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Researchers Develop a Speech-Jamming Gun That Can Silence People From a Distance


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Japanese researchers have developed a gun that can silence people in mid-sentence. The Speech-Jamming gun can effectively jam the words of speakers who are over 100 feet away simply by pointing its visor at them. While countless jokes can be made about that gun (i.e. “I could use that on my wife” or “It was specifically designed for Kanye West”), the real purpose of it are not as funny. The gun is indeed being promoted as something useful to “mediate debates” or to “facilitate the quelling of protests”. There’s already “talks” of having such guns in public places such as libraries.

When there’s a way to make you physically unable to speak, we can say that free-speech is literally in danger. Like, literally. Here’s an article from ExtremeTech about the Anti-1st-Amendment device.

New speech-jamming gun hints at dystopian Big Brother future

Japanese researchers have created a hand-held gun (pictured above) that can jam the words of speakers who are more than 30 meters (100ft) away. The gun has two purposes, according to the researchers: At its most basic, this gun could be used in libraries and other quiet spaces to stop people from speaking — but its second application is a lot more chilling.

The researchers were looking for a way to stop “louder, stronger” voices from saying more than their fair share in conversation. The paper reads: “We have to establish and obey rules for proper turn-taking when speaking. However, some people tend to lengthen their turns or deliberately interrupt other people when it is their turn in order to establish their presence rather than achieve more fruitful discussions. Furthermore, some people tend to jeer at speakers to invalidate their speech.” In other words, this speech-jamming gun was built to enforce “proper” conversations.

The gun works by listening in with a directional microphone, and then, after a short delay of around 0.2 seconds, playing it back with a directional speaker. This triggers an effect that psychologists call Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF), which has long been known to interrupt your speech (you might’ve experienced the same effect if you’ve ever heard your own voice echoing through Skype or another voice comms program). According to the researchers, DAF doesn’t cause physical discomfort, but the fact that you’re unable to talk is obviously quite stressful.

Speech jammer, in a librarySuffice it to say, if you’re a firm believer in free speech, you should now be experiencing a deafening cacophony of alarm bells. Let me illustrate a few examples of how this speech-jamming gun could be used.

At a political rally, an audience member could completely lock down Santorum, Romney, Paul, or Obama from speaking. On the flip side, a totalitarian state could point the speech jammers at the audience to shut them up. Likewise, when a celebrity or public figure appears on a live TV show, his contract could read “the audience must be silenced with speech jammers.”

Then there’s Harrison Bergeron, one of my favorite short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. In the story’s dystopian universe, everyone wears “handicaps” to ensure perfect social equality. Strong people must lug around heavy weights, beautiful people must wear masks, and intelligent people must wear headphones that play a huge blast of sound every few seconds, interrupting your thoughts. The more intelligent you are, the more regular the blasts.

Back here in our universe, it’s not hard to imagine a future where we are outfitted with a variety of implanted electronics or full-blown bionic organs. Just last week we wrote about Google’s upcoming augmented-reality glasses, which will obviously have built-in earbuds. Late last year we covered bionic eyes that can communicate directly with the brain, and bionic ears and noses can’t be far off.

In short, imagine if a runaway mega-corporation or government gains control of these earbuds. Not only could the intelligence-destroying blasts from Harrison Bergeron come to pass, but with Delayed Auditory Feedback it would be possible to render the entire population mute. Well, actually, that’s a lie: Apparently DAF doesn’t work with utterances like “ahhh!” or “boooo!” or other non-wordy constructs. So, basically, we’d all be reduced to communicating with grunts and gestures.
- Source: ExtremeTech

Here’s a video explaining how the device works.

Here’s a video of the device in action.


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  1. SDH says:

    :|

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    • Simple Truth says:

      A real contribution to humanity is for japanese govt to start teaching their generations in schools about the atrocities made during WWII. An example should be Nanking Rape[China](one of those many forgotten atrocities) and comfort women such as, in Philippines, Korea, Burma etc. And if thats really hard to do then, they should release an official statement that they admit it did occurred or happened. And an official statement of apology to the victims of such atrocities. Where is real justice when humanity needs one.

      More info about such tech:
      HAARP
      Chemtrails

      Oh wait theres more….
      LRAD(Long Range Acoustic Device)
      LRSP(Long Range Spectrum Projection)
      sounds like ufos and strange noises from the sky. Preparation for alien invasion/visitation or some hypocritical miracle event…..Oh forgot to mention with the help of satellites and massive network of these.

      Deception at its best!!!!

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      • Simple Truth says:

        Will the Elite’s masterplan work? bec the sun has 3 letters for them like EEEE…..MMMM…..PPPP Which side is the sun is to?…..yeah sided to righteousness. Its just like in Noah’s era but this time its fire and I hope this will be the last time.

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      • nomader says:

        @simple truth – Perhaps you should leave the Japanese coming-to-grips with their history of atrocities to the Japanese and you as an American should try and get your nation to come to grips with yours?

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      • Anna says:

        “nomader says:
        March 12, 2012 at 10:50 pm

        @simple truth – Perhaps you should leave the Japanese coming-to-grips with their history of atrocities to the Japanese and you as an American should try and get your nation to come to grips with yours?”

        Well remember this that what Japan did was an International crime, but America was also involved in a few things. Still, because it was international, many people can come together to discuss for a better future.

        The young generation of Japan don’t want to atone for what their elders did, unlike Germany, simply because there’s a huge generation gap in Japan right now, among many other things. Germany decided to quickly atone and move on, while Japan decided to bury their past and move on.

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      • Dazed says:

        This technology might explain what many suspected when there was a rush of reporters on TV who started to speak gibberish on live TV

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXAPCmqUbI

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    • Killuminati says:

      Japanese have also invented a camera that has such a fast shutter speed, it can even take a picture of a woman with her mouth shut! :O

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    • Cisco says:

      EPIC first comment… lol

      I wonder, how long has this kind of technology existed before they allowed a primitive version to be made public? I’m not suggesting it has been used in this way, but you know they are way ahead of us, technologically speaking. Who knows what they really have lying in wait, begging for an excuse for use.

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    • your mom says:

      the “LIBRARY” is the best excuse they could come up with…SERIOUSLY???? i dnt buy it. who goes to the library anyway? not like that, but who shushes other ppl in the library. everyone there knows the rules. but this is just an excuse to start something huge!

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      • face in the crowd says:

        I go to the library. Yea, I am a nobody…keep the ones who claim to be “somebody” out of the library.

        In regards to DAF and it’s effects, I am a woman so…I am not too worried about it. In fact, I am certain if used enough to silence me, my brain will automatically adapt so I can continue to communicate.

        The worst thing that can happen with this is people forget that 90% OF COMMUNICATION IS NON VERBAL.

        Make a fucking sign people. If you gather to protest and these transmitters are used to silence or confuse you, break them or coordinate your protest elsewhere.

        DON’T LET THEIR METHODS, PROPAGANDA AND MILITARY INSTRUMENTS LEAVE YOU AFRAID.

        We outnumber them. They fear us.

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    • face in the crowd says:

      Also worth mentioning, I am one of thousands who will be angling myself to steal this thing from any copy or security force I witness use it. :) The greedy, soulless police states around the world do not realize they share with the profane citizens they think are controlled :)

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  2. jimmy says:

    This is where someone comments: “hey, they’re just a bunch of idiots, we’re obviously going to win, we’ve got god on our side”, and then he gets thousands of likes.

    But obviously this is something we allowed to happen, it’s our own fault and it’s we (not god or whatever) who have to fight back again!

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    • Freetoday says:

      :-) Thanks, Jimmy. Can we use it on the cops and on the elite? Can we use it on mayors and cheating spouses? What else will we invent? A robot to think, eat and take a crap for us– tmi. I think this technology is scary and quite sad at the same time. I do not enjoy people talking in the library, but I would rather ask them to be quiet. If they need to talk, let ‘em talk. Don’t worry they are Satanic scum. God wins. They lose!! :)

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    • Jack says:

      The device is a joke to scare people off..just lame stream media tool to undermine the real weapons that the elite already use on us.

      Get to the science guys…The device uses VLF (Very Low Frequency) to HF (High Frequency) Waves in tandem….When you speak…Your sound waves has a pitch and its gets recorded into the device…the device simply relays the pitch to you in higher frequency than yours making you not able to speak….

      You can easily break the device power by moving your head around or changing your tone for a while etc…remember the device has to directly point at you to work..if you move your head..the device is useless..

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    • catzi says:

      Thank you for your comment…

      I’ve stopped reading comments because of the ones you’ve mentioned.
      Those people don’t give me no hope for changing this world, even tho we are on
      a site dedicated to higher knowledge & the “real” reality.

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  3. Stax De Morgan says:

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  4. N/A says:

    I’m not sure about this video, it looks like acting.

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  5. J says:

    it should be obvious when someone is under the influence of the gun

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  6. Mhilton says:

    The video looks totally bogus.

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  7. The Lord saves says:

    LOL Ionno guys.. this seems kind of SciFi to me.

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  8. Robert says:

    They had a device that functioned like this in many science museums, it was a telephone hand set, and you picked up the phone hand set, read a script, which was played back to you via the phone. Because your voice was slightly delayed, it caused you to stop talking to listen to yourself.

    One could just ignore it and continue reading the script, I was easily able to do that part. But I suspect it would be more difficult to ignore if you weren’t reading prepared remarks.

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  9. Wilz says:

    This world is getting seriously creepy

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  10. sffp says:

    Time to learn hand language!!

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  11. Drew says:

    Yeah, this does not seem legit at all. The title implies that it literally SILENCES and physically renders one unable to speak, LITERALLY. Which it does not. And in the video, it doesn’t even show it working. It shows them pointing it at people, and then cutting to a different scene before it “does its job.” And like commenter #8, Robert, said, one could easily ignore this, if it actually does just amplify your own voice back at you. Especially in a crowd situation. There’s no way something like this would work on a large crowd of people such as protestors or something.

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    • Chris says:

      Well it has to start somewhere, right?

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    • vultcha says:

      this is the same tech as the BOSE NOISE CANCELLATION. the scariest thing about this is the IDEA to actually use it to stop people from expressing themselves. That concept alone is what’s scary (it’s a return to the pre-civil rights arena). They could always just used a WATER HOSE or POLICE DOGS or some other measure to get you to shut your mouth. i.e: Shut your mouth, or get shot. That actually would be more along the lines of what they really would want to be able to do, because those devices wouldn’t be everywhere. A person with a free will and a free speech is there most dangerous opponent.

      And yeah, as one commenter said (paraphrasing): In the end, GOD wins and Good “always” trumps EVIL! :-p

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  12. lorraine says:

    This is scary why would they allow this to happen not being able to voice you opinion……….. wow going south at light speed

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  13. seriously says:

    Now they have speech jammers next coming is hearing blockers but no matters what they invent they can’t touch our souls so we win they loose.

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  14. sister soul says:

    Is this for real???

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  15. jose menny says:

    not what’s taken in the mouth, but that which proceedeth out of the mouth is what defiles a man… but gee whiz! :P

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  16. otad12 says:

    I can EASILY picture the cops using these on people. They try to make people shut up all the time, when trying to explain an altercation or a crime.

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    • OjosPelados says:

      You’re so right. Anyone abusive in power, which is a lot of them, would be thrilled to have one of these.

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  17. otad12 says:

    The elite makes it CLEAR that we’re not welcome on the face of this earth!

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  18. otad12 says:

    I think VC should do an article strictly & solely on psychiatry & their forceful & abusive methods. They drug & poison us & make us retarded.

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    • Cisco says:

      I think that fits the description of Mind Control methods, which he has.

      “You can’t fool all the people all of the time
      But if you fool the right ones, then the rest will fall behind
      Tell me who’s got control of your mind? your world view?
      Is it the news or the movie you’re taking your girl to? (uh)
      Know what I’m sayin cause uncle sam got a plan
      If you examine what they tellin us then you will understand
      What they plantin in the seeds of the next generation
      Feeding our children miseducation ” -Dead Prez

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    • OjosPelados says:

      That’s been happening in high speed over the past year using radiation from Fukushima, in food air and water. Passive poisoning and dumbing down. Watch people’s brains deteriorate. Alzheimer diagnoses are going to go through the roof. They’re already preparing for it, predicting it, a lot of it will actually just be from radiation embedded in the brain. And by that point, no one will be able to help them understand the truth of what’s happened to them.

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  19. Pest says:

    I can’t see any good reason for using such a device. Humans always come up with new horrible ideas and inventions!

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  20. blinkers says:

    could this be what happened to the people in this article from a while ago with judge judy talking gibberish

    http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/judge-judy-the-4th-to-talk-gibberish-on-air/

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  21. mags says:

    here’s a solution: just plug your ears with your fingers and KEEP ON TALKING. but they’ll probably make plugging your ears illegal.

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  22. Cstarz says:

    Somebody get one and use it on Rush Limbaugh please.

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  23. Krista says:

    WTF??!! I Gotta Get Outta This Place…Maybe Digg My Own Tunnel Underground

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  24. idk... says:

    This is so stupid! I can’t believe that someone even tried to make something to make people stop talking. IT WILL NEVER WORK! You mean to tell me that if someone sees u pointing that big ass thing at you, you won’t move? I just like to know who the heck said “wow this is a good idea lets sell it”. This gets folks talking more then actually shutting folks up. It’s just dumb!

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  25. the catastrophes continue says:

    At this rate……. by the year 2015…… everyone will be mute, deaf, blind, paralyzed, crippled, spied upon, tracked, etc.

    I wish all these talented people that can come up with all these new inventions would stop being such malicious trolls.

    Whatever happened to just politely go up to someone and tell them to keep it quiet? If you shoot some random person in a library, they might react in the worst way possible (i.e. they might become frightened and start yelling loudly in gibberish)

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  26. Tiffaine says:

    Once someone shoots you, how long do you remain silent?? What if I’m silenced by a gun and need to scream for help?? and what if my voice doesn’t come back or comes back but not like it used to be?? How did they test this gun??
    Last questions : why do people want absolutely control others? What about freedom?
    I know I’ll never get the answers for those questions but that’s what on my mind.

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  27. Nir says:

    disturbing!

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  28. Tiffaine says:

    I’m waiting for the day when they’re going to invent a remote control for brain, so they can order you what to say, when to sleep, when to pee, what to eat, etc…. It’s seems that humanity is more and more forgotten and we are forced to act blindly like robots. Transhuman agenda is going fast I guess…

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  29. This is only the beginning... says:

    A kid gets thrown out of school because he is playing with a plastic toy gun in a school in the US…
    … But it’s okey to use a gun/wepaon to silence other people on public places like the library etc?

    However if they let such a thing be allowed to the masses just think what they haven’t told us yet? I mean they probably have devices that can shut a person 100% off… oh yeah… MK ultra slaves…

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  30. Muffin says:

    Hey people….I think the way they explain how it works….could actually work!!! I’ve experienced talking on the phone & my voice echoing back at me after a short period and I stopped speaking over and over…..until I took away the hearing end of the phone every time I started talking. But it was driving me crasy! I’m freaked out by this! Thanks VC! Keep up the good work! :)

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  31. Marozia says:

    Does this mean we can silence the Illuminati? Not only that, can we also silence our politicians as well when they make those off-putting speeches?

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  32. RhuBarb says:

    Applications like this will always be put to more sinister uses by like minded people (governments for instance), luckily there is always some clever dick who will come up with a tool to render this thing useless if need be.
    Like an anti-gadget gadget or something.

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  33. Tink says:

    video looks fake-y, but it’s still scary they have this technology now.

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  34. Antonio says:

    No really, who comes up with these deranged ideas?

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  35. LVB says:

    Now, if this could be used to render Lady Gaga “Speechless”, and her many other pop MK clones, then I might consider this a worthwhile investment. :)

    All kidding aside, though, this is only the beginning of the “mainstreaming” of many technological devices invented by the military under DARPA, that can radically affect and control numerous human systems including the ability to disrupt and disable speech, eyesight, hearing, coherent thought processes…even deliberate jolts of ELF (think Tesla) scalar waves which can induce spontaneous vomiting, bowel “evacuation”, urination, and you get the idea.

    Many of these things have existed since the early 1970s, but have surely been refined and gone through mass testing to improve their capabilities and to make them “safer”.

    And not at all off the subject, it is entirely possible that Andrew Brietbart may well have been one more victim of such technology, Twhich can electronically induce cardiac arhythmias, TIA (mini-strokes), etc. just by dialing in certain frequencies on a target’s heart, brain or overall central nervous system.

    These people have tools that can kill you silently, and with little or no evidence that a murder has been committed.

    These are serious times we live in, and yet people allow themselves to be swept up in the constant mass media diversions, like what designer shoes is Beeyonce wearing…or whatever.

    We better get serious people, and do it quickly.

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  36. The White Snake says:

    If this is real, we’re screwed. If this is not real, we know they’re trying to mess with free speech for sure, and will likely find something that works given enough time. Take it seriously either way.

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  37. Mr.JC says:

    Thats Crazy!! D:

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  38. Kismetie says:

    LMAO, that big ass gun!! xD I’d like to see someone be low key with that sucker`

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  39. Syrus says:

    I feel genuinely conflicted about this. On one hand, people already don’t listen to you if they can, and on the other there are too many obnoxious asshats who need to be shut up. At same time, this technology is obviously evil and I can’t abide giving anyone that much power. I’m interested to see how this turns out. If anything, it’ll just up the prison population with disgruntled people who punched out abusers of this technology. Or worse, the police will get their hands on it and add it to their array of misery weapons. Good thing we have supernatural control of reality from a metaphysical perspective. Otherwise, I’d feel equally powerless and depressed about this.

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  40. Weber says:

    This with other developments would make a prison even more oppressive. Use the developed microwave skin heating gun to torture assemblies of people and use this to silence any communal vocal dissent…

    FEMA camps looking even more fun.

    They WILL have us toilet trained. At least the useful ones not culled.

    You want to resist do it now.

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  41. Truth says:

    This is real. It just happened to me on my celphone.

    I kept hearing myself talk at the same time (feedback), and I kept trying to listen to what I was saying.

    It did not make me speak in gibberish (ie Judge Judy), just interrupted my thought flow and I kept pausing.

    See Muffin’s response #30.

    Solutions:
    – Ear plugs
    – Move out of range of gun (they will probably make the “gun” bigger, say, in the form of speaker equipment),
    – Be hearing impaired

    Also be aware, when “they” release this stuff to the public MSM, they are already years in development beyond what they allow us to see….

    Think of all the movies you have seen where the plotlines or objects have become reality….

    Take a look at the movie “Minority Report” with Tom Cruise (2002) then check out these headlines/videos:

    http://www.militaryaerospace.com/news/2012/03/03/protecting-privacy-as-drone-use-is-widening.html

    see video:
    http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/science-scope/irobot-robotics-makers-recast-industry-with-touchscreens/12279

    see video:
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46315465/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/#.T1VaaoI4mck

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sz8ExZndc

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  42. D says:

    A speech-jamming gun. I fail to see the point in that.

    Governments already have something to do just that, it’s called a firearm and it’s loaded with bullets.

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  43. Agent Smith says:

    Tell me, Mr. Anderson… what good is a phone call… if you’re unable to speak?

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  44. Anonymous says:

    I have serious doubt from that video that this is real.

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  45. Aubrey Graham says:

    Greetings!

    You may know me as the rapper/singer Drake. I’ve stumbled across this website and I must say, you have very interesting information on here. I will try to comment frequently, even though it’s hard because of my busy schedule. Take care, everyone!

    ~Drizzy Drake

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    • Syrus says:

      Your site’s getting really popular, VC. Already I meet random people that read here, and now it looks like famous rappers are throwing in their two cents. Alexa’s site says this site is about 7,000th in the country. Last time I checked, anyway.

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    • I want the truth says:

      Hi Aubrey/Drake,
      If you’re honest about being the rapper/singer, then I’m glad that you have stumbled upon VC’s site. Are you able to relate the things mentioned about the entertainment industry on this site to your work life, since you’ve also been a TV actor before? Or are you clueless about what’s going on?

      I would like to hear your 2 cents’ worth on the industry, Aubrey, and perhaps some clarifications on the articles published on this site.

      Cheers & God Bless!
      I want the truth

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      • mags says:

        I want the truth,

        you serious? you really think drake is gonna come on this site and admit what that poser just admitted. damn, now i’m wondering who the troll is..

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      • I want the truth says:

        Hi mags,

        to quote what I typed:

        “IF YOU’RE HONEST about being the rapper/singer…”

        I’m highly aware that there are trolls on the Internet and VC.com is no exception. As much as I wanted to dismiss the poster as a troll when I first read his comment, I also don’t want to jump to conclusions too readily, like so many readers of this site do. *AHEM*

        Of course, if someone involved in the industry actually learns more about the going-ons in the industry and would like to gain more information so as to help him with his decisions in the industry & his life, won’t you be happy for him too?

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      • Aubrey Graham says:

        If you’re honest about being the rapper/singer, then I’m glad that you have stumbled upon VC’s site. Are you able to relate the things mentioned about the entertainment industry on this site to your work life, since you’ve also been a TV actor before? Or are you clueless about what’s going on?
        I would like to hear your 2 cents’ worth on the industry, Aubrey, and perhaps some clarifications on the articles published on this site.

        I can understand why people think this isn’t me, but they can believe what they want.

        I will give a detailed explanation tomorrow, but for now I’ll keep it short and simple because I’m about to record a verse. All the articles I read so far, everything is true. The industry is very evil and twisted. The only reason I cannot say much is for security reasons. VC does cover a lot about this topic, but I think he should do a piece on the Jesuit Order. They are the ones running the world behind the scenes. If you have some spare time, do some research on the Black Pope. He is the world’s most powerful man. Vigilant Citizen, can you please do a piece about the 2012 Olympics. There is going to be a staged attack, the 2 official mascots have one eye. FEMA camps are also being opened very soon, or may already be. I must go now, but I’ll be talking to you guys soon! Thanks for listening, my friends. God bless you all.

        ~Drizzy

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  46. theseeker says:

    When I first read about this weapon, I did not see the “funny” side at all. Instantly it came to my mind how those in power will shut the mouths of people who would tell the truth. I rather bear people talking silliness or interrupting me than stopping them from free speech! People have the right to talk, even if it is stupidity. But anyway, not those will be “speechjammed” that talk stupidity but mostly those that would tell the truth.

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  47. OjosPelados says:

    Very convenient this device comes out after people start protesting nuclear energy in Japan! This is horrifyng.

    It’s not enough for agents to get paid to delete any negative (aka true) online talk about TEPCO and radiation in Japan, but now they have the SpeechJammer to make sure human speech is silenced, too.

    We know exactly what’s going on, and why. The timing speaks volumes.

    On with the genocide, I guess.

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  48. OjosPelados says:

    I don’t believe this device is totally harmless at all.

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231594/
    This device is an abuse of techniques originally developed to help people with stuttering (stammering) problems!

    Somewhere in the above article are the keywords we can cross-reference to probably find clues that it may harm populations with neurological problems, including people with Alzheimers, seizure disorders, and autism-spectrum disorders (especially in a time when many brains will already be damaged by Fukushima fallout consumed in food). The device affects central nervous system processes involving “mirror neurons”, “frequency shifted feedback”, and Broca’s area (for speech) in the brain. The sensorimotor cortex is probably involved.

    Anything can have side effects. Proponents of taser-type devices in the U.S. claim the things don’t hurt people, too, don’t they? Tell that to the families of people killed by tasers.

    Another article on stutter-assistance devices:
    http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/molt8/molt8.html

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    • OjosPelados says:

      Here is some proof, from 1979, no less.

      http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/isad8/papers/molt8/molt8.html
      “Standardized stress in healthy volunteers induced by delayed auditory feedback (DAF)

      Using delayed auditory feedback (delay 0.175 s) a standardized form of mental stress was investigated in 8 healthy male volunteers. After a resting period and a period of undelayed reading, the volunteers were exposed for 5 min to the DAF stress. During the DAF period heart rate increased by 10% and systolic and diastolic blood pressure increased by 9% and 18%, respectively. As a measure of acute sympathetic activation, plasma concentrations of norepinephrine and epinephrine rose by 68% and 49%, respectively. The activity od dopamine-beta-hydroxylase in plasma was increased by 25%. From these results it can be concluded that the DAF procedure provides a suitable method for inducing a standardized mental stress in normal subjects, which can be measured as changes in biochemical and cardiovascular variables. ”

      I believe you could give people, especially those with high blood pressure or other heart problems, a heart attack from this device. Other people whose health is sensitive to increases in stress and changes in the above-mentioned neurotransmitters, like epileptics or others, could have disastrous consequences from this device as well. Someone whose physiological stress markers are too high on a certain day, could get pushed over the edge into having an adverse health event.

      This device is not without side effects when you are tampering with people’s vital signs like this. Whoever is using it is surely not going to get a health history on every potential target before they use it, so it should not be used, period.

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  49. OjosPelados says:

    Mirror cells can be involved in autism:
    http://www.physorg.com/news190307792.html
    “”It’s also suspected that dysfunction of these mirror cells might be involved in disorders such as autism, where the clinical signs can include difficulties with verbal and nonverbal communication, imitation and having empathy for others,” Mukamel said.”

    Line up the lawyers!

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  50. Aseq says:

    C’mon guys, anyone with the slightest knowledge of sound waves can see this does not work. Not only is the mic-playback combo too far away form the speaker to cancel out the sound, it would also only cancel it in the direction of the gun, so only 1 person would not hear it.

    Only thing I can think of that it would be good at is letting the speaker hear their own words, which might make them realize the things they’re saying are stupid. Apart from that, it looks just like a fictional product design by students for an assignment.

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  51. Muffin says:

    I watched this video yesterday & thought they must have used that speech silencer on Geoge bush ;) It’s HILARIOUS!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt-ac6pstmM&feature=related

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  52. One says:

    Monstrous. It’s…i don’t know, probably one of the most awful creations of human kind. This thing will actually forbid free speech. Literally, we won’t be able to express ourselves, express our opinions or present new ideas, because there might be someone nearby who can silence us. Stop us. Prevent us from saying something. Forbid us to speak.

    Seriously, it’s one of the most disgusting things i’ve ever heard of.

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  53. Sigh says:

    Get that text-to-speech function ready on your laptops. We might all sound like Stephen Hawking, but at least we’ll have a voice.

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  54. ShiningBrownEyes says:

    Remember people, the technology that makes it to the public is the technology they don’t use anymore! So, that means there’s something more sinister is “their” nasty bag of tricks. This will be used when the world economy crashes and people are out in the streets.

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  55. CalAsian says:

    If there is such gun, I will use it to stop IU from singing and harming K-Pop.

    No one has harmed K-Pop as much as IU.

    I wish someone silences her forever.

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  56. BlueZoo says:

    “…this speech-jamming gun was built to enforce “proper” conversations.”

    *W*T*F*

    At best, we’ll have anonymous librarians being the Speech Police. Don’t even want to give mental energy to worst-case scenarios.

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    • Dazed&Amazed says:

      I’m sorry, but if a librarian were to point that thing at me, i’d snatch it out of their hand and beat them over the head with it.

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  57. Brieanna says:

    I am highly skeptical of this only because of the advertisement.. this technology may exist, but they wouldnt come right out and say you can use this gun in public to silence your teacher. that made it look like a joke and i think its bs.

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  58. muddy harrison says:

    im going to tell you all about the atrocities of the elite and illumin

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  59. drudgereport says:

    The Hidden Evil

    http://thehiddenevil.com/

    “This website is devoted to explaining a global program of torture, murder & persecution which I call the Hidden Evil. It includes a vast network of plain-clothed citizen informants, which is used for public stalking, & the use of Directed Energy Weapons on targeted individuals. All core factions of the community are involved, & everyone, from seniors to children, participates in Gang Stalking. Governments have used these groups in some form since the Roman Empire. The Hidden Evil is an example of this pattern repeating itself.

    The citizens’ network patrols the streets of your neighborhoods. The evidence suggests that this network is not just part of a sub-culture within society, but that it literally permeates all aspects of it, & is therefore, part of the mainstream. As I’ll demonstrate, this has happened before. The network is the creation of supra-governmental Think Tanks, which are made up of people of tremendous wealth. These Think Tanks manipulate your government like a puppet. So, in essence, these wealthy individuals control your streets.

    The public front portion of the program currently appears to emanate from the Department of Homeland Security. It is supported by individuals & groups of informants, that have no official ties to any state organization. Federal agencies work directly with local governments to coordinate the activities of this colossal network. Other countries apparently have similar ones.

    The citizen patrols (Gang Stalking) are done under the guise of keeping an eye on internal threats to state security & cleaning up neighborhoods. As I’ll demonstrate, this is exactly what the informant networks in East Germany & Russia were told when they were recruited into these state-sponsored programs. These are essentially global Psychological Warfare operations, done with the support of the civilian population. On the neighborhood level, despite claims of patriotism, the main reasons for their participation are empowerment & adventure.

    Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) & other behavior modification tools are used as weapons during public harassment. These attacks are combined with military-grade, silent, through-the-wall Directed Energy Weapons (DEW), & advanced electronic surveillance equipment. Many people are attacked night & day with these weapons.

    I have found that this social pathogen is a symptom of a heavily corrupted society under psychopathic rule. The program, in its basic form, is part of a re-occurring historical theme, which includes psychopaths gaining control of governments, & using a percentage of the population to destroy their enemies. This is done to pave the way for an overt dictatorship, & is always done under the banner of righteousness. In its current form, it is part of a political movement known as the New World Order. On this site, I’ll describe what Think Tanks are behind it. From top to bottom, the Hidden Evil is about power & control.

    The mainstream news, congress, parliament, & other politicians will openly deny that this exists. Or they will minimize its significance. Organizations under the control of the financial elite will also deny it, & may be used to discredit anyone who exposes it. The media will also be used in this manner. In the future, when the authorized historians write the official history books, this part of it will be left out or whitewashed.

    So this site will also serve as a record. It will be a testimony for anyone who wants to learn the truth about how the streets of the NATO nations were taken over by multi-national corporations, that used federally sponsored harassment groups to Gang Stalk their opposition, in order to pave the way for a corporate-fascist dictatorship.”

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  60. brainstorm says:

    They have to develop a camera to shut out desperate old dirty pervy men from the gossipy columns of trashy papers ASAP. Why they don’t frequent more intellectual papers on the net instead of the trashy ones eh? Yikes just yikes. I can’t stand this lot.

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  61. Dazed&Amazed says:

    This can’t be real. First off the thing is gigantic. I think this is a hoax.

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  62. Nini says:

    Sometimes you just have to look at this stuff and laugh hysterically…

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  63. Lola18 says:

    I guess we will all go back to communicating like cavemen…grunt

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  64. Raquel says:

    What the crap is this now!

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  65. What a disgusting little ‘gadget’. Should be called the ‘orwell 3000′! What with the likes of this and those other abominations that fire high pitched sounds out to clear protestors you can see we’re moving into potentially very dark times..

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  66. Paige Quintel says:

    I wonder if it is responsible for burtation.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2nC6NPYp4

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  67. cricket says:

    yeah, imagine the awkward silence from now on…

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  68. Janette says:

    Fuck you SpeechJammer, fuck you! :( It’s societies way of silencing the people who speak about what they believe in, and things they shouldn’t know. Once again, fuck you. :)

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  69. Deception is like sleep: You won’t realize that you’re sleeping, until you wake up to realize that you’ve been sleeping. Same as deception, you realize that you’ve been deceived until you wake up to realize that you’ve been deceived. Rise above deception & snap out of it every1.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/THEBLHEARTSFORGOD/videos?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google
    After watching these ya’ll better make your choice/s.

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  70. kch says:

    This version doesn’t seem that ominous. If I understand it correctly, it just sends back an echo of what you are saying. This doesn’t prevent you from speaking, it just makes it difficult to speak. For example, anyone who has ever heard feedback/echo of their own voice when talking on the phone…it makes it difficult to speak because you’re trying to interpret what you’re hearing at the same time you’re talking. If you could tune it out, speaking would be no problem at all. This doesn’t really seem like a weapon, or even very dangerous. In fact, if it were happening all the time, I wouldn’t be surprised if people could adapt and tune it out.

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  71. Donte says:

    Sucks for them that i know sign language, we all learn that, we’ll be okay!

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  72. Historymaker says:

    Thanks for this information, I really think this is in use here already but it helps to know the facts.
    First thing I thought of was the reporters this past year, they were FINE and did not want to get checked out, remember the reports of “stress and headaches”?

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  73. lilith says:

    damn Japanese …. stop inventing evil sh*t!!

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  74. Croatian says:

    Soon the U.S. government will place an order for several millions of these guns.

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  75. radio toys says:

    A baby is programmed to learn language-any language-but he isn’t anymore prepared to discover a code than he is to learn Portuguese. If he were adopted by a family in Portugal, he would learn Portuguese plus not the English he usually discover from you.

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