[HN Gopher] 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. governm...
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60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested
energy weapon
Author : jonas21
Score : 37 points
Date : 2026-03-09 19:39 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.cbsnews.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.cbsnews.com)
| tencentshill wrote:
| The schizophrenics are getting more reasonable by the day. They
| ARE listening through your phone. There might actually be a
| government vehicle following you without identification with
| intent to abduct (ICE), and now they might actually be tormenting
| you with invisible energy beams.
| marysminefnuf wrote:
| I used to laugh at qanon lol but they were proven right.
| pedophiles run our government.
| scarecrowbob wrote:
| I spent a lot of time (as a former lit PhD student with an
| interest in narrative and identity) paying attention to the
| Q-related (and adjacent) stories.
|
| On one hand, once folks are freed from orthodox thought, they
| might point out some very useful and interesting ideas about
| the world.
|
| On the other hand, (assuming I just haven't figure out how to
| observe astral-projecting bodies, lumerians, the long-term
| benefits of consuming adrenochrome and gross manipulation of
| the electoral system) there are some significant differences
| between what the actual claims made by the Q-folk and what
| the actual documentation brings out.
|
| Importantly, the Q folks have been horrifically wrong about a
| number of things as well. It wasn't hard to sort out the
| (usually fairly pedestrian) truths, and people were doing
| that work even when Q was in its heyday. Remember that the
| reality (as I understand it) that wealthy men do abusive
| things doesn't need a secret satanic cabal to explain it.
|
| To claim the q folks were right is roughly (in my
| understanding) equivalent to claiming that the batshit crazy
| experiments done under programs like Midnight Climax actually
| led to "mind control" in the fine grained way that the folks
| paying for those programs speculated to be possible- that
| shit was dumb and anyone who has some moderate experience
| with psychedelics and any amount of maturity should be able
| to clock that without repeating the "experiments".
| DoesntMatter22 wrote:
| Is there any actual evidence for this?
| ekjhgkejhgk wrote:
| Have you read any of Epstein files, or any reporting about
| them?
|
| Serious question - you need to give us where you currently
| are if you want a productive conversation.
| coldtea wrote:
| The parts that are not hearsay from anonymous sources,
| which basically means any paranoid story that the FBI
| still has to document, or blackmailers and grifters with
| plenty of holes and inconsistencies to their stories, are
| about about elites partying with 17 and above year olds
| who where otherwise active already in related "work".
| Still shady, but hardly what's being reported in the
| sensationalist coverage, which ranges from abductions and
| rings to acid baths for murdered victims.
|
| https://www.mtracey.net/p/we-need-to-talk-about-virginia
|
| https://www.mtracey.net/p/epstein-survivors-refusing-
| questio...
|
| https://www.mtracey.net/p/i-found-the-real-epstein-
| coverup
| sickofparadox wrote:
| Don't forget the people claiming that Epstein ate people
| because of his weird emails about beef jerky.
| coldtea wrote:
| Yeah or stupid jokes like this taken to mean actual
| torture:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1r1nuv7/ice_cre
| am_...
| pixelready wrote:
| It would seem the best place to hide a real conspiracy is
| underneath a fake one.
| heavyset_go wrote:
| A common hallucination and delusion is that _someone_ is
| beaming thoughts into the afflicted 's head, causing some to
| believe that there are "voice to skull" devices deployed to
| torment them.
|
| Well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
| jimrandomh wrote:
| For the benefit of people who read only the headline and not the
| article:
|
| The story here is that the US government captured Russia's energy
| weapon, which Russia has been using against US personnel for a
| decade, and tested it to determine what it does (it causes brain
| damage). This story does _not_ claim that the US has developed a
| weapon like this themselves.
| joshribakoff wrote:
| It does claim the US went to great lengths to dismiss the
| victims for a decade, while being in possession of the device.
| That raises the question of what incentives the US would have
| to deny its existence. To me, that was the story.
| DoesntMatter22 wrote:
| It doesn't say they had it in their possession for the last
| decade. It says they tested it for about a year. Not clear
| when they would have gotten it.
| rozab wrote:
| I've read reports about Havana Syndrome before and remain
| thoroughly unconvinced. The locations vary wildly, the symptoms
| vary wildly and can be explained by normal medical phenomena in a
| way Occam would find more agreeable.
|
| Look at their 'smoking gun' evidence here:
|
| >He tracked down an email, what he considers a receipt, for
| services provided to the Russian government by a member of Unit
| 29155 for "potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic
| weapons."
|
| Acoustic crowd control weapons are not mysterious, there are
| people on YouTube building and testing them! American companies
| will sell them to any oppressive government around the world (I
| believe the ones used against Serbian protestors were American).
| Yet this description contradicts speculation about microwaves
| just a bit further down in the article.
| burnt-resistor wrote:
| Yup. There's no hard evidence and so it still comes off as mass
| psychosis / psychosomatic / placebo effect with wildly-varying
| "symptoms". Surely, there would be some sizable "weapon"
| consuming massive amounts of energy nearby that would be
| visible and captured on video if it were true.
| sjkoelle wrote:
| article explains that it is not sizable
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