

Posted: 8/9/2017 9:22:24 PM EST
The US believes several State Department employees at the US embassy in Havana were subjected to an "acoustic attack" using sonic devices that left at least two with such serious health problems they needed to be brought back to the US for treatment, several senior State Department officials told CNN. One official said the employees could have suffered permanent hearing loss as a result.
The employees affected were not at the same place at the same time, but suffered a variety of physical symptoms since late 2016 which resembled concussions. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/us-cuba-acoustic-attack-embassy/index.html |
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That's really gay that they're messing with them using directed energy and infrasound. I wonder which foreign government's tech they're hosting.
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That stupid little island, don't know why we tolerate it. Should have been dealt with permanently long ago.
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How does this work? Do they play Justin Bieber at 180db? View Quote It's rather genius. It's like area denial, but more insidious, with no trace. No risk of accusations of using chemical or biological tools, nothing overtly offensive. You can just slowly make the staff ill, confused, and useless. |
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Unless they're referring to a specific instance of the use of an area denial type weapon, which are "loud" and obvious, they are probably using technology that is totally invisible to the senses and produces malaise and damage over time. Imagine it as acoustic poison, but the frequencies are likely inaudible. It's rather genius. It's like area denial, but more insidious, with no trace. No risk of accusations of using chemical or biological tools, nothing overtly offensive. You can just slowly make the staff ill, confused, and useless. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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How does this work? Do they play Justin Bieber at 180db? It's rather genius. It's like area denial, but more insidious, with no trace. No risk of accusations of using chemical or biological tools, nothing overtly offensive. You can just slowly make the staff ill, confused, and useless. |
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Why on earth would someone in Cuba do this?
Some of the Americans working in the embassy have severe hearing loss. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/09/u_s_diplomats_in_cuba_experience_hearing_loss_from_sonic_weapon.html |
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Who is that beautiful full figured woman in your avatar? ![]() View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Can we change the islands name from Cuba to Guam ? The Korean fat boy might actually do something good. Two birds with one stone. ![]() ![]() |
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Whatever. If our black projects weren't black projects, all y'all would shit your pants.
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Why on earth would someone in Cuba do this? Some of the Americans working in the embassy have severe hearing loss. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/08/09/u_s_diplomats_in_cuba_experience_hearing_loss_from_sonic_weapon.html View Quote The only good communist... |
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Unless they're referring to a specific instance of the use of an area denial type weapon, which are "loud" and obvious, they are probably using technology that is totally invisible to the senses and produces malaise and damage over time. Imagine it as acoustic poison, but the frequencies are likely inaudible. It's rather genius. It's like area denial, but more insidious, with no trace. No risk of accusations of using chemical or biological tools, nothing overtly offensive. You can just slowly make the staff ill, confused, and useless. View Quote Very easy to produce with off the shelf parts. |
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Personally I wish we would go all Swordfish on their asses and blind everybody in a mile of the place with Class 3 or 4 IR lasers mounted on the roof. You wanna fuck with us? Payback needs to be a motherfucker.
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Seems it would be easy to build a Monitor/detector for this type of weapon.
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IIRC the Soviets did something similar using microwave energy, in the 80"s.
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Yes but generally it's not something you're looking out for in the first place. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Trump: "Nice opening of trade and travel with the USA you got there, Cuba. Would be a shame if someone completely shut you off again for a decade."
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Nothing really to do with this but not too long ago I met a retired aviator who was telling me about his time in Cuba during the early 1990s flying TA-4Js,frequently armed in case the Cubans needed clusterbombed. I thought that sounded a little funny but damned if I didn't manage to find a picture of a Skyhawk trainer from Gitmo armed with CBUs and a pair of AIM-9s!
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We should have put bullets in the back of their heads and dumped their bodies over the fence of Gitmo. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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We expelled 2 Cuban diplomats over this today. ![]() Flaming Piano Trebuchet at Burning Man 2015 |
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I'll bet they'll be looking now! The reports say the acoustic device was installed in their residence. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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An idiot coworker was talking about this. He was blaming Russians
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So the Cubans attacked the US Embassy? Sounds like we need to sever all relations with Cuba and invoke Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
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An idiot coworker was talking about this. He was blaming Russians ![]() View Quote |
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Just read today that some of those dudes ended up with TBIs and other central nervous system damage.
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