[patriots] Re: "Military Death Beam"
- From: john TIMBRELL <johntimbrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "patriots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <patriots@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 08:27:50 +0000
On speed reading the attached report it appears to me that HAARP program is
only one small part of the weather modification program which include many and
various other technologies.Obviously the attached report was written some time
ago so what the up to date program is I haven't a clue JohnT
Does this mean that chem-trailing will cease,
and that they will no longer try to ‘own the weather by
2025’ as in the attached report?
It's Not a "Military Death Beam" and
It's Not Getting Any More Federal Funding
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/us-ionospheric-research-facility-to-close/
Unless a new patron emerges,
the U.S. Government's High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program is threatened with closure next month
May 16, 2014 |By Sharon
Weinberger and Nature magazine
The world’s most advanced ionospheric research
facility has in its lifetime faced allegations of being
a 'military death beam', a weapon of weather control and
even a top-secret mind-control project. Now, the US
government’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research
Program (HAARP) is threatened with closure.
HAARP, near Gakona, Alaska, comprises radio
transmitters and antennas that are used to heat up the
ionosphere — the uppermost region of the atmosphere —
creating a laboratory in the sky for scientists.The
facility has been used to produce an
artificial aurora and to study how charged
particles behave in the ionosphere, at a
total cost of more than $250 million to build and
operate.
Its bizarre backstory rivals that of a blockbuster
Hollywood film. A powerful US senator from Alaska,
Republican Ted Stevens, helped win approval for the
facility in the early 1990s. But to justify HAARP’s
price, the Pentagon had to dream up exotic military
applications, sparking conspiracy theories.
In 2008, Stevens was voted out of office barely a
week after being convicted of corruption (the conviction
was tossed out in 2009 amid allegations of prosecutorial
misconduct, and Stevens died in a plane crash the
following year). He was replaced by Democrat Mark
Begich, whose brother has been an outspoken advocate for
the idea that HAARP is a secret military weapons
project.
Difficult balance
The practical challenge for HAARP has been to balance
its role as a Pentagon-operated site for developing
military applications with its function as a basic
science facility. Supporters have long tried to come up
with potential military uses, such as testing deep-sea
communications for submarines, detecting underground
military bunkers and cleaning up satellite-disabling
electrons in the event of a high-altitude nuclear
detonation.
Research into that last application had been
supported by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), but its chief says that the agency is
now abandoning its work at HAARP. “[There is] not an
ongoing need for DARPA, despite the fact that we had
gotten good value out of that infrastructure in the
past,” DARPA director Arati Prabhakar told a US Senate
committee on May 14.
The final DARPA-sponsored experiment, called Basic
Research on Ionospheric Characteristics and Effects
(BRIOCHE), is scheduled to end in mid-June. With DARPA’s
work coming to an end, the US Air Force, which manages
HAARP, says that there are no more paying customers for
facility, and thus no reason to keep it open.
The facility will be shut down as soon as the
DARPA experiment ends, says Air Force spokesman Ed
Gulick. “The plan allows the Air Force to remove
critical equipment prior to the onset of winter,” he
says.
Some in the Pentagon seem to be interested in
saving the facility, but say there is no money. “I’m
torn on this,” said Alan Shaffer, the acting US
assistant secretary of defence for research and
engineering, at the 14 May hearing. “I think [HAARP] is
a world-class facility.”
No obvious champions have emerged in Congress, and
the US National Science Foundation has told HAARP
supporters that it does not have funds to support the
programme, says Dennis Papadopoulos, a physicist at the
University of Maryland in College Park. The University
of Alaska has offered to maintain HAARP but would still
need government funding, at least for an interim period.
Yet Papadopoulos argues that HAARP could,
similarly to other ionosphere-research facilities, be
self-supporting within three or four years, living off
payments from researchers. In the meantime, the facility
would need about $2.5 million annually to stay open.
Dismantling a facility that has cost more than $250
million to build and operate doesn’t make sense, he
adds.
Scientists are left with few other options. The US
National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Arecibo,
Puerto Rico, which is also used for ionosphere research,
has been undergoing repairs for several years, and is
not as powerful as HAARP even when it is fully
functional. That leaves just the European Incoherent
Scatter Scientific Association facilities in northern
Scandinavia.
“To me, the way it looks, this is the end of radio
science research in the United States,” Papadopoulos
says.
This article is reproduced
with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was
first published on May 16,
2014.
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