Researchers Manipulate Neurons in Worms’ Brains and Take Control of Their Behavior
by J.G. Vibes
Activist Post
September 25, 2012
A team of Harvard scientists have discovered how to manipulate neurons in the brains of worms in order to take control of their behavior. This literal mind control is achieved through the use of precisely targeted lasers. So far researchers have been able to take over an animal’s brain, instruct it to turn in any direction they choose, and even to implant false sensory information, fooling the animal into thinking food was nearby.
When news of this reaches the mainstream media there is no doubt that they will say that there is no intention in using this on more complex life forms, however the researchers themselves are already discussing just that.
Sharad Ramanathan, an Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology recently told nature journal that “If we can understand simple nervous systems to the point of completely controlling them, then it may be a possibility that we can gain a comprehensive understanding of more complex systems. This gives us a framework to think about neural circuits, how to manipulate them, which circuit to manipulate and what activity patterns to produce in them.”
He also said that “Most of these approaches have discovered neurons necessary for specific behavior by destroying them. The question we were trying to answer was: Instead of breaking the system to understand it, can we essentially hijack the key neurons that are sufficient to control behavior and use these neurons to force the animal to do what we want? We want to understand the brain of this animal, which has only a few hundred neurons, completely and essentially turn it into a video game, where we can control all of its behaviors.”
It comes as no surprise that this study was funded by the Human Frontier Science Program, the NIH Pioneer Award and the National Science Foundation. The Human Frontier Science Program itself a massive bureaucracy which receives financial support from the governments or research councils of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, UK, USA, as well as from the European Union. The NIH Pioneer Award is a program set up by the US government that gives grants to “scientists of exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming approaches – to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research.”
These efforts to control the mind of a living animal are openly funded by state agencies, and being announced as if it was just a typical benign scientific discovery. While human subjects are not being used in these studies as we saw with project MK-Ultra, it is obvious that this new program has the same intentions, to control the human mind remotely.
If you have any questions or disagreements feel free to email me at jgvibes@aotmr.com
J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio. He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com .
Cyborg Monkeys
by Osirian Dawn
Reality Sandwich
September 27, 2012
Mental augmentation for animals is no longer a science fiction fantasy plot, but a scientific reality. Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre, University of Kentucky, and University of Southern California were able to increase the intellectual proficiency of monkeys. George Dvorsky writes about these groundbreaking findings in his article, “Should we upgrade the intelligence of animals?”
The scientists took five rhesus monkeys and trained them in identifying certain images within a delayed match-to-sample game. After two years, the monkeys attained an average of a 75% proficiency rate. After having mapped out the areas of the brain that lit up when the monkeys correctly identified the images, they then administered cocaine (you just can’t make this stuff up) to hinder their decision-making.
To the scientists’ amazement, when they turned on the implanted neural devices within the monkeys’ brains, they found that they were able to reverse the effects of the cocaine. But what’s even more incredible is they discovered, under sober conditions, that the neural device allowed the monkeys to exceed the average proficiency rate, signifying an actual intelligence increase!
WRC Wrap-Up: Protesters get Free Phones with TSA Obedience Class! [video]
We Are Change
September 28, 2012
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Order Out Of Chaos In Spain – Debt By Design [video]
Press For Truth
September 28, 2012
This week huge protests took place in Spain as the government has announced their proposed austerity cuts as a means of dealing with the current economic crisis. The international financiers are seeking a one world government and it can only be achieved through their motto of “order out of chaos”
Spain prepares more austerity, protesters battle police
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Odd Blue Streak in the Sky at Sunset – Tucson, AZ – Sep. 25, 2012 [video]
Sheila Aliens
September 27, 2012
Not my video. Original uploader: Beelzebark
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kukQILSnXyM
I didn’t see this but I heard about it when it was happening (my mum texted me that there was a weird blue BEAM in the sky). Went outside and couldn’t see anything from my vantage point 
Some form of crepuscular or anti-crepuscular ray, perhaps?
Drone Warfare: The Brutal Reality [video included]
By A new study from Stanford University and New York University shows that the highly spoken of drone warfare, praised by both military and political officials, is pure fantasy:
In the United States, the dominant narrative about the use of drones in Pakistan is of a surgically precise and effective tool that makes the US safer by enabling “targeted killing” of terrorists, with minimal downsides or collateral impacts.[1]
This narrative is false. (Stanford/NYU, Living Under Drones.)
U.S. drones have been killing countless innocent civilians in Pakistan and elsewhere. Those killings are rarely acknowledged by the U.S. government, if only to make tasteless jokes. We may recall President Obama making fun of the efficient killing machine two years ago:
“The Jonas Brothers are here; they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for you, ‘predator drones.’ You will never see it coming.” (Barack Obama at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, May 1, 2010. Click on the link to view the video)
Reporting on the study, the The News International (Pakistan} wrote the following:
Just one in fifty victims of the CIA programme of “targeted” drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal areas are known militants, while between 2,562 and 3,325 people were killed in Pakistan between June 2004 and mid-September this year – of whom between 474 and 881 were civilians, including 176 children. (The News International (Pakistan), Pakistan. CIA Annihilation From The Air: Drone Warfare’s Invisible Dead, September 26, 2012.)
The Stanford/NYU study states further:
First, while civilian casualties are rarely acknowledged by the US government, there is significant evidence that US drone strikes have injured and killed civilians. In public statements, the US states that there have been “no” or “single digit” civilian casualties.”[2] It is difficult to obtain data on strike casualties because of US efforts to shield the drone program from democratic accountability, compounded by the obstacles to independent investigation of strikes in North Waziristan.
The report concludes that:
- US drone strike policies cause considerable and under-accounted-for harm to the daily lives of ordinary civilians, beyond death and physical injury.
- publicly available evidence that the strikes have made the US safer overall is ambiguous at best.
- current US targeted killings and drone strike practices undermine respect for the rule of law and international legal protections and may set dangerous precedents.
What we are dealing with is a process of “remote killing” of civilians.
We bring to the attention of our readers a selection of Global Research articles regarding drone warfare.
Living Under Drones, Global Research News, September 26, 2012
Pakistan. CIA Annihilation From The Air: Drone Warfare’s Invisible Dead, Stop NATO, September 26, 2012
GRTV: Living Under Drones: The Brutal Reality of “Targeted Killing”, GRTV, September 26, 2012
ACLU Sues CIA Over Drone Killings, Stephen Lendman, September 23, 2012
Spying on Americans: 64 Drone Bases on US Soil, Global Research, September 22, 2012
UN Human Rights Rapporteur Calls on US to End the CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan, Farooq Yousaf, September 19, 2012
Legal action over US Drone Strikes, Drone Wars UK, September 20, 2012
Mapping Drone Proliferation: UAVs in 76 Countries, Drone Wars UK, September 18, 2012
- Articles by: Julie Lévesque
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Pakistan. CIA Annihilation From The Air: Drone Warfare’s Invisible Dead
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DRONE WARFARE: US Military Releases Information on Drone Slaughter of Afghan “Non-combatants”
US military investigation damns drone operators
28/03/2012
We’re reposting this short report, together with the links to further information, that we have just received today:One of the trucks after the Hellfire strike in Feb 2010
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Obama admits drone strikes in Pakistan as US drone strikes Yemen
For the first time, the United States has confirmed that it is undertaking drone strikes in Pakistan.
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5 Foods NOT to Eat While Sick or Battling a Cold
by Elizabeth Renter
Activist Post
September 27, 2012
It’s almost that time of year, where we start passing around colds like we pass around the holiday dishes. While there are numerous sources out there for natural cold remedies (garlic, ginger, hydration, etc.), it’s also good to know which foods to avoid while sick or battling a cold. By eliminating these foods, while hopefully consuming immune-boosting foods, you can recover more quickly and reduce the severity of your symptoms.
Dairy products may be on the fence (in small portions), as consuming them may not aggravate some while doing so to others. Dairy products can increase mucus production, and mucus is one thing you don’t need more of when you are sick. If ice cream feels good on your throat, opt for a different frozen dessert like frozen fruit bars. These will numb your scratchy throat and deliver some useful vitamin C.
3. Juice Drinks
If you enjoy juicing and make your own 100% juices—by all means, drink them! But if you reach for your run-of-the-mill orange juice when you get a cold, you’d be better off without. Average juices are loaded with extra sugar and that sugar can reduce the ability of white blood cells to fight illness. Any benefits you might get from the vitamin c are nullified by the sugar inside.
What should also be pointed out from avoiding juices is: avoid sugar.
4. Fried Foods
Stay away from excess fats when you are sick. This goes for processed snacks and fried foods. Foods high in fat produce inflammation and inflammation produces a less active immune system.
So this is how to prevent a cold: avoids those foods that make you sick and consume those foods that boost your immune system. When you are sick—stick with a diet of whole, fresh foods and plenty of liquids. Drink tea, eat soup, use spices like turmeric, ginger, and garlic, consume some honey, and nurse yourself back to health naturally. Generally, the worst symptoms of a cold will only last a few days when you have a high functioning immune system. So, treat your whole body with nutrition and not just your runny nose with an over-the-counter drug.
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A False Flag Attack Was Just Telegraphed – Are We Paying Attention? [video]
Conscious Life News
September 29, 2012
You REALLY should watch this. Max Igan and Ken O’Keefe’s provide analysis of Israel lobbyist Patrick Clawson’s suggestion that the U.S. use a false flag event as a means of initiating conflict with Iran. (Warning: O’Keefe swears on numerous occasions; he’s very passionate about preventing WWIII.)
Max Igan: “The thing that really blows me away is that they are just telling us about it – so blatantly. Look folks, the only way it is going to stop is if we do something about it. We have to pay attention to what’s going on. We’ve got to pay attention to what is being said to us. People just aren’t paying attention to what’s happening in the world.”
Plans to invade Iran have been in place since at least 2001 (see “Within Weeks After 9/11, Gen Wesley Clark Was Shown US Plan To Invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran“).
Moreover, a 2009 report published by the the Brookings Institute,titled “Which Path to Persia?”, details plans for the U.S. and Israel to dupe the world into an unnecessary war. The Brookings report states that the intention of US-Israeli policy toward Iran is to provoke a war they know Iran would neither want, nor benefit from. The goal is to create such a provocation without the world recognizing that it was indeed the West triggering hostilities:
“…it would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be. Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.) ”
-Brookings Institution’s 2009 “Which Path to Persia?” report, pages 84-85.
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David Icke interviewed at Bestival festival by Richard Strange [video]
David Icke
September 28, 2012
[hat tip: Elisabeth Nyström Barringer]
Tesla Motors Launches Revolutionary Supercharger Enabling Free Long Distance Travel
By JG Vibes
theintelhub.com
September 25, 2012
Today Tesla Motors unveiled its highly anticipated Supercharger network, which is said to make long distance travel in cars totally free thanks to the use of solar energy and electricity. So far the network is made up of six Supercharger stations stretching across California, as well as parts of Nevada and Arizona.
These stations will allow the Tesla Model S to recharge for free, and each charge is said to last for an extremely long distance. This is so groundbreaking because until now one of the major drawbacks to electric cars was their inability to travel long distances on a single charge.
The charging centers that have opened so far are just the first of many, the company plans to install Superchargers in high traffic corridors across the United States, enabling fast, purely electric travel from Vancouver to San Diego, Miami to Montreal and Los Angeles to New York, all by next year.
By 2015, Tesla Motors plans to create more than 100 charging stations across the United States, while also branching out into Europe and Asia.
The Supercharging stations will be twice as fast as any now in use and will be installed at highway rest stops.
The rooftop canopy at many of the charging stations will carry a solar array that will place more electricity onto the local power grid, over time, than the cars use. For an undisclosed price there will also be home charging stations that will make local driving more convenient.
Elon Musk, Tesla Motors co-founder and CEO said in a press release ”Tesla’s Supercharger network is a game changer for electric vehicles, providing long distance travel that has a level of convenience equivalent to gasoline cars for all practical purposes.
However, by making electric long distance travel at no cost, an impossibility for gasoline cars, Tesla is demonstrating just how fundamentally better electric transport can be. We are giving Model S the ability to drive almost anywhere for free on pure sunlight.”
It is only fitting for an achievement like this to come from an organization that took on the name of Tesla. Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest inventors in history and had actually discovered methods of harnessing free energy during his lifetime.
Since many of Tesla’s inventions were not politically feasible they were never invested in and were never able to truly be realized.
Today’s political climate is just as treacherous and controlled as it was in Tesla’s day, and there are many people out there who are fighting to suppress this sort of energy, so the development of these charging sites will be a very interesting thing to watch.
Already there has been talk of financial problems for the company, and it was in the news this month that Morgan Stanley basically controls their stock rating.
That in itself is another ironic twist, because Morgan Stanley can trace its roots to J.P Morgan, the investor who pulled his funding on Tesla when he realized the financial and political implications of a world with free energy.
Morgan Stanley has been kind to Tesla Motors so far but we all know that history has a tendency to repeat itself so that is another thing to look out for.
J.G. Vibes is the author of an 87 chapter counter culture textbook called Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance and host of a show called Voluntary Hippie Radio.
He is also an artist with an established record label and event promotion company that hosts politically charged electronic dance music events. You can keep up with his work, which includes free podcasts, free e-books & free audiobooks at his website www.aotmr.com .
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Russia halts imports of Monsanto corn over cancer fears
CounterPsyOps
September 26, 2012
AFP Photo / Philippe Huguen
Russian authorities temporary suspended the import and sale of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn after a French study suggested it may be linked to cancer.
The Russia’s consumer-rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor asked scientists at the country’s Institute of Nutrition to review the study. The watchdog has also contacted to European Commission’s Directorate General for Health & Consumers to explain the EU’s position on GM corn.
The report prepared by France’s University of Caen and published last week, claimed that rats fed over a two-year period with Monsanto’s genetically modified NK603 corn, developed more tumors and other pathologies than a test group fed with regular corn. The NK603, sold under the Roundup label, is genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate weed killer.
The company criticized the study, saying it “doesn’t meet minimum acceptable standards for this type of scientific research” and the data was incomplete.
Monsanto also said Russia’s ban will have little effect on its business as the country import small volumes of corn from the US. Besides that, the Russian government doesn’t permit farmers to plant GM crops. “Russia is a net exporter of grain, so the actual impact of their temporary suspension, if any, is likely to be small,” the spokesman said in a statement.
Meanwhile, France announced it will uphold the ban on genetically modified crops in the country. It has asked the national food-security agency Anses to examine the study of Monsanto’s corn. If other countries follow the examples of Russia and France it could be a severe blow to the major US biotech.
In California, activists are fighting to have GM products removed from the food supply. They are also pushing to pass Proposition 37, a law that would legally require genetically modified foods to be labeled as such. Monsanto is opposing the law and it has donated over $4.2 million to lobby against it. Over 2,000 farmers have petitioned the US government to more thoroughly investigate the impacts of the genetically modified corn crop from Monsanto.
Source: Russia Today
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