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expensive disasters on ourselves?
This probably makes sense to
somebody.
Via Raw Story:
Conspiracy talk show host
Alex Jones, increasingly
a favorite of conservative
media for his extremely
vocal support of gun rights,
outed himself Tuesday
as a tornado truther by
telling a caller on his show,
“Of course there’s weather
weapons stuff going on.”
Jones, a longtime proponent of the idea that the
U.S. government can
manipulate and even
produce weather systems
like tornadoes and hurricanes, went on to say that
if people saw helicopters
or small aircraft in the area,
then “you better bet your
bottom dollar they did this.”
“But, who knows if they
did?” he asked. “You know,
that’s the thing. We don’t
know.”
As Max Rivlin-Nadler points out
in Gawker, conspiracy theorists
who believe in “weather weapons” primarily focus their para-
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noid worries on HAARP — the
High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program, not the Muse
album of the same name (though
Muse frontman Matt Bellamy
has similar fixations). The pro-
It seems only logical
to conclude that HAARP
is actually being used
to manipulate the weather
… if by ‘logical to conclude’
you mean, ‘left alone in a
room filling with some sort
of gas that makes your brain
feel all wibbly-wobbly.’”
gram is “a scientific endeavor
aimed at studying the properties
and behavior of the ionosphere,
with particular emphasis on being able to understand and use it
to enhance communications and
surveillance systems for both civilian and defense purposes.”
As HAARP draws funding
from the U.S. Air Force and the
Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (the folks who
brought you the Internet!), it
seems only logical to conclude
that HAARP is actually being
used to manipulate the weather