#sonic attack

[rastronomicals]

1:42 AM EST December 2, 2021:

Hawkwind - "Sonic Attack" From the album Space Ritual (May 11, 1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Ty Segall's favorite band

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[thebabelfiles]

Name: Zatanna Zatara

Secret Identity: N/A

Species: Homo Magi

Threat Level: 4 - Severe

Abilities: Zatanna is a powerful magic user, having mastered the art of ‘backwards speak’ casting. Essentially, if Zatanna says something backwards, the gods of magic will bring it into existence. Her power is only limited by her imagination and the energy it takes to cast each spell.

Weaknesses: Zatanna must speak her spells into existence. If she were to lose her voice, she would be powerless.

Babel Protocol: Zatanna’s spells require precise wording to work. I have invented a sonic device that scrambles the target’s language center when hit, disabling their ability to speak coherently.

Private Notes: Although Zatanna does not yet know the limits of her power, I  am cautious of a single person possessing such potential. Also, if she continues her relationship with John Constantine, I worry that he may corrupt her down a darker path.

[sciencenewsforstudents]

Here’s why scientists are questioning whether ‘sonic attacks’ are real

Sonic attacks would be hard to pull off and a terrible way of incapacitating diplomats, experts say.

An account of another alleged “sonic attack” has surfaced, this time from a U.S. government employee in China. The employee reported “subtle and vague, but abnormal, sensations of sound and pressure,”according to a U.S. Embassy health alert. The episode mirrors reports from American diplomats in Cuba in late 2016, and fuels the debate among scientists about what, if anything, is actually happening.

Last year, 24 of the diplomats who reported sonic attacks in Cuba were tested to gauge whether lasting harm had occurred. In March, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia reported in JAMA that the people had balance and thinking problems, sleep disturbances and headaches, and that some had widespread injury to brain networks.

But some scientists and engineers have been questioning whether such attacks are possible, and if the diplomats’ symptoms could have been caused by a sonic attack.

[allakinwande]

Sonic attacks on US diplomats showing an alarming pattern

By JB Hanna

Andy Wong AP Photo

British "space rock" band Hawkwind's 1981 album peaked at #19 on the U.K. album charts after five weeks. Why is this relevant? It's not, but Hawkwind's album, titled "Sonic Attack" is one of the first links you'll see when you search the obscure phrase. Sources and references abound of this old technology has been hidden in black budget programs since the 1950's.

You can find endless accounts by strange individuals who's credibility, if not sanity, are readily in question. Sci-fi tales of government stalking, mind control and of course

"Sonic weapons." Through the decades the calls into fringe radio shows and podcasts by these wackos kept coming. Finding a hiding place from the ridicule in that quiet corner of the web where confessions of alien encounters of the sexual kind, Bigfoot, chupicabra and conspiracies of reptilian political overlords have a home. A sort of World Wide Web where tinfoil hats and time travelers are welcome.

But on Wednesday May 23rd. Mainstream outlets such as CNN, FOX, MSNBC and even The Associated Press reported that the State Department issued its first medical report in almost 40 years to US citizens in china. The Department reporting that an as yet unnamed US diplomat had been diagnosed with symptoms similar to that of a concussion, also including hearing loss and nausea. The symptoms following multiple incidents of hearing high-pitched noises, buzzing and percussive sensations in their residents. The same markers of what some "US State officials" are calling "Sonic Attacks."

This has raised the eyebrows of the US Intelligence community when the attack and symptoms mirrored that of 24 US citizens in Havana Cuba just last year. And a similar attack on a USAID officer and his wife in the US Embassy in Uzbekistan. China and Cuba, both communist governments in the good graces of Russia, as Uzbekistan considers rejoining the Russian-led military bloc Collective Security Treaty Organization, from which it withdrew in 2012, all have deep political ties to Russia. This of course has raised "Cold War 2.0" suspicions.

Though state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert claims "there's no evidence that an attack in Uzbekistan occurred," a sure pattern seems to be materializing here;

All allegedly attacks have come upon US Citizens who work at the US Embassies in question. Reports of high pitched sounds, buzzing and percussive sensations of the chest and head are worryingly consistent.

If fiction is stranger than truth, then it's not far behind and gaining fast. The quick response by the US in both Uzbekistan and now China reflects the State departments since of urgency after the slow response to the events in Havana a year ago. Critics note that had the State Department responded to the initial reports of sudden health problems with six of its diplomats in kind, the number of victims in Havana Cuba, 24 (including family members) may have been avoided.

"The failure of leadership at the department and at post, the sluggish reaction to the initial reports of afflicted personnel, the aloof response of the medical team at the State Department, silence from diplomatic security to the rest of the department is simply staggering," said Senator Bob Menendez

D-N.J.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls the reports “very similar and entirely consistent." While Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang insists "We have found no reason or clue for what was reported by the U.S.”

Of course, what country would want, let alone take responsibility for harm coming to any of its so-called allies in its own back yard? Especially in such "nuclearly charged" political times.

But then again, if we listen to those whispering in the back ground of the daily media blitz, we might here an uncomfortable truth. They told us about rockets that would go into space and we laughed. They showed you leaked government documents of the Atom Bomb some 10 years before Hiroshima but we covered our ears and mocked them. They screamed from the mountain tops that the war in Iraq was based on a lie and where told to put on their tinfoil hats and go home.

Sonic weapons are not the stuff of afrofuturism or GI Joe cartoons anymore. The science fiction future of warfare is now. According to Robert Putnam, head of media relations for LRAD (long range acoustic device) the device can project voice messages and alarm tones up to a distance of two miles, and issue commands in "any" language.

Activist Anthony Cristofani who's wife had an LRAD device used on her in Oakland claims, "its like a type of psychological torture, its like it's in your brain, you can't move."

One wouldn't be hyperbolic to assume that this technology has not, or cannot be scaled down to a travel size apparatus or even pocket sized at this point. In May of 2013 Harvard robotics laboratory launched its "robobee." literally penny sized drones than can be summoned into a swarm.

WW3 may not be nuclear after all.

It's shaping up to be digital

[unwelcome-ozian]

Have you heard about the weird brain injuries happening to us government officials in China?

There have been a number of sonic attacks on american government officials in recent years. One occurred in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Havana, Cuba, and now Guangzho,China.

Oz

[comicparanoia]

Injustice: Gods Among Us Year Two

#1

Chapter One: Third Wheel released by DC Comics on January 7, 2014.

[therealbornfree]

The US says its diplomats in Cuba were hit with an acoustic attack…I can relate to that after decades of assault by corporate backed wack rap…They turned up these detestable decibels at powerhouse festivals…Unethical ignorant spectacles turned our kids genitals and mentals into vegetables

Born Free #therealbornfree

[rastronomicals]

10:15 AM EDT June 20, 2024:

Hawkwind - "Sonic Attack" From the album Space Ritual (May 11, 1973)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Ty Segall's favorite band

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