“My first impulse is to call you a dumb Obama ass-licking c**t”: “American Sniper” fans tell me off...

I dared criticize "American Sniper." You'd be horrified by the response from aggressive, deluded "patriots"

The fans defending "American Sniper" reveal more about our nation's problems than the movie itself.
"American Sniper" opened to almost immediate controversy as critics suggested that the film's sniper was overly romanticized as a hero, that it lacked needed political context, and that it offered reductive views of both the conflict and the veteran experience. But the idea that there would be criticism of this film is not really news. The film was about a sniper from the Iraq War, and it was to be expected that the U.S. public would have a range of responses to it.
The real news, instead, is the forceful way that some supporters of the film rose to its defense. If you were worried that the film offered a depressingly simplified version of the Iraq War, and if you were concerned that it rewarded aggression over reason, then the extremist fan response to the film should worry you more.
We knew early on that critiquing the film was risky business since it would be followed with immediate and intense attacks. This was evident when Seth Rogen and Michael Moore experienced severe public backlash in response to less-than-favorable tweets about the movie. In a return of the "with us or against us" logic that framed the Bush administration's response to 9/11, the film suddenly stood in for patriotism in general. If you critiqued the film, you hated the country, the military and your own freedom. And those that you had offended were going to make you pay for it.
It was just this sort of narrow thinking that I had in mind when I wrote a piece critical of the film for Salon. I suggested that the film suffered from two key flaws—delusion and aggression—and that both of those flaws had been present in public appearances by "American Sniper" director Clint Eastwood. Most important, I connected them to a hostile tendency common to a highly vocal sector of the GOP.

Little did I know that whatever my piece may have lacked in its assessment of the film, it would be the film's defenders that would perfectly prove my point. Within minutes of the piece going live, my email inbox and Twitter feed began to light up with negative comments. Many of those early ones I deleted, but I soon realized that keeping them and analyzing them would be a useful exercise in understanding the hate speech that is threatening the health of our democracy. (You can access our full data analysis of the messages here.)
Taken together, analysis of these messages can teach us a lot about the outspoken faction defending this Oscar-nominated film. If you didn't know better you'd think it was the Stars and Stripes I had gone after and not a Hollywood blockbuster.
According to Mediametric, my Salon piece on "American Sniper" was shared 29,000 times. Our analysis tracks just over 150 personal messages sent directly to my email or to me on Twitter. (We bracketed out the 1,342 comments on Salon since these often include attacks and dialogue from one commenter to another.) The point is that the group we analyzed is only a tiny fraction of those that read and shared it. The second point is that the group is tiny, but it is loud. And the loudness has an astonishing ability to frame public debate on issues. (It sounds a little like the Tea Party, doesn't it?)
Now we also know that those who take time to send messages and tweet at writers tend to be negative. We have recently had a few pieces analyze the presence of trolls, shamers and other Internet attackers who have enough time to endlessly go after those who express ideas and opinions they find offensive. These people are negative and they are mean. They are cyberbullies and they are cowards who hide behind anonymity and the impersonal distance of a computer screen.
Seventy-three percent of the email messages and 92 percent of the tweets I received were negative. Sixteen percent of the emails and 2 percent of the tweets were positive; the rest we coded as neutral. The different media of email versus Twitter reveals the logic behind the fact that more of the tweets would be negative. But in my case the negative messages were also delusional and aggressive—in almost the exact same ways that I had described "American Sniper." And that's the part that is really fascinating.
Of the negative messages almost all included some sort of faulty reasoning—false binaries, false analogies, misattribution, illogical cause and effect, and more. And many of these also included aggressive tendencies—sexism, racism, insults, epithets, bullying and attacks on my training and profession.
There were two things about my piece that really seemed to piss people off. First, that I was a professor, and second, that I had said anything critical about Chris Kyle.
Let's start with the professor part since it reveals a major feature of my message-writers' delusion. Many of those who wrote to me seemed to confuse the difference between a classroom, academic writing and a blog for Salon. They seemed completely incapable of imagining that a professor might express a political view on Salon but not be biased in the classroom. And most of all, they seem to forget that professors are citizens too.

"do you even use your hard earned knowledge or do you just use hype and hormones to ascribe opinion?"
"condolences to your poor deluded students. They probably believe you're actually teaching them something of truth & value."
<p>@mcclennen65 @Salon someone needs to write an article on why people like you are allowed to teach."

<p>@mcclennen65 @Salon, yet again, more nonsensical drivel from the academic left. #ChrisKyleAmericanHero"

<p>@mcclennen65 Its a shame that a person as misguided,as you has tenure"

We don't give up our right to free speech when we get our Ph.D.s and we don't give up our right to be passionate about the politics of our nation just because we teach. Our work is governed by professional practices and we are held accountable to them. But holding high professional standards has nothing to do with whether we have the right to dislike a Clint Eastwood movie and write about it for an online publication. And, while it is true that professors can function as public intellectuals and engage in debates outside of the classroom, that does not mean that Salon is like a classroom for me, nor does it turn my readers into my students.

"I am appalled that a woman of your educational level could write such a delusional commentary."
Lefty Dingbat Professor @mcclennen65
<p>@Penn Your professor's short-sighted, misguided views based soley on their political ideology reflect poorly on you. @mcclennen65

Next up was the false analogy that a criticism of Kyle was a criticism of the military. There is no logic to that at all. And, for what it's worth, my criticism was of the depiction of Kyle in the film. I said the movie portrayal was sugarcoated and suffered inaccuracies. Imagine if the film had portrayed Kyle as he portrayed himself in his memoir? Imagine if it had shown him to be a great sniper and a less than great guy? So those that attacked me on that point seemed to be confused over the difference between the film's protagonist and the guy the film was based on. If there was ever justification of why we need to look carefully at the way the film presented Kyle and the war—these comments prove that some viewers couldn't tell the difference. If you didn't like Bradley Cooper's version of Kyle, you were spitting on Kyle's grave and insulting every member of the military in the whole nation for all time. It was all the same. But, even if I found the story of the real Chris Kyle disturbing, that does not mean I hate the military. One vet actually wrote me to say my piece had made him cry since it hurt him so much. I'm sorry for his pain, but even sorrier for his poor reasoning and paranoia.

"Tears roll down my face as I type this because I cannot believe that there are Americans who feel this way towards our soldiers. … But just know that you hurt a man who defended this country, his wife who did the same, and their two young children who asked why Daddy was crying. Congratulations."
<p>@mcclennen65 Does it feel good to smear dead US soldier Chris Kyle who can't defend himself against your accusations?U are a fucking coward"

<p>@mcclennen65 is the ultimate example of misguided, tunnel vision as she lashes out at the service men/women/families #misguided #Uneducated"

My critics could not seem to possibly comprehend that one might dislike the way the film portrayed Kyle and still value the military. And they really couldn't comprehend that it may, in fact, be my defense of the military and my value of military lives that influenced my idea that we should not be sending troops to unjust wars where they are put unnecessarily at risk. For what it's worth, some of my positive comments came from vets who agreed with me on this point.
"I'm a veteran that served honorably in the U.S. military, not during wartime so I don't know for sure but I found it somewhat incredible that someone would be making a satellite call to one's spouse while on a patrol to confront hostile forces." "Thank you for writing 'American Sniper's' biggest lie."
And, if you needed further proof that the critical thinking in our nation is under serious threat, watch this faulty logic: Many accused me of supporting terrorists since I critiqued the Iraq War. Many experts believe that our presence there did nothing but increase terrorism. Questioning the war does not equal supporting terrorism. And being critical of the war does not mean I hate my country. It might even mean I care more about my country than those who think the Iraq War was a good idea.
This country is a secular democracy; it is not a religious state. Strong democracies don't feed off of faith; they feed off of reason. Somewhere some of my critics seem to have confused the nature of our government. When I ask questions of it, I make it stronger. The weird part is that they alone seem to know when and how to be critical of our government. If I criticize the Bush administration, I hate my country. Too bad that logic never translated to the way they themselves treat Obama.

"Just like your chief Racist and proven liar, Obama, you are a Racist and Liar. The sad thing is you teach your version not the truth."
<p>@mcclennen65 I'm happy that Chris Kyle is till killing you liberal bastards even after his death, just shut up you POS"
"Maybe it would be a good idea for you to negotiate with the terrorists? I think you could make a positive change by just driving your Subaru with you 08 Obama sticker over to Yemen and see how long you last."
"Just another Libtard who can't get a job in the real world. Why don't you just leave this country if you hate it so much?"

It really ticked people off that I suggested that the film showed the attacks of 9/11, Kyle enlisting, and then shipping off to Iraq with absolutely no nuance and no background. Even Eastwood and Cooper explain that they had no intention of getting into the "politics" of the war. Cooper explained to the Daily Beast, "This movie was always a character study about what the plight is for a soldier…. It's not a political discussion about war." According to Cooper and Eastwood, they just wanted to do a "character study." My point then, and now, is that a character study that gives no context for the war depicted in the film is dangerous and deceptive. And my other point was that the film did nothing to counter myths about the justification of the Iraq War, myths that are continuing to have a dangerous impact on public opinion.

"Can't understand how someone could be a teacher and have the facts completely wrong. You kept saying Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Wrong, it had everything to do with 911. After 911 we quickly went to war with the Taliban."
"The war in Iraq had to do with 9/11 the fact that Saddam Hussein, who had ruled Iraq with Hitleresque brutality for thirty years, refused to comply with UN weapon inspection mandates."

So let's say you disagree with me on that. Let's say you think a movie about a sniper in Iraq does not have to give us the big picture. Or let's say that you think it does give the big picture, perfectly. Or let's say you were just dying to see a movie celebrate the military in this nation and you don't want to deal with the messy conversation of whether the war was justified or even remotely productive. Then we disagree. You don't have to write me a hysterical email. You don't have to spend your whole night tweeting swear words at me. You don't have to, but you just might, mightn't you?
"Time for the butthurt."
"Liberal asshole"
"FACT IS THAT I AM MUCH MORE OPEN MINDED THAN YOU AND RESIST MY FIRST IMPULSE TO CALL YOU A DUMB OBAMA ASS-LICKING CUNT. "
But in the midst of these attacks there were, luckily, moments of real comic relief. Not funny because the person meant to be, funny because they are so outrageously goofy.
These "American Sniper" fans aren't just worshiping at the shrine of the movie, they are also on the hunt for anyone who doesn't agree with them. Their twisted logic and vicious anger threatens to destroy the very fabric of our democracy. How did differences of opinion devolve into these waves of insult and rage? Certainly the fear-mongering of Fox News hasn't helped. The enemy rhetoric of the Tea Party hasn't helped either.
Somehow disagreeing over "American Sniper" has caused a full-on war where a vocal and extremist faction of our country tries to define who counts as a patriot. They seem to forget that we are talking about a movie. And they seem to also forget that not liking a movie does not mean you hate your country. As the Academy Awards loom near we can only hope that whatever the outcome—it does not serve to further fuel the aggressive, exclusionary, deluded patriotism that has surrounded this film.

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The 2014-15 Louisville Leopard Percussionists rehearsing Kashmir, The Ocean, and Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin.

The Louisville Leopard Percussionists began in 1993. They are a performing ensemble of approximately 55 student musicians, ages 7-12, living in and around Louisville, Kentucky. Each student learns and acquires proficiency on several instruments, such as marimbas, xylophone, vibraphone, drum set, timbales, congas, bongos and piano.

The Dual Search for the Philosophers’ Stone - Waking Times : Waking Times

Richard Smoley, New Dawn

Waking Times


To say what the Philosophers' Stone – the great goal of alchemy – is, one has to know. And to know, one must have attained it. I cannot claim to have done this, so what follows must be speculation.
The mystery grows deeper the closer one attempts to look. Even to say what alchemy itself is proves difficult. Of course, everyone knows what alchemy is – or thinks he knows: it is an outmoded form of science in which men in conical hats cooked and mixed various strange substances trying to make gold out of base elements. Or they sought to make the Philosophers' Stone, a substance that was supposed also to produce gold – and to confer physical immortality besides. This project was totally deluded, but somehow gave rise to modern chemistry with all its wonders and curses.
However cartoonish it may be, this picture has some truth to it. Or so the stories suggest. According to one, the seventeenth-century Flemish scientist Jean-Baptiste van Helmont once received a curious visitor to his laboratory. The stranger did not identify himself, but offered to give his host a piece of the Philosophers' Stone. Van Helmont accepted on the condition that he be allowed to conduct his own experiments on it in the stranger's absence. His guest readily agreed, asking nothing in return for the substance; the scientist's conversion, he said, would be reward enough. The stranger left, never to be seen again.
"I saw and handled the Philosophers' Stone," van Helmont wrote. "It was a saffron-coloured powder, very heavy, and it glittered like splinters of glass."
Van Helmont had his assistants melt eight ounces of mercury in a crucible. He then added the powder and sealed the vessel. Fifteen minutes later he opened it and was astounded to find a lump of gold.
In 1666, the Dutch scientist Helvetius had a similar experience. Given the Philosophers' Stone by a stranger, he was able to transmute a piece of lead pipe into gold that an assayer called the finest he had ever seen. Later, when the gold was melted down, mixed with silver, and separated out again, there was more gold than there had been at the beginning. Evidently some of the silver had been transformed by contact with this alchemical gold.
Such stories abound in the literature of the early modern era. We read not only of mysterious strangers visiting early scientists, but of such figures as the fifteenth-century French alchemist Nicolas Flamel, who, having learned the secret of the Great Art (as alchemists call their practice), amassed a tremendous personal fortune and endowed many churches and hospitals. Another Frenchman, Jacques Coeur, allegedly used his alchemically created wealth to bail out his bankrupt nation after the Hundred Years' War. Alchemists were particularly welcome at the Hapsburg court of Austria in the seventeenth century, where they would commemorate their feats by striking their transmuted gold into elaborate medallions, at least one of which still exists.
Alchemy, then, appears to resemble chemistry to some degree. In fact one of the few practicing alchemists that I know in the US is a former chemistry professor who abandoned the conventional form of the science because he found it boring. But both the Stone and alchemy itself may offer greater mysteries still.
A completely different perspective on the subject appears in a book called The Hermetic Tradition by the Italian esotericist Julius Evola (1898-1974). For Evola, alchemy is not about gold and metals and stones. These expressions are just blinds to cover the alchemist's real goal – immortality in the true sense of the word.
Evola distinguishes between immortality and mere survival after death. The latter is the lot of ordinary men. They go on to a shadowy netherworld like the Greek Hades or the Sheol of the Old Testament and lose all sense of personal consciousness. "In the eternal sleep, in the larval existence of Hades, in the dissolution – which is thought to be the destiny of all those for whom this life and the forms it takes constitute the beginning and end of everything human – in all this only those will escape who, while still in life, have learned how to focus their consciousness upon the higher world." Evola goes on to criticise the conventional belief that "immortality is a certainty, not a problematical possibility."
It was, Evola contends, the goal of initiation in the mystery schools of antiquity to confer this immortality. He quotes Plotinus, the philosopher of the third century CE, who wrote, "As the gods must one be, not as good men. It is not that one must free oneself from sin, but that one must transform oneself into a god." After the decline of paganism and the triumph of Christianity, which did not support this effort in the slightest, the alchemical path was created as a means of concealing it. From this point of view, Evola claims, it was "much better then to speak of Mercury and Sulfur, of metals and puzzling things and impossible operations" than to allow the pure teaching to be desecrated by religion.
What, then, is the real alchemy? For Evola, it is the transformation of the body, especially in relationship to the spirit, to the life force. By this process the body goes from imprisoning the spirit to expressing it in a perfect way. "The corporeal principles are elevated to a higher plane, and 'the two are made one' in a spiritual corporeality; and the word that serves… to express that corporeality will be… the Philosopher's Stone." The symbol of the Stone is chosen because at this point "the body, as a completed, organised, and stable Nature is a 'fixed' thing as opposed to the instability of psychic principles and the volatility attributed to 'spirits'." This image evokes Christ's parable that speaks of a man building his house upon rock rather than sand.
This state, Evola emphasises, is the true goal of alchemy. Its attainment is difficult and uncertain, and particularly in its later stages is hard to grasp. But that is not surprising: one cannot be expected to grasp something that one has not experienced for oneself, particularly something that is so deeply at odds with ordinary understanding.
In any event, much of Evola's discussion, although it is far more lucid than we find in traditional alchemical texts, remains mysterious and puzzling. But there is one part of the process that is reasonably clear – the journey to the gates of death. By some process (which Evola does not describe) the candidate is brought into a kind of catatonic state that resembles death – except that he remains conscious during this process and then returns to life. This confrontation confers immortality – a stage that Evola equates with the alchemical term albedo or "whitening."
Evola does not talk much, or at all, about the actual experience that the candidate undergoes during this initiation. Indeed the only first-hand account of such a process that I know of can be found in a book called Opening the Dragon Gate, in which a Chinese wizard named Wang Liping tells of his initiation into Taoist alchemy under the guidance of two masters in the almost unimaginable setting of Mao's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. Wang undergoes a death and rebirth process that matches Evola's description.
There are other steps to the alchemical process as well. After the whitening stage, there is the rubedo, or "reddening," in which the now-immortal spirit is reunited and reintegrated with the physical body. Does this confer physical immortality? The alchemical legends suggest that it does. Nicolas Flamel was reported to be seen hundreds of years after his lifetime in the fourteenth century; the eighteenth-century savant the Comte de St.-Germain, another heir to the alchemical legacy, was similarly said to be centuries old; and the Taoists have their legends of the Eight Immortals, whom author Victor H. Mair describes thus: "They are immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children."
Like practically all legends, these tales are unverifiable, although by the same tack, they are impossible to refute: we cannot go through all seven billion people on earth one by one and prove that none of them has lived for hundreds of years. The physical immortality to which alchemy points remains, as Evola says, a "problematical possibility," waiting for us around a corner that may or may not exist.
All this said, it is hard to entirely dismiss the more familiar version of alchemy. There are practicing alchemists who do work with metals, and, as we saw at the beginning of this article, there were even some who claimed to have attained the summit of this work. Again, these achievements remain elusive and legendary, but again negative proof is impossible.
Thus we are left with a dual alchemy. One path attempts to transform the essence of a metal so that it reaches its most perfect form (which was always held to be gold). The other path is aimed at transforming human nature. In the end, do these goals converge? They can only do so if the principle of consciousness that dwells within us is fundamentally the same as that which dwells in all of nature, animate and supposedly inanimate. In that case the two would in the end be one.
Sources:
Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul, Translated by William Stoddart, Penguin, 1971
Chen Kaiguo & Zheng Shunchan, Opening the Dragon Gate: The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard, Translated by Thomas Cleary, Tuttle, 1998
Julius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition: Symbols and Teachings of the Royal Art, Translated by E.E. Rehmes, Inner Traditions, 1985
Fulcanelli, The Dwellings of the Philosophers, Translated by Brigitte Donvez and Lionel Perrin, Archive Press, 1999
Cherry Gilchrist, Everyday Alchemy: How to Use the Power of Alchemy for Daily Change and Transformation, Rider, 2002
Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Alchemy: The Secret Art, Thames & Hudson, 1973
Victor H. Mair, Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu, Bantam, 1994
Mark Stavish, The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Magic, Llewellyn, 2006
David Goddard, The Tower of Alchemy: An Advanced Guide to the Great Work, Samuel Weiser, 1999

About the Author

RICHARD SMOLEY has over thirty-five years of experience of studying and practicing esoteric spirituality. He is the author of Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition; The Dice Game of Shiva: How Consciousness Creates the Universe; Conscious Love: Insights from Mystical Christianity; The Essential Nostradamus; and Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism. This article is adapted in part from his Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions (coauthored with Jay Kinney). Smoley is also the former editor ofGnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions. Currently he is editor of Quest: Journal of the Theosophical Society in America and of Quest Books. His recent book is Supernatural: Writings on an Unknown History, which contains many articles that originally appeared in New Dawn.
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The Matrix Program is Crashing - Waking Times : Waking Times

Zen Gardner, Guest
Waking Times

It is. It's outdated programming and the engineers of deceit can't keep up. The vibrational changes are exceeding their capabilities. You know how your phone or computer's software goes out of date, and new programs can't operate? It's the same thing. The imitators of creation can't maintain a current operating system any longer in the face of this Universal shift.
And it's driving them nuts.
Just look at the desperation we're witnessing. Crude military and police state maneuvers are only one aspect. The biggest clue is seeing the previously incremental and now hyperbolic use of monstrous lies that are becoming so transparent and unbelievable to just about anyone. Agreed, there are the entranced apathetics who swallow anything, but we're witnessing a meltdown before our eyes.
If you can't see it, look again.

You Want Proof?

First of all you're in the wrong mindset if you're looking only for data or left brained evidence, although it's out there for those who can see. When we come to understand the vibrational workings of our holographic reality everything takes on new dimensions and opens us up to understanding these more esoteric notions.
Those with hearts that can see feel this. I say hearts because much of what we need to grasp or at least track is intuitive. Taking all of the information and dot connecting and personal spiritual experience together paints very clear pictures, we just need to trust what we're seeing and learning. When we explore these realities we're sensing we start to notice how they're manifesting.
Forbidding free speech, shooting civilians with no cause, obvious mega bullshit in the news, wars with no possible end, deliberate poisoning, starvation and dumbing down of populations? I mean, c'mon.
But it's kind of a conscious or spiritual symbiosis we're experiencing. They all work together. But ignoring the spiritual and metaphysical as "evidence" in conjunction with such obvious manifestations is why this world has devolved to its current state. Previous enlightened civilizations and earth connected tribes took this to heart. Our current imposed paradigm does nothing of the sort.

The Computer Analogy

It's just like expired or outdated software. Their programs can't keep up with the changes the cosmos is bringing to our planet and race. That's exactly it. While they've literally gotten away with murder for millennia and are working furiously to enforce their "programs" at so many levels, the time's up. Sorry Charlie, but you've been superceded, or should I say "super seeded". The new upgraded paradigm is taking over fellas. It's just a matter of time before your whole wicked system crashes.
The shift is moving through their lower level grip and on into massive empowerment and transcension beyond the net they've laid for humanity.
It's got to be frustrating the hell out of these creeps. Imagine, the very thing you're trying to encase in every way possible keeps morphing before your eyes. They can throw up matrix program after program but their perceived petri dish subjects just keep finding ways to survive and grow. What irony the Universe has.

Hence the Transhuman Agenda – Things They Think They Can Control

Humanity is getting out of hand, in their eyes. All the while we're being empowered – by our own awakening and resultant commitment to truth, but also by a fundamental vibrational shift we're undergoing. No savior, no galactic battlestars. It's us, and an organic consciousness evolution at the deepest level with a living, expanding and enveloping Universe.
Awakening with Creation Itself.
Anyone who's woken up to almost any degree understands everything is interconnected. Even "modern" physics is arriving at this reality, all while mainstream thinking ignores the profound ramifications. That we're all interconnected not just as a race, but with the earth and the cosmos in such a fundamental way is a game changer. While this has been known for eons, our current control model cannot even begin to acknowledge this fact. To these oligarchs and self-appointed maniacal masterminds, no matter what powers they're summoning, that truth is something apparently well beyond their debased comprehension.
It's out of their league.
This is why the transhumanism agenda is so important to them. This merging of man with machine has been in the works for a long time. Clipping the link with our humanity by short circuiting the human creation is an obvious next step for these would-be controllers. Agreed, they've made it a fad and carefully groomed acceptance of such a trend, but it's going to fritz and die in the junkyard of temporal existence. It can't stand, never mind last, in such a creative force field.
Time will bear this out, as has happened to previous off-course civilizations.

Is This For Real?

It's up to us. We have everything going for us. But our will and actions need to be aligned with this transition. We can ignore it or respond. The sanctity of our free will cannot be violated. Either we get paddling and ride the wave or it crashes on us and perhaps dissipates on the shores of time for lack of recognition or response. And the whole cycle may need to be repeated. Not a nice destiny.
I don't know.
I know I'm not coming back. I'm done with this insanity and am doing my damnedest to change things this time around. If we all did it won't get repeated, but time will tell. Not many seem to be willing to respond, even though their lives and their children and grandchildren's lives are at stake. Talk about self imposed defeat and debilitation.
Either way, the matrix will collapse. But the true civilization of love, peace, harmony and abundance awaits manifesting.
Is it time?
I think so. It is for me.
How about you?
Love, Zen

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Chemtrails Exposed: A History of the New Manhattan Project

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Peter A. Kirby

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"Discoveries and inventions are not terminals; they are fresh starting points from which we can climb to new knowledge." - Dr. Willis R. Whitney, founder of General Electric Laboratories

After so many years of watching airplanes produce the lines in the sky, largely without knowing of what this Project consists or why, we have recently gained an understanding. Evidence suggests that today's chemtrail spraying operations consist of airplanes saturating our atmosphere with nano-sized particles influenced by electromagnetic energy for the purpose of weather modification.

U.S. patent #4,686,605 "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere" shows how stratospheric and tropospheric aerosols can be manipulated using electromagnetic energy in order to modify the weather. The ground-based antennas (known as ionospheric heaters) needed to produce the appropriate electromagnetic energy exist. For a detailed discussion, please see the author's previous article "Smoking Gun: The HAARP and Chemtrails Connection."

The 1996 U.S. military document "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" outlines a program using aerosols sprayed from airplanes which are then manipulated with electromagnetic energy in order to modify the weather. This document will be discussed shortly.

The common thread here is weather modification; or as the Library of Congress calls it, "weather control." Lots of other evidence supporting this assertion exists as well, but these two documents are the most salient.
Motives are plenty. Most notably, significant direct benefits can be gained by playing financial markets which rise and fall with the weather such as the weather derivatives and catastrophe reinsurance markets; not to mention agricultural and energy commodities. Enron pioneered the markets. With foreknowledge of the weather, so many scams could be concocted that it boggles the mind. Weather routinely changes the course of Human history. It determines what we do every day. It determines the outcomes of wars and influences elections. Control of the weather is God-like power. Money and power junkies want it.

Controlling Earth's weather would necessarily require a gigantic scientific effort. Oddly enough, when one looks for a National effort in weather modification, one finds a lot. Specifically, if one looks, one can find a history of weather control programs involving electromagnetic energy and atmospheric particles; all in a coherent chronological order.

This paper is the result of thousands of dollars and countless hours spent researching many thousands of pages of source, organizational and Government documents related to weather modification and the atmospheric sciences. This article serves as the foundation for a series of shortly forthcoming articles detailing the history and current state of this Project. May this work help end the spraying. For the fact that these environmental modifications have been done without our informed consent, may this work contribute to the largest class-action lawsuit in history.

This paper examines the origins and development of this; the first planetary level scientific endeavor. Now is our opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the New Manhattan Project.

The Origins of Weather Modification

People have been attempting to modify the weather for ever. Most commonly, man has gone about making it rain; especially in times of drought. The earliest recorded efforts were those of mystics. Local shaman would be called upon to ingest a certain concoction in order to communicate with the weather gods and ask for help. In some cases, the sacrifice of certain animals in certain fashions may have been the thing to do. Sometimes a good old rain dance may have done the trick.

Some early Western efforts to stop destructive weather are outlined in professor James Fleming's book Fixing the Sky. On page 78 he writes, "In ancient Greece, the official 'hail wardens' of Cleonae were appointed at public expense to watch for hail and then signal the farmers to offer blood sacrifices to protect their fields: a lamb, a chicken, or even a poor man drawing blood from his finger was deemed sufficient."

A little later professor Fleming writes, "In Austria, it was traditional to ring 'thunder bells' or blow on huge 'weather horns' while herdsmen set up a terrific howl and women rattled chains and beat milk pails to scare away the destructive spirit of the storm."

Much of the early Western attempts at weather modification involved the detonation of explosive charges in the lower atmosphere. It was hypothesized that atmospheric explosions cause precipitation.

Early American Involvement

Although there has been much international participation, this article focuses on America's participation in the New Manhattan Project. Throughout the development of the New Manhattan Project, America was the world's technological leader; especially in the area of military technology. America led the way and developed most of this Project. America continues to lead the Project today. Therefore the early history of weather modification in America is relevant.

James Pollard Espy (1785-1860) also known as "The Storm King" was the first meteorologist in U.S. government service. Although he never received Federal funding for it, he suggested that forest fires can produce rainfall and that experiments in this area should be carried out. His magnum opus was a book called The Philosophy of Storms. This book contains a long section entitled "Artificial Rains."

The first Federally funded weather modification field effort took place in Texas in 1891, with funds appropriated by the Congress in the amount of nine thousand dollars through the Department of Agriculture. The experiment involved weather modifier Robert St. George Dyrenforth (1844-1910) attacking the atmosphere with balloons, kites, dynamite, mortars, smoke bombs and fireworks. The results were inconclusive, but you can bet that the atmosphere was absolutely terrified!

From these early efforts until the beginning of the scientific era in 1946, the realm of weather modification was inhabited largely by a motley collection of pseudo-scientists and con artists similar to Dyrenforth. These people, who referred to themselves as "rainmakers," traveled around the Country (mostly the West), going where local governments were willing to pay for their services. If a certain region was experiencing a severe drought, people were often desperate for solutions. These rainmakers' activities often involved the mixing and open air release of dangerous chemicals. Some of these efforts were Federally funded. Since the days of Robert Dyrenforth, the Federal money has not stopped flowing.

Nikola Tesla
In the late 1800s, inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) popularized the use of electromagnetic energy. In his 1905 United States patent number 787,412 "Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy Through the Natural Mediums" Tesla describes how electromagnetic energy may be sent and received through the atmosphere. The Supreme Court found that U.S. patent #645,576 "System of Transmission of Electrical Energy" proves he invented radio; not Marconi. He pioneered radar. He invented wireless signal and power transmission. Yes, power can be transmitted wirelessly; we'll have more about that later.

Tesla's musings and scientific discoveries pioneered what are today's ionospheric heaters which use electromagnetic energy to cause atmospheric perturbations from great distances and play a defining role in the New Manhattan Project. Specifically, he pioneered the use of a certain type of electromagnetic energy called extremely-low frequency (ELF). This is a specific type of energy known to be used in the New Manhattan Project; the other being very-low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic energy.

In her book Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney writes that he did a good deal of theorizing about weather control. She also writes that he theorized that the entire earth might be illuminated by shooting electromagnetic energy 35,000 feet up into the atmosphere. 35,000 feet is about the altitude of today's offending airplanes.

The Beginning of the Scientific Era

The scientific era of weather modification began famously in 1946 with a trio of scientists from General Electric Laboratories: Irving Langmuir, Vincent Schaefer and Bernard Vonnegut. Leading the group was the world famous Nobel Peace Prize winning scientist Irving Langmuir (1881-1957). This trio popularized the fact that, under certain circumstances, dumping substances from airplanes into clouds causes precipitation. Early experiments used dry ice while later experiments pioneered the use of silver iodide. Also invented were silver iodide generation equipment and many other weather related scientific instruments. Much of this trio's work here was done in cooperation with the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force. Although others had previously dumped stuff out of airplanes in attempts to modify the weather, the G.E. scientists practiced a sound scientific method previously unseen in the field.

Schaefer, Langmuir & Vonnegut image source: General Electric Laboratories

Following the famous scientific weather modification efforts of the G.E. Labs trio, the public's imagination was sparked and a government regulated weather modification industry flourished. To this day, the government-regulated weather modification industry (or "conventional" weather modification industry as we will call it) expels dry ice, lead iodide or silver iodide (usually silver iodide) from airplanes.

However, the conventional weather modification industry is distinct from the New Manhattan Project and therefore is not the focus of this article. The New Manhattan Project employs electromagnetic energy to manipulate dispersed particles while conventional weather modifiers do not. Also, conventional weather modification efforts are conducted on a regional basis while the New Manhattan Project is global.

Not long after the scientific breakthroughs of the G.E. Labs trio, fueled by high level political rhetoric and popular interest, the United States federal government began pouring hundreds of millions of dollars annually into basic atmospheric research. Since then, the United States government is admitted to have spent many tens of billions of dollars on weather modification and the atmospheric sciences. Much of that was expended in 1950s, '60s and '70s dollars. If one is to control the weather, one must know how the atmosphere works. Or as geoengineer Dr. Clement J. Todd wrote in 1970, "Our ability to manage precipitation depends upon four factors: (1) understanding the physical processes of the atmosphere, (2) real-time knowledge of the weather we wish to manipulate, (3) devising the optimum treatment material and technique, and (4) delivery of that treatment to the cloud where and when we wish."

The majority of the vast expanses of literature pertaining to weather modification and the atmospheric sciences is geared towards conventional weather modification. However, both the New Manhattan Project and conventional weather modification are supported by basic atmospheric research. So, buried in this body of literature, one may find glimpses of the New Manhattan Project. The rest of this paper recounts these glimpses.

Bernard Vonnegut

One member of the G.E. Labs trio, Bernard Vonnegut (1914-1997) went on to pioneer weather modification research involving the use of artificial electric charges and atmospheric aerosols. His work in this area was performed under Government contracts outsourced to a research and development firm called Arthur D. Little Inc.

Bernard Vonnegut image source: Life Magazine

The earliest recorded instances of electricity being intentionally used to modify particles in the atmosphere can be found in the 1884 experiments of Sir Oliver Lodge (1851-1940). The 1918 U.S. patent #1,279,823 "Process and Apparatus for Causing Precipitation by Coalescence of Aqueous Particles Contained in the Atmosphere" by J.G. Balsillie built upon Lodge's work. Using this knowledge as a basis, Mr. Vonnegut resumed Lodge's work; this time with massive funding and modernized scientific equipment.

Beginning in 1953, Bernard Vonnegut, Arthur D. Little et al., conducted experiments involving stainless steel wires miles long strung from the tops of telephone poles, connected to a power supply and discharging corona. The coronal discharge's effect upon ambient aerosols and the clouds above was monitored and analyzed. Through 1961, these experiments were carried out in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, Illinois and New Mexico. These types of experiments are referred to as "space charge" experiments. The U.S. Signal Corps and the U. S. Coast Guard provided support. Others performed similar experiments.

Space charge experiment image source: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The 1958 "Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Weather Control" contained an article by Bernard Vonnegut, Vincent Schaefer, J. S. Barrows and Paul MacCready titled "The Future." In it they outline an atmosphere saturated with "chemicals" and "altering" atmospheric electrical variables. It reads:

When the nature of thunderstorm electrification is understood it may prove possible to control this process by the introduction of chemicals into the atmosphere or by altering electrical variables. Such variables might be atmospheric conductivity, field, and space charge, or perhaps the corona giving properties of the earth's surface.

When we become sufficiently sophisticated concerning the dynamics of the atmosphere it is possible that weather may be controlled by the large scale release of chemical or more probably thermonuclear heat energy.

In 1961, Bernard Vonnegut, Arnold W. Doyle and D. Read Moffett wrote a paper for Arthur D. Little titled "Research in Electrical Phenomena Associated with Aerosols." This was a report about their experiments of the previous 3 months involving the effects of electromagnetic energy upon a grounded sphere in a small chamber surrounded by gas. Please consider the implications of that. We will revisit this paper much later.

If you are wondering... yes, Bernard Vonnegut was related to the novelist Kurt Vonnegut. They were brothers.

***

In 1958 the chief White House advisor on weather modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. defense department was studying "ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area.

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The Department of Commerce Weather Bureau reported in 1960 that they were conducting a weather modification study in which, "Chemicals are introduced into the cloud which noticeably changes the surface tension of the droplets. Electrification effects are being observed by artificially electrifying the droplets and subjecting them to impressed electric fields."

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For better or for worse, this super secret program had a prophet. His name was United States Navy Admiral William Francis Raborn (1905-1990).

William Francis Raborn image source: United States Navy

In the January 1963 edition of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Admiral Raborn outlined a program using electromagnetic energy to modify the weather. His article was entitled "New Horizons of Naval Research and Development." In this paper, underneath the heading of 'Environmental Warfare' he wrote:

The possibilities for the military employment of the "weather weapon" may be as diverse as they are numerous. An ability to control the weather could introduce greater changes in warfare than those which occurred in 1945 with the explosion of the first nuclear weapons.

A severe storm or hurricane striking a naval force may well inflict greater damage than could an enemy. The capability to change the direction of destructive storms and guide them toward enemy concentrations may exist in the future arsenal of the naval tactical commander.

Ground, sea, air and amphibious operations might be supported by the dissipation of fog or clouds, or by the production of rain or drought. Conversely, the creation of solid, low overcasts might be used to conceal troop concentrations, movements, and task force deployments. Large-scale weather control techniques might be used to cause extensive flooding in strategic areas or even to bring a new "ice age" upon the enemy. By influencing the ionosphere and atmosphere simultaneously, magnetic, acoustic, and pressure effects might be generated in such a way that ocean-wide sweeping of mines would occur.

Creating or dissipating atmospheric temperature/humidity ducts might modify the refractive index of the atmosphere enough to influence radar or radio transmission. Artificially-induced ionospheric storms might produce a blackout of communications.

Certain electromagnetic waves are unable to pass through an area of precipitation. A cloud seeding generator could be employed under appropriate meteorological conditions to produce precipitation that would interfere with the operation of radio-guided or remotely-controlled devices or vehicles. We already have taken our first steps toward developing an environmental warfare capability. We are using satellite weather data from Tiros II for current, tactical operations and more accurate, long-range weather predictions. Some experiments in fog dissipation have shown promise, and some exploratory research has been conducted on ways to change the heading of major storms.

For these reasons - and because our advances in science make it reasonable - we are now engaged in planning a ten-year, comprehensive study of the atmosphere, a study which we will designate ATMOS. This plan will be co-ordinated with our TENOC oceanographic studies.

About the ATMOS program, the author has failed to find any other significant information. The author has looked over a 1961 report pertaining to the Navy TENOC (Ten Year Program in Oceanography) program. Although it did not contain any specific information pertinent to the New Manhattan Project, it did make mention of another, classified TENOC report.

It is notable that the title of Raborn's article includes the word "horizon" because the type of electromagnetic energy to which he refers is akin to "over the horizon radar." This type of radar is called "over the horizon" because it is bounced off the ionosphere and therefore is effective far beyond the range of the forty miles or so (depending on terrain) afforded by previous radar systems. Forty miles is approximately the distance one can see over flat land or sea before the curvature of the Earth obscures points beyond. Over the horizon radar, on the other hand, is effective to thousands of miles. Today's ionospheric heaters evolved as over the horizon radar.

Also of note is the fact that the United States Navy, of which Mr. Raborn was an admiral, is today one of the managers of the HAARP facility in Alaska. The HAARP facility contains the world's most powerful ionospheric heater which is documented to be able to modify the weather.

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In the 1967 National Science Foundation's ninth annual weather modification report, it reads, "ESSA [Environmental Science Services Administration] is also investigating the effect of cirrus clouds on the radiation budget of the atmosphere by studying aircraft-produced contrails which often spread into cirrus layers covering considerable fractions of the sky. One technique proposed for modifying lower cloud development has been the generation of a high level cirrus deck with jet aircraft. By intercepting solar radiation at high altitude it may be possible to influence larger scale cloud development elsewhere by reducing solar input and reducing convective cloud generation in areas where they are not needed." This is essentially today's geoengineering thesis.

A little later in that same report, it reads that their computer atmospheric simulations, or 'models' as they call them, might simulate, "…producing high-level cirrus cloud cover over an area by means of jet aircraft, inserting particulate matter into the upper atmosphere to alter the solar radiation balance and the like."

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In 1966, the Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences Select Panel on Weather Modification produced a document titled "Present and Future Plans of Federal Agencies in Weather-Climate Modification." On page 17 of this report, it reads, "It is anticipated that there will be a few large-scale facilities funded for the testing of modification schemes. Typical schemes might be the suspension of a spray nozzle over a valley between two mountain peaks to produce cloud-sized droplets into which electrical charges can be introduced in either polarity, contaminants can be introduced, and the drop size spectrum can be adjusted to any reasonable distribution." The Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences subsequently agreed to proceed with the development of a National Weather Modification Program along the lines of this report.

The now defunct Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences (ICAS) was created by the Federal Council for Science and Technology in 1959 in order to oversee and coordinate a wide range of basic atmospheric research originating from many previously disparate government offices. Their focus was weather modification. Members of the ICAS included the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Interior, Transportation and State as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. These are the government agencies which have been involved in weather modification all along.

The ICAS produced a series of semi-annual reports between 1960 and 1978. In these reports, ICAS member organizations' weather related scientific activities and expenditures were recounted. The ICAS reports' areas of study included: Earth's natural geomagnetic energy, different ways clouds form and different ways they precipitate, lightning, hurricanes and other extreme weather, inadvertent weather modification, intentional weather modification and extra-planetary atmospheres. The ICAS is duly noted here because so much of the history of the New Manhattan Project is accounted for in the pages of their reports.

In the 1969 ICAS report, under the heading of "Cloud Electricity Modification," it is written that the National Science Foundation is developing, "Means for injecting significant quantities of charge artificially into clouds…"

Again in this 1969 report, on page 37 it describes the Army's intentions in the area of weather modification. It reads, "Studies will continue on upper atmospheric structure and dynamics, lasers and other electromagnetic propagation, and acoustic propagation. New approaches to atmospheric modification will be studied."

On page 42 of the 1971 ICAS special report "A National Program for Accelerating Progress in Weather Modification," the authors write of fog being cleared by airplanes releasing chemicals and 'electrical methods' of fog dissipation.

On page 79 of the 1973 ICAS report, it is written, "There is a great deal to be learned before we can with confidence say what effect can be produced by the injection of chemically active trace gasses and particulates into the lower stratosphere. New emphasis has been given to both dynamical and physical meteorological research relevant to this question."

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United States patent #5,003,186 "Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding for Reduction of Global Warming" was filed by the Hughes Aircraft Corporation in 1991. The patent describes a method for dispersing particulates into the upper atmosphere in order to save us from global warming. The author David B. Chang suggests that aluminum oxide be used for this purpose. Lab tests from around the world have shown aluminum to be the number one chemtrail ingredient.

"One proposed solution to the problem of global warming," it reads, "involves the seeding of the atmosphere with metallic particles. One technique proposed to seed the metallic particles was to add the tiny particles to the fuel of jet airliners, so that the particles would be emitted from the jet engine exhaust while the airliner was at its cruising altitude."

The first mention of aluminum occurs in this passage, "The method comprises the step of seeding the greenhouse gas layer with a quantity of tiny particles of materials characterized by wavelength-dependent emissivity or reflectivity, in that said materials have high emissivities in the visible and far infrared wavelength region. Such materials can include the class of materials known as Welsbach materials. The oxides of metal, e.g., aluminum oxide, are also suitable for the purpose."

The second mention of aluminum occurs a little later. It reads, "Another class of materials having the desired property includes the oxides of metals. For example, aluminum oxide (Al2O3) is one metal oxide suitable for the purpose and which is relatively inexpensive."

The Hughes Aircraft Corporation was acquired by and is now integrated into Raytheon.

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A 1994 document produced by Stanford Research International called "Multiple Instrument Studies of Chemical Releases and Heating at Arecibo" details three barium releases of 48 kilograms each over Puerto Rico. The barium clouds produced by these rocket-borne explosions were subsequently hit with man-made electromagnetic energy from an ionospheric heater and thus turned into a plasma. Barium has been found to be the number two chemtrail ingredient.

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In 1996 the Air Force produced a previously mentioned document called "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025." The document was produced by the Department of Defense and written as ordered by the chief of staff of the Air Force, Ronald R. Fogleman. "Owning the Weather" was but one in a series of 39 documents speaking to a great overhaul of Air Force operations to be achieved by the year 2025. The larger set of documents is called "Air Force 2025." "Owning the Weather" describes a system of weather modification combining atmospheric aerosols with electromagnetic energy.

On page 2 the document reads, "Prior to the attack, which is coordinated with forecasted weather conditions, the UAVs begin cloud generation and seeding operations. UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] disperse a cirrus shield to deny enemy visual and infrared (IR) surveillance. Simultaneously, microwave heaters create localized scintillation to disrupt active sensing via synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems such as the commercially available Canadian search and rescue satellite-aided tracking (SARSAT) that will be widely available in 2025. Other cloud seeding operations cause a developing thunderstorm to intensify over the target, severely limiting the enemy's capability to defend. The WFSE monitors the entire operation in real-time and notes the successful completion of another very important but routine weather-modification mission."

The document mostly speaks to military combat applications, but there are some very interesting quotes. Here's one, "In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications." Let's hear more about those "domestic applications"

On page 34 the document reads, "The ability to modify the weather may be desirable both for economic and defense reasons."

Also in 1996, as part of the same series containing "Owning the Weather," the Air Force produced a document entitled "An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025" which briefly outlines something they call a "weather analysis and modification system." This system is described as employing both particulate seeding and microwave energy for the purpose of weather modification.

Under the heading of "Weather Analysis and Modification System," the document reads, "A global network of sensors provides 'weather warriors' with the means to monitor and accurately predict weather activities and their effects on military operations. A diverse set of weather modification tools allows manipulation of small-to-medium scale weather phenomena to enhance friendly force capabilities and degrade those of the adversary."

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In the mid-nineties, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories scientists Edward Teller, Lowell Wood and Roderick Hyde wrote a series of papers calling for the spraying of megatons of aluminum to save us from global warming. The mid-nineties was when reports of chemtrail spraying in American skies began pouring in. If you will recall, aluminum has been found to be the number one chemtrail ingredient.

In their 1997 paper "Global Warming and Ice Ages," the Livermore Labs trio wrote, "It has been suggested that alumina injected into the stratosphere by the exhaust of solid-rocket motors might scatter non-negligible amounts of sunlight. We expect that introduction of scattering-optimized alumina particles into the stratosphere may well be overall competitive with use of sulfur oxides; alumina particles offer a distinctly different environmental impact profile."

They continue to espouse the virtues of stratospheric alumina in the footnotes writing, "Alumina, like sulfate, is ubiquitous in the terrestrial biosphere, and its stratospheric injection seemingly poses no significant environment issues."

In conclusion

So there you have an evolutionary history of a project employing sprayed particles and the electrification of clouds for the purpose of weather modification. Is this a coincidence? Are all these examples simply isolated, one-off events not a part of a larger overall plan? What are the odds of these data points evolving in a chronological order such as they have without being part of a coordinated effort? One may be looking at something like a quadrillion to one; and that is conservative.

For five days only, from Thursday, February 19 through Monday, February 23, my ebook Chemtrails Exposed will be available for free from Amazon. 

Stay tuned. God willing, this article is only the first of many coming in this year; 2015. The heavy lifting (studying the history of weather modification) is complete. The next papers will come much easier because they involve smaller topics and half or more of the work on each is already done. Although the topic will remain secret until publication, you can expect the next article in a couple of months, possibly sooner. Until then, keep firing in the information war. Thank you.

Notes:
Adventure into the Unknown: the first 50 years of the General Electric Research Laboratory by Laurence A. Hawkins, published by William Morrow & Company, 1950

U.S. patent #4,686,605 "Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere," 1987

"Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025" by Col. Tamzy J. House, Lt. Col. James B. Near, Jr., LTC William B. Shields (USA), Maj. Ronald J. Celentano, Maj. David M. Husband, Maj. Ann E. Mercer and Maj. James E. Pugh, published by the United States Air Force, 1996

The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, published by the Penguin Group, 2004

The Weather Changers by D.S. Halacy, Jr., published by Harper and Row, 1968

Fixing the Sky by James Roger Fleming, published by Columbia University Press, 2010

U.S. patent #787,412 "Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy Through the Natural Mediums," 1905

U.S. patent #645,576 "System of Transmission of Electrical Energy," 1900

Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney, published by Simon & Schuster, 1981

Early History of Cloud Seeding by Barrington S. Havens, published by the Langmuir Laboratory at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Albany and the Research and Development Center of the General Electric Company, 1978

Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences reports 1960-1978, published by the Federal Council for Science and Technology

"Department of the Interior Program in Precipitation Management for 1970" by Dr. Clement J. Todd as it appeared in the "Proceedings of the Twelfth Interagency Conference on Weather Modification" 1970

U.S. patent #1,279,823 "Process and Apparatus for Causing Precipitation by Coalescence of Aqueous Particles Contained in the Atmosphere"

"Technique for Introducing Low-Density Space Charge into the Atmosphere" by B. Vonnegut, K. Maynard, W.G. Sykes and C.B. Moore, published by Arthur D. Little and the Journal of Geophysical Research, volume 66, number 3, March, 1961

"The Future" by Bernard Vonnegut, Vincent Schaefer, J. S. Barrows and Paul MacCready, published in the Final Report of the Advisory Committee on Weather Control, p201, 1958

Research in Electrical Phenomena Associated with Aerosols by Bernard Vonnegut, Arnold W. Doyle and D. Read Moffett, published by Arthur D. Little, 1961

Angels Don't Play this HAARP: advances in Tesla technology by Jeane Manning and Dr. Nick Begich, published by Earthpulse Press, p78, 1995

1st National Science Foundation annual weather modification report, p14, 1960

"New Horizons of Naval Research and Development" by William Francis Raborn, published in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January, 1963

"Ten Year Program in Oceanography: TENOC" by the U.S. Navy, March 13, 1961

9th National Science Foundation annual weather modification report, 1967

"Present and Future Plans of Federal Agencies in Weather-Climate Modification" by the Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences Select Panel on Weather Modification, 1966

Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences memorandum to Homer E. Newell dated June 21, 1966, as it appeared in the appendix to "Present and Future Plans of Federal Agencies in Weather-Climate Modification" by the Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences Select Panel on Weather Modification, 1966

"The Interdepartmental Committee on Atmospheric Sciences: A Case History" by Robert E. Morrison

U.S. patent #5,003,186 "Stratospheric Welsbach Seeding for Reduction of Global Warming," 1991

"Multiple Instrument Studies of Chemical Releases and Heating at Arecibo" by Stanford Research International, published by Stanford Research International, 1994

"Air Force 2025" by the U.S. Air Force, published by the U.S. Air Force, 1996

"An Operational Analysis for Air Force 2025" by the U.S. Air Force, published by the U.S. Air Force as part of "Air Force 2025" by the U.S. Air Force, published by the U.S. Air Force, 1996

Global Warming and Ice Ages by Edward Teller, Lowell Wood and Roderick Hyde, published by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1997

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worldcat.org
amazon.com
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navy.mil
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weathermodification.org
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globalskywatch.com

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Smoking Gun: The HAARP and Chemtrails Connection

No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantage is to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades. - Dr. Gordon J.F. MacDonald 1968

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Located on an United States Air Force site near Gakona, Alaska, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP) is the world's largest and most functional ionospheric heater. Construction began in 1993. Today, HAARP can generate super high powered beams of directed energy. HAARP is designed to shoot these energy beams 200 kilometers up into the sky; affecting an area known as earth's ionosphere. In doing this, HAARP can perform a number of functions.

The known uses of HAARP are: weather modification, power beaming, earth tomography (mapping of our planet's interior), Star Wars-type defense capabilities, enhanced communications, communication disruptions and mind control. For an in-depth discussion about what HAARP does and how it does it, you must read the 1995 book Angels Don't Play this HAARP by Dr. Nick Begich and journalist Jeane Manning. You can freely access a searchable .pdf here: http://freedomfchs.com/adpthaarp.pdf

Although lesser ionospheric heaters do not generate energy beams as powerful or possess the same functionality as HAARP, similar facilities are located around the world. Along with a smaller facility located near Fairbanks, Alaska, other ionospheric heater locations include: Puerto Rico, Norway, Russia, Tajikistan, Peru and the Middle East. The latest word is that Russia, China and the United States have set up HAARP-like facilities in Antarctica. (Source)

In order to increase functionality and effectiveness, ionospheric heaters are used in combination.


The HAARP website explains the differences between HAARP and other ionospheric heaters like this, "HAARP is unique to most existing facilities due to the combination of a research tool which provides electronic beam steering, wide frequency coverage and high effective radiated power collocated with a diverse suite of scientific observational instruments." HAARP can be remotely operated. HAARP employs technology originally envisioned and demonstrated by American inventor Nikola Tesla.

HAARP is jointly managed by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in conjunction with the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Here's more from the HAARP website:

Technical expertise and procurement services as required for the management, administration and evaluation of the program are being provided cooperatively by the Air Force (Air Force Research Laboratory), the Navy (Office of Naval Research and Naval Research Laboratory), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Since the HAARP facility consists of many individual items of scientific equipment, both large and small, there is a considerable list of commercial, academic and government organizations which are contributing to the building of the facility by developing scientific diagnostic instrumentation and by providing guidance in the specification, design and development of the IRI [HAARP]. BAE Advanced Technologies (BAEAT) is the prime contractor for the design and construction of the IRI. Other organizations which have contributed to the program include the University of Alaska, Stanford University, Cornell University, University of Massachusetts, UCLA, MIT, Dartmouth University, Clemson University, Penn State University, University of Tulsa, University of Maryland, SRI International, Northwest Research Associates, Inc., and Geospace, Inc.

The HAARP website notes that, "...major construction at the facility was completed during 2007."

12 U.S. patents are commonly recognized as applicable. A man named Dr. Bernard Eastlund is listed as the inventor on two of these patents and a co-inventor on another. Dr. Eastlund is commonly acknowledged as the inventor of HAARP.

The 12 HAARP patents were all assigned to ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated (APTI); a subsidiary of Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). APTI also won the initial contract to build HAARP. In 1994, APTI was sold to a company called E-Systems. E-Systems then changed APTI's name to Advanced Power Technologies Incorporated. Largely involved in communications and information systems, E-Systems gets most of its business from and has extensive ties to the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1995, Raytheon acquired E-Systems. Raytheon, the defense contracting behemoth, now holds all 12 HAARP patents.

Weather Modification

As far back as 1958, the chief White House advisor on weather modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the U.S. defense department was studying "ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather" by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area.

The seminal 1996 Air Force report 'Owning the Weather 2025' outlines a weather modification program utilizing ground based support such as HAARP.

Let us reference a passage from Nick Begich and Jeane Manning's book Angels Don't Play this HAARP:

Eastlund's enthusiasm for planetary-scale engineering came through just as clearly in an interview with Omni Magazine. While acknowledging that many of the uses of his invention are warlike, he also talked about 'more benign' uses. His view of benign included using the technology to reroute the high-altitude jet stream, which is a major player in shaping global weather. Another way to control the weather with his technology would be to build 'plumes of atmospheric particles to act as a lens or focusing device' for sunlight, he told Omni. With this, the people controlling the antennae could aim in such a way that the return beams would hit a certain part of the earth. With the heating ability, they could experiment until they could control wind patterns in a specific place. 

The Omni article explained. 'What this means, he says, is that by controlling local weather patterns one could, say, bring rain to Ethiopia or alter the summer storm pattern in the Caribbean.'

United States patent #4,686,605 'Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere' is one of the 12 HAARP patents. Dr. Eastlund is credited as the inventor. It states, "Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns or altering solar absorption patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device."

I know that quote on the surface looks like a connection between HAARP and chemtrails, but, before we think we have the smoking gun, realize that they are probably talking about particles precipitated from the ionosphere forming a lens without the need of chemtrails; as outlined elsewhere in the patent. The good news is, the patent goes on:

Also as alluded to earlier, molecular modifications of the atmosphere can take place so that positive environmental effects can be achieved. Besides actually changing the molecular composition of an atmospheric region, a particular molecule or molecules can be chosen for increased presence. For example, ozone, nitrogen, etc. concentrations in the atmosphere could be artificially increased. Similarly, environmental enhancement could be achieved by causing the breakup of various chemical entities such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxides, and the like. Transportation of entities can also be realized when advantage is taken of the drag effects caused by regions of the atmosphere moving up along diverging field lines. Small micron sized particles can be then transported, and, under certain circumstances and with the availability of sufficient energy, larger particles or objects could be similarly affected.

That, my friends is a smoking gun. They are talking about introducing small particles into the atmosphere and then using HAARP to move them and the matter around them for the purpose of weather modification.

HAARP can be used in conjunction with chemtrails in order to modify the weather. Disbursed metallic particles such as aluminum, barium and strontium (the main chemtrail ingredients) may increase the atmosphere's conductivity and therefore enhance HAARP's weather modification performance.

A grand history of releasing stuff into the atmosphere as part of scientific research exists.

In the early 1960s our U.S. military dumped 350,000 2-4cm copper needles into the ionosphere attempting to create a 'telecommunications shield.'

The HAARP executive summary says:

DOD [Department of Defense] agencies already have on-going efforts in the broad area of active ionospheric experiments, including ionospheric enhancements. These include both space and ground based approaches. The space-based efforts include chemical releases (e.g., the Air Force's Brazilian Ionospheric Modification Experiment, BIME; the Navy's RED AIR program; and multi-agency participation in the Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite, CERES).

Patent #4,686,605's description states, "It has also been proposed to release large clouds of barium in the magnetosphere so that photoionization will increase the cold plasma density, thereby producing electron precipitation through enhanced whistler-mode interaction." Barium is the second most common chemtrail ingredient.

These chemical releases are not all necessarily chemtrails, but they show our military's extensive atmospheric chemical release activities involving ground and space based monitoring and support.

Lastly, let us refer again to Angels Don't Play this HAARP:

...there is a super-powerful electrical connection between the ionosphere and the part of the atmosphere where our weather comes onstage, the lower atmosphere. Furthermore, scientific theories describe how the electrical energetic levels of the atmosphere are connected to cloud processes.

Chemtrails may enhance this connection between the lower and upper atmosphere. Then, when HAARP manipulates the ionosphere, the lower areas of the atmosphere (where our weather happens) can be manipulated accordingly.

Power Beaming

United States patent #5,068,669 titled 'Power Beaming System' outlines the technical details of how to remotely power airplanes.

Let us refer to a passage from 'Angels Don't Play this HAARP.' Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning reference an 'Aviation Week' article:

This 'Star Wars' technology developed by ARCO Power Technologies, Incorporated [patent #5,068,669's assignee] was used in a microwaved-powered aircraft. The aircraft was reported to be able to stay aloft for up to 10,000 hours at 80,000 foot altitudes in a single mission. This craft was envisioned as a surveillance platform. The craft had no need for refueling because the energy was beamed to it and then converted to electrical energy for use by the aircraft. Flight tests were undertaken at Tyendinga Airport near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the early 1990's. This test by APTI most likely involved this patent...

If HAARP is powering the chemtrail airplanes, this would be a great logistical advantage as the planes would not need to be grounded for fueling. The airplanes would probably only need to be grounded for payload and maintenance and therefore could remain in the sky, performing their functions without interruption for long periods of time. This would also be an advantage because the more time these planes spend in the air, the less chance there is of the program being exposed. It's incredibly difficult (as this author has learned) to expose something going on at 40,000 ft. in the sky. The power beaming need not be constant as the airplanes could utilize capacitors.

Little HAARPs

It is reported that smaller, mobile versions of HAARP exist.

Let us refer again to Angels Don't Play this HAARP:

Is it possible that the HAARP scientists could have miniaturized the technology so that they don't need such a large area of land and electrical power as called for in Eastlund's pattents? Manning asked him.

"It's entirely possible," he [Eastlund] replied. "They have had a lot of good engineers working on it for some time. I would hope they have improved it."

Aviation Week reports in 2008 that the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing an airborne version of HAARP. BAE Systems, the article tells us, is to demonstrate this unit by towing it, 'behind a helicopter.'

Here is a picture of what is described as a mobile HAARP ship:

http://jlnavarro.blogspot.com/2011/04/haarp-to-blame-for-japan-quake.html

It has been speculated that this HAARP ship was used to trigger the March 2011 magnitude 9.0 Japan earthquake.

There may be many HAAARP-like facilities of which we are not aware. There may be HAARP-like technology all around us! As noted earlier, ionospheric heaters such as HAARP are used in combination to increase capabilities and effectiveness.

A little HAARP atop the Rocky Mountains at North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) might work well. This is also the location from which I speculate the airplanes are commanded.

A Pattern of Deception

When it comes to HAARP, our government has shown a pattern of denial and obfuscation. In many instances, the HAARP website and the military contradict each other and/or the authors of 'Angels Don't Play this HAARP.'

The HAARP website claims that HAARP is not used for weather modification and the military has never admitted to these capabilities. The patents, Nick Begich, Jeane Manning and the European parliament say HAARP can modify the weather.

Although the HAARP website claims experiments are only being carried out in a relatively small portion of the ionosphere directly over the facility, the HAARP executive summary says, "For broader military applications, the potential for significantly altering regions of the ionosphere at relatively great distances (1000 km or more) from a [ionospheric] heater is very desirable."

The HAARP website claims that HAARP does not make holes in the ionosphere. The European parliament and the authors of Angels Don't Play this HAARP say it does.

The HAARP website and the military deny that HAARP is a 'Star Wars' defense type weapon. The European parliament and the authors of Angels Don't Play this HAARP insist it is; the patents support their position. Angels says:

In February, 1995, the Star Wars missile defense shield was supposed to be dead. The United States House of Representatives by a 218 to 212 voted to kill the program. Yet HAARP continues on while the motives of the military are hidden from the world.

The military and the HAARP website both claim that HAARP is not a classified project, but leaked documents show that the military planners intend to keep the program under wraps.

The HAARP website contradicts itself about military involvement. In their self-description, they say they are a military project, but in the FAQs, they say HAARP is, "not designed to be an operational system for military purposes." All this while the military's executive summary says HAARP is to 'exploit' ionospheric processes for Department of Defense purposes.

Dr. Eastlund has contradicted the official military position many times. Even though they have been exhaustively proven, our military denies connections between Eastlund, APTI and HAARP. Eastlund himself said in a 1988 NPR interview that the military had tested some of the ideas presented in the patents. According to Dr. Begich and Jeane Manning:

Eastlund said in a 1988 radio interview that the defense department had done a lot of work on his concepts, but he was not at liberty to give details. He later told Manning that after he had worked within ARCO for a year and applied for patents, Defense Advanced Research Project agency (DARPA) had combed through his theories then gave out a contract for him to study how to generate the relativistic (light speed) electrons in the ionosphere.

Here's more about Eastlund from Angels:

Eastlund told Chadwick of National Public Radio that the patent should have been kept under government secrecy. He said he had been unhappy that it was issued publicly, but, as he understood it, the patent office does not keep basic 'fundamental information' secret. 'You don't get a patent if you don't describe in enough detail to another person how to use it,' he said. Specifics of military applications of his patent remain proprietary (secret), he added.

I guess it's just a matter of who you trust. I choose to trust the patents, Nick Begich and Jeane Manning because, about HAARP, the government has been caught lying. To my knowledge, the authors of 'Angels Don't Play this HAARP' have not once yet been found to be lying. The patents speak for themselves.

Conclusions

Even the technocratic European parliament found serious concerns about HAARP. A 1999 European parliament committee report, after hearing Dr. Nick Begich and others, concluded:

[the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection] Regards the US military ionospheric manipulation system, HAARP, based in Alaska, which is only a part of the development and deployment of electromagnetic weaponry for both external and internal security use, as an example of the most serious emerging military threat to the global environment and human health, as it seeks to interfere with the highly sensitive and energetic section of the biosphere for military purposes, while all of its consequences are not clear, and calls on the Commission, Council and the Member States to press the US Government, Russia and any other state involved in such activities to cease them, leading to a global convention against such weaponry;

I speculate that HAARP, when and if used for nefarious purposes (such as weather modification in co-operation with chemtrails), is remotely operated from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and/or Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. During my humble investigation, I found that these three locations have produced much of the leading research and development. HAARP is an incredibly high-tech machine. You need highly skilled scientists and engineers to run the thing. The best place to run HAARP would be from a laboratory where the technology was developed. Also, most people (top scientists included) are generally not so hot about relocating to the wilds of Alaska. As noted earlier, HAARP can be remotely operated.

We know HAARP can modify the weather. If one could, don't you think they would? Weather control is god-like power. Chemtrails may be sprayed to enhance the effectiveness of these operations. If this is the case, our government's pattern of lying and obfuscation about HAARP makes perfect sense and is consistent with behavior exhibited by others associated with every aspect of chemtrails, geoengineering and the related activities I outline.

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Notes:
- Unless Peace Comes book edited by Nigel Calder, Viking Press 1968

- Angels Don't Play this HAARP book by Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, Earthpulse Press 1995

-United States patent #4,686,605 'Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere' assigned to ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated 1987

-United States patent #5,068,669 'Power Beaming System' assigned to ARCO Power Technologies Incorporated 1991

-'HAARP HF Active Auroral Research Program: Joint Services Program Plans and Activities' report by the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory and the Navy Office of Naval Research 1990

-'Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities Produced by the Brazilian Ionospheric Modification Experiment (BIME)' report by J.A. Klobuchar and M.A. Abdu Journal of Geophysical Research vol. 94, no. A3 1989

-'Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System CERES' report by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1999

-'DARPA at 50' Aviation Week Aug. 18, 2008

-European parliament report on the environment, security and foreign policy: Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy January 14, 1999

-'Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather 2025' report by the United States Air Force 1996

-'Holes in Heaven: HAARP and Advances in Tesla Technology' video by Paula Randol-Smith Productions and Gallina Projects 1998*

-'Angels Still Don't Play this HAARP' video by Dr. Nick Begich, Earthpulse Press, Swenson Media Group 2006*

*available for free on YouTube

Websites:
haarp.alaska.edu/haarp
aviationweek.com
raytheon.com
earthpulse.com
darpa.mil
onr.navy.mil
naic.edu
wpafb.af.mil
norad.mil
llnl.gov
lanl.gov
wpafb.af.mil
gi.alaska.edu
nwra.com
bellgeo.com
sri.com

Peter A. Kirby is a San Rafael, CA author and activist. Check out his ebook Chemtrails Exposed.

http://www.amazon.com/Chemtrails-Exposed-ebook/dp/B007JDN7EM/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1331588967&sr=1-4

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