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information gathered from the many articles and news clippings sent in by readers of Resonance. In my article on synthetic telepathy’ I traced the development of the 'voice in your head' technology dating back to 1961, all my references coming from the open scientific literature. "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or our democratic processes." woo eee ne ne 2 Henne woe - pp - - ----- POWER OF THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Jan Wiesemann has written an apt description of the situation | INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS OVER NEW WEAPONS which now exists in the United States, about the 'forces that be’ The United Nations was established in 1945 with the aim of and how the situation came about: "saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war". In "During the Cold War the United States not only engaged in a 1975 the General Assembly considered a draft first proposed by relatively open nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, but also the Soviet Union: "Prohibition of the Development and engaged in a secret race developing unconventional weapons. As Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and the intelligence agencies (which prior to the Second World War — New Systems of Such Weapons". had merely played a supporting role within the government) In 1979 the Soviet Union added a list of some types of potential continued to increase their power, so did the funds spent on weapons of mass destruction: developing techniques designed to outsmart each other. 1) Radiological weapons (using radioactive materials) which "And as the US intelligence community could produce harmful effects similar to began to grow, a secret culture sprang about those of a nuclear explosion; which enabled the intelligence players to 2) Particle beam weapons, based on implement the various developed techniques charged or neutral particles, to affect to cleverly circumvent the democratic biological targets; processes and institutions... There is evidence that the 3) Infrasonic acoustic radiation weapons; G Like many other democracies, the US US Government has plans ; 4) Electromagnetic weapons operating at overnment is made up of two basic parts: . certain radio-frequency radiations which the elected constituency, i.e., the various to extend the range of this could have injurious effects on human governors, judges, congressmen and the technology to envelop all organs." President; and the unelected bureaucracies, gy Ne In response, the US and other Western as represented by the numerous federal peoples, all countries. nations stalled. They gave a long, agencies. convoluted reason, but the result was the "In a well-balanced and correctly . . same. functioning democracy, the elected part of This can be accomplished, In an article entitled "Non-Lethal the government is in charge of its Is being accomplished, by Weapons May Violate Treaties", the utilising the nearly unelected bureaucratic part, giving the author notes that the Certain people a real voice in the agenda set by . Conventional Weapons Convention “ completed HAARP project for overseas areas and the their government. covers many of the non-conventional "While a significant part of the US weapons—"those that _utilize GWEN network now in place in the US. Government no doubt follows this infrasound or electromagnetic energy lemocratic principle, a considerable (including lasers, microwave or radio- portion of the US Government operates frequency radiation, or visible light in complete secrecy and follows its pulsed at brainwave frequency) for own unaccountable agenda which, their effects". unacknowledged, very often is quite Harlan Girard, Managing Director of ifferent from the public agenda."" the International Committee Against Jan goes on to quote one of the Offensive Microwave Weapons, told United States' most popular war heroes: me he believes the strategy behind the Dwight D. Eisenhower, who served as government's recent push for less-than- Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II and lethal weapons is a subterfuge. The ones that are now getting all was later elected 34th President of the United States. In his the publicity are put up for scrutiny to get the public's approval. farewell address to the nation in 1961, President Eisenhower said: The electromagnetic mind-altering technologies are not "...we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments mentioned, but would be brought in later under the umbrella of industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half less-than-lethal weapons. million men and women are directly engaged in the defence These weapons were recently transferred from the Department establishment. We annually spend on military security more than of Defense over to the Department of Justice. Why? Because the net income of all United States corporations. there are several international treaties that specifically limit or "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a exclude weapons of this nature from being used in internationa large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total warfare. influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every In other words, weapons that are barred from use against our city, every state house, every office of the federal government. country's worst enemies (notwithstanding the fact that the US did We recognise the imperative need for this development. Yet we use this weapon against Iraqi troops!) can now be used against our must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, own citizens by the local police departments against such groups resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure _as peaceful protestors of US nuclear policies. of our society. NEXUS - 17 place in the US. OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1998