Brave New World’s Brazen New Weapon

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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

27 thoughts on “Brave New World’s Brazen New Weapon”

  2. the u.s. not the only country attacked nor is it the only one that seemed to have turned a blind eye (or should that be ear) on the victims  

    Canadian Diplomats Suing Government For $28 Million Over Mysterious Illness : NPR

    Several Canadian diplomats who became mysteriously ill while serving in Cuba are suing the government for allegedly ignoring or attempting to conceal information about their ailments and subsequently taking too long to remove them from the country.
    In the lawsuit, the five diplomats and their families – 14 total, including several children – say the government knowingly exposed them to “extremely serious and debilitating attacks” that have resulted in brain injuries from what the suit refers to as Havana Syndrome. They are seeking $28 million — about $21 million U.S. – in damages.
    The claim argues Canada badly mishandled the crisis when it became clear that American diplomats were not the only targets of the attacks in early 2017.
    “Canada downplayed the seriousness of the situation, hoarded and concealed critical health and safety information, and gave false, misleading and incomplete information to diplomatic staff,” the lawsuit says. Apparently, the government went so far as to suggest that the physical ailments people were experiencing were psychosomatic, according to the documents.
    Additionally, the lawsuit contends the government put a greater number of its citizens in harm’s way by continuing to send new families to Havana after several people began exhibiting symptoms consistent with what U.S. personnel had suffered.
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  3. if it is a microwave weapon perhaps CDC should draft guidelines about wearing tin hats, using aluminum umbrellas or wearing those metal emergency blankets as ponchos whenever visiting DC, the WH and US embassies.

    🙂

  6. Everything in the universe vibrates.  If you can make something strong enough to disrupt the vibration of living things, well, you shouldn’t. 

    Humans have been doing this unintentionally.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/03/whales-flee-military-sonar-strandings

    “Whales flee from the loud military sonar used by navies to hunt submarines, new research has proven for the first time.”

    Listen to a nearby car with a sub-woofer. It’s hard to concentrate because it feels like your cells are vibrating. The are.

  8. BiD, they’ll be more like partial or half-humanoid if elon has his way

    Image result for picard borg

    the latest bling in musk have borg fashion

  9. The Washington Post

    The United States has informed the United Nations it has credible information showing that Moscow is compiling lists of Ukrainians “to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,” according to a letter to the U.N. human rights chief obtained by The Washington Post on Sunday night.
    The letter alleges that Moscow’s post-invasion planning would involve torture, forced disappearances and “widespread human suffering.” It does not describe the nature of the intelligence that undergirds its assessment.
    […]
    The letter, written by Bathsheba Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, said, “I would like to bring to your attention disturbing information recently obtained by the United States that indicates that human rights violations and abuses in the aftermath of a further invasion are being planned.”
    “These acts, which in past Russian operations have included targeted killings, kidnappings/forced disappearances, unjust detentions, and the use of torture, would likely target those who oppose Russian actions,” said the letter addressed to Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
    Crocker says the Russian military’s targets would include Russian and Belarusian dissidents in exile in Ukraine, journalists and anti-corruption activists, and “vulnerable populations such as religious and ethnic minorities and LGBTQI+ persons.”
    “Specifically, we have credible information that indicates Russian forces are creating lists of identified Ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation,” the letter said, adding that the Biden administration also had information indicating Russian forces would likely use “lethal measures” to subdue peaceful protests or other “peaceful exercises of perceived resistance from civilian populations.”
    The letter was transmitted Sunday night to the U.N. human rights office, OHCHR, in Switzerland.

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  10. meanwhile, he’s back… and better at bashing the bozos among us

    John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn’t, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.

  11. How about President Biden announce and nominate his Supreme Court selection now. The Senate does its thing, and then add her to the court immediately. Don’t wait for an opening.

  13. The biggest problem with the NYT is they still allow their reporters to be mouth pieces for “anonymous sources” when the sources are using them to pass out miss information. It is why I dropped my subscription to the NYT and have not regretted it. 
    I also don’t watch cable news or believe any link to a cable news story. they are all suspect for being over sensationalized.
    Jack
     

  14. As for major networks’ news anchors, I only like Lester Holt on NBC.  The rest of the anchors sound like their hair is on fire, especially at ABC.

    As for bona fide journalists, I think it’s a proverbial Tower of Babel running things.

  15. I think one of our major problems is we are reaping the harvest from all the opinion writers who learned their craft as bloggers. As a result expertise is dead in the journalism world. You have to hunt for it. 
    I have been enjoying Anne Applebaum’s articles about Ukraine at The Atlantic. The Atlantic does a fair job of bringing in folks who know what they are talking about. enough so that it is worth subscribing imo.
    Jack

  16. This marathon Putin speech totally nuts. It was never about Ukraine. Or NATO expansion. Or security arrangements in Europe. It wasn’t a bluff. It wasn’t an exercise. It was always about this wicked man’s megalomaniacal sense of his destiny and Russia’s supposed right to empire over the free peoples on its borders. He is not going to stop trying to reassemble Soviet Union until we stop him. 

  17. the bear is nibbling at ukraine, chewing off chunks at a time.  why isn’t crimea viewed as an attack that’s already happened along with the present shelling which endangers all of europe/global economy and warrants drastic response from NATO, atlantic alliance and EU?   harkens back to the appeasement days of the past.  when will we ever learn?

  20. Finnsh President Sauli Niinisto speaks during the annual Munich Security Conference, in Munich, Germany February 19, 2022. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert

    Feb 19 (Reuters) – Finland’s president on Saturday compared Russia’s current treatment of Ukraine to an attempt by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin to threaten and divide Finland before invading in 1939.

    “All what happens in Ukraine, all what happens in the Western world at the moment, reminds me of what happened in Finland,” President Sauli Niinisto told a security conference in Munich.

    “Stalin thought that he will split the nation and it’s easy to go and invade Finland. Totally the opposite happened. People united, and we see the same in Ukraine.”

    Finland, part of the Russian empire from 1809 to 1917, resisted an initial Soviet invasion in 1939. The Nordic country later sided with Nazi Germany for much of World War Two and lost a chunk of its pre-war territory to the Soviet Union in peace treaties afterwards.

    During the Cold War, Finland was neutral between the West and the Soviet Union.

  23. Financially hamstring Russian oligarchs. 

    I hope this is already happening.

    What if a Rushun cyber-attack prevented us from imposing financial sanctions?

  24. https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/21/americas/canada-trucker-protest-monday/index.html

    “The RCMP froze 206 financial products, including bank and corporate accounts; disclosed the information of 56 entities associated with vehicles, individuals and companies; shared 253 bitcoin addresses with virtual currency exchangers; and froze a payment processing account valued at $3.8 million…”

    “We’ve launched inquiries to see whether there was foreign influence. I’ve raised the issue with Secretary Blinken, my counterparts also within Canada have raised issues, because we’re very preoccupied with the financing, through crowdsourcing, first, and also the disinformation campaign linked to it..”

    I wonder if any financing can be traced back to Rushunz?

  25. Blue

    I wonder how much of the Canadian trucker financing. Involves right wing American names.  How well is Gini Thomas hiding these days?

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