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By JB Hanna

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British "space rock" band Hawkwind's 1981 album peaked at #19 on the U.K. album charts after five weeks. Why is this relevant? It's not, but Hawkwind's album, titled "Sonic Attack" is one of the first links you'll see when you search the obscure phrase. Sources and references abound of this old technology has been hidden in black budget programs since the 1950's.

You can find endless accounts by strange individuals who's credibility, if not sanity, are readily in question. Sci-fi tales of government stalking, mind control and of course

"Sonic weapons." Through the decades the calls into fringe radio shows and podcasts by these wackos kept coming. Finding a hiding place from the ridicule in that quiet corner of the web where confessions of alien encounters of the sexual kind, Bigfoot, chupicabra and conspiracies of reptilian political overlords have a home. A sort of World Wide Web where tinfoil hats and time travelers are welcome.

But on Wednesday May 23rd. Mainstream outlets such as CNN, FOX, MSNBC and even The Associated Press reported that the State Department issued its first medical report in almost 40 years to US citizens in china. The Department reporting that an as yet unnamed US diplomat had been diagnosed with symptoms similar to that of a concussion, also including hearing loss and nausea. The symptoms following multiple incidents of hearing high-pitched noises, buzzing and percussive sensations in their residents. The same markers of what some "US State officials" are calling "Sonic Attacks."

This has raised the eyebrows of the US Intelligence community when the attack and symptoms mirrored that of 24 US citizens in Havana Cuba just last year. And a similar attack on a USAID officer and his wife in the US Embassy in Uzbekistan. China and Cuba, both communist governments in the good graces of Russia, as Uzbekistan considers rejoining the Russian-led military bloc Collective Security Treaty Organization, from which it withdrew in 2012, all have deep political ties to Russia. This of course has raised "Cold War 2.0" suspicions.

Though state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert claims "there's no evidence that an attack in Uzbekistan occurred," a sure pattern seems to be materializing here;

All allegedly attacks have come upon US Citizens who work at the US Embassies in question. Reports of high pitched sounds, buzzing and percussive sensations of the chest and head are worryingly consistent.

If fiction is stranger than truth, then it's not far behind and gaining fast. The quick response by the US in both Uzbekistan and now China reflects the State departments since of urgency after the slow response to the events in Havana a year ago. Critics note that had the State Department responded to the initial reports of sudden health problems with six of its diplomats in kind, the number of victims in Havana Cuba, 24 (including family members) may have been avoided.

"The failure of leadership at the department and at post, the sluggish reaction to the initial reports of afflicted personnel, the aloof response of the medical team at the State Department, silence from diplomatic security to the rest of the department is simply staggering," said Senator Bob Menendez

D-N.J.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls the reports “very similar and entirely consistent." While Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang insists "We have found no reason or clue for what was reported by the U.S.”

Of course, what country would want, let alone take responsibility for harm coming to any of its so-called allies in its own back yard? Especially in such "nuclearly charged" political times.

But then again, if we listen to those whispering in the back ground of the daily media blitz, we might here an uncomfortable truth. They told us about rockets that would go into space and we laughed. They showed you leaked government documents of the Atom Bomb some 10 years before Hiroshima but we covered our ears and mocked them. They screamed from the mountain tops that the war in Iraq was based on a lie and where told to put on their tinfoil hats and go home.

Sonic weapons are not the stuff of afrofuturism or GI Joe cartoons anymore. The science fiction future of warfare is now. According to Robert Putnam, head of media relations for LRAD (long range acoustic device) the device can project voice messages and alarm tones up to a distance of two miles, and issue commands in "any" language.

Activist Anthony Cristofani who's wife had an LRAD device used on her in Oakland claims, "its like a type of psychological torture, its like it's in your brain, you can't move."

One wouldn't be hyperbolic to assume that this technology has not, or cannot be scaled down to a travel size apparatus or even pocket sized at this point. In May of 2013 Harvard robotics laboratory launched its "robobee." literally penny sized drones than can be summoned into a swarm.

WW3 may not be nuclear after all.