Terrified parents find their sleeping children "moving in their sleep, bizarrely and in unison"

[soothsayer]

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Hannah Thoburn
@HannahThoburn
Well this just freaked me the heck out: "Terrified, the parents ran into the room where their children were sleeping to find them moving in their sleep, bizarrely and in unison"

Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Remember that thing where someone was zapping diplomats' brains with an invisble weapon? What if I told you these attacks were happening on U.S. soil, including children hit in Philadelphia and a White House staffer walking her dog in the DC suburbs. https://gq.com/story/cia-investigation-and-russian-microwave-attacks

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The Mystery of the Immaculate Concussion

He was a senior CIA official tasked with getting tough on Russia. Then, one night in Moscow, Marc Polymeropoulos's life changed forever. He says he was hit with a mysterious weapon, joining dozens of American diplomats and spies who believe they’ve been targeted with this secret device all over the world—and even at home, on U.S. soil. Now, as a CIA investigation points the blame at Russia, the victims are left wondering why so little is being done by the Trump Administration.

Marc Polymeropoulos awoke with a start. The feeling of nausea was overwhelming. Food poisoning, he thought, and decided to head for the bathroom. But when he tried to get out of bed, he fell over. He tried to stand up and fell again. It was the early morning hours of December 5, 2017, and his Moscow hotel room was spinning around him. His ears were ringing. He felt, he recalled, “like I was going to both throw up and pass out at the same time.”

Polymeropoulos was a covert CIA operative, a jovial, burly man who likes to refer to himself as “grizzled.” Moscow was not the first time he had been on enemy territory. He had spent most of his career in the Middle East, fighting America’s long war on terrorism. He had hunted terrorists in Pakistan and Yemen. He did the same in Iraq and Afghanistan. He had been shot at, ducked under rocket fire, and had shrapnel whiz by uncomfortably close to his head. But that night, paralyzed with seasickness in the landlocked Russian capital, Polymeropoulos felt terrified and utterly helpless for the first time.

Struggling to regain control over his body, Polymeropoulos couldn’t have imagined that this incident would upend his life. It would end a promising career that had just catapulted him into the ranks of senior CIA leadership, and threw him into the middle of a growing international mystery that has puzzled diplomats and scientists, and raised concerns on Capitol Hill. In the months ahead, he would come to realize that it wasn’t a spoiled sandwich that had mowed him down. Rather, it was his macabre initiation into a growing club of dozens of American diplomats, spies, and government employees posted abroad who were suffering in much the same way he was—targets of what some experts and doctors now believe were attacks perpetrated by unknown assailants wielding novel directed energy weapons. Though many of these apparent attacks have been publicized, including those that took place in Cuba and China, others have not been revealed until now, including at least three incidents that officials from the CIA and Capitol Hill say targeted American citizens on American soil.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. If Russian is behind it, I guarantee that the Trump administration will have no interest in

investigating it. I hope Biden will take it seriously.

[soothsayer]

2. Yeah, it sure looks like drumpf doesn't

American foreign policy specialists who want to reinvent the U.S.-Russia relationship can’t quite understand why the Russian security services are still doing this—other than because they can, and because, with Trump in office, they will most certainly get away with it. “They create the reason to keep fighting with them,” says the former national security official about the Russian government. “We don’t even know why they’re doing this. We don’t even want anything from each other anymore, other than an arms-control agreement. We have to kind of push back, we have to do that, but we also have to find a way of living together too.” Yet the Russians, the former official explains, “can’t get used to the fact that we’ve moved on. They want to pull us back into the fight again—the question is for what? This is what we kept telling [Russian officials], that if you want to have a relationship of equals and get stuff done, knock this other crap off.”

[NightWatcher]

3. I'll keep saying it until I'm zapped with a Death Ray, the Soviets are still fighting the Cold War!

We're the ones who stopped and you see where that has gotten us. I'm sure we've never landed an asset in the highest office in mother Russia, but they can say that they have here.

We are actively under attack from our adversary and the republicans do nothing about it.

[soothsayer]

4. Yeah. See post #2. It's so bizarre.

[stillcool]

5. that kind of freaked me out...

I've read bits of stories that made reference to this happening, but that is one hell of an article. Going to have to re-read later, cause I jumped around some.

[soothsayer]

6. Yeah I did the same in reading it!

I’m going back too when I have some quiet time

[soothsayer]

7. The dogs vomiting blood and seizing ....

And some happening right here in my hometown of Arlington, VA!

Freaky.