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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Get Wise, T.I. - Spying & Sickening Cell Phones (Updated 11/05/09)


Thanks to Blanche C. for first alerting us to an Eye Witness News report on how even the most modern cell phone can be turned into a spying device. While I can no longer find that video, here is another.

Each T.I. needs to evaluate how much he/she needs a cell phone. The video hasn't convinced you? Read this article, quote...


"Mind Control by Cell Phone: Electromagnetic signals from cell phones can change your brainwaves and behavior. But don't break out the aluminum foil head shield just yet." by R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American

Hospitals and airplanes ban the use of cell phones, because their electromagnetic transmissions can interfere with sensitive electrical devices. Could the brain also fall into that category? Of course, all our thoughts, sensations and actions arise from bioelectricity generated by neurons and transmitted through complex neural circuits inside our skull. Electrical signals between neurons generate electric fields that radiate out of brain tissue as electrical waves that can be picked up by electrodes touching a person's scalp. Measurements of such brainwaves in EEGs provide powerful insight into brain function and a valuable diagnostic tool for doctors. Indeed, so fundamental are brainwaves to the internal workings of the mind, they have become the ultimate, legal definition drawing the line between life and death.

Brainwaves change with a healthy person's conscious and unconscious mental activity and state of arousal. But scientists can do more with brainwaves than just listen in on the brain at work-they can selectively control brain function by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). This technique uses powerful pulses of electromagnetic radiation beamed into a person's brain to jam or excite particular brain circuits.

Although a cell phone is much less powerful than TMS, the question still remains: Could the electrical signals coming from a phone affect certain brainwaves operating in resonance with cell phone transmission frequencies? After all, the caller's cerebral cortex is just centimeters away from radiation broadcast from the phone's antenna. Two studies provide some revealing news.

The first, led by Rodney Croft, of the Brain Science Institute, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, tested whether cell phone transmissions could alter a person's brainwaves. The researchers monitored the brainwaves of 120 healthy men and women while a Nokia 6110 cell phone—one of the most popular cell phones in the world—was strapped to their head. A computer controlled the phone's transmissions in a double-blind experimental design, which meant that neither the test subject nor researchers knew whether the cell phone was transmitting or idle while EEG data were collected. The data showed that when the cell phone was transmitting, the power of a characteristic brain-wave pattern called alpha waves in the person's brain was boosted significantly. The increased alpha wave activity was greatest in brain tissue directly beneath to the cell phone, strengthening the case that the phone was responsible for the observed effect.

Alpha Waves of Brain

Alpha waves fluctuate at a rate of eight to 12 cycles per second (Hertz). These brainwaves reflect a person's state of arousal and attention. Alpha waves are generally regarded as an indicator of reduced mental effort, "cortical idling" or mind wandering. But this conventional view is perhaps an oversimplification. Croft, for example, argues that the alpha wave is really regulating the shift of attention between external and internal inputs. Alpha waves increase in power when a person shifts his or her consciousness of the external world to internal thoughts; they also are the key brainwave signatures of sleep.


Cell Phone Insomnia

If cell phone signals boost a person's alpha waves, does this nudge them subliminally into an altered state of consciousness or have any effect at all on the workings of their mind that can be observed in a person's behavior? In the second study, James Horne and colleagues at the Loughborough University Sleep Research Centre in England devised an experiment to test this question. The result was surprising. Not only could the cell phone signals alter a person's behavior during the call, the effects of the disrupted brain-wave patterns continued long after the phone was switched off.

"This was a completely unexpected finding," Horne told me. "We didn't suspect any effect on EEG [after switching off the phone].

We were interested in studying the effect of mobile phone signals on sleep itself." But it quickly became obvious to Horne and colleagues in preparing for the sleep-research experiments that some of the test subjects had difficulty falling asleep.

Horne and his colleagues controlled a Nokia 6310e cell phone—another popular and basic phone—attached to the head of 10 healthy but sleep-deprived men in their sleep research lab. (Their sleep had been restricted to six hours the previous night.) The researchers then monitored the men's brainwaves by EEG while the phone was switched on and off by remote computer, and also switched between "standby," "listen" and "talk" modes of operation for 30 minute intervals on different nights. The experiment revealed that after the phone was switched to "talk" mode a different brain-wave pattern, called delta waves (in the range of one to four Hertz), remained dampened for nearly one hour after the phone was shut off. These brainwaves are the most reliable and sensitive marker of stage two sleep—approximately 50 percent of total sleep consists of this stage—and the subjects remained awake twice as long after the phone transmitting in talk mode was shut off. Although the test subjects had been sleep-deprived the night before, they could not fall asleep for nearly one hour after the phone had been operating without their knowledge.

Although this research shows that cell phone transmissions can affect a person's brainwaves with persistent effects on behavior, Horne does not feel there is any need for concern that cell phones are damaging. The arousal effects the researchers measured are equivalent to about half a cup of coffee, and many other factors in a person's surroundings will affect a night's sleep as much or more than cell phone transmissions.

"The significance of the research," he explained, is that although the cell phone power is low, "electromagnetic radiation can nevertheless have an effect on mental behavior when transmitting at the proper frequency." He finds this fact especially remarkable when considering that everyone is surrounded by electromagnetic clutter radiating from all kinds of electronic devices in our modern world. Cell phones in talk mode seem to be particularly well-tuned to frequencies that affect brainwave activity. "The results show sensitivity to low-level radiation to a subtle degree. These findings open the door by a crack for more research to follow. One only wonders if with different doses, durations, or other devices, would there be greater effects?"

Croft of Swinburne emphasizes that there are no health worries from these new findings. "The exciting thing about this research is that it allows us to have a look at how you might modulate brain function and this [look] tells us something about how the brain works on a fundamental level." In other words, the importance of this work is in illuminating the fundamental workings of the brain-scientists can now splash away with their own self-generated electromagnetic waves and learn a great deal about how brainwaves respond and what they do.

Mind Matters is edited by Jonah Lehrer, the science writer behind the blog, The Frontal Cortex and the book Proust was a Neuroscientist.


"5,000 Discarded Cell Phones Turned Into Art"

Special thanks to Mireilledepardieu for bringing the article to our attention. Here's hoping that A Word to the Wise T.I. is sufficient.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

A Word to the Wise T.I. - Why You Should Not Talk to Police

In Don't Talk to Cops, Part 1, James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney, explains why even the innocent T.I. should never answer police questions, but instead, plead the 5th Amendment and only talk to his or her own lawyer.



In Don't Talk to Cops, Part Two, Virginia Beach Police Detective Bruch, explains some of the tricks he uses to obtain useable evidence.



Thanks to Felix C. of Yahoo Multistalk forum for this great find. With that, we hope A Word to the Wise T.I. is sufficient.

Monday, April 20, 2009

In the News: Multi-Stalker's Conviction Upheld in Appeals Court



(Updated 05/02/09)

An Appeals Court upheld the guilty verdict of a man convicted of stalking after defense lawyers tried to get the ruling overturned because the original jury asked the judge if stalking included the man using several friends and family members to stalk a woman in Washington state. Despite defense lawyers' arguments, the conviction was upheld.  For more detail, this Seattle Times article is reproduced below:


Friday, May 2, 2008 - Page updated at 08:15 AM

Washington high court: Stalking by third parties is a crime
By RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press Writer

A man who recruited his friends to follow an ex-girlfriend and file written reports about her activities was correctly convicted of stalking, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

In a 6-3 decision, the high court reinstated the conviction of Andre Paul Becklin, who was convicted in Ferry County Superior Court of using several friends to follow his ex-girlfriend, Mary Alison McGee. Becklin was sentenced to a year in prison, but his conviction was overturned by the state Court of Appeals.

The Supreme Court's majority, led by Justice Bobbe Bridge, said Thursday that the definition of stalking "is broad enough to encompass the act of directing third parties to follow and intimidate a victim."

Bridge was joined by Justices Susan Owens, Mary Fairhurst, Barbara Madsen, James Johnson and Tom Chambers.

Mike Sandona, the Ferry County prosecutor, said the court's ruling was important.

"It stops people like Mr. Becklin, who has friends do the things he can't do, disturb the peace of his ex," he said. "It's is an issue of fear and control over another person."

Becklin and McGee started dating in 1996, but according to court records, Becklin made threats to kill her and attacked her when she refused to get an abortion after becoming pregnant with their son.

McGee eventually left Becklin and married another man, before which Becklin briefly took their son without McGee's consent and tried to force his way into her home, according to court documents.

McGee got a protection order in December 2003, barring Becklin from having any contact with her or from coming within 100 feet of her or her home. The order also prohibited contact through third parties.

Becklin was arrested on April 1, 2004 and charged with stalking McGee after she said Becklin's friends repeatedly drove Becklin's cars by her house, circling her block several times. Friends would also fill out written reports for Becklin recounting their sightings of McGee around town.

Dissenters, led by Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, took issue with what they said were inadequate jury instructions that ultimately led to Becklin's conviction.

During closing arguments, both sides addressed the issue of whether Becklin should be held accountable for the actions of his friends, but instructions to the jury did not include any guidance on accomplice liability or the concept that a third party's actions could support criminal accountability for stalking.

After it began deliberations, the jury sent a note to the judge, asking if a third party was included in stalking and whether a person could be stalked through a third party.

The judge answered yes, and the jury convicted Becklin.

"Although one may be culpable for the acts of others through Washington's complicity statute if he or she causes an innocent person or persons to engage in criminal conduct or is an accomplice of the person committing the unlawful acts, the jury should receive an instruction" based on the state statutes, Alexander wrote, joined by Justices Charles Johnson and Richard Sanders.

Becklin's attorney, Anthony Castelda, could not be reached for comment.
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The case is State v. Becklin, docket number 79354-9.
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A Word to the Wise T.I. thanks Felix C. for tracking down the Seattle Times article.


Thursday, April 16, 2009

Spotlight On: Walls of Deception by Bruno M.


Bruno M. of the Yahoo mcactivism forum offers a different viewpoint regarding T.I. harassment.

A lot of deception is used by the perps in making us think the entire world is against us. Along with hard-core stalkers who know what they're doing, I believe mind manipulation technology is being used on our neighbors, friends and family to make us think they're perps, by inducing perp-like mannerisms, steering conversations to use trigger words, and even making us think they're reading our minds. When combined with the stress resulting from our minds being manipulated with this technology to make us look and act crazy, it serves to isolate us from others.

Another use of deception is making us believe perps are crawling around under the house or in the attack, that they have directed energy weapons in their houses, cars or on their person, or that they're dragging around directed energy weapons in the apartment above or below us, "following" us from room to room. They may leave clues, like candy wrappers in the attack; they may quickly close the curtains to make us think they're hiding directed energy weapons; they may be carrying around a gizmo we feel we are being zapped with; there may be suspicious-looking people near our homes to make us think they're tampering with something nearby; they may leave strange powder-like substances or make us discover our computers have been compromised, making us think we're being set-up to be arrested for harboring illegal substances, for having pornography on our computer, etc. This is all being done to run ourselves ragged. (This is just based on my strong hunch from my personal experiences and from listening to T.I.s tell their stories in person and in phone conversations.) Crawlspace and attic noises can be induced, along with suspicion-evoking feelings directing our attention to certain things via synthetic telepathy. Neighbors can be mind manipulated to "follow" us from room to room, to laugh coincident with something we're doing in the privacy of our home, or even to leave their house at the same time we're leaving ours, without their even being aware of it.

Perps are masters of deception, and their goal is to get us to obsess on this stuff. By setting clear goals or limiting the time we spend contemplating this stuff, we can better take back control of our lives.

With a word of thanks to Bruno M., this concludes today's entry and and we hope that A Word to the Wise T.I. is sufficient.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

A Word to the Wise T.I. - Before You Take That Psychological Test


Targeted Individuals' allegations are regularly dismissed. Frequently, a judge will order one to take a psychological test. Anticipating these tests can cause worry and fear. Taking them in advance may allay yours.


(A healthy person answers "No" to all questions.)

(A healthy person answers "No" to all questions.)

(A healthy person answers "No" to all questions.)


Remember to clear your browser's cache to delete the test results from your computer. And thanks to "Not Me" of Multistalk for comments and assistance.

Forewarned is forearmed. Good luck and may A Word to the Wise T.I. be sufficient.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

In the News: T.I. Wins Court Protection





Run, do not walk, to Eleanor White's website and read how one T.I., James Walbert of Kansas, was able to get an Order of Protection against organized stalking and electronic harassment and to view the actual court papers.

Here is a pdf file with all 10 pages of documents, courtesy of Felix of Multistalk forum.

Congratulations, James Walbert, for your victory. And thank you, Eleanor and Felix for making these documents available.