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« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2011, 05:21:19 pm »

Anyone got any info on this FunVax? I cant tell if its a lie or a persecution of the saints.
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2011, 03:20:02 am »

Funvax is real and Dr Johnson covers it in his latest current events at www.contendingfortruth.com
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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2011, 05:17:46 am »

Obama‟s Biggest Conspiracy – FunVax

Posted on March 22, 2011 by funvax

There are dozens of conspiracy theories about President Obama but there is one that is more important & bigger than any of conspiracies previously published. The project actually started under the Bush Administration, but continues under, and is approved by, the Obama Administration. Its code name is FunVax. It stands for Fundamentalism Vaccine.

FunVax is a Department of Defense project started in 2004. It’s purpose was to eliminate terrorism in the Middle East. The method – genetically manipulating religious fanatics causing them to give up their fundamentalist beliefs.

How It Works -

At the turn of the century, a gene called VMAT2 was discovered. This gene eventually became known as the God Gene. The God Gene predisposes people to have spiritual experiences. People that are fundamentalists supposedly have an over-expression of VMAT2. DoD scientists used this information to create a vaccine against religious fundamentalism. It was a viral vaccine that spreads via air and is designed to inhibit the expression of the VMAT2 gene causing people to become less religious. It took government scientists 5 years to perfect the vaccine but in 2009 they field tested it in Iraq. Then Iran. President Obama has authorizes the release of FunVax throughout every Muslim country. But what’s going to stop him from releasing it in America? The government is replacing freewill with programmed thoughts. Please help by sharing this blog with Friends and Family, because the more people that know about FunVax, the better off we all are.

http://funvax.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/obamas-biggest-conspiracy-funvax/

What is Funvax:
http://stopfunvaxnow.blogspot.com/2011/02/what-is-funvax.html

Vmat2, or the God Gene: Reading Spirituality in the Human Genome:
 http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1830

Joey Lambardi To Release Funvax Evidence June 1st, 2011

Posted on April 7, 2011 by funvax

The FunVax Whistle blower, Joey Lambardi, has been on the run for the last three months so our interview with him has been delayed. But through email he let us know that he plans on to releases two pieces of evidence that he has against the government.
Joey Lambardi was in a special unit of the military called Combat Camera. As part of the unit, Joey’s job demanded that he record sensitive information. Like us, he thought that the FunVax project was government gone out of control. And like a real American he stood up for what he believed in. He went AWOL from his assignment and his now a hunted like an animal.

Because of our relationship with Joey, he agreed to release everything he has on this web site as well as other major news sources like CNN, Fox and MSNBC. But there is a catch. He doesn’t want to be risking his neck for an audience of 10 or 20 people…We promised him we can get 200,000 people to visit this site on June 1st. This information can change the world but we need your help. As of today, April 7th, 2011 we have a little over a thousand people visiting this site. Please, spread the word and help us end government mind control.

http://funvax.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/joey-lambardi-to-release-evidence-june-1st-2011/
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2011, 05:24:37 am »

Pentagon Eugenics Alter DNA breed out Religious impulses via FunVax Vaccinations & Aerosol Spraying!--Video

This is from the Department of Defense back in 2005!! Here are the notes taken from the original publisher of this video:

Pentagon Department of Defense briefing from 2005. They want to alter populations DNA to breed out religious impulses via vaccinations and aerosol spraying from above. They purport to have isolated a problematic gene causing religious impulsive behavior, of which the presence supposedly can be identified with brain scans. So again for OUR "SAFETY"...another vaccine.

Hmmmm....I wonder if this the latest additive to our chem-trails and flouridated water supplies. Yes they love the people so much that they want us all to have great teeth & cloudy skies so we won’t get sunburnt!

FunVax is a Government made viral vaccine that "cures" religious fundamentalism. The government is claiming FunVax has brought stability to several countries in the Middle East and is currently responsible for the pro-democracy rallies through out the Middle East.Joey Lambardi originally leaked this information and is planning on making all his evidence available at http://FunVax.wordpress.com

This is a lecture by an unidentified scientist given to DoD officials inside the Pentagon. It is dated 4-13-05 -- about a year after the "God Gene" was first discovered. The scientist describes a plan to alter the "God Gene" in the Middle Easter Population in order to end the turmoil in that region. This video was acquired through an unknown source and from my knowledge, connections and experience as part of a unit called combat camera, I have verified it to be authentic.
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAn38Z4Aweg&feature=feedu
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldgQbb1JcE&feature=related

God is not compatible with the authoritarian political system that progressives desire to establish. Those with religious tendencies tend to be, in the opinion of the statists, too independent in their thought, and place God at a higher level of importance in their lives than government. Therefore, as Karl Marx pointed out, as Saul Alinsky pointed out, and as every progressive authoritarian system has attempted, God must be eliminated.

Authoritarian political systems tend to be anti-religious, or a theocracy as in the case of Islam. The secular authoritarian systems all attempted to stamp out religion every chance they could muster. From the French Revolution, to the Russian Revolution, to the current secular nature of the American liberal, Christianity is the enemy. But persecution of Christianity, for example, has not destroyed the faith, but has actually strengthened it. Physically removing Christianity from our culture is not possible. The Romans tried it, the French tried it, the Russians tried it, etc. - and each time the attempt not only failed, but made the Christianity stronger.

But the anti-religious progressive liberals in the United States Government believe they have found what will work. If God cannot be removed from the physical world, then he must be removed from the minds of the worshippers.

Scientists, and now also American Government scientists, have concluded that a gene causes people to be “religious fanatics”, and that it is possible to stamp out God by manipulating the brain with a virus to eliminate religious tendencies - and they have been discussing how to accomplish this in meetings at the Pentagon.

To these people it is just a matter of behavior control, so as to eliminate yet another obstacle standing in the way of their plan for utopianism. Remember, secular progressives believe that humanity is evolving towards a singularity in which society will be fully neutral and just - and the only thing standing in the way is religion.


According to some figures in the Pentagon, religious behavior is fanatical behavior, therefore it must be quelled. They treat it as if it is a disease, or a mental handicap. The cause of this undesirable behavior is the God Gene, or VMAT2. These officials believe that an individual's ability to believe in God is a consequence of genes, and that it is something the individual has no control over and therefore the tendency to be religious, if it is indeed caused by a gene that is directly responsible for an inherited predisposition for spirituality, must be suppressed.

For some reason movies like "Equilibrium" and George Lucas' THX-1138 - in the sense of mind control by the government - comes to mind.

According to some Pentagon officials, persons who do not show fundamental religious tendencies are "safe" citizens and therefore the more desired type of people in society. The goal, rather than remove the people that are undesirable, is to reprogram the undesirables so that they will function in society in an acceptable manner.

Is the concept of Eugenics coming to mind at all?

The means to accomplish the elimination of an undesired behavior like religious fundamentalism, which these people believe to be the sole source of violence and strife in the world, is to deliver a virus into the bodily systems of these religious people. The virus, the theory goes, would neutralize VMAT2, and enable a secular society of peace loving, daisy dancing, unicorn riding individuals to arise instead. In other words, a vaccination would resolve the over-expression of the VMAT2 gene, making those religious folk just like everyone else. . . calm and compliant.

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End Time Current Events: 6-5-11–Part 1

Table of Contents:

    Obama’s Biggest Conspiracy – FunVax
    Joey Lambardi To Release Funvax Evidence June 1st, 2011
    Pentagon Eugenics Alter DNA breed out Religious impulses via FunVax Vaccinations & Aerosol Spraying!–Video

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Neuroscientist, Says Religious Fundamentalism Could Be Treated As A Mental Illness

An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one day religious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness.

Kathleen Taylor, who describes herself as a "science writer affiliated to the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics," made the suggestion during a presentation on brain research at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday.

In response to a question about the future of neuroscience, Taylor said that "One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated," The Times of London notes.

“Someone who has for example become radicalised to a cult ideology -- we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance," Taylor said. “In many ways it could be a very positive thing because there are no doubt beliefs in our society that do a heck of a lot of damage."

The author went on to say she wasn't just referring to the "obvious candidates like radical Islam," but also meant such beliefs as the idea that beating children is acceptable.

Taylor was not immediately available for comment.

This is not the first time Taylor has explored the mind processes of a radical. In 2006, she wrote a book about mind control called Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control, which explored the science behind the persuasive tactics of such groups as cults and al Qaeda.

"We all change our beliefs of course," Taylor said in a YouTube video about the book. "We all persuade each other to do things; we all watch advertising; we all get educated and experience [religions.] Brainwashing, if you like, is the extreme end of that; it's the coercive, forceful, psychological torture type."

Taylor also noted that brainwashing, though extreme, is part of a the "much more widespread phenomenon" of persuasion. That is, "how we make people think things that might not be good for them, that they might not otherwise have chosen to think."

However, Taylor has also been a voice of caution in terms of the ethics of delving too deeply into the human brain's mysterious workings.

"Technologies which directly scan or manipulate brains cannot be neutral tools, as open to commercial exploitation as any new gadget," Taylor wrote in a blog post for The Huffington Post in 2012. "The brain supremacy offers chances to improve human dignity, but it also risks abuse."

Watch the video below to hear Kathleen Taylor discuss her book Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control.
vid at site: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/kathleen-taylor-religious-fundamentalism-mental-illness_n_3365896.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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« Reply #7 on: June 03, 2013, 07:03:01 am »

If you think they are doing this just for obvious candidates like radical Islam your crazy, they are coming after the True Believers in CHRIST

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That comment is aimed at Bible Believing Christians

Prov 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

They are coming for us....
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« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2013, 11:41:29 am »

Remember Rick Warren once put Christian Fundamentalism on the same level as Islam Fundamentalism, Judaism Fundamentalism, and Secular Fundamentalism.

Yeah, his point was to take a swipe at Christians with this statement - not to mention too he's been embracing Islam.
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"Behold, I have told you before." Matthew 24:25 (KJB)
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If you think they are doing this just for obvious candidates like radical Islam your crazy, they are coming after the True Believers in CHRIST

That comment is aimed at Bible Believing Christians

Prov 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

They are coming for us....

i'm not afraid of them, faith overcomes fear, try and take the Bible out of my mind? You Cant!
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 Grin I like that!

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:" Philippians 2:5 (KJB)
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« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2013, 01:59:41 pm »

This is an INFOWARS story with no proof. So...

Government Program to Control Religious Thought?

Is the U.S. Government working on a program to…well…program the way you view religion?



A whistleblower who has worked on that program says yes and he wants you to know exactly what has been going on.

The first towards truth is to be informed.

If I told you that the Defense Department was using taxpayer dollars to learn how to influence people with religious beliefs in order to control those beliefs, would it really surprise you?

Would you think that I am a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist?

Would you care if I told you that the program was aimed at controlling fundamentalist Muslims?

How about fundamentalist Christians?

Here’s the backstory. In 2012, Arizona State Universityʼs Center for Strategic Communication or CSC was awarded a $6.1 million dollar research grant by DARPA or the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The goal of the project according to ASUʼs website is to “study the neurobiology of narrative comprehension, validate narrative theories and explore the connection between narrative and persuasion.”

A lot of technical talk there, so lets dig into the details.

The CSC program is actually about creating narratives. Using effective communication, largely video, to control the thought process of groups of people. And ultimately to be able to trigger narratives through magnetic stimulation. At its core, the program is focused on how to win the narrative against Muslim extremism. It’s a fairly interesting concept.

According to documents leaked to us, this project integrates insights from three mutually-informing theoretical terrains.
In short, the goal of the program is to combat and change religious narratives because of their role in “extremist behavior.” The whistleblower who revealed this program to us, worked for several years on the program. They asked not to be identified.

Ben: What were you told about the proposal as you began working through it?

Whistleblower: Yeah, I thought that it was benign. They told me it was about trying to figure outwhat parts of the brain are affected by narrative persuasion. Just to figure it out just for academic reasons. So we looked at narrative transportation which is basically how an individual is transported into a narrative, how they understand it…kind of like when you read a good book you get really enthralled with it.

At its core, the program attempts to map the brain to determine which portions of the brain allow you to accept a narrative presented to you. It’s called narrative theory.

Mapping this network will lead to a fuller understanding of the influence narrative has on memory, emotion, theory of mind, identity and persuasion, which in turn influence the decision to engage in political violence or join violent groups or support groups ideologically or financially.

You see, the project is focused on the belief that the reason Muslims in the Middle East are swayed to religious violence is not because of the reality of what is going on around them per se, but because they are believing a local or a regional narrative.

Ben: The local and regional narrative then is that the brain automatically assumes things because of a narrative we’ve been taught since our childhood, is that it?

Whistleblower: Right yeah that’s true. We call those master narratives. So in America we have this “rags to riches” master narrative where if you work really hard you can become successful and make a ton of money. So in the Middle East, they always use the example of the Pharaoh. That’s the master narrative that’s in the Qur’an, where there’s this corrupt leader that, you know, is really bad for society. And they use the example of Sadat who was assassinated. When
the assassin killed him, he said, “I have killed the Pharaoh, I have killed the Pharaoh.” So they assume that he was relying upon this Islamic master narrative to fuel his actions.

So how does the program change this? Again a lot of technical speak here so stay with me. But it’s broken into three phases.

Phase I is to map the Narrative Comprehension Network using a set of stimuli designed from the point of view of two different religious cultures.

Phase II will test hypotheses generated in Phase I, adding two additional manipulations of narrative validity and narrative transportation.

Phase III, it investigates possibilities for literally disrupting the activity of the NCN through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

Ben: Phase III is fairly interesting. I noticed in the documentation it says lets not talk too much about this because who knows if we’ll ever get there. But when you do read what Phase III is it is a little surprising, it’s called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. This is not something that’s science fiction, it’s not something they’ve cooked up. This is a real technique that’s already been used in the past, correct?

Whistleblower: Yes, it started out in the psychiatry field when people were depressed and when you’re depressed certain parts of your brain are not functioning correctly. So they created this technology, which is basically a big magnet, and you put it on their brain and it turns off that part of the brain that’s bad or wrong and it would help them with their depression for several weeks to a month and they’d go back and do it again. So this technology has been around for ten
or fifteen years.

Ben: So it’s very high tech propaganda, what we’re talking about.

Whistleblower: High tech and validated propaganda, yes. So if they’re able to turn off a part of the brain and get rid of that master narrative that will make you not believe in a particular statement, they would have validated this propaganda. So if they turn off portion X, they know that the propaganda is going to work and the individual is going to believe whatever is being told to them.

So why do all this? Because the project is based on the idea that despite the good work of the U.S. in the Middle East, the message of the work is not being received.

“The frequent rejection of US messaging by local populations in the Middle East, despite US insistence on the objective truth of the US message, illustrates the narrative paradigm at work. The well documented ‘say-do gap’ between US messages and US actions is seen by some as contributing to a lack of narrative validity in stories produced by the US. Similarly, stories of US aid do not ring true in a culture wherein Christian foreigners, since the 11th Century, have been invaders and sought to destroy and rule.”

So how to fix this?

Ben: How do you move someone from simply watching a video or seeing a video all the way down that line to behavior? It’s a pretty powerful tool if you’re able to do that.

Whistleblower: Right, so they think that maybe an extremist statements or a video like Al Qaeda puts out will lead to some individuals doing a suicide bombing, for example. So they’re trying to look at this video or the statements and take away a part of your brain that will think that it fits in with your culture or master narrative and that will hopefully lead you to not do these extremist, violent acts.

So what you need to know is that this program boils down to one central idea. If people aren’t reaching the conclusions the U.S. government would like them to reach, there must be a way to force them to accept these narratives.

Remember that the claim is that the U.S. despite giving aid is viewed in the Middle East as invaders. That, according to the program research is the product of embedded narrative, not a result of action.

So the view of the U.S. as invaders in countries where we have standing armies, dozens of military bases, the U.S. paying off drug lords in Afghanistan or regional warlords in Iraq or where we consistently bomb via drone strike in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia or where we fund dictators until those dictators are overthrown and then attempt to fund the rebels, who end up becoming dictators.

All of that has nothing to do with the U.S. view of Muslims in the Middle East because clearly they are missing the fact that the U.S. gives aid.

The next step, control the narrative and if necessary, use magnetic stimulation to force people to accept the view of the U.S. that we desire them to have.

After all, aren’t extremist Muslims dangerous? Extremist Christians? See the problem with the question is who gets to define extremist? Who decides if religious beliefs are inherently dangerous?

And if we believe that government should have the power to control how the extremist thinks… wouldn’t they have the authority to decide how and what we all think?

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We cannot post the leaked documents from the program here because ASU has claimed intellectual
property infringement.

http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-government-program-to-control-religious-thought/
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« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2013, 02:12:26 pm »

The big problem with this Infowars article is that it focuses a bit too much on painting Islam in a sympathetic light.

Ben Swann, compared to Alex Jones, appears to be more rational and level-headed. However, he IS part of the controlled-opposition, "truth" movement establishment.
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Then post the notice from ASU then! At least present some kind of proof of the claims. They are becoming just like WND.  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2015, 08:12:14 am »

Scientists claim they can change your belief on immigrants and God – with MAGNETS

ATTITUDES towards God and immigrants can be changed by beaming magnetic waves into the brain, scientists have claimed.

A bizarre experiment claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants in experiments some may find a threat to their values.

Scientists looked at how the brain resolves abstract ideological problems.

Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.

TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control.

Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.

Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.

Dr Keise Izuma, from the University of York, said: "People often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems.

"We wanted to find out whether a brain region that is linked with solving concrete problems, like deciding how to move one's body to overcome an obstacle, is also involved in solving abstract problems addressed by ideology."

The scientists targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex, a brain region a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting and responding to problems.

Volunteers were asked to rate their belief in God, heaven, the devil, and hell after undergoing pre-screening to ensure that they held religious convictions.

Dr Izuma said: "We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death.

"As expected, we found that when we experimentally turned down the posterior medial frontal cortex, people were less inclined to reach for comforting religious ideas despite having been reminded of death."

The American participants were also shown two essays written by newly arrived immigrants - one highly complimentary of the US and the other extremely critical.

Dr Izuma said: "When we disrupted the brain region that usually helps detect and respond to threats, we saw a less negative, less ideologically motivated reaction to the critical author and his opinions."

The research, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, suggests our brains use the same basic mental pathways to solve practical problems such as following directions or ideological issues such as immigration and religion.

Lead author Dr Colin Holbrook, form the the University of California at Los Angeles, said: "These findings are very striking, and consistent with the idea that brain mechanisms that evolved for relatively basic threat-response functions are re-purposed to also produce ideological reactions."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/611992/Scientists-experiment-magnets-immigrants-God-magnetic-waves
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