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Into the Blue: Weather as a Weapon — Part 3
by keith harmon snow
While his ties to the military-industrial complex run to the deepest levels, Dr. Bernard J. Eastlund’s pursuit of ENMOD (Environmental Modification) research and technologies can be gleaned from the website of Eastlund Scientific Enterprises Corporation. His corporate product line includes such state-of-the-art ENMOD capabilities as ionospheric modifications, weather modification, tornado modification, and HAARP applications.
Not coincidentally, Dr. Eastlund—whose ENMOD research and development has proceeded under the guise of private and supposed non-military pursuits—was Vice President for Energy Technology with BDM Corporation from 1979-84. For years BDM has operated as a major front company for the intelligence apparatus. There are numerous other highly secretive programs, corporations and agencies involved. As a consultant to Atlantic Richfield Corporation (ARCO) from 1984-87, Eastlund worked on the High Frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP)—one of the openly acknowledged weather warfare projects.
Eastlund’s connections sink deep into the classified military-industrial arena. Through the ostensible independence of private sector actors, those who are otherwise deeply in tune with both overt and covert military goals, the DOD and its peripheral and supporting agencies are able to hide behind intelligence and defense "front companies" and thereby exercise their highly efficacious—and deceitful—constructs of plausible deniability.
How much climate change research is needed? Is it reasonable to believe that the billions of dollars that have been devoted to "global climate change research" in the recent past have indeed been dedicated to that? While it is certainly true that "more research needed" has become the mantra behind which action to mitigate global climate change is stalled or suspended, it is also true that data collection, remote sensing, computer modeling, and research and development on platforms (for deployment) for ENMOD purposes has been taking place.
Recall that special operations and covert forces are accountable to no one; they perpetuate terror as a means of social control; they are amongst America’s most egregious examples of instruments of state power hostile to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (See, e.g., William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II, Common Courage Press, 1995; and Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Political Economy of Human Rights—Volumes I & II, South End Press, 1979.) While impossible to verify, most likely—if not certainly—UAVs deploying hostile ENMOD technologies in various states of development have already been deployed on covert operations.
The cold warriors of the past five decades—and the corporations, agencies and bureaus they staff—have revealed that they show very creative imaginations in their capacity to define and implement secret terrorist programs and actual covert deployments of unlimited scope, brutality and horror. They are experts at deception and the expropriation of the public trust. Further, they are accountable to no one. Their jobs secured by fellow insiders, their careers furthered by insider appointments and promotions, the budgets they have had at their disposal were obscene. Over time they have become increasingly more obscene, perverse and insane.
Supposing that weather modification has been clandestinely pursued on the regional or global scale, DOD secret programs would enjoy the benefits of the actual overt scientific research and modeling of weather and climate. Under this scenario, a massive propaganda campaign that denied and obfuscated the rising global climate chaos (perhaps as much a result of covert ENMOD operations and experiments as the deleterious toxic emissions from entrenched fossil fuel industries) would be highly efficacious. This is exactly what we are seeing. There is also the possible greater agenda of intentionally facilitating radical climate instabilities for scientific adventurism.
In 1967 Dr. Edward Teller—the father of the A-bomb—told a U.S. Senate Military Preparedness Committee that the United States could become a second-class power without war if the Russians succeed in controlling weather to produce rain over their territory and deprive America of needed rain. (Daniel S. Halacy, Jr., The Weather Changers, Harper & Row, 1968: 157) Teller has for decades urged the U.S. to adopt a more defensive nuclear policy. Star Wars fits his bill neatly and he has enjoyed an enduring and, certainly, intimate association with nuclear devastation directors Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. (Dr. Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger, The New Press, 2002) It should be no surprise then to learn then that Dr. Teller "has promoted the idea of manipulating the Earth’s atmosphere to counteract global warming." (New York Times, April 24, 2001) Computer simulations on the use of aluminum oxide to counter global warming come from Lawrence Livermore Weapons Laboratory, and this is one of the national labs involved in contemporary ENMOD research and development programs. Director Emeritus at Lawrence Livermore Labs, by the way, is Dr. Edward S. Teller.
Over and above the obscene but ongoing tax breaks and expenditures for devastating energy industries, funded by the public, the military-industrial complex has invested billions of dollars into research and development of weather-as-weapon technologies. Perhaps the most devastating fact of climatic mayhem is the evidence that it is the desired state of affairs, and that climatic mayhem may actually be desired and facilitated by the U.S. military, aerospace, defense and intelligence establishment.
It is through the proliferation of such popular cultural artifacts as sci-fi films (Star Wars) and techno-mags (Wired) that the military will continue to acculturate the public to its agenda, and thereby facilitate the easy transitions of state-of-the-art technologies—such as weather warfare capabilities—into the unclassified (public) arena. Mass media plays a major role in acculturating the public to the DOD and intelligence warfighting agendas, and in further institutionalizing the permanent warfare economy of the United States.
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