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The "evidence" cited in this article, in my imo, is suspect. If Bartholomew is correct, and I find his argument credible, there has been deliberate misrepresentation, perpetrated by unreliable eccentrics. Much in the vein of Pentagon UFOlogy and the Invisible College.
Article: President Biden signed into a law on Wednesday [Oct 6] a bill to improve support for U.S. officials who have suffered brain injuries from the mysterious health ailment known as "Havana Syndrome."
The HAVANA Act, the Helping American Victims Afflicted by Neurological Attacks Act was passed unanimously by Congress, in a rare instance of broad bipartisanship.
Article: "Havana Syndrome" is the term given to an unknown illness that surfaced among more than 40 U.S. Embassy staff in Havana, Cuba, beginning in 2016. Since then, dozens more U.S. diplomats and members of the intelligence community have suffered symptoms that a study by the National Academy of Sciences found are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed, radiofrequency energy.
Symptoms have included severe headaches, dizziness, tinnitus, visual and hearing problems, vertigo, and cognitive difficulties, and many affected personnel continue to suffer from health problems years after the attacks.
Article: The bill, according to the group of senators, would address a hole in the Federal Employees Compensation Act, which currently provides compensation for federal employees who suffer "the loss or loss of use of a part of the body" but excluded parts like the brain and the heart.The U.S. has been looking into the cause of Havana Syndrome since individuals overseas began to report instances of vomiting, headaches and loss of balance related to their time overseas. But just last Saturday, a report published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that the symptoms experienced by many of these government officials are consistent with the effects of directed microwave energy. The study, first reported by NBC News, was kept secret by the State Department for months until a bi-partisan group of senators demanded to see it.While the study stops short of naming exactly what or who could be behind the attacks, the report gave weight to the claims made by the more than 40 State Department and government employees who say they've been affected.[...]In 2017 and 2018, U.S. workers evacuated from Cuba and China were brought to the University of Pennsylvania for treatment and evaluation, as the U.S. and top doctors struggled to identify what had happened to the individuals.The State Department said at the time it was covering medical bills for those medevaced from Cuba or China for up to a year, even if they were ultimately determined not to be cases. But some of the individuals treated there told NBC News that they struggled to determine who was paying medical and travel bills, and raised concerns about whether they were being given full access to their own medical records.
The "foreign powers" suspected are not ones where the US can afford to apply the "bomb first, find (no) evidence later" approach.
It's still Crickets.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ana-syndrome-cause-crickets-cia-b1930390.html
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Article: The "most likely source" of the mysterious "Havana syndrome" are crickets, according to a declassified US State Department report.
The JASON Group, an independent organisation of scientists that has advised the US government since the Cold War, had carried out a study in 2018 that pointed to crickets as the source of the mysterious syndrome.
The report, obtained by BuzzFeed News via a Freedom of Information Act request, was originally classified as "secret." It concluded that the sounds accompanying at least eight of the original 21 Havana syndrome incidents were "most likely" caused by insects. That same scientific review also judged it "highly unlikely" that microwaves or ultrasound beams — now widely proposed by US government officials to explain the injuries — were involved in the incidents. And though the report didn't definitively conclude what caused the injuries themselves, it found that "psychogenic" mass psychology effects may have played a role.
"No plausible single source of energy (neither radio/microwaves nor sonic) can produce both the recorded audio/video signals and the reported medical effects," the JASON report concluded. "We believe the recorded sounds are mechanical or biological in origin, rather than electronic. The most likely source is the Indies short-tailed cricket."
The report's findings fly in the face of a medical report commissioned by the State Department and published by a National Academies of Sciences panel last year, which found that microwaves were the "most plausible" cause of the symptoms. That panel was not provided with the JASON report as part of its assessment, the NAS told BuzzFeed News.
The team was given eight recordings of incidents linked to injuries and performed an extensive analysis of two cellphone video recordings from one patient. After extensive comparison with recordings of various insect species, they concluded with "high confidence" that the sounds in that case came from a particularly loud species of cricket, Anurogryllis celerinictus. (Two academic researchers who ran a similar analysis in 2019 using a recording provided by the Associated Press also concluded that the sound was caused by crickets.) The JASON scientists offered another "low confidence" theory that the sounds could have been caused by a nearby concrete vibrating machine with worn bearings.
The review ruled out pulsed microwaves and ultrasound as culprits, in part because the Wi-Fi and other electronics in the house where the noises were first recorded worked fine during the incident. And by calculating the power required for such attacks, they concluded that the noises didn't correspond to ones generated by microwave or ultrasound frequencies.
But the JASON scientists left open the possibility of some other nefarious attack. "It cannot be ruled out that while the perceived sounds, while not harmful, are introduced by an adversary as deception so as to mask an entirely unrelated mode of causing illness," the report concludes in its executive summary.
But would you even hear it over the crickets?
Getting that through a window is tough, though.
I lived in Tucson for many years which has a distinctive cricket season. Took me a while to figure it out as crickets indoors make a very electronic sound.
You're probably talking about cicadas. When I was a kid I thought the noise was coming from the electric lines along desert roads or the electric lines in residential neighborhoods; because that's where I heard them.
I stand corrected - they were cicadas. But we did capture them and put them in a Chinese cricket cage - supposed to bring good luck.
On looking (and listening) that link I think they were crickets. Southern Arizona seems to have many species but the Arizona Cricket looks and sounds familiar.
Paranoia?
That article could use it's own thread. It's got Havana syndrom, meta-materials from UAPs, Skinwalker Ranch, Jacques Vallee and the invisible collage, the brains of Japanese chess masters, the Atacama alien...wow, what ells?
Note the euphemism "information gap" for the absence of an actual complete working explanation. They're speculating.
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I think the "information gap" language means that they don't know how to practically do it.
