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What if this graphic of Q-Warrior headgear is really about what’s being done to his brain?

Invented in 1985, modern-day magnetic stimulators charge up to a whopping 3,000 volts and produce peak currents of
up to 8,000 amps—powers similar to those of a small nuclear reactor. That pulse of current flowing from a capacitor
into a hand-held coil creates a magnetic field outside the patient’s head. The field painlessly induces a current inside
the brain, affecting the electrical activity that is the basis for all it does. 48

Do we want soldiers acting without conscience? What happens when they come home and
re-enter society?
The Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) program is Spartan programming. Stress-
inoculation torture—waterboarding, stripping, strapping, binding, beating, anal rape, firing an
unloaded gun at one’s covered head, etc.— turns any human being into a killer plagued by PTSD
flashbacks and nightmares, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, sleep
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apnea, paranoia, suicide and murder ideation. Stimulants like cocaine and coca leaves, nicotine,
amphetamines, crystal meth (the Nazis’ favorite), and Modafinil counter fatigue and weakness,
while propranolol blocks torturous memories.
Being a soldier these days is all about being little more than a guinea pig for barrages of
vaccinations, popping pills, chemical and mental domination by computers and satellites, and
proximity to ionized and non-ionized radiation. The malaria drug Lariam (mefloquine) produces
PCP-like states of consciousness that have ended in the murders of Afghan civilians and Fort
Bragg wives. Extreme panic, paranoia, and rage with out-of-body dissociative and dreamlike
states in which one watches oneself perform violent acts as if it were someone else are among
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Lariam side effects. As Howard Medical School psychiatrist Roger Pitman queries, “The
problem is, what else are they blocking when they [administer Lariam]? Do we want a
generation of veterans who return without guilt?” 51
Of the 1.2 million men on active duty in 2012, 13,900 were raped, compared with 12,100 of
203,000 women in uniform—that’s thirty-eight men and thirty-three women per day. Given that
male survivors of rape report abuse less than female survivors, and all combatants who report
abuse are systematically punished either by ambush or officer neglect, male rape may be much
greater, particularly as male rape is often viewed as an initiation rite in cultures of violence. 52
Beyond rape, there is the increase in suicides and murder-suicides. At Joint Base Lewis-
McChord (JBLM) south of Seattle, eleven “suspicious deaths” took place in 2011 alone:
suicides, murders, setting fire to wives after serial deployments, waterboarding of a daughter.
The Afghan kill team that went on a three-month kill spree against Afghani civilians was from