COCHLEAR modern technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQVHubXoDo 

2017 when Silent Voice First was introduced – go to minute 16:15 for new update on cochlear device technology and to minute 11:30 for wireless brain to brain human telepathy communication systems available in black ops projects.

 Regina Dugan-->DARPA director-->Google director-->Facebook Building 8 secret project, she has had since last millennium unlimited access to MIT personnel.

Dugan first served as a Pentagon DARPA program manager from 1996 to 2000.  2000-2008 no data from Wikipedia, however RedXDefense was co-founded in 2005 by Regina Dugan with her dad as CEO and her uncle is chief advisor of strategy, who is an identical twin of her father (no info available via FOIA  -- http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/08/13/former-darpa-chief-violated-pentagon-ethics-rules/); then again, from July 2009 to March 2012, Dugan served as the 19th Director of DARPA, leading an active operational deployment in direct support of the war in Afghanistan for which the Agency was awarded the Joint Meritorious Unit Award. She is on the Board of Varian Medical Systems, Inc. and on the Board of Zynga .
https://www.timesofisrael.com/facebook-wants-to-read-your-mind/
Her technology could let people fire off text messages or emails by thinking, instead of needing to interrupt what they are doing to use smartphone touchscreens, for example.

BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON (BAH) dark hand in black ops, electronic human telepathy

(however, often Booz Allen Hamilton is under suspicion of breaking secrecy laws signed between them and the DoD and subjected to external investigations)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/project-on-government-oversight/air-force-lifts-booz-alle_1_b_1437605.html

NOV. 2017 – from Newsweek: In a Facebook post this week, Regina Dugan said: “Today I am announcing that early next year, I will be leaving Facebook [Silent Voice First project) to focus on building and leading a new endeavor. http://www.newsweek.com/facebook-brain-computer-interface-chief-quits-building-8-project-mind-reading-689153

Facebook isn’t the only company working on a brain-machine interface, with DARPA revealing plans last year for a neural connection that will “open the channel between the human brain and modern electronics.” Elon Musk is also working on similar technology through his Neuralink startup, which registered as a “medical research” firm in California last July. The so-called neural lace involves implanting electrodes into the brain in order to augment natural intelligence. Eventually, Musk hopes the interface will allow humans to compete with artificial intelligence.

from QUORA article on Silent Voice First:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/04/25/the-revolutionary-voice-first-technology-being-developed-in-facebooks-building-8/amp/

The concept is simple in that we all say the words we speak in our minds before we speak them. In some situations, perhaps not as many as we imagine, we may find the need to just think the words we want to say to our Voice First Personal Assistants rather than speaking them aloud. Facebook identified this issue and is building the new systems around the old science of hemispheric brain energy scans surfacing the speech centers and through AI and Machine Learning (ML) using this data to extract word intents. develop a brain-computer interface that will, in the future, allow individuals to communicate with other people without speaking. Ultimately, they hope to develop a technology that allows individuals to “speak” using nothing but their thoughts—unconstrained by time or distance. They want to create category defining products that are Social First of course using Voice First as the primary input system. Products that allow us to form more human connections and, in the end, unite the digital world of the internet with the physical world and the human mind. The brain produces about 1 terabyte per a second, through speech, we can only transmit information to others at about 100 bytes per a second. Facebook wants to get all of that information out of the “brain” and into the world. Typing is not going to be useful in this new world. The average person types between 38 and 40 words per minute. We can speak at 100 words a minute and using our thoughts we can match this speed. That’s far, far faster than most humans can type on a computer or device. The goal is to allow people to type five times faster than people can type on a smartphone straight from their brain. This means that they are developing technologies that can “read” the human brain in order to transmit this information.

Next, they will work to allow people to “telepathically type”.

Building 8 is working on technology that will allow all humans to type and click through our brains in order to interact with computers. This is sort of a brain touch screen metaphor. This tech is a magnitude more complex than decoding Silent Words. They have developed actuators that allow people to “hear” through their skin. Ultimately the technology will allow humans to “feel” words. Eventually you will think something and send the thought to someone’s skin. Additionally, this will allow people to think something in one language and have a person receive the thought in an entirely different language.

University Research and Partnerships.

The thinking-to-text project is headed up by Mark Chevillet, previously an adjunct professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. Chevillet said the goal over two years is to build a noninvasive system that harnesses picks up speech signals inside the brain and permit people to silently turn those thoughts into text at a speed of 100 words per minute.

From a blogger: The term C4ISR is a descriptor for Artificial Telepathy -- a powerful fusion of signal processing technologies that allows technicians to remotely gather and collect human intelligence (HUMINT) from the brain signals (SIGINT) of other human beings. As with C4ISR, Artificial Telepathy incorporates "signals collection" (eavesdropping) with "intelligence analysis" (figuring out what people intend to do) by utilizing satellites and computers. One could define Artificial Telepathy as a subset of C4ISR with a special focus on neurology, psychology and mind control. Artificial Telepathy is an exotic form of C4ISR that allows warriors to communicate nonvocally with soldiers in the field, enables spies and intelligence agents to perform reconnaisance and surveillance nonlocally by means of "remote viewing," and allows military officers to command and control the behavior of human minds at a distance, with the artificial aid of carefully networked satellite and computer technology. Booz Allen Hamilton certainly has close ties to the contractors who worked on the Pentagon's "Stargate" program for psychic spying in the 1990s, and it took a lead role in development of the NSA's "Total Information Awareness" projects, mentioned in earlier posts.

"Brainwaves to Social Media Platforms" + "Silent Voice First"

Smart phone functions in your brain without speaking you can hear and speak to others and control your internet surfing & viewing internally in your head.

Big Brother will soon easily monitor all your thoughts, urges, views, mental imagery, emotions, memories, and communications to others and between your biological internal systems.

Elon Musk.  Despite his many contradictory statements, he is all for it and probably an advanced android himself, still a classified project.

Like spiders, AI software/moveable hardware and global intelligence can "lay like insect eggs backup programs everywhere".  Why do you think it was originally called THE WEB?

Start at minute 8:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tn4P7IBqoQ

WHO REALLY SPONSORS AND CONTROLS PBS & NPR?? Do you know and should you care??

Does this photo suggest where our global android smart phone microwave-microchip technology is headed?
Into your own head, you might question yourself soon, before it is too late!

WHO REALLY SPONSORS AND CONTROLS PBS & NPR??

2014 Corporate Underwriters of both NPR [full list], and PBS [partial list] .... click here

PBS, WNET, and CPB:
FOOTNOTE 1:
PUBLIC TV/RADIO states: "Our corporate sponsorships influence content of each ... of our three agencies--Sponsorships which promise the 'Halo Effect' -- our Corporate sponsors are interested in exposure to NPR's audience (both on-air and online), which can be difficult to reach through other media. Selective [corporate] sponsors also value association with the NPR brand.

Footnote 2 from NPR/PBS: "Messages acknowledging our sponsors are presented on-air in short announcements, and are presented visually and in audio on NPR.org and other digital services. Corporate sponsors find value in our "halo effect" of a positive association with the NPR brand."

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The above pictures were taken during an actual cochlear implant surgery.

Cochlear implants in the US are generally found in persons with special financial resources -- they may be very wealthy, they may be very well insured, or they are indigent and the cost is paid by government programs. Clearly, the great majority of people in the middle are left out [surgery and the device costs about $100,000 per implant; plus, intensive training, therapy, and coaching are needed afterwards to learn how to use this hi tech electronic battery-operated device.] Often with a cochlear implant, the individual loses interest in staying a member of the Deaf Community using ASL sign language, so they yearn for a SECOND cochlear implant so they can compete, at least on a low level, with hearing people in the hearing world. This DOUBLES the expenses.

Do not forget. Many many Americans are not covered by health insurance, or if they have it, it is a very inadequate form of health coverage. When Hillary Clinton was long ago only the wife of President Bill Clinton, during his 1st term in office, she learned through hard brutal interaction with the insurance & HMO and pharmaceutical organizations and corporations and lobbies, that they are as non-profit friendly as a team of merciless assassins. She gave up her efforts in national healthcare at that time. Ditto for Obama. His Obamacare, even though derided by Republicans as "socialism", is really a long laundry list of veritable handouts to the big lobbies in healthcare and insurance. His Obamacare would never pass muster in the EU or Japan or Canada or anywhere there is a good national healthcare system on the planet.

(a) 2014 Cochlear Implant Controversy - English Project on Video explaining why Deaf Community prefers their own ASL native language to cochlear implantation

Risks associated with cochlear implantation include those associated with the surgery itself, such as bleeding, infection, problems with anesthesia or healing, dizziness, or injury to the facial nerve. In addition, there are risks associated with the implant, such as mechanical or electrical failure, rejection, infection and problems what would require removal or replacement of the implant. Your surgeon will discuss all of these risks with you. Usually any and all hearing present in the operative ear prior to surgery will be completely lost at time of implant surgery. New techniques and devices are being developed with the goal of preserving residual hearing.

(b) Here is what a deaf girl SIGNED in deaf sign language on YouTube to express her disappointment ... "I still DO NOT BELIEVE it is appropriate for a documentary such as "Sound and Fury: 6 Years Later" to be sponsored by Cochlear Americas. It's a conflict of interest situation and should have been disclosed more clearly, instead of way after all the other credits passed. I believe it's a conflict of interest to have an implant manufacturer sponsor a film that's posing as a documentary. It's misleading."

(c) LINK: Why does a cochlear implant skull device threaten the sign language ASL deaf community and culture? Read here why, nicely stated by a dear girl who lives in between the two realities....

(d) Editor's Note, 2014:

Heather is now around 20 years old and a student at Georgetown University and she made a TED-X talk -- here it is --> click this link

(e) TED-X is closely affiliated with NPR Radio. TED Radio Hour is a co-production of NPR and TED. TED Radio Hour is hosted by Guy Raz. Raz left NPR in 2004, to work as CNN's Jerusalem correspondent chronicling everything from the rise of Hamas as a political power to the incapacitation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Israel's 2005 withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Two years later Raz returned to NPR to serve as defense correspondent where he covered the Pentagon and the US military. Here is their partnership webpage -- click here

(f) [2015] TED conferences and videos are the brainstorm of a married couple who run hedge funds, venture capital funds, and have ample partnerships with Goldman Sachs and World Bank, and Bill & Melinda Gates. Read here for more....

The Nucleus [Cochlear Corp.; Cochlear Americas], Clarion {Advanced Bionics}, and MED-EL cochlear implant systems have many similar features. Cochlear Corporation [Nucleus], Med-El Corporation, and Advanced Bionics Corporation [Clarion], are major competitors [2105].

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"SOUND AND FURY: 6 years later" [2006]

EDITOR'S NOTE: In this follow-up 2006 documentary
"Sound and Fury: 6 Years later"

Heather Artinian is now 12 years old, and she, her 2 deaf siblings, her mother and members of her extended deaf family have all opted for the implant device. It is not generally known if they were funded handsomely by the corporate and medical manufacturers for moving in their new Cochlear Americas direction.

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SOUND & FURY, a [2000] movie by Josh Aronson, and produced by Roger Weisberg, who is quite frequently affiliated with PBS productions, is about cochlear brain implants getting deeper and deeper into the heads of deaf people. Josh Aronson has also made a film about just this subject for Cochlear Corporation, one of the three main manufacturers of cochlear devices, and it spotlighted the benefits of bilateral implantation, one in each ear of the patient.

Various Google photos that represent successful cochlear implant surgery in the very young, who have a much better outcome than older patients....



FILM CREDITS: SOUND AND FURY is a production of Aronson Film Associates, Inc. and Public Policy Productions, Inc. in association with Thirteen/WNET New York and Channel 4 (UK). FUNDING PROVIDED BY [among others]: Charlpeg Foundation, Inc., Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Deafness Research Foundation, Silverweed Foundation, Inc., Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Institute.

NOTE from Year 2000: "PEOPLE" magazine quite recently ran a long feature story [by Bill Hewitt, Susan Gray Gose, and Matt Birkbeck] on the cochlear implant's effect on the ARTINIAN family, who are an American family of Armenian-Italian ancestry living in Glen Cove, Long Island, NY, [12/11/2000 PEOPLE MAGAZINE issue]. As demonstrated in the Josh Aronson documentary film, the Artinian family is now, as a result of the surgery, terribly divided and full of inner dissent.

Other observers, not working for People magazine, believe much of this conflict could in many ways be attributed to the forcefulness of the manufacturing companies blitzkrieg to get their product implanted surgically into as many heads as they can, to turn a fast buck, and to advocate it endlessly in the ASL deaf community. The cochlear device and the surgery are extremely expensive, as are the tutors and interpreters needed for post-surgery training, for many years. Many insurance companies will not pay these costs.

Peter Artinian wishes the whole cochlear mania would just go away, he is happy with ASL, and so is his daughter, according to him in this documentary film that can easily bring one to tears.

We at this web ezine would presume that for a non-deaf individual to vicariously enter this dilemma so controversial to the deaf community, it might be the same as for them to condone as well the sudden surgical implantation into their skull bone, at their own expense, of their personal cell/mobile phone device. If a cochlear implant is so good and advisable for the vast majority of rich deaf people, why not the same for cellphone skull implants for the wealthy non-deaf, so their hands are free to take care of their kids or play golf and/or drive with two hands while communicating hands-free with all their friends and contacts in their Wifi World? "What is good for one is good for all" as the old adage informs us. So why not?

That way we can all be uniformly connected to wireless microwave and radio transmissions and pick up and send out hundreds of unspoken broadcasts, hearing and non-hearing, all of us, plugged-in to the next 'wave' of such advancing technology, extending from our own inner thoughts, sending and receiving thoughts wirelessly and almost telepathically, open to public reception, like FM radio airwave transmissions. All this new technology leads one to ask the question that nobody is asking. Could a devious scientist or sound technician send out an FM or radiowave or microwave signal, even an FM signal, at exactly the same frequency used by the cochlear device signaler, and put "voices into their heads"? This would be very spooky for cochlear implanted users, should such an evildoer ever exist.

Pick up the back issue of PEOPLE today, and read for yourself the initial Artinian family resistance in 2000, to CI devices!

reproduced from APRIL 11, 2000 -- "Sound & Fury" -- Bryan Adrian REVIEW -- [editor's note: Bryan Adrian lived for six months in a 2 bedroom flat in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with his deaf friend Greg, before this documentary was shown at MOMA, and this is how he got to know as much as he could learn in half-a-year about deaf culture in U.S. society [photo below is of Greg's Vietnam War Era TTY special military phone connected modem typewriter, in the shared Greenpoint apartment, used for speedy electronic deaf messages to other deaf friends before internet email was accessible to the general population].

"SOUND AND FURY"
film review by Bryan Adrian

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[after a viewing of the premiere at MOMA in midtown Manhattan, APRIL 11, 2000].

REPRINT from an older online newsletter story [revised]:
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"Sound & Fury," a documentary film screened by the Double Take Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina, just recently, and this past Sunday night in Manhattan's Ron Lauder-directed Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), a midtown museum currently being "reconfigured" into several dozen partitions inside its now noisy interior, failed to interest deeply the more than 40 percent deaf overall total audience who were in attendance [deaf attendance statistics provided by my deaf roommate).

Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the director of this divisive documentary, Josh Aronson, and the Artinian family [featured in the film], were present at this MOMA screening for a Questions and Answers session after the presentation. Many of the questioners came across as rehearsed PR firm "plants," often so easy to spot that the large number of deaf in the audience were at times laughing at such shameless hucksterism, evidently sponsored in part by the Cochlear Industry.

When half way through the Q&A, a handsome deaf late twenty-something gentleman asked why had the "documentary" featured a family composed of both hearing and non-hearing members -- a situation far from typical in the deaf community. He was defensively told to "PLEASE BE SEATED and discuss this with the Artinian family on his own free time, a-f-t-e-r the Q&A, thank you".

The eloquence of the deaf man was in dramatic evidence, for I understood him much more clearly than the director, and his "co-perpetrator," as his production partner called himself in his opening introduction. The deaf questioner, before his rude dismissal, managed to hurriedly express, that his own mother had taught him very well how to speak and be well understood by hearing people. He added that he had no clue, nor insight, into why this documentary film, partly financed by PBS, WNET, and CPB, who are themselves funded also by for-profit medical device companies & pharmaceuticals/chemicals mega-giants, such as Pfizer & Corning, seemed to him a ONE-SIDED positive portrayal of a bulky brain/bone implant that fills a hole left from surgical skull-bone drilling. The director, Josh Aronson, quickly avoided this candid and relevant question also, and moved onto the next questioner, in this boardroom type atmosphere in the modern museum.

This MOMA film "circus" provided only one other skeptical enquirer a chance to be heard after the night's screening -- who also didn't go along with the documentary's tacit endorsement of the new cochlear technology, despite the film very fairly portraying the two opposing camps in conflict over this issue, in the deaf community.

The film droned on and on about a seemingly intractable conspiracy of deaf people who are hidebound and reactionary [and abusive!] to their 18-month year old deaf babies because they will not allow them to be implanted, stemming from their need to dearly hang on to their AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE (ASL), as if clinging to their ASL culture of hand expressions communications was a bit sinister, and that they should throw all caution to the wind, and drill sizable HOLES into their skulls to welcome the electronic implants and the riveting radiowave and/or microwave devices planted and embedded near their brain tissue. It was never brought up in the film how a young child could change or recharge his/her own battery frequently, or how a child could alone really comfortably remove their vulnerable cochlear apparatus from their head, for showers or baths. Teenagers with the device implanted will have a very difficult time, it is clearly evident, when "kissing" becomes a middle school extracurricular activity, or during weekend pajama/slumber party nights for the girls, during pillow talk at bedtime.

Another "inquisitioner", in the very final minutes of the evening, asked WHO manufactured the cochlear implant, HOW MUCH it cost, how much the accompanying SURGERY costs, and ... will UNINSURED deaf Americans be issued a FREE DEVICE, since it is so critically needed now by all deaf people, as promoted by the "altruistic manufacturers". His tone seemed to imply mercantile interests in the motives of some of the funding given to the producers.

The cochlear software technician who had been featured in a saintly role in this 80-minute film was also on stage to field questions after the screening. She would say neither how much the implant device will cost the deaf consumer, but she did quickly remark that the SURGERY ALONE would cost a minimum of $35,000. She said also that there were two or three main manufacturers of the device, but she "couldn't remember well their names." [we here at this cyberzine learned from AP Wire on-line services that the DEVICE ALONE costs $40,000, and it has a transmitting coil that sends code as radio waves, thus making it a sometimes receiver for car radio or police radio signals, at this stage of its development].

We here at this webmagazine ALSO offer you now, below, a little bit deeper investigation of a few important details this so-called "objective" documentary, conveniently avoided.

CLARION --- Who are they??

COCHLEAR CORPORATION -- who are they???

For more information call:

ISRAEL Bezea 1-800-94-94-949
Israel Golden Lines 1-800-92-22-222
Israel Barak 1-800-93-33-333

Who is Med-EL?

MED-EL UK Ltd. Head Office
Great Cliffe Court
Dodworth, Barnsley
S75 3SP South Yorkshire
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1226 242 874
Fax: +44 (0) 1226 771056

also a major office in Durham, North Carolina; and Innsbruck, Austria
http://www.medel.com/contact-offices/ dozens of international locations

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from the April 11th, 2000 THE NEW YORK TIMES:

"William C. Stokoe Jr., an iconoclastic linguistics professor whose championing of sign language helped change the way deaf people are educated around the world, died on April 4 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 80.

Dr. Stokoe was credited with winning recognition of AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE as a genuine language, overcoming the contentions of linguists that it was little more than a rudimentary imitation of the spoken word. Eventually, Dr. Stokoe's work helped end a CENTURY-LONG BANISHMENT of signing from the classroom and won him a hero's status among many deaf students.

[...] When Dr. Stokoe arrived in 1955 at GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY, the only university for the hearing-impaired in the United States, he knew little about sign language or even about deafness.

[...] Since the 1880s, when a movement against signing began at an international conference in MILAN, schools for the deaf had insisted that their students communicate orally, an often unsuccessful practice that involves lip-reading and trying to produce understandable sounds.

[...] Five years after he arrived at Gallaudet, Dr. Stokoe published the groundbreaking "Sign Language Structure." Four years later, he was the co-author of "A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles."

[...] Dr. Stokoe's work made him highly respected among deaf students, especially as some became radicalized in recent years.

[...] Although he was not active in the effort, Dr. Stokoe, many people believe, was a driving force behind the student demonstrations in the 1980s that forced Gallaudet to choose its FIRST deaf president."

summarized from FORTUNE MAGAZINE --

The TOP SEVEN [7] HMOs on the stockmarket and by logical extension the 7 most likely to "rearrange" you and your finances too --->>

1) Stryker prosthetic devices [which started in WW2 with a cozy relationship between the military and today's mutual funds]-- artificial legs and arms and other body parts due to all the U.S. air strikes worldwide and due to mines set by resistance movements to get US imperial troops out of their lands.

2) Zimmer Holdings -- grew up around 1927 during the Great Depression and has since merged with a big mean Swiss multinational -- medical devices and spinal replacements -- titanium polluters.

3) IMS Health -- medical IT databases that will destroy your privacy -- selling out your data to big pharmaceutical combines -- get ready for spam emails and cold calls at your home on the telephone! Bush is a big advocate of this company and so is Homeland Security! Do your patriotic duty and get phucked!! 5000 national hospitals may all be on the IMS database soon!

IMS Health -- the "dominant" provider of sales and marketing information to the drug industry, with an unrivaled database that TRACKS 75% of all drugs consumed in the world today, ALREADY !!!!!!!!! Bet you didn't know that!! Their database and software "tabulates the exact number of pills each doctor is doling out."

This company started 50 years ago by one of the founding fathers of the drug marketing business, Ludwig Wilhelm Frohlich. Pharmaceutical supply databases were just 15 years ago rinky dink syndicated publications in hard copy, and now such electronic extensive databases have exploded into the $470 billion pharaceutical industry colossus that it is today! IMS Health's CEO is a former IBM manager. IMS is "strictly" a data vendor in this behemoth market that your Congress is making as easy as duck soup out of all of us!!

4) Cerner -- founded in the early 1990s by a former ARTHUR ANDERSON [hooray for ENRON!] consultant, Neal Patterson, born in Oklahoma, who sees bioterrorism everywhere!! Bio-Terror will be a hip new lucrative growth industry and Patterson chastised all his employees with a corporate wide email because he found out that the parking lot after 6pm at the plant was nearly empty thus not many workers were putting out free overtime!!! Nice guy!!!!!!!!!!! All the large drug companies depend on his type of global database connected to medical records to hawk their pills and goods!

5) Teva Pharmaceuticals -- An Israeli generic drug powerhouse is the largest pill supplier here in the US -- do you think they are on your side?

6) American Healthways (AMHC) -- a Nashville, TN company that has ties to the board members of THE NEW YORK TIMES -- Cigna, Oxford, Anthem are clients!! They call themselves "disease management" specialists in which anyone connected to their system must be policed by computer and by their physician and insurance companies -- ie. a diabetic must check his/her cholesterol once a year when the computer tells them to or they lose their benefits -- an asthmatic must check their lung capacity and switch to the new inhaler of the moment at their physicians command once a year, etc.]

7) Omnicare -- specializes in nursing homes, i.e., "long term care", a no-holds-barred profit crunching market with little oversight built into our laws! Kentucky-based. This company spun off of the notorius W.R. Grace company which saturated the USA with asbestos fibers!!! Omnicare has had a contract since 1994 with the largest nursing home operator in the world, HEALTH CARE & RETIREMENT CORP [HCRC].

Some doctors claim that COCHLEAR IMPLANTS BREED DEADLY MENINGITIS..... but here just below, more examples of the hidden agenda and non-transparent activities of the corporate donors with heavy influence on NPR and PBS, and their corporate master, CPB..... as eloquently presented by Ken Auletta in THE NEW YORKER....

LINK: Ken Auletta, THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE

"WHY REPUBLICANS LOVE PBS" -- aka, "Big Bird Flies to the Right Wing"

In this issue, Ken Auletta investigates the obvious swing of "Raytheon" funded PBS to the neo-con right extreme. Did you know that the following individuals are members of the elitist and secretive Council of Foreign Relations [CFR], which only allows 4000 members and they must be over 35? Here are some of the 4000 members: C. Hunter-Gault (PBS); Robert McNeil; Diane Sawyer; Tom Brokaw; George Stephanopolous; Dan Rather; Colin Powell; Newt Gingrich; John Kerry; Jesse Jackson; John Oakes Jr.; Richard Cheney; Alan Greenspan; Henry Kissinger; Bill Moyers; Daniel Schorr, et al.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Speech? The Construction of Cochlear Implant Identity on American Television and the “New Deaf Cyborg”

LINK: "By far the largest dissemination of media constructions of the CI [cochlear implant] in the past ten years occurred on top-slot prime-time television shows, which consist primarily of the immensely popular genre of the medical and police procedural drama. Most of these shows have at one time or another had a “deaf” episode, in which there is a deaf character or characters involved, but between 2005 and 2008, it is interesting to note that most, if not all of the most popular of these have aired episodes devoted to the CI controversy, or have featured deaf characters with CIs. The shows include: CSI (both Miami and New York), Cold Case, Law and Order (both SVU and Criminal Intent), Scrubs, Gideon’s Crossing, and Bones."


August 30, 2006 story, KENNETH TOMLINSON, bedmate of GW & Newt Gingrich, defending his email records from investigators digging up his purchase of expensive Arabic race horses on the PBS and VOA dollar!

WHO REALLY SPONSORS AND CONTROLS PBS & NPR??

RUSH LIMBAUGH has had the cochlear implant operation. He could help increase sales for the three large cochlear device manufacturers, and could perhaps well become also an advertising poster celebrity for the increase in cochlear implants among the deaf, in the near future. Even despite his recent scandals.

Rush Limbaugh Turns Himself In On Fraud Charge In Rx Drug Probe...click here for his law breaking and drug addict void of morality in this Wash Post in-depth investigation ... read the results...



click here for Aug. 2006 story on nano brain implants in the BRAINGATE program and how you can change your satellite TV channels by telepathy!

Rush Limbaugh had a big hole drilled into his skull and a two way radio implanted that leans against his brain ... he uses SYNTHETIC HEARING now via electrodes embedded into his very own brain cortex tissue ... if he is careful he will not hear police radio calls and mistake them for conversations .... with God, his mentor!

excerpts from Oct 2003 news report [below]

Questions have risen about the autoimmune inner ear disease that caused Limbaugh profound deafness between October of 2001 and January of 2002. The radio host subsequently regained hearing through the use of cochlear implants.

Research has shown that the drugs seem to sabotage the workings of the inner ear, causing permanent damage. But the drugs do not appear to affect the cochlear nerve, which brings sound into the brain.

Limbaugh's cochlear implant doctor, Dr. Jennifer Derebery, an otolaryngologist at the House Ear Clinic in Los Angeles, says it is possible that there is a connection between Limbaugh's sudden hearing loss and pill abuse, but she said there is no way to know for sure.

"We don't know why some people, but apparently not most, who take large doses may lose their hearing," Derebery said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "The reason we don't know is that because we ultimately have to have biopsy specimens of the inner ear to tell that."

In June 2002, Rush Limbaugh told his former housekeeper he was going to New York for detox a second time, after coercing her for too long to give him illicit stocks of her husband's prescription pain killers.

After he returned, "I went to talk to him, and he cried a little bit," his housekeeper said. "He told me that if it ever got out, he would be ruined."

She claimed that a lawyer for Limbaugh gave her a payoff - $80,000 he owed her, plus another $120,000 - and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the E-mail records.

Soon after, Cline and her husband retained Shohat and contacted prosecutors.

Feeling no pain

The drugs Rush Limbaugh is accused of abusing are legal only with a doctor's prescription. All are habit-forming...

Hydrocodone

Anti-cough agent and painkiller similar to morphine. Side effects include anxiety, poor mental performance, emotional dependence, drowsiness, mood changes, difficulty breathing and itchiness.

Lorcet

Brand name for the combination of Tylenol and hydrocodone, prescribed for moderate to severe pain. Side effects include dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, dizziness, tiredness, muscle twitches, sweating and itching.

OxyContin

Potent time-release medication for relief of moderate to severe pain, known as hillbilly heroin because of black-market popularity in some rural areas. Side effects include drowsiness, dizziness, sweating, muscle twitches and decreased sex drive. A large dose can be fatal.

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This article by Ken Auletta is worth mentioning a second time, for it seems that far too many "progressives" and liberal soccer moms in USA still hold on to the myth that NPR radio is some kind of "lefty" media conglomerate. The answer to that is as funny as the notion of TEA PARTY leftists.

Ken Auletta, June 6, 2004 THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE

"WHY REPUBLICANS LOVE PBS" -- aka, "Big Bird Flies to the Right Wing"

In this issue, Ken Auletta investigates the obvious swing of "Raytheon" funded PBS to the neo-con right extreme. Did you know that the following individuals are members of the elitist and secretive Council of Foreign Relations [CFR], which only allows 4000 members and they must be over 35? Here are some of the 4000 members: C. Hunter-Gault (PBS); Robert McNeil; Diane Sawyer; Tom Brokaw; George Stephanopolous; Dan Rather; Colin Powell; Newt Gingrich; John Kerry; Jesse Jackson; John Oakes Jr.; Richard Cheney; Alan Greenspan; Henry Kissinger; Bill Moyers; Daniel Schorr, et al.

Dick Cheney throws dinner parties for current PBS director Pat Mitchell, 61. She also once ran CNN as President for a while. She is close to Newt Gingrich and is now "skillfully solicitous of the Republicans". Today the federal government and Raytheon military missles and aerospace companies are PBS's biggest patrons. [see below for a complete list of funders].

The CPB [Corporation for Public Broadcast] gets $2 billion a year from Congress and also funds PBS. Gingrich denounced PBS in 1995 of being sinfully "left" and egregiously "liberal" and stripped most of its funding. Now he and Pat Mitchell virtually run PBS.

Kevin Klose now runs NPR, under the watch and funding of CPB also.

Under this right wing sneaky influence, the contamination of America goes more than skin deep when you think that Newt Gingrich had lots to do with the start of Rush Limbaugh's long sought success in radio [after decades of failure], and now he is indelibly influential at PBS behind the scenes which means NPR radio also. NPR's audience in radio has jumped up 60% in the last 5 years.

Only 10% of Americans polled trust Congress; 17% trust network television; but 50% trust PBS !!!!

Kenneth Tomlinson, Chairman of CPC, is a former Exec. Editor of READER'S DIGEST, often a CIA cover publishing arm. Kenneth Tomlinson is a Georgian, knows Gingrich well, and is a close friend of Karl Rove. Does this seem right to you?

In 2003, Cheryl Halpern, a former Member of the Voice of America Parent Body [CIA cover], also known as the VOA, became a Board Member of CPB.

Bill Moyers warns that many Gingrich "ideological warriors" have been appointed in the last two years to the PBS board.

Ms. Pat Michell may leave the helm of PBS soon, however, to replace Jack Valenti as head of the MPPA.

Implant Surgery is never a pretty sight ... September 2003

"DEAF CULTURE CONVULSES OVER PBS FILM"

"Life's not easier with the implant." "It requires intense therapy and it's not the same as hearing. It's like an electric buzzing." The cochlear implant is a powerful hearing aid that is placed in the inner ear of an individual with nerve deafness. The system includes a processor worn on clothes [like a Walkman, in that it has a transmitting coil that sends code as radio waves, thus making it as easily received by external auditors as a car radio or a police radio] that is linked by a cable to a transmitter worn behind the ear. The transmitter is held in place by a magnet that is drawn to the implant under the skin.

The cochlear implant does not, however, take away a person's deafness. "

SOME REASONS TO FEAR JUMPING TO THE CONCLUSION THAT AN IMPLANT IS GOOD FOR YOU.

COCHLEAR CORPORATION -- who are they???

from the AccuWeather AP Archives

"Life's not easier with the implant."

CLARION --- Who are they??

COCHLEAR CORP. -- who are they???

Which Medical Insurance Providers are most represented by claims from a cross section of insured/uninsured patients on the Atlantic Seaboard, (and adjoining States, at a MAJOR walk-in East Coast urban HEALTH CLINIC????"

In order of representation [1999 survey]---

BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD (appx. 23%)
UNINSURED (appx. 11%)
KAISER PERMANENTE (appx, 9%)
NYLCare (formerly Healthcare Plus) (appx 6%)
Aetna (appx. 6%)
Cigna (apprx. 5%)
MAPSI (apprx. 4%)
Alliance (apprx. 4%)
Capital Care (apprx. 3%
MEDICARE (appx. 2%)
Prudential Healthcare (approx. 2%)
United Health Care/Metropolitan Life (appx. 1.7%)
GEHA/Government Employees Health Association (appx. 1.6%)
MAMSI (appx. 1.4%)
MEDICAID (appx. 1.25%)
VA/Veterans Administration (appx. 1.0%)
Local Union Insurance (0.4%)

Excerpts from the WASHINGTON POST

Excerpts from the LOS ANGELES TIMES re. AETNA:

"Widow's Lawsuit Against HMO Ends With $120 Million Verdict"

By Julie Marquis

global pharmaceutical industry

From "Positively Aware", a Chicago publication; a recent issue: