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July 25-26, 2012 -- Aurora police chief's dubious connections
As Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates receives accolades from officials from President Obama to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Oates's past position with the New York Police Department is noteworthy as more details emerge of the connections between the alleged Century 16 movie theater shooter James Holmes and government-funded neuroscience research.
Oates retired from the New York Police Department in 2001 after a 21-year career. He served as safety services administrator in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the home of the University of Michigan, designated by former CIA director Richard Helms as one of the five top CIA-Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) [now known as the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or DARPA] "behavioral science" research campuses, along with Yale, M.I.T., U.C.L.A, and the University of Hawaii. In 2005, Oates left Ann Arbor to take up his present position in Aurora.Oates's last job with the NYPD was as the chief of the intelligence division. As a member of Police Commissioner Howard Safir's executive staff, Oates's prepared, according to The New York Daily News, a daily intelligence briefing for Safir, which lasted some two hours. Oates's would have conceivably had access to a wide spectrum of intelligence information, including Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, and other federal agency reports on the suspicious activities of a number of Israeli "art students" and "office movers" in the year leading up to the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Center.
However, Oates apparently missed the critical intelligence or, if he passed it to Safir, it was ignored. Safir, who served as New York Police Commissioner from 1996 to 2000 and was appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, previously served as a federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs agent and in 10972, was one of two BNDD agents who arrested Harvard University researcher Timothy Leary, a proponent of LSD use. However, Leary had also conducted research, under the guise of the Harvard Psilocybin Project. the Concord Prison Experiment, and the Marsh Chapel Experiment, for the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control program. which was under the direction of CIA Technical Services director Dr. Sidney Gottlieb.
After Safir retired as police commissioner, he became the chief consultant to the CEO of ChoicePoint, Inc., the firm that was implicated in scrubbing voter rolls in Florida for the 2000 presidential election.
In December 2001, Safir became chairman and CEO SafirRosetti, a security firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Options Group, as well as CEO of Bode Technology, also a subsidiary of Global Options. Safir has also served as CEO of VRI Technologies LLC, a security investigations and data analysis firm; chairman of National Security Solutions, Inc., a counter-terrorism firm; chairman and CEO of the November Group Ltd, a strategic consulting firm headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. In addition, he has served on the the board of directors of Implant Sciences Corp., an explosive trace detection sensor firm; and Verint Systems, Inc.
Verint was formerly known as Comverse/Infosys and the Department of Justice suspected the Israeli-owned firm, which had contracts to provide wiretapping systems to the FBI and Justice Department, of having significant links to Israeli intelligence. Comverse/Infosys, now known as Verint, was suspended from the New York NASDAQ index in 2007 over financial irregularities and money laundering brought about by the ex-CEO of Comverse/Infosys, Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, an Israeli national. Alexander fled prosecution for securities fraud in the United States and he now lives in the Namibian capital of Windhoek. Efforts to extradite Alexander from Namibia to the United States have been unsuccessful.
Verint provided the closed-circuit television surveillance system for the London Underground when the system was hit by terrorist bombs on July 7, 2005. A company called Visor Consultants was conducting a training exercise in which dummy bombs were used to simulate a terrorist bombing of the London Underground as the actual bombs were detonated. Giuliani, who appointed Safir as his polcie commissioner, happened to be staying in downtown London at the time of the bombings. Giuliani was staying and attending an economic conference at the Great Eastern Hotel, at which then-Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also present.
Netanyahu had expressed a certain satisfaction over the 9/11 attack on U.S. television in implying the attack would be "good for Israel." The response to the 9/11 attack was severely affected by actual commercial airplane hijacking drills being run by the Pentagon during the actual attacks.
Ironically, Safir's one-time intelligence chief, Oates, would also face the strange situation where an emergency medical drill in nearby Douglas County, on the outskirts of Aurora, that dealt with a gunman shooting up a movie theater, was being conducted during the actual shooting at the Batman movie in Aurora.
Oates, in remarks to the media after the massacre at the theater, immediately moved to quash rumors on the Internet. He also told CBS News Face the Nation: "All evidence we have, every single indicator is that it was all Mr. Holmes' activity and that he wasn't particularly aided by anyone else." Oates was discounting anything other than a "lone nut" theory behind the mass shooting.
The Aurora police also revealed they were mistaken when they first reported that the car Holmes allegedly drove to the theater to conduct his shooting spree had Tennessee license plates. The alleged shooter's father, Robert Holmes, worked in some capacity for the U.S. Navy Personnel Research and Development Center in San Diego in 1988. The elder Holmes wrote a technical report for the center and the work appeared to have spanned from 1988 to 1989. In 2000, the San Diego center moved to a remodeled new "lab space" at the Naval Support Activity in Millington, Tennessee, near Memphis. The center was re-named the Navy Personnel Research, Studies and Technology (NPRST) Department. The Millington center concentrates on behavioral and social sciences research and is funded mostly out of the Human Systems Department at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Navy research branch that works closely with DARPA and the CIA. NPRST also has close working relationships with two universities, the University of Mephis and the University of Mississippi.
It has also been revealed that Holmes spoke at the Salk Institute at the age of 18 on temporal illusions. Holmes explains that a temporal illusion is an illusion that allows one to change the past. One of slides shows the name of Terrence Sejnowski, Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. In 2008, Sejnowski wrote that since early brain research conducted by the RAND Corporation in 1980, "we now know a lot about the brain, perhaps more than we need to know." In 2001, Sejnowski worked with the CIA to develop a facial recognition and analysis system to detect whether someone is lying. Three files of Sejnowski's research papers are located in Box 58 at the System Development Foundation (SDF) in Palo Alto, California. SDF has a rather complex and mysterious origin is said to have been created "in the 1950s" as a not-for-profit entity. SDF has an archival depository relationship with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.
RAND and Stanford Research Institute, two of the CIA's top west coast research centers, were involved in temporal illusion research throughout the 1970s and 80s. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency projects had various code-names, including GRILL FLAME and STAR GATE. All dealt with remote viewing, and WMR learned from a recent participant in the same program, now under the supervision of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland, has dealt on numerous occasions with temporal remote viewing, i.e., remote viewing of past and future events. The NSA program involves Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, according to the NSA source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn6K9cb-h...r_embedded
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20120725
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Published on Jul 22, 2012 by FrimmerNews
Earlier today, ABC News ran footage from a video unearthed showing James Holmes, currently being held by the Aurora police for the shootings in a Colorado movie theater, speaking at a science camp several years ago. In the video, he is giving a lecture on temporal illusions.
One of the other students introduces him with this statement: "His goals are to become a researcher and make scientific discoveries." She continues to say that Holmes enjoys soccer and strategy games, and his dream is "to own a Slurpee machine." ABC revealed that Holmes' interest in science won him a federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to study neuroscience.
ABC also aired video footage of police setting off several explosives taken from Holmes' apartment in the middle of a large field in carefully staged conditions.
Watch the video below, courtesy of AB
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Real Connection to DARPA: The Eagleman Lab
Submitted by texasforager on Wed, 07/25/2012 - 20:55. Permalink
I have taken a particular interest in this case, as I emailed the University of Colorado Department of Neuroscience on June 21st with a proposal for a neurolinguistic experiment aimed at inducing temporary aphasia in a group of adult volunteers.
Neuroscientists James Jacobson and David Eagleman both worked at the Salk institute and have recently appeared in the media and appear to be attempting to both discredit his intelligence and downplay their involvement with him. David Eagleman is of particular interest.
In 2006 at age 18, James Holmes spends 6 weeks as an intern at the Salk Institute under the direct supervision of John Jacobson, whom he refers to in a video as "his mentor"
The Salk Institute of Biology is ranked as one of the world's top biomedical research facilities and is described as "an isolated compound… not unlike monasteries for religious discovery" and "A temple of science; a secular monastery where man pursues knowledge of our biological foundations."
Holmes states in a video:
"Over the course of the summer I've been working on a temporal illusionan illusion that allows you to change the past…he [Jacobson] also studies subjective experience, which is what takes place inside the mind as opposed to the external world. I've carried on his work in dealing with subjective experience"
Who is Jacobson?
In 2004 John Jacobson co-authors a paper with David Eagleman at the Salk Institute on temporal illusions "Perceived Luminance Depends on Temporal Context" NATURE journal
Eagleman as it turns out, is an extremely interesting character: after serving in the Israeli Army, he becomes interested in neuroscience after taking a neurolinguistics class at Rice University. After obtaining a degree in literature, he goes on to earn his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Baylor University. He then takes a post-doctoral position at the Salk Institute of Biology under Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA molecule. In 2009 Eagleman writes "Sum: 40 Tales of the Afterlife" a bizarre book of fictional philosophy
Eagleman Lab for Perception and Action (eaglemanlab.net)
Researches "time perception, sensory substitution, synesthesia, and neurolaw"
"we are engaged in experiments that explore temporal coding, time warping, manipulation of perception of causality, time perception in schizophrenia and time perception in high adrenaline situations"
The Eagleman lab is funded by NIH and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
"In October 2006, a Pentagon agency called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sought out researchers for ways to monitor the brain in its learning and acquisition process, by observing the differences between the brains of beginners and experts and discovering "noninvasive ways to speed up the process" [1]. Known as the "Augmented Cognition" program, the agency paid Lockheed Martin $650,000 to develop real-time technology of cognitive activity and function of a brain. September witnessed the preliminary development of such a portable, wearable system of sensors that assessed cognitive activity and prints out a data sheet revealing brain activity deviation from the norm or average of the population.
But why would DARPA want to look at neuroscience evidence? Information gathered from these helmet sensors would measure brain states associated with "anger, aggression, fatigue, deception," which would then be relayed to a command center. During war, those working in the command center may choose how to deploy the soldiers based on their mental states. A focused soldier may be ordered to shoot, and a furious soldier may be asked to sit and calm down so as not to do anything careless." NeuLaw Blog, Sept. 28 2011, Kyang & David Eagleman
"DARPA, the Pentagon's way-out science arm, wants to make soldiers stronger, faster, and generally "kill proof." The key, the agency believes: Getting humans to act more like animals.
For years, DARPA has been pushing to boost soldier performance. Today, at the opening of DARPATech, the agency's bi-annual conference, program manager Michael Callahan just announced a new effort to take that research even further. He calls it "Inner Armor.""Wired Magazine, August 7 2007, Noah Shachtman
"Current computer-based target detection capabilities cannot process large volumes of imagery with the speed, flexibility, and precision of the human visual system. Investigations of visual neuroscience mechanisms indicate that human brains are capable of responding visually much more quickly than they respond physically. The vision for DARPA's Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts (NIA) program is to revolutionize how analysts handle intelligence imagery, increasing throughput of imagery to an analyst and overall accuracy of assessments.
NIA seeks to identify robust brain signals that can be recorded in an operational environment and process these in real-time to select images that merit further review. The program aims to apply these triage methods to static, broad area, and video imagery. Successful development of a neurobiologically based image triage system will increase speed and accuracy of image analysis where the number of acquired images is expected to rise significantly. Results of the NIA program will enable image analysts to train more effectively and process imagery with greater speed and precision."
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Progra...chnology_f...
DARPA is best known as driving force behind the creation of the Internet and Onion Routing, as well as:
Combat Zones That See - "track everything that moves" in a city by linking up a massive network of surveillance cameras
EATR An autonomous tactical robotic system
Human Universal Load Carrier battery-powered human exoskeleton
Proto 2 - a thought-controlled prosthetic arm
Remote-controlled insects
DARPA Silent Talk - A planned program attempting to identify EEG patterns for words and transmit these for covert communications.
SyNAPSE - Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics,
"ON THE STEAMY first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation deck, lugging with him a footlocker full of guns and ammunition…
"The lesson from all these stories is the same: human behavior cannot be separated from human biology. If we like to believe that people make free choices about their behavior (as in, "I don't gamble, because I'm strong-willed"), cases like Alex the pedophile, the frontotemporal shoplifters, and the gambling Parkinson's patients may encourage us to examine our views more carefully. Perhaps not everyone is equally "free" to make socially appropriate choices…
As our understanding of the human brain improves, juries are increasingly challenged with these sorts of questions. When a criminal stands in front of the judge's bench today, the legal system wants to know whether he is blameworthy. Was it his fault, or his biology's fault?...
If I seem to be heading in an uncomfortable directiontoward letting criminals off the hookplease read on, because I'm going to show the logic of a new argument, piece by piece. The upshot is that we can build a legal system more deeply informed by science, in which we will continue to take criminals off the streets, but we will customize sentencing, leverage new opportunities for rehabilitation, and structure better incentives for good behavior…
Free will may exist (it may simply be beyond our current science), but one thing seems clear: if free will does exist, it has little room in which to operate. It can at best be a small factor riding on top of vast neural networks shaped by genes and environment. In fact, free will may end up being so small that we eventually think about bad decision-making in the same way we think about any physical process, such as diabetes or lung disease….
A forward-thinking legal system will also parlay biological understanding into customized rehabilitation, viewing criminal behavior the way we understand other medical conditions such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and depressionconditions that now allow the seeking and giving of help. These and other brain disorders find themselves on the not-blameworthy side of the fault line, where they are now recognized as biological, not demonic, issues…
We may be on the cusp of finding new rehabilitative strategies as well, affording people better control of their behavior, even in the absence of external authority. To help a citizen reintegrate into society, the ethical goal is to change him as little as possible while bringing his behavior into line with society's needs. My colleagues and I are proposing a new approach, one that grows from the understanding that the brain operates like a team of rivals, with different neural populations competing to control the single output channel of behavior. Because it's a competition, the outcome can be tipped. I call the approach "the prefrontal workout."…
If this sounds like biofeedback from the 1970s, it isbut this time with vastly more sophistication, monitoring specific networks inside the head rather than a single electrode on the skin. This research is just beginning, so the method's efficacy is not yet knownbut if it works well, it will be a game changer. We will be able to take it to the incarcerated population, especially those approaching release, to try to help them avoid coming back through the revolving prison doors."-- The Brain on Trial, The Atlantic, July August 2011, by DAVID EAGLEMAN
"Plenty of geeks are already obsessed with self-tracking, from monitoring sleep rhythms to graphing caffeine intake versus productivity. Now, the Department of Defense's far-out research agency is after the ultimate kind of Quantified Self: Soldiers with implanted body sensors that keep intimate tabs on their health, around the clock.
In a new call for research, Darpa is asking for proposals to devise prototype implantable biosensors. Once inserted under a soldier's skin, Darpa wants the sensors to provide real-time, accurate measurements of "DoD-relevant biomarkers" including stress hormones, like cortisol, and compounds that signal inflammation, like histamine.
Implantable sensors are only the latest of several Pentagon-backed ventures to track a soldier's health. Darpa's already looked into tracking "nutritional biomarkers" to evaluate troops' diets. And as part of the agency's "Peak Soldier Performance" program, Darpa studied how one's genes impact physical ability, and tried to manipulate cellular mitochondria to boost the body's energy levels.
Sensors alone won't make troops stronger, smarter or more resilient. But they'd probably offer the kind of information that could. For one thing, the sensors would provide military docs an array of reliable info about the health of every single soldier. Plus, they'd tell leaders how a soldier's body stood up to grueling physical training or a tough deployment. Tracking changes in the body's endocrine system, for example, might tell a physician that a soldier is increasingly sleep deprived. Or observing chronically increased inflammation levels might tell a team leader that trainee number five isn't cut out for the Navy SEALs." Wired Magazine, Katie Drummond, Feb 3 2012
Holmes mapped the neurons of zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while he was an undergraduate at UC Riverside, where he graduated in 2010. As a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Denver, he had won a neuroscience training grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The grant was awarded to just six students at the school.
As part of the program, Holmes was listed as making a presentation in May 2012 about Micro RNA Biomarkers in a class named "Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders."
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20120725_1
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July 25-26, 2012 -- Aurora police chief's dubious connections
As Aurora, Colorado police chief Dan Oates receives accolades from officials from President Obama to Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Oates's past position with the New York Police Department is noteworthy as more details emerge of the connections between the alleged Century 16 movie theater shooter James Holmes and government-funded neuroscience research.
Oates retired from the New York Police Department in 2001 after a 21-year career. He served as safety services administrator in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the home of the University of Michigan, designated by former CIA director Richard Helms as one of the five top CIA-Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) [now known as the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or DARPA] "behavioral science" research campuses, along with Yale, M.I.T., U.C.L.A, and the University of Hawaii. In 2005, Oates left Ann Arbor to take up his present position in Aurora.Oates's last job with the NYPD was as the chief of the intelligence division. As a member of Police Commissioner Howard Safir's executive staff, Oates's prepared, according to The New York Daily News, a daily intelligence briefing for Safir, which lasted some two hours. Oates's would have conceivably had access to a wide spectrum of intelligence information, including Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, and other federal agency reports on the suspicious activities of a number of Israeli "art students" and "office movers" in the year leading up to the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Center.
However, Oates apparently missed the critical intelligence or, if he passed it to Safir, it was ignored. Safir, who served as New York Police Commissioner from 1996 to 2000 and was appointed by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, previously served as a federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs agent and in 10972, was one of two BNDD agents who arrested Harvard University researcher Timothy Leary, a proponent of LSD use. However, Leary had also conducted research, under the guise of the Harvard Psilocybin Project. the Concord Prison Experiment, and the Marsh Chapel Experiment, for the CIA's MK-ULTRA mind control program. which was under the direction of CIA Technical Services director Dr. Sidney Gottlieb.
After Safir retired as police commissioner, he became the chief consultant to the CEO of ChoicePoint, Inc., the firm that was implicated in scrubbing voter rolls in Florida for the 2000 presidential election.
In December 2001, Safir became chairman and CEO SafirRosetti, a security firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Options Group, as well as CEO of Bode Technology, also a subsidiary of Global Options. Safir has also served as CEO of VRI Technologies LLC, a security investigations and data analysis firm; chairman of National Security Solutions, Inc., a counter-terrorism firm; chairman and CEO of the November Group Ltd, a strategic consulting firm headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. In addition, he has served on the the board of directors of Implant Sciences Corp., an explosive trace detection sensor firm; and Verint Systems, Inc.
Verint was formerly known as Comverse/Infosys and the Department of Justice suspected the Israeli-owned firm, which had contracts to provide wiretapping systems to the FBI and Justice Department, of having significant links to Israeli intelligence. Comverse/Infosys, now known as Verint, was suspended from the New York NASDAQ index in 2007 over financial irregularities and money laundering brought about by the ex-CEO of Comverse/Infosys, Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, an Israeli national. Alexander fled prosecution for securities fraud in the United States and he now lives in the Namibian capital of Windhoek. Efforts to extradite Alexander from Namibia to the United States have been unsuccessful.
Verint provided the closed-circuit television surveillance system for the London Underground when the system was hit by terrorist bombs on July 7, 2005. A company called Visor Consultants was conducting a training exercise in which dummy bombs were used to simulate a terrorist bombing of the London Underground as the actual bombs were detonated. Giuliani, who appointed Safir as his polcie commissioner, happened to be staying in downtown London at the time of the bombings. Giuliani was staying and attending an economic conference at the Great Eastern Hotel, at which then-Israeli Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was also present.
Netanyahu had expressed a certain satisfaction over the 9/11 attack on U.S. television in implying the attack would be "good for Israel." The response to the 9/11 attack was severely affected by actual commercial airplane hijacking drills being run by the Pentagon during the actual attacks.
Ironically, Safir's one-time intelligence chief, Oates, would also face the strange situation where an emergency medical drill in nearby Douglas County, on the outskirts of Aurora, that dealt with a gunman shooting up a movie theater, was being conducted during the actual shooting at the Batman movie in Aurora.
Oates, in remarks to the media after the massacre at the theater, immediately moved to quash rumors on the Internet. He also told CBS News Face the Nation: "All evidence we have, every single indicator is that it was all Mr. Holmes' activity and that he wasn't particularly aided by anyone else." Oates was discounting anything other than a "lone nut" theory behind the mass shooting.
The Aurora police also revealed they were mistaken when they first reported that the car Holmes allegedly drove to the theater to conduct his shooting spree had Tennessee license plates. The alleged shooter's father, Robert Holmes, worked in some capacity for the U.S. Navy Personnel Research and Development Center in San Diego in 1988. The elder Holmes wrote a technical report for the center and the work appeared to have spanned from 1988 to 1989. In 2000, the San Diego center moved to a remodeled new "lab space" at the Naval Support Activity in Millington, Tennessee, near Memphis. The center was re-named the Navy Personnel Research, Studies and Technology (NPRST) Department. The Millington center concentrates on behavioral and social sciences research and is funded mostly out of the Human Systems Department at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Navy research branch that works closely with DARPA and the CIA. NPRST also has close working relationships with two universities, the University of Mephis and the University of Mississippi.
It has also been revealed that Holmes spoke at the Salk Institute at the age of 18 on temporal illusions. Holmes explains that a temporal illusion is an illusion that allows one to change the past. One of slides shows the name of Terrence Sejnowski, Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the director of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. In 2008, Sejnowski wrote that since early brain research conducted by the RAND Corporation in 1980, "we now know a lot about the brain, perhaps more than we need to know." In 2001, Sejnowski worked with the CIA to develop a facial recognition and analysis system to detect whether someone is lying. Three files of Sejnowski's research papers are located in Box 58 at the System Development Foundation (SDF) in Palo Alto, California. SDF has a rather complex and mysterious origin is said to have been created "in the 1950s" as a not-for-profit entity. SDF has an archival depository relationship with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica.
RAND and Stanford Research Institute, two of the CIA's top west coast research centers, were involved in temporal illusion research throughout the 1970s and 80s. The CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency projects had various code-names, including GRILL FLAME and STAR GATE. All dealt with remote viewing, and WMR learned from a recent participant in the same program, now under the supervision of the National Security Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland, has dealt on numerous occasions with temporal remote viewing, i.e., remote viewing of past and future events. The NSA program involves Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Monroe Institute in Faber, Virginia, according to the NSA source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn6K9cb-h...r_embedded
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20120725
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Published on Jul 22, 2012 by FrimmerNews
Earlier today, ABC News ran footage from a video unearthed showing James Holmes, currently being held by the Aurora police for the shootings in a Colorado movie theater, speaking at a science camp several years ago. In the video, he is giving a lecture on temporal illusions.
One of the other students introduces him with this statement: "His goals are to become a researcher and make scientific discoveries." She continues to say that Holmes enjoys soccer and strategy games, and his dream is "to own a Slurpee machine." ABC revealed that Holmes' interest in science won him a federal grant from the National Institutes of Health to study neuroscience.
ABC also aired video footage of police setting off several explosives taken from Holmes' apartment in the middle of a large field in carefully staged conditions.
Watch the video below, courtesy of AB
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This was posted on the Daily Paul website:
Real Connection to DARPA: The Eagleman Lab
Submitted by texasforager on Wed, 07/25/2012 - 20:55. Permalink
I have taken a particular interest in this case, as I emailed the University of Colorado Department of Neuroscience on June 21st with a proposal for a neurolinguistic experiment aimed at inducing temporary aphasia in a group of adult volunteers.
Neuroscientists James Jacobson and David Eagleman both worked at the Salk institute and have recently appeared in the media and appear to be attempting to both discredit his intelligence and downplay their involvement with him. David Eagleman is of particular interest.
In 2006 at age 18, James Holmes spends 6 weeks as an intern at the Salk Institute under the direct supervision of John Jacobson, whom he refers to in a video as "his mentor"
The Salk Institute of Biology is ranked as one of the world's top biomedical research facilities and is described as "an isolated compound… not unlike monasteries for religious discovery" and "A temple of science; a secular monastery where man pursues knowledge of our biological foundations."
Holmes states in a video:
"Over the course of the summer I've been working on a temporal illusionan illusion that allows you to change the past…he [Jacobson] also studies subjective experience, which is what takes place inside the mind as opposed to the external world. I've carried on his work in dealing with subjective experience"
Who is Jacobson?
In 2004 John Jacobson co-authors a paper with David Eagleman at the Salk Institute on temporal illusions "Perceived Luminance Depends on Temporal Context" NATURE journal
Eagleman as it turns out, is an extremely interesting character: after serving in the Israeli Army, he becomes interested in neuroscience after taking a neurolinguistics class at Rice University. After obtaining a degree in literature, he goes on to earn his Ph.D. in neuroscience at Baylor University. He then takes a post-doctoral position at the Salk Institute of Biology under Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the DNA molecule. In 2009 Eagleman writes "Sum: 40 Tales of the Afterlife" a bizarre book of fictional philosophy
Eagleman Lab for Perception and Action (eaglemanlab.net)
Researches "time perception, sensory substitution, synesthesia, and neurolaw"
"we are engaged in experiments that explore temporal coding, time warping, manipulation of perception of causality, time perception in schizophrenia and time perception in high adrenaline situations"
The Eagleman lab is funded by NIH and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
"In October 2006, a Pentagon agency called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sought out researchers for ways to monitor the brain in its learning and acquisition process, by observing the differences between the brains of beginners and experts and discovering "noninvasive ways to speed up the process" [1]. Known as the "Augmented Cognition" program, the agency paid Lockheed Martin $650,000 to develop real-time technology of cognitive activity and function of a brain. September witnessed the preliminary development of such a portable, wearable system of sensors that assessed cognitive activity and prints out a data sheet revealing brain activity deviation from the norm or average of the population.
But why would DARPA want to look at neuroscience evidence? Information gathered from these helmet sensors would measure brain states associated with "anger, aggression, fatigue, deception," which would then be relayed to a command center. During war, those working in the command center may choose how to deploy the soldiers based on their mental states. A focused soldier may be ordered to shoot, and a furious soldier may be asked to sit and calm down so as not to do anything careless." NeuLaw Blog, Sept. 28 2011, Kyang & David Eagleman
"DARPA, the Pentagon's way-out science arm, wants to make soldiers stronger, faster, and generally "kill proof." The key, the agency believes: Getting humans to act more like animals.
For years, DARPA has been pushing to boost soldier performance. Today, at the opening of DARPATech, the agency's bi-annual conference, program manager Michael Callahan just announced a new effort to take that research even further. He calls it "Inner Armor.""Wired Magazine, August 7 2007, Noah Shachtman
"Current computer-based target detection capabilities cannot process large volumes of imagery with the speed, flexibility, and precision of the human visual system. Investigations of visual neuroscience mechanisms indicate that human brains are capable of responding visually much more quickly than they respond physically. The vision for DARPA's Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts (NIA) program is to revolutionize how analysts handle intelligence imagery, increasing throughput of imagery to an analyst and overall accuracy of assessments.
NIA seeks to identify robust brain signals that can be recorded in an operational environment and process these in real-time to select images that merit further review. The program aims to apply these triage methods to static, broad area, and video imagery. Successful development of a neurobiologically based image triage system will increase speed and accuracy of image analysis where the number of acquired images is expected to rise significantly. Results of the NIA program will enable image analysts to train more effectively and process imagery with greater speed and precision."
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Progra...chnology_f...
DARPA is best known as driving force behind the creation of the Internet and Onion Routing, as well as:
Combat Zones That See - "track everything that moves" in a city by linking up a massive network of surveillance cameras
EATR An autonomous tactical robotic system
Human Universal Load Carrier battery-powered human exoskeleton
Proto 2 - a thought-controlled prosthetic arm
Remote-controlled insects
DARPA Silent Talk - A planned program attempting to identify EEG patterns for words and transmit these for covert communications.
SyNAPSE - Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics,
"ON THE STEAMY first day of August 1966, Charles Whitman took an elevator to the top floor of the University of Texas Tower in Austin. The 25-year-old climbed the stairs to the observation deck, lugging with him a footlocker full of guns and ammunition…
"The lesson from all these stories is the same: human behavior cannot be separated from human biology. If we like to believe that people make free choices about their behavior (as in, "I don't gamble, because I'm strong-willed"), cases like Alex the pedophile, the frontotemporal shoplifters, and the gambling Parkinson's patients may encourage us to examine our views more carefully. Perhaps not everyone is equally "free" to make socially appropriate choices…
As our understanding of the human brain improves, juries are increasingly challenged with these sorts of questions. When a criminal stands in front of the judge's bench today, the legal system wants to know whether he is blameworthy. Was it his fault, or his biology's fault?...
If I seem to be heading in an uncomfortable directiontoward letting criminals off the hookplease read on, because I'm going to show the logic of a new argument, piece by piece. The upshot is that we can build a legal system more deeply informed by science, in which we will continue to take criminals off the streets, but we will customize sentencing, leverage new opportunities for rehabilitation, and structure better incentives for good behavior…
Free will may exist (it may simply be beyond our current science), but one thing seems clear: if free will does exist, it has little room in which to operate. It can at best be a small factor riding on top of vast neural networks shaped by genes and environment. In fact, free will may end up being so small that we eventually think about bad decision-making in the same way we think about any physical process, such as diabetes or lung disease….
A forward-thinking legal system will also parlay biological understanding into customized rehabilitation, viewing criminal behavior the way we understand other medical conditions such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and depressionconditions that now allow the seeking and giving of help. These and other brain disorders find themselves on the not-blameworthy side of the fault line, where they are now recognized as biological, not demonic, issues…
We may be on the cusp of finding new rehabilitative strategies as well, affording people better control of their behavior, even in the absence of external authority. To help a citizen reintegrate into society, the ethical goal is to change him as little as possible while bringing his behavior into line with society's needs. My colleagues and I are proposing a new approach, one that grows from the understanding that the brain operates like a team of rivals, with different neural populations competing to control the single output channel of behavior. Because it's a competition, the outcome can be tipped. I call the approach "the prefrontal workout."…
If this sounds like biofeedback from the 1970s, it isbut this time with vastly more sophistication, monitoring specific networks inside the head rather than a single electrode on the skin. This research is just beginning, so the method's efficacy is not yet knownbut if it works well, it will be a game changer. We will be able to take it to the incarcerated population, especially those approaching release, to try to help them avoid coming back through the revolving prison doors."-- The Brain on Trial, The Atlantic, July August 2011, by DAVID EAGLEMAN
"Plenty of geeks are already obsessed with self-tracking, from monitoring sleep rhythms to graphing caffeine intake versus productivity. Now, the Department of Defense's far-out research agency is after the ultimate kind of Quantified Self: Soldiers with implanted body sensors that keep intimate tabs on their health, around the clock.
In a new call for research, Darpa is asking for proposals to devise prototype implantable biosensors. Once inserted under a soldier's skin, Darpa wants the sensors to provide real-time, accurate measurements of "DoD-relevant biomarkers" including stress hormones, like cortisol, and compounds that signal inflammation, like histamine.
Implantable sensors are only the latest of several Pentagon-backed ventures to track a soldier's health. Darpa's already looked into tracking "nutritional biomarkers" to evaluate troops' diets. And as part of the agency's "Peak Soldier Performance" program, Darpa studied how one's genes impact physical ability, and tried to manipulate cellular mitochondria to boost the body's energy levels.
Sensors alone won't make troops stronger, smarter or more resilient. But they'd probably offer the kind of information that could. For one thing, the sensors would provide military docs an array of reliable info about the health of every single soldier. Plus, they'd tell leaders how a soldier's body stood up to grueling physical training or a tough deployment. Tracking changes in the body's endocrine system, for example, might tell a physician that a soldier is increasingly sleep deprived. Or observing chronically increased inflammation levels might tell a team leader that trainee number five isn't cut out for the Navy SEALs." Wired Magazine, Katie Drummond, Feb 3 2012
Holmes mapped the neurons of zebra finches and studied the flight muscles of hummingbirds while he was an undergraduate at UC Riverside, where he graduated in 2010. As a doctoral student at the University of Colorado at Denver, he had won a neuroscience training grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The grant was awarded to just six students at the school.
As part of the program, Holmes was listed as making a presentation in May 2012 about Micro RNA Biomarkers in a class named "Biological Basis of Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders."
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