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As recently as July 2025, a large growing body of evidence shows that the experimental mRNA shots were dangerous to human health in a wide variety of ways and caused deaths at a rate far exceeding usual safety standards for vaccines.

As in the case of brain-altering psychiatric medications, the FDA has normally put a black box warning on a medication if there have been five deaths. They will pull it off the market if there are fifty. Well, according to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), within this past year, there have been 38,000 deaths from these COVID shots — and it’s vastly under-reported (as much as 90%), which I have seen firsthand in the past, when I tried to report an adverse event from a vaccine, with no success.

That number, as of July 25, 2025, has since increased, according to VAERS, which now reports 38,742 deaths, 221,113 hospitalizations, 22,346 heart attacks, and 28,995 cases of myocarditis and pericarditis due to the COVID vaccine, among other ailments. Again, remember these figures have been significantly under-reported based on history, as reported by VAERS itself.

Due to the above information, the CDC has since removed the COVID mRNA shot recommendation for healthy children and pregnant women.

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How Certain Media Can Provide Helpful and Informative Information to the Public

This chapter provides a positive reflection on how the media can provide helpful and informative information to the public. Over the past several decades, it has been difficult for unbiased information to be provided

by many media outlets. This has never been so evident as it has been over the past three years. As a result, many individuals have used their creativity on
the internet to share information that the TRIAD (discussed earlier) doesn’t control. Even though members of the TRIAD and the Communist Chinese Party, as well as Russia, etc., try to intercept these reports, information still
gets disseminated. After all, we are still a democracy with laws to protect free speech, even as self-serving people, institutions, and governments try to control what the free world’s general public is allowed to learn.

Below are a few examples of information that have reached the general public, despite obstacles to prevent its distribution. These articles fly in the face of what the TRIAD and foreign communist governments disseminated.

Although the TRIAD has spent much time trying to discredit many of the medical people, who have been forced to become investigative journalists, due to the TRIAD’s attempts to make money and establish power, they continue to endeavor to fight on to educate the general public. It’s not unusual to look at
the internet and see untrue, disparaging remarks that try to destroy medical information that is contrary to what the TRIAD is pushing. The experts they try

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to destroy (who in the past were seen as leaders in the medical profession), have opinions that are based on their research and others.

What the Medical Experts Advocate

One person in the medical profession for years who is trying to educate
the public about the contrary information that the TRIAD is spreading is Dr. Joseph Mercola, who, for years, has been an advocate of natural medicine, a wellness champion, and has implemented much-needed changes to our current health care system. As a physician for twenty-five years, he treated thousands of patients at his wellness center outside of Chicago, and in 1997, he created Mercola.com, now the #1 natural health website in the world. A New York Times bestselling author, he has also appeared on national news media such as CNN, Fox News, ABC News, Today, CBS’s Washington Unplugged, and The Dr. Oz Show.

Recently, in one of his newsletters, he covered the following:

• Pfizer financed consumer, medical, and civil rights organizations thatlobbied for COVID jab mandates, thereby creating the false appearance of broad support.
• Moderna controls the vaccine debate and influences vaccine policy
  by working with a third-party nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Public Good Projects (PGP), which monitors and censors online discussions about the COVID shots on Moderna’s behalf.
• Moderna has also retained an online monitoring company called Talkwalker that uses artificial intelligence to monitor and flag vaccine- related conversations across 150 million websites across the globe.
• Oftentimes, the information flagged and/or censored as “misinformation” is factually accurate. It’s flagged/censored simply because it has the potential to create “vaccine hesitancy” or contradicts the “safe and effective” narrative.
• As vaccine resistance grows, Moderna is ratcheting up its surveillance operation, with a focus on coercive or forced vaccination policies. Documents show Moderna is tracking elected officials who object to vaccine mandates, as well as new laws that restrict vaccine mandates.All the above comments by Dr. Mercola are explained in detail in his newsletter with information obtained by him and others.Another report by Jim Hoft, published on November 28, 2023, deals with similar concerns. The full article, U.S. Navy Medical Officer Exposes Defense Department Data Showing Alarming Increase in Heart-Related Issues Among Pilots Following COVID-19 Vaccination: Myocarditis Up by 151%, Heart Failure by 973%, and a video, may be accessed online at https://www.thegatewaypundit.80

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com/2023/11/u-s-navy-medical-officer-exposes-defense-department/. In this article, Jim Hoft reports that:

Since the introduction of the experimental COVID-19 vaccines, The Gateway Pundit has been covering numerous studies from health professionals, revealing startling findings that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are linked to the rapid onset of heart-related problems in individuals across all age groups.

According to the data presented by Lt. Macie, there has been a dramatic increase in various heart-related ailments among fixed-wing and helicopter pilots. The figures show surges in conditions like hypertensive disease (36%), ischemic heart disease (69%), pulmonary heart disease (62%), heart failure (973%), other forms of heart disease (63%), and cardiomyopathy (152%) compared to the five-year average prior to 2022.

Gilbert Cisneros Jr., the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, confirmed the increase, noting 275 cases of myocarditis in 2021, a significant rise from the annual average observed from 2016 to 2020.

Lt. Ted Macie is a whistleblower who exposes defense department data showing an alarming increase in heart-related issues among pilots following COVID-19 vaccination: myocarditis up by 151%, heart failure by 973%. His findings are similar to what was described by Peter McCullough previously in this book.

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System

Lt. Macie’s comments hit home for me, since when I was a Captain in the Army, I was told I had to get the swine flu shot or I would be court-martialed. I resisted until the very last moment. They discontinued this vaccine when a small number of people died from the vaccine. The number was significantly smaller than the large numbers that are reported to VAERS (Only 1 to 10 %

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Recently, I viewed an interview with Dr Bret Weinstein and Tucker Carlson (The Tucker Carlson Encounter). The interview was extremely informative and can be found here: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/ status/1743405833667371329?s=20

Dr. Weinstein earned a PhD in Biology from the University of Michigan, where he was given the Don Tinkle Award for distinguished work in evolutionary ecology, and he earned a BA in Biology from UCSC.

He was a professor at The Evergreen State College for fourteen years. He has a podcast called Dark Horse.

Most people know who Tucker Carlson is, based on a long history as a reporter on Fox TV. He was the only reporter I ever heard describe on the TV the adverse reaction from psychiatric medications and possible relationship to school shootings.

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air the adverse effects of black box brain-altering psychiatric drugs on mass shooters. Shortly after he reported on the subject, he was removed from Fox. As I previously stated, a large percentage of the media’s advertising funds come from big pharma, which is known to spend more money on advertising and lobbyists than it does on research.

During this interview, Dr Weinstein discusses the lessons we have learned from the COVID disaster. He talks about the many medical professionals who have banded together to reveal to the public what has happened, that the TRIAD doesn’t want heard. He calls these medical professionals the dream team.

Dr Weinstein discusses the game of pharma, in how, when big pharma is healthy, it requires people to be sick. He discusses how big pharma persuades the medical establishment to prescribe medications that people would not normally take (COVID vaccine, etc.). Since the media is part of the TRIAD, they generally don’t report on what the government and big pharma are doing. One plausible reason for this is that most journalists do not have medical backgrounds. This forces medical professionals, e.g., Dr Weinstein and many others, to become investigative reporters.

Recently, on Life Site News, there was a report on an interview from a TV show that dealt primarily with sports (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/ nfl-quarterback-aaron-rodgers-causes-uproar-after-demolishing-fauci-covid- narrative-on-espn/?utm_source=daily-usa-2024-01-16&utm_medium=email). Pat McAfee, the host of the show, interviewed Aaron Rodgers regarding COVID and the vaccinations, which he never got despite NFL policy. Rodgers, an outspoken NFL Quarterback, states, “They lied to us over and over. They vilified early treatments. They censored legitimate doctors . . . like Dr. Peter McCullough . . . Dr. Robert Malone.” He stated all of this in great factual detail on a regular ESPN sports talk show. Rogers appeared to have thoroughly educated himself on the medical aspects and became a credible reporter on the subject.

Another person who has also stepped forward with medical opinions on the adverse reactions of the COVID-19 vaccines is Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, who warned that “the continued use of COVID- 19 mRNA shots presents a grave risk,” and has called for an end to their use. Dr Ladapo cites serious concerns that cannot be ignored.

Besides certain social and print media stepping forward, there are elected officials stepping forward and reporting information that the TRIAD is not in favor of, at the risk of their careers. One federal senator who has been questioning the COVID pandemic spread and treatment is Senator Ron Johnson (previously mentioned in this book). For the past three years,

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pandemic and vaccines. Below is the interview by Frank Bergman, from January 18, 2024, Senator Drops Bombshell Data: Covid Shots 55 Times Deadlier than Flu Vaccines, where the senator shares his knowledge from his extensive work on the subject. https://slaynews.com/news/ senator-bombshell-data-covid-shots-55-times-deadlier-flu-vaccines/

Major points of the report are:

• Republican Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has just gone public withexplosive federal government data showing the alarming death rates associated with COVID mRNA injections.
• Sen. Johnson and his team have been investigating the links between COVID shots and the soaring sudden deaths and major health complications that have been spiking across the country.
• Johnson’s team did an analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
• The investigation reveals that the COVID-19 injections are “significantly” more deadly than the flu vaccine.
• Conclusions from Johnson’s report discovered that the number of deaths per million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines (25.5) far exceeded those estimated for the flu vaccine (0.46).
• He indicates that there is a 55-fold increase over the flu vaccine deaths per million doses.
• Johnson’s research also yielded that most Americans (53 percent) blame COVID injections for the massive surge in sudden deaths and heart failure since 2021.Another elected official, Senator Rand Paul, who also happens to be a medical doctor, has come forward over the past three years. In the Hillside College Cruise Journal (from a talk he gave on November 1, 2023), “Imprimis” (December 2023, Volume 52, November 12), he stated, “The COVID coverup began in China.”He explained in detail how health officials in our own government abused their responsibilities to ensure proper healthcare for the citizens of the United States. He stated that, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”The list of people stepping forward now, in the face of TRIAD threats and harassment, is an example of what eventually occurs in a democracy, where free speech is the foundation of what our patriots and veterans fought and died for.

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Feeling the Sound can be Dangerous to your Health

In 1999, Castelo Branco and E. Rodriguez wrote several important articles in one issue of a journal. These articles had to deal with “Vibroacoustic disease—an emerging pathology”. The journal I refer to is the very

prestigious, Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine; 70 (3, Suppl.): A1-6., Alexandria, VA. I read these articles in 2002.

The journal article below is one I wrote over 20 years ago and is still relevant today. I remember a Navy occupational medicine physician inquiring if I knew what could cause crew members to get disoriented and walk off the deck or
in front of jet engines. This question spurred my interest in the effects of High Intensity/Low Frequency (HF/LF) sound on the crew of his aircraft carrier.

Recently, we saw in the news that people in various US Embassies (Cuba, China, US facilities, etc.) were experiencing similar problems to what
I described in the article. One week after my original article was published in 2002, I received a call from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), asking if I had a countermeasure for an HI/LF Weapon. When asked why, I was told that Russia had this weapon, which they obtained from the Nazis after WWII. I worked briefly with DARPA on this project, but lost track of the eventual outcome. In the last few years, when we were hearing about

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people becoming ill at our embassies, I contacted DARPA and DOD to remind them of this article, possibly explaining the reasons people were being injured at the embassies.

Since I felt people might be interested in this subject, because it applies to many other situations, I wrote a follow-up article in the 2019 Hearing Journal, Volume 72, Number 8 (thehearingjournal.com), titled, “Vibroacoustic Disease: More than a Hearing Problem.”

Because HI/LF can cause damage in our everyday lives, it is important to realize how it can damage a person. I had a friend call me after she read my article and state that the article answered a question she had been asking herself for 24 years. She could not figure out why her son was born with Down syndrome. She stated that she took exceptionally good care of herself during her pregnancy and only got very ill once during the nine months. It was at a rock concert, where the sound level was so high, she vomited and had to leave. She figured that at that time of her pregnancy, her son’s brain was developing. She stated, “To this day, it concerns me how this happened, and now I feel

I have the answer.” It concerns me that there are music venues I heard about, with excessive sound levels (HI/LF), that offer pregnant women free entrance to the indoor concert.

I personally had my own life-threatening experience, resulting from HI/LF excessive sound levels. I attended an indoor show on New Year’s Eve, where
the sound level was so physically painful, I had to leave. It was too late for me since the initial exposure had caused damage to my body. Two of the many symptoms of vibroacoustic syndrome are GI problems and vascular lesions. The next day, after the concert, I experienced massive amounts of bright red blood from the rectum. I was rushed to the hospital and required extensive surgery

to stop the bleeding and repair the damage. This life-threatening event can
and does have a lifelong effect. I look back and assume that I may have had a weakened area in my large intestine that the HI/LF loud sound exacerbated and caused the rupture.

Many media events far exceed the legal dB sound limits, which can damage people, without their knowing why they have their physical problems. I recall going to an outdoor concert on the beach, where each band noticeably increased its HI/LF sound level from the last band. After the first two bands performed, I asked my friends to leave. I explained that with the increasing sound levels, it would be just a matter of time before a fight broke out. The next day, it was reported that the concert had to be cut short due to fighting breaking out. My friends called me and asked how I knew this would happen. I explained that one of the side effects of HI/LF excessive sound was anger and hostility. More or less, a fight-or-flight response is indicated as one of the side effects of vibroacoustic disease.

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In reference to the above-mentioned concert, it was also reported that people living 5 miles away from the concert still heard the HI/LF sound and called
to complain. It should be noted that I live 30 miles from a military base and can still hear when they practice with their artillery, which produces HI/LF sound waves.

I had the opportunity to perform expert witness work on vibroacoustic disease. In one case, I found that an employee at a factory, who was exposed eight hours a day to HI/LF sound, had 21 various medical problems from his exposure. The medical personnel who treated him previously did not know where his medical problems had originated.

A Comprehensive Review by Bart P. Billings, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist Colonel (Retired), USA.
This comprehensive article covers the effects and possible dangers resulting

from long-term exposure to excessive levels of High Intensity Low Frequency (HI/LF) sound, such as that produced by battlefield noise, airplanes, machinery, highly amplified bass music, racing cars, etc., that not only can be physically harmful, but can also cause complications that can lead to death.

My edited Article In Navy Medicine, pp.22–26 follows.

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Feeling the Sound

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to Your Health©

COL. Bart P. Billings, MS. South Carolina National Guard

Long-term exposure to excessive levels of High Intensity Low Frequency (HI/ LF) sound, such as that produced by battlefield noise, airplanes, highly amplified bass music, racing cars, etc., cannot only be physically harmful, but can also cause complications that can lead to death.

Since this statement may first appear to be startling, I would like to elaborate on how more fully I came to this awareness and why it currently interests me. As a clinical psychologist, I have had an opportunity to work with individuals in various settings, ranging from a medical school teaching hospital (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department), mental health facilities, to substance abuse programs, etc. As a result, I have been exposed to various medical, social, cultural, and occupational information. My vocational activities have taken me into the entertainment industry, from production of musical theater, to directing large community events, to the manufacturing of professional loudspeakers.

As a Reserve Army Officer, I have information on various problems experienced by military personnel both in combat situations and in their everyday working activities. And being the father of two girls who

love music, I have been exposed to the current music scene. As a parent, I have often heard myself repeat what my parents preached to me: “Turn down that music; it’s too loud.” Even to this day, my wife must remind me at times to turn it down. About a year or so ago, I heard myself repeat this statement, but it wasn’t to my children; it was in a large sports arena being set up for a rock concert. I was there to talk with the sound technician about his feelings on omnidirectional sound. When I told him I was the president of a loudspeaker company that would be manufacturing this type of speaker, he was quite eager to show me what type of sound people like at a rock concert. He had me sit in the middle of the sports arena facing a wall of directional speakers. This wall appeared to be the size of a highway billboard. He then proceeded to disappear, leaving me alone facing this large grid of high- powered speakers. When he turned the music on, my whole body was hit with a physical wave of sound that initially shocked me.

The sound was painful to the point of my yelling, “Turn it off, it hurts!” When I heard myself saying this, something registered in my mind that I had read many years ago that had to do with endorphins and a runner’s

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high. In a book written by William Glasser, MD, (prominent Psychiatrist and Educator) titled Positive Addiction (1976), he stated that people who run frequently experience physical pain from the trauma that running causes to their joints. When this occurs, the brain causes endorphins and adrenaline to be released into their blood to anesthetize them to this pain and enhance performance. The natural painkiller (endorphin) acts like a narcotic, not only to dull the pain but also to cause what is called a runner’s high. This high that runners experience can cause disorientation at times, whereas the runner may lose sight of his/her environment and might run into a car or tree.

Neuroscientists say a high caused by the release of endorphins in the brain causes euphoria and peak experiences. Endorphins and enkephalins are concomitants of the “fight or flight” response. They are pain-blunting,

pleasure-enhancing, morphine-like chemicals whose purpose is to make the body more effective. But in certain situations, when they are not related to a “fight or flight” situation, they can have a negative effect. When I felt the pain from the sound wave at the Sports Arena, I thought to myself, one reason that people would like this experience (HI/LF sound) could be because they are physically being damaged throughout their total body, and they are getting high due to the release of endorphins and adrenaline into their system, which accompanies pain. Since the sound wave penetrates their entire body, cellular structures are being damaged throughout their body. Medical professionals have known for years that HI/LF sound results in clinical manifestations to auditory and balance functions, but for some reason,widerexposuretootherbody systems has not been emphasized.

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The current work of Castillo, MD, at the Center for Human Performance (Neurological Services of Capuchos Hospital) in Lisbon, Portugal, is quite impressive when dealing with the effects of long-term exposure to HI/LF noise and vibration, which lead to the concept of “Vibroacoustic Syndrome,” (J. C. Guignard, 1992). He emphasizes other body functions that are affected by the previously mentioned sound waves. His research, The Clinical and Physiopathology Basis Aspects of the Vibroacoustic Syndrome, has indicated visual problems, epilepsy, stroke-type neurological deficiencies, and psychic disturbances, i.e., anxiety, depression, and hostility. Patients diagnosed with Vibroacoustic Syndrome have an increased risk of thromboembolism.

Also discovered were central nervous system lesions, vascular lesions with predominant involvement of peripheral small arteries (internal thickening) in almost all areas of the body. Patients also have degrees of mitral valve and pericardial abnormalities. Also, malignancy and the frequency of Sister Chromatid Exchange are significantly increased, as well as other physical

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problems. Obviously, the degree of exposure to HI/LF sounds and vibration will determine the damage that will be inflicted on the person. In Dr. Branco’s research, high levels of sound frequently exceeding 110 dBs, (dB indicative of volume), at low-frequency bands below 100 Hz, (Hz reflects sound frequencies ranging from bass lows to high-end sound) registered in environments occupied by individuals who were diagnosed with Vibroacoustic Syndrome.

Whole-body sound vibrations have been known to be a stressor, to cause homeostatic imbalance (Nakamura H. et al. 1990) and disease (Castillo Branco NA et al. 1988). Prolonged exposure to whole-body vibration and sound is also known to interfere with human behavior and performance. When we look at the nervous system, we realize that nervous system impulses occur serially and may be described as frequencies. Much the same applies to the active muscle system, which is actually in a state of vibration. It is in this vibratory field that all the bioelectric, chemical, mechanical, energetic, thermal, structural, kinetic, and dynamic processes take their course (Jenny, 1974).

Therefore, when the natural course of frequencies and vibrations is altered by external, HI/LF sound waves that penetrate the total body system, one can see the potential for a breakdown in normal body functioning. It is well known in the entertainment world that although the law in the United States permits a maximum of 110 dB for public concerts, the overall noise levels usually exceed this limit and vary significantly, depending on an individual’s proximity to the large wall of speakers. Many other countries don’t have laws for maximum

dB levels. I first became overtly aware of the effects of HI/LF sound when initially purchasing stock, and later obtained the patent on an omnidirectional loudspeaker.

This first involvement with professional loudspeakers occurred when I was asked to write and produce a theatrical show for the International Missing Children’s Association in San Diego. The musical comedy was going to be a large production at the Lyceum Theatre in San Diego, and we were able to obtain original music from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts producer for the show called Good Grief, It’s Lucy. I set out to find rehearsal space for the large cast and remembered an unused bank building. When I walked into the building,
I discovered an engineering group working on some government projects, as well as an in-house omnidirectional speaker. I was able to listen to their largest commercial speaker, which was capable of handling up to 10,000 watts.

What I realized was that there were no harsh sound waves that I had experienced in the past when standing in front of a directional speaker. When the engineer told me he was putting 1200 watts into the speaker, I expected to be driven through the wall as the character in the movie, Back to the Future. But to my surprise, I did not experience the discomfort I anticipated. What
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amplification is not used, i.e., in a concert hall. The sound was all around
me, with the lows (bass) being pure but not uncomfortable. It was a different type of sound that I had not experienced at any other time when listening to speakers. When I asked why omnidirectional sound was not uncomfortable (at high volume), he stated that omnidirectional speakers put even pressure in the room. Since the human body in this situation is not compressible, there is no discomfort (cell damage).

Directional speakers, on the other hand (at high volume), send a directional pressure wave that hits the body and moves tissue from front to back, causing discomfort (cellular damage at HI/LF). After that experience, I became more aware of the impact of HI/LF sound that exists in almost all live entertainment venues when amplification is used. I started to associate this pounding sensation with physical pain, and not until later, with adrenaline and endorphin release and the high (similar to runner’s high) that this produces. I remember

a friend of my daughter’s, who was in a band, asking me, “How do you become successful as a rock band?” I stated facetiously without hesitation, “Hurt your audience” with loud, distorted bass (HI/LF sound). When he asked me what
I meant, I explained my theory to him in regard to this type of sound causing a degree of cellular damage that results in adrenaline and endorphin release, causing a person to feel “high.”

As I started to expound on this concept, I remembered a time when
I produced a show in conjunction with a major rock group. I remembered the parking lot prior to the show being littered with empty beer and alcohol bottles. I thought to myself that maybe at a subconscious level, the concertgoers were aware of the physical pain they were to experience and were preparing for the concert by anesthetizing themselves with alcohol. Alcohol was used during the Civil War as an anesthetic — it has the same chemical formula as ether, except
it has a few more molecules of water. Now, once inside, they were feeling a high not only from the alcohol and/or street drugs but also from the body’s reaction to the damage from the sound. Another factor contributing to the release of endorphins that impressed me was the fact that “Low-frequency sound pulses, at or near a person’s heart rate, seem to cause the human system to lock into
the sound generator” (Orr,1996). Once this occurs, changes in the frequency or rate of sound cause corresponding changes in the person’s heart rate, as well as changes in other physical functions, a process known as entrainment.

What has been indicated in the world of video games is that the ones with the best graphics are not the most popular, but the games that have a low-frequency pulse, near the heartbeat rate, that accelerates as the game progresses, are played more often. Try to remember the last time you went to an action movie.

As the action progressed, the low-frequency sound became more intense and more rapid, and before you knew it, you were on the edge of your seat with

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an elevated heart rate and blood pressure. If the audio in the movie theater went off and you only had video, the physical effects would be less dramatic. This effect becomes obvious when you mute the TV, and the home viewing environment changes dramatically. Thus, when auditory entrainment causes a person’s heart rate to speed up, and an accompanying production of adrenaline and endorphins takes place, the end result of the movie or video game is that the person is “hyped” and wants more. Going one step beyond this observation, I began to ask myself if this type of sound can be addictive, as is the high experienced by runners, as explained by Dr. Glasser (1976). If a runner misses a day or two of running, he experiences symptoms similar to withdrawal

from drugs; therefore, Dr. Glasser’s concept of positive addiction. At some concerts, as previously discussed, the sound is associated with known addictive substances, i.e., alcohol, drugs, and heavy cigarette smoking. Therefore, if one becomes addicted in a concert setting to the natural high experienced from damage created by HI/LF sound, will this addiction persist in other places
(i.e., boom boxes, high-powered speakers in the home, in cars, etc.)? If, in fact, there is addictive potential for HI/LF sound causing a person to be disoriented, which is consistent with endorphin and adrenaline release, then what is the possibility of automobile accidents where people often play HI/LF music? Most of us have experienced driving up to a traffic light and feeling the vibration from the music radiating out of a car parked next to us or several cars away. It would be interesting, if possible, to research the frequency of drivers getting into accidents who have high-power sound systems in their cars. Psychologists Helen Beh and Richard Hirst of the University of Sydney investigated whether loud music interferes with driving. They discovered that “responding to objects intruding on their peripheral vision, people subjected to 85-decibel rock
music were around 100 milliseconds slower than the other groups” in their study. Since many road hazards emerge from the periphery, drivers listening
to loud music are less safe. I recently contacted a large insurance company and asked if they would be interested in adding a question to their auto accident report asking if the car had a high-power stereo system or added speakers. The company appeared to be very interested in pursuing this concept. I was recently speaking about this issue with a Navy occupational medicine physician, who
I will be working with as part of the yearly Combat Stress Conference I direct as a Reserve Army Officer. He stated that he was curious as to why sailors who work on the flight deck of aircraft carriers, for no apparent reason, walk off
the edge of the deck. He stated that they had protective gear for their heads
and ears. I explained that due to the long exposure of the whole body to HI/
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brain and the rest of the body. I feel that in order to totally protect a person in this situation, you would have to keep the sound and vibration from entering their whole body. Therefore, a protective suit that would cancel the sound and vibration could be used, like the material used in multi-layered bomb disposal clothing. Without this type of protection, the constant damage to the cells from the noise would result in ongoing fatigue, since the body is always attempting to repair the damage caused to cells. I further pursued this idea with sailors who worked on the decks of aircraft carriers. Their input was consistent with what one crew chief told me about his experience. Cody D. Weightman is now an intensive care nurse, but prior to his current occupation, he was a crew

chief on an aircraft carrier. He could now relate his past experiences to what
I have discussed in terms of a person being addicted to the body’s release of endorphins and adrenaline. He also observed staff being disoriented after long exposure to HI/LF sound from the jet engines. He described three situations.

1. The noise and pressure from an F-14A was strong enough that on take-off from a carrier, it would feel as if a large vibrator was placed on your chest. Flight deck crews would purposely stand as close to the catapults as they could to feel the power of the planes. (Addictive type behavior-adrenaline/ endorphin release).
2. Most every accident that took place was always the result of personnel not paying attention. Example: Ship’s crew, flight deck worker, came up from the catwalk at the edge of the flight deck underneath an F-14A. Without paying attention, the worker walks in front of the right engine intake of the plane while the engines are running, resulting in his protective helmet being ripped off his head and sucked into the engine. The worker ran off the flight deck and was not found for a couple of hours. He was found in a corner, shaking and crying (This person was experienced and not new to the work he was doing. This is a prime example of the disorientation I previously described.)
3. Working the flight deck was the most exciting thing I’ve ever done, but
   I also hated every second of it. Once the planes left the flight deck on flight operations, there was always a letdown, kind of like coming down from a drug high. Once the planes returned, your energy level quickly increased. (This observation is consistent with addictive behavior.)

The crew chief ’s experience reminded me of a concert I recently attended.
I was sitting for two hours being struck by high-intensity bass waves. I could feel the sound pounding on my body. I felt nauseous at the beginning of the show and somewhat disoriented, but after my body adjusted, the feeling passed. Although I was sitting for the entire concert, I felt unusually tired the next day. My body was repairing itself from the trauma to the cells. I also remember

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reading a story in the newspaper about a reporter taking an aerobics class. He stated that he was exhausted not from the exercise, but from the pounding of the loud music. In other military situations, i.e., the Army, soldiers are exposed to continuous HI/LF noise, which can produce the same effects as described above. In battlefield situations, significant numbers of personnel experience what was once called battle fatigue or shell shock. These terms are not misnomers if one looks closely at what occurs on the battlefield. An explosion produces a shock wave with the force to kill, even if one is not at the center of the blast (ground zero). People at a distance have been found with minimal visible external damage, but significant internal damage, causing death. The shock wave hits with such force (the air becomes a solid) that it accelerates internal organs toward the opposite side of the body, causing mortal damage. If you stop and think about this shock wave, you can see that it is basically an extreme form of HI/LF sound, with a sharper edge.

As one gets further away from the explosion, they still feel the HI/LF sound vibration against their entire body. With continuous exposure to this low-grade cellular damage, you can see how a person can become fatigued (battle fatigue). When the body tries to repair this massive low-grade cell damage, the natural result is fatigue; thus, what has been described as battle fatigue is more than a reaction to psychological stress but an actual physiological reaction to cellular repair. Therefore, shell shock can be seen in a similar light. It would appear to be the disorientation caused by the endorphins and adrenaline released (as well as the hyper-beta rapid switch to theta) when this low-grade cell damage occurs over the total body from the constant HI/LF battlefield noise.

A recent presidential committee on the Gulf War Syndrome stated that current symptoms appear to be stress-related and were like symptoms of all previous wars. If one were to look at these symptoms and compare them with the symptoms resulting from Vibroacoustic syndrome, there would be many similarities.

It is known that fighter pilots are told not to exceed mock I (sound barrier/ sonic boom) when providing close ground support, preventing damage to their own troops. It is also known that the Nazis during WWII experimented on prisoners and tortured prisoners with HI/LF sound. They even developed
a weapon that produced high-intensity sound, which was powered by compressed air since they did not have the technology at the time to use powerful amplifiers. During the Persian Gulf War, combat stress chambers were used with success. This provided a stress-free environment devoid of the high-intensity noise previously described. It allowed soldiers, with the use of biofeedback equipment and comfortable auditory and visual stimuli, to change EEG brain wave activity and return to a higher level of functioning. It appears

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that reduction in environmental noise was a significant part of the combat chamber’s success, along with other neuropsychological factors.

After writing this much of the article, I decided to share all the above information with various people. A person who is the regional manager for
an audio speaker company felt that the information was relevant. He related an incident when his company had a sound demonstration where there were several large sub-woofers in a small enclosed area all playing at the same time. Although he had ear protection on, he stated that after his exposure to this HI/ LF sound, he felt like he was “physically beat on” and was exhausted after the demonstration. This exhaustion lasted for a significant period. This experience is consistent with cell damage inflicted by the sound waves on the body. It’s interesting that the total time of exposure was minimal, but the effects were lasting.

Another individual who is a sound technician for large popular music concerts also related to this information in his everyday job. Since he only works out of one town and helps sound technicians (roadies), who travel with bands, he has contact with large numbers of sound technicians. He stated that many of the traveling technicians appeared to be “spaced out” (disoriented), even when there was no indication of drug use. He personally identified with his own physical and psychological feelings being like what has been described.

When discussing this article with a friend who is a professional counselor,
he appeared to be astonished since he felt that he “totally” experienced what
I described when he was younger. He stated that, along with friends, he attended many extremely loud concerts. He described how they would stand next to the speakers for periods of time and feel high, but at the same time could only tolerate the exposure briefly and retreated to recuperate. After a period away from the speakers, they would ask each other if they were ready
to return and stand in front of the speakers again (like the deck crew on the aircraft carrier). This would occur several times during the performance. Afterwards, when at home, he stated he was exhausted. He also indicated that he had balance problems for days. He indicated it would take a few days to fully recover from the concert, although they were not dancing or drinking (no drug use) at the concert.

He described one of his friends who, as he sees it, became addicted to the loud bass sound. He remembered one experience where he went to his home to hear a new sound system. The bass was so intense that his friend cracked all the windows in the room in his house. He stated that the sound hurt him, and he did not return for further demonstrations.

Although all the above people did not know what was happening to their bodies, they did instinctively sense it wasn’t a normal feeling. One may ask, just what is this low frequency, and how do we hear it? When talking to an engineer

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friend of mine, he explained that you can only hear low frequencies down to a certain level, and anything below that is not really heard but felt. What occurs below this level is a pressure change in the room that can be felt by the body. HI/LF sound becomes even more damaging when it contains HI/LF harmonics (multiples of frequencies) that can cause rapid physical displacement, which can approximate the effects of an explosion. Therefore, at extreme high intensity of low frequency alone, the damage is not as great as when there are rapid changes, either boosting the amplitude (sound level) or dropping it rapidly — this is when most damage occurs, and at extremes, it can kill you like an explosion. This variable sound level is consistent with highly amplified concerts to the extent of some concerts using actual explosives as special effects (as far back as the 1812 Overture).

At extreme HI/LF sound levels, the body can experience non-auditory effects, i.e. (1) physiological responses and health outcomes other than
hearing loss, (2) performance and behavioral effects, (3) sleep disturbances, and (4) communication interference. These effects would appear to comprise
a generalized stress reaction governed by sympathetic activation of the autonomic nervous system, with the physiological and hormonal changes produced by the sound appearing like those produced by other physical impacts. Based on existing data, the association between high sound levels and elevated blood pressure is also common. Studies by Medoff and Bongiovani (1945) and Buckley and Smookler (1970) found blood pressure elevated because of exposure to several months of intermittent sound. Another 1981 study by E. A. Peterson, J. S. Augenstein, D. C. Tanis, and D. C. Augenstein, using Rhesus monkeys, found elevation of blood pressure during nine months of moderately high sound levels (85 dB). The blood pressure did not return

to pre-existing levels during a month of post-exposure quiet. Also, the blood pressure changes were produced in the absence of appreciable permanent hearing loss. This strongly suggests that non-auditory effects may occur at levels below those that are damaging to hearing.

Work done by Cantrell in 1974 also indicated elevations in cortisol (a stress hormone) and cholesterol when one is exposed to thirty days of short bursts of sound at 80 to 90 dB levels. These cortisol and cholesterol levels did decrease upon sound cessation, strongly indicating the effects were sound-induced.

At the International Society for Neuro-immunomodulation Conference in November 1996, Dr. Philip Gold of the National Institute of Mental Health stated, “In many people, their hormones, such as cortisol, turn on and stay on for a long time. If you are in danger, cortisol is good for you. But if it becomes unregulated, it can produce disease. In extreme cases, this hormonal state destroys appetite, cripples the immune system, and shuts down processes that

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repair tissue, blocks sleep, and even breaks down bone” (brittle bones are more common in women).

How HI/LF sound affects the brain is a question I asked myself as the literature I reviewed indicated one physical problem after another. Some of Dr. Branco’s research in Portugal indicated that people with Vibroacoustic syndrome have smaller brain mass. My thinking on this is that since HI/LF sound can cause cell damage over the total body, the cells that do not repair themselves rapidly are brain cells. Therefore, as our cells repair themselves (such as our skin when we get a cut), the ones that don’t are brain cells, thus smaller brain mass over a period when continuously exposed to damaging sound waves.

When using EEG’s to measure “brain wave frequencies,” we find that at any given time, our brains produce distinct waveforms in four frequency groupings: beta, alpha, theta, and delta. When one is “in beta state” (the dominant set
of frequencies), we associate this with alertness, with the highest frequencies
in that range often described as “fight/flight” mode. Alpha frequencies are
often associated with meditation and relaxation, while theta is associated with dreamy, creative states. Delta waves are strongest when you’re asleep.

When discussing the effects of HI/LF sound with a friend who specializes in biofeedback training, he indicated that individuals who are experiencing this type of sound are most likely to be, for the most part, in hyper beta and would be hypervigilant. Since this state is hard to sustain over long periods of time, it is not unusual for the brain to jump to the theta state directly as a protective measure. Since theta is associated with dreamy states, thus the possibility for disorientation and confusion. This may account for poor judgment when one is exposed to HI/LF sound for sustained periods of time. This situation, in conjunction with actual brain cell damage, results in a less and less effective person and one subject to accidents.

My intern, who reviewed much of the literature for and with me, had a concern as to what effect HI/LF sound had on the fetus of an expectant
mother and on preschool-age children, particularly from birth to three years old. As this is a time of rapid brain cell formation and the development of neural networks that will serve as the basis for a lifetime of cognitive activity, what impact might these HI/LF sound waves have on the infant’s developing brain? Since the HI/LF sound can cause cell damage, what would occur if the expectant mother were exposed to destructive levels of HI/LF sound when the yet-to-be-born child is developing brain cells? The possibility of birth defects resulting in brain damage (developmental disabilities, cerebral palsy, etc.) could not be ruled out. There have already been studies stating that children (much less children not born yet) may be hyper susceptible to the effects of noise (HI/ LF sound), and that given noise levels may produce greater effects on children

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than would be predicted based on previous studies of adults (Mills, 1975). One of the studies described in an article written by Hans Low, “Prenatal Stressors of Human Life Affect Fetal Brain Development,” (1994) indicates stress (HI/LF is a significant stressor) significantly affected birth weight and head circumference. When birth weight was corrected, stress remained a significant determinant of small head circumference, indicating a specific effect on brain development. Therefore, expectant mothers should be warned to avoid environments where there is significant exposure to HI/LF sound. With all the physical problems associated with HI/LF sound, one may ask the question, “Why would human beings expose themselves to sound that is obviously painful?” If we truly lived in a stimulus-response (S-R) world, then one would automatically withdraw from a painful experience, i.e., one would remove their hand from a hot stove. Although most people think we are externally motivated (S-R) to behave, this does not appear to be the case. A prominent psychiatrist/educator I previously mentioned, Dr. William Glasser, best explains human behavior in what he describes as “Choice Theory Psychology.” This theory explains that human beings will put themselves into situations that are counter to an S/R situation because they are internally motivated to behave. Dr. Glasser explains his theory as follows:

Choice Theory attempts to explain both the psychological and physiological behavior of all living creatures. In Choice Theory, these two aspects of behavior are combined and called Total Behavior. This theory maintains that all we do from birth to death is behave, and
all our behavior is Total Behavior. Total Behavior is made up of four components: acting, thinking, feeling, and physiology, which always accompanies the other three components. Acting and thinking are always voluntary; feeling and physiology can only be changed through changing how we act and think.

Choice Theory explains that all Total Behavior is chosen, and all the choices are an ongoing attempt to change the real world so that it coincides with a small, simulated world that we build into our memory called the Quality World. The Quality World is the core of our lives. We are continually in the process of modifying it so that it reflects what we want now. We build it, starting shortly after birth, from all we have perceived that feels very good. What feels very good is anything we do that satisfies or, in the case of addictions, seems to satisfy one or more of five basic needs built into our genetic structure: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. (Glasser, 1996.)

Since most of us grew up in a society heavily influenced by music, we can associate the music with meeting the psychological needs that Dr. Glasser discusses. Music is almost always thought of when enjoyable involvement with

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other people occurs. How often do we hear an old song and think back to the people and experiences that tie into the times in the past that were pleasurable? Music is strongly built into our memory (quality world) and is associated with when we were meeting our needs for belonging, fun, freedom, and power (self- worth). Since music becomes such a large part of our lives due to its need-filling in the past, why not continue to use music to continue meeting our needs

now and in the future? On the surface, this relationship with music is both pleasurable and healthy, except when the music is delivered in a HI/LF format.

Although the HI/LF music (sound) may physically hurt a person, they associate the experience with memories of belonging/involvement, fun, and freedom. The power they now experience from HI/LF is now more associated with endorphins/adrenaline and not necessarily the earlier quality world pictures. But they may be thinking it is related to a normal, healthy experience. As Dr. Glasser states in his description of Choice Theory, “. . . in the case
of addictions, seems to satisfy one or more of the . . . basic needs” (Glasser, 1996, p.1). A person can become addicted to the release of their own natural painkillers (endorphins), as runners do in what I previously described as a runner’s high from the text “Positive Addiction.” Think about how much of today’s music is HI/LF and how people are constantly looking for this type of sound in the CDs they buy and the concerts they attend. I recently discovered in an audio magazine that there are CDs for sale that only produce Bass sound. When inquiring, the distributor of the CDs told me that individuals between sixteen and twenty-five years of age are the primary customers for these CDs.
In my discussion with the distributor, I was told that the new digital sound technology on the CDs could produce lower bass frequencies than any musical instrument ever produced. He also indicated that some states in the United States have laws that limit the amount of wattage (high intensity) one can have in an automobile. In these states, I believe they are more concerned about one’s ability to hear outside traffic and not totally aware of the other physical damage being done by HI/LF (exaggerated bass) sound. Therefore, one can predict that if this type of sound is withheld, a person may react similarly to withdrawing from an addiction. Consistent with this observation is a study done (Fearn, 1972, 1973) that indicates young people who regularly attend dance clubs and pop concerts show deafness which is dose-dependent upon the frequency of the exposure. Again, if hearing loss is occurring in these situations, then the damage described above (Vibroacoustic Syndrome) is occurring throughout the total body, varying with the degree of exposure. Again, like other addictions, one may be subjecting themselves to physical damage and continue with the addictive behavior.

I don’t want anyone to think that music is bad or unhealthy; quite the opposite is true. We have all heard that music soothes the wild beast. There is

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music therapy, biofeedback for relaxation, and many other forms of calming music, including Vibroacoustic therapy. What I am warning against is the other end of the spectrum: music that hurts, enrages, and triggers fight-or-flight brain reactions, resulting in physiological changes that can be harmful. As N’omi Orr once stated, “Military drums play music designed to make your feet take you where your head never would — music is almost as dangerous as gunpowder.” If we look at history, as far back as organized warfare can be seen, there have been attempts to enrage soldiers into battle by beating drums, first slowly (consistent with heartbeat) and then more quickly as troops enter battle. The sound of the drums is low-frequency and is as high intensity as the instrument would allow at the time.

If one looks now at some of the behavior displayed to current HI/LF music, we can see resemblances to our ancestors going into battle, such as the slam dancing (mosh pit), where people are actually hurling themselves at others, inflicting physical pain. This is a prime example of a fight-or-flight brain response to the HI/LF sound. But even if you are more civilized in this type of sound (HI/LF) environment, the body’s physiology is still changing to accommodate the sound wave damage to the body. When your body reacts to protect itself from this cell damage, it is in every sense a fight-or-flight brain response.

This protective old brain (neocortex) response (survival response) causes
the blood pressure to increase and the heart to beat faster so blood (oxygen) can be pumped to the muscles to fight off the perceived saber-tooth tiger. The blood thickens so that if scratched or bitten in the battle, you won’t bleed to death (cholesterol increases since it is a thickening agent to stop bleeding),
we experience hyper brain wave activity to be more vigilant, the palms of our hands get sticky so we can hold the club to beat off the beast, and the bottoms of our feet get sticky, as well, so we can get traction to run away and escape the attack. But we aren’t fighting a saber-tooth tiger, but merely listening to music (the old brain only reacts to protect the body to survive). If we aren’t physically fighting or fleeing, then what happens to our body when all this physiology is occurring and we are sitting inside a car (listening to HI/LF sound), sitting in a concert, or in a home environment? What is happening, to varying degrees, is the body is responding in a way that may be adverse to your health. To paraphrase the words to an old song, “Killing me loudly with his song, killing me loudly” is a reality that is not far from the truth. References

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Buckley, Joseph. P., and Harold. H. Smookler. 1970. “Cardiovascular and biochemical effects of chronic intermittent neurogenic stimulation.” In Physiological Effects of Noise, ed. B. Welch and A. Welch. Plenum Press, New York.

Cantrell, R.W. 1974. “Prolonged exposure to intermittent noise: Audiometric, biochemical, motor, psychological and sleep effects,” Laryngoscope, 84 (10 Pt 2 Suppl. 1): 1-55.

Fearn, R. 1972. “Noise levels in youth clubs,” (correspondence), Journal of Sound and Vibration, 22: 127-128.

Fearn, R., 1973. “Pop-music and hearing damage,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 29: 396-397.

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Glasser, W. 1996. Programs, policies, and procedures of the William Glasser Institute, California.

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Weightman, Cody D. Personal interview, December 2, 1996, San Diego, California.

The information below was taken from owlcation.com. It follows what my journal article discusses.

Top 10 Secret Military Weapons of Nazi Germany (Updated March 4, 2025)

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This may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but during the early 1940s Nazi engineers had managed to develop a sonic cannon that could literally shake a person apart from the inside. Or at least that’s what they claimed. Designed by Dr. Richard Wallauschek, the cannon consisted of a methane gas combustion chamber leading to two large parabolic reflectors, the final version of which had a diameter over 3m. The “dishes” were pulse detonated at around 44Hz and were connected to to a chamber composed of several sub-units firing tubes. These tubes would allow a mixture of methane and oxygen in the combustion chamber, which, when ignited, would turn these gases into noise that could kill. This infrasound, magnified by the dish reflectors,

caused vertigo and nausea at 300 yards by vibrating the middle ear bones and shaking the cochlear fluid within the inner ear. Apparently, the sound waves created pressure that could kill a man 50 meters away in half a minute. To say the least, this is very unconvincing, since this supposed Sonic cannon was only tested on laboratory animals and was never tested on human beings. In theory, this thing would have been very vulnerable to enemy fire, since if the parabolic reflectors were damaged, it would render this weapon completely useless. So, in reality, sonic weapons were most likely large, cumbersome, close-range devices that resulted in ruptured eardrums. So much for shaking a person apart.

Sonic Cannon

But it should be noted that the Russian Military, when occupying Germany at wars end, took this information and further worked on developing this weapon. In my conversations with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) after my above article was released, they contacted me and stated that Russia did now have this weapon. We discussed a countermeasure at the time.

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Mis-Diagnosed Specific Learning Disabilities in Our Schools

WHAT IS: Scotopic Sensitivity (Irlen Syndrome), The Fixable Invisible Impairment Athletes and People in General Experience

n the early 1980s, I was seeing many young people who were referred to me with a diagnosis of specific learning disabilities (SLD). Many of these individuals were on psychiatric medication for what the schools identified

as necessary to help them with their learning disability. Such black box warning psychiatric medications as Ritalin, etc., were prescribed for almost all students with the label of SLD. These medications have severe side effects, and that is why they have a black box warning from the FDA.

During this period, I was totally against drugging our young people in schools, as well as anywhere else. I looked for other reasons why a young person was diagnosed with an SLD label. I remember reading an article at the time about a college counselor who was helping students with a diagnosis of SLD and proceeded to contact her at California State University, Long Beach. Her name was Helen Irlen, MS. I decided to meet with her to discuss her success with her students. At that time, she described her students as having scotopic sensitivity. When meeting with her, she went on to describe that her students were sensitive to various light band spectrums, which resulted in various difficulties, including attention and concentration, reading, acting out behavior,

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etc. Having personally worked in a teaching hospital with neurologists evaluating patients with seizure disorders, what Helen stated made initial
sense to me at the time. I recalled, when at the medical school, we triggered seizures by strobing lights, so we could find the seizure focal point in the brain and remove it with brain surgery. When a light is strobed, the red light band increases, causing the seizure. We also discovered that no seizure occurred when we placed green sunglasses on the patient. Therefore, the red-light ban triggers the seizure when no tints are worn, and when we eliminated the red-light ban, with the green-tinted sunglasses, there was no seizure.

After interviewing several of Helen’s students overcoming what they had been identified as having an SLD, and being impressed by what they had to say, I felt strongly, based on my past experience and what I was seeing, that Helen had discovered a significant treatment for individuals with a diagnosis of SLD.

Being from a previous health science employment situation, at a medical school teaching hospital, I was naturally skeptical as to why Helen’s students were doing so well. I requested to see the students in my office, where
I could have a neurologist perform an EEG on five of Helen’s students. When I explained this to my friend, the neurologist, he was skeptical and did not expect any significant findings. To both our surprise, when the students were requested to read without their individualized tinted glasses, there was significant brainwave activity. When they put their glasses on and continued reading, the brainwave activity was noticeably slowed, without significant peaks and valleys. Both the neurologist and I were totally surprised at the results of the EEG. This demonstration made me a believer in what was then called scotopic sensitivity, now called Irlen Syndrome.

A Godsend for Athletes

Not only did I find that individualized Irlen tints were helpful to students and people in general, but they had a major impact on an athlete’s performance.
I personally had many of the symptoms of scotopic sensitivity, with one being only able to read for 20 minutes or so before tiring. Another was squinting

in the sun and always wearing sunglasses. I discovered that people who were not scotopic were not affected by the sun in this manner and could read for hours. Most often, they don’t wear sunglasses (which they should wear to avoid UV rays anyway). I was told by Helen that she found 23% of the population is scotopic, and it adversely affects 7% of this population.

Both my daughters have scotopic sensitivity, since it runs in families. Their life has improved dramatically since they got their tints, which are totally different colors than mine, since the light ban that affects them is different from mine. That is why an individual evaluation should be done for each person

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when looking through them (unlike regular sunglasses), and the lenses appear crystal clear.

Years ago, I vividly recall a young man who was a senior in high school, being referred to me to evaluate whether he had an SLD. He was an Olympic- caliber athlete who was having trouble with his sport. After talking with him, I determined he did not have an SLD but had scotopic sensitivity.

I referred him to the Irlen Institute in Long Beach, CA, for an evaluation. When he returned to see me after he received his individualized tints, he stated that he was now hitting his mark on his first attempt continuously, which previously took 3 tries, and his overall performance in the event improved.
A side benefit was that he totally got off the brain-altering Ritalin, which he was taking for the mistaken diagnosis of SLD. This case was not unusual for me, since practically 75% of the individuals that were referred to me to confirm an SLD diagnosis, in fact, had scotopic sensitivity.

Brain Injuries and Light Sensitivity (Scotopic

Sensitivity)

It’s not unusual for someone who has experienced a brain injury to develop light sensitivity. I remember a patient who, after having a head injury, developed a very slow rate of speaking and was physically unstable. Once she was determined to have light sensitivity after her injury, she was prescribed Irlen tints. When wearing the tints, her walking gait and speech became normal. When removing the tents, she immediately returned to an unstable, slowed gait, and her speech became very slow as well. She appreciated the effects of the tints and even wore them into the shower.

One of my friends was a National Football League player who invited me to speak to the NFL Alumni Society. I spoke about traumatic brain injury (TBI) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). I also spoke about scotopic sensitivity since individuals with any type of brain injury have a propensity to develop light sensitivity. After my talk, I had the occasion to be invited to meet with several former NFL players to help them deal with the residual effects

of CTE.
My involvement with some of these NFL players led to being invited on

several sports talk radio shows in the San Diego area. Chet Forte and Steve Hartman interviewed me on various occasions regarding CTE, as well as Hacksaw Reynolds. Hacksaw called me within a week after the NFL star linebacker, Junior Seau committed suicide. I explained that between the rumored medications Junior was taking and his CTE, suicide was an adverse reaction to both. Hacksaw told me that no autopsy was performed yet, and how could I be certain Junior had CTE? I explained to him that the nature of major league football is that 100% of the players have a degree of CTE, based

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on the position they played, determining the severity. Hacksaw was unsure of my comments but invited me back on his show a year later, when the autopsy report revealed that Junior had severe CTE.

My involvement with sports, like many people in the United States, goes back to grade school and high school sports. I played all sports and especially loved baseball. I recall pitching a one-hitter in an All-Star baseball game when I was a teenager and playing baseball briefly on an Army baseball team.

Therefore, it’s no wonder that, being a fan of baseball and a retired military officer, I was motivated to work with a Major League Baseball Team, attempting to persuade them to agree to provide lifetime tickets to Prisoners Of War from World War II and Korea. That led to me being invited to meet with the Major League Baseball commissioner in New York City, where I attempted to persuade him to have all major league teams follow one team’s footsteps. It was a great experience since, coincidentally, I visited on the day that they were announcing the All-Star game to be held the last year of the old Yankee Stadium’s existence, before the new stadium opened. They invited me to participate in a batting
cage activity in front of the Major League Baseball building, where Yogi Berra was the batting coach, and other dignitaries, such as Derek Jeter, the Yankees’ owners, and other professional players attended. At that time, I had my tints on and realized I was able to see the ball better than I ever did when I was younger.

I became aware then that there are major league baseball players who, as good as they are, could be better, since some are scotopic sensitive. I’ve noticed some major league baseball players constantly wearing sunglasses, and even at times, switching the different colors of their glasses to see the ball better. It becomes obvious to me when watching a game, who would benefit from the proper individualized tints, based on seeing them missing pitches they should have hit easily, constantly wearing sunglasses, not finding the ball quickly on fly balls, being inconsistent in their performance, etc.

The problem is that many in the health profession for ball teams are not familiar with scotopic sensitivity being a neurological problem and not a vision problem.

It’s too bad, since young people idolize sports figures, that they cannot learn from them what scotopic sensitivity really is, by the player actually knowing about it and having the knowledge to discuss it openly. But I have spoken hundreds of times to people in the medical field, and many of them don’t even know what scotopic sensitivity or a physiatrist—a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation medical doctor (PM&R) is, although PM&R has been a medical specialty recognized by the AMA since 1937.

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technician asking questions regarding my vision had no idea what scotopic sensitivity was.

A Test for Ballplayers

This is the test that Helen Irlen and I developed for baseball coaches to identify players with potential Scotopic Sensitivity.

Do you notice your players doing any of the following?

• Following pitches they should have made solid contact with
• Not catching easy fly balls and ground balls
• Making throwing errors
• Hesitating unnecessarily when throwing, catching, or batting
• Using strategies to compensate, such as
  • ӹ  changing their stance when batting.
  • ӹ  crouching lower to the ground when catching a ground ball.
  • ӹ  coming in initially on a flying ball that they should have initially been moving back.
  • ӹ  making a complicated catch out of what should have been a simple catch.
• Having a higher-than-expected frequency of strikeouts
• Playing differently under various lighting conditions: stadium lights, bright sunlight, or cloudy days
• At times, having difficulty tracking a fly ball
• Developing greater than usual levels of agitation in the dugout or clubhouse
• Throwing near-strikes rather than strikes
• Making little or no contact with the ball when batting, resulting in more strikes than usualVisual Processing Characteristics Self-TestCheck each of the following that you have experienced or are currently experiencing. Three or more checks in any one of the sections may be due to a visual processing problem, which is correctable.Section One: In certain lighting conditions, you find that you are:
  1. Bothered by sunlight
  2. Bothered by glare
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4. Bothered by bright or fluorescent lights
5. Tired or drowsy under bright or fluorescent lights
6. Becoming anxious under bright or fluorescent lights
7. Getting a headache/stomachache from bright or fluorescent lights
8. Feeling antsy or fidgety under bright or fluorescent lights
9. Performing less efficiently or effectively under bright orfluorescent lights
10. Feeling like there is not enough light when reading
11. Feeling like there is too much light when reading
12. Preferring to read in dim light

Section Two: When you are reading, you tend to:

1. Skip words or lines
2. Repeat or reread lines
3. Read with breaks
4. Lose your place
5. Read in a “stop and go” rhythm
6. Omit small words
7. Have poor reading comprehension
8. Find that the longer you read, the more difficult it gets
9. Use your finger or marker to help keep your place
10. Reread for comprehension
11. Reverse letters and/or numbers
12. Avoid reading if at all possible

Section Three: When you read or use a computer, you notice that you:

1. Rub your eyes
2. Move closer or further away
3. Squint
4. Open your eyes wide
5. Incorporate breaks
6. Change position to reduce glare
7. Close or cover one eye
8. Move your head
9. Read word by word
10. Are unable to speed-read

Section Four: You develop strain, fatigue, tiredness, or headaches when:

1. Reading
2. Listening
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4. Working on the computer, IPad, Tablet, etc.
5. Watching TV, movies
6. Doing visually-intensive activities like crossword puzzles,woodworking, soldering, etc.
7. Working under bright or fluorescent lights

Section Five: Issues with attention and concentration, such as:

1. Lack of concentration while reading or writing
2. Easily distracted when reading or writing
3. Easily distracted when listening
4. Daydreaming in meetings
5. Difficulty staying on task
6. Problems starting tasks

Section Six: Issues with depth perception:

1. Difficulty getting on and off escalators
2. Bumping into table edges or doorjambs
3. Difficulty judging distances
4. Dropping or knocking things over
5. As a child, you were accident-prone or had bruises on your shins
6. When walking next to someone, you drift into them
7. When walking, you feel dizzy or lightheaded

Section Seven: Issues while driving:

1. Difficulty parallel parking
2. Feeling like you will hit the car in front when parking
3. When parking, you hit the curb or leave too much space
4. Hesitating before turning in front of oncoming traffic
5. Uncertain about making lane changes
6. Extra cautious when making lane changes
7. Passengers are tense when you make lane changes
8. Passengers tell you that you tailgate
9. You are overly cautious, leaving extra room between you and thecar ahead

Section Eight: Fatigue while in a car:

1. Becoming drowsy while driving
2. Becoming drowsy as a passenger
3. Bothered by glare from the chrome on cars
4. Bothered by glare from the rear window of the car in front of you
5. Bothered by headlights and streetlights at night
6. Bothered by taillights on cars
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Is “Trump Derangement Syndrome” a current mental health diagnosis

How has the mainstream media played a role in fostering this syndrome? To answer this question, we first need to examine the meanings of the words derangement and syndrome.

The most common definition of derangement is: “a state of mental disturbance resulting in disorientation, poor judgment, anger, and hate—often associated with mental illness.”

Syndrome is defined as “a set of symptoms or conditions that occur together and suggest the presence of a certain mental disorder or an increased likelihood of developing one.”

Both terms indicate the presence of mental illness or psychological dysfunction. Therefore, if a particular trigger causes symptoms consistent with mental illness, one could argue that “Trump Derangement Syndrome” might,
in theory, be considered a legitimate mental condition. Perhaps in a future edition of the psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), it could even be included.

When a person’s cognitive dissonance—the mental discomfort experienced when holding conflicting beliefs, ideas, or behaviors—triggers a derangement- like response, this signals something deeper than simple disagreement. It may indicate a more serious emotional or psychological disturbance.

It’s important to remember that disagreement is a natural response to the perceptions of others. No two people share the same brain or life experiences. Every conversation involves some degree of disagreement. The key is learning to find common ground. Essentially, “You’re right for you, and I’m right for

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me.” If we learn how to compromise and negotiate, we can coexist peacefully. On the other hand, when people attempt to impose their perspective as the only valid one—refusing to acknowledge another’s right to their opinion—this often leads to arguments or worse.

Recent Anecdotal Examples

• A married couple moved out of a neighborhood because many of their neighbors voted for Trump. The wife has also cut ties with her parents for the same reason. When hate becomes stronger than love, this may signal a form of psychological distress.
• A woman who told me that her mother hates Trump more than she loves her own daughter—simply because the daughter supports Trump’s policies.
• A relative and a separate friend who both become visibly upset whenever Trump’s name is mentioned. This resembles a hypnotic trigger—where
  a certain word causes someone to behave irrationally. This is similar to indirect hypnosis.
• A friend told me that a longtime acquaintance launched into a one-sided rant about Trump policies during a phone call. The level of anger was so intense, he had to hang up.Countless similar examples illustrate derangement-like behavior. Historical parallels can also be drawn. When Abraham Lincoln was elected, the hatred toward him was so intense that his life was endangered from the beginning. He even had to wear a disguise while traveling to the White House. This extreme derangement eventually helped fuel the Civil War, which cost over 600,000 lives and ended in Lincoln’s assassination.The mainstream media—both past and present—has played a role in fostering what could be called derangement syndrome by broadcasting messages filled with emotion and bias rather than facts. This contributes to widespread disorientation and hostility. Today’s media is more powerful than ever, amplifying messages of anger and hate through digital platforms, often resulting in mass hysteria.Some media outlets and political figures appear to give people permission to act out irrationally—even violently—in public. As a result, we’ve seen riots, vandalism, and even murder. It’s a well-understood principle that individuals are more likely to act violently in groups than alone.Historically, such outbreaks of anger have led presidents to deploy federal troops.

• George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion
• Ulysses S. Grant in response to Ku Klux Klan violence

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• Abraham Lincoln during the Draft Riots

These events were all, in part, the result of public unrest with symptoms resembling derangement.

Personally, I was once asked by a college friend working in security for a California governor to conduct a threat assessment on potential violence against Governor Jerry Brown. The letters sent to the Governor’s office were filled with unjustified hatred—what could be called “Brown Derangement Syndrome.”

This brings us to a broader question: Who benefits from widespread emotional and psychological instability among the population? Clearly, political groups can gain from stoking anger. Angry individuals often don’t think clearly, making them more susceptible to manipulation—especially during elections.

But beyond internal politics, foreign adversaries such as Communist China and Russia also benefit. These nations, both directly and through proxies, financially support divisiveness within the US. This is a form of unofficial warfare. They’ve long stated they plan to destroy America from within — without firing a single shot.

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Is Karma the Same as What Goes Around Comes Around

Desensitization

The saying, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity,” is often attributed to P.T. Barnum, the legendary showman. This concept applies to today’s media, as it did 144 years ago when promoting Barnum’s circus. I’m

not saying that today’s media is nothing more than a circus promoting this philosophy, but at times, it’s not far from it.

PT BARNUM, THE LEGENDARY SHOWMAN

Barnum initially created and toured his American Museum, and eventually, in 1881, the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He was a master of attracting attention and believed that even negative publicity could generate buzz and draw people to his attractions. His method of attracting attention is still being used today by major media outlets, including print, television, and internet outlets. What has prevailed today is the concept that even bad attention is better than no attention. Some media outlets, at times, fail to recognize this concept and

over and over promote non-worthy negative and hurtful people, instead of promoting and spending time on people who are positive and constructive members of our society. This is the main reason I see how the media creates victims in our society. Again, negative publicity is better, in a bad person’s mind, than no publicity.

Years ago, I took a daily newspaper and cut out all the negative stories and advertisements. What I had left were scraps of paper that were not enough to line a garbage can. Therefore, I concluded that negative stories sell papers and sell other media in general. If there are no local negative stories, the media will go out of their area or even their country to find a tragic story. My conclusion at that time in my career was that people liked to learn about other people’s ills,

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if not their own. The media has, over the years, picked up on this tendency and focused on negative stories. Just recently, there have been two tragic shootings, one in the National Football League’s office building in New York City (July 28, 2025) and the other at the University of Idaho (November 2022), where four students were killed.

In both situations, the criminals received extensive exposure by the media, to the extent that the Idaho killer often received more television screen time than the victims, and even at his trial, got two-thirds of the television screen as opposed to the TV host reporting the story

The New York shooter was not alive to get this type of coverage long after
the crime. One of the reasons for the brief coverage, besides his death, might be that it was discovered he was on psychiatric medications at the time of the crime (meds found in his car); such meds have major side effects of suicide and homicide, which both occurred in this case. It’s known that big pharma has crisis PR managers, who, when needed, work to curtail the knowledge of the side effects of their medications getting out after a shooting, when the shooter was on their black box brain-altering psychiatric medications.

One of the most classic examples of how a criminal gets glorified by the media is the case of Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, on December 4, 2024, in Midtown Manhattan. This accused criminal received so much media attention that the public held demonstrations supporting his crime. He became a media celebrity, even when arrested after the shooting. He was often shown on media news much more than the victim or his family.

So, my conclusion is that negative news stories sell, and the media is primarily about making money. Even when the President of our country develops programs to curb criminal behavior in Washington, DC, media outlets and political parties are trying to stop his efforts. I surely hope part of Abraham Lincoln’s famous quote, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time,” eventually takes hold in our country. I also hope people realize the saying, “Karma’s a bitch,” which reflects the belief that negative actions will inevitably lead to negative consequences. (The original phrase, “Karma is a bitch,” is a derogatory term that is used to describe Hindu and Buddhist beliefs about karma.)

This type of negative karma is occurring currently in some media companies, where some of the more outrageously negative and untruthful news hosts
are losing their credibility and jobs. But this is not happening nearly enough, especially in politics. Another part of Lincoln’s quote may explain why, which stated that “you can fool some of the people all the time”. This quote touches on another of Barnum’s common sayings: “There’s a sucker born every minute”.

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So how can so many people be fooled into believing mistruths?
A psychological term that may explain this is called expectancy behavior.
This occurs when people are led to believe a mistruth and continue to see this mistruth as being correct. An example of this was the study they did in a high school years ago, when they told a teacher that the students in her class for the new year were problem students, and another teacher that her class was made up of exceptionally good students. In fact, the opposite was true. As a result, the students whose teacher expected them to be good students actually did better than they ever had, and the good students of the teacher who was told they were problem students did more poorly than in the previous year. This is called expectancy behavior, where you’re expecting one thing to happen, without realizing the true facts behind this expectation.

Also, another psychological tool that is used to influence people incorrectly is desensitization, where people are being told, over and over, for extended periods of time, a mistruth or presented with information that misrepresents right and wrong. An example of desensitization occurring is when people in crime areas are experiencing very high levels of crime repeatedly and become so desensitized to the crime and murders that it doesn’t affect them as much
as it should. After repeated exposure to violence in the media, this results in reduced empathy and increased aggression by some individuals. These people are constantly told there is lower crime, even though crime is still extensive. Crime becomes commonplace, with this being similar to politicians constantly repeating a message that may be false. Over a long period of time, fiction becomes fact to some of the people Lincoln and Barnum referred to in the past, as stated above.

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How the Media Continues to Create Victims

MASS SHOOTING

Forty years ago, I witnessed how the media glorified a killer, which
I described in detail in the introduction of this book. On August 27, 2025, a mass shooting took place at the Minneapolis Catholic Church of

Annunciation. Did anything change in forty years in how the media reported on this tragedy? If anything, the media spent much more time showing the face of the murderer and discussing him by name, and who he was. The only person I observed (there may have been more) who refused to mention the shooter’s name was the Minneapolis Chief of Police. When he was being interviewed
by the media, he stated that he didn’t want to give any attention to the shooter because that is what the killer wanted, even after he was dead from an apparent suicide. It was a shame that all major media (both conservative and liberal) didn’t pick up on what the police chief stated. The media followed the next week, showing the full face of the shooter, again and again, on television. I had, in the past, purchased a very large screen television to watch sports and movies, not to have eighty-five inches of a killer’s full face shown on every major news network I attempted to watch. It got to the point that I had to turn the television off because it was frustrating to me how foolishly the media outlets treated this event. As I have mentioned previously in the book, unstable individuals see
that they can get their fifteen minutes of glory like this shooter. All they must do is copy what this shooter did, and this has been the case multiple times over the years. This shooter left notes behind indicating he was seeking notoriety by killing children. As the cover of this book states, the media builds their castles on the bones of the victims they create, and this current story is no different than any of the others over the past 40 years.

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When writing this enhanced edition, two tragedies occurred that received national attention. The brutal killing of Iryna Zarutska on August 22, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025, in Orem, Utah, at Utah Valley University. Both murders were the result of what I see as brainwashing and dehumanization, which I describe

in detail in Chapter 1, on page 3 in this book. The media asked how Charlie’s 22-year-old male assassin became so radicalized that he took a rifle and shot an innocent young man. The killer came from a middle-class family, who turned him in to the police. One needs to realize that watching and listening to radical media outlets is significant enough to radicalize people who are psychologically predisposed to their influence. If you constantly depict people as Nazis, fascists, democracy destroyers, etc., it leads to hate toward these supposed people. Since many people use the words fascist and Nazi and don’t know what these words mean, I will provide the definitions:

A fascist is a person who supports or believes in fascism, a political ideology characterized by a dictatorial leader, an autocratic government, extreme nationalism, suppression of opposition, and exaltation of the nation and often a specific race above the individual. The term originated with Benito Mussolini’s political movement in Italy, drawing from the Latin word fasces, which symbolized a bundle of rods and an ax representing authority and strength.

Nazi refers to a member or supporter of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), a far-right, ultranationalist political party led by Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. The party promoted a totalitarian regime based on virulent antisemitism, racial purity, and a belief in a Germanic “master race” that led to the persecution and murder of Jews and other groups during World War II.

Since the United States has a Constitution and a Bill of Rights, both Nazi and fascist types of rule can never exist, no matter what external forces try
to circumvent our government of the people, for the people, under God. Remember that “God” in these types of systems is the government, since they have no belief in God.

Iryna was a 23-year-old refugee from Ukraine, seeking safety in the United States. She was simply on her way home from work on a commuter train, sitting quietly on her own, looking down at her cell phone. She was brutally killed with a knife by a black man with a criminal history of fourteen convictions. This man’s comment, after the knife attack, was generally a statement heard by other passengers on the light rail train, with him stating, “I got the white girl.”

Communism Does Not Place Value On Human Life

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Previously in this book, in Chapter 9, page 35, I discuss how communist countries’ long-term plan to take over the United States is to create class warfare. Creating hatred between races is part of their plan. To do this, they must influence Education and control the media. It’s obvious from this killer’s action and statement that he was brainwashed to see white people as his enemy. When you see instances like this, you wonder if the FBI has done a deep dive into how Communist China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc., have funded and otherwise pushed forward their radical, hateful agenda. Ask yourself, which political party in the United States has political leanings toward Socialism, which is the precursor to communism? A hint is the current candidate for mayor of New York City, who is an admitted advocate of Socialism. He is supported by major members of his Democratic political party. Remember that socialism/communism has no belief in God. Also, remember that communism does not place value on human life. You can see this in Charlie’s death being cheered publicly on social and national television media, by liberals in the Democratic Party.

Remember this: Under China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong, various campaigns resulted in an estimated 45 to 70 million deaths, through a combination of mass executions, forced labor, and widespread famine.

Estimates of the number of deaths caused by Communist Russia leader Joseph Stalin’s regime vary significantly, with official Soviet archives detailing around 3.3 million victims in categories like executions and Gulag deaths, while other estimates for events like the 1932–1933 famine suggest at least 5.5 to 6.5 million more, leading to totals that can range into the tens of millions.

Scholars like R.J. Rummel at the University of Hawaii System’s review of North Korea’s Communist Party estimate that hundreds of thousands to over 3.5 million people may have been “murdered” or “democided” through purges, executions, and labor camp deaths since the 1940s, with no precise overall figure available.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, estimates suggest that 8,000 to 9,500 people were executed between 1980 and 1985. A major, secretive purge in 1988 saw an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 political prisoners executed under Islamic law.

The above reminder is what can be in store for any country that becomes Communist-oriented. These kinds of political executions will never exist in a Democracy such as the United States.

Charlie Kirk was a public speaker on Conservative and Christian values. He truly believed with his whole heart in the Democracy we have in the United States. He was followed by many young people of all ages and attended many college rallies. He advocated for freedom of speech and open debates, where all opinions could be heard. His stance was like what I have discussed previously in this book, that no two people can agree 100% on anything, since everyone

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has a unique brain and life experiences, hence, every conversation with another is a disagreement. We must learn to disagree and not let it advance into a heated argument that can lead to violence. His voice on this subject was not received well by those who wanted to brainwash people with misinformation. In a debate of ideas, Charlie was able to meet people halfway and have topics reasonably discussed with reasonable, agreeable solutions. People with communist leanings would be averse to this type of dialogue. Individuals

I describe in Chapter 18, page 71 i.e. Antifa, etc., are descriptive of these hateful people. That is why his assassination was political terrorism and an attack on the United States and our Constitution, as well as his strong belief in God.

The actual horrific videos of the deaths of Iryna and Charlie make both these situations somewhat different from the large numbers of murders committed daily in the United States, but they should be seen to represent anyone and everyone who needlessly loses their life to violence. I only hope that the media and politicians stop promoting hate and violence daily and stop constantly putting the faces and names of murderers on TV and social media.

When the TV and social media reported on Iryna’s death, the killer’s face was plastered all over the media, more than the victim’s. When are both the conservative and liberal media going to realize that they contribute to the violence in our country by glorifying, to demented people watching, how they can get their 15 minutes of glory?

STOP SHOWING KILLERS AND THEIR NAMES CONSTANTLY!

The FCC must do a better job of monitoring weaponized speech in all media outlets. FCC stands for the Federal Communications Commission, which is
an independent agency of the US government that regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Established by the Communications Act of 1934, the FCC’s mission is to ensure that all people of the United States have access to rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide communication services. Added to their mission statement should be safe, non-threatening, and morally appropriate communication.

The media and politicians’ constant use of dehumanizing terms to describe their adversaries must have consequences for the media outlets, since dehumanization has been used in wars to make the enemy less human and easier for the soldier to kill. Both the media and politicians will insist that the First Amendment allows freedom of speech. This freedom has limits, since we already have laws against yelling fire in a theater when there is no fire. The ‘F’ word cannot be used on public television, as well as other inappropriate curse words. So why should a word, that is a weapon (primarily utilized in war to make it easier to kill the enemy) be used to make it justifiable to kill a human being who is a political enemy only, and another citizen of the United States?

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The FCC needs to impose fines, and if that doesn’t stop the use of weaponized words, then they should take their license.

In politics, it boils down to censuring and possibly expulsion. In Congress, a censure is a formal and public statement of severe disapproval against a member for misconduct that does not meet the criteria for expulsion. The offending member receives an official, public rebuke from their chamber.

A censure resolution is adopted by a simple majority vote in either the House or the Senate, unlike expulsion, which requires a two-thirds vote.

One thing I said to my patients was, when raising children, your strongest influence against the media is your love and caring actions. When the media overpowers this, we are definitely in trouble as a nation. Charlie, by his actions and speech, was not going to let this happen, and my hope is that the many people’s lives he touched will continue in his teachings.

OTHER FACTORS IN MASS SHOOTINGS

The week following the above-mentioned shooting incident, it was good for me to hear Robert F Kennedy Jr’s (RFK) comments on national media. He stated, pretty much verbatim, what I wrote over ten years ago in my book, Invisible Scars. In the book, chapter 3, pages 93 through 101, I list numerous mass shootings, giving the shooter’s name, location of shooting, and what
type of black box, brain-altering psychiatric medications they were taking at the time of shooting or previously. I discussed in detail the adverse reactions to these medications, including suicide and homicide, among many others. RFK described the types of medications and their side effects, as mentioned in my book. I hope he read Invisible Scars for this and more information on the subject, since I was told by a friend in DC that he gave his staff the book weeks before this shooting.

Another factor, in addition to the use of black box warning brain-altering psychiatric medications, is the potential for previous brain dysfunction occurring. I have mentioned in my past writings that individuals who have brain damage, i.e., Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), and are taking brain-altering psychiatric medication, have an increase of four times more potential for committing homicide or suicide.

Since many of the current mass shooters have been involved with transsexual procedures, I decided to contact a friend of mine who is an MD endocrinologist. I asked him whether hormonal therapy for transsexual individuals could cause any type of brain dysfunction. He responded by stating that when individuals are being treated with hormones, there is a strong possibility that brain cells will become inflamed. Therefore, he feels that it would be very similar to the brain injury that I described above and increase the potential for homicide and suicide if these individuals are taking black box

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brain-altering psychiatric medication. Since there are so many current mass shooters who are described as transsexual, this is a very strong possibility, since their psychological status, by the nature of their transsexual leanings, would result in them being prescribed psychiatric medications, such as antidepressants, with the side effects mentioned above. Below is a list of recent mass shooters, without the individuals’ names, but with the location where the shooting took place and the identification marker of being trans. Also, below the list is a current statement made by the President of the United States regarding this situation.

• Madison Shooter—Trans
• Denver Shooter—Trans
• Aberdeen Shooter—Trans
• Nashville Shooter—Trans
• Georgia Shooter—Trans
• Philadelphia Shooter—Trans
• Iowa Shooter—Gender Fluid
• Uvalde Shooter—Trans
• Colorado Shooter—Trans
• Minnesota Shooter—TransDonald J. Trump Jr. said, “Maybe it’s time we start having the real conversation. Like what pumping kids full of hormones in an attempt to defy science and nature actually does to them? It seems to me there is no more violent group in the world per capita that the radical trans community, and this crap has to stop.”Over 40 years ago, I recall seeing a patient who stated that his primary problem was due to his being homosexual. After discussing ways in which he could become more stable emotionally, he concluded that most of his problems, if not all, that caused distress were due to his being homosexual. When discussing at the time what options he had, he felt that if he were heterosexual, his life would be much better. He decided to take classes at the local college
  on human sexuality and learn how to become heterosexual. After a period of time attending these classes, he felt more comfortable with his new lifestyle, and eventually, within the next few years, he married and had two children. My last follow-up visit after several years with this patient yielded information that indicated he was very comfortable with his heterosexual lifestyle, his wife, and his children.When I was seeing the above-mentioned patient, one must remember that the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental

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Disorders, 2nd edition,1968, DSM-2 identified 302 Sexual Deviation, subsection 302-0 identified Homosexuality as a mental disorder.

History of the term, Homosexuality

• DSM-II: The DSM-II, published in 1968, listed homosexuality as a mentaldisorder.
• 1973 Change: In 1973, members of the American Psychiatric Associationvoted to remove homosexuality from the DSM.
• Sexual Orientation Disturbance: A compromise was reached to introduce the diagnostic category “sexual orientation disturbance,” which could be applied to individuals with same-sex attractions who were experiencing distress about their orientation.
• Removal of Homosexuality (1987): By 1987, homosexuality had been completely removed from the DSM.There is a strong likelihood that the early developers of the DSM relied heavily on natural laws of human existence, with number 7 on the list below dealing with the subject of homosexuality.The seven universal natural laws of human existence, as described by various philosophies:
  1. Law of Mentalism: The universe is mental, and your thoughts create your reality.
  2. Law of Correspondence: Your inner world reflects your outer world.
  3. Law of Vibration: Everything vibrates—everything is in motion at auniversal level.
  4. Law of Polarity: Everything has opposites, and these are two extremes ofthe same thing, such as hot/cold or good/evil.
  5. Law of Rhythm: Every process has a natural cycle or rhythm, and thesecycles are always in motion.
  6. Law of Cause and Effect: Every action has a reaction; nothing happensby chance.
  7. Law of Gender: Everything has masculine and feminine aspects, andbalance between them is necessary for creation and harmony.
  Also, the developers of the original DSM would likely have been influenced by the Ten Commandments, as were the founding fathers of the United States when writing the Constitution. The question is, are the Ten Commandments an extension of the natural laws of human existence, and if you violate either for extended periods of time, would the human species cease to exist?
  The Ten Commandments are as famous as they are powerful:1. I am the LORD your God; you shall not have strange gods before me. 2. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

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3. Remember to keep holy the LORD’s Day.
4. Honor your father and mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods. (via Catechism of the Catholic Church, https://hallow.com/blog/10-commandments/)

The comments made by the Minneapolis shooter reminded me somewhat of my patient of 40 years ago, that I mentioned above. The shooter’s comments were in his journal. They included the following statements:

• “I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brainwashed myself.”
• “I know I am not a woman, but I definitely don’t feel like a man.”
• “Kept long hair as a “last shred of being trans.”It leaves me to wonder what the outcome would have been if this person had been seen for therapy, which would be similar to the patient I saw over forty years ago. But over the years, the definition of mental illness has changed, and no longer would I be able to see the type of patient I saw forty years ago, with the outcome I achieved, being acceptable in today’s society. In fact, if I saw a similar patient today and had the same outcome as I did with the patient I had over forty years ago, I would possibly lose my license as a clinical psychologist and not be allowed to practice. As insane as this may sound, it’s no more insane than the media, immediately after the shooting, constantly referring to the Minneapolis shooter as “she” and chastising anyone who refers to the shooter as “him.” As the president said, “This crap has to stop.”When the shooter had written, “I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brainwashed myself,” this reinforced my thought that the media had a significant influence on his trying to change his gender. People who are brainwashed don’t do it to themselves, without significant influences from external sources, in this case, the press, i.e., the reporter who continues to chastise anyone who refers to the shooter as him.I feel that an integrative treatment approach provided to the person who wrote “I know I am not a woman,” i.e., Reality Therapy/ Choice Theory Psychology, as developed by William Glasser, MD, PhD, would have been beneficial and hopefully would have preventedthe shooting. I have been utilizing Reality Therapy/Choice Theory Psychology throughout my career, going back to 1973. In all those years, like Doctor Glasser, I have never recommended brain-altering psychiatric medication. Over the years, I have never had a patient

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commit suicide or homicide. Doctor Glasser had been my mentor and friend since 1974 until his passing. Besides being a mentor, he has been a good friend of my family and a reliable source of continued education. One of his initial books, called Mental Health or Mental Illness, written in 1960, has inspired many people throughout the world to practice reality therapy. One of his other books, out of the many he wrote, called WARNING: Psychiatry Can Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health, published in 2003, gives a clear warning as to the detrimental uses of brain-altering psychiatric medications. Doctor Glasser spoke at the Combat Stress conference I directed for twenty- four years, and I will never forget his warning in the early 90s, stating at the conference that, “when our veterans come back from combat and are given brain-altering psychiatric medications, there would be
a significant increase in suicides. He was correct, and over the past twenty years, there have been, on average, 22 veterans who commit suicide each day. To illustrate this fact, I did some research when writing Invisible Scars and discovered that no prisoner of war during Vietnam committed suicide while in captivity but when they returned to the United States, there was a significant number who committed suicide, who more than likely were given brain-altering psychiatric medications.

Drs. Glasser and General Lynch my mentors

The picture below was taken at the Combat Stress Conference with Dr Glasser and General Lynch, my mentors.

The late Dr William Glasser, was instrumental in providing my professional foundation on how to be an effective therapist. His professional guidance and family friend for over 40 years had a powerful influence on all aspects of

my life, from raising my children to working with patients. He thought me the value of providing therapy without the use of psychiatric medications. His Reality Therapy/Choice Theory Psychology approach he developed was applicable not only for mental health treatment, but for everyday life, management, educational and community service work.

–Brigadier General Richard Lynch, DO, US Army Retired
The late Dr Richard Lynch gave me the opportunity to be “All You Can Be” in the Army. Not only was he my commanding officer for many years, but to this day, was always a very supportive close friend. He saw the value of teaching people how to deal with combat stress’s residual effects on our soldiers and planned for me to present the HARRT programs I developed, with my colleagues, to the Policy and Planning Generals at the Pentagon.

Bart P. Billings,Ph.D.
COL SCNG-SC, Military Medical Directorate (Ret.)
Licensed Clinical Psychologist CA PSY 7656
Licensed Marriage, Family Therapist CA LMFT 4888
-Director/Founder International Military & Civilian Combat Stress Conference
-Initial Enlisted Ranks and Retired as Medical Service Corps Officer with a total of 34 years in US Army
-Recipient of the 2014 Human Rights Award from Citizens Commission on Human Rights International & The University Of Scranton “Frank O’Hara Award” in 2016. 

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