Merged US may close Cuba Embassy over 'health attacks'

[dann]

Marc Polymeropoulos is also sharing his story with media abroad:

Maux de tête, vertiges, immense fatigue… Depuis 2016, de mystérieux troubles neurologiques se diffusent chez les diplomates et les membres des services secrets des Etats-Unis et du Canada. Malgré l’absence de preuves publiques, Ottawa et Washington soupçonnent fortement la Russie d’être à l’œuvre en utilisant une arme à micro-ondes.
Marc Polymeropoulos n’est pas fou. Il se dit certain d’avoir été victime d’une « attaque mystérieuse ». Sinon, comment expliquer la perte de sa vision de loin, qui l’empêche de conduire ? Les migraines infernales ? Les vertiges ?
« Syndrome de La Havane », l’étrange mal des espions et diplomates nord-américains (Le Monde, June 3, 2022)

Headaches, dizziness, immense fatigue… Since 2016, mysterious neurological disorders have been spreading among diplomats and members of the secret services of the United States and Canada. Despite the lack of public evidence, Ottawa and Washington strongly suspect Russia is at work using a microwave weapon.
Marc Polymeropoulos is not crazy. He says he is certain to have been the victim of a "mysterious attack". Otherwise, how to explain the loss of his distance vision, which prevents him from driving? Infernal migraines? Dizziness ?

That is also my first thought whenever I have a headache or feel dizzy: Those damn Russians!

 

[dann]

The 'syndrome', visas, and freedom of the press:

In 2017, the United States accused Cuba of carrying out "acoustic attacks" against U.S. diplomatic personnel there, alleging some suffered from impaired hearing and other ailments, known as the "Havana Syndrome." In defense of its claim, Washington then cut its embassy staff, hampering the process of visa issuance.
However, in January this year, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency admitted that most cases of the Havana Syndrome may have been caused by environmental factors, undiagnosed medical conditions or stress, citing its report findings.
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Luisa Maria Gonzalez, deputy president of Prensa Latina, said that the U.S. delay in visa issuance not only affects work at the Cuban media but also its Latin American audience.
"For two years, there has been no Cuban journalists in the U.S. due to the delay in visa issuance. This is totally unfair, which goes against freedom of the press," said Gonzalez.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-...delay-in-visa-issuance-1aDLg20NZ1m/index.html (CGTN, June 6, 2022)

 

[dann]

This is an old tweet from CBS 60 Minutes, Feb 21, 2022:

Incidents of “Havana Syndrome” have been reported by U.S. officials in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, but 60 Minutes has found senior national security officials who say they were stricken in Washington and on the grounds of the White House
https://twitter.com/60minutes/status/1495858363455975431

But take a look at the comments. Most of them appear to be from the community of 'Targeted Individuals':

@Magicant1
Targeted Individuals from all over the globe have similar stories. Burns, headaches, dizziness, etc.. literal pictures of peoples legs and backs looking like they are half man half fried egg. Dont trust anyone who says this isnt real.

intergalactic
Filed my Havana syndrome report as a civilian incident with possible person holding a weapon 2021. Decades after being diagnosed with Hyperacusis.
Thanks for the sound clip.
What I call electronic crickets is diff than the sound clip u used.
Yet similar and more complex.

Perk 39
We are being hit in all states and most countries.

Jacquelyn Denise Sheftz Snow
N MY CASE, I'M THE EX-SPOUSE OF AN INT'L DELTA AIR LINES PILOT & HAVE FAMILY THAT HAVE/HAD A DIRECT CONNECT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
"CAP & KIT" ARE MONIKERS OF A TERRORIST GROUP THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THIS TO ME FOR NOW 22 MONTHS-THEY & OTHERS, AIDING & ABETTING, WILL BE EXPOSED SOON.

But there are a few rational ones as well:

BakerPlantLady
CIA already announced months ago that this is nonsense, actually.

 

[dann]

Other Latin American countries don't seem to have much faith in US accusations against Cuba:

The United States on Wednesday moved to lift some Trump-era restrictions on remittances and travel to Cuba even as it fended off criticism for blocking the Communist-run island and long-time foe from attending a regional summit this week.
The amended regulations, set to be published in the U.S. Federal Register on Thursday, will provide further fine print around a broader easing of U.S. restrictions on Cuba first announced by the administration of President Joe Biden in May.
A Treasury Department official said publication of the new regulations was purposefully aligned with the U.S.-hosted Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
The conference was initially conceived as a platform to showcase U.S. leadership and support for Latin America. But that agenda has been partially undermined by a boycott by some regional leaders upset at Washington's decision to exclude Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
U.S. loosens restrictions on Cuba travel, remittances amid summit blowback (Reuters, June 9, 2022)

President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday a proposed new U.S. economic partnership with Latin America aimed at countering China's growing clout as he kicked off [hililte]a regional summit marred by discord and snubs over the guest list[/hilite].
Hosting the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, Biden sought to assure the assembled leaders about his administration's commitment to the region despite nagging concerns that Washington, at times, is still trying to dictate to its poorer southern neighbors.
The line-up of visiting heads of state and government in attendance was thinned down to 21 after Biden excluded Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, prompting Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and several other leaders to stay away in protest.
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Biden's aides have framed the summit as an opportunity for the United States to reassert its leadership in Latin America after years of comparative neglect under his predecessor Donald Trump.
But diplomatic tensions broke into the open this week when Washington opted not to invite the three countries it says violate human rights and democratic values.
Rebuffed in his demand that all countries must be invited, Lopez Obrador said he would stay away, deflecting attention from the U.S. administration's goals and toward regional divisions.
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said the United States lacked "moral authority" to lecture on democracy and thanked Lopez Obrador for his "solidarity."Biden unveils new Latin America economic plan at reboot summit dogged by dissent (Reuters, June 9, 2022)

During the times of donald trump in the White House, the United States had intensified its embargo policy towards Cuba with two measures that the Biden administration have now removed: the limits on the sending of remittances and the restrictions on group trips to Cuba.
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What is not clear is how these remittances can be sent, since Western Union has stopped operating on the island.
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The second Trump-era measure banning group study tours to Cuba has also been deprecated.
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The last change announced, which has not yet entered into force, is the increase in consular services in Cuba, suspended since 2017 when the first cases of the so-called Havana Syndrome occurred, a still unexplained medical phenomenon that has affected a good part of the diplomatic community of the United States.
The US re-enabled the sending of remittances to Cuba without limits (American Chronicles, June 9, 2022)

 

[dann]

I can recommend a recent video posted on YouTube by Glenn Greenwald. It is about Nicolle Wallace, currently an MSNBC news presenter, but it has five minutes about her presentation of the 'Havana Syndrome' over the years: 1:45-->5:26
Nicolle Wallace: The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation (Glenn Greenwald on YouTube, May 19, 2022 - 26:20)

The long video is presented in an article by Glenn Greenwald: “The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation”: Nicolle Wallace. Nobody Spreads it More Relentlessly (Scheerpost, May 20, 2022)
There is also a short teaser: The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation: Nicolle Wallace (Glenn Greenwald on YouTube, May 19, 2022 - 2:20)

Also covered in the long video: Nicolle Wallace's presentation of the following themes and more:
Russia putting bounties on the heads of American soldiers
The Steele Dossier
The Bible photo op
The Hunter Biden laptop material
Captitol police officer Brian Sicknick's death

 

[dann]

DIY Neuroweapons

Prepare yourselves for the next mass shootings.
This time, you won't know what hit you.
In fact, you may already have been hit, but you just don't know it yet.

The U.S. government has set up two investigation panels to find out more about the technology behind the attacks. Renowned neuroweapons expert Dr. James Giordano, who is on one of the panels, has been talking about civilians that are being assaulted with these weapons.
Giordano said the components needed to build directed-energy weapons are not hard to find – and they’re not even that expensive. People can buy them for just $300 on the black market or even on the internet.
Maritato said this is already a global phenomenon and it’s about time to acknowledge that civilians around the world are exposed and vulnerable to these weapons. The human rights activist noted that an international class action lawsuit has already been filed in Belgium and nonprofit organizations around the world are working together to find out who is behind these attacks.
America Unhinged: Human rights activist Mariana Maritato says civilians are being assaulted with directed-energy weapons – Brighteon.TV (Natural News, June 10, 2022)

$300. That's cheaper than an AR-15! This should make the next school shootings ... interesting! Will law enforcement show up in and armed with theremins?

In other contexts, Maritato is described as a Targeted Individual instead of as a human rights activists, but I guess one can be both.
Anyway, with the NGOs on the case, I guess they will have apprehended the culprit by the end of next week.

 

[dann]

Suggestibility underlies psychosomatics, placebos, social contagion, and culture
Social influence can help explain a vast array of human behaviors, from everyday forms of learning and relating, to long-term increases in mental illness and violence.
Basic forms of imitation begin in infancy, and involuntary mimicry is evident in phenomena like contagious yawning.
Imitation and suggestibility are features of being human, but may have many harmful side effects.
From Fashion to Suicide: Why We Imitate Each Other (Psychology Today, March 11, 2021)

Havana Syndrome specifically is mentioned in footnote 20:

... If Havana Syndrome does turn out to be psychogenic, it will be a useful reminder that anyone, no matter how mentally resilient, is susceptible to such symptoms. Much was made of the fact that the affected diplomats are highly resilient people and therefore supposedly could not have been suffering from psychogenic symptoms. This assumption reflects a misunderstanding of how suggestibility and social contagion work. ...

 

[dann]

The French-language version of this article was already mentioned in post 1,541:

Headaches, dizziness, severe fatigue: Since 2016, mysterious neurological disorders, dubbed 'Havana syndrome,' have been afflicting Canadian and American diplomats and members of the secret services. Despite a lack of public evidence, Ottawa and Washington strongly suspect that Russia is behind it, using a microwave weapon.
Marc Polymeropoulos is not crazy. He is certain that he was the victim of a "mysterious attack." How else to explain his loss of distance vision, which prevents him from driving? The excruciating migraines? The dizziness?
The puzzle of Havana syndrome, the strange disease affecting North American spies and diplomats (Le Monde, June 14, 2022)

I think it's one of those things where nobody would jump to the conclusion that he is crazy if he would just leave it at the description of his symptoms: his loss of distance vision, having migraines and feeling dizzy.

 

[dann]

In post 1,482, I mentioned Bradley J. Roth's new book Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? How Electricity and Magnetism Affect Our Health because it contains a chapter on the 'Havana Syndrome'. I haven't read it yet, but I definitely will.
Now Harriet Hall has written a review of the book in Science-Based Medicine:

Each chapter title is a question, and his answer is usually “probably not” or “no”. I’ll elaborate chapter by chapter, starting with Chapter 2, after the Introduction. His explanations are thorough and full of interesting facts that will help the reader decide if health claims are plausible and may help them win a trivia contest.
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Chapter 8: Did Cuba Attack America with Microwaves?
The Havana Syndrome refers to mysterious medical symptoms reported by personnel at the American and Canadian embassies in Cuba in 2016, including ringing in the ears, fatigue, and dizziness. Questionable studies blamed everything from crickets to acoustic or microwave weapons aimed at the embassies by enemy agents. Roth explains what physics has to say about the evidence and why the most likely explanation is mass psychogenic illness.
A review of Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? How Electricity and Magnetism Affect Our Health, by Bradley J. Roth (Science-Based medicine, June 14, 2022)

Skeptics might be interested in reading this book for its other chapters, too:
Chapter 2: Can Magnets Cure All Your Ills?
Chapter 3: Can a 9 Volt Battery Make You Smarter?
Chapter 4: Do Power Lines Cause Cancer?
Chapter 5: Will Electrical Stimulation Help Your Aching Back?
Chapter 6: Is Your Cell Phone Killing You?
Chapter 7: Did 5G Cell Phone Radiation Cause COVID-19?
Chapter 9: Is That Airport Security Scanner Dangerous?
A bonus: Explaining critical thinking

Harriet Hall recommends the book:

This book is an essential reference that would be a great addition to every skeptic’s bookshelf. It summarizes the evidence about the health effects of electromagnetism and provides ammunition for debunking pseudoscientific rumors. It’s short, inexpensive, well-written, and full of interesting facts. I was particularly intrigued to learn that an electric eel has its own Twitter account.

I recommend the review!

 

[dann]

From Bradley J. Roth's book mentioned above, Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? How Electricity and Magnetism Affect Our Health, Chapter 8.

I find the paragraph about the NAS report particularly interesting:

Because the sounds that victims heard seemed to be associated with a particular direction and location, the committee suggested that radio frequency energy was the most plausible expiation for the symptoms. The National Academies committee did not seem to be aware of the JASON report, which was completed 2 years earlier but was classified so it was not readily available.
The report found that people did not feel any warming, nor was there any thermal damage evident in medical images. It therefore excluded intense radio frequency energy that is associated with heating.
Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? How Electricity and Magnetism Affect Our Health, p. 100

Of course, that "the sounds that victims heard seemed to be associated with a particular direction and location" is no reason to assume "that radio frequency energy was the most plausible expiation for the symptoms." Radio frequency energy is beyond the range of human hearing. (And I seriously doubt that any animals can hear them.) Besides, some of the alleged attack victims described the sound as following them around, which would be difficult to do for a sound coming from "a particular direction and location."

The report did not cite many review articles or meta-analyses that critically assessed much of this research [on the biological effects of radio frequency radiation], nor did it address the lack of biophysical mechanisms.
Instead, the report cited reviews of radio therapy, despite its use of x-rays and other ionizing radiation, which is completely unlike the non ionizing radiation from microwaves. It cited a discussion of microwave therapy applied through a catheter to destroy tissue, despite that being an obviously thermal result. It cited microwave studies at very high frequencies without noting that the skin depth would prevent these waves from penetrating into the brain. It cited the blood brain barrier work by Salford, without mentioning that these results were inconsistent with other studies (see Chap. 6). It cited a review of electromagnetic hypersensitivity, a phenomenon in which a person claims to be affected by weak electromagnetic fields, even though medical research suggests that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is not real. It cited the coherent vibrations postulated by Herbert Fröhlich, without mentioning the theoretical limitations of such a mechanism (described in Chap. 6). Finally, when discussing voltage-gated calcium channels, it cited two papers by Martin Pall, the researcher who promotes a relationship between 5G radiation and Covid-19.
p. 100-101

Checkmite got upset because I "proceeded to attack the competence of the kinds of people appointed to the NAS." I would have liked to hear what he thinks of the kind of 'research' that the authors of the NAS report relied on in their support of the idea that U.S. diplomats and spies in Havana were attacked by nefarious agents using radio frequency energy weapons.

 

[dann]

I read the final chapter of my book "Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill?"
Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? (Brad Roth on YouTube, May 4, 2022)

Brad Roth's video deserves some more likes from skeptics!

 

[dann]

This is another one of those articles that have somehow managed to stay below the Google radar:
Two Reports About the Havana Syndrome: Which Should We Believe? (Medium, Feb 8, 2022)
The two reports mentioned in the title are the JASON report and the NAS report.

I wasn't aware of this until now, but Brad Roth, the author of the article and the book mentioned in the most recent posts, isn't just any university professor of physics, not that this isn't impressive enough. He is

Professor of Physics at Oakland University and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology.

His knowledge of both physics and medicine/biology makes him the ideal person to write about the 'syndrome'. I would like to see him team up with the two Roberts when it's time for the final edition of the book about the 'Havana Syndrome'.

 

[dann]

Sabine Hossenfelder is another physicist who has taken part in the discussion about the 'Havana Syndrome'. Her video about the 'syndrome' seems to be very popular. I mentioned it in post 1,117, and it was mentioned again in post 1,156, but I never commented on it.

She begins by dismissing mass psychogenic illness as an explanation. At 5:33 --> she says:

There are other reasons to think that purely psychosomatic reasons don't explain what's happened. For example, the first cases in Cuba were treated confidentially and didn't appear in the news until six months later. And yet there were several different people suddenly seeing doctors for similar symptoms at almost the same time. Those symptoms came on rather suddenly and were reportedly accompanied by strange sounds. The affected people described those sounds as sharp, disorienting, or oddly focused.

Hossenfelder leaves out the fact that they all heard the strange sounds because they were all in Havana and heard (and even recorded) the same crickets. However, she does tell us that they saw doctors for similar symptoms at almost the same time. She seems to be unaware that what she is describing looks like a very typical case of MPI. That they were "several different people" (unlike one and the same person ) seems to be what makes her dismiss MPI as an explanation even though it would obviously have to be several different people in order to qualify as mass psychogenic illness.

She picks it up again at 15:34 -->:

While it seems unlikely that the first cases in Cuba spread by mass hysteria, the cases in China only began after those in Cuba had made headlines, so that's an entirely different situation.

Yes, it is a different situation, which is why Richard Bartholomew calls the cases spread by the U.S. State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies mass suggestion rather than mass psychogenic illness or mass hysteria. However, it is interesting that Hossenfelder knows that the first cases, the ones she doesn't think were MPI, spread among "members of a cohesive group." It was an "occurrence in a segregated group" characterized by "the presence of extraordinary anxiety," and what they came down with were "symptoms that are spread via sight, sound or oral communication." (All quotations from Mass psychogenic illness
(Wikipedia)).

But she appears to be unaware of the stories about how Patient Zero, the CIA operative, actively spread the story in the community of American and Canadian diplomats and spies in Havana. They may have been several different people, but they were several different people in the same community who heard the same sounds and were told by Patient Zero that those sounds were sonic attacks that were damaging their health.
This makes it more than likely "that the first cases in Cuba spread by mass hysteria."
I would encourage Hossenfelder to take another look at her video and read up on the origin story of the 'Havana Syndrome'. By the way, unlike Brad Roth, Hossenfelder does not appear to have specialized in the field of physics related to medicine and biology. Quantum gravity is where her main interest is.

 

[dann]

Polymeropoulos in Le Monde on Havana Syndrome (Atlantic Council, June 14, 2022). See post 1,548.

Is Polymeropoulos even one of those two dozen cases that still haven't been explained?
He wasn't anywhere near Havana when he was allegedly attacked and he didn't record any crickets according to what I have read.

 

[dann]

The author, Belen Fernandez, is puzzled by the current the US State Department's "Travel Advisory" to various countries:

Americans who are toxically and debilitatingly conditioned to fear the outside world, and particularly specific parts of it, are unlikely to ever rectify their misconceptions to allow for the possibility of common humanity – or for the possibility that there should perhaps be travel advisories for, say, US elementary schools and other recurrent venues for mass shootings.
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And in February 2022 I visited Cuba for the second time – which, like Iran, has long suffered under a pernicious US embargo that amounts to a de facto war. The state department’s Cuba travel advisory, updated June 13, begins with a warning about the perils of the so-called “Havana Syndrome” – a mysterious anti-American ailment that spontaneously materialized in 2016 but that has now been pretty much debunked by the CIA itself.

My own activities in Havana included executing a spectacular fall while jogging on the seaside of Malecón, where the only witness to the event was a 43-year-old man named Eraudis from the Cuban province of Guantánamo. Perched atop the seawall, he apologized that he could not carry my scraped-up self back to my house since he had no legs. These, it turned out, had been blown off more than 20 years earlier by a landmine outside the US’s illegal offshore penalty colony at Guantánamo Bay.

The world is a scary place indeed.
Fear and loathing: The US travel guide to the world | Opinions (AlJazeera, June 21, 2022)

 

[dann]

State Department: the scans have no scientific validity!

This could get interesting!

Biden administration plans six-figure compensation for Havana syndrome victims (Reuters, June 23, 2022)

The Biden administration plans to pay some diplomats and intelligence officers roughly $100,000 to $200,000 each to compensate for the mysterious health problems known as “Havana syndrome,” according to congressional aides and a former official familiar with the matter.
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The CIA determined this winter that a foreign country is probably not behind a “worldwide campaign harming U.S. personnel with a weapon or mechanism” — an assessment that raised doubts about years of speculation that the health issues were the result of a mysterious directed energy weapon wielded by Russian or Chinese agents.
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Devising a compensation plan has been particularly difficult for U.S. government officials, given the lack of hard evidence for what’s causing the ailments and the inability to establish a clear diagnosis for the broad range of symptoms that while sometimes debilitating can also be common.
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Officials from the National Institutes of Health, the Pentagon and other agencies have jointly developed a new, two-hour medical exam to screen potential new cases that can be administered by doctors or other practitioners to U.S. personnel assigned to overseas missions.
The triage process includes visual, vestibular and blood testing but not brain imaging, a fact that reflects constantly changing and sometimes-disputed science on the injuries. Even though some doctors previously identified “perceptible changes” in the brain as a result of apparent attacks, State Department physicians say they now believe the scans have no scientific validity.
U.S. to give some ‘Havana syndrome’ victims six-figure compensation (WP, June 23, 2022)

The Biden administration has already blown past the April deadline to deliver the required regulations, frustrating Congress and victims as the interagency approach to this mysterious illness has already been plagued by dysfunction and complications.
In order to be implemented, the so-called Havana Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law late last year, requires the State Department and the CIA to define what would qualify as an injury to the brain. It does not require the departments to share the same definition.
As victims wait for the rule to be published, there are concerns about the departments potentially coming up with separate definitions, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
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The departments met separately with outside doctors and specialists to determine how they would define an injury to the brain, sources said.
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Victims predict the response could be overwhelming and heated if there are definitions they do not agree with or compensation amounts that seem unfair.
Biden administration preparing to compensate some 'Havana syndrome' victims up to $200,000 (CNN, June 24, 2022)

Having heard the sound of crickets was the one thing that seemed to characterize the two dozen cases that haven't been dismissed as having other causes than an attack with microwave weapons. However, having heard crickets cannot possibly be a symptom of "“perceptible changes” in the brain as a result of apparent attacks," so how will they come up with a definition that includes the Havana cases and excludes the other 1,000 investigated cases in the rest of the world from receiving the six-figure compensation?
Just asking for a friend ...

 

[dann]

It was unclear what information they provided about the investigation into the incidents, which remain unexplained more than five years after U.S. diplomats and spies in Havana began to report experiencing strange sounds and sensations followed by a variety of symptoms, including brain injury. U.S. officials familiar with the investigation say the U.S. has still not determined a cause.
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Yet there have been few public updates about what the government has learned about the cause of the incidents since early in the year, when a pair of intelligence assessments added fresh uncertainty to the question of how many Americans were affected and by what.
In January, a CIA interim assessment ruled out the possibility of a sustained global campaign by a foreign power to hurt Americans, but it said about two dozen cases remain unexplained and could have resulted from hostile acts. Weeks later, a panel of scientific experts enlisted by U.S. intelligence agencies concluded at least some injuries were most likely caused by pulsed electromagnetic energy from an external device.
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“There is a lot we still don’t know about directed-energy attacks but what we do know is that the injuries are real,” Shaheen said in a statement Thursday. “Much work remains to get to the bottom of these attacks to understand how our government can best assist victims — that work goes on.”
Deputy CIA chief briefs senators on ‘Havana Syndrome’ as U.S. prepares to pay victims (NBC News, June 23, 2022)

So Shaheen is still adamant that she is dealing with attacks even though nothing supports that idea. I doubt that she knows the meaning of her own words, "the injuries are real." She probably thinks that real injuries = real attack.

 

[dann]

Bartholomew: 'Havana Syndrome' Sufferers Deserve Compensation

The title of this post may come as a surprise to some people, but it shouldn't:

* The U.S. government is about to compensate victims of ‘Havana Syndrome’ despite a lack of evidence that it even exists.
* There is no credible evidence that any American were attacked by a hostile foreign actor.
* The decision to compensate ‘Havana Syndrome’ patients may be justified on moral grounds as victims of ineptitude.
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This is a problem that has been created by the U.S. government. It will only be solved when officials put politics aside and listen to the conclusions of its own intelligence agencies—and that includes releasing the Freedom of Information documents which remain sealed.
'Havana Syndrome' Sufferers Deserve Compensation - But not for the reason you think. (Psychology Today, June 28, 2022)

 

[dann]

Biden administration plans six-figure compensation for Havana syndrome victims (Reuters, June 23, 2022)

Inquiries made Monday morning to Global Affairs Canada (GAC) by the National Post on whether Ottawa was planning something similar went unacknowledged by press time.
Pamela Isfeld, President of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers (PAFSO) — the union representing Canada’s 2,000 active and retired members of the diplomatic corps — said what her members are most interested in right now are answers.
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Assessments released earlier this year by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concluded the symptoms were not the result of a hostile attack by foreign powers, despite some officials — including agency director William J. Burns — previously describing the incidents as “attacks.”
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While PAFSO has nothing to do with the $28-million lawsuit filed against the federal government in 2019 by Canadian Havana Syndrome sufferers, lawyers for the plaintiffs report a similarly glacial pace as they wind their way through the courts.
Canadian government not saying if it will follow U.S. with 'Havana Syndrome' compensation (National Post, June 27, 2022)

I thought the Canadian lawsuit had ended years ago.

 

[dann]

Not the first article I have come across put together by somebody who doesn't understand the story at all.

The Havana syndrome is treated in what ways?
According to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans, affected individuals have paler tissue in color than healthy individuals (which contains bundles of myelinated nerve fibers). These findings support the theory that Havana syndrome is a disorder that represents brain structure and activity changes that are nonspecific and unfathomable.
Alternative medicine modalities such as art therapy, meditation, breathing exercises, and acupuncture manage the disease.
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Conclusion
Here we discussed Havana Syndrome Symptoms, Cause, Treatment, and more. Read the full article and understand how you can cure it in a better way.
Havana Syndrome Symptoms, Cause, Treatment and more (MySmartFAQ, July 1, 2022)

No, don't!