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This appears to be off topic, but it really is not, as our Gov. has even worried about the terrorists using it.

Anything Russia held the secrets on, has been sold to those with money to buy it.

I heard Hoagland explain that it appears this method is being used on the new storm, said it appears that they are attempting to force the new storm to dump the water at sea.

Several years ago, Russia offered to create a thphoon for a
fee to put out fires in the Ceylon area, it was in the news.

The radio this minute is saying that it is now a class one hurricaine and by the time it hits land will be a class three.

granny
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New evidence suggests US & Russia are embroiled in an illegal race to
harness the power of hurricanes & earthquakes

by The Daily Express

October 8, 2005
The Daily Express (U.K.) - 2005-07-16

THE huge mushroom cloud soared skywards, the captain was gripped by fear, believing his plane
was about to be engulfed by the fall-out from a nuclear explosion. After declaring mayday and
ordering his crew to don oxygen masks, the experienced pilot had the presence of mind to record
that the cloud measured an estimated 200 miles in diameter and was tipped by an eerie light, like
nothing he had seen before. Eventually, it soared harmlessly into the atmosphere, leaving the
passenger jet to continue safely on its journey from Anchorage, in Alaska, to Tokyo.

But far below, a fleet of fishing boats trawling the sea between Japan and the Soviet Union was
drenched by a violent but short-lived downpour before the weather suddenly cleared. Nuclear
tests and volcanic activity were later ruled out but scientists concluded that this was not a
natural phenomenon. More than two decades later suspicion still exists that the stunned airline
crew and fishermen in 1973 were witnessing a sinister Cold War experiment, in which water from
the Sea of Japan was blown into the air to create clouds and rain.

British government papers, just released by the National Archives, show that throughout the
Seventies there was deep mistrust between the two superpowers over environmental warfare.
The documents reveal that both the US, which led the field, and the Soviet Union had secret
military programmes with the goal of controlling the world's climate. "By the year 2025 the United
States will own the weather, " one scientist is said to have boasted.

Since then, a United Nations treaty has been signed which bans environmental warfare, such as
causing earthquakes, melting the polar ice caps and altering climate. But some experts believe
that clandestine work to create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction continues.

These claims are dismissed by sceptics as wild conspiracy theories and the stuff of James Bond
movies but there is growing evidence that the boundaries between science fiction and fact are
becoming increasingly blurred. The Americans now admit that they invested L12million over five
years during the Vietnam war on "cloud seeding" - deliberately creating heavy rainfall to wash
away enemy crops and destroy supply routes on the Ho Chi Minh trail, in an operation codenamed
Project Popeye.

It is claimed that rainfall was increased by a third in targeted areas, making the
weather-manipulation weapon a success. At the time, government officials said the region was
prone to heavy rain.

However this sort of rain-making experiment was nothing new. In Britain, it has been alleged that
before the devastating Lynmouth floods in Devon in 1952, the RAF had been conducting secret
rain-making tests. Aircraft showered clouds with silver iodide, on which water droplets formed,
became heavy and eventually fell to the ground as rain. In the next 12 hours nine inches of rain
fell - 250 times the normal amount for August - and 35 people were killed.

Former North Devon MP Tony Speller, then a 22-year-old soldier who helped in the relief effort,
sought answers from the MoD.

"I have no doubt they were seeding in the area because there were RAF log books to prove it, "
he says now. "Of course the MoD denied any knowledge but that is not to say it did not happen."

Speller, now 76, adds: "I doubt we will ever know the truth."

Early work on climate control was crude and unpredictable but it is claimed that both the
Americans and Russians continued to experiment behind closed doors even after the UN ban in
the mid-Eighties, and both now possess sophisticated systems which are capable of controlling
the weather - with potentially devastating results.

In the US, the technology was developed under the high-frequency active auroral research
programme ( HAARP) - originally part of Ronald Reagan's controversial Star Wars defence system.
Based in Gokoma, Alaska, the weapon operates by beaming powerful radio waves into the upper
atmosphere to alter weather patterns. Some experts claim the system is already up and running,
while others say it won't be ready for another 20 years.

Michel Chossudovsky, professor of economics at the University of Ottawa in Canada, who has
studied official military documents about HAARP, is in no doubt that the weapon is ready.

"There are very clear statements by the US Air Force to the effect that weather modification
technology is available. HAARP will be fully operational by next year and could be used in actual
military situations, " he says.

(See
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20040927&articleId=319)

"To claim this system has any nonmilitary purposes is twisting the truth.

I don't think there are any peaceful applications - it is a weapon of mass destruction, capable of
major climatic disturbance. Part of the beauty is that the enemy might never know that a
weapon had been used. I believe the UN agreement is certainly being violated."

He claims that at least one British firm has been involved in its development.

"It is time people began focusing on these weapons instead of concentrating solely on global
warming, " Chossudovsky adds. "Both are a serious threat."

The Russians are thought to have their own "weather steering" system, called Woodpecker,
involving the transmission of low-frequency waves which are capable of disrupting the
atmosphere and altering the path of the jet stream. It is claimed that a prolonged drought in
California in the Eighties was caused by the blocking of warm, moist air for many weeks.

According to Damian Wilson, a physicist with the Met Office, controlling climate is a reality but
not a precise science. "Clearing fog by dropping dry ice into clouds is a proven technique which
has been around for decades, " he says.

"Large amounts of research have been invested in seeding clouds to generate rain and it is done
in countries where there are water shortages. The problem is that it is unpredictable and you
need clouds to start with. The technology does not exist to make rain fall from clear blue skies so
it cannot be used in the desert to end droughts and famines."

WILSON believes it is possible to alter the course of a hurricane, which could have enormous
life-saving potential. The current mayhem in the Caribbean and America's Eastern seaboard also
shows what a destructive weapon a well-targeted storm could prove.

The Americans used cloud seeding to try to control a hurricane in 1947 but the tactic backfired
when it picked up strength and hit Savannah, Georgia.

It is known that the US carried out further hurricane-manipulation experiments between 1962 and
1983, under the codename Project Stormfury, after it was calculated that a single hurricane
contained as much energy as all the world's power stations combined. More recent projects have
involved pouring tens of thousands of gallons of vegetable oil on to the sea.

"Hurricanes gather their strength from the warm sea surface, " says Wilson. "By spreading a large
film of oil on the sea it would reduce the intensity by cooling the surface. In theory it is possible
to change the path of the hurricane this way. It would not surprise me if military research into
controlling the weather goes on. As we suffer more summer droughts in the south-east of
England I would also expect to see pressure for cloud seeding to be introduced in this country."

It is not just the weather that has attracted the attention of the military.

Scientists have also researched ways of triggering earthquakes. By setting off small quakes,
pressure could be released and a disaster averted. But military scientists believe it is also possible
to direct powerful energy beams into vulnerable fault zones, causing the Earth's plates to shift,
creating a massive earthquake. Along fault lines beneath the oceans, the same technology could
be used to launch devastating tsunamis.

Part of the problem in banning experiments involves agreeing a definition of what environmental
warfare is. It has been argued that the famous Dambusters mission during the Second World War,
when bouncing bombs were used to flood the German industrial heartland, were a form of
environmental warfare.

Half a century later, the threat is still being taken sufficiently seriously.

Former US defence secretary William Cohen warns: "Terrorists are engaging even in an eco-type
of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes and volcanoes remotely
through the use of electromagnetic waves. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to
intensify our efforts."

Owen Greene, director of research at Bradford University's department of Peace Studies, believes
efforts are continuing in secret to develop weapons that harness nature.

"There is so much money within the Pentagon that it would surprise me if they were not looking
into it, " he says. "I suspect it is going on in both the US and Russia. You can't stop people
researching the weather. As for earthquakes, you don't even need to spend money on active
military programmes because there is so much other work going on which could easily be
adapted. Some of the ideas are quite credible."

Another defence source says: "The risk is that by fooling around with nature, we may unleash
irreversible damage and change our entire planet's atmosphere."

Despite these stark warnings, such is the immense power of nature, it seems inevitable that Man
will continue to play God.

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