Originally published at: CIA: Havana Syndrome "unfounded" | Boing Boing
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Well if you can’t trust a shady, secretive government agency that considers widespread deception part of its mission statement then who can you trust?
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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that this was bullshit all along.
Simply never occurred to me.
/s
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“not a hostile power” but “cannot rule out foreign involvement”.
So our allies are doing it?
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A lot of docs dismissed fibromyalgia as a clinical entity, but very common objective findings eventually allowed for better understanding. If someone (Putin) were deliberately causing this, by undetectable toxin/energy effect, they could mix it up enough so that the effects, and targets they chose, were deliberately inconsistent and confusing. Attack people with a variety of sickening energy attacks, vary the intensity, poison some, add random targets so it seems like less of a pattern. A medical mystery would be harder to sort if it were guided by a hostile intelligence hoping to escape detection. I of course don’t know if it’s a deliberately caused syndrome(s), but seems like it’d be challenging to prove it isn’t one.
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I have my doubts.
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You can always trust the CIA to provide untainted information to the public. Especially if it’s about paying disability or admitting failure to protect gov employees overseas.
Not a global action sounds a bit weaselly wording.
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It’s Merkel getting revenge for all that spying from NSA.
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I mean… haven’t they done studies on some people’s brains and observed damage?
I’m keeping open mind, either way. I recognize mass hysteria is a thing, but I also know Russia undeniably loves to poison people and do whatever it can short of world war to annoy the US. Initially, at least, this did not seem of the same ilk as satanic panics.
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Hey don’t count the US out! we’re no strangers to messing up our own people.
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I think they didn’t say damage, but “Differences” not good changes, but no obvious clues for why things are different.
(https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2738552#multimedia-tab)
I wouldn’t discount which administration’s secretive government agency went whole hog on socialist brain lasers and mysterious energies either.
But not anything unique. The, apparently quite small, subset of people where they found something you could call damage. Was entirely consistent with past history of mild concussion, and other very common things.
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Cuba can’t even get their friggin shortwave radio station to not be a wreck (they’ve been using it for numbers stations for years and I don’t think they even can afford a new setup from China). And people think they’ll magically cook up a new directed energy weapon without anyone noticing? Come on.
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Enter China and Russia.
Also apparently the Canadians?
Claims of symptoms or cases have cropped up practically everywhere at this point. Including US soil. Which definitely hints at the psychosomatic/mass hysteria explanation.
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Doesn’t rule out testing on ourselves either
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i must say that this reminds me of the incidences of priuses which suddenly went at high speeds and seemed almost unstoppable when it happened and it turned out it was people driving too fast who mistaked their gas pedal for their brake in their panic.
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One pedal “Blessed Sister of Acceleration” the other never made anyone go faster.
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when the CIA releases a press release it’s important to remember that they are not in the business of creating clarity.
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