To Your Servicemen and women...
Omega - 5. Mar, 10:50
Beitraege von Suz LeBoeuf
5
Mar
2007
11
Sep
2006
War-weapons technology and dramatic increased wars: benefit who??
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/WeaponsTorture
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/PublicAccess
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/SustainableBusiness
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/DNC4MEMBERS
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/PublicAccess
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/SustainableBusiness
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/group/DNC4MEMBERS
Omega - 11. Sep, 08:08
26
Jul
2006
Surfing the Web with nothing but brainwaves
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/googlebrain0721.biz2/
Surfing the Web with nothing but brainwaves Kiss your keyboard goodbye: Soon we'll jack our brains directly into the Net - and that's just the beginning.
See related videos: http://icsn2202.blip.tv by a torture victim who has head yanking on film - this is electronic torture and captivity - of brain waves, body, sick sick sick - WE HAVE TO STOP THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE MURDERING PEOPLE ELECTROMAGNETICALLY BY REMOTE ELECTRONICS, SHOOTING PEOPLE WITH ELECTRICITY FROM DISTANT PLACES - SECRET WARFARE GOING ON AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE! TARGETING PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL WAR WEAPONS! CALLING PEOPLE "PSYCHOTIC" OR MENTALLY ILL WHEN IT'S CAUSED BY ELECTRONIC WEAPONS!!! Links to study, learn more about high tech weapons: http://www.targeted.blogspot.com
Free the People! Keep the People Safe! -suz at electro well inc.
By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor July 24 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - -- Two years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in how we interact with computers - and business will never be the same. Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work - emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches - will be performed by mind control. If you think that's mind-blowing, try to wrap your head around the sensational research that's been done on the brain of one Matthew Nagle by scientists at Brown University and three other institutions, in collaboration with Foxborough, Mass.-based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research was published for the first time last week in the British science journal Nature. Nagle, a 26-year-old quadriplegic, was hooked up to a computer via an implant smaller than an aspirin that sits on top of his brain and reads electrical patterns. Using that technology, he learned how to move a cursor around a screen, play simple games, control a robotic arm, and even - couch potatoes, prepare to gasp in awe - turn his brain into a TV remote control. All while chatting amiably with the researchers. He even learned how to perform these tasks in less time than the average PC owner spends installing Microsoft (Charts) Windows. Decoding the brain Nagle was able to accomplish all this because the brain has been greatly demystified in laboratories over the last decade or so. Researchers unlocked the brain patterns for thoughts that represent letters of the alphabet as early as 1999. Now, Cyberkinetics and a host of other companies are working on turning those discoveries into real products. Neurodevices - medical devices that compensate for damage to the brain, nerves, and spinal column - are a $3.4 billion business that grew 21 percent last year, according to NeuroInsights, a research and advisory company. There are currently some 300 companies working in the field. But Cyberkinetics is trying to do more than just repair neural damage: It's working on an implantable chip that Nagle and patients in two other cities are using to control electronic devices with their minds. (Check out this demonstration video). Already, the Brown researchers say, this kind of technology can enable a hooked-up human to write at 15 words a minute - half as fast as the average person writes by hand. Remember, though, that silicon-based technology typically doubles in capacity every two years. So if improved hardware is all it takes to speed up the device, Cyberkinetics' chip could be able to process thoughts as fast as speech - 110 to 170 words per minute - by 2012. Imagine issuing commands to a computer as quickly as you could talk. But who would want to get a brain implant if they haven't been struck by a drastic case of paralysis? Leaving aside the fact that there is a lucrative market for providing such profoundly life-enhancing products for millions of paralyzed patients, it may soon not even be necessary to stick a chip inside your skull to take advantage of this technology. What a tale your thoughts could tell Brain-reading technology is improving rapidly. Last year, Sony (Charts) took out a patent on a game system that beams data directly into the mind without implants. It uses a pulsed ultrasonic signal that induces sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images. And Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves through the skin, also without implants. Stu Wolf, one of the top scientists at Darpa, the Pentagon's scientific research agency which gave birth to the Internet, seriously believes we'll all be wearing computers in headbands within 20 years. By that time, we'll have super fast, super tiny computers that make today's machines look like typewriters. The desktop will be dead, says Wolf, and the headband will dominate. "We already know we can trigger neurons mechanically," he says. "You can interact directly with the brain without implanted electrodes. Then the next step is being able to think something and have it happen: Flying a plane, driving a car, operating household machinery." Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network-enabled telepathy" - instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else's brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking. The only issue, Wolf says, is making sure it's consensual; that's a problem likely to tax the minds of security experts. But just think of the advantages. In the office of the future, the conference call, too, will be remembered as a medieval form of torture.
Surfing the Web with nothing but brainwaves Kiss your keyboard goodbye: Soon we'll jack our brains directly into the Net - and that's just the beginning.
See related videos: http://icsn2202.blip.tv by a torture victim who has head yanking on film - this is electronic torture and captivity - of brain waves, body, sick sick sick - WE HAVE TO STOP THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE MURDERING PEOPLE ELECTROMAGNETICALLY BY REMOTE ELECTRONICS, SHOOTING PEOPLE WITH ELECTRICITY FROM DISTANT PLACES - SECRET WARFARE GOING ON AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE! TARGETING PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL WAR WEAPONS! CALLING PEOPLE "PSYCHOTIC" OR MENTALLY ILL WHEN IT'S CAUSED BY ELECTRONIC WEAPONS!!! Links to study, learn more about high tech weapons: http://www.targeted.blogspot.com
Free the People! Keep the People Safe! -suz at electro well inc.
By Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor July 24 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - -- Two years ago, a quadriplegic man started playing video games using his brain as a controller. That may just sound like fun and games for the unfortunate, but really, it spells the beginning of a radical change in how we interact with computers - and business will never be the same. Someday, keyboards and computer mice will be remembered only as medieval-style torture devices for the wrists. All work - emails, spreadsheets, and Google searches - will be performed by mind control. If you think that's mind-blowing, try to wrap your head around the sensational research that's been done on the brain of one Matthew Nagle by scientists at Brown University and three other institutions, in collaboration with Foxborough, Mass.-based company Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. The research was published for the first time last week in the British science journal Nature. Nagle, a 26-year-old quadriplegic, was hooked up to a computer via an implant smaller than an aspirin that sits on top of his brain and reads electrical patterns. Using that technology, he learned how to move a cursor around a screen, play simple games, control a robotic arm, and even - couch potatoes, prepare to gasp in awe - turn his brain into a TV remote control. All while chatting amiably with the researchers. He even learned how to perform these tasks in less time than the average PC owner spends installing Microsoft (Charts) Windows. Decoding the brain Nagle was able to accomplish all this because the brain has been greatly demystified in laboratories over the last decade or so. Researchers unlocked the brain patterns for thoughts that represent letters of the alphabet as early as 1999. Now, Cyberkinetics and a host of other companies are working on turning those discoveries into real products. Neurodevices - medical devices that compensate for damage to the brain, nerves, and spinal column - are a $3.4 billion business that grew 21 percent last year, according to NeuroInsights, a research and advisory company. There are currently some 300 companies working in the field. But Cyberkinetics is trying to do more than just repair neural damage: It's working on an implantable chip that Nagle and patients in two other cities are using to control electronic devices with their minds. (Check out this demonstration video). Already, the Brown researchers say, this kind of technology can enable a hooked-up human to write at 15 words a minute - half as fast as the average person writes by hand. Remember, though, that silicon-based technology typically doubles in capacity every two years. So if improved hardware is all it takes to speed up the device, Cyberkinetics' chip could be able to process thoughts as fast as speech - 110 to 170 words per minute - by 2012. Imagine issuing commands to a computer as quickly as you could talk. But who would want to get a brain implant if they haven't been struck by a drastic case of paralysis? Leaving aside the fact that there is a lucrative market for providing such profoundly life-enhancing products for millions of paralyzed patients, it may soon not even be necessary to stick a chip inside your skull to take advantage of this technology. What a tale your thoughts could tell Brain-reading technology is improving rapidly. Last year, Sony (Charts) took out a patent on a game system that beams data directly into the mind without implants. It uses a pulsed ultrasonic signal that induces sensory experiences such as smells, sounds and images. And Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves through the skin, also without implants. Stu Wolf, one of the top scientists at Darpa, the Pentagon's scientific research agency which gave birth to the Internet, seriously believes we'll all be wearing computers in headbands within 20 years. By that time, we'll have super fast, super tiny computers that make today's machines look like typewriters. The desktop will be dead, says Wolf, and the headband will dominate. "We already know we can trigger neurons mechanically," he says. "You can interact directly with the brain without implanted electrodes. Then the next step is being able to think something and have it happen: Flying a plane, driving a car, operating household machinery." Controlling devices with the mind is just the beginning. Next, Wolf believes, is what he calls "network-enabled telepathy" - instant thought transfer. In other words, your thoughts will flow from your brain over the network right into someone else's brain. If you think instant messaging is addictive, just wait for instant thinking. The only issue, Wolf says, is making sure it's consensual; that's a problem likely to tax the minds of security experts. But just think of the advantages. In the office of the future, the conference call, too, will be remembered as a medieval form of torture.
Omega - 26. Jul, 22:42
23
Jul
2006
EM & Psychiatry: possible uses for TMS vs. ECT, thoughts about war economy
New File, edited comments at end, better sound/picture quality: Magnetic Brain Stimulation Therapy (New File) - Harvard Letter (Aug 2005) http://icsn2202.blip.tv/file/52927 11 mins. video. See explaination at regular site and scroll to the video - http://icsn2202.blip.tv
Am open to any assistance getting these videos created! Please distribute far and wide - this is DSL/cable modem speed needed to view. Is better than previously sent video of this topic: Harvard Letter: update August 2005.
We MUST catch up on learning about classified uses of medical technology used for WARFARE against unsuspecting people who are innocent and not deserving to have their brains or bodies influenced in any way!
Catch the governmental, administration's perps with their pants down! Learn here: http://www.targeted.blogspot.com
Stop Torture! Stop the madness!
Suz at electro well inc. suz.leboeuf@gmail.com
330-376-7962
Am open to any assistance getting these videos created! Please distribute far and wide - this is DSL/cable modem speed needed to view. Is better than previously sent video of this topic: Harvard Letter: update August 2005.
We MUST catch up on learning about classified uses of medical technology used for WARFARE against unsuspecting people who are innocent and not deserving to have their brains or bodies influenced in any way!
Catch the governmental, administration's perps with their pants down! Learn here: http://www.targeted.blogspot.com
Stop Torture! Stop the madness!
Suz at electro well inc. suz.leboeuf@gmail.com
330-376-7962
Omega - 23. Jul, 08:31
18
Jul
2006
HELP!! Wrote to Rep. Ron Paul
Dear Suz LeBoeuf,
Thank you for contacting Congressman Paul's office using the Internet. Your message has been sent to the Congressman. A copy is found below.
Sincerely, The Office of US Representative Paul
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Click here to go back to Project FREEDOM.
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From: Suz LeBoeuf
E-Mail Address: icsn2202@yahoo.com
369 Danville Court Akron,OH 44311
Bioelectronic Weapons
Please tell us what you intend to do about the high tech, bioelectronic or directed energy weapons that have been used on me and so many others our government is NOT WILLING TO TALK ABOUT, while I am being ASSASSINATED, tortured, spied upon, radiowaved with acoustical weapons ASSAULTING MY EAR DRUMS EACH DAY, all day long!!!!! My videos depict this heinous torture I found out about a year or so ago: http://icsn2202.blip.tv trying to get legislators to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT OUR LIVES BEING TAKEN IN THIS WAY IS LIKE PULLING TEETH -- THEY HAVE CONSISTENTLY RUN FROM IT!!! WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE ON THIS TOPIC???? WE NEED YOU TO; DESPERATELY!!!! Please help us pass the needed legislation to protect us! World over, people are complaining, dying and being tortured beyond belief!!! I can bring more videos and testify, or work to ensure NO OTHER HUMANS HAVE TO ENDURE WHAT I HAVE ENDURED, PRACTICALLY 50-odd years!!!! I know about the weapons, I know what they have done to my body alone. I can help spot this being used and can help define what the symptoms are, what it looks like, and am a past mental health clinicial speaking up for my rights in California before moving here - Ohio - being driven out due to my outspokenness against my child custody/support court case 18 years or so ago here http://www.angelfire.com/al4/custody .
You can contact me, I have more to tell you.
bioelectronic torture:
http://wwwwww.electrowell.info
http://wwwwww.suzsproductions.com
Thank you for contacting Congressman Paul's office using the Internet. Your message has been sent to the Congressman. A copy is found below.
Sincerely, The Office of US Representative Paul
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Click here to go back to Project FREEDOM.
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From: Suz LeBoeuf
E-Mail Address: icsn2202@yahoo.com
369 Danville Court Akron,OH 44311
Bioelectronic Weapons
Please tell us what you intend to do about the high tech, bioelectronic or directed energy weapons that have been used on me and so many others our government is NOT WILLING TO TALK ABOUT, while I am being ASSASSINATED, tortured, spied upon, radiowaved with acoustical weapons ASSAULTING MY EAR DRUMS EACH DAY, all day long!!!!! My videos depict this heinous torture I found out about a year or so ago: http://icsn2202.blip.tv trying to get legislators to ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT OUR LIVES BEING TAKEN IN THIS WAY IS LIKE PULLING TEETH -- THEY HAVE CONSISTENTLY RUN FROM IT!!! WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE ON THIS TOPIC???? WE NEED YOU TO; DESPERATELY!!!! Please help us pass the needed legislation to protect us! World over, people are complaining, dying and being tortured beyond belief!!! I can bring more videos and testify, or work to ensure NO OTHER HUMANS HAVE TO ENDURE WHAT I HAVE ENDURED, PRACTICALLY 50-odd years!!!! I know about the weapons, I know what they have done to my body alone. I can help spot this being used and can help define what the symptoms are, what it looks like, and am a past mental health clinicial speaking up for my rights in California before moving here - Ohio - being driven out due to my outspokenness against my child custody/support court case 18 years or so ago here http://www.angelfire.com/al4/custody .
You can contact me, I have more to tell you.
bioelectronic torture:
http://wwwwww.electrowell.info
http://wwwwww.suzsproductions.com
Omega - 18. Jul, 09:27
13
Jul
2006
Pulsed electro-magnetics toys
This clip is only a few seconds long, so can be seen via dial up modem. Please pass far and wide! Is bioelectronic yanking of my head! This is a snippet of my TV show; Electro Well For Your Health TV! There are two more short, short segments, made especially for dial up modem that can be found right now in three locations:
http://www.electmagnetic.blogspot.com
http://www.suzsproductions.com
http://www.icsn2202.blip.tv
-suz leboeuf, electro well inc.
From: Suz icsn2202_at_yahoo.com
Subject: [Pulsed electro-magnetics: Bush's toys.]
7/13/2006 12:44:11 AM Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
Yank Clip 2 Watch the video Clip 2 of 3 Bioelectronic torture - yank to head, by Suz LeBoeuf, Electro Well Inc. Also see http://www.suzsproductions.com
Posted by Suz to Pulsed electro-magnetics: Bush's toys. at 7/13/2006 12:44:11 AM
bioelectronic torture:
http://www.electrowell.info
http://www.suzsproductions.com
http://www.electmagnetic.blogspot.com
http://www.suzsproductions.com
http://www.icsn2202.blip.tv
-suz leboeuf, electro well inc.
From: Suz icsn2202_at_yahoo.com
Subject: [Pulsed electro-magnetics: Bush's toys.]
7/13/2006 12:44:11 AM Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
Yank Clip 2 Watch the video Clip 2 of 3 Bioelectronic torture - yank to head, by Suz LeBoeuf, Electro Well Inc. Also see http://www.suzsproductions.com
Posted by Suz to Pulsed electro-magnetics: Bush's toys. at 7/13/2006 12:44:11 AM
bioelectronic torture:
http://www.electrowell.info
http://www.suzsproductions.com
Omega - 13. Jul, 09:20
Videos: ELECTRONIC TORTURE
See latest head yanking videos - with electronic torture the government won't tell you about: http://icsn2202.blip.tv
All are very short, so can be seen with dial-up speed.
By Suz LeBoeuf,
electro well, inc.
bioelectronic torture:
http://www.electrowell.info
http://www.suzsproductions.com
All are very short, so can be seen with dial-up speed.
By Suz LeBoeuf,
electro well, inc.
bioelectronic torture:
http://www.electrowell.info
http://www.suzsproductions.com
Omega - 13. Jul, 08:41
TAKING OUR PUBLIC ACCESS AWAY
WE'LL HAVE NO ELECTRONIC SOAPBOX WHEN THEY FINALLY TAKE PUBLIC ACCESS TV AWAY FROM COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY SO WE CAN'T GET ELECTRONIC TORTURE FACTS AND STORIES ABOUT OUR BEING TORTURED OUT TO THE PUBLIC. THIS FITS WITH THE BUSH AGENDA/ADMINISTRATION TO QUASH ALL FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WARNING THE PUBLIC AND TELLING OUR COMMUNITIES HOW THEY TORTURE US AT HOME, USING HIGH-TECH TORTURE METHODOLOGIES! SUCH AS MY HEAD-YANKING VIDEOS I PRODUCE ON CABLE TV. THIS WILL BE REMOVED IF WE DO NOT STAND TOGETHER TO STOP THE MADNESS!! DEMAND PUBLIC ACCESS TV BE SAVED FOR THE PUBLIC'S USE -- NOT USED FOR BUILDING TIME WARNER AND COMCAST'S COFFERS SO THEY CONTROL WHETHER WE GET OUR FREEDOM'S UPHELD! We need to expose our courts for how they decide cases as well, via PUBLIC ACCESS TV, AS WELL AS TORTURE!! WRITE THE FCC! HELP US SAVE PUBLIC ACCESS TV!!
Suz at electro well, inc.
See videos here: http://icsn2202.blip.tv and help save public access so we have access to my videos, et al.
Call3303848904 wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:00:23 EDT
Subject: Fwd: [Saveaccess] SaveAccess Alert - Write the FCC
Dear saveaccess supporter,
WRITE THE FCC TODAY! On Thursday the FCC will vote to hand over control of the majority of U.S. cable households to Comcast and Time Warner. We need to send a final message to the FCC Commissioners to tell them to either stop the sale of Adelphia Cable to these two companies or attach public interest conditions to the deal. Your help today is critical. Go to:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/saveaccess/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=4576
And pass this email on to others!
UPDATES ON saveaccess.org CAMPAIGNS:
S.2686 - U.S. Senate Telecom Bill UPDATE
Thanks to your support, over 10,000 letters to Senators were sent out in the two and half weeks prior to the Senate Commerce Committee vote on the Senate Bill S.2686. We thank you for your efforts! Partly as a result, good PEG provisions were included in the bill and a much needed LPFM amendment was also added. However, we still can't support this bill since its red-lining and net neutrality provisions are unacceptable.
Last week, Senator Stevens renamed S.2686 to HR.5252. This legislative maneuver will fast track the Bill and eliminate the need for it to be reviewed in the House before proceeding to conference committee. The Bill still needs to pass in the full Senate to move forward and Stevens needs 60 supporters just to get it introduced to the floor (there are 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and one Independent in the Senate). If you received any feedback from your emails and calls to your Senators - let us know where they stand. We need to ensure that this legislation doesn't reach the Senate floor. Write us at: info@saveaccess.org!
We are formulating a new Senate campaign strategy given these new developments and will alert you when we have new letters to send.
HR.5252 COPE - U.S. House Telecom UPDATE We are still running our "Spank Your Rep" letter writing campaign. This allows you to send letters only to your Representatives that voted FOR the COPE Bill in the House of Representatives. Though Stevens' recent fast-track maneuver renders the full House membership powerless, we still feel it's important to let your representatives know when they votes were ill-informed.
TELL US HOW WE'RE DOING Finally, tell us if the saveaccess.org site is useful to you. What areas can we improve, what information do you need most? As always - write us at info@saveaccess.org.
Thanks!
saveaccess.org
Suz at electro well, inc.
See videos here: http://icsn2202.blip.tv and help save public access so we have access to my videos, et al.
Call3303848904 wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 22:00:23 EDT
Subject: Fwd: [Saveaccess] SaveAccess Alert - Write the FCC
Dear saveaccess supporter,
WRITE THE FCC TODAY! On Thursday the FCC will vote to hand over control of the majority of U.S. cable households to Comcast and Time Warner. We need to send a final message to the FCC Commissioners to tell them to either stop the sale of Adelphia Cable to these two companies or attach public interest conditions to the deal. Your help today is critical. Go to:
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/saveaccess/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=4576
And pass this email on to others!
UPDATES ON saveaccess.org CAMPAIGNS:
S.2686 - U.S. Senate Telecom Bill UPDATE
Thanks to your support, over 10,000 letters to Senators were sent out in the two and half weeks prior to the Senate Commerce Committee vote on the Senate Bill S.2686. We thank you for your efforts! Partly as a result, good PEG provisions were included in the bill and a much needed LPFM amendment was also added. However, we still can't support this bill since its red-lining and net neutrality provisions are unacceptable.
Last week, Senator Stevens renamed S.2686 to HR.5252. This legislative maneuver will fast track the Bill and eliminate the need for it to be reviewed in the House before proceeding to conference committee. The Bill still needs to pass in the full Senate to move forward and Stevens needs 60 supporters just to get it introduced to the floor (there are 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and one Independent in the Senate). If you received any feedback from your emails and calls to your Senators - let us know where they stand. We need to ensure that this legislation doesn't reach the Senate floor. Write us at: info@saveaccess.org!
We are formulating a new Senate campaign strategy given these new developments and will alert you when we have new letters to send.
HR.5252 COPE - U.S. House Telecom UPDATE We are still running our "Spank Your Rep" letter writing campaign. This allows you to send letters only to your Representatives that voted FOR the COPE Bill in the House of Representatives. Though Stevens' recent fast-track maneuver renders the full House membership powerless, we still feel it's important to let your representatives know when they votes were ill-informed.
TELL US HOW WE'RE DOING Finally, tell us if the saveaccess.org site is useful to you. What areas can we improve, what information do you need most? As always - write us at info@saveaccess.org.
Thanks!
saveaccess.org
Omega - 13. Jul, 08:10
11
Jul
2006
Brain Scanner Technologies, it's here, being used already
I have tried bringing you brain entrainment info and have been attacked - here's another group saying the same thing. suz at
http://www.electromagnetic.blogspot.com rants
http://www.lulu.com/electrowell store We're having technical problems, but http://www.electrowell.info will have course info. http://icsn2202.blip.tv has my torture story in video, basically, and a few other things! : )
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/medical/26035prs20060628.html ACLU Seeks Information About Government Use of Brain Scanners in Interrogations (6/28/2006) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org Group Says Technology Should Not Be Deployed Until It Is Proven Effective NEW YORK-- In the face of suspicions that the government is using cutting-edge brain-scanning technologies on suspected terrorists being held overseas or at home, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with all the primary American security agencies.
"There are certain things that have such powerful implications for our society -- and for humanity at large -- that we have a right to know how they are being used so that we can grapple with them as a democratic society," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project. "These brain-scanning technologies are far from ready for forensic uses and if deployed will inevitably be misused and misunderstood."
The most likely technology to be used for anti-terrorism purposes is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), which can produce live, real-time images of people's brains as they answer questions, view images, listen to sounds, and respond to other stimuli. Two private companies have announced that they will begin to offer "lie detection" services using fMRI as early as this summer. These companies are marketing their services to federal government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the National Security Agency and the CIA, and to state and local police departments.
"This technology must not be deployed until it is proven effective -- and we are a long way away from that point, according to scientists in the field," said Steinhardt. "What we don't want is to open our newspapers and find that another innocent person has been thrown into Guantánamo because interrogators have jumped to conclusions based on a technology no one understands very well."
Experts in the field say that the science to back up any reliable use of fMRI as a "lie detector" or "mind reader" simply does not exist. At most, correlations have been observed between certain brain patterns and particular, highly controlled behaviors produced in laboratory experiments. But experts note that these early experiments on a few American college students are a long way from real-world settings, involving individuals in widely varying situations and with widely varying cultures, intelligence levels and states of mind.
The ACLU's FOIA requests were filed yesterday with the Pentagon, NSA, CIA, FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
"These brain-scanning technologies have potentially far-reaching implications, yet uncertain results and effectiveness," said Steinhardt. "And we are still in our infancy when it comes to understanding the underlying processes of the brain that the scanners have begun to reveal. We do not want to see our government yet again deploying a potentially momentous technology unilaterally and in secret, before Americans have had a chance to figure out how it fits in with our values as a nation."
The ACLU's FOIA request is available online at
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/26031res20060628.html. A video of an ACLU-sponsored forum featuring experts discussing the use of fMRI as a "lie detector" is online at http://www.aclu.org/future.
http://www.electrowell.onlineclasses.com http://www.lulu.com/electrowell
bioelectronic torture:
http://www.electrowell.info
http://www.suzsproductions.com
http://www.electromagnetic.blogspot.com rants
http://www.lulu.com/electrowell store We're having technical problems, but http://www.electrowell.info will have course info. http://icsn2202.blip.tv has my torture story in video, basically, and a few other things! : )
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/medical/26035prs20060628.html ACLU Seeks Information About Government Use of Brain Scanners in Interrogations (6/28/2006) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: media@aclu.org Group Says Technology Should Not Be Deployed Until It Is Proven Effective NEW YORK-- In the face of suspicions that the government is using cutting-edge brain-scanning technologies on suspected terrorists being held overseas or at home, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with all the primary American security agencies.
"There are certain things that have such powerful implications for our society -- and for humanity at large -- that we have a right to know how they are being used so that we can grapple with them as a democratic society," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Project. "These brain-scanning technologies are far from ready for forensic uses and if deployed will inevitably be misused and misunderstood."
The most likely technology to be used for anti-terrorism purposes is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), which can produce live, real-time images of people's brains as they answer questions, view images, listen to sounds, and respond to other stimuli. Two private companies have announced that they will begin to offer "lie detection" services using fMRI as early as this summer. These companies are marketing their services to federal government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, the National Security Agency and the CIA, and to state and local police departments.
"This technology must not be deployed until it is proven effective -- and we are a long way away from that point, according to scientists in the field," said Steinhardt. "What we don't want is to open our newspapers and find that another innocent person has been thrown into Guantánamo because interrogators have jumped to conclusions based on a technology no one understands very well."
Experts in the field say that the science to back up any reliable use of fMRI as a "lie detector" or "mind reader" simply does not exist. At most, correlations have been observed between certain brain patterns and particular, highly controlled behaviors produced in laboratory experiments. But experts note that these early experiments on a few American college students are a long way from real-world settings, involving individuals in widely varying situations and with widely varying cultures, intelligence levels and states of mind.
The ACLU's FOIA requests were filed yesterday with the Pentagon, NSA, CIA, FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
"These brain-scanning technologies have potentially far-reaching implications, yet uncertain results and effectiveness," said Steinhardt. "And we are still in our infancy when it comes to understanding the underlying processes of the brain that the scanners have begun to reveal. We do not want to see our government yet again deploying a potentially momentous technology unilaterally and in secret, before Americans have had a chance to figure out how it fits in with our values as a nation."
The ACLU's FOIA request is available online at
http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/26031res20060628.html. A video of an ACLU-sponsored forum featuring experts discussing the use of fMRI as a "lie detector" is online at http://www.aclu.org/future.
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