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This morning in my e-mail I was notified of a new article by Dr. Naomi Wolf, titled “What is a War?”
It is a long article and covers a number of the peculiarities that are being reported about the ongoing wildfire disaster in and around Los Angeles. I won’t repeat them here, but I wanted to point out a particularly strange phenomenon she describes about halfway through her article. She was apparently holding on-line interviews with people in the city. She writes, “By Friday, I began to notice that things seemed very strange in Los Angeles, even for a disaster area. I had multiple interviews for two consecutive days with people located in that city; and all five of them kept looking out of the window at flames and smoke that were drawing nearer as we did our work.
“I kept saying, “Let’s wrap this up so you can be safe, or can go get to safety,” but all five of them, on two different days, did not cut short the interviews, and did not leave. As the inferno raged on, a dear friend in the city was begged to leave by her family, but she too did not move out of harm’s way. She stayed and stayed, though I too begged her to clear out, and to regroup from a position of safety. Another friend would text me images of flames thirty feet high at the end of his street, but he too did not leave.”
She says, “I have never seen people react that way when faced with grave danger.” In her experience as a reporter, the most traumatized people in war zones and disaster areas, she says, become hypervigilant and seek to get themselves and their families away to safety. In LA, though, she writes, “I could not pick up urgency in the people with whom I was in touch in LA; clips on social media, even of people who had lost a great deal, or who were at that moment threatened by fire, and even guests on national TV who were in the midst of events, also had an unusually calm affect.
“I began to wonder what was causing this unusual calm and this inclination of people in the path of danger to stay where they were.” She considered the poor or non-existing messaging from city leaders, or shock, or social media algorithms downplaying danger (which her article says did occur).
“I began even to wonder,” she says “If there had been a drug or sedative of some kind in the "mysterious fog” or the heavy geoengineering spraying that had blanketed key areas, including LA, prior to this event. That may sound nuts but like most things these days that should be out of bounds to ask, it is sadly not.”
Her article discusses the possibility that this disaster, or certain aspects of it, are a part of a hostile attack on an American city.
Her description of the lassitude she was encountering rang alarm bells in my head. About a month before, I had read an article at the Russian website “Argumenty I Fakty” (Arguments and Facts) containing an interview last summer with Oleg Grigoriev, Dr. of Biological Sciences and chairman of the Russian National Committee for Non-ionizing Radiation Protection, in which he described identical effects, and said that the technology for producing them is well known, well developed and even discussed in US military documents.
I present a translation of this article below, edited from a machine translation (translate.yandex.com). Any errors in it are my own.
Military Secrets. Expert: The Ukrainian Armed Forces could have Used EMF Weapons in the Attack on Kursk
Electromagnetic weapons that cause inhibition of the central nervous system of Russian military personnel could have been used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine before attacking the borders of the Kursk region. This was stated by Oleg Grigoriev, Doctor of Biological Sciences, at the recent Army-2024 forum.
He is well known in the professional environment. And as a leading expert in the field of non-ionizing radiation and chairman of the Russian National Committee for Protection against Non-Ionizing Radiation, he was invited to speak at the round table on information warfare at the Army-2024 forum.
Journalist Alexander Melnikov of aif.ru talks with Dr. Oleg Grigoriev about this issue
Alexander Melnikov, aif.ru: - What was the essence of your speech?
Oleg Grigoriev: First of all, I want to emphasize that this is just a guess, consisting in the fact that before the attack on the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine could use secret electromagnetic weapons that could cause inhibition of the central nervous system in our military. Under such radiation, they may both inadequately assess the situation and sluggishly defend themselves. With such inhibition, a person becomes more passive, his will to resist may be suppressed. All this, of course, would facilitate the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
My version is supported by the fact that the enemy used a new tactic during the attack on the Kursk region, employing an unprecedentedly large number of electronic warfare facilities capable of forming an electromagnetic field (EMF) with specified characteristics and broadcasting it to our positions before the start of hostilities.
"Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa were the leaders of such research in the USSR"
— It's real. For example, we conducted a study in which low-intensity radio frequency EMF caused inhibition in volunteers doing monotonous work. The same bioelectric activity was recorded in their brains as in natural sleep or electric sleep.
In general, similar work was carried out in the USSR in the 1960s and 1970s. They were most active in Kiev at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR. Electro-sleep, induced by placing electrodes on the head, was a common physiotherapy procedure. But at the same time, a device was also developed for the so-called radio-sleep, with which a person was influenced from a distance. There have even been studies on the remote effects of EMFs for anesthesia of patients during surgical operations. Kiev, Kharkov and Odessa were the leaders of such research in the USSR. And this is another argument in favor of my version.
— Ukraine should by no means be discounted, it is one of the few countries where competencies in both exposure and delivery of EMF have been preserved. There are dozens of such countries around the world. And they have modern publications on psychophysiological effects at a distance with an emphasis on the use of electromagnetic fields.
But, of course, the United States is the leader. Scientific research in this direction has also been conducted there since the early 1960s. There are several university research programs associated with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), there are publications about experiments conducted individually and on groups of people. Moreover, there are US Army documents on electromagnetic warfare, which attest to the direct effects of the EMFs on the condition of enemy soldiers, and not only on drones and communication systems.
Such modification of the enemy's consciousness through physical factors and digital technologies is already included in the system of concepts of the so-called "cognitive warfare." It is already clear that EMF exposure is employed in non-lethal weapons.
So we cannot exclude the possibility that the methods of electromagnetic influence on the brain are already being worked out in real conditions. There is everything you need for this — both a theoretical basis and modern technologies.
— It is difficult for our military to imagine this, because we do not carry out such work. But they understand that in the existing reality, when trust between us and Western countries is zero, nothing can be denied, and that a completely new type of conflict is taking place now. In particular, Major General Nikolai Lishin, who is engaged in information security, said that the Ukrainian conflict for the United States is a testing ground for everything, so it is also impossible to exclude that they are trying something in the field of psychophysical influences.
I understand that it's not easy for people to believe this. After all, the causal agent is invisible, and a person is not aware of it. But given that technology enables it, and that the enemy is capable of anything — he is not trustworthy, any denial of the possibility of such a weapon seems irresponsible to me.
Therefore, it is necessary to study this problem from a rational point of view. It is necessary to collect data on the possible impact on people's consciousness, analyze this information and urgently confirm it in biomedical experiments.
