From 1999 Mother Jones magazine

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http://www.motherjones.com/news/mustreads/1999/02/22399.html



U.S. Military Strategy: Control Weather?

February 23,1999


The United States military may have found its weapon of choice for the 21st century: Weather control. Although it sounds like more of an Isaac Asimov brainstorm than an actual project, the U.S. has been influencing the weather for decades.

Currently, more than 25 states have weather modification programs. Most do "cloud seeding" -- or artificially induce rainfall, reports the ENVIRONMENT NEWS SERVICE.

However, no one has been more involved in the development of weather-dominating technology than the U.S. government. Before a 1977 U.N. resolution prohibiting the tampering of weather for hostile purposes, the U.S. had seeded clouds to produce heavy rainfall along the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War.

More recently, a controversial and experimental project called HAARP (or High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), was developed by the Navy and the Air Force. It aims to control weather by heating the earth's ionosphere and has been operational for several years in Gakon, Alaska. Testing has continued despite concerns about the unforeseen (and potentially disastrous) environmental effects from HAARP's emittance of microwaves into the atmosphere. (In fact, London's The Mirror reported in August 1998 that HAARP may have been to blame not only for Ireland's wet summer, but also for the bizarre weather patterns worldwide.)

A Lexis-Nexis search reveals that press coverage of HAARP and related technology has been scarce, although last week ABC News aired a segment on the military applications of weather-modification technology. They left out all the nasty details about possible environmental catastrophes, but at least the online report links to a telling 1996 Air Force report entitled "Owning the Weather in 2025".

http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb99/1999L-02-22-04.html

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1. Katrina was MIHOP? hmm... not convinced

It could be but I doubt it.

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2. Read this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4519574&mesg_id=4519574

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3. HAARP is government program regardless of what instigated Katrina.

In other words HAARP is a fact and it seems taxpayers are funding such a program. As such, Americans should know more about such programs.

I think we are seeing in panoramic detail how Democracy is not a spectator sport and how important it is for Americans to know where our money is being funded and what programs are being paid for by our tax dollars.

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4. kick*

n/t

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5. Information kick*

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6. Katrina was unusual in that it did not start off the coast of Africa...

It started somewhere in the Caribbean...

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7. Is a storm of such magnitude typically 'born' further out?

I'm curious.