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US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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Re: US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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go read about what they are doing to people in the Navy over in Iran

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran...

their families had to throw a huge protest

now imagine they aren't even allowed to talk about it and/or being given illegal orders

but the thing about military bases around Iran, all their defense missiles are being taken away and given to Saudis etc. which is why deaths are happening and massive number of wounded not reported

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(Replying to my own post). Also, it’s gotta be mentally draining to be told by the president they have to win but also always let Russian attacks though. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/defens...

The new US policy under Trump is giving up trying to win the world and instead focusing on internal market and dominance over the American continent. Causing and sustaining friction everywhere is aligned with this policy. This is the result of a shift of power in the US politics, from the global financial capital of the last decades back to the military and industrial sector.

The new US policy under Trump is to burn everything down while extracting as much wealth for himself and his cronies as possible.

Re: US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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Presidents come and go and, hopefully, this one will be held accountable.

I'm an agnostic, but when I read about what he does, it makes me devoutly wish that hell exists. He has made countless people's lives hell on earth, and he doesn't care at all. No one is holding him accountable in this life: it's inconvenient for those in power.

It's a systemic issue, not due to one man.

What gets overlooked here is the US IC itself being a probable cause: the habit of "housecleaning" by killing individuals suspected to be possible (even only prospective) leaks of inconvenient information is very real.

The recent cluster of weird deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research has a similar pattern to it: a statistically highly unlikely density of "suicides, accidents & mishaps".

The assumption, those actions were "justified" somehow is entirely baseless: there is no transparency and no effective oversight. What is supposedly being kept secret there might simply be illegal corruption or embarrassing and inconvenient to those in power.

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Wasn't there something similar with scientists recently? I wonder how much of that is just statistical noise.

That turned out to be false. Normal attrition / vacation time.

That's gross disinformation and patently untrue.

Re: US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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yep, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyw9rpdl4po > "The US Top Secret-cleared aerospace and nuclear workforce is ~700,000 people," science writer, investigator and pseudoscience debunker Mick West wrote on 16 April on his Substack. > "Ordinary mortality over 22 months predicts ~4,000 deaths, ~70 homicides, and ~180 suicides. The list has 10 … The deaths are real. The families' grief is real. The pattern is not."…

AI wrote the second quote

Probably, more importantly: it's a lie.

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Are these references to things such as: 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project_(U.S._Army_un... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McMoneagle 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapsychology_research_at_SRI I was researching related subject areas ~1.5 decade ago and had the chance to present some of the resulting thoughts to Dr Lawrence LeShan. He was alr…

Those things you mention are cargo cult games to the true Truth of this. Every experience of the human mind may be curated by those far far fewer (from old lines, uplifts every one of them) who carry this ultimate secret of secrets through time.

Many are families, many are incarcerated condemned men serving decades to life. Many are spook remnants of those elder programs you describe.

Everything you describe is cargo cult handled by “thought controls”, and they are as much a slave army as a lascivious mob. The very few now safe and secure from us in national security insulated containments are their puppet masters. And no one knows who their “handlers” are, not even tools of controls. Everyone has their own dirty inner reasons for doing whatever they are doing, yet they have all “realized” and “pay for” and go along with their “controls”, no matter what it is.

They rape you, they break you, they remake you, they are White American Thought Control. The mastermind of the voices in our heads driving us insane from within.

Re: US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

#48

I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows. Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.

Unjust wars and enabling genocide is probably the more likely factor here, realizing there is no honor in defending these things overseas.

This has been an issue for decades: overseas, not knowing 'why' Americans are dying for nothing, and, the veterans being treated as refuse when they return.

Edit: that may have come across too callous.

The crushing of ones consciesness for unjust foreign wars, protecting a global network of the worst crimes (Epstn files and the international group within it, operating under the umbrella protection network of the US vis a vis NATO).

The most immoral army in the world, the IDF, also has a very high suicide rate - ones conscience cannot be destroyed, it can only be atrophied and dulled, and then depression hunts you.

Re: US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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"Between early June and early July, as many as five individuals who worked in or closely with US Cyber Command died by suicide, based on internal communications, public records and sources. The deaths have raised concern among lawmakers and military leaders within the highly secretive command, which is responsible for defending US networks and conducting offensive cyber operations." According to https://www.gao.gov/a…

Assuming a predominantly male population, the suicide rate should be around 20 per 100000 per year. 5 people in a month gives 18x higher rate. Too short period to draw any statistical conclusions but it’s a large blip.

This particular population is highly selected because of the work they do and the types of clearances they hold. I would expect the suicide rate to differ significantly from the general population.

Re: US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

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Assuming a predominantly male population, the suicide rate should be around 20 per 100000 per year. 5 people in a month gives 18x higher rate. Too short period to draw any statistical conclusions but it’s a large blip.

The suicide rate isn't uniformly distributed given gender. There are likely screenings (previous mental health history) and rejection of the most affected age group (70+) that should lead the baseline to be even lower. Meaning 18x is probably on the low end.

Definitely a rough estimate! I recon base rate is also higher amongst military personnel & it’s not uniformly distributed there either.
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