Washington's NWO Weapons are Weapons of Mass Destruction
"HAARP is
fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods,
droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP
is a weapon of mass destruction."
By Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, January 4, 2002
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The
important debate on global warming under UN auspices provides but a
partial picture of climate change; in addition to the devastating
impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the ozone layer, the World's
climate can now be modified as part of a new generation of
sophisticated "non-lethal weapons." Both the Americans and the Russians
have developed capabilities to manipulate the World's climate.
In the US, the technology is being perfected under the
High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) as part of the
("Star Wars") Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific
evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability
of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes.
From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction.
Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of
selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire
regions.
While there is no evidence that this deadly technology has been
used, surely the United Nations should be addressing the issue of
"environmental warfare" alongside the debate on the climatic impacts of
greenhouse gases...
Despite a vast body of scientific knowledge, the issue of
deliberate climatic manipulations for military use has never been
explicitly part of the UN agenda on climate change. Neither the
official delegations nor the environmental action groups participating
in the Hague Conference on Climate Change (CO6) (November 2000) have
raised the broad issue of "weather warfare" or "environmental
modification techniques (ENMOD)" as relevant to an understanding of
climate change.
The clash between official negotiators, environmentalists and
American business lobbies has centered on Washington's outright refusal
to abide by commitments on carbon dioxide reduction targets under the
1997 Kyoto protocol.(1) The impacts of military technologies on the
World's climate are not an object of discussion or concern. Narrowly
confined to greenhouse gases, the ongoing debate on climate change
serves Washington's strategic and defense objectives.
"WEATHER WARFARE"
World
renowned scientist Dr. Rosalie Bertell confirms that "US military
scientists ... are working on weather systems as a potential weapon.
The methods include the enhancing of storms and the diverting of vapor
rivers in the Earth's atmosphere to produce targeted droughts or
floods." (2) Already in the 1970s, former National Security advisor
Zbigniew Brzezinski had foreseen in his book "Between Two Ages" that:
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations,
techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum
of the security forces need be appraised... [T]echniques of weather
modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought
or storm."
Marc Filterman, a former French military officer, outlines several
types of "unconventional weapons" using radio frequencies. He refers to
"weather war," indicating that the U.S. and the Soviet Union had
already "mastered the know-how needed to unleash sudden climate changes
(hurricanes, drought) in the early 1980s."(3) These technologies make
it "possible to trigger atmospheric disturbances by using Extremely Low
Frequency (ELF) radar [waves]." (4)
A simulation study of future defense "scenarios" commissioned for the US Air Force calls for:
"US
aerospace forces to '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.(5)
HIGH-FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (HAARP)
The
High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) based in Gokoma
Alaska --jointly managed by the US Air Force and the US Navy-- 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". Scientist Dr. 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 [upper layer of the atmosphere] by focusing a beam and
heating those areas. Electromagnetic waves then bounce back onto earth
and penetrate everything -- living and dead." (6)
Dr. Rosalie Bertell depicts HAARP as "a gigantic heater that can
cause major disruption in the ionosphere, creating not just holes, but
long incisions in the protective layer that keeps deadly radiation from
bombarding the planet." 7
MISLEADING PUBLIC OPINION
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." (8) 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.9
According to Dr. Rosalie Bertell, HAARP is part of a integrated
weapons' system, which has potentially devastating environmental
consequences:
"It is related to fifty years of intensive and
increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper
atmosphere. It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space
laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United
States. HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research
and development of a deliberate military nature. The military
implications of combining these projects is alarming. ... The ability
of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver very large
amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via
laser and particle beams, are frightening. The project is likely to be
"sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or,
for the more gullible, a device for repairing the ozone layer. (10)
In addition to weather manipulation, HAARP has a number of related uses:
"HAARP
could contribute to climate change by intensively bombarding the
atmosphere with high-frequency rays... Returning low-frequency waves at
high intensity could also affect people's brains, and effects on
tectonic movements cannot be ruled out. (11)
More generally, HAARP has the ability of modifying the World's
electro-magnetic field. It is part of an arsenal of "electronic
weapons" which US military researchers consider a "gentler and kinder
warfare". (12)
WEAPONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER
HAARP
is part of the weapons arsenal of the New World Order under the
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). From military command points in the
US, entire national economies could potentially be destabilized through
climatic manipulations. More importantly, the latter can be implemented
without the knowledge of the enemy, at minimal cost and without
engaging military personnel and equipment as in a conventional war.
The use of HAARP -- if it were to be applied -- could have
potentially devastating impacts on the World's climate. Responding to
US economic and strategic interests, it could be used to selectively
modify climate in different parts of the World resulting in the
destabilization of agricultural and ecological systems.
It is also worth noting that the US Department of Defense has
allocated substantial resources to the development of intelligence and
monitoring systems on weather changes. NASA and the Department of
Defense's National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) are working on
"imagery for studies of flooding, erosion, land-slide hazards,
earthquakes, ecological zones, weather forecasts, and climate change"
with data relayed from satellites. (13)
POLICY INERTIA OF THE UNITED NATIONS
According to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro:
"States have... in accordance with the Charter of the United
Nations and the principles of international law, the (...)
responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or
control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of
areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction." (14)
It is also worth recalling that an international Convention
ratified by the UN General Assembly in 1997 bans "military or other
hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread,
long-lasting or severe effects." (15) Both the US and the Soviet Union
were signatories to the Convention. The Convention defines
"'environmental modification techniques' as referring to any technique
for changing--through the deliberate manipulation of natural
processes--the dynamics, composition or structure of the earth,
including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere or of
outer space." (16)
Why then did the UN --disregarding the 1977 ENMOD Convention as
well as its own charter-- decide to exclude from its agenda climatic
changes resulting from military programs?
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ACKNOWLEDGES IMPACTS OF HAARP
In February
1998, responding to a report of Mrs. Maj Britt Theorin --Swedish MEP
and longtime peace advocate--, the European Parliament's Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense Policy held public hearings in
Brussels on the HAARP program.(17) The Committee's "Motion for
Resolution" submitted to the European Parliament:
"Considers HAARP... by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the
environment to be a global concern and calls for its legal, ecological
and ethical implications to be examined by an international independent
body...; [the Committee] regrets the repeated refusal of the United
States Administration... to give evidence to the public hearing ...into
the environmental and public risks [of] the HAARP program." (18).
The Committee's request to draw up a "Green Paper" on "the
environmental impacts of military activities", however, was casually
dismissed on the grounds that the European Commission lacks the
required jurisdiction to delve into "the links between environment and
defense". (19) Brussels was anxious to avoid a showdown with Washington.
FULLY OPERATIONAL
While
there is no concrete evidence of HAARP having been used, scientific
findings suggest that it is at present fully operational. What this
means is that HAARP could potentially be applied by the US military to
selectively modify the climate of an "unfriendly nation" or "rogue
state" with a view to destabilizing its national economy.
Agricultural systems in both developed and developing countries are
already in crisis as a result of New World Order policies including
market deregulation, commodity dumping, etc. Amply documented, IMF and
World Bank "economic medicine" imposed on the Third World and the
countries of the former Soviet block has largely contributed to the
destabilization of domestic agriculture. In turn, the provisions of the
World Trade Organization (WTO) have supported the interests of a
handful of Western agri-biotech conglomerates in their quest to impose
genetically modified (GMO) seeds on farmers throughout the World.
It is important to understand the linkage between the economic,
strategic and military processes of the New World Order. In the above
context, climatic manipulations under the HAARP program (whether
accidental or deliberate) would inevitably exacerbate these changes by
weakening national economies, destroying infrastructure and potentially
triggering the bankruptcy of farmers over vast areas. Surely national
governments and the United Nations should address the possible
consequences of HAARP and other "non-lethal weapons" on climate change.
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