDS UK PARLIAMENT UKSC Rules Consultation Telephone: 020 7219 3120 Fax: 020 7219 6156 http://www.parliament.uk/judicial_work/judicial_work.cfm 3.THE HONORABLE DAVID CAMERON CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER UK camerond@parliament.ukhttp://www.davidcameronmp.com/ 4.INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTSThe International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights.P.O. Box 91 33, rue des Bains 1211 Geneva 8 Switzerland Phone: +41 22 9793800 Fax: +41 22 9793801 Email: info@icj.org http://www.icj.org/ 5.INTERNATIONAL HELSINKI FEDERATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (IHF) International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) Wickenburggasse 14/7 kolb@ihf-hr.org http://www.ihf-hr.org/6.ORGANISATION OF SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE Kaerntner Ring 5-7 1010 Vienna Austria Tel: +43-1 514 36 0 Fax: +43-1 514 36 96 info@osce.orghttp://www.osce.org/for maximum uniformity and effect please use the words ORGANISED STALKING, DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS, , PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS （MIND CONTROL WEAPONS）, TORTURE and/or ABUSE in your descriptions. 2007年4月27日 集体请愿---欧洲和中国 请受害者把您受害的简单经历或请愿信寄往欧洲，并要求对大脑控制武器和定向能武器虐待和骚扰进行调查。 1. UK PARLIAMENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS 英国国会人权联合委员会 Address: Joint Committee on Human Rights
Committee Office
House of Commons
7 Millbank
London SW1P 3JATel: 020 7219 2797 Fax: 020 7219 8393 Email: jchr@parliament.ukhttp://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/joint_committee_on_human_rights.cfm 2.LAW LORDS UK PARLIAMENT 英国国会上议院 UKSC Rules Consultation Telephone: 020 7219 3120 Fax: 020 7219 6156 http://www.parliament.uk/judicial_work/judicial_work.cfm 3.THE HONORABLE DAVID CAMERON CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADER UK 英国保守党领袖camerond@parliament.ukhttp://www.davidcameronmp.com/ 4.INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION OF JURISTS 国际法学家委员会 国际法学家委员会专注于促进人权的国际法和原则的职责，一致性和履行。P.O. Box 91, 33, rue des Bains http://www.icj.org/ 5.INTERNATIONAL HELSINKI FEDERATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (IHF) 赫尔辛基国际人权联合会 Wickenburggasse, 14/7 1080 Vienna, Austria奥地利 Tel: +43-1-408 88 22 Fax: +43-1-408 88 22-50 kolb@ihf-hr.org http://www.ihf-hr.org/6.ORGANISATION OF SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE 欧洲安全与合作组织 Kaerntner Ring 5-7 1010 Vienna Austria奥地利 Tel: +43-1 514 36 0 Fax: +43-1 514 36 96 info@osce.orghttp://www.osce.org/ 为了统一起见，请使用以下文字描述：ORGANISED STALKING（有组织的跟踪）, DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS（定向能武器）, PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS（精神武器） （MIND CONTROL WEAPONS大脑控制武器或神经控制武器）, TORTURE （酷刑）或 ABUSE（虐待）April 28 28 Apr 07 Plant CottonThis morning, Mom and I plant cotton and Sweet Potato. We plan to plant green bean, black and yellow bean, corn within this week. Every time mother plant something, it will certainly rain within few days. This good luck has already followed mother for 5 years. This year, on 22 February, Mom and I planted many roses, on 1 Mar had a good rain; on 2 Mar, Mom and I planted some trees, on 3 Mar, it had a good rain; mom planted Sorghum, it also rained next day. This good luck made mom very happy for so many years. Mom always said: “Thanks God!” Note: It rains for a whole day on 30 April 2007, mom and I plant some cotton in the morning, we also plant some bitter guard, calabash, after we finish our work, it start to rain. It is small rain at morning, and it is getting bigger and bigger at afternoon. April 26 25 Apr 07 MASS Petition--INTERPOL and other Police Officehttp://soleilmavis.googlepages.com/news Victims, please report your case to police. INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organization General Secretariat Fax: (33) 4 72 44 71 63 http://www.interpol.int/Public/contact.asp Australian Crime Commission REPORT ORGANISED CRIME AND INDIGENOUS ISSUES Organised crime impacts on the Australian community. If you have information which could help the Australian Crime Commission in its investigation of organised crime or in relation to violence and child abuse in Indigenous communities, please contact us on one of the following: FREECALL: 1800 088 225 Alternatively, you can write to the Australian Crime Commission at any of the addresses listed on the Contact Us page. http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/ Australian Federal Police http://www.afp.gov.au/contact Other police agencies websites: http://www.aic.gov.au/policing/auspol.html The Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China I can not find any email address where we can report our cases. But you can call them. The contact numbers can be found through the following links: http://www.mps.gov.cn/cenweb/brjlCenweb/jsp/jbdh/show_jbdh.htm FBI You can send them email through this link: https://tips.fbi.gov/ Visiting address: info@europol.europa.eu http://www.europol.europa.eu/ 受害者们请去报警。 国际刑警组织 General Secretariat Fax: (33) 4 72 44 71 63 http://www.interpol.int/Public/contact.asp 澳大利亚 报告有组织的犯罪 免费电话: 1800 088 225 您也寄信给以下网站的Contact Us 网页 http://www.crimecommission.gov.au/ 澳大利亚警察： http://www.afp.gov.au/contact 其他的澳大利亚警察相关网站 http://www.aic.gov.au/policing/auspol.html 中华人民共和国公安部 我无法找到可以报告我们的案件的电子邮件，但是您可以在以下网站找到相关电话。 http://www.mps.gov.cn/cenweb/brjlCenweb/jsp/jbdh/show_jbdh.htm 美国联邦调查局FBI 您可以从以下网站给他们发电子邮件: https://tips.fbi.gov/ 邮政地址: 参观地址: April 24 25 Apr 07 (Thieves Came!!!!)Over the years thieves came to me frequently. I used to think that it was because I was away from home, and traveled to many places, especially because I have been tortured and harassed by Mind Control Weapons, I was inattention to people around me, the opportunities that thieves stole my things were more than others. But since last year, thieves were further intensified, frequently came to my office and my home. Here were only few cases: (1) One mid-night of last year. There were few strangers suddenly came to office. The office staffs still slept soundly, suddenly they heard a shout: “Smash glass!” then all the glass of windows and doors was smashed into completed pieces. The office staffs got up from bed immediately and looked out, those people have already smashed all the glass, jumped out the wall of the garden, jumped into a car which has already waited on the road. It only took them 2 minutes. The office staffs called police 110, after 110 came, the car has already disappeared. (2) Recent, the thief stole my home on the daytime, my mom and I was not at home. The thief broke all the locked Drawers and Cabinets. Things were dumped to the ground. One pairs Jade bracelets and some ancient silver coins which my grandmother gave to my mother as her wedding gifts also were stolen at this time. But the lucky thing was, while the thief was inside the house, there were 2 friends visited my house. The first friend knocked the door for a long time, he did not hear any answer, so he left; the second friend knocked the door for a long time, as she did not hear any response, so she pushed the door and found that the door was not locked. She came in the house and found everything was on the ground. The thief also disappeared. She called my family member and also called police 110. (3) One member of my family drove a car; he parked his car in front of a restaurant and had his lunch. After he finished lunch, he found the front window of his car was broken, he lost his bag with his ID, driver license, all the keys, some cash and Bank card….. (4) Some thieves even came to steal at daytime even someone was at home. One day, a friend came to visit dad, and they had a good chat. But when the friend wanted to go home and he found his bicycle which he locked in front of the door was stolen. Another day, some Decorators came to repair my house. It is also daytime, the worker locked his motorcycle in front the door. After he finished his work, he found half key was inside the Keyhole. The thief wanted to steal his motorcycle, but the thief broke his key.
My family members and I have already lost many things, such as mobile phone, bicycle, and some other stuff….. April 19 19 Apr 07 MASS PETITION--- WHO and American Psychiatric AssociationPLEASE EVERYONE SEND YOUR CASE SUMMARIES OR PETITIONS TO –WHO World Health OrganizationAvenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Telephone: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11 Facsimile (fax): (+ 41 22) 791 3111 Telex: 415 416 Telegraph: UNISANTE GENEVA Email: info@who.intThe American Psychiatric Association1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, Va. 22209-3901 email: apa@psych.orghttp://www.psych.org/about_apa/American Psychiatric Association's Advocacy Action Center American Psychiatric AssociationDepartment of Government Relations1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209-3901 phone: 703-907-7800 Fax: 703-907-1083 email: advocacy@psych.orgThe American Psychiatric Foundation1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1825, Arlington,VA 22209 Main Phone: (703) 907-8512 Toll Free Number: (888) 35-PSYCH Fax: (703) 907-7851 E-mail: apf@psych.orgPhysicians for Human Rights Kathleen Carspecken KCarspecken@phrusa.org> (Excutive Assistant) online email form: http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/about/contact/ American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242 Email: executiveoffice@apa.org
In your letters, it shall include your stories of being a target; your symptoms and your suffering; your efforts to stop the torture; and the help you wish to get. Especially for those victims who had been misdiagnosed, please send your medical records and other documents related to your cases. for maximum uniformity and effect please use the words ORGANISED STALKING, DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS, PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS （MIND CONTROL WEAPONS）, TORTURE and/or ABUSE in your descriptions. 2007年4月19日 集体请愿---世界卫生组织和美国精神病学协会 请受害者把您受害的简单经历或请愿信寄往：WHO 世界卫生组织 Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland 电话: (+ 41 22) 791 21 11 传真: (+ 41 22) 791 3111 Telex: 415 416 Telegraph: UNISANTE GENEVA 电子邮件: info@who.int The American Psychiatric Association地址：1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, Va. 22209-3901 电话: 703-907-7300 电子邮件: apa@psych.org http://www.psych.org/about_apa/American Psychiatric Association's Advocacy Action Center American Psychiatric AssociationDepartment of Government Relations地址：1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209-3901 电话: 703-907-7800 传真: 703-907-1083 电子邮件: advocacy@psych.org The American Psychiatric Foundation地址：1000 Wilson Blvd., Suite 1825, Arlington,VA 22209 电话: (703) 907-8512 免费电话: (888) 35-PSYCH 传真: (703) 907-7851 电子邮件: apf@psych.org 受害者在自己的信中，写明自己的受害经历；您所遭受的酷刑折磨；您做过的努力；您希望能够得到的帮助。 特别是对于那些曾被误诊的受害者，可以把您的病历等相关资料发给他们。 为了统一起见，请使用以下文字描述：ORGANISED STALKING（有组织的跟踪）, DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS（定向能武器）, PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONS（精神武器）(MIND CONTROL WEAPONS大脑控制武器或神经控制武器),TORTURE（酷刑)或ABUSE（虐待）April 18 Mind Invasive Technology (mind control) and Diagnosis of Psychosis1On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology Carole Smith 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, 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. In the United Kingdom the fortifications against any disturbing glimmer of awareness of such actual or potential outrages against human rights and social and political abuses seem to be cast in concrete. Complete with crenellations, ramparts and parapets, the stronghold of nescience reigns supreme. To borrow Her Majesty the Queen's recent observation: "There are forces at work of which we are not aware." One cannot say that there is no British Intelligence on the matter, as it is quite unfeasible that the existence of the technology is not classified information. Indeed it is a widely held belief that the women protesting against the presence of cruise missiles at Greenham Common were victims of electro-magnetic radiation at gigahertz frequency by directed energy weapons, and that their symptoms, including cancer, were consistent with such radiation effects as reported by Dr Robert Becker who has been a constantly warning voice against the perils of electro-magnetic radiation. The work of Allen Frey suggests that we should consider radiation effects as a grave hazard producing increased permeability of the blood-brain barrier, and weakening crucial defenses of the central nervous system against toxins. (Becker, 1985, p. 286). Dr Becker has written about nuclear magnetic resonance as a familiar tool in medecine known as magnetic resonance imaging or MRI. Calcium efflux is the result of cyclotronic resonance which latter can be explained thus: If a charged particle or ion is exposed to a steady magnetic field in space, it will begin to go into a circular or orbital, motion at right angles to the applied magnetic field.The speed with which it orbits will be determined by the ratio between the charge and the mass of the particle and by the strength of the magnetic field. (Becker, 1990,p.235) The implications of this for wide scale aggression by using a combination of radar based energy and the use of nuclear resonating are beyond the scope of the writer, but appear to be worth the very serious consideration of physicists in assessing how they might be used against human beings. 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. The aim here is not to attempt a comprehensive history and development of the technology of mind control. These very considerable tasks - which have to be done under circumstances of the most extreme difficulty - have been addressed with clarity and courage by others, who live with constant harm and threats, not least of all contemptuous labelling. Their work can be readily accessed on the internet references given at the end of this paper. For a well-researched outline of the historical development of electro-magnetic technology the reader should refer to the timeline of dates and electromagnetic weapon development by Cheryl Welsh, president of Citizens against Human Rights Abuse. (Welsh 1997; 2001). There are at least one and a half thousand people worldwide who state they are being targeted. Mojmir Babacek, now domiciled in his native Czech Republic, after eight years of residence in the United States in the eighties, has made a painstakingly meticulous review of the technology, and continues his research. (Babacek 1998, 2002) 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.
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. Enough people have been sufficiently concerned by the reports of victims of mind control abuse to organise The Geneva Forum, in 2002, held as a joint initiative of the Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva; the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; the International Committee of the Red cross, and the Human Rights Watch (USA), and Citizens against Human Rights Abuses (CAHRA); and the Programme for Strategic and International Security Studies, which was represented by the Professor and Senior Lecturer from the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. In England, on May 25, 1995, the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. carried an article based on a report by Nic Lewer, the peace researcher from Bradford University, which listed "more than 30 different lines of research into 'new age weapons'."some of the research sounds even less rational. There are, according to Lewer, plans for 'pulsed microwave beams' 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. Next: http://soleilmavis.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B6CD1D7F6F8F411!1907.entry?_c=BlogPart Mind Invasive Technology(Mind Control) and Diagnosis of Psychosis2On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology Carole Smith Continuing .......Previous: http://soleilmavis.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B6CD1D7F6F8F411!1908.entry 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. There are always new methods to try out which might prove useful in the search to find ways of disabling and destroying opponents - air injected into brains and lungs, lasers to strike down or blind, particle beams, sonar waves, or whatever combination of energies to direct, or destabilise or control. 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. The same people who deliver the weapons - perhaps respected scientists and academics - may cite the acceptable side of scientific discoveries, which have been developed by experimenting on unacknowledged, unfortunate people. In a cleaned up form, they are then possibly celebrated as a break-through in the understanding of the natural laws of the universe. It is not implausible that having delivered the technical means for destruction, the innovator and thinker goes on, wearing a different hat, to receive his (or her) Nobel Prize. 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" (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. Dr Persinger's work is referred to by Captain John Tyler whose work for the American Air Force and Aerospace programmes likens the human nervous system to a radio receiver. (1990) 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 legal profession would therefore be well advised to consider the laws on Intellectual Property very judiciously in order to acquit themselves with any degree of authenticity. We should accustom ourselves to the prospect of recognizing our work coming out of the mouth of another. The prospect of wide-scale fraud, and someone posturing in your stolen clothes will not be a pretty sight. The term "personal mind enhancement" is slipping in through the back door, to borrow a term used by the Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, and it is being done through technologically-induced mental co-ercion - mind raping and looting. In place of, or in addition to, cocaine, we may expect to see 'mind-enhanced' performances on "live" television. 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. In his recent Reith Lectures for the BBC (2003), Professor Ramachandran, the celebrated neuroscientist from the La Hoya Institute in San Diego, California, has demonstrated for us many fascinating things that the brain can do. He has talked to us about personality disorders and shown that some patients, who have suffered brain damage from head injury, do not have the capacity to recognise their mothers. Others feel that they are dead. And indeed he has found brain lesions in these people. In what seems to be an enormous but effortless leap, the self-styled "kid in a candy store" is now hoping to prove that all schizophrenics, have damage to the right hemisphere of the brain, which results in the inability to distinguish between fantasy (sic) and reality. Since Professor Ramachandran speaks of schizophrenia in the same breath as denial of illness, or agnosia, it is not clear, and it would be interesting to know, whether the person with the head injury has been aware or unaware of the head injury. Also does the patient derive comfort and a better chance at reality testing when he is told of the lesion? Does he feel better when he has received the diagnosis? And what should the psychoanalysts - and the psychiatrists, - feel about all those years of treating people of whose head injuries they were absolutely unaware? Was this gross negligence? Were we absolutely deluded in perceiving recovery in a sizeable number of them? 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). There is a new desire for concretisation. The search for meaning has been replaced by the need for hard proof. If it doesn't light up or add up it doesn't have validity. The physician of the mind has become a surgeon. "He found a lump as big as a grapefruit!" Facing up to the Dread and Fear of the Uncanny Freud believed that an exploration of the uncanny would be a major direction of exploration of the mind in this century. The fear of the uncanny has been with us for a very long time. The evil eye, or the terrifying double, or intruder, is a familiar theme in literature, notably of Joseph Conrad in The Secret Sharer, and Maupassant's short story, Le Horla. 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 while they are driving new Jaguars and Mercedes, and going to the opera. 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. And those who do choose to use them may be sitting with the weapon, which resembles, say, a compact mobile telephone, on the restaurant table next to the bottle of wine, or beside them at the swimming pool. 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.
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Carole Smith is a member of The College of Psychoanalysts, and an accredited member of the United Kingdom Register of Psychotherapists. She trained at the Institute of Psychotherapy and Social Studies, and currently serves on their Ethics Committee.
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April 17 17 Apr 07 Journalism Contacts and Documentary Film MakersJournalism Contacts to send our stories to- Main Campus Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2101 (847) 467-1882 Chicago Newsroom Medill News Service 210 S. Clark St., Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 503-3800 (312) 503-1362 (fax) Washington Newsroom Medill News Service 1325 G Street NW, Suite 730, Washington, D.C. 20005-3195 (202) 347-8700 (202) 662-1847 (fax) New York University Department of Journalism Arthur Carter Hall 10 Washington Place, New York, N.Y. 10003 Telephone: 212- 998-7980 Fax: 212- 995-4148 Department of Communication Building 120, Room 101 450 Serra Mall, Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2050 Phone: (650) 723-1941 Fax: (650) 725-2472 Email: comm-inforequest@lists.stanford.edu S.I. Newhouse Communications Center Syracuse University, 215 University Place, Syracuse, NY 13244 1117 Journalism Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111 Documentary Film Makers 73 Spring Street Suite 403 NY, New York, 10012, United States Phone: 212-274-808 Email: info@renewmedia.org Web Address: http://renewmedia.org Award Winning Productions, Inc. Address: PO Box 2715, Aptos, California, 95003,United States Phone: 831-818-0612 Email: fran@awpcom.com Web Address: http://awpcom.com Voices of The Heartland Independent Film Group Address: 12637 Merritt-Estes Rd. Deadwood, South Dakota, 57732,United States Phone: 605 578-3857 Email: kim_don2001@yahoo.com Web Address: http://www.backroomevents.com/voices Foxnews Media contacts to spread the word of our Torture – Comments@foxnews.com , AmericasNewsroom@foxnews.com , Beltway@foxnews.com , Myword@foxnews.com , Bigstory-weekend@foxnews.com , Bigstory-weekend@foxnews.com , Bullsandbears@foxnews.com , Cash@foxnews.com , Cavuto@foxnews.com, Fncimag@foxnews.com, Forbes@foxnews.com, Friends@foxnews.com, Comments@foxnews.com, Feedback@foxnews.com, Jamie@foxnews.com , Feedback@foxnews.com , Fncspecials@foxnews.com , FNS@foxnews.com, Newswatch@foxnews.com , Foxreport@foxnews.com , Foxreport@foxnews.com, Atlarge@foxnews.com , Hannityandcolmes@foxnews.com , Heartland@foxnews.com , JER@foxnews.com , Lineup@foxnews.com , Martha@foxnews.com, Ontherecord@foxnews.com , Oreilly@foxnews.com , Redeye@foxnews.com , Special@foxnews.com , Studiob@foxnews.com, Comments@foxnews.com , Cavuto@foxnews.com , Hemmer@foxnews.com , colonelscorner@foxnews.com , Comments@foxnews.com , Fatherjonathan@foxnews.com , Drmanny@foxnews.com, Lisonlaw@foxnews.com , Housecall@foxnews.com ， http://soleilmavis.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B6CD1D7F6F8F411!2049.entry 2007年4月17日 新闻杂志的联系方式，记录片制作者 您可以把您的故事告诉以下新闻杂志：- Main Campus Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2101 (847) 467-1882 Chicago Newsroom Medill News Service 210 S. Clark St., Suite 200,Chicago, IL 60604 (312) 503-3800 (312) 503-1362 (fax) Washington Newsroom Medill News Service 1325 G Street NW, Suite 730, Washington, D.C. 20005-3195 (202) 347-8700 (202) 662-1847 (fax) New York University Department of Journalism Arthur Carter Hall 10 Washington Place, New York, N.Y. 10003 Telephone: 212- 998-7980 Fax: 212- 995-4148 Department of Communication Building 120, Room 101, 450 Serra Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-2050 Phone: (650) 723-1941 Fax: (650) 725-2472 Email: comm-inforequest@lists.stanford.edu S.I. Newhouse Communications Center Syracuse University, 215 University Place, Syracuse, NY 13244 1117 Journalism Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7111
73 Spring Street Suite 403 NY New York, New York, 10012 United States Phone: 212-274-808 Email: info@renewmedia.org Web Address: http://renewmedia.org Award Winning Productions, Inc. Address: PO Box 2715 ,Aptos, California, 95003 ,United States Phone: 831-818-0612 Email: fran@awpcom.com Web Address: http://awpcom.com Voices of The Heartland Independent Film Group Address: 12637 Merritt-Estes Rd. Deadwood, South Dakota, 57732 United States Phone: 605 578-3857 Email: kim_don2001@yahoo.com Web Address: http://www.backroomevents.com/voices 请受害者联系FOXNEWS 曝光大脑控制武器和电磁波武器对受害者的酷刑虐待和骚扰。 (请看上面英文的 FOXNEWS 所列的电子邮件) 中情局解密记录其从事非法活动秘密档案 http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-06-23/014212075071s.shtml “国家安全档案馆”21日公布的备忘录，科尔比向司法部通报时列举了18项具体行动，其中包括拘禁一名苏联叛逃人员、 非法闯入前CIA雇员住宅、搜集近万名反战人士资料、秘密对民众开展行为矫正试验等。 这里文章中指出的“秘密对民众开展行为矫正试验等”，就包括使用大脑控制武器，精神电子武器和定向能武器 对公民的实验。 在中国的受害者要积极行动起来，向更多的媒体揭露有些法西斯分子仍然在使用这种大脑控制武器，精神电子武器 和定向能武器对合法公民进行酷刑虐待的事实。您可以给所有的报纸，杂志，媒体写信。只有您的努力，才能最终 获得更多的人的帮助，早日制止这种法西斯酷刑。 April 16 Who are Mind Control Weapons and Directed Energy Weapons torturers and perpetrators?In my case, I was a fresh student in Australia who was studying Master degree. There was some guesswork about who these torturers were.Guesswork1: Australia government surveillance me using Mind Reading Technology and Mind Control Weapons. In my opinion: If Australia government wanted to surveillance me, they would do that quietly, and only use Mind Reading technology. Why would they torture me?Guesswork2: Other government surveillance me using Mind Reading Technology and Mind Control Weapons? In my opinion: I had reported to police in Australia, they told me that “Using mind reading technology was illegal. Even police also could not use mind reading technology to surveillance criminals.” If other countries wanted to surveillance me, they would do it quietly. Because they knew they were committing a crime.Guesswork3: some countries wanted to spy Australia; they wanted use us as their moving monitor by using Mind Reading technologies. In my opinion: I was a new one in Australia who did not know Australia very well. If they wanted to spy Australia, they would choose an Australia citizen or someone who had stayed in Australia for long time. In conclusion: (1) If these torturers came from government covert agents, the only reason for them using Mind Control and Mind Reading technologies to target me was that they were weapons researchers and developers; they needed Mind Control Weapons human experiments. (2) Another reason that these torturers torturing and harassing us was that they were terrorists of corrupt ones who had turned themselves to terrorism.
14 Apr 07 Send emails to Canadian TVMostafa Hosny, requests you all to send an email to Canadian TV at: Please make it concise and confirm whether you have been subjected to what I described below. Please try not to complain about legitimate Law Enforcement tactics such as surveillance (stalking) as it is legal and authorized by courts. Courts did not authorize Directed Energy Attacks. Moe Hosny Windsor Canada 519 991 7461 Email: moe_hosny@yahoo.ca Victim Gerry Duffett has make a reporters email lists (mostly Canadian) to raising public awareness about Mind Control Weapons and Directed Energy Weapons torture and harassment.Gerry DuffettToronto / Ontario / Canada gerryduffett47@yahoo.comgerryduffett@fastmail.cahttp://gerryduffett.proboards54.com/index.cgi?board=generalhttp://www.goliathboards.com/users5/gerryduffett/index.cgiREPORTERS 1
2007年4月14日 （请给加拿大电视台写信） Mostafa Hosny，恳请所有人给加拿大电视台写信。电子邮件：whistleblower@ctv.ca 请尽量简明扼要，而且内容是关于以下所述的。请不要抱怨合法的法律部门的监视和跟踪，因为那是加拿大法院允许的。 但是法院不允许定向能武器的攻击。 Moe Hosny Windsor Canada 519 991 7461 Email: moe_hosny@yahoo.ca www.thematrixdeciphered.com 请见上面英文翻译部分所列的电子邮件清单: REPORTERS 1, REPORTERS 2, REPORTERS 3 13 Apr 07 MASS PETITION ---United Nations
All victims, please SEND YOUR CASE SUMMARIES OR PETITIONS to UNICRI and require an investigation and research on Mind Control Weapons and Directed Energy Weapons torture and harassment. UNICRI UNITED NATIONS, INTERREGIONAL CRIME AND JUSTICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE http://www.unicri.it/wwa/contacts/contacts.php Headquarters Liaison Office in Rome Please also write to United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights： http://www.ohchr.org/english/contact/ Human Rights Complaints Postal address Fax: +41 22 917 9022 For urgent matters tb-petitions@ohchr.org 1.UN SECURITY COUNCIL COUNTER TERRORISM COMMITTEEhttp://www.un.org/sc/ctc/contact.shtml2. UN UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR DISARMAMENT AFFAIRSddaweb@un.org 3. UN SECURITY COUNCIL :-USA usunpublicaffairs@state.gov usa@un.intRUSSIA rusun@un.intCHINA chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn china@un.intFRANCE france@un.intUK uk@un.intBELGIUM newyorkUN@diplobel.be belgium@un.intCONGO congo@un.intGHANA ghanaperm@aol.com ghanaun2@aol.com ghana@un.intINDONESIA ptri@indonesiamission-ny.org indonesia@un.intITALY italy@un.int hr.italyun@esteri.itPANAMA emb@panama-un.org panama@un.intPERU peru@un.intQATAR qsc@qatarmission.org qatar-e@qatarmission.org qatar@un.intSLOVAKIA mission@newyork.mfa.sk slovakia@un.intSOUTH AFRICA southafrica@un.intARGENTINA argentina@un.intAUSTRALIA australia@un.intAUSTRIA austria@un.intBELGIUM newyorkUN@diplobel.beBRAZIL delbrasonu@delbrasonu.orgCANADA canada@un.intCHILE chile@un.intCUBA cuba@un.int aimara@cubanmission.com http://www.ilo.org/
April 12 12 Apr 07 Victim Scott will appear on the New York City TV show: Fox and Friends FirstOn Friday 13 April, 2007 Scott will appear on the New York City TV show: Fox and Friends First TV Program: Fox and Friends First It is the third part/hour of the 3 hour morning news show. Where: Outside FOX WORLD NEWS, NYC When: 8am New York time, Please check your local listing for the TV channel in your area. http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/index.html I will be dressed in all black with dark sunglasses, and a black T-shirt with "white letters" on it that will be easy to see even though I will be outside the studio. I should be in the opening shot at the beginning of the program at about 10 seconds after the show Logo, in the middle window, BUT, if you don't see me then, you should be able to see me clearly within the first 6-10min of the show outside one of the three large windows.I will NOT be a guest on the show, and will NOT give an interview. I will be outside the studio where the show's "live friends" can be viewed. Depending on what happens, they could show a close up shot of my entire body, and mention me, and at that point I will wave to everyone,(this has happened to me before), otherwise, you will be able to see me in the background outside one of the windows, behind one of the shows host.This show is broadcast in about 50 countries, and has an audience of millions and millions of people. Please take a few min on Friday, and celebrate with meTHANKS EVERYONE...ScottPS. It is NOT supposed to rain, but if it does, my umbrella is a large blue one, but you will still see my T-shirt....2007年4月12日 受害者SCOTT将出现在纽约电视节目：Fox and Friends First 2007年4月13日星期五（纽约时间），受害者SCOTT将出现在纽约电视节目：Fox and Friends First 电视节目：Fox and Friends First 这是三个小时的早间电视新闻节目的第三个小时。 地点：纽约，Fox世界新闻外。 时间：纽约时间早上8点。或请点击以下网站知道您在当地收看的时间http://www.foxnews.com/foxfriends/index.html 我将穿着黑色衣服，带着黑色太阳眼镜，我的黑色T恤衫上有白色字母。即使我在演播室外您也可以很容易认出我。 在电视节目刚开始，电视节目标志出现后，我将出现在电视屏幕中央，在镜头上10秒种。但是如果您没有来得及看到我，您仍然能够在最初 的6-10分钟内，在三个最大窗户外的一个，看到我。 我不是电视节目的特约佳宾，也不接受采访，我在演播室外“现场朋友”席。根据需要，会出现一个我全身的镜头，而且会提到我。到时我会向大家招手致意。（我以前曾经有过这样的事）不然，您还可以在一位节目佳宾身后，通过其中一个背景大窗口看到我。这个电视节目在大约50个国家播出。拥有成千上万的观众。 请在星期五花一点儿时间观看节目。感谢大家SCOTT另：应该不会下雨，如果下雨，我将会带一个兰色的大雨伞。但您仍然会看到我的T恤。 April 08 8 April 2007 (MASS PETITION - United States1April 07 7 Apr 2007 （Victims write letters or emails to expose Mind Control Weapons torture and harassment）Written by Soleilmavis On April, All victims please write letters to governments, public communities, human rights organizations, scientists, or press offices to expose Mind Control Weapons torture and harassment. In your letters, it shall include your stories of being a target; your symptoms and your suffering; your efforts to stop the torture; and the help you wish to get. There are more than 1500 victims who have stood up and make active efforts to expose these fascists Mind Control Weapons torturing and harassment. Through the efforts of the victims and all justice-upholding people in the world, have found more and more information that proves the existence of Mind Control Weapons. It is time to cause widespread concern in society, and strongly condemn the abuse of such weapons against innocent citizens We wish to bring out three questions: (1) Many countries have developed a type of brain control (drugs, chips, nano - or electromagnetic waves) weapons. Does the government then have also introduced a law system to manage the use of such weapons? (2) What effective legal systems and other measures that our government have already established to prevent the misuse of such weapons. (3) Once there is misuse of such weapons, how can we get help from government to protect the interests of the victims? And how to put torturers to legal sanctions.
7 Apr 2007 (受害者共同努力，一起揭露大脑控制武器的虐待和折磨)
4月份，请所有的受害者给您认为能够有所帮助的政府有关部门，社会团体，科研单位，媒体等写信。
如果您认为国防部能够对受害者有所帮助，请您就给国防部写信；如果您认为最高法院能够对受害者有所帮助，请您就给最高法院写信；如果您认为公安部能够对受害者有所帮助，请您就给公安部写信；如果您认为报纸，电视台等媒体能够对受害者有所帮助，请您就给报纸，电视台等媒体写信;如果您认为某个科学家，或领导人能够对受害者有所帮助，请您就给科学家，或领导人写信……..
受害者在自己的信中，写明自己的受害经历；您所遭受的酷刑折磨；您做过的努力；您希望能够得到的帮助。
全世界已有超过1500受害者已经站起来了，并积极努力，揭露大脑控制武器虐待合法，无辜，没有任何防御能力的平民的法西斯暴行。经过了受害者和全世界正义人们的积极努力，已经找到了越来越多的资料证明了大脑控制武器的存在。
现在是引起社会的广泛关注，并强烈谴责这种武器的滥用和对无辜公民的酷刑虐待的时候了。
我们希望能够实现三个目标：
（1） 很多国家都研制开发出了大脑控制类（药物，芯片，纳米或电磁波）武器，那麽我们的政府们是否也同样出台了相关的法律，制度来管理这类的武器的使用呢？
（2） 政府建立何种有效的法律，制度等措施来防止这类武器的滥用？
（3） 如果一旦出现了这类武器的滥用，我们的政府们又如何来保障受害者的利益，并能够对滥用武器者进行法律制裁呢？
April 06 6 Apr 2007 (Contact with a reporter of CCTV)Currently, A victim gave me a reporter‘s telephone number (Without this reporter’s agreement, I could not publish his telephone number and his name here) and said that CCTV <<Approaching Science>> wanted to make a program for victims and few victims would be invited to attend the program. I called this reporter 3 times. First time, I just wanted to confirm about this matter. Second time, a victim told me that reporter was searching some information about this matter. I called this reporter and asked whether he wanted some help for preparing information. He said he would appreciate that if I could prepare some documents for him. He said he wanted the following information about Mind Control Weapons: （1）relevant evidences of origin Mind Control Weapons and Mind Control weapon development. (2) News articles of Mind Control Weapons (3) Conclusions from Scientists, lawyers and mental health experts on symptoms of the victims and the describe of these victims’ experience. He also wanted some information from victims: (1) Personal experience of Victims (2) The evidence of victim’s symptoms. (3) Recommend several victims for the program
On 4 Apr, I wrote some emails and within 2 days, I received more than 40 replies. Victims, scientists, experts all over the world have given us disinterested assistance; they provided us some valuable documents. Some documents gave us freely which people only should pay for read from bookshops or internet. Mr. Peter Phillips, Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and Director of Project Censored, author of “US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights” also wrote to me and asked this matter. http://soleilmavis.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B6CD1D7F6F8F411!1706.entry http://www.earthpulse.com/epulseuploads/articles/MindControlHumanRights.pdf?/span (pdf file) I called this reporter on 6 Apr, and he said that they could not go to overseas to interview someone. And they would not focus on weapons. (In my opinions, all symptoms of victims are from Mind Control Weapons torturing and harassment. If they don’t focus on weapons, how could they find out the reason of victims symptoms?) Thanks for all who have been working hard to expose Mind Control Weapons torturing and harassment. What they have done just want to help victims to get Public concern and help. Media program is a very good channel to get public concern and help. When those people heard that CCTV would do a program special for victims, everyone tried their best to help us and wish that there would be a good program. I would express our sincere gratitude to all community, experts and scholars who concern about victims. I also wish that victims should see that so many people put themselves in dangerous of possible attacking to help victims. Victims must standup and work hard, keep doing well. 6 Apr 07 (中央电视台记者对受害者的关注)
最近，有位受害者给了我一位中央电视台记者的电话（因为未征得记者本人同意，不便公开该记者的电话和姓名）说中央电视台《走进科学》栏目组想做一期关于受害者的节目，并且要邀请一些受害者做这个节目。
我给这位先生打了3次电话，第一次只想确认一下是否有此事。第二次，有受害者告诉我，说电视台记者正在准备材料，我打电话问这位记者是否需要帮助准备材料。他说他们最近很忙，如果我们可以为他们准备一些关于大脑控制武器方面的材料最好不过了。并且提出了以下他们需要的关于大脑控制武器方面的材料。
（1）各个国家大脑控制武器的起源，发展的相关证据
（2）世界各国报纸报道文章
（3）科学家，律师和精神病专家对这些受害者描述的受害状况及症状的结论。
同时对于受害者，他希望有如下的材料：
（1）受害者的个人经历
（2）推荐几个受害者上节目
（3）受害者受虐待的证据。
4月4日，我发了很多电子邮件，4月6日，我已受到了全世界各地40多封的电子邮件，有受害者，有专家，学者，对我们这些受害者给予了无私的帮助。提供了很多非常珍贵的资料，包括著名专家的需要购买的文章，也无偿提供给了我们。其中Mr. Peter Phillips, 美国大学（Sonoma State University） “US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights” http://soleilmavis.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9B6CD1D7F6F8F411!1706.entry http://www.earthpulse.com/epulseuploads/articles/MindControlHumanRights.pdf?/span
一文的作者，也给我写了电子邮件关注此事。
尽管，我跟中央电视台的记者4月6日通过电话，他说，他们无法去国外采访，并且他们做这节目的重点不希望放在武器方面。（我们作为受害者都知道我们的各种症状是因为武器虐待所致，如果他们不注重武器，又如何能够找到导致我们种种症状的原因）。
所有的人的共同努力，都是为了让我们这些受害者的受虐待的真相大白于天下，并得到更多社会公众的关注和帮助。电视台的报道和节目，是让更多人来关注受害者的很好渠道。所以所有的人听到了电视台要为受害者专门做节目，全都希望能够尽所能来帮助我们，希望节目做好。
在此，我对所有的关心我们受害者的社会各界人士，专家，学者表示真诚的感激！
同时也希望所有受害者们树立信心。全世界有很多正义的人们，冒着也被攻击的危险，不遗余力地帮助我们！
受害者必须树立信心，继续努力！
April 04 Growing a Brain in SwitzerlandGrowing a Brain in Switzerland MANFRED DWORSCHAK - Der Spiegel (Germany) A network of artificial nerves is growing in a Swiss supercomputer -- meant to simulate a natural brain, cell-for-cell. The researchers at work on "Blue Brain" promise new insights into the sources of human consciousness. The machine is beautiful as it wakes up -- nerve cells flicker on the screen in soft pastel tones, electrical charges flash through a maze of synapses. The brain, just after being switched on, seems a little sleepy, but gentle bursts of current bring it fully to life. This unprecedented piece of hardware consists of about 10,000 computer chips that act like real nerve cells. To simulate a natural brain, part of the cerebral cortex of young rats was painstakingly replicated in the computer, cell by cell, together with the branched tree-like structure of the synapses. The simulation was created at the Technical University in Lausanne, Switzerland, where 35 researchers participate in maintaining this artificial brain. It runs on one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, but soon even that computer will be too small. The goal is to build a much bigger electronic thinking machine -- one that would ultimately replicate the human brain. A project this ambitious would have been ridiculed a few years ago. "Today we have the computers we need," says biologist Henry Markram, 44, the project's director. "And we know enough to begin." Markram knows about the problems his group can look forward to. "But if we don't build the brain," he says, "we'll never understand how it works." In fact, there have been tremendous advances in brain research for years; but answers to the big questions are as elusive as ever. How does consciousness develop within the electric orchestra of cells? How exactly does a spark of intellect ignite from the interplay among genes, proteins and messenger substances? The Lausanne model, dubbed "Blue Brain," is the most radical attempt so far to investigate the mystery of consciousness. The idea is eductively simple: To determine how the mind emerges from biology, replicate the biology. It's a task that requires enormous patience and attention to detail, a process that ultimately means mimicking nature one molecule at a time. Though the first artificial brain may seem simple, it will be a useful model. Brain researchers can use it to reproduce functions from the real organ and test their theories. As they build in new processes, the model grows ever more detailed -- a sort of wiki project of the mind. It also offers an important advantage over a natural brain, since it lets researchers monitor each and every (simulated) mental activity in the machine. But -- has there been mental activity? The newborn "Blue Brain" surprised the designers with its willfulness from the very first day. It had hardly been fed electrical impulses before strange patterns began to appear on the screen with the lightning-like flashes produced by cells that scientists recognize from actual thought processes. Groups of neurons started becoming attuned to one another until they were firing in rhythm. "It happened entirely on its own," says Markram. "Spontaneously." Building the electronic rat brain Ten thousand artificial nerve cells have been interwoven in Lausanne, and the researchers aim to increase the number to one million within the next year. Which doesn't mean they're satisfied: The work is scheduled right now to last beyond 2015. By then, unless the project proves too ambitious, Markram and his team hope to be ready for their primary goal: a computer model of an entire human brain -- right now almost a sheer flight of fancy, given the 100 billion cells they would have to engineer. Skeptics wonder what the purpose is of painstakingly replicating things when scientists have so little understanding of their purpose and function. Indeed, no one will know, within the foreseeable future, what exactly happens in the circuits of the replicated brain -- except that whatever it is, it looks seductively authentic to an outside observer. Perhaps the only ones who could have known are the scores of rats that carry on a shadow-like existence in this supercomputer. Researchers opened thousands of rat skulls over the years, removed their brains, and cut them into thin slices, which they kept alive. Then they directed tiny sensors at the individual neurons. They listened to the cells firing neurons, and intercepted the responses coming from the adjacent cells. The brain slices were exposed to a variety of electrical impulses. The impulses reflected the stimuli that may have been received by the laboratory rats' brains when the animals smelled cheese or were startled by a shape. The cells reacted -- just as they did when the rats were still alive -- by sending electrical charges through the neuroplexus. The researchers' measuring devices recorded all signals until the brain slices expired. In the end, the researchers at Markram's lab collected the entire repertoire of behavior of hundreds of types of cells in every conceivable situation in a rat's life -- stored in endless tables. This vast stockpile of data let the researchers start building their digital doppelgnger. Henry Markram, a South African by birth, has spent the last 15 years studying the interplay among brain cells. He learned to use brain-impulse sensors in the Heidelberg laboratory of Dr. Bert Sakmann. Sakmann had developed a method of applying suction to individual gray cells using tiny glass tubes, prompting the cells to release their electric signals. In 1991 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research. His student, Markram, further developed the method until he was able to monitor several cells at the same time -- a number that he has now increased to twelve. "That was the breakthrough," says Markram. "We had paved the way to the artificial brain by the time we arrived at communication between the cells." Researchers working on this puzzle, though, still expect to receive a few lessons in applied modesty, given the overwhelming complexity of the brain. It took months to complete a copy of the first brain cell to be transferred to the computer. The digital cell model is based on millions of formulas -- that much data is needed to achieve fairly natural behavior. The computing capacity the project requires is correspondingly high. A whole processor is currently needed to simulate the behavior of a single cell.But this is the price of uncompromising realism. A nerve cell's capacity to process electric signals is almost unfathomable. It reacts to incoming stimuli using tiny pores, known as ion channels, tens of thousands of which are distributed across its surface. Electrically charged particles slip in and out of the cell through these gateways. The cell takes part in the orchestra of thought by opening or closing its ion channels. This is how it prepares itself to fire; this is also how it sends signals to neighboring cells, through thin protrusions known as axons. The computer model also includes ion channels, and their distribution almost mirrors the original. "However, at this level of precision it would be impossible for us to produce millions of cells manually," says Markram. The solution required a stroke of boldness: "We had to industrialize it." Technology recapitulates biology Today the Blue Brain project essentially has its own factory to produce artificial brain matter, so the computer can clone nerve cells almost automatically. The system's production line can produce whole series of neurons, one after another. Its memory contains close to 400 types, differentiated by shape. The stored neurons could be used to construct thinking tools of any size, in principle. Before they can be approved for use, though, the individual cells are randomly provided with individual characteristics -- because in the actual brain, no two cells are identical. While none of this is especially challenging for a supercomputer, the real work starts when the time comes to link 10,000 non-identical cells to one another in a way that mirrors nature. The result is a particularly tricky 3-D puzzle, because each cell has about 10,000 protrusions with which it attempts to connect to other cells. The computer, in other words, must rotate and twist all cells in the space until their conductors are connected -- correctly -- at a total of 100 million points of contact. The first phase of the project, which is currently underway, simulates a tiny part of a rat's cerebral cortex known as a cortical column, a dense tangle of interconnected cells about two millimeters long and half a millimeter in diameter. The cerebral cortex of all mammals, including man, consists of such cortical columns. Once evolution had hit upon a successful model, it apparently saw no reason to modify it significantly.Cortical columns are all-purpose tools, equally suited to provide sharp vision, acute hearing and complex reasoning. "We see it as a sort of miniature brain," says Markram. "With only one of these columns, we would certainly be capable of processing environmental stimuli, though only in a very blurred way." The cells in the Lausanne brain model still lack their chemical insides. They simulate the abundance of electric signals being exchanged, but not the molecular machines that produce them. The artificial cells do not contain proteins, which, in real cells, combine to form ion grids, for example. More important, the genes that are switched on to produce these proteins are also absent. "We will incorporate the molecules later," says project manager Felix Sch眉rmann. "In the next few months we'll focus on fine-tuning the model we already have." The researchers repeatedly test their circuits, comparing their behavior with the results from the rat experiments. Only when there are no longer any significant differences is the simulation ready for the next phase. The team expects to begin replicating a whole rat brain by early next year. For that purpose, however, the current computer will no longer be sufficient and the researchers will need a new supercomputer, the world's fastest. But even that level of computing speed won't be enough for long, as the team scrambles up the ladder of life forms. "We'll model a cat brain, a primate brain and finally a human brain," says Markram confidently, as if there's no reason to doubt the feasibility of such a goal. Each step along the way will likely need the latest generation of supercomputer. Is it even possible? Computer giant IBM has provided the machinery for Blue Brain from the beginning. The company has positioned itself for some time as a supplier of supercomputers for the scientific community, lured by a rapidly growing market. The Lausanne brain simulation is therefore also a chance for IBM to gather experience in new and daunting challenges. The researchers in the Blue Brain group are already working with IBM experts on the plans for a computer that would operate at nearly inconceivable speeds -- the kind of machine needed to simulate the human brain. It would be an absurd undertaking if it were based on current technology. A computer capable of running such a simulation would be a colossus the size of several soccer fields. "And we'd have an electric bill of $3 billion a year," says Markram. But the outlook changes considerably when Markram accounts for the rapid growth in performance in chip technology. "By 2015 we will have arrived at a level of energy consumption that we could certainly afford." But the question is, is all the cost and effort worth it? "Half the research community will say our project is nonsense," says Markram. "In their view, the brain is far too complex to allow for successful replication." In fact, there are an almost infinite number of possibilities to connect only a few million brain cells. How could it ever be possible to decide which of those combinations will produce consciousness? "That's a fundamental misconception," says Markram. "We aren't interested in the theoretical number. After all, evolution found a biological solution." The researchers in Lausanne believe they can reach this solution one step at a time. The more detailed information about brain biology they incorporate into the simulation, the easier their remaining work becomes. This is because many theoretically possible but meaningless brain combinations will be eliminated. What will remain, the researchers believe, are valid combinations that could give rise to thought. It's a daring bet on the future. The Blue Brain group lacks neither funds nor pioneering spirit. Its researchers do not hesitate to place it on par with the human genome project. They are convinced that just as the genome project has decoded man's genetic makeup, their project in Lausanne will decipher the fundamental biological tools of his capacity for thought. If all goes well, the results of research in Lausanne will not be the only data incorporated into the brain model. The Brain Mind Institute alone, which Markram co-directs, employs up to 125 researchers, but it could theoretically draw on the collective research of the global scientific community. "We now have about 35,000 publications a year in neuroscience," says Markram. "No single researcher knows even one percent of that. We won't get anywhere without a model that integrates all of this fragmented knowledge." Once Blue Brain operates reliably, fellow scientists from the around the world will be invited to use it to try out their new discoveries and theories. The project laboratory also includes a screening room where simulations can be viewed in real time. Researchers watching the simulation can distinguish individual cell groups and watch as cascades of excitation patterns not unlike toppling dominoes surge through the tissue. They can simulate flying around in the cerebral cortex or watch in slow motion as millions of ion channels systematically open and close. But the main purpose of the artificial brain, say its creators, is to make new types of experiments possible. For example, what happens when damage is inflicted on certain types of cells whose function still isn't determined? How many cells can be switched off until the behavior of the surviving cells around them becomes erratic, or the entire circuit breaks down? Scientists know that a similar process occurs in the brains of epileptics and Alzheimer's patients. Armed with current methods, which by their very nature are based on external observation, medical science has gained only a schematic picture of the processes in these patients' brains. Using Blue Brain, researchers would simply fly to the crisis zones inside a virtual skull. Such studies are conceivable, though, only in a model that mirrors biology. The so-called neural networks that other researchers have developed for years are very different. A neural network is also meant to behave like a brain, somehow, but how the likeness is achieved -- the circuitry underneath -- is more or less irrelevant. Someone building a cow using this principle would be content with any milk machine that moos and produces the occasional cowpat. "That doesn't help us to understand the biology," says Markram. The researchers in Lausanne are interested in the real cow: "Our first priority is that we never use tricks to achieve the correct result," says project manager Sch眉rmann. "If something goes wrong in the simulation, our only option to improve it is by incorporating new biological knowledge." One day the research could even open a door to real life for their artificial brain. This wouldn't present much of a technological challenge. "We could simply connect a robot to the brain model," says Markram. "Then we could see how it reacts to real environments." But Blue Brain will be given a taste of real life only after it has performed flawlessly in the laboratory. Until then its environment won't be very exciting -- nothing but an air-conditioned mainframe room, and standard stimuli derived from textbook data. |
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