- Humans have long sought to control the
weather. Early people learned how to make fire and modify their micro-environments;
rain dances and other rituals to alleviate droughts are part of our folklore.
So news that the government is engaged in secret experiments to control
the weather should come as no surprise -- especially after a long history
of "cloud seeding," "atom splitting" and cloning revelations.
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- In fact, a vast majority of people would
be shocked to learn that this orphan of the cold war is still in practice.
As the U.S. and former Soviet Union spent trillions of dollars on their
militaries, their commitment to mutually assured destruction led to extensive
experimentation with the use of weather as a weapon. In 1977, the Saturday
Review cited a CIA report hinting that the U.S. government already had
the power to massively manipulate the weather for war purposes.
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- As the Soviet Union disintegrated, a
1993 Isvestia article suggested the U.S. might want to partner with the
Russians in peddling their top-secret technology to the world. Oleg Klugin,
a high-ranking KGB officer, bragged of his involvement in geophysical weapons
research to a London newspaper. The grid patterns of jet chemtrails now
spotted throughout the Western world are likely the application of these
technologies to new military and civilian uses.
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- The military is not attempting to hide
its long-term goals. "Weather is a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather
in 2025" is a white paper that can be found on a Pentagon-sponsored
website. The paper's abstract reads: "In 2025, U.S. aerospace forces
can 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing
development of those technologies towards fighting applications. Such a
capability offers the war fighters tools to shape the battle space in ways
never before possible In the U.S., weather modification will likely become
a part of national security policy with both domestic and international
applications."
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- Wired magazine wrote about the paper
and extensively quoted physicist Bernard Eastlund in its January 2000 article
"Activate Cloud Shield! Zap a Twister!" The article detailed
the military's plan for "made-to-order thunderstorms" and "lightning
strikes on demand."
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- Eastlund managed programs for Controlled
Thermal Nuclear Research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1966
to 1974; he was a key researcher in the 1980s' Strategic Space Initiative
(aka Star Wars). Since 1996, Eastlund served as CEO and president of Eastlund
Scientific Enterprises Corporation. The company boasts on its website that
it specializes in "weather modification" and "tornado modification"
among other high-tech services.
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- Eastlund considers the High Frequency
Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Alaska a smaller version of
what he envisions for weather modification. In response to Michael Theroux
of Borderland Sciences -- who asked Eastlund whether the HAARP station
could affect the weather -- Eastlund replied: "Significant experiments
could be performed The HAARP antenna as is it now configured modulates
the auroral electrojet to induce ELF waves and thus could have an effect
on the zonal winds."
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- At the Space 2000 Conference and Exposition
on Engineering, Construction, Operations and Business in Space, sponsored
by the American Society of Civil Engineers, Eastlund outlined his plan
for zapping tornados with an electromagnetic radiation beam from the proposed
Thunderstorm Solar Powered Satellite he's developing with the help of the
European Space Agency and Jenkins Enterprises.
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- U.S. patent number 6315213, filed on
November 13, is described as a method of modifying weather and should concern
the public. A scientist from Wright Patterson Air Force Base acknowledges
that planes are spraying barium salt, polymer fibers, aluminum oxide and
other chemicals in the atmosphere to both modify the weather and for military
communications purposes. The patent abstract specifically states: "The
polymer is dispersed into the cloud and the wind of the storm agitates
the mixture causing the polymer to absorb the rain. This reaction forms
a gelatinous substance which precipitate to the surface below. Thus, diminishing
the cloud's ability to rain."
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- Answering the age-old question, Who'll
stop the rain?: Apparently our government and a few of their closest friends
in the military industrial-complex. The emergence of Edward Teller promoting
this startling technology is more than scary. (Teller was the father of
the H-Bomb and grand promoter of Readi Kilowatt, our perky little radiation
friend from the '50s; one of his bright ideas from the '50s was to create
harbors by nuking our own coastline.) The April 24 New York Times reported
that Teller "has promoted the idea of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere
to counteract global warming." The computer simulations on the use
of aluminum oxide to counter global warming come from the Lawrence Livermore
Weapons Laboratory, where Teller serves as director emeritus.
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- There should be little doubt that this
would be a priority for the government -- or for for-profit military contractors.
While 2001 was the second-hottest year on record (1998 holds the record
as the hottest year), the nine hottest years on record have occurred since
1990. But why would the government conduct anti-global warming experiments
in secret?
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- Investigative reporter William Thomas
holds that there's a link between the recent increase in asthma, allergies
and upper respiratory ailments and the chemtrail spraying. Sound crazy?
Remember, it sounded absurd when reports first came out that the government
had conducted radioactivity experiments on U.S. citizens and released radiation
from nuclear plants to test the effect on civilian populations. It sounded
bizarre when news first filtered out that the government was engaged in
the MK-Ultra mind-control experiments using LSD. The CIA and Defense Intelligence
Agency admit they were responsible for many of the UFO sightings in the
1950s in order the explain away experimental military technology.
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- From public documents to mainstream news
accounts, the record is filled with reports of weather-modifying technology
left over from the Cold War. Now we have a right to know what, if anything,
the government plans to do with it.
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- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12342
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