Wednesday, January 29, 2003
HEADS UP ABOUT BRAINS
JANUARY 29. TMS. No, it’s not a newly invented variant of PMS. It’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Right now, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is working on developing a portable device that employs this technology, so that sleep-deprived soldiers in the field can “function at a high level” under their outfitted helmets.
This is a Pentagon contract. Better living through magnetics.
TMS at MUSC is actually a little more than a remedy for forced insomnia.
>From a May 9, 2002, MUSC press release: “MUSC researchers will use functional imaging of how the brain solves complex tasks, and then apply non-invasive brain stimulation to determine if one can boost performance, either at baseline or following several days of sleep deprivation.”
This suggests that scientists are trying to push the brain into a higher level of problem solving.
MUSC also uses that favorite word of the moment, DEPRESSION. “Hey, if this gizmo works, maybe we can cure depression, too. And make students score higher on tests and allow CEOs to work for a week without nodding and help long-distance truckers…”
Contained in the MUSC press release: “The technological advances made in the last 15 years led to the development of magnetic stimulators that produce sufficient current in the brain to result in neuronal depolarization.”
Neuronal depolarization. What might that mean?
Here is a possible clue, from a paper titled, “From CSD to headache: A long and winding road.” Division of Neurobiology/ Department of Neurology and Neuroscience/ Weill Medical Center, Cornell University.
The paper describes the aura effect which sometimes precedes migraines. “Toward the end of the aura [onset], the flashing lights become transient blind spots. There is increasing evidence that the aura is the result of cortical spreading depression (CSD), a wave of neuronal depolarization.”
Call me crazy, but this sounds like the neuronal depolarization---which seems to be induced by MUSC’s little experimental gizmo---is a bad, not a good, thing.
I discovered another “second opinion” which suggests that, right after traumatic brain injury, there is, you’ve got it, acute neuronal depolarization. And this occurrence can have long-term adverse effects on cell function and structure.
But, hey, you soldiers out there. Not to worry. Take two experimental toxic DOD drugs and call me in the morning.
In case it has escaped you, this is the century of the brain. As in, an all-out assault to change brain function. The SSRI anti-depressants, working from a base of ignorance about the interactions of neurotransmitter systems, end up having unpredictable and horrendous effects on that universe of chemical activity.
There are other examples, such as the “new, more humane” versions of seizure-inducing electroshock therapy, which is experiencing a renaissance.
Meanwhile, what MUSC is doing is just one inch over from the attempt to electronically program brains.
What better place to set up shop than the military, where soldiers are already highly programmed to accept marching orders to anywhere for any reason.
FLASHBACK: The CIA, of course, has been interested in the brain for some time. Its infamous MKULTRA mind-control program targeted that vulnerable organ.
For exmple, from a memo dated 1 January, 1956, obtained under a FOIA request, signed by MKULTRA chief Dr. Sid Gottlieb, we have this: "The purpose of [MKULTRA] Subproject 54 is to continue work on the mechanism of brain concussion..."
The intent here was not therapeutic, Virginia.
Sid also write a memo, dated 6 March, 1956, concerning Subproject 57: "The purpose of Subproject 57 is to initiate research work on sleep and insomnia...Determining the etiology of sleep, the physiology of sleep...It is expected that Dr.XXX will monitor this project from the Department of Physiology, where arrangements have been made for his appointment as an Associate Research Professor...It is felt that this cover arrangement will...offer attractive possibilities for future utilization of this arrangement for other cover purposes...Dr.XXX, Department of PhysiologyXXX andXXX are cleared through TOP SECRET and are aware of the real purpose of the project." (My Xs indicate portions blacked out with ink by the CIA.)
I also have a document which unfortunately contains no page 1,2, or 3---nor does it contain a date or signature. But I strongly believe it is a genuine CIA memo obtained under a FOIA request, the same request that garnered the memos I've just quoted. Here is a choice excerpt:
"VIII. ELECTRO-NARCOSIS, ELECTRO-SLEEP INDUCING MACHINES...This field should be thoroughly explored. The idea of obtaining a sleep or sleeplike coma or a narcosis by electronics would appear to have a great deal of merit from an Artichoke [Project] point of view. The writer has been told that there are electronic sleep-inducing machines that are of the non-shock, non-painful variety. One of these was reported to be in use at the University of Richmond Hospital, Richmond, Virginia."
Just by coincidence, right down the road from CIA headquarters.
You can readily see how easy it is to export CIA interests nad projects into the academic arena---not just then, but now.
Working both sides of the street: inducing trances and sleep and insomnia and sleep deprivation; researching methods to deal with sleep deprivation. Inventing a good cover story; actually seeking mind control.
Now I ask you, how big a stretch is it from all THAT to the following journal article on the effects of a drug that is very much in the public domain, a drug which APPEARS to be a "humane" effort to "help our kids," a drug which, by the way, can and does induce INSOMNIA and everything that goes with it? I'm talking about RITALIN, a cheap form of speed, and a paper written by Richard Scarnati and published in 1986, in The International Journal of Addictions. "An Outline of Hazardous Side Effects of Ritalin," volume 21(7), pp.837-841.
Scarnati does a review of published medical literature, and finds at least one confirming source for each of the following effects of Ritalin. I'm now quoting verbatim from Scarnati's list:
Paranoid delusions
Paranoid psychosis
Hypomanic and manic symptoms, amphetamine-like psychosis
Activation of psychotic symptoms
Toxic psychosis
Visual hallucinations
Auditory hallucinations
Can surpass LSD in producing bizarre experiences
Effects pathological thought processes
Extreme withdrawal
Terrified affect
Started screaming
Aggressiveness
Insomnia
Since Ritalin is considered an amphetamine-type drug, expect amphetamine-like effects
Psychic dependence
High-abuse potential/DEA Schedule II Drug
Decreased REM sleep
When used with antidepressants one may see dangerous reactions, including hypertension, seizures and hypothermia
Convulsions
Brain damage may be seen with amphetamine abuse
If this list of symptoms were written into a CIA memo and sent to the MKULTRA section, and the mind-control boys saw that one very cheap drug could produce the whole array, they would have been collecting their anticipatory drool in gallon containers.
As you no doubt realize by now, I'm pointing out that the line between covert mind-control projects and so-called legitimate medical research BREAKS DOWN.
The former invents cover stories and cutouts to conceal the real purpose of the latter.
And sometimes mind control translates into producing mind chaos.
WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT?
Well, Virginia, they want chaos.
They want to weaken the society at the level of the individual.
Debiliated individuals in very large numbers make it much easier to take over a republic and install an increasngly rigid fascism.
JON RAPPOPORT www.stratiawire.com
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