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Post by BigJoe on Jun 22, 2006 19:34:53 GMT -5
To read entire article, go here... neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/7790.phpHAARP:The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction: "Owning the Weather for Military Use" by Michel Chossudovsky Thursday, Jun. 08, 2006 The US Air Force has the capability of manipulating climate either for testing purposes or for outright military-intelligence use. These capabilities extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes. In recent years, large amounts of money have been allocated by the US Department of Defense to further developing and perfecting these capabilities. Environmental warfare is defined as the intentional modification or manipulation of the natural ecology, such as climate and weather, earth systems such as the ionosphere, magnetosphere, tectonic plate system, and/or the triggering of seismic events (earthquakes) to cause intentional physical, economic, and psycho-social, and physical destruction to an intended target geophysical or population location, as part of strategic or tactical war." (Eco News) What are the underlying causes of extreme weather instability, which has ravaged every major region of the World in the course of the last few years? Hurricanes and tropical storms have ravaged the Caribbean. Central Asia and the Middle East are afflicted by drought. West Africa is facing the biggest swarm of locusts in more than a decade. Four destructive hurricanes and a tropical rain storm Alex, Ivan, Frances, Charley and Jeanne have occurred in a sequence, within a short period of time. Unprecedented in hurricane history in the Caribbean, the island of Grenada was completely devastated: 37 people died and roughly two-thirds of the island's 100,000 inhabitants have been left homeless; in Haiti, more than two thousand people have died and tens of thousands are homeless. The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas and Florida have also been devastated. In the US, the damage in several Southern states including Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the Carolinas is the highest in US history. A study released in July 2003, by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) places the blame, without further examination, at the feet of global warming: "These record extreme events [high temperatures, low temperatures and high rainfall amounts and droughts] all go into calculating the monthly and annual averages which, for temperatures, have been gradually increasing over the past 100 years," the WMO said in its statement (CNN, July 3, 2003, www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/07/03/wmo.extremes/ ) While global warming is undoubtedly an important factor, it does not fully account for these extreme and unusual weather patterns. Weather Warfare The significant expansion in America's weather warfare arsenal, which is a priority of the Department of Defense is not a matter for debate or discussion. While, environmentalists blame the Bush administration for not having signed the Kyoto protocol, the issue of "weather warfare", namely the manipulation of weather patterns for military use is never mentioned. The US Air Force has the capability of manipulating climate either for testing purposes or for outright military-intelligence use. These capabilities extend to the triggering of floods, hurricanes, droughts and earthquakes. In recent years, large amounts of money have been allocated by the US Department of Defense to further developing and perfecting these capabilities. Weather modification will become a part of domestic and international security and could be done unilaterally... It could have offensive and defensive applications and even be used for deterrence purposes. The ability to generate precipitation, fog, and storms on earth or to modify space weather, ... and the production of artificial weather all are a part of an integrated set of technologies which can provide substantial increase in US, or degraded capability in an adversary, to achieve global awareness, reach, and power. (US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ emphasis added) While there is no firm evidence that the US Air Force weather warfare facilities have been deliberately applied to modify weather patterns, one would expect that if these capabilities are being developed for military use, they would at least be the object of routine testing, much in the same way as the testing of new conventional and strategic weapons systems. Needless to say, the subject matter is a scientific taboo. The possibility of climatic or environmental manipulations as part of a military and intelligence agenda, while tacitly acknowledged, is never considered as relevant. Military analysts are mute on the subject. Meteorologists are not investigating the matter, and environmentalists are strung on global warming and the Kyoto protocol. Ironically, the Pentagon, while recognizing its ability to modify the World's climate for military use, has joined the global warming consensus. In a major study (pdf) , the Pentagon has analyzed in detail the implications of various global warming scenarios. The Pentagon document constitutes a convenient cover-up. Not a word is mentioned about its main weather warfare program: The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokona, Alaska --jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy. TABLE 1: Unusual Weather Four destructive hurricanes and a tropical rain storm occur in a sequence, within a short period of time. Unprecedented in hurricane history in the Caribbean, the island of Grenada is completely devastated: 37 people died and roughly two-thirds of the island's 100,000 inhabitants have been left homeless, in Haiti, more than two thousand people have died and tens of thousands have been made homeless. The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas have also been devastated. In the US, the damage hitting several Southern states including Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and the Carolinas is the highest in US history. Brazil March 2004: The first-ever hurricane formed in the South Atlantic, striking Brazil with 90 mph winds and causing up to a dozen deaths. "Meteorologists were left scratching their heads in bewilderment as the familiar swirl of clouds, complete with a well-defined eye, appeared in an oceanic basin where none had been spotted before." (WP, 19 September 2004, See also www.climate.org/topics/climate/brazil_hurricane.shtml ) Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula: "Japan has suffered its highest number of typhoon strikes on record, and the storms -- which hit at the rate of one a week for much of the summer -- wreaked havoc in Taiwan, China and the Korean Peninsula." (ibid) China (August 2004): Typhoon Rananim, the worst in 48 years, has killed at least 164 people and injured more than 1800 in China's Zhejiang province. Rananim is confirmed by China's meteorological authorities to be the strongest to hit the Chinese mainland since 1956. It is estimated to have disrupted the life of some 13 million people, www.cma.gov.cn/ywwz/englishread.php?recid=39616 United States May 2003 : 562 tornadoes hit the United States, the highest in recorded history, far exceeding the previous monthly peak of 399 in June 1992.(CNN, July 3, 2003, www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/07/03/wmo.extremes/ ) India, early 2003: a pre-monsoon heat wave caused peak temperatures of between 45 and 49 degrees Celsius (113 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit), killing more than 1400 people.(Ibid) Sri Lanka, "heavy rainfalls from Tropical Cyclone 01B exacerbated already wet conditions, causing flooding and landslides and more than 300 fatalities." (Ibid) Western Europe Summer 2003: experienced extremely high Summer temperatures. "Switzerland experienced its hottest June [2003] in at least 250 years while in the south of France average temperatures were between 5 and 7 degrees Celsius (9 to 13 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the long term average. England and Wales also experienced their hottest month since 1976." There are several mainstream explanations on weather and climate change, none of which fully explains, within their respective terms of reference, the highly unusual and erratic weather occurrences, not to mention the human toll and devastation, which have led to the destabilization of entire agricultural and eco-systems. Needless to say these explanations never address the issue of climate manipulation for military use. Climatic Manipulation by the US Military: The HAARP Program The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokona, Alaska, has been in existence since 1992. It is part of a new generation of sophisticated weaponry under the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, HAARP constitutes a system of powerful antennas capable of creating "controlled local modifications of the ionosphere" [upper layer of the atmosphere]: "[HAARP will be used] to induce a small, localized change in ionospheric temperature so that resulting physical reactions can be studied by other instruments located either at or close to the HAARP site". (HAARP website) Nicholas Begich --actively involved in the public campaign against HAARP-- describes HAARP as: "A super-powerful radiowave-beaming technology that lifts areas of the ionosphere by focusing a beam and heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth and penetrate everything -- living and dead." (for further details see Michel Chossudovsky, www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO201A.html ) World renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell depicts HAARP as "a gigantic heater that can cause major disruptions in the ionosphere, creating not just holes, but long incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from bombarding the planet." (quoted in Chossudovsky, op cit.) According to Richard Williams, a physicist and consultant to the David Sarnoff laboratory in Princeton HAARP constitutes "an irresponsible act of global vandalism." He and others fear a secret second stage where HAARP would "beam much more energy into the ionosphere. That could produce a severe disruption of the upper atmosphere at one location that may produce effects that spread rapidly around the Earth for years." (Quoted in Scott Gilbert, Environmental Warfare and US Foreign Policy: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction, www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GIL401A.html ) HAARP has been presented to public opinion as a program of scientific and academic research. US military documents seem to suggest, however, that HAARP's main objective is to "exploit the ionosphere for Department of Defense purposes." (quoted in Chossudovsky, op cit). Without explicitly referring to the HAARP program, a US Air Force study points to the use of "induced ionospheric modifications" as a means of altering weather patterns as well as disrupting enemy communications and radar. (Ibid) HAARP also has the ability of triggering blackouts and disrupting the electricity power system of entire regions. An analysis of statements emanating from the US Air Force points to the unthinkable: the covert manipulation of weather patterns, communications systems and electric power as a weapon of global warfare, enabling the US to disrupt and dominate entire regions of the World. Weather Warfare: A Corporate Bonanza HAARP has been operational since the early 1990s. Its system of antennas at Gakona, Alaska, was initially based on a technology patented by Advanced Power Technologies Inc. (APTI), a subsidiary of Atlantic Ritchfield Corporation (ARCO). The first phase of the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) was completed by APTI. The IRI system of antennas was first installed in 1992 by a subsidiary of British Aerospace Systems (BAES) using the APTI patent. The antennas beam into the outer-atmosphere using a set of wireless high frequency transmitters. In 1994, ARCO sold its APTI subsidiary, including the patents and the second phase construction contract to E-Systems, a secretive high tech military outfit with links to the CIA (www.crystalinks.com/haarp.html ). E-Systems specializes in the production of electronic warfare equipment, navigation and reconnaissance machinery, including "highly sophisticated spying devices": "[E-Systems] is one of the biggest intelligence contractors in the world, doing work for the CIA, defense intelligence organizations, and others. US$1.8 billion of their annual sales are to these organizations, with $800 million for black projects-projects so secret that even the United States Congress isn't told how the money is being spent.( www.earthpulse.com/haarp/vandalism.html ) "The company has outfitted such military projects as the Doomsday Plan (the system that allows the President to manage a nuclear war) and Operation Desert Storm."
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Post by BigJoe on Jun 22, 2006 19:52:45 GMT -5
continued... This advanced stage of full capacity (FIRI) corresponds to what the US Air Force has called "Owning the Weather": US aerospace forces [will] 'own the weather' by capitalizing on emerging technologies and focusing development of those technologies to war-fighting applications... From enhancing friendly operations or disrupting those of the enemy via small-scale tailoring of natural weather patterns to complete dominance of global communications and counterspace control, weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels.(US Air Force, emphasis added. Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report, www.au.af.mil/au/2025/ ) Weather Warfare against "Rogue States" The unusual climatic occurrences in the US and Western Europe have been extensively documented. However, what the news media has failed to underscore is that a number of unusual and dramatic climatic changes have occurred in recent years in countries which are identified as possible targets under the US Administration's pre-emptive war doctrine. Weather patterns in North Korea, for instance, have been marked since the mid-1990s by a succession of droughts, followed by floods. The result has been the destruction of an entire agricultural system. In Cuba, the pattern is very similar to that observed in North Korea. (see Table 3) In Iraq, Iran and Syria, a devastating drought occurred in 1999. In Afghanistan, four years of drought in the years preceding the US led invasion in 2001, have led to the destruction of the peasant economy, leading to widespread famine. While there is no proof that these weather occurrences are the result of climatic warfare, Phillips Geophysics Lab, which is a partner in the HAARP project provides a course for military personnel at the Hanscom Air Force Base in Maryland, on "Weather Modification Techniques". The course outline explicitly contemplates the triggering of storms, hurricanes, etc. for military use. (See his slide show at www.dtc.army.mil/tts/1997/proceed/abarnes/ open PowerPoint presentation at www.dtc.army.mil/tts/tts97/abarnes.zip ) Weather manipulation is the pre-emptive weapon par excellence. It can be directed against enemy countries or even "friendly nations", without their knowledge. Weather warfare constitutes a covert form of pre-emptive war. The manipulation of climate can be used to destabilize an enemy's economy, ecosystem and agriculture (e.g. North Korea or Cuba). Needless to say it can trigger havoc in financial and commodity markets and can potentially be used as an instrument of "insider trade" for financial gain. It has the ability of destabilizing a country's institutions. Concurrently, the disruption in agriculture creates a greater dependency on food aid and imported grain staples from the US and other Western countries. The Bush administration has stated that it reserves the right to attack these countries preemptively, with a view to ensuring the security of the American homeland. Washington --as part of its nuclear posture review-- has threatened several countries including China and Russia with pre-emptive nuclear strikes. One would assume that the same targeting of rogue states exists with regard to the use of weather modification techniques". While there is no evidence of the use of weather warfare against rogue states, the policy guidelines on "weather intervention techniques" have already been established and the technology is fully operational. Unusual Weather Occurrences: North Korea, Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq North Korea Recurrent flooding and drought often in the same year has hit North Korea since 1995, 220,000 people died in the ensuing famine, according to Pyongyang's own figures. U.S. figures place the number of deaths resulting from famine at 2 million. The first major flooding occurred in 1995. There were floods and drought in 1999. The serious water shortage resulting from the 1999 drought was conducive to the destruction of crops. "The temperature of water in rice fields goes beyond 40 degrees and the tall rice plants fresh from the rice seedling beds are withering. In particular, nearly all after-crop maize seedlings and seeds are perishing," it added. In 2001, in June there was an extensive drought with rainfall just 10% of normal levels, which served to undermine agricultural crops. And then a few months later, in October, there were extensive floodings leading to the further destruction of rice harvests and a crisis situation in food distribution. "Officials in Kangwon province - an area which already suffers food shortages - say the impact of the torrential rain and flooding has been devastating. The normal recorded rainfall for October should be around 20mm. But in the worst-affected areas 400mm (18 inches) of rain fell in just 12 hours. "It was the worst flooding we've had since records began in 1910," said Kim Song Hwan, head of the government's Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee for the region. (BBC, 23 Oct 2001, news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1614981.stm ) Cuba For several years Cuba has been affected by recurrent droughts. In 1998, rainfall in Eastern Cuba was at its lowest level since 1941. A United Nations team estimated 539,000 people, 280,000 of them farmers, were directly affected by reduced availability of food or reduced income through production losses. Some reported effects are: hunger in areas; a loss of up to 14% of the sugar cane crop planted last year and a reduction in this spring's planted crops, since rains were not sufficient for some seeds to germinate (which will reduce next year's crop); as much as 42% losses in food staples such as root vegetables, beans, bananas, and rice in the five eastern provinces; and livestock, poultry, and egg production losses (UN Relief, www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/2975570e60ff2a7685256680005a8e2d?OpenDocument ) In 2003, a devastating drought hit the Western part of Cuba In 2004 May-June, the country is hit by the worst drought in its history: "A severe drought enveloping eastern Cuba has eroded 40 percent of the farmland, starved thousands of heads of cattle and has close to 4 million people counting every drop of water they consume." The drought is described as the worst in 40 years. “The drought has robbed underground water levels of some 10 feet over the past 10 years, leaving over 5,000 wells across the province dry,” said Leandro Bermudez, a geologist and the second man at Cuba’s National Institute of Hydraulic Resources. (MSNBC, 21 June 2004 msnbc.msn.com/id/5262324 The cities are running out of water. According to the Independent, "Drought is bringing Cuba to its knees Unnoticed by the world, the longest dry period for decades has brought much of Cuba to its knees. Could this be the crisis that finally destroys Fidel's revolution? "All across central and eastern Cuba, farmers, ranchers, city dwellers and government officials are scrambling to deal with a punishing drought that began a decade ago and intensified in the last two years. Although traditionally arid, the provinces of Holguin, Camaguey and Las Tunas hold some of Cuba's finest pasture and farmland and have long been crucial to this communist nation's dairy, beef and agricultural industries. More than 12,500 cattle have died in Holguin alone in 2004 and milk production has fallen 20 percent. The price of beans, plantains, sweet potatoes and other staples has soared in private markets. The drought has caused millions of dollars in losses and officials are spending millions more digging wells, building a water pipeline and taking other measures to try to ease the crisis - huge sums in an impoverished nation struggling through tough economic times and a battle with the United States. Officials also have moved thousands of cattle to more fertile areas and are working furiously to finish a 32-mile pipeline that will draw water to Holguin city from Cuba's largest river, the Cauto. The $5 million pipeline could be completed next month. (Chicago Tribune, July 29, 2004, www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/9271316.htm ) The above report date to September 2004, it was published before, the hurricanes hit the Cuban coastline followed by torrential rains. Afghanistan and The former Soviet Republics of Central Asia The worst drought in Afghanistan history occurred in the three consecutive years prior to the onslaught of the US led invasion, from 1999 to 2001. The agricultural recovery of the 1990s, in the wake of the Soviet-Afghan war was brought to a standstill. In the wake of the US led 2001 invasion, the United States supplied Afghanistan with genetically modified wheat and appropriate types of fertilizer to be used with the GM wheat, which was said to be high yield drought resistant. The donation of GM wheat, however, also led to destabilizing the small peasant economy because the GM wheat varieties could not reproduced locally. In 2002, famines which were barely reported by the media, swept the country. Similar although less severe conditions prevailed in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Like Afghanistan, Tajikistan has had its infrastructure ruined by prolonged civil war with Muslim fundamentalists. Since then, the worst regional drought in 74 years has destroyed food crops over a large part of the nation, rendering almost half of the 6.2 million people in the country vulnerable to the threat of famine and disease, up from 3 million last year. About the only portion of the economy that has been unaffected is the drug trade. Tajikistan is the transit route for 65 to 85 percent of heroin smuggled out of Afghanistan, the world’s largest producer. Triggered by the lowest rainfall (2001) in living memory, vast tracts of Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan are being reduced to desert as the water table sinks, long-established wells dry up and herds of livestock perish. The crisis appears to fulfill alarming climate change predictions suggesting that states along the old Silk Road will experience steeper rises in temperature than any other region on earth. By the end of the century it will be 5C hotter in an area which regularly sees the thermometer soar above 40C. The study, published last year by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, predicted that Asian countries from Kazakhstan to Saudi Arabia will warm up more than twice as much as others. "Several states," the report added, "including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Iran, [are facing] famine." In Tajikistan, the United Nations appealed for aid to avert disaster. "Substantial foreign aid is needed or else there will be a large-scale famine," said Matthew Kahane, the UN's humanitarian aid coordinator, speaking from the capital, Dushanbe. "The country has had its lowest rainfall for 75 years. Families who survived last year by selling their cows and chickens now have no other means of coping. Some households have sold the glass out of their windows and the wooden beams from their roofs to raise money for food." (The Guardian, 0ct 30, 2001, www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,736902,00.html ) Iraq In 1999, Iraq suffered its worst drought of the century, with the effect of triggering an even greater dependence on imported grain under the oil for food program. There was a drop of up to 70 percent in domestic yields of wheat, barley and other cereals, which served to further weaken the country's economy, crippled by economic sanctions and the routine bombing by allied aircraft in the no-fly zones. A similar (although less serious) situation prevailed in Syria and Iran, marked by significant declines in agricultural output.
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Post by BigJoe on Jun 22, 2006 19:59:20 GMT -5
www.latinamericanstudies.org/cuba/drought-crisis.htmChicago Tribune July 25, 2004 In Cuba, drought hits crisis level Farmers, city dwellers and officials scrape for fresh water as island nation endures a long dry spell that has intensified since 2002 By Gary Marx Tribune foreign correspondent CACOCUM, Cuba -- Manuel Batista walked through his small field of plantains and corn, surveying the damage wrought by a drought that has decimated crops, killed thousands of cattle and left residents scraping for water across huge swaths of this island nation. "This will not produce anything," said Batista, 68, as he grabbed a foot-high cornstalk just outside the small farming community of Cacocum. "It hasn't rained in nine months." All across central and eastern Cuba, farmers, ranchers, city dwellers and government officials are scrambling to deal with a punishing drought that began a decade ago and intensified in the last two years. Although traditionally arid, the provinces of Holguin, Camaguey and Las Tunas hold some of Cuba's finest pasture and farmland and have long been crucial to this communist nation's dairy, beef and agricultural industries. Leandro Bermudez, deputy director of Cuba's National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, said strong winds are pushing clouds through the region without precipitation. Rainfall is 55 percent below normal in Holguin province this year. 12,500 cattle have died More than 12,500 cattle have died in Holguin alone in 2004 and milk production has fallen 20 percent. The price of beans, plantains, sweet potatoes and other staples has soared in private markets. The drought has caused millions of dollars in losses and officials are spending millions more digging wells, building a water pipeline and taking other measures to try to ease the crisis--huge sums in an impoverished nation struggling through tough economic times and a battle with the United States. "This is the worst drought in 40 years," Bermudez said. "The situation is critical." In Cacocum, which is 10 miles south of the city of Holguin, the normally dark, fertile soil is cracked and brittle. Rib cages protrude from cattle grazing in denuded pastures as ranchers feed livestock ground-up sugar cane stalk and other substitutes for their normal feed in an effort to keep them alive. Two of the three reservoirs supplying water to Holguin city, Cuba's fourth-largest city, are empty and the third has only about a two-month supply of water, Bermudez said. At Guirabo, a reservoir that normally supplies 35,000 people, a herd of goats grazes in a vast basin usually submerged in 20 feet of water. The reservoir dried up in September. Thousands of wells also are dry in Holguin province, adding to water shortages that forced one of the region's largest hospitals to postpone some elective surgeries and shut off water in non-essential areas during morning hours. Armando Lamadrid, director of the V.I. Lenin Hospital in Holguin city, said he is steering more of the sick to outpatient care rather than admitting them to the hospital. Lamadrid said the city's four other hospitals have adopted similar measures even though government officials are giving hospitals priority as they ration and distribute water supplies. "We have 200 to 250 less patients now in the hospital," said Lamadrid, whose hospital can handle 830 patients. "We are directly affected because we are connected to one of the reservoirs that dried out." An aggressive response Although strapped for resources, officials have responded aggressively to the crisis, sinking hundreds of new wells and hauling in food from other regions. Officials also have moved thousands of cattle to more fertile areas and are working furiously to finish a 32-mile pipeline that will draw water to Holguin city from Cuba's largest river, the Cauto. The $5 million pipeline could be completed next month. With water taps dry, scores of trucks and Soviet-era tractors fitted with portable tanks carry water to Holguin city. But residents say the vehicles arrive in their neighborhoods only about once a week. In Lenin, a sprawling Holguin city neighborhood of drab, prefabricated apartment buildings, Carlos Palacio--a local baseball player--was dripping with sweat as he lugged two buckets of water weighing about 90 pounds from a portable tank up to his fifth-floor apartment. "I'll go up and down twenty times," Palacio, 34, said. "It's very hard, but there is no other choice." Nearby, one resident collected water from the same tank using an old paint can while another was set to fill a plastic ice cream container. Tony Garcia, a 26-year-old lifeguard, strained as he lifted a bucket of water to his fifth-floor apartment using a pulley attached to his building. Jorge Diaz, a retired automobile mechanic who has trouble walking because of illness, fashioned a makeshift pump from the motor of an old Soviet washing machine to get water to his second-floor apartment. He hasn't had tap water in two months. "Traditionally, we've had a problem with water but this year the drought is more aggressive," said Diaz, 70, shirtless in the stifling heat. The drought comes at a difficult time for Cuba, whose centralized economy remains weak and is sustained largely by tourism and hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances sent annually by Cubans living in the United States to relatives on the island. In recent weeks, President Bush has instituted a series of measures, including further limiting remittances and visits by Cuban-Americans to the island, in an effort to squeeze President Fidel Castro's government. `I am very worried' Many Cubans are concerned the measures will further impoverish their country, where health care and education are free, but the average salary hovers around $15 a month. "I am very worried," said Jose Manuel Bosch, a 38-year-old resident of the eastern city of Baracoa. "We don't know what will happen." In Holguin city, whose narrow streets are plied by horse-drawn carriages, vintage Soviet motorcycles with sidecars and bicycle taxis, officials and residents said they are not sure how long they can hold out if the drought continues. The forecast is not good. The last significant rain fell in September 2003 and meteorologists are predicting near or below normal rainfall for the rest of this year. "If that happens we will not recover," Bermudez, of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources, said.
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Post by BigJoe on Jun 29, 2006 7:45:41 GMT -5
Thursday morning, 8:40 A.M.
Absolutely NO spraying or ANY trace of aerosol activity in our skies for four days, and guess what... RAIN, and LOTS of it! 1.40 inches of rain on Monday afternoon, and 1.60 inches yesterday (Wednesday). Total rainfall here since Monday afternoon, according to my rain gauge... 3.10 inches. For now at least, their artificially induced drought over this region has finally been swept away.
Clear skies here at 8:40 A.M., and absolutely no signs of the chemjets or any of their activity yet. They're calling for a 60% chance of thunderstorms today as well. Wonder how long our reprieve here will last?
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Post by Swamp Gas on Jul 8, 2006 23:29:22 GMT -5
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 9, 2006 18:10:16 GMT -5
They're doing "really great" things with our weather here in upstate/western N.Y.
Since we had the record rains and all the flooding two weeks ago... NOT A DROP OF RAIN has fallen here since then!
It's either droughts or floods, and NOTHING IN BETWEEN anymore.
I'm meeting MORE AND MORE people who are noticing this now, and asking what's gone wrong with the weather. Many people are wondering whatever happened to those days of nice, gentle, soaking rains. We just don't have them anymore.
Today was no exception. Hot, sticky, humid, and very, very dry. No trails, but around mid-morning a thick, soupy chemical haze drifted over our entire region. Just like last weekend, we could see the cumulonimbus clouds trying to form into thunderheads, but as soon as they hit this artificial chemical "overcast", which I'd say was somewhere between 30,000-35,000 feet, these potential thunder/rain storms simply break apart... and dissipate! The result... NO RAIN!!!
Even with all the flooding two weeks ago, they have made it SO DRY here this year that our annual precipitation total for 2006 is now at... 2.14 inches BELOW NORMAL! This is the latest, official data from the National Weather Service.
Like last weekend, a cold front is forecast to move through our region tomorrow (Monday). They are calling for a 70% chance of thunderstorms, some with heavy downpours, to be accompanying the passage of this frontal system. I personally question tomorrow's forecast from our local forecasters on this, and quite frankly, I have my doubts as to whether we'll be getting any rain tomorrow at all..., judging from what they've been doing up there in our skies these last several months.
Whatever the case may be, the precipitation totals from the passage of this frontal system tomorrow will be posted here.
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Post by chickenlittle on Jul 9, 2006 23:42:14 GMT -5
Hey BigJoe the Airforce should change that from "owning the weather" to.............."Screwing the weather up so badly and not knowing how to fix it!" How would that look in one of those bills they are always trying to pass?. These bastards know that is the truth too. Take care, chicky
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 10, 2006 7:04:05 GMT -5
You're absolutely right, chicky!!!
The sheer gall, arrogance and stupidity of these little minded "people" never ceases to amaze me! To think that they could actually lay claim to a process that has taken billions of years to evolve itself, a process that nurtures and sustains ALL life on this planet... and attempt to alter, modify, own, control and steal it for their own short sighted, and selfish little ends... this NEVER ceases to amaze me!
This is a process that BELONGS to every living being on this planet, not just to these selfish few. A process that, as I have said, took literally BILLIONS of years to evolve into what it is today... and within just several decades, they hope to transform it into a vehicle for the carrying out of their short sighted military objectives, and their plans for total world domination, and in the process, putting ALL LIFE ON THIS PLANET AT RISK!!!
My outrage at these psychos grows on a daily basis everytime I look up at our once beautiful skies and watch what they are doing to them.
If this isn't the ultimate form of stupidity, (and arrogance), I sure as heck don't know what is!
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 11, 2006 7:14:23 GMT -5
Precipitation Data for Western New York and Neighboring Regions for Monday, July 10, 2006 Data courtesy of the National Weather Service
Rochester, New York Monday's Precipitation..................................... 0.48 inch Precipitation for the year; 2006......................15.03 inches Normal Yearly Precipation...............................16.87 inches
Yearly Precipitation for Rochester, New York is..1.84 inches BELOW NORMAL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Buffalo, New York Monday's Precipitation..................................... 0.19 inch Precipitation for the year; 2006......................15.75 inches Normal Yearly Precipation...............................19.82 inches
Yearly Precipitation for Buffalo, New York is ......4.07 inches BELOW NORMAL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Erie, Pennsylvania Monday's Precipitation..................................... 0.16 inch Precipitation for the year; 2006......................17.26 inches Normal Yearly Precipation...............................20.09 inches Yearly Precipitation for Erie, Pennsylvania is.......2.83 inches BELOW NORMAL -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not quite as much rain as they had forecast here, or as much as we were hoping for to ease this artficially induced drought over this region..., but they're now calling for an 80% chance of thunderstorms with heavy downpours for this region tomorrow. Hopefully, they'll get it right THIS TIME!!! As usual, all of the official regional precipitation data, courtesy of the National Weather Service, on this developing mid-week weather situation for Rochester, and Western New York, the Western Finger Lakes Region, and North Western Pennsylvania, will be posted here, when it becomes available.
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 12, 2006 15:16:02 GMT -5
I'm going to be discontinuing this thread... at least for now, as it is, at this time, no longer needed. Since the beginning of this week, my rain gauge has recorded 4.55 inches of rain... 3.15 of those inches since approximately 9:A.M. this morning! Officially (at least for now), the drought over this region has ended... literarally... with a BANG, as a strong line of thunderstorms brought up the tail end of this wet, slow moving weather system. This is all I have to say on this thread for the time being. If and when it is needed once again, we will continue posting our precipitation (and weather) data here once more, and exposing those who are responsible. But for now, the drought is over, and the doppler radar suggests that the rain has finally ended here. Any more rain here from this system, it will be added to the grand total (so far) of... 4.55 inches of rain!
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 12, 2006 19:42:38 GMT -5
As this weather system moves to our east, this will most likely be the last rainfall update on this weather event.
At 8:30 P.M. we have had a total of 4.85 inches since the beginning of the week.
3.45 of those inches fell today, between 9:A.M. and 8:30 P.M.
Presently doppler radar is mainly clear to our west, meaning the bulk of rainfall from this weather system is now well to our east.
Present conditions, fog, and a very light drizzle, temperature at 70 degrees.
We set a record for the most rainfall EVER on this date. Checking with the local weather spotters around the region, the average rainfall here for today was between 3 - 3.50 inches. So far today, my rain gauge has registered 3.45 inches. There has been quite a bit of flooding today as well.
It seems the trend now is either drought or floods, and nothing inbetween.
This thread will be continued WHEN/IF another artificially induced drought situation should take place here in Western New York.
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 13, 2006 5:46:49 GMT -5
From drought to floods...
From this morning's edition of Rochester's "Democrat and Chronicle"...
Deluge breaks record for July
Area gets a soaking as streets, basements flood, sinkhole opens
Fernando Diaz Staff writer
(July 13, 2006) — Rochester's rainiest July day on record — Wednesday — stranded motorists around Monroe County, overflowed creeks, flooded basements and even created sinkholes behind some Irondequoit homes.
Rochester soaked in more than 3 inches of rain, beating the previous high for July 12 — just under an inch in 1910.
Also, the afternoon downpour edged past the daily record for July that has lasted since the National Weather Service began keeping those records in 1897.
# Thirty percent of city firefighters' calls were for water related problems, including flooded basements.
# Greece's commissioner of public works said he was pleasantly surprised by how well the town's infrastructure handled the deluge.
# Wolcott, Wayne County, declared a state of emergency after many roads washed out.
# Irondequoit's commissioner of public works said the force of water pushing through the drainage system in a subdivision forced the ground to implode near Imperial Circle, creating a 25-foot wide by 10-foot deep crater.
The heavy showers came in a series of passing storms, which meteorologists call "training," said Chuck Tingley of the National Weather Service in Buffalo.
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 13, 2006 5:53:03 GMT -5
From drought to floods...
Officially, from the National Weather Service; 3.33 inches for Wednesday
Rochester's rain Wednesday broke two records: # The rainiest day in July was previously July 11, 1897, at 3.25 inches. # The previous rainiest July 12 was in 1910, with 0.92 inch
My rain gauge has recorded a total 4.85 inches of precipitation since the beginning of the week.
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 13, 2006 6:11:04 GMT -5
More "from drought to floods", Just to our west... www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/07/13/severe.weather.ap/index.htmlQuotes from article... Rains flood Indiana, Ohio; tornado hits New York Thursday, July 13, 2006; (AP) -- Up to 9 inches of rain brought flooding to Indiana and Ohio on Wednesday, killing a woman, while a tornado in a county north of New York City partly collapsed a commercial building and ripped the roof off a hotel. Firefighters recovered the body of an Ohio woman who had been trying to pull her daughter from a drainage ditch as a third straight day of rain fell. The National Weather Service issued a flood warning Wednesday for several counties in Indiana... Pam Soule, emergency management director for LaGrange County in Indiana, said a weather observer in Olive Lake reported 9 inches of rain. Floodwaters damaged at least seven homes in Topeka and two homes in Clearspring Township. Topeka firefighters were filling sandbags to protect other homes, but she said conditions were improving.
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Post by BigJoe on Jul 13, 2006 9:34:07 GMT -5
It looks like another LONG chapter, here in Western New York, and regions well to our west, has finally come to an end, in the now what appears to be, never ending saga of government owned and controlled weather modification and manipulation.
I hope to see you all here on this thread when it resumes once again for the following installment of Western New York's NEXT artificial, Geo-Engineered DROUGHT... whenever that may be taking place.
One thing that I'm certain of... I'm sure that THAT has been well planned out; and long, long in advance!
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Post by BigJoe on Aug 27, 2006 16:14:12 GMT -5
Sunday, August 27, 2006 Not looking good... Over half of the U.S. is now in drought. Some regions in the U.S. have actually lost an entire year of precipitation thanks to the weather modification programs! "They" have been VERY, VERY BUSY this summer... Check out the latest updated "U.S. Drought Monitor" to see for yourself. Many areas of the US are now experiencing RECORD DROUGHT CONDITIONS, and this massive drought is gradually expanding and getting worse. Large areas are actually now classified in the "EXTREME" to "EXCEPTIONAL" drought category... See for yourself... www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.htmlOur hard earned tax dollars "at work".
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Post by BigJoe on Aug 27, 2006 16:45:52 GMT -5
Weather Modification Philip L. Hoag Weather modification technology is in use today by both the United States and the Soviet Union. Both the U.S. and Soviet projects involve the manipulation of the ionosphere and the alteration of the earth’s magnetic fields. This technology seems to have both localized and global capabilities. Evidence indicates that this technology also has the capability of manipulating human behavior and mood patterns. Nikola Tesla All of this seemingly Star Trek-like technology originated from a Serbian immigrant named Nikola Tesla who came to the United States just before the turn of the century. This man, without question, proved to be the greatest scientific genius of this century. Tesla worked with both Westinghouse and Edison during the infancy of electricity and it was actually Tesla who developed alternating current. Tesla also experimented with electromagnetic flux and studied the earth’s gravitational field. During his research he discovered that the ionization of the atmosphere would alter when it was charged by radio wave transmissions in the low frequency range of 10 to 80 hertz. Tesla also discovered that he could cause both positive and negative ionization of the atmosphere by manipulating the radio frequency. Further studies indicated that with positive ionization, people and animals became tired and lethargic and with negative ionization the effect was one of feeling active and energetic. Another interesting aspect of this technology is the effect which harmonious radio frequencies make when they impact air molecules. The molecules become excited and give off negatively charged electrons which readily combine with hydrogen and oxygen to produce water molecules. But even more profound is the fact that this type of radio wave also carries positively charged ions through the ionosphere into the magnetosphere. The positively charged ions then become trapped in the Van Allen belts, traveling between the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis, right where we coincidentally have holes in the ozone layers. Freon, the ozone killer, by its nature dissipates quickly. This inherent quality is a contradiction to the concept that a concentration of freon is creating holes in the ozone layers at the North and South Poles. However, when radio waves hit already unstable freon precipitates, they are so reactive that they can not move on and dissipate into the magnetosphere. As far-fetched as this subject may seem, leaders in the elite global establishment have intimated the existence of this technology and its capabilities. In 1970 Zbigniew Brzezinski published a book titled Between Two Ages. Brzezinski is one of the founding directors of the Trilateral Commission. In this book he said, "Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised…Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm." Further confirmation of the Western power elite’s interest in weather modification was revealed in an article which appeared in the September 12, 1989 edition of the Washington Post. This article reported on the 1989 Tokyo conference on global environment. The president of the World Bank, Barber Conable, who is also a Trilateral Commission member, gave a speech in which he outlined the long-range goals of the one world elite. In this speech he said, "while higher temperatures may cause ‘a number of natural disasters,’ they might also warm cold and unproductive lands in the north into productivity." There is very good evidence that the one world group and the Soviets have been jointly involved in weather modification over the Northern Hemisphere since the early 1970s. In 1971 it was alleged that the U.S. and the Soviets started cooperating in secret weather modification projects. One such project was named POLEX, Polar Experiment of the Global Atmospheric Research Program, and another in 1973 was called AIDJEX, the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment. It is purported that these experiments involved attempts to melt the polar ice cap. Other U.S. projects such as Nile Blue and Climate Dynamics involved the changing of the arctic ice pack. There was even an article in the December 16, 1980, edition of the New York Times discussing a joint U.S.-Soviet project involving the transmission of ELF waves from Antarctica designed "to interfere with the earth’s magnetic field." Soviet Woodpecker System The Soviet weather modification project is referred to as the Woodpecker system. It involves the transmissions of extreme low frequency (ELF) waves at about 10 hertz using Tesla transmitters in Angarsk and Khabarovsk in Siberia, Gomel, Sakhalin Island, Nikolayev in the Ukraine, Riga in Latvia and also a site 60 miles south of Havana in Cuba. To give you an idea of the magnitude of this system, the facility near Havana, Cuba, is said to be maintained and operated by a staff of 2,500 Soviet personnel. These transmitters generate electromagnetic transmissions that produce an ELF scalar grid over the United States. This is done by transmitting these low frequency scalar waves in pairs so that they converge at a predetermined point on the earth’s surface and cause a disruption of the atmosphere. This technology can be used to alter the course of the jet stream and set up long- term weather blocks. Long-term Weather Blocking The long-lasting California drought in the 80s was caused by a massive ridge of high pressure 800 miles off the California coast which hovered for extended periods of time, blocking the usual flow of moist air coming in from the Pacific and pushing storms around to the north. Meteorologists who have analyzed this phenomena consider it to be one of the most unusual national patterns ever recorded, unique in the annals of weather recording. Such long-lasting centers of high pressure were unheard of until 1977. Evidence suggests that this was possibly caused by Woodpecker generated giant standing ELF waves which are transmitted by the Soviets intentionally to block the flow of normal weather patterns. This phenomenon of long-lasting centers of high pressure is not limited to producing drought. In 1993 the Midwest region experienced severe flooding which was a result of the wettest period in this particular area since rainfall record keeping began in 1876. This flood was a result again of what meteorologists called a blocking pattern. The normal weather systems usually move from west to east across the U.S., but during the ’93 flood the weather systems stalled for six weeks over the upper Midwest. A high pressure system over the eastern part of the United States was causing warm, moist air to move up from the Gulf of Mexico and dump moisture in the Midwest, where it met the jet stream. This weather pattern involved an unusual shift in the jet stream, which during the summer is usually weak and typically found much farther north in Canada. This stationary high pressure front also blocked the path of cold Canadian air, resulting in record low temperatures in the Northwest. According to the September 1993 issue of Storm, The World Weather Magazine: "It is extremely unusual for weather patterns to persist for so many weeks, bringing heavy rainfall to the same area almost on a daily basis… The reasons for the weather patterns to become fixed, as they did in June and July, 1993, are unclear." GWEN A system somewhat similar to the Soviet Woodpecker has been set up in the United States called the Ground Wave Emergency Network, or GWEN. This network was built under the guise, or possible dual use, of an emergency communication system that would not be interrupted by electromagnetic pulse during a nuclear war. GWEN units are capable of altering the magnetic field within a 200- to 250-mile radius. The individual units themselves are made up of 300-foot tall towers which transmit radio waves through hundreds of bare copper wires which are each 300 feet in length. These wires are buried in the ground in a spoke pattern radiating out from the base of the tower. The wires interact with the earth like a thin-shelled conductor, radiating the radio wave energy for very long distances through the ground. These units are located in Texas, Nevada, Maine, North Carolina, Maryland, Georgia, Oregon, Washington, California, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, New York, Alabama, Virginia, Kansas, Nebraska, New Jersey, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Colorado and Montana. There is fairly significant evidence to suggest that these GWEN units in combination with the Soviet Woodpecker transmissions made a significant contribution to creating the extensive flooding in the Midwest in 1993. It is interesting to note that the Russians are now openly marketing a small version of their weather engineering system called Elate, which can fine tune weather patterns over a 200-mile area. These units seem to have the same range as the individual GWEN unit. One of these Elate units operates at Moscow’s Bykovo Airport. The threats of weather warfare, totalitarian government and famine dovetail together. As we saw in the famine which the Soviets artificially created in the Ukraine prior to World War II, famine is an effective means of subjugating a people. By controlling food, you can control people. Weather modification can affect food production and eventually the available supply. Starving resisters out is much more effective than having to track them down and shoot it out with them. If you have not surrendered your weapons, you don’t get a food ration coupon. Long-term food storage, well hidden, is the only insulation against famine and totalitarian oppression. Tesla-Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons An article in the spring 1993 edition of Orbis Magazine reported on another article which had appeared in the 1992 edition of a Russian magazine called Military Thought. This article, among other things, revealed Soviet involvement in the development of Tesla-scalar electromagnetic weapons: "…The current civil-military consensus also includes an image of future war based on the development and deployment of advanced conventional munitions, direct-energy weapons, space-based strike weapons and anti-ballistic missiles, and third-generation nuclear weapons." homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/wxwar.html
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