Satellites can pinpoint the location of graffiti taggers fast enough to catch them in the act. TaggerTrap is being tested in several California cities and uses cell phones and special sensors that recognize the ultrasonic hiss of spray cans. “The tagger, when he pushes down on that spray can, he’s calling police,” says George Lerg, of TrapTec. Then GPS finds the tagger’s location and the cops pick him up.
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Japan is ready to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea if it believes it will launch missiles against it. Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba says, “It is too late if [a missile] flies towards Japan. Our nation will use military force as a self-defense measure if [North Korea] starts to resort to arms against Japan.” Since Japan?s postwar constitution forbids military aggression, they would only attack North Korea in self-defense, using the same logic that underlies our possible attack on Iraq.
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Scientists have discovered that abductees have post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS), which indicates that something real happened to them. However, they’ve also discovered that people can be made to believe that something really happened when it didn’t and can have real trauma from this false experience. Abductees display some of the same stress symptoms as soldiers who’ve been in battle, yet scientists skip over the conclusion that perhaps they’ve had real experiences and go straight to the claim that this proves that false experiences can produce real stress.
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One of the subjects in the study described in the unknowncountry news tells the facts behind the headlines in our Insight Section. He says, “One needs to be aware that McNally’s personal opinion is not the direct result of his results, which are remarkable. McNally’s study proved that the physiological responses of experiencers are as authentic as the physiological responses of people whose experiences are not considered ‘unreal.’?McNally has chosen the safest possible implication — he chooses to view these results as evidence of the ‘power of emotional belief.’ However?the study did not prove that alien encounters were fantasy, on the contrary, it proved that the physiological response was as authentic as the response from any reality known to be true.”