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Comment Re:Conflicted (Score 2, Insightful) 966

Assange and his staff are probably experiencing COINTELPRO style conspicuous surveillance and harassment campaigns (sometimes misleadingly called "organized stalking"). The agents would be going out of the way to let Assange's people know that they were being followed and surveilled, using techniques such as public messages that conveyed highly personal information from their lives. The highly personal and embarrasing information revealed in the conspicuous surveillance would be of such a nature that the target(s) would not want to talk about the details.

That would explain why they were being 'vague' and 'conspiratorial' in their explanations.

Comment Re:It's non-ionizing and harmless (Score 1) 242

RF radiation affects tissues differently from, say, infrared or X-ray radiation. For example, the Active Denial System (at 95 Ghz) acts on water just beneath the surface of the skin because the extremely high frequency RF vibrates electric dipoles more quickly. A microwave oven's RF (2.45 Ghz) penetrates a couple of inches. 30 Mhz RF, of the type that doctors use to deep heat body tissue, penetrates all the way through.

The bottom line is that we have environmental hazards which have not existed except for the last 50 years in a very long evolutionary history. The upper atmosphere filters out most of the kinds of RF that we now willingly bombard ourselves with. There's very little data one way or the other. The fact that the cellphone companies are resisting even the tiniest concession to consumer demands for more information suggests that the cellphone companies are afraid of that information. Maybe they know something you don't.

Comment Re:What science is behind this? (Score 2, Informative) 242

You're wrong. Shielding which is effective against high frequency electric fields can also be effective against high frequency magnetic fields. The changing magnetic field induces eddy currents in the shielding which creates opposing magnetic fields, shaping and directing the intruding magnetic field.

Lower magnetic fields can also be shaped with high permeability materials.

Here is a helpful link which explains the issues surrounding electric/magnetic shielding in more detail.

http://www.cvel.clemson.edu/emc/tutorials/Shielding02/Practical_Shielding.html

Comment Re:It's non-ionizing and harmless (Score 5, Interesting) 242

There's some evidence that high frequency noise or high frequency RF has biological effects even if it's non-ionizing. For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_pest_control

"A 2002 study by Genesis Laboratories Inc. does lend some credence to the ability of electronic repellent devices to repel certain pests in controlled environments. Preliminary study of white-footed mice behavior in the test apparatus demonstrated a significant preference for the non-activated chamber among both sexes."

Also, how do you think your microwave oven works? It uses dielectric heating to rapidly vibrate (and thereby heat) the water molecules in food. Guess what - dielectric heating works on you too, and there is no cut-off range; even low frequency RF has some dielectric heating effect on the water and some body tissues.

And dielectric heating can cause cataracts.

Just throwing some actual facts into this discussion.

Comment Re:NO (Score 2, Insightful) 406

The purpose of such clothing is not to afford the wearer absolute protection or provide a cloak of invulnerability, as it were. The purpose is to neutralize the weaponry - which is intended to inflict invisible pain on the recipient. If induction heating causes the shirt to burst into flames, the pain is no longer invisible. That sort of thing doesn't look good for the cameras.

Comment Re:If you knew what was really going on... (Score 1, Interesting) 128

I don't have secret knowledge about the government. I just have personal experience with stuff that most people don't believe exists. And there are quite a few others in my boat. This experience is a form of 'secret knowledge', perhaps, but unlike secret knowledge it can't be transfered because until you share my experiences, you can't really understand it.

Patiently trying to explain to you and other readers, who haven't experienced what I and others like me have experienced, what's really going on... well, that'll blow what tiny scraps of credibility I've managed to accumulate in this thread.

There will be developments in the coming months that will be cause for me to post more information about this program, because the public's awareness will be broadened. Slashdot hasn't seen the last of me. (Is that a threat, or a promise? Cue the Slashdot laugh track...)

Comment Re:If you knew what was really going on... (Score 1) 128

I guess this is another one of those techie witticisms I was warned about before I posted here.

I do have good news for a few people on this thread. The targeting isn't random. It either happens to you because you cross the wrong person - and that doesn't happen when you spend 24/7 futzing with computers at work or at home and eating cheetos - or because you're ex-military and you get selected for experimentation, or because you're beholden to no one and unusually gifted.

I've been browsing selected comment histories and I think I can safely say, you're not going to be targeted under this program as it's being run right now.

So go back to sleep.

Comment Re:If you knew what was really going on... (Score 1, Interesting) 128

If your government turned into a dictatorship, would there be an announcement to that effect in the papers or on TV? Why would they do that, when it is so much more effective to convince everyone they're still free, and get their enthusiastic cooperation for free? The handful (actually more than a handful) of dissidents and other troublemakers who want true freedom can be targeted.

If there were armed soldiers following your politicians everywhere they went with guns to their heads as they signed papers, you'd immediately recognize it as a military dictatorship. But what if the guns are several hundred or thousand miles away, and the gunshot is invisible? What if heart attacks or strokes can be induced electronically at will, and the only consideration is whether the target will comply with the implied threat, and if not, whether the target can be killed with deniability? Would that fit your definition of a military dictatorship?

When Dick Cheney had his well publicized heart problems in office, maybe you should revisit what message was really being sent. Maybe the people who order Dick Cheney around like an errand boy were telling the world, "If Dick died on the operating table, nobody would question it. His life is in our hands. We own him."

Maybe the government doesn't work the way you think it does. Maybe your leaders aren't in control and can't possibly be in control. Maybe the smart ones understand this, and decide to make the best of a bad situation by selling out.

That's all I'm prepared to say today. There's a lot more to the high tech persecution/torture/blackmail/murder angle than I've alluded to here.

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