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Weather Warfare:
The Invisible U.S. Military Offensivesin Weather Weaponr
y
by Keith Harmon SnowJuly, 2002
To gain further insight into the mental illness of our leaders, and the irresponsible,catastrophic direction in which they have thrust us, consider the ongoing research,development and applications of weather warfare technologies. Adherents of weatherwarfare prefer to call it “environmental modification techniques” – or ENMOD. Thecorporate media has reported
almost
nothing about these aerospace and defenseprograms, or the technologies involved. Thus do I open the discussion of the ENMODarena by deconstructing recent news stories.First note that the Internet abounds with conspiracy theories of all stripes about weatherwarfare, environmental modification and climatic mayhem. Numerous postings declarethe climate instabilities we are already seeing to be the work of the antichrist or the NewWorld Order – indeed in some cases they are one and the same -- and some of these websites describe people legitimately concerned and vocal about climatic change as theagents of a “left-wing conspiracy” with a “communist agenda” ever hostile to “freeenterprise.”Buried beneath the volumes of imaginative but wholly fictitious conspiracies that gainwide circulation however, are the many legitimate secret programs orchestrated behindthe darkness and denial of the military-industrial complex. Call these conspiracies if youlike. This story – weather as a weapon – is certainly not one of them and, depending onhow you look at it, this is certainly one of them.
The Fog Watch (Propaganda):
[1]
Throughout April, 2002, Amherst College (MA) radio (WAMH) ran a series of publicservice announcements (PSAs) sponsored by a Christian church organization declaringthe existence of weather modification technologies, and advocating that listeners contactthe U.S. government to demand that these technologies be deployed to moderate theextreme weather and drought we are seeing. According to these PSAs, the governmentuse of these existing technologies to mitigate hostile weather is a fundamental right of every U.S. citizen.
[2]
On February 17, 2002, ABC News ran a very brief “news” clip titled “Weather As AWeapon?” The inquisitive title infers that this is some not-yet-certain possibility,contributing to the delusional beliefs that weather warfare might be something we – thepublic – ought to at least be thinking about, and possibly debating. ABC would neverhave run the story without some greater purpose than simply “to keep the public
informed” -- the expected role of the democratic free press that ABC purports to be partof.
[3]
The article describes the advantages of weather modification: seeding clouds, creatingrain or tornadoes over hostiles forces, burning through fog to expose enemy aircraft:
Consider what might happen on some battlefieldof the future where the U.S. military could gain atactical advantage by changing the weather.There are several ways they might try to do that.One way would be to create rain that turnsbattlefields into mud baths in order toimmobilize enemy troops and enemies. Anotheris by triggering lightning storms over airfields tokeep hostile aircraft on the ground. Yet anotherpossibility would be to burn through a heavy fogby firing lasers to give U.S. fighter pilots a betterview of enemy targets. An Air Force researchpaper called “Owning the Weather in 2025”predicts that weather modification could reshapebattlefields.
[4]
Weather warfare, of course, is set in some amorphous
future
battlespace. There is ABC’sfirst deception. ABC draws attention to the Air Force document
Owning the Weather in2025
. This is an unclassified document, accessible to the public, and it suggests thatENMOD research and development is all mere theory and speculation.
Owning the Weather in 2025
appears on its face to reveal significant details about thenature of U.S. national security and defense capabilities. However, in the age of international
terrorism
, with the U.S. military and its multinational corporations and theirmedia minions whipping up a frenzy about terrorists of all stripes, anthrax scares andworld trade massacres --
and with rapid information access and exchange making suchreports available to hoards of uncivilized information-seeking barbarians feared by thePentagon
-- we can be sure that this document shows us only what we are intended tosee.
Owning the Weather in 2025
serves the greater purpose of exposing only what isefficacious to the military, to the intelligence apparatus, to the companies they are inleague with, and to the compromised policymakers seeking public support – by anymeans -- for the military programs they are paid to peddle. That is ABC’s seconddeception: steering interested readers toward an inversion of reality, a public relationsdocument, officially sanctioned, released and posted by the military. ABC does notquestion the origins of this document, or why it has suddenly come into vogue.ABC confirms that weather warfare is, at the very least, under development: the articlecloses noting that substantial ongoing investments in research and development havecontinued.
In the U.S. and in many other countries, the privatesector continues to work on weather modificationtechnology — work that could also be used on thebattlefield. And as this research continues on, forexample, cloud seeding techniques that produceheavy rain to help farmers in time of drought orlaser technology that could clear heavy fog forpassenger jets, the military is watching.
[5]
To say that the military is “
watching
” is to lie outright. There is ABC’s third deception:as I will imminently show, the military has funded and sponsored these weather warfaretechnologies for over fifty years. ABC’s fourth deception is the suggestion that theprivate sector and the government defense sector are independent, that one does not washthe hand, or wipe the ass, of the other. Nothing could be further from the truth.The fifth deception by ABC News is the suggestion that these life and earth destroyingtechnologies – pursued with a scientific hubris that is psychotic and obscene -- will alsoserve peaceful uses. Indeed, given the industrial acceleration of climatic mayhem we canbe sure that the public will be clamoring for these weather modification technologies. Thefurther suggestion is that their military adaptability is an afterthought, rather than their
raison d’etre
. That is ABC’s sixth deception.Naturally, weather modification tools will revive gardens of sunflowers and fields of wheat stricken by drought, and they will guide passenger jets full of innocent people (!)to safety. By implication, these weather modification technologies are essential to humansurvival, they will never be used unjustly, they are as benign as atoms for peace. Sucharguments about the ENMOD arena will increasingly proliferate with great mediafanfare, serving the intended purpose of manipulating the public mind, as informationabout ENMOD technologies is slowly and strategically transitioned out of the (classified)closet.Indeed, the public has paid hundreds of millions of dollars, at least -- and it is most likelybillions -- to develop these technologies – a fact that ABC does not share -- so we mightas well see them put to good use. Hiding the proliferation of public subsidies for weatherwarfare is ABC’s seventh deception.The main purpose of the ABC article – and the WAMH public service announcement – isto introduce a new subject heretofore forbidden by the military and, its extension, thecorporate media. These articles signal the beginnings of a propaganda campaign tohabituate citizens to a happy, un-dissenting coexistence with weather warfare technology.That is ABC’s eighth deception.The deeper purpose of the ABC “news” clip – the ninth deception -- is to garner supportfrom U.S. citizens to withdraw from – to denounce, evade or trample on – aninternational treaty prohibiting environmental warfare, signed by the U.S. in the 1970’s.
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