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Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, has accused opposition leaders and foreign powers of attempting a “coup” against him amid growing tensions over the result of Sunday’s desperately tight election.

In an angry televised speech on Wednesday, Morales said: “A coup d’etat is under way. The right wing prepared the coup with international support.”

Morales went into elections needing 40% of votes and a 10-point margin of victory to avoid a second-round runner against the main opposition candidate, Carlos Mesa. By Wednesday afternoon 97% of the official results had been processed, giving him 46.49% and a 9.5-point lead.

With most outstanding votes from remote rural areas expected to go in his favour, Morales repeated his declaration of a first-round victory, which he had made prematurely on Sunday night.

But on Wednesday the Organization of American States (OAS) said that a runoff should be held even if Morales breached the 10-point margin.

“In the case that … the margin of difference exceeds 10%, it is statistically reasonable to conclude that it will be by negligible margin,” said Manuel González, the head of the OAS election observation team in Bolivia. “Given the context and the problematic issues in this electoral process the best option continues to be the convening of a second round.”

International observers have expressed concern over an unexplained daylong gap in the reporting of results which was followed by a surge in Morales votes when the count resumed on Monday.

“Why did the government shut down the reporting of results?” asked Carlos Trujillo, US ambassador to the OAS, at a special session convened to discuss the Bolivian situation. “The government allowed a somewhat fair election because they did not realise their own popularity and thought they could win under their system. When they realised they could not win in the first round they shut down the results so that they could steal the election.”

The vice-president of Bolivia’s electoral board resigned on Tuesday, saying that the decision of the board’s six-member panel to suspend reporting results had discredited “the entire electoral process, causing unnecessary social convulsion”.

Mesa has accused Morales of trying to conduct “a giant fraud” and vowed that his party “will not recognize a fraudulent result”.

In a video statement on Wednesday, Mesa called for “permanent protests” until a second-round vote was confirmed, and said he would present evidence of electoral fraud.

Allegations of electoral fraud have already sparked street violence, in which anti-government protesters clashed with police, and set fire to electoral offices in eight of Bolivia’s regional capital cities.

On Tuesday the OAS said it would conduct an analysis of the election, focusing on the results reporting systems and the chain of custody of ballot boxes. However, the results of such an analysis are unlikely to please either side as the positions become increasingly entrenched.

Civil society groups in eight of the country’s nine departments called for a general strike that could bring the country to a standstill. “Not even an ant will move in Santa Cruz,” declared Luis Fernando Camacho, the leader of the civil society group for Santa Cruz, the country’s largest and richest city.

Morales has overseen relative stability and growth, but angered many by running for a fourth consecutive term despite a 2016 referendum which ruled against lifting term limits.

The results reflect the split between Bolivia’s urban population – which broadly backed the opposition – and the rural Andean populations that remain loyal to Morales, a former coca farmer.

“I don’t think Evo will accept the OAS’s calls for a second round,” says Jorge Derpic, a Bolivia specialist and assistant professor at the University of Georgia. “This is the first time we have seen protests by the middle classes in all the country’s major cities against Morales. Evo has called to mobilize his base – the coca growers, the miners and the campesinos [the rural poor] – and we could see further partisan violent clashes between rural and urban areas.”

EMF, the military, and you!

Hi! Did you know that our military is currently designing weapon systems that directly manipulate the way our minds and bodies operate? Would you believe that there are commercial devices used right now that “beam” voices directly into people’s heads? (Hampp) How about the fact that there is a growing community of people online who believe they are currently being targeted by these types of devices, for various reasons? (FFCHS) What about the simple fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently classified similar, consumer versions of these devices as possible sources of cancer? (IARC) Isn’t it curious that, even though I’m talking about the same thing in each of those previous sentences, the media doesn’t seem to inform us whatsoever about this topic?

EMF stands for Electro Magnetic Field. The World Health Organization recently determined RF (Radio Frequency) EMFs to be a “possible” human carcinogen. Just so we’re clear on the definition, “carcinogen” is defined as something that is known to cause cancer. Our bodies are bathed in numerous RF EMF’s every single day. Wireless routers, Bluetooth, microwaves (not the cooking device,) etc., are all examples of EMF. (WHO) Even the electric meters on our homes are likely emitting wireless signals! (American Cancer Society)

Secondhand smoke is a classified as a “known” carcinogen. (American Cancer Society) Evidence suggests that EMF is a “possible” human carcinogen. What is truly concerning, however, is that we cannot see or detect when we are in the presence of EMF, unlike secondhand smoke. If we don’t like being around smoke, we can leave the area. How do you remove yourself from a hazard if you aren’t aware you’re near one?

It is also concerning that, even though we are constant bathed in electromagnetic frequencies, this topic is never discussed in the media. This is such a curious thing for me. How can we disregard something of such potential importance without even a discussion? It’s not like this information is hidden, it is readily available and discussed in various forums. It is almost like the silence is intentional, and I can only speculate the reasons for this.

The various militaries of the world are studying how different types of frequencies affect the human body. The military, and other scientists, have filed some interesting patents regarding devices that modify the electrical field the human body emits, as well as the human brain.

For example, take the following patent, “Nervous System
Manipulation by EM Fields from Monitor.”

Abstract: Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near 1/2 Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set. For the latter, the image pulsing may be embedded in the program material, or it may be overlaid by modulating a video stream, either as an RF signal or as a video signal. The image displayed on a computer monitor may be pulsed effectively by a simple computer program. For certain monitors, pulsed electromagnetic fields capable of exciting sensory resonances in nearby subjects may be generated even as the displayed images are pulsed with subliminal intensity. USP # 6,488,617 (December 3, 2002)

Let those words sink in for a moment. “Nervous system manipulation by EM (Electro Magnetic) Fields from (computer) Monitor. Someone has developed a method to modify your nervous system just from the EMF emitted from a computer monitor. You take this grain of knowledge, and add it to all of the hype from the NSA being in every piece of technology that exists, and it’s enough to generate a media story by itself. Yet, silence persists.

How about, a device that takes the human voice, converts it into microwaves, and beams it into the head of a target?

Hearing device
Patent number: 4858612
Abstract: A method and apparatus for simulation of hearing in mammals by introduction of a plurality of microwaves into the region of the auditory cortex is shown and described. A microphone is used to transform sound signals into electrical signals which are in turn analyzed and processed to provide controls for generating a plurality of microwave signals at different frequencies. The multifrequency microwaves are then applied to the brain in the region of the auditory cortex. By this method sounds are perceived by the mammal which are representative of the original sound received by the microphone.

Schizophrenia much? Maybe the people that “hear” voices are really just being manipulated? That is a bit of a stretch, but who knows? These are only two of many advances in this area. There is no way the military is making everything they discover public knowledge, they keep everything secret as long as they can. Believe it or not, there are commercially available devices that do this for advertising purposes. (Hampp)