What Jason Russell Remembers About His Mk-Ultra Breakdown
“It’s hard to describe to people who have never had an out-of-body experience, but it really wasn’t me.”
What Jason Russell Remembers About His Mk-Ultra Breakdown
“It’s hard to describe to people who have never had an out-of-body experience, but it really wasn’t me.”
Agnes Apio has to tie up her son Francis before she can leave the house. In his state, he is a danger to himself. Where once he walked and talked like a normal child, now he is only able to drag himself along in the dirt. Francis is suffering from “Nodding Disease,” a brain disorder that, according to CNN, afflicts at least 3,000 children in northern Uganda, leaving them physically stunted and severely mentally disabled. The article calls them “zombie children,” having “no cure” and “no future.” Experts are baffled as to what causes the disease, which only occurs in children.
First the victims become restless, can’t concentrate. They say they have trouble thinking. Then comes the nodding, an uncontrollable dipping of the head that presages the disease’s debilitating epilepsy-like seizures. It is this nodding motion that gives the illness its name.
Nodding Disease first attacks the nervous system, then the brain. As the epilepsy-like seizures progress and worsen, the children become less and less like themselves, and more and more distant and blank. Eventually the brain stops developing and the victims’ bodies stop growing. So far, no patients have recovered.
One of the co-founders of Invisible Children, the San Diego-based charity which is campaigning for the arrest of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, has been hospitalised after police said he was detained for being naked and masturbating in public.
Jason Russell, 33, was picked up by police in San Diego at around 11.30am on Thursday after receiving numerous calls from the public about a man vandalising cars, being apparently under the influence of a substance and making sexual gestures while wearing only his underwear. Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalised suffering from exhaustion, dehydration and malnutrition. (sleep and food deprivation)
In a statement, Danica Russell said, “Jason has never had a substance abuse or drinking problem, and this episode wasn’t caused by either of those things.”
TMZ: Russell can be heard ranting to himself, dropping F-bombs, clapping to no one in particular, and shouting about the devil.
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