2011-03-21 Wow! Director General Al Jazeera, Situation in Middle East. You are witnessing change in history. Action in solidarity, Conscience Canada.

This video of the Director General of Al Jazeera (Item # 1) pops my heart out of my chest shouting, “YES!”.

AND, in solidarity with

• this man, Wadah Khanfar
• the people in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, etc.

I again deducted 10% from my income tax instalment payments – – the part that represents my tax dollars used to subsidize the war industry.

• Reference  2011-03-10 Myths for Profit: Canada’s Role In Industries of War and Peace’.
• Reference  2010-09-24 Income Tax to Conscience Canada, not Revenue Canada.

My understanding:

• The war industry keeps making more and more sinister weapons, SIMPLY AS A WAY TO MAKE MONEY.   We’ve seen tasers and  infrasonic weapons (see item #4 ) added to the arsenal,  which have already been used against citizens in the U.S.
• The war industry equips ruthless regimes with the violent means for controlling people.
• As Buffy St Marie explains (item #3), WE are actually responsible because we are the ones who supply the money (through taxes) to the war industry.
• Some Westerners complain because people from the Middle East (many are Muslim)  are flooding into Europe and North America.  Well, what do they expect? Where exactly do they expect the citizens will go when the West bombs Iraq and Afghanistan, etc.?   WE are creating millions of refugees.
• The war industries are dependent upon the demonization of  “the other”.   The propaganda and war machines are very good at making enemies out of people.
• See  2011-03-07 York Regional Police, Vancouver, Saskatoon Police, Ottawa — all with armoured vehicles (“Cougars”).   So who are the enemies in our cities?
• Look at 2011-03-21 Great Touching Photos (item #2).  We know there is a better way.

CONTENTS

1. DIRECTOR GENERAL OF AL JAZEERA EXPLAINS THE SITUATION IN THE ARAB WORLD
2. GREAT TOUCHING PHOTOS
3. BUFFY ST MARIE’S “UNIVERSAL SOLDIER”
4. INFRASONIC WEAPONS

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1.  DIRECTOR GENERAL OF AL JAZEERA EXPLAINS THE SITUATION IN THE ARAB WORLD

Listen to what Wadah Khanfar has to say!

SHARON writes:  Are you familiar with ted.com? My niece mentioned this on Facebook.

Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world | Video on TED.com

As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized they could step out of their houses and ask for change.

EXCERPT TRANSCRIBED (by Sandra):

We have a chance to create a new future in that part of the world  …  Values of democracy and the freedom of choice  that is sweeping the Middle East at this moment in time  is the best opportunity for the world, for the West and the East to see stability, and to see security and to see friendship and to see  tolerance emerging from the Arab world,       rather than the images of violence and terrorism.  Let us support these people, let us stand for them  and let us give up our narrow selfishness in order to embrace change  and in order to celebrate with the people of that region a great future and hope and tolerance.  The future has arrived and the future is now.

. . .    This is a great story.  It is beautiful.  . ..   You are witnessing change in history.  You are witnessing a birth of a new era  and this is what this is all about.

… The youth in the Arab world are much more wiser and capable of creating the change than the old  (political elites, intellectual elites, cultural elites, ideological old regimes).  ….

We discovered …   People care about this great transformation …  people care and  people want to know . .  50% (of the increase for Al Jazeera English)  is coming from America   …  this is the moment to celebrate  through connecting ourselves with those people in the street …   and expressing our support to them , and expressing this …  international feeling of supporting the weak and oppressed to create a much better future for all of us.

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2.  GREAT TOUCHING PHOTOS

Click on  2011-03-21 Great Touching Photos    (A fairly large download file).

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3.  BUFFY ST MARIE’S  “UNIVERSAL SOLDIER”

Please click on:  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=5230 (Moved to a dedicated posting because it is so important.)

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4.  INFRASONIC WEAPONS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_weapon

Demonstrated infrasonic weapon

The U.S. DOD has demonstrated phased arrays of infrasonic emitters. The weapon usually consists of a device that generates sound at about 7 Hz. The output from the device is routed (by pipes) to an array of open emitters. At this frequency, armor and concrete walls and other common building materials allow sound waves to pass through, providing little defense.^[6] This presents logistic problems regarding operation of infrasonic weaponry without exposing operating personnel to the potentially damaging effects.

Physicist and researcher Jürgen Altmann, however, has suggested that infrasound “does not have the alleged drastic effects on humans” in his paper “Acoustic Weapons.” While many sources make reference to military research into infrasonic weapons beginning with the work of Dr. Vladimir Gavreau, it is unclear as to whether or not these devices have potential use in conflict.

Research

Some common bio-effects of electromagnetic or other non-lethal weapons include effects to the human central nervous system resulting in physical pain, difficulty breathing, vertigo, nausea, disorientation, or other systemic discomfort. Interference with breathing poses the most significant, potentially lethal results. Light and repetitive visual signals can induce epileptic seizures (see Bucha effect). Vection and motion sickness can also occur. Cavitation, which affects gas nuclei in human tissue, and heating can result from exposure to ultrasound and can cause damage to tissue and organs.

Studies have found that exposure to high intensity ultrasound at frequencies from 700 kHz to 3.6 MHz can cause lung and intestinal damage in mice. Heart rate patterns following vibroacoustic stimulation has resulted in serious negative consequences such as atrial flutter and bradycardia. ^{[7] [8]}

Researchers have concluded that generating pain through the auditory system using high intensity sound resulted in a high risk of permanent hearing damage. Organizations in a research program which included the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (Groton, Connecticut), Navy Experimental Diving Unit (Panama City, Florida), SCC San Diego, Navy Medical Research and Development Command (Bethesda, Maryland), Underwater Sound Reference Detachment of Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Orlando, Florida), Applied Research Laboratories: University of Texas at Austin, Applied Physics Laboratory: University of Washington, Institute for Sensory Research: Syracuse University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Boston University, University of Vermont, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Rochester, University of Minnesota, University of Illinois, Loyola University,^{[disambiguation needed]} and the State University of New York at Buffalo, involved high intensity audible sound experiments on human subjects.^{[citation needed]}

The extra-aural (unrelated to hearing) bioeffects on various internal organs and the central nervous system included auditory shifts, vibrotactile sensitivity change, muscle contraction, cardiovascular function change, central nervous system effects, vestibular (inner ear) effects, and chest wall/lung tissue effects. Researchers found that low frequency sonar exposure could result in significant cavitations, hypothermia, and tissue shearing. No follow on experiments were recommended. Tests performed on mice show the threshold for both lung and liver damage occurs at about 184 dB. Damage increases rapidly as intensity is increased.

Noise-induced neurologic disturbances in humans exposed to continuous low frequency tones for durations longer than 15 minutes has involved in some cases the development of immediate and long term problems affecting brain tissue. The symptoms resembled those of individuals who had suffered minor head injuries. One theory for a causal mechanism is that the prolonged sound exposure resulted in enough mechanical strain to brain tissue to induce an encephalopathy.^[9]

See also

• Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD)
• Brown note
• Sone (a unit of loudness of sound)
• Sound pressure
• Sound energy flux
• Sound power
• Sound intensity
• Infrasound
• Ultrasound
• LED Incapacitator

References

External links

• USA Today report on cruise ship attack — Data on device used by cruise ship (PDF)
• Information about a pioneer in infrasonic applications such as weaponry.
• Jack Sargeant, with David Sutton. Sonic weapons. ForteanTimes, December 2001
• Daria Vaisman. “The Acoustics of War.” Cabinet, Winter 2001/2002.
• Gerry Vassilatos. “The Sonic Weapon of Valdimir Gavreau.” Journal of Borderland Research, October 1996.
• Sonic Devestator (note spelling): a hand-held antipersonnel sonic gun