This epitomizes the problem I have with this site, despite the value it does bring unearthing much truth. In your efforts, and your lapdog core followers, to debunk every conspiracy that comes along you often generalize while misleading the public on "parts" of the problems that are real that we as tenets of this great planet must deal with!
Regardless of our efforts to create a black and white reality, in vain, this is rarely the case.
Forget for a moment about the elitist cabal that's running the world economy and the U.S. monetary system, job market, etc. into the ground in their ongoing efforts to control and/or own the vast majority of wealth in this world...
For decades the US military-industrial complex has shown time and again that military might and development, right along with their actual uses, puts the environment and people of this planet so far down the list of concerns it seems at times...we're not even on the list.
The case of HAARP is a perfect example. First, you act as if Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen is the only one ever to share the truth about HAARP. Far from the truth, see just a few quotes below.
You also mention his comments were "off the cuff." History has shown countless times that those live "off the cuff" comments are the perfect scenario for "slips ups" and people in authority to share more than they had intended.
What Cohen said, was clear and straight forward along with being a SEPARATE thought and mention moving on from the previously mentioned, false threats. Those are real also, but he mentioned several REAL threats as he again says openly here:
"So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important."
"There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least."
"devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races"
"and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops."
"Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves."
NOT THAT THEY ARE SPREADING RUMORS ABOUT THE USE OF ECO-TERRORISM, THAT "OTHERS ARE ENGAGING IN."
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I don't know anything about this domain other than this is a good list of the patents for HAARP and it's true intentions.
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/links-to-geoengineering-patents/
Here's a few quotes:
"Thus, this invention provides the ability to put unprecedented amounts of power in the Earth's atmosphere at strategic locations and to maintain the power injection level particularly if random pulsing is employed, in a manner far more precise and better controlled than heretofore accomplished by the prior art, particularly by detonation of nuclear devices of various yields at various altitudes... "
"...it is possible not only to interfere with third party communications but to take advantage of one or more such beams to carry out a communications network even though the rest of the world's communications are disrupted. Put another way, what is used to disrupt another's communications can be employed by one knowledgeable of this invention as a communication network at the same time."
"... large regions of the atmosphere could be lifted to an unexpectedly high altitude so that missiles encounter unexpected and unplanned drag forces with resultant destruction."
"Weather modification is possible by, for example, altering upper atmosphere wind patterns by constructing one or more plumes of atmospheric particles which will act as a lens or focusing device.
"... 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."
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Here's a few quotes from one of many enemies of humanity. Oh sure, as of late, he's put on a good face, but lest we forget the countless acts of terrorism and acts against humanity over the decades. I could make a list here of many others just like him, that long ago should have been tried and convicted.
Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisory to U.S. President Carter) and J.F. MacDonald (science advisor to U.S. President Johnson and a professor of Geophysics at UCLA), as they wrote about use of power-beaming transmitters for geophysical and environmental warfare. The documents showed how these effects might be caused, and the negative effects on human heath and thinking.
Quotes in a book Brzezinski wrote more than twenty-five years ago while a professor at Columbia University:
"Political strategists are tempted to exploit research on the brain and human behavior. Geophysicist Gordon J.F. MacDonald, a specialist in problems of warfare, says accurately-timed, artificially-excited electronic strokes could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the earth ... in this way one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of very large populations in selected regions over an extended period"
" ... no matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages, to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades."
"Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Technical and scientific momentum would then feed on the situation it exploits," Brzezinski predicted.
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Physicist Daniel Winter, Ph.D., of Waynesville, North Carolina, said,
"HAARP high-frequency emissions can couple with longwave (extremely-low-frequency, or ELF) pulses the Earth grid uses to distribute information as vibrations to synchronize dances of life in the biosphere." He terms this geomagnetic action 'Earth's information bloodstream,' and said it's likely that coupling of HAARP HF (high-frequency) with natural ELF can cause unplanned, unsuspected side effects.
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David Yarrow of Albany, New York, is a researcher with a background in electronics. He described possible interactions of HAARP radiation with the ionosphere and Earth's magnetic grid: "HAARP will not burn holes in the ionosphere. That is a dangerous understatement of what HAARP's giant gigawatt beam will do. Earth is spinning relative to thin electric shells of the multilayer membrane of ion-o-speres that absorb and shield Earth's surface from intense solar radiation, including charged particle storms in solar winds erupting from the sun. Earth's axial spin means that HAARP -- in a burst lasting more than a few minutes -- will slice through the ionosphere like a microwave knife. This produces not a hole but a long tear -- an incision."
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As far back as 1958, the chief White House adviser 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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In 1966, Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald was associate director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, then later a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
He published papers on the use of environmental-control technologies for the military and made the comment:
"The key to geophysical warfare is the identification of environmental instabilities to which the addition of a small amount of energy would release vastly greater amounts of energy. " World-recognized scientist MacDonald shared many ideas for using the environment as a weapon system and contributed much to this direction. He wrote a chapter, "How To Wreck The Environment," for the book Unless Peace Comes, where he describes the use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilization, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet's energy fields.
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"For example, while changes in the earth's electric field resulting from a solar flare modulating conductivity may have only a barely detectable effect on meteorology, the situation may be different in regard to electric field changes caused by manmade ionization... " Ionization is what happens when a higher level of power is zapped into atoms and knocks electrons off the atoms. The resulting charged particles are the stuff of HAARP. "One look at the weather should tell us that we are on the wrong path," says Paul Schaefer, on HAARP technologies.
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Elizabeth Rauscher Ph.D., with a long impressive career in high-energy physics, published in several science journals and books, commented on HAARP.
"You're pumping tremendous energy into an extremely delicate molecular configuration that comprises these multi-layers we call the ionosphere."
"The ionosphere is prone to catalytic reactions
," she explained, "if a small part is changed, a major change in the ionosphere can happen."
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More details right on defense.gov:
http://www.defense.gov/Blog_files/Blog_assets/20100224_AWS_trans.pdf
Regardless of your, at times, vain attempts at debunking nearly everything, things are rarely as they appear on the surface and certainly more entailed than we are often lead by our government and military.
Note: See Operation Popeye - The Vietnam weather manipulation project.