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60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

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#31

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.

I mean 2026 was the year the conspiracy theorists won. Like every unhinged theory he heard in the past about the ruling elite came true.

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#32

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.

I mean 2026 was the year the conspiracy theorists won. Like every unhinged theory he heard in the past about the ruling elite came true.

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Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#33

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.

I am curious whether wearing a tin foil hat would prevent this attack.

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#34
post #12

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 capabil…

According to the interview, this was a pulsed microwave weapon, not acoustic.

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#35
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To me the question is actually, what changed to make them release the story now? Biden’s been out of office for a while now… it wasn’t anything his admin did. They could’ve continued gagging the victims, claiming it’s psychosomatic, and most of us would keep on believing that, because Occam’s razor. Lots of similar reports came out during the Maduro raid. Same symptoms. Seems we demonstrated the capabilities we were…

It's like cracking the Enigma during WWII. If you let the enemy know you've cracked it, and do the obvious thing and save the lives immediately in front of you, in the long run, more people are going to die. So pretending that there are just some crazy people working in Cuba for as long as they can is better than "holy shit, Russia has an invisible weapon that turns people crazy".

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#36

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.

The US has developed microwave weapons and you should assume that any opposing force's weapon when discovered will be copied and iterated upon

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I was being sarcastic but i get your point. The trump admin is full of pedophiles but for years and years they were claiming they were going to unmask the “real” pedophiles. I meant that like qanon was talking about a massive conspiracy where pedophiles were running the gov. They are now though lol

Was anyone (besides cultists) under the impression that the man who would regularly walk into the Miss Teen USA pageant dressing rooms while young girls were undressing was anything other than a pedophile and pervert?

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#38

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.

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.

This summary differs from CBS content.

It does claim the US went to great lengths to dismiss the victims for a decade. In 2024 it obtained a single device, started testing it on animals and achieved similar effects as experienced by the victims. The victims were then invited to the White House.

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#39

There is a plausible explanation for the reluctance of the US government to admit the authenticity of Havana Syndrome: the US military may have developed its own energy weapon that causes similar injuries and symptoms. What is the evidence to support such a hypothesis? President Trump himself recently revealed the existence of a new secret energy weapon that was used to disable Nicolás Maduro's security team during t…

If the weapon exists, there is nothing to gain strategically and a potential upper hand to lose if the government were to reveal their knowledge or possession of it.

Re: 60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon

#40
post #12

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 capabil…

The report claims a single weapon of the kind was acquired in 2024 and tested on animals resulting in similar damage.
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