In the News: KENS5 TV News Video - Gang Stalking in Texas

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Stalked, drugged and raped: Is it happening in San Antonio?
by Joe Conger / KENS 5
Posted February 17, 2010 at 10:17 PM
Updated Thursday, Feb 18 at 9:59 AM

Cynthia Vurbeff is moving. Her home, she says, has become a house of horrors.

“I feel that I've lost my mind, lost my life,” Vurbeff said.

Incident reports from law enforcement tell the tale: Numerous break-ins at the address. She suffered vandalism to her car, motorcycle and computer.

Vurbeff believes she was being targeted.

“Everything... They just went through everything,” she said.

But sheriff’s detectives had little to go on, because the vandals -- though often destructive -- stole nothing. Even from her portable safe, drilled into and torn apart, the contents -- the jewelry -- remained untouched.

'He told me ... I would be stalked'

Vurbeff says her troubles didn’t start until she met two men.

One would become her ex-boyfriend; the other was his partner in a San Antonio pain clinic, Dr. John Hall.

Vurbeff said: “The very first time I met him, we went to his house on the Fourth of July, and he told me that because I was already there in his house, that I would be the next victim, that I would be stalked.”

Vurbeff found the doctor’s prophecy to be correct. She suffered months of oddness:

Lights left on. Doors open. Furniture moved. Her clothes dryer disassembled. Her friends said they noticed the strange happenings. They tell the I-Team they even witnessed a gas oven left turned on.

“As soon as you walked in the house, you smelled gas," one friend said. "The whole house smelled of gas. Immediately turned it off, opened up the doors, but that thing doesn't turn on by itself. And it had been running a good length of time."

Another friend said she and Vurbeff were stalked at a mall.

Vurbeff said all these happenings culminated in an assault. The 39-year old believes someone drugged the food in her home and returned later to rape her.

“I know something happened to me, because... a woman knows,” Vurbeff stated.

She filed a report and was briefly hospitalized with signs of sexual assault.

Book about 'gang stalking'

Dr. Hall says what Vurbeff describes is known as “gang stalking.” Indeed, he writes about it in his book, “A New Breed: Satellite Terrorism in America.”

Vurbeff is not alone. Others in San Antonio have contacted the I-Team and described similar types of occurrences.

Linda Johnson says someone poisoned her water supply with heavy metals in northwest San Antonio. Then, there’s the story of the bracelet that went missing, and then reappeared.

Police, she says, have stopped listening to her. And like Vurbeff, she, too, believes she’s been sexually assaulted, although she never filed a police report.

Johnson said: “I've been to doctors many times, and I've been to the rape crisis center, yes."

Many of these so-called victims of what Hall describes as “gang stalking” meet up on the Internet, finding comfort and information from others who say they, too, suffer from electronic stalking, mind control and even rape.

Loosely defined, gang stalking is where organized groups target and harass unwilling victims to the point of paranoia, leaving the victims to deal with skeptical family members and skeptical law enforcement.

“This isn't stalking that's done by former spouse, or former boyfriend or someone you know is disgruntled at you, but stalking that's done by a total stranger in an organized fashion," Dr. Hall said.

And some Internet links take you to the book mentioned earlier, written by Dr. John Hall.

"The book is fact. It's not a book of fiction. What I've wrote about here is an isolated story in San Antonio,” Dr. Hall said.

Dr. Hall says it is a story about himself, and the harassment and rapes his ex-girlfriends allegedly suffered, beginning in 1996. Dr. Hall believes the people behind it are well-organized-operatives, using government satellite technology to terrorize him and other victims.

"All voicing the same complaints: organized stalking, weird, electronic disturbances going on in their homes. Most of the women complain of drugging and sexual assault. It's a big national problem," he said.

Vurbeff bought the book. And what she read she says caused her stomach to turn: Because within the chapters in the story, she found similarities to her own situation.

Vurbeff said: “I pulled out the book and I started reading it, and I'm like, 'Oh my God, that's exactly what's happening to me.'”

I-Team investigates

The account in Hall’s book is chilling, and the I-Team uncovered some truth to his story.

San Antonio police reports indicate there WAS a rape reported in 2007 in the same quad of condos where one of Dr. Hall’s girlfriends supposedly lived. San Antonio police say the condo rape remains under investigation.

And Bexar County detectives say Vurbeff’s assault case remains open as well.

Although there are some interesting connections to Dr. Hall and the book, law enforcement won’t and cannot say whether Dr. Hall is even a person of interest.

The I-Team thought the similarities were striking, and asked him if he was in fact bothering these women.

Dr. Hall responded: “That's actually one of the reasons why I got out of my ex-fiancé’s life: to make sure that they weren't victimizing her to get at me."

Dr. Hall said he’s been targeted by the same groups and even by fellow doctors. He said the Texas Medical Board retaliated against him for uncovering the gang stalking.

The I-Team confirmed one local hospital suspended Dr. Hall’s clinical privileges for 2 months in 2006.

In 2007, the Texas Medical Board ordered two mental evaluations for Dr. Hall. The first came back normal, but a second evaluation found a “probable delusional disorder” and ordered psychiatric treatment.

And in 2008, Hall’s license was suspended for testing positive for cocaine. In the book, he explains the operatives drugged him with cocaine periodically.

Dr. Hall’s medical license has since been reinstated.

"If you look nationwide, almost everyone who complains of this eventually gets sent to a psychiatrist. And the psychiatrists don't look into the technology. They don't do any research into whether or not any of this is possible," Dr. Hall said.

With his book published, the Dr. Hall is taking his message nationally.

He’s appeared on cable TV shows and late-night radio and even has his own radio program in the works.

Dr. Hall said: "There have been several people in my midst obviously that have been victimized. But if you look at it on a larger scale, it is a national problem."

Dr. Hall’s belief is that we all face some sort of terrorism in our lives that is mostly unseen and deadly. He contends criminals are tapping into our government’s surveillance systems to gain access to our lives and minds.

As for the alleged rapes mentioned in the story, no one has been charged. Both San Antonio police and Bexar County Sheriff’s deputies say they continue to investigate.

Spot Light On: SF T.E.C.

Photo: "Empathy"

San Francisco Targeted_Individuals Empowerment Collective provides a safe, confidential environment for meetings & support groups, serving, on a free basis, Victims, Survivors & Thrivers, Individuals , Children, Biological and Extended Families targeted by Directed Energy Weapons.

To schedule a first confidential appointment, Please call us on our hotline at (415) 595-8251 or email mesha Monge-Irizarry, SF T.E.C. grassroots organizer at iolmisha@cs.com, or SF2010mm@cs.com

SF T.E.C. also provides technical assistance and Internet support to host commensurate events/ rallies, press releases and demonstrations, and grow broader TIs and Allies coalitions.

We are working on setting up a peer volunteer program and Internship program infrastructure.

We are not seeking grants (to keep our agenda intact and not bow to grantors' distorting requirements), and at this point we are not seeking donations, since mesha provides free office space and internet access.

Photo: SF T.E.C. founder, Mesha, holding photo of police-slain T.I. son, Idriss.

The office has 3 computers, DSL, group meeting space up to 20 participants, a refrigerator, microwave, DVD Player and monitor, a sink, and bathrooom access on the same floor.

SF T.E.C., in case of a dire emergency, can be used as a Safe Haven for up to 24 hours.

SF T.E.C. is part of the core team of local, national and international organizers who worked on the Ban on Electronic Torture Worldwide Rallies and Protests on Oct 14, 2009, the "Global Freedom Activism Collective" (moderated by mesha), and currently planning another global event on International Human Rights Day, Dec 10, 2009

SF T.E.C. recently became a member of IAACEA.org International Alliance Against Covert Electronic Abuse

San Francisco T.E.C. based yahoogroup, online forum: Groups.yahoo.com/group/Targeted_individuals/

In Unity & Respect

SF T.E.C.

Weapons Effects: Hynosis & Head Targeting

According to Science News Magazine, "Most recently, hypnosis has advanced from stage and clinic into the laboratory. It is now used as a research tool to temporarily create hallucinations, compulsions, delusions and certain types of seizures in the lab so that these phenomena can be investigated in detail."

The above image clearly shows that the yellow area becomes most active when a person is being hypnotized. (If that link doesn't work, paste the following url into your browser window and hit your enter key. http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/47697/title/The_Mesmerized_Mind)

What does this mean for the Targeted Individual? That may depend on whether or not your hypnosis-activated area is targeted by Electronic Harassment. How might you tell if it is?

Above image from New Science Magazine, "Your Brain on Hypnosis".

One way is to ask yourself if you are prone to newly acquired, irrational attitudes or behavior. Are you suddenly eating the one food you swore you'd never eat again? Are you listening to listening sports radio, which you've always hated, instead of classical music? Have you ever, without a forethought or intention, attempted suicide?

Is the hypnosis-activated area prone to feeling warmer than the rest of your head? T.I.s frequently report finding warm spots on their heads. If you're not sure if you do, use your fingertips to feel that area. If your fingertip sensitivity has is reduced for whatever reason, then use the base of your palm (the thickest part of your hand) and see if you can detect warmth over the hypnosis-activated area. Testing should be done frequently,and especially right before you go to bed, and while you are in bed. If this area is targeted, and is accompanied by repetitive rhythmic V2K or Sound-to-Skull, then you may be being prepared for hypnotic commands while you sleep.

To counteract possible attempts to plant hypnotic suggestions while you sleep, you'll need to simultaneously play multiple radio talk shows while you sleep: 6 radios, each tuned to a different channel. Play these radios all night. Not so loud as to invite complaints from the neighbors, but loud enough that you can't focus on what any one channel says. The resulting chaos will help you not to 'hear' V2K hypnotic commands.

Another thing you should do is to protect that part of your head when it is being heated: use your hands and arms to cover that part of the head while you sit or sleep.

You can further shield your head with a construction made from various shielding materials like silicon baking sheets, stainless steel or copper and Rubbermaid rubber bath mats.

For more Shielding Tips from the T.I. Community go to:

http://www.freedomfchs.com/id12.html

Good luck! And may a Word to the Wise T.I. be sufficient.

CARTOONS: Targ, episodes 1-10 by Eleanor White

Are YOU are Targeted Individual? Click on each cartoon to enlarge, and see if you are one.

Kudos to Eleanor W. for Targ. Please visit Eleanor's MultiStalkerVictim and RavenNet1 sites, they are a wealth of information. Once again, great job, Eleanor!

Good news! There are many more Targ, Peter Perp and other Cartoons by Eleanor White, and they now have their own site, Targ

Axing Anxiety with Celery

According to the New York Times, "Celery contains phytochemicals called phthalides, which some studies have shown reduce stress hormones and work to relax the muscle walls in arteries, increasing blood flow. As a result, it has long been used in Chinese medicine to help control high blood pressure. Celery is an excellent source of vitamins K and C, and a very good source of potassium, folate, dietary fiber, molybdenum, manganese, and vitamin B6."

Unfortunately, most people don't know there exist a wide variety of delicious, nutritious and STRESS REDUCING celery recipes, so celery tends to go unused in the refrigerator after you buy a bunch for a soup or stew, or for that Thanksgiving stuffing recipe that calls for only one stalk."

So I've compiled some tips and easy to make recipes from a variety of sources because A Word to the Wise T.I. should be sufficient.

TIPS FOR USING CELERY: use the tough outter stalks in soups and stews and stuffing, and the more tender inner stalks (aka the celery heart) in salads.

According to the Vegan Coach, you can create your very own celery recipe with some of your favorite ingredients from the following list of foods that match perfectly with celery:

Almonds * Bread Crumbs * Butter, or non-dairy spread like Earth Balance * Carrots * Cream, or non-dairy Silk Soy Creamer * Curry * Dill * Fennel * Garlic * Green * Onions * Lemon * Onions * Mayonnaise * Mushrooms * Mustard * Nutmeg * Onion * Parsley * Peanut Butter, or other nut butter * Pimento * Tomato * Vinegar * Walnuts *

Water Chestnuts

And here are some mouth watering recipes guaranteed to melt the stress away, while delighting the taste buds.

Celery & Apple Juice

3 stalks of celery

3 apples

1 stem broccoli (optional)

1/2 lemon (optional)

Directions

Wash the fruit and vegetables using water and a stiff vegetable brush. Keep the leaves on the celery.

Core the apples.

Cut the peel off the lemon - some people like to leave this on but I find this makes the juice too bitter.

Slice the fruit and vegetables to fit your juicer.

Juice and enjoy.

Celery & Lemon Cocktail Delight

2 peeled lemons

1 handful of tender celery leaves

1/2 cup raw sugar

Juice the celery leaves, then the lemons. Stir in sugar, add water to make 1 quart. Serve with ice cubes. - (HarvestEssentials)

Italian Celery and Mushroom Salad

Yield: 4 side dishes, or 2 main dishes

1/2 pound white button or cremini mushrooms, very thinly sliced

4 celery stalks, from the heart of the celery, very thinly sliced

2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

1 tablespoon minced chives

Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice or apple cider vinegar1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

2 ounces shaved Parmesan

Toss together the mushrooms, celery, parsley, and chives, and season with salt and pepper. Mix together the lemon juice (or lemon juice and vinegar) and olive oil, and toss with the vegetables. Just before serving, toss again with the Parmesan.

Chunky Celery Soup

Yield: 3 side soup servings, or 1 1/2 main dinner servings

1 medium onion

1 medium russet potato

2 small to medium size carrots

5 medium-length celery stalks (save the leafy tops for the drizzle topping recipe below)

1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil1 garlic clove, chopped

2 1/2 cups of lightly-flavored, great tasting, vegetable or chicken broth (or water)

1 cup cooked wild rice, brown rice, barley, or wheat berries

Optional: celery leaf pesto (recipe below)

Parmesan cheese, freshly grated (optional)

Chop the onion, potato, carrots, and celery into pieces that are about 1/2-inch or smaller, cutting everything roughly the same size to keep cooking time uniform for all ingredients.

In a large thick-bottomed soup pot over medium high heat combine the olive oil, onion, potato, carrots, celery and a few big pinches of salt. Saute for about ten minutes or until the onions and celery soften a touch and expel some water. Stir in the garlic and add the stock. Bring to a simmer and let cook for another 10 minutes or until the celery, carrot and potatoes are just cooked through - resist the urge to over cook them into mush. Stir in the rice a few minutes before the potatoes and carrot are cooked though. Remove the soup from the heat and ladle into soup bowls. Top each with a generous drizzle of the celery leaf pesto (opt) and/or some Parmesan cheese.

Drizzle Topping for Chunky Celery Soup

* 1/2 cup (lightly packed) celery leaves, minced

* 1 medium clove of garlic, minced

* 1/8 teaspoon of salt

* 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil.

If you have a food processor, puree ingredients for about 30 seconds.

If you do not have a food processor, grind, mash and blend ingredients in a motor and pistal until well blended.

Celery and Apple Soup

Yield: 3 side servings, or 1 1/2 main course servings

1/8 cup (1/4 stick) butter

2 cups peeled celery, cut into 1/2-inch pieces2 medium Granny Smith apples, cored, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces

1 onion, chopped into 1/4-inch pieces

2 cups (or more) low-salt chicken or vegetarian broth

1/4 cup chopped chives

1/2 cup oil

Pinch of salt

Top with one of the following: 3 ounces crumbled crispy thinly sliced bacon or pancetta, or grated Parmisan cheese.

Curried Celery and Apple Soup

Yield: 2 servings

1 tablespoon Vegetable Oil

1/2 Onion. diced

3 Celery stalks, chopped

Leaves from celery stalks, chopped

1 Carrot, peeled and diced

1 Potato, diced

1 clove Garlic, minced

1/2 Granny Smith Apple, diced

2 cups low sodium Vegetable or Chicken broth

2 teaspoon Curry Powder (use if you just want a hing of curry flavor, but not spicy)

1 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon dried Thyme

1/2 teaspoon table salt

1/2 teaspoon ground Black Pepper (optional)

Sauté the onion, carrot and celery in some vegetable oil for about 10. Add the potatoes, sauté for another 5 minutes. Add the garlic, the apple and the spices, continue to sauté for a few more minutes.

At this point add the broth, scrape the bottom of the pan and bring to a simmer. Cook for another 10 minutes and then add the celery leaves and cook for another 5 minutes. Now blend the soup (or parts of it if you like chunks.) Salt and pepper to taste and serve.

Celery & Apple Salad

Yield: 4 if a side dish, 2 if the main entree

Celery leaves, chopped (or other salad greens)

4 ribs of celery, sliced thin on the diagonal

1 Granny Smith apple, cored and chopped

2 tablespoons toasted walnuts, optional (reduced from 3/4 cup)

Dressing

Juice of a lemon

1 tablespoon good mustard (reduced from 2 tablespoons)

1 teaspoon honey (reduced from 2 1/2 teaspoons)

1 tablespoon olive oil (reduced from 1/3 cup)

Salt & pepper to taste

Whisk together the dressing ingredients in a small bowl.

Arrange celery leaves or salad greens on plates. Add the celery and apple. Drizzle with the dressing. Top with toasted walnuts.

Spotlight On: Suburban Spies Review

Eleanor White has done it again with a no-nonsense review of "Suburban Spies" by Anthony Brina is now available on her activist Multi Stalker Victims website.

Any T.I. thinking about doing activism should also visit Eleanor's excellent Vertacs. Eleanor says the purpose of Vertacs is "to collect, discuss, and display the best verbal phrasing ideas for use in the fight against Organized Stalking and Electronic Harassment (OS/EH). Posts are restricted to the narrow topic of how best to compose public education material for, and discuss OS/EH with, the unaware public and public officials."

A Word to the Wise T.I. thanks Eleanor White for her ceaseless activism, and also Felix C. of Multistalk for the heads up.

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.

In the News - "Stalker Claims Unsettle Police"

Thanks to David on Multistalk Yahoo forum for finding this objective article in a mainstream newspaper.

From the Verona-Cedar Grove Times(NJ)
http://www.vcgtimes.com/NC/0/355.html

Stalker claims unsettle police
(by Anthony G. Attrino - March 12, 2009)

Detectives are questioning a former Verona resident who has been handing out fliers claiming a large, organized group of stalkers is targeting residents and business owners with the objective of destroying their lives.

"Their intention is to murder their target without getting their hands dirty. It's the perfect hate crime." states the flier, which is titled "A Community Secret Revealed: Organized Stalking is Thriving in NJ."

The one-page flier concludes, "Your neighbor, Frank Raffaele" and gives a Pine Brook address.

Raffaele, 51, is a former Verona resident who moved years ago but resurfaced in recent weeks to hand out fliers, according to police. He has dropped them off in businesses across the township and left the papers in doors and fences in Verona, Caldwell and Pine Brook.

"He's scaring people," said police Chief Doug Huber. "It doesn't make any sense, it's unsubstantiated and it's frightening some people."

Patrol officers and detectives have questioned Raffaele on several occasions. One detective asked him to stop handing out the fliers.

Reached by phone on Tuesday, Raffaele said he has no intention of stopping.

"I'm exercising my First Amendment right at free speech," Raffaele said. "I want to inform people and raise awareness on this subject. These people do exist and it's a big problem."

The flier states that group stalking is a method of harassment by a large group of people, often in the hundreds, against a sole individual.

"The process starts when the group selects a target," the flier states.

"Once the selection is made an expert campaign of character assassination begins with the intention of isolating the person from the community."

"He's getting people excited, especially in light of what happened," said Police Capt. Fred DiStefano, referring to the Feb. 22 robbery and shooting of gas station attendant Daniel Pritchard.

Pritchard, 29, was killed at the Claridge Sunoco on Pompton Avenue. Two suspects have been arrested, jailed and charged with murder in his death.

DiStefano said there is no connection between Pritchard's shooting and Raffaele or his fliers.
Police have not charged Raffaele with a crime, saying it appears to be within his legal rights to hand out the literature.

"There's no law that we could come up with" against it, DiStefano said.

Still, detectives have questioned Raffaele at least twice - in person and on the phone.

And Verona police have taken the unusual step in recent days of including Raffaele's letter in their police blotter, calling the stalking claims unsubstantiated.

The blotter, along with a copy of the flier, was faxed to the Times on Monday morning.

"He's disgruntled, but what he's disgruntled about we don't know," the police chief said.

The flier states the stalkers are professionals, both paid and unpaid, full and part-time.

"The unpaid stalkers are usually neighbors who have been recruited as a result of a successful smear campaign," the flier states. "They naively think they are doing a good deed. Harassment techniques are infinite."

The flier contains the Internet addresses of three Web sites with information and video about gang stalking, and general information about who the victims have been. In one video, the narrator discusses the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, former President Ronald Reagan and the practices of Scientology.

The video further states that community police watch groups, church groups and gay activists "might actively follow, harass, and assist in the torture and occasional murder of targeted individuals that are total strangers. ..."

"I think this is a serious issue," Raffaele said.

Huber said Raffaele has no history of arrest.

Asked whether Raffaele might be dangerous, Huber said, "He's never given anybody a hard time - we don't believe he's dangerous."

DiStefano asked that anyone who receives a "stalker" flier from Raffaele call police. He said detectives will continue to question Raffaele if they receive complaints.

A Word to the Wise T.I. - Axing Anxiety with Laughter Yoga

Art: "Laughter in the Wind" by Karsten Stier

Updated 03/09/09 and 03/10/09

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LAUGHTER YOGA works even if you think the idea is absurd, or are too stressed out to laugh, or have no sense of humor. With laughter yoga you can still laugh away your anxiety. This Discovery Channel video report on physician Dr. Kataria's globe spanning movement is the best on YouTube.



Or watch these: Oprah Show, or BBC's Report.

Does it still seem stupid? Laughter as therapy was used two centuries ago at one of America's most well known health spas for the rich and famous, as this scene from the movie, Wellsville, illustrates so well. Well, you can always revisit this idea when all else fails and you are desperate enough to try something new and effective. Click here to locate your area's nearest laughter club. Don't want to go out? Watch these videos over and over and laugh along with the participants:

BBC's Human Face (John Cleese visits laughter club in Mumbai, India)

Laughter Yoga Day South Africa

Race Around the World visits Dr. Kataria's Laughter Club

Laughter Yoga Session, Tokyo

If you cannot access the YouTube videos, watch a Marx Brothers film:

1. At the Circus (1939)
   
2. A Day at the Races (1937)
   
3. A Night at the Opera (1935)
   
4. Duck Soup (1933)
5. Horse Feathers (1932)
   
6. Monkey Business (1931)
   
7. Animal Crackers (1930)

Warning: if you choose to do laughter yoga alone in your home, make sure you laugh silently (engaging your entire body except for your vocal cords) so your neighbors don't call the police on you.

Tip: If you hope the Laughter Yoga Alone DVDs will include a 15-minute laughter club session, you will be disappointed. Both disks only have Dr. Katarias going over the technique, so your money won't be well spent. You are better off just laughing along with one of the above laughter club videos on YouTube.
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And may A Word to the Wise T.I. be sufficient.

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A Word for the Wise T.I. - Shielding on the Move

Art: "Shielded" by Diane Huff

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The Problem: targeting the body so that Targeted Individual seeks medical care.

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Directed Energy Attacks on Chest: Individuals targeted by Directed Energy Weapons report that the chest - heart, vena cavas (the main veins delivering blood to the heart) and lungs - is a favorite target. The physical effect of such targeting is severe exhaustion, chest pains, difficulty expanding one’s chest to breathe.
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Directed Energy Attacks on Lower Back: The lower back (kidneys and L-4 and L-5 lumbar spinal discs) is equally popular among perps directing energy weapons against targeted individuals. The goal: kidney damage and chronic back pain. Keeping a soft blue gel packs secured across the lower spine - especially over the L-4 and L-5 discs. The problem has always been how to keep those gel packs in place when a person is upright (standing, walking, sitting).

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DEW Attack on Lower Abdomen: Another favorite target is the abdomen. The goal: hernias and/or digestive upset. The only effective shielding is keeping a gel pack secured directly over the belly button, but the same logistical problems are faced by Targeted Individuals who want to shield their backs.

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DEW ATTACK on Thyroid: Caused hyperthyroidism in at least one T.I.

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The Goal: 1) causing pain and suffering. 2) discrediting TIs and and forcing TIs into the psychiatric system.

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When TIs rush to hospital emergency rooms with claims of being attacked by DEWs, they stand a excellent chance of being forcibly committed for psychiatric observation, forced to take drugs at levels well above said drug’s safety limits, and of course being discredited in the eyes of the medical establishment, the police, and the community. No one believes those labeled paranoid schizophrenic.

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Even if TIs only state, let us say, the concern that they might have had heart attacks or heart episodes, they will be labeled hypochondriacs after blood and/or stress tests reveal no heart disease. The perpetrator’s goal is served well in this case: complaints of hypochondriacs are ignored by the medical community, family and friends. No one believes to or has sympathy for those labeled hypochondriac.

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The Solution: the most widely used and most effective solution is to place water packs or blue gel packs over the targeted areas.

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How to Secure Shielding Over Targeted Area
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Women can hold gel packs in place by wearing high-top girdles. High-top girdles extend upward, covering the abs. Their top edge goes up to the bottom of one's chest. Some shapewear for women: Sears This vendor has women’s sizes up to 4X-Large. To find other vendors, Google “women’s shapewear".

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Men have options as well. The most common medical reason for men to wear "compression garments" is to reduce the strain that a large gut puts on the back. Another medical reason is belly-button hernia. Some compression garments for men: Veronique. This vendor has men's sizes up to 4X-Large. To find other vendors, Google “men’s compression garments”

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Water Shielding: For those who prefer water packs to gel packs, water packs in an Ice Vest may be your best bet. Just do not freeze your water packs, (unless the vest makes you too warm).

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Cold Vests for Men and Women: Cold Vests utilize water-filled Inserts. These are suitable for both men and women. Do not freeze, it will cause hypothermia! Here is one vendor. To find other vendors, Google “cold vests".
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Blue Gel Packs: Google "hot cold gel paks" and make sure to only purchase gel paks filled with blue gel. One vendor. Do not freeze, it will cause hypothermia!
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And may A Word to the Wise T.I. be sufficient.