Tag: Chile

The Architecture Which is Most Resilient to Earthquakes

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During the Chilean earthquake of 2010, very short buildings (e.g. 3+ stories) and very tall buildings (e.g. 25+ stories) were virtually unaffected, with the bulk of damage pertaining to buildings which were 10 – 20 stories high. The reason why shorter and taller buildings are able to withstand earthquakes with greater chances of survival is because earthquakes have natural rhythms which are frequencies. Crustal earthquakes have a high frequency like choppy water, and thus shorter and taller buildings are not affected. Subduction earthquakes move much slower in their rhythm and frequency with approximately 1 swell/cycle per 1 second, which causes sizeable damage to mid sized buildings. 10 – 20 story buildings tend to vibrate at 1 swell/cycle per second which causes a dangerous synchronicity in the vibrato as the rocking becomes more intense in its amplification with each additional second or swell/cycle, until the earthquake stops or the building collapses. Taller buildings sway much slower which gives them a lot of built in protection against even the largest earthquakes found throughout history

The Development of Modern Institutionalized Psychological Torture as a Means of Interrogation

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In the 1950’s, Scottish psychiatrist Ewen Cameron started experimenting upon his own patients which ushered in the modern age of the psychological techniques leveraged by governments to extract information from high value targets and low level targets alike. In 1951, the U.S., the U.K., and Canada began developing the Survival Evasion Resistance Escape program, abbreviated as “SERE” (pronounced “sear”) designed for when domestic soldiers became captured by enemy forces (e.g. aircraft shot down over enemy lines) as well as techniques which could be used against captured Soviets. This research became dominant within Canadian universities for almost a decade, with researchers beginning similar psychiatric experiments within psychiatric hospitals in the U.K. In the U.S. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency dominated most research and had over 160 secret projects within 80 institutions, comprising a total of $25,000,000 ($25 million) allocated for human experimentation. This project was code named “MK Ultra”. In 1963, many of Cameron’s psychological experiments were codified for the first time and compiled within the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation hand guide, a book which is now declassified and freely available online. The term “kubark” is a cryptonym, the name for the Central Intelligence Agency itself. This content became the foundation for the method of psychological interrogation and psychological torture which the Central Intelligence Agency disseminated across the U.S. intelligence community and worldwide among allies for 30 years after its initial release. Since the 1950’s, confirmed cases backed by evidence and testimony of these techniques of torture being used have been recognized or admitted to by governments in 28 nation states including Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Borneo, Brazil, British Guyana, British Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Cuba, the UK, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lithuania, Morocco, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, Vienna, and Yemen

Whilst I rarely if ever will submit an opinion upon this blog, I feel that it is important to state that the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation hand guide is now declassified and been made public. To educate yourself so that these techniques cannot be used against you, click here to read the Kubark Counterintelligence Interrogation hand guide