Extensive Information on HAARP

This is a long one but it is worth a read if you want to have some understanding of the HAARP
technology.

Benjamin Fulford has come out with a new Youtube
video about how HAARP was used to cause Katrina,
the Indonesia tsunami, the Burma cyclone and the China earthquake.
He first heard about it when he asked the finance
minister of Japan why he had caved in to the
US-UK oligarchs. The man answered, otherwise they
would hit us with a big earthquake.
Well worth watching this 10 minute video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3JMeVaVstuI

Two books have been written on HAARP

Haarp: The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy
Adventures Unlimited Press (August 1998)
by Jerry E. Smith
www.jerryesmith.com/

Angels Don't Play This haarp: Advances in Tesla Technology
Earthpulse Press Sept. 1995 by Nick Begich & Jeane Manning

Top 2 Yahoo hits on Angels Don't play this haarp:
http://www.haarp.net/
www.earthpulse.com

From: Patrick Flanagan

In my opinion HAARP is capable of creating
earthquakes and in controlling the weather at levels yet conceived by most.

I studied HAARP and the Eastlund patents for
years and was a consultant on the HAARP book
"Angels Don't Play This HAARP." The title for
the book was coined by my former wife, Gael
Crystal Flanagan. Just for a bit of info, I
testified before the Alaska legislature on HAARP
and also to the European Parliament in
Brussels. My life was threatened and many bad
things happened to us as a result. Things too numerous to talk about here.

The effect of HAARP is that a relatively small
amount of power can be used to control billions
of watts of energy already present in the
ionosphere. The ionosphere is charged to an
extremely high DC voltage in reference to the
Earth. The potential gradient is about 200 volts
per meter rising from the Earth. The ionospheric
Earth cavity is a giant capacitor that stores
enormous power. The capacitance of the
Earth-Ionosphere cavity is about ONE FARAD. One
FARAD charged to a million volts contains a HUGE
amount of energy. At any given moment, there are
thousands of thunderstorms all over the Earth
that are fed by the power of the spherical ionosphere-Earth capacitor.

It is well known that if you charge a capacitor
to a very high voltage and then move the plates
apart, the voltage on the plates goes up
exponentially. I have the formula around in my
many texts on electrostatic phenomena that explain the effect.

So, for a few million watts of power, the HAARP
atmospheric heater can lift the ionosphere above
any given area of the Earth. This essentially
lowers the capacitance and charge is equal to
capacitance x voltage. If you lower the
capacitance of such a system by raising one of
the plates to a higher altitude, the voltage
potential difference over that area will increase
according to the change in capacitance.

The increased voltage will cause the gasses and
water vapor present in clouds to ionize and cause
plasma effects such as shown in videos of clouds
over the Sichuan area 30 minutes before the quake
as seen on the internet. I spent years
experimenting with high voltage gas plasmas
between charged capacitor plates to recognize the phenomenon.

When the ionosphere collapses due to the heater
transmitter being turned off, the stretched
ionospheric capacitor plate will collapse toward
the Earth and will move closer to the Earth in a
rapid oscillation, possibly discharging enormous
energy into a concentrated area. SO the HAARP
transmitter can control a huge amount of energy
already present in the ionosphere energy with a
relatively smaller amount of energy, like simple
grid controlled energy in a vacuum tube. The
electrical charge of the ionosphere comes from
the sun and is powered by the sun. Not from HAARP.

This collapse of the ionospheric capacitor will
cause a discharge of energy into the area. In
addition a high pressure atmospheric shock wave
would occur literally pounding the area
beneath. It could have an effect similar to a
giant FAX bomb [similar to a Fuel Air eXplosion = FAX].

I did some consulting at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
in the 1960's and have seen some amazing
phenomena occur from fast changes in air pressure
over a large area. Rapid changes of just a few
pounds per square inch over an area of 50 square miles could be devastating.

I think the HAARP folks have had long enough to
experiment and fine tune the effect. All I can
say is don't discount the
possibility. Electrostatic phenomena is
something few physicists will understand unless
they have had direct experience. For example, in
the 1970's we discovered that a negative "ion
wind" with a power of a few milliwatts can
control thousands of watts of heat. We were able
to cool a thousand watt heater with a few
milliwatts of electrostatic force. This is
probably due to polarization of the "vacuum
potential" of space, i.e., Zero Point Energy. I
have no doubt that scientists at the HAARP
project have discovered how to use these
phenomena to control and disrupt energies within
the Earth. They are playing to phenomena that
could easily have repercussions for the whole
solar system. Creating an earthquake or
controlling the weather is just the beginning. ==== Patrick

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From: "mary rose"
Date: May 31, 2008 4:30:19 AM HST
To:
Subject: Fw: the powerful HAARP technology. It's really scary

Thanks to Jack Lancaster from the Global Justice Movement List
for this video about HAARP. One of those featured on this video
is Dr. Patrick Flanagan, who warns of its potential dangers.

mary rose

From: Jack Lancaster
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:29 PM
Subject: the powerful HAARP technology. It's really scary

Here's an excellent video that will show you teach you
about the powerful HAARP technology. It's really scary to
think about what could happen if this technology gets into
the wrong hands. It could be there already!

http://vids. myspace.com/ index.cfm? fuseaction=
vids.individual&videoid=1078594

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Scientists Puzzled by Absence of Foreshocks
And Other Typical
Precursors Prior to China Earthquake

Global Research, May 31, 2008
Xinhua - 2008-05-20

Scientists puzzled by foreshock-less SW China earthquake

BEIJING, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Some scientists were
puzzled by the unusual quiet period of quakes
before the 8.0-magnitude earthquake struck
southwest China. But others believe there had
been precursors, which stood as warnings for a major quake.

"There were no foreshocks and the activity level
of minor quakes around the epicenter was low for
quite a long time before the earthquake," said
Xiu Jigang, deputy director of the China Seismological Bureau (CSB).

He said there were no short-term anomaly of
animals, underground water and other typical
precursors, which can lead to a prediction of a major earthquake.

Chinese netizens cited tens of thousands of
migrating toads before May 12 in Mianyang, a city
close to the epicenter of the earthquake in
southwestern Sichuan Province, and unusual cloud
formations in east China's Shandong Province as
quake precursors. But experts said they might not be related to the quake.

"There are complicated reasons for the anomaly of
animals and underground water. An earthquake is
only one of them along with climate change and
weather conditions," said Zhang Guomin, a
research fellow with the Research Institute of Seismology under CSB.

Another expert with CSB, He Yongnian, said cloud
formation was put forward by Japanese scientists
as a way of forecasting earthquakes. But like
many other methods of prediction, it is not mature enough.

Besides all those, a Taiwan satellite recorded a
sharp drop in ionospheric density above Sichuan
before the Wenchuan earthquake, according to a Taiwan newspaper.

The newspaper said that the province's Formosa-3
satellite recorded ionospheric density in the
atmosphere of 1.2 million electrically charged
particles in some 1,000 square kilometers around
Wenchuan six to 15 days before the May 12
earthquake. On May 11, the eve of the quake,
ionospheric density had dropped by half to 600,000 charged particles, it said.

"There is absolutely no doubt that there were
electronic precursors," said Gary Gilson of the
Seismology Research Center at Monash University in Melborne, Australia.

� Copyright , Xinhua, 2008

The url address of this article is:
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9141

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HERE'S AN EARLIER PIECE ON HAARP WHICH
CHOSSUDOVSKY REPOSTED YESTERDAY AT HIS
GLOBALRESEARCH.CA . I'VE REMOVED FIVE IMAGES IN
ORDER TO STAND A BETTER CHANCE OF GETTING THIS TO
YOU IN ONE PIECE. -- kl, pp

The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Destruction:
"Owning the Weather" for Military Use

by Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, September 27, 2004
Washington's New World Order Weapons Have the
Ability to Trigger Climate Change, Third World Resurgence - 2001-01-12

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, http://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, http://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 Patterns (2003-2004)

Alex, Ivan, Frances, Charley and Jeanne
(August-September 2004): 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
http://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, http://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,
http://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." (Ibid)

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,
http://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, http://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 (http://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.( http://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." (Princeton Review,
http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/profiles/internshipGenInfo.asp?intern...\
98
)

With the purchase of APTI, E-Systems acquired the
strategic weather warfare technology and patent
rights, including Bernard J. Eastlund's US Patent
No: 4,686,605 entitled "Method and Apparatus for
Altering a Region in the Earth's Atmosphere, Ionosphere and/or Magnetosphere".

It is worth mentioning that the Eastlund /APTI
patents were based on the research of Yugoslav
scientist Nicola Tesla (many of whose ideas were
stolen by US corporations). (See Scott Gilbert,
Environmental Warfare and US Foreign Policy: The
Ultimate Weapon of Mass
Destruction, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GIL401A.html )

Eastlund described this deadly technology as capable of:

"causing�total disruption of communications
over a very large portion of the Earth�missile or
aircraft destruction, deflection or confusion�
weather modification�" ( http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/12/HAARP.htm ),

Not surprisingly, the patent had previously been
sealed under a government secrecy order.

Barely a year following the E-Systems purchase of
APTI's weather warfare technology, E-Systems was
bought out by Raytheon, the fourth largest US
military contractor. Through this money-spinning
acquisition, Raytheon became the largest "defense
electronics" firm in the World.

Meanwhile, ARCO which had sold APTI to E-Systems,
had itself been acquired by the BP-AMOCO oil
consortium, thereby integrating the largest oil company in the World (BP).

Raytheon through its E-Systems subsidiary now
owns the patents used to develop the HAARP
weather warfare facility at Gakona Alaska.
Raytheon is also involved in other areas of
weather research for military use, including the
activities of its subsidiary in Antarctica, Raytheon Polar Services.

"Owning the Weather": Towards the Expanded Final Stage

The HAARP antenna array and transmitters were
slated to be built in several distinct phases
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/phases.html
Developmental Prototype (DP) (See http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/dp.html )
Filled DP (FDP),
Limited IRI (LIRI)
Full size or final IRI (FIRI).

See http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/fdp.html

During the Clinton administration, the "Filled
Developmental Prototype" (FDP), namely a system
composed of an array of 48 active antenna
elements with connected wireless transmitters,
was installed and completed at the HAARP facility
in 1994. (See Figure 1 below) Under the initial
Developmental Prototype (DP), only 18 of the 48 transmitters were connected.

Bernard Eastlund in a 1997 interview described
this antenna array in its Filled DP stage as the
"the largest ionospheric heater ever built".

This system of 48 antennas, however, while fully
operational, was not according to Eastlund,
powerful enough (in 1997) "to bring the ideas in his patents to fruition":

. "But they're getting up there", he said. "This
is a very powerful device. Especially if they go
to the expanded stage." (quoted in Scott Gilbert,
op cit, see also
http://www.emagazine.com/january-february_1997/0197currhaarp.html )

This 'final expanded stage' envisioned by
Eastlund, which will provide maximum capability
to manipulate the World's weather patterns, has now been reached.

Under the Bush administration, the main partner
of Raytheon (which owns the patents) in the
construction and development stage of the HAARP
antenna array, is British Aerospace Systems
(BAES), which had been involved in the initial
installation of the antenna array in the early 1990s.

The multimillion dollar contract was granted by
The Office of Naval Research to BAES in 2003,
through its US subsidiary BAE Systems Advanced
Technologies Inc. The contract was signed barely
two months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.

Using Raytheon's technology, BAES was to develop
the HAARP Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI)
to its maximum capabilities of "Full size or final IRI (FIRI)".

In April 2003, BAE Systems Advanced Technologies
outsourced the production and installation of the
antennas to Phazar Corp (http://www.phazar.com/
), a company specializing in advanced wireless
antennas for military use. (Phazar owns Antenna
Products Corporation of Mineral Wells, Texas
http://www.antennaproducts.com/ ). Phazar was
entrusted with producing and installing 132
crossed dipole antennas items for the HAARP
facility. (http://www.antennaproducts.com/News%20Release%2004-18-03.pdf )

A year later, in April 2004, the final phase in
the expansion of the HAARP facility was launched.
(Dept of Defense, 19 April 2004). This phase
consisted in equipping all the 180 antennas with
high frequency transmitters. BAE Systems was
awarded another lucrative contract, this time for $35 million.

In July 2004, Phazar had delivered and installed
the 132 crossed dipole antennas including the
antenna support structures and ground screen
items at the HAARP facility, bringing the number
of antennas from 48 under the FDP stage to 180. (see Table 2).

Meanwhile, BAE Systems had contracted with Jersey
based defense electronics firm DRS Technologies,
Inc in an $11.5 million outsourcing arrangement,
the production and installation of the
high-frequency (HF) radio transmitters for the
HAARP antenna array. (See
http://www.drs.com/press/archivelist.cfm?PRESS_RELEASE_ID=1529&preview=1
and Business Wire, 15 June 2004). DRS specializes
in a variety of leading edge products for the
U.S. military and intelligence agencies. (
http://www.drs.com/corporateinfo/index.cfm ).

Under its contract with BAE Systems Information
and Electronic Warfare Systems in Washington,
D.C., DRS is to manufacture and install "more
than 60 Model D616G 10-Kilowatt Dual
Transmitters" to be used with the HAARP system of
antennas. (It is unclear from the company
statements whether all the 180 antennas will be
equipped with a transmitter, bringing the system up to full IRI capabilities).

Deliveries and installation are to be completed
by July 2006. While HAARP is described as a
"research project", the production of the
transmitters was entrusted to DRS' C41 "Command,
Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Group"

The diagram and images below describe the HAARP Alaska Facility in 1997.

Figure 1: The Array of 48 Antenna Elements with
the Transmitter Shelters (FDP stage)

The 48 antenna array is supported by transmitter
shelters, each of which contains 6 transmitter
cabinets. (See image of shelter below)

Each cabinet contains two transmitters. (image of cabinet below)

The newly installed 132 dipole antennas supplied
by Phazar vastly increase the size of the HAARP
Alaska facility; the new transmitters are supplied and installed by DRS

Image 1: Aerial Photo of the HAARP Alaska Site

Source: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/ohd.html

Image 2: HAARP Antenna Array

Source: http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/HaarpSite.html

Image 3 Transmitter Shelter

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/images/trans/transtr.jpg

Transmitter Shelter containing Six Transmitter
Cabinets. Each Cabinet contains two transmitters

Image 4: Inside the Transmitter Shelter

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/images/trans/shelter.jpg

Image 5. Two Transmitters making up a Transmitter Cabinet

http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/images/trans/trans2.jpg

Testing of HAARP Equipment (2003- 2004)

It is worth noting that the expansion of the
antenna array (e.g. during 2003-2004) required,
as part of the contracts reached with BAE Systems
and its various subcontractors, the routine
testing of the installed weather warfare
equipment. An intermediate stage Limited IRI
(LIRI), could be in operation by 2004, following
the completion of the 180 antenna array under the
Phazar contract and pending the final delivery of
the remaining HF radio transmitters.

In this regard, a report published by the Russian
parliament (Duma) in 2002, suggests that the US
Military had plans to test its weather
modification techniques at its Alaska facility, as well as at two other sites:

"The committees reported that the USA is planning
to test three facilities of this kind. One of
them is located on the military testing ground in
Alaska and its full-scale tests are to begin in
early 2003. The second one is in Greenland and the third one in Norway.

"When these facilities are launched into space
from Norway, Alaska and Greenland, a closed
contour will be created with a truly fantastic
integral potential for influencing the near-Earth medium," the State Duma said.

The USA plans to carry out large-scale scientific
experiments under the HAARP program, and not
controlled by the global community, will create
weapons capable of breaking radio communication
lines and equipment installed on spaceships and
rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity
networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have a
negative impact on the mental health of people
populating entire regions, the deputies said.
(Interfax News Agency, original Russian, BBC
Monitoring, 8 August 2002, emphasis added)

Whether this report by the Russian Duma on
testing "starting in early 2003" is correct or
not, the US administration must be confronted
nationally and internationally, at the political
and diplomatic levels, at the UN and the US
Congress, by the international scientific
community, by environmentalists and the antiwar
movement. The future of humanity is threatened by
the use of weather modification techniques.

Moreover, to wage an effective campaign, it is
essential that corroborating scientific
investigation of the unusual weather occurrences
observed in recent years (and particularly since
early 2003) be undertaken. This investigation
should be far-reaching, collecting relevant data,
correlating specific weather occurrences to
recorded antenna activity at the Alaska site as
well as at the two other sites, etc.

The Full Size Ionospheric Research Instrument
FIRI stage, described as "a maximum size of 180
antenna elements, arranged in 15 columns by 12
rows" is scheduled to be completed by mid-2006
(assuming the installation of the remaining dual
transmitters), at which time the HAARP program
will have reached its maximum FIRI capacity,
meaning the ability to selectively modify, for
military use, weather patterns anywhere in the World.

"The IRI is currently [June 2004] composed of 48
antenna elements and has a power capacity of
960,000 watts. When installed, the additional 132
transmitters will give HAARP a 3.6 mega-watt
capacity [see Table 2 below]. The HAARP build-out
is jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S.
Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA). (Business Wire, 10 June 2004)

Table 2: Comparison of IRI Phases

DP

FDP

LIRI

FIRI

Number of Active Antenna Elements

18

48

108

180

Total Transmitter Power (kW)

360

960

2160

3600

Maximum Antenna Gain (dB)

19

24

29

31

Max Effective Radiated Pwr (dBW)

74

84

92

96

Min Antenna Pattern Width (degrees)

9

8

5

Frequency Range

2.8 to 10 MHz

Modulation Types

CW/AM/FM/PM

Source http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/phases.html

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, http://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
http://www.dtc.army.mil/tts/1997/proceed/abarnes/
open PowerPoint presentation at http://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.

Table 3: 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, http://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,
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/2975570e60ff2a7685256680005a8e2d?Op...\
nt
)

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 http://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,
http://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.
(http://www.americanfreepress.net/Mideast/Drought__Desperation_Breed_Vio/...\
__desperation_breed_vio.html
]
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, http://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.

Related Global Research Articles on Weather Warfare
Michel Chossudovsky, Washington's New World
Order Weapons Have the Ability to Trigger Climate
Change, Jan 2001, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO201A.html
Vladimir V. Sytin, Secret Use of Weather
Modification Techniques by US Air Force? August
2003, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/SYT308A.html
Interfax,.US Could Dominate The Planet if It
Deploys This Weapon In Space, CRG, August
2002, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/INT208A.html
Scott Gilbert, Environmental Warfare and US
Foreign Policy: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass
Destruction, January 2004, http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GIL401A.html
Bob Fitrakis, Rods from Gods: The insanity of
Star Wars, 24 June 2004, http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FIT407A.html
Did a Secret Military Experiment Cause the 2003
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