China and Burma under Attack?

[conspiracy analyst]

Has China been hit to silence it for a future attack on Iran?
The sites of the earthquake appear to be the nuclear centres and the electrical generating areas.

Coincidence or attack?

http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/15/zipingba_dam_st.php
Sichuan earthquake: Update on dams and nuclear sites

As we told you earlier, there had been very real fears that the Zipingba Dam, 6 miles upstream from the devastated city of Dujiangyan, was displaying "extremely dangerous" cracks. The People's Daily is now reporting that the dam is "structurally stable and safe" following a full inspection.

"The conclusion was reached after a panel of experts, led by Jiao Yong, Vice Minister of Water Resources, rushed to the site and made a thorough inspection of the 156-meter-high facility."

Nevertheless, despite official reassurances, fears persist over other dam projects in the area with The Associated Press still reporting that hundreds of structures could be at risk.

"The National Development Reform Commission, China's top economic planning body, said the earthquake had damaged 391 dams. It said two of the dams were large ones, 28 were medium-sized and the rest were small ones."

Landslides have reportedly caused rivers to be blocked in Qingchuan County, creating an enormous lake, with Xinhua quoting Li Hao, the county's Communist Party chief, as saying: "The rising water could cause the mountains to collapse. We desperately need geological experts to carry out tests and fix a rescue plan". As the International Herald Tribune points out, "much depends on efforts to reduce the menacing pressure of water behind the dam walls", if further disaster is to be averted.

In addition, The Guardian says that two hydropower stations in Maoxian County have been affected, although the extent of the damage is not yet clear. Meanwhile, Guangyuan and Mianyang, near the quake epicentre, house plants that help process plutonium for nuclear arms, although the China Nuclear Engineering & Construction Corporation currently states that, despite some damage to buildings in the area, there are no major concerns at this time regarding nuclear material.

Although the Three Gorges Dam has been declared safe, some commentators are already raising questions over its ability to stand up to future risks and the wisdom of building further dams in the area. Some have even asked if the world's largest dam could have induced or exacerbated the earthquake:

""Whether reservoir-induced seismicity is behind this week's earthquake should be urgently investigated before the Three Gorges reservoir is filled to its maximum height," says Patricia Adams, executive director of Probe International, a Canadian group monitoring the Three Gorges dam since the 1980s."

Concerns of this sort are far from new however. Indeed, this article, written way back in 1999 for the Alaska Science Forum, talks about how "the dam also may trigger earthquakes that could threaten millions of people". While it is too early to say with any degree of certainty the role the dam project may or may not have played in this week's disaster, it is clear that the tragic events in Sichuan will reopen the debate surrounding China's dam-building projects.

http://shanghaiist.com/2008/05/15/zipingba_dam_st.php

[conspiracy analyst]

And, of course, there is the oil and gas:


Chinese energy companies have other advantages. Some have invested in places like Sudan, Iran and Myanmar, where the major international oil companies are unwilling or unable to operate...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/bu...s/05cnooc.html



Energy: Sino-Burma oil pipeline

(China Business)

Updated: 2006-04-18 14:57

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved a Sino-Burma oil pipeline linking Burma's deep-water port of Sittwe with Kunming, capital city of China's southwestern Yunnan province.

The NDRC gave the greenlight to the pipeline at the beginning of April, with construction expected to begin this year. No timetable for the completion of the pipeline was provided.

The long-expected pipeline would provide an alternative route for China's crude imports from the Middle East and Africa and help reduce its dependance on traffic through the Strait of Malacca.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchin...ent_570622.htm




China's chief interest in Burma, analysts say, may lie in its strategic location as a site for pipelines that Beijing reportedly wants to build from Myanmar's ports to southern China for transshipping oil and gas brought by tankers from the Middle East.

That would reduce China's need to ship oil or gas through the Malacca Straits, which Beijing worries could be closed off by the U.S. Navy in the event of a conflict.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/...nta.php?page=2

[Linda]

Can this be part of Kissingers plans to get rid of most of the population?

All the aftershocks in China seem a little too suspicious to me, a Generation of Children killed of, leaving any living relatives of these children no chance of ever being Grandparents.

I don't believe this is a natural disaster.

[fish5133]

Bit spooky this as ive been trying to download today the Dam Busters theme tune for the funeral of an ex RAF pilot

[conspiracy analyst]

This is translated automatically by Babel...

From the Russian military journal
It is an anti-nuclear site in Russia...

http://www.nuclearno.ru/text.asp?12405

Russian site of nuclear non-proliferation
Civil center of nuclear non-proliferation
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Eugene [Lisanov],
Independent military review,
on December 5, 2007
Ranging of the plasma accelerators
Geophysical weapon arises into the army system

On the author: Eugene Lvovich [Lisanov] - military journalist.

At the end 1970- X of years the world community concluded the
agreement, which forbids the development of geophysical weapon. And
here all works in this direction were classified. However, in spite of
the agreement, assume some scientists, searches in this region
continue under the guise scientific research. But their content and
designation are wrapped by the curtain of reservations, scientific
speculations and even mysticism.
“The ray of death” Of [nikoly] Of [tesly]

The idea to transfer electromagnetic pulses on the distance without
the wires, so to speak, by air, was born by no means at the end BY
[KHKH] of century. Authorship here belongs to the famous physicist
Nicole [Tesle] (1856-1943). At the beginning of past century it
patented the methods of the transfer of the electrical energy through
the natural medium (air, water, the earth). Scientist was confident,
that it is possible to create the glow in the form of the aurora
borealis not only above the Arctic, but also above other regions of
the Earth, moreover regulating in this case intensity of the glow. But
in 1940 it declared after the thorough modification of its invention,
that created “the ray of death”. With its aid it is possible to send
electric power in any quantities and up to any distance. Tesla
established the powerful for those times transformer, which sent per
30 miles lightning with the power not of less than 10 kW.

Analyzing the results of its experiences, it came to the conclusion
that it developed the bases of the fundamentally new type of weapon,
which transfers the energy through the ionosphere or the atmosphere,
focusing it at the necessary point of the Earth. Therefore scientist
rolled up the most dangerous, to its view, part of the experiments,
and he thoroughly encoded the most important operating times. At the
end the life of Tesla it singlehandedly destroyed many its materials.

However, in it numerous followers proved to be. Especially succeeded
Bernard [Dzh]. [Istlund], which wrote work under that freezing soul by
name “method and mechanism of a change in the region of the
atmosphere, ionosphere and/or magnetosphere of the Earth”. They
interested themselves in its developments in the Pentagon. Thus, even
in 1970- X years on one of the bases of USAF (United States Air Force)
was created the installation, similar to that, which experienced
Tesla. Electromagnetic gear of different intensity were conducted also
in Australia ([Armideyl]) and Puerto Rico (Arecibo). By the way, many
scientists are assured that precisely in this the reason for many
natural calamities lies.

Subsequently within the framework of the program “of Star Wars”
American scientists worked at the creation of the so-called plasma
accelerator. With its aid it was intended to drive away Soviet orbital
group. In 1986 the administration of promising scientific research and
developments MO of the USA accepted a number of the programs, directed
toward the development of military equipment with the sources of
electromagnetic radiation. One of the primary tasks - study of the
action of electromagnetic radiation on the environment, the biological
subjects and the radio-electronic means, and also the development of
means of protection from it.

In Alaska the Americans designed station for the so-called location
below the horizon, intended for the detection in the territory of the
enemy of aircraft, rockets even in the stage of start and during the
flight with the aid of the pencil beam through the ionosphere.

In the picturesque the place Of [gakkona], that in 450 km from
[Ankoridzha], under the conditions of deep secrecy began the building
of first powerful radar. In the uninhabited valley surrounded by
mountains, among the taiga was based the enormous building of diesel
power station. The forest of the antennas of 24- meter height with a
total area of more than 13 hectares grew not far from it. In all - 180
antennas.

Because earth's magnetic poles is displaced to the side of Canada and,
consequently, also of Alaska, the position of emitters is selected as
cannot more successfully - under the very cupola of the magnetosphere,
they completely cover entire northern hemisphere. And “under the cap”
in our present overseas partners proved to be entire Kamchatka and Far
East.

However, this by them it seemed insufficiently. And soon not far from
the town of tromso, that in Norway, they elevated the second high-
frequency emitter, built according to this program.

It should be noted that works in this region also conducted in the
times of the Cold War in the Soviet Union. One installation was
installed in [Kapachakh], that in the environs of Chernobyl', another
- in the Far East. But as a result emergencies on Chernobyl' AES
radioactive elements settled on the antennas, and equipment
malfunctioned.

It was necessary to shut installation. But the second… plundered local
residents. But here Americans not only preserved their emitters, but
also adapted them to the changed military technical and political
realias. The Pentagon reexamined its military doctrine, after
developing the concept of creation and application of a special
weapon, the weapons of destruction, which do not inflict enormous
losses on personnel and material values. Into the development of this
theme was isolated the branch of defense industry under the aegis of
the administration of promising studies and with the participation of
the laboratory of the Department of Energy. In 1995 the congress of
the USA affirmed the 10- millionth budget of project. However, de
facto the realization of project began by several years earlier.

With the development of the more reliable space means of the detection
of flight vehicles at the early stages of start the Americans,
improving their installations of the location below the horizon,
altered them for the vertical heating of the ionosphere. One should
recognize that they very succeeded in their scientific and technical
searches. Stations modernized, to the light appeared scientific
research project HAARP - study program of the high-frequency activity
of the aurora borealis. Thus, contemporary complex HAARP, put into
operation in 2002, presents the most powerful ionospheric stand.

“Today, says the expert of the RF Ministry of Defense, Candidate in
Technical Sciences Colonel Alexander [Plaksin], complex HAARP in
Alaska - the most contemporary installation in the world. Its power is
three times more than Norwegian installation [EISKAT] and 15 times -
Russian installation “[Sura]”.

In order to understand the operating principle of this system, it is
necessary to be dismantled at those sometimes not to the end studied
phenomena, which occur in the atmosphere. As is known, higher than the
ozone layer is located the ionosphere (gas layer, enriched by the
electrical particles, which are called ions. - [E].[L].). But the
ionosphere is not everywhere uniform and therefore it " conducts” not
everywhere and not always equally. Thus, in the polar regions of the
Earth in the ionosphere there are heterogeneities - excited ions of
gases, which are called auroral. After being connected between
themselves in their kind plasma ropes, they were lengthened along the
lines of force of earth's magnetic field. Their length - several ten
meters, thickness - about 10 cm. physical essence and reasons for the
appearance of these structures, until now, are not studied.

“The power, radiated by stand HAARP, says Alexander Alexandrovich, in
effect equal to the average integral power of the ultraviolet
radiation of the sun, whose contribution is basic in the forming of
the ionosphere of the Earth”.

Simply saying: with the warming-up of the individual sections of the
ionosphere by thickness in several ten meters are formed the sections
of auroral structures - artificial ionic swarms, which can be used as
the optical lenses for the reflection of powerful radio beam in the
individual sections of the earth's surface. Moreover the range of this
ray is practically unconfined. These vibrations can be used, for
example, for determining the presence of aircraft or for other
purposes: it is possible to direct them in these or other sections of
the Earth depending on the angle, at which the radio frequencies are
reflected from the ionic lenses.

“If we heat the ionosphere sufficiently strongly, is included in
conversation the director of institute the geophysicists [im]. of
Fedorov of the Russian Federal Service on Hydrometeorology and
Environmental Control the academician OF [RAEN] Sergey [Avdyushin],
can be formed the ionospheric layer, especially in the polar region,
which has almost zero resistance. Around the pole is formed its kind
the cord, which can be used as the antenna for the transmission of
information, let us say, for the submarines”.

By the way, Americans proved this conclusion in practice. The pair of
years ago they successfully conducted trial period of communication
with one of their submarines at the 70- meter depth.
Electromagnetic trap

American management, realizing the preoccupation of the governments of
many countries by this project, attempts to quiet the world community:
it is said, project HAARP - especially scientific research program,
which one ought not to fear. So whether this?

Some Russian and foreign analysts assume that the developed by
Americans program - in actuality disguised idea of the creation of the
ray of enormous power, geophysical weapon, the operating principle of
which is based on the use of means of action for military purposes on
the processes, proceeding in the solid, liquid and gaseous mantles of
the earth.

Moving the focus of antennas with the aid of the laser beam, it is
possible to govern the artificially created in the ionosphere plasmoid
(localized region of the highly ionized gas - [E].[L].) or ball
lightning. In other words: with the aid of the huge construction the
Americans plan to bombard sky with the rays of energy, which, after
being reflected from the ionosphere, will return to the earth in the
form the electromagnetic waves of small frequency.

The enemies of this program have very important reasons not to entrust
to the pacifying statements of Americans.

“The excited BY HAARP ionospheric layer, says Colonel [Plaksin],
influences the radio-electronic filling of military equipment: the
guidance system, correction, control, navigation and so forth as a
result aircraft or rocket, falling into the hearth of water spout,
goes out of order”.

And this list of the ominous consequences of the implementation of
program HAARP can be continued. If we compare, for example, with
nuclear weapon, then geophysical by many times exceeds it according to
the power. But if we direct this ray, let us say, in England, then it
can destroy it within a few seconds.

Thus, the group of servicemen with the aid of the geophysical weapon,
assume some scientists, after several years can place on the elbows
the economy of entire state. And no one will understand nothing.

The most terrible, that even developers cannot definitely say that it
will occur with the planet, as the ionosphere to the impact of these
rays will react, if we neglect system to the complete coil. As is
known, together with the ozone ionospheric layer protects the Earth
from the penetration of fatal cosmic rays. The ionosphere will be
damaged under the action of the electromagnetic gun of system HAARP,
and cosmic radiation will without difficulty penetrate to the earth.

And what is more. The action of this know-how generally cannot be
controlled, some researchers assert. Even the single application of
this weapon can produce the so-called hammer effect, which cannot be
will be stopped: earthquake, sharp temperature drop. In the opinion
the Canadian scientist Of [rozali] Of [bertel], which studies the
influence of wars on the ecosystems, active ionospheric disturbance it
is capable of causing the liberation of the enormous masses of free
electrons - the so-called electronic showers. In turn, this can entail
change in the electric potential of poles and subsequent displacement
of earth's magnetic poles. Simply speaking, planet “will overturn”.
And there remains only to guess, where the north pole will prove to
be. With this conclusion is solidary the expert of the RF Ministry of
Defense Colonel Alexander [Plaksin].

At the same time he considers that the geophysical weapon nevertheless
can be placed under the control.

“For this is necessary the corresponding equipment, says [Plaksin]. -
However the equipment, which stands in arsenal in the troops, is
powerless to control the work of American emitters and to reveal their
action, since it is not adapted under the emission frequencies HAARP”.

Is it possible to resist geophysical weapon? In the opinion the
director of the institute of applied the geophysicists of the name of
the academician Fedorov of the Russian Federal Service on
Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control Sergey [Avdyushina], today
not one country possesses the technologies of protection from the
geophysical weapon. Since the ionosphere is global, to heat it as in
contrast was absurdly. It is possible to only destroy emitter itself,
scientist is counted. At the same time in Russia attentively they
follow operation of American stations according to the program HAARP
with the aid of the automatic spacecraft and the means, located in
Sakhalin and Kamchatka.
Hurricane was caused?

Tens of destroyed populated areas, thousand of those been killed -
here is only the incomplete enumerations of the tragic consequences of
the element, which was played in the Indian Ocean several years ago.
Then, let us recall, many coastal areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka,
Indonesia, Somalia and some other African and Asian countries
underwent the severe impact of natural cataclysm. But some islands
simply left under the water. In the misfortunes, which understood the
population of these countries, some analysts are inclined to blame not
so much nature, as results of human activity - application of a new,
geophysical weapon.

The guesses of scientists are by no means groundless. Approximately
from that moment, when began the transfers of electromagnetic pulses,
other experiments in this region, on the planet were increased in
frequency the natural calamities - nature as if it descended from the
mind. The enemies of project consider the culprit of all these natural
metamorphoses HAARP.

Using an unsteady state of solid, liquid and gaseous mantles of the
earth, with the aid of the small push it is possible to activate the
catastrophic destructive forces of nature. The application of a
geophysical weapon, note scientists, can stimulate earthquakes,
provoke the appearance of enormous waves in the ocean (tsunami),
change in the thermal condition or destruction of the ozone layer
above the separate regions of planet.

The world community, frightened by the consequences of this
interference in nature, in 1977 adopted convention “about the
prohibition of military and any other hostile use of environmental
modification techniques”. Each state - participant in the present
convention, it is spoken in it, [obyazuetsya] not to come running to
military or any other hostile use of environmental modification
techniques, which have wide, long-term or serious consequences, as the
methods of destruction, putting damage or reason for harm to any other
participating government. This document all countries, including of
the USA signed. However, further course of events showed that the
Americans do not carry out the undertaken obligations.

It is for the sake of fairness necessary to note that in the Soviet
Union the developments of geophysical weapon also conducted. The
scientists of Tula polytechnic institute successfully injected
technologies on control of sediments. To the end of the 80's of last
century their activity was treated “peaceful” ministries, and only in
1990 people of Tula passed under the aegis of general staff. Then were
created 11 ranges, on which at will it was possible to change weather
and climatic conditions.

The technologies of Tula inventors were capable of even causing
earthquakes, of influencing formation and trajectory of the motion of
hurricanes, cyclones. The professor Of [martynov], the leader of
project, found the method of determining the information about a
change in the gravitational field of the Earth and atmosphere. In the
walls of Tula [politekha] they invented the instrument, with the aid
of which it was possible to influence weather. Several instruments,
established at the equidistant points, manufactured the signal, which
governed cyclone wave. The Soviet experiments above nature ceased with
the disintegration of the USSR and it was necessary to shut project.

In the scientific circles there is no unanimous opinion relative to
the reasons for the appearance of natural cataclysms. For example, the
academician OF [RAEN] Victor Danilov -[Danilyan] is convinced that
anomalous natural calamities not the result of military experiments,
but the consequence of [razbalansirovannosti] of climatic system on
the planet.

Analogous opinion adheres to the academician OF [RAEN] Sergey
[Avdyushin]. In his opinion, the natural calamity in Pacific Ocean,
about which it was mentioned above, was caused by no means by the
reasons for artificial nature, and by completely natural, natural.

As far as assumptions about the negative consequences of the
application of a geophysical weapon are concerned, these guesses bear
faster speculative- theoretical nature, is counted scientist, but not
scientific.

[conspiracy analyst]

May 16, 2008

Bush Preparing For Armageddon, Warns Russia’s Top General

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers (Traducción
al Español abajo)

In a ‘strongly’ worded report delivered to the Kremlin today, Russia's
Chief of Staff, General Yuri Baluyevski, has issued a warning to
President Medvedev that the United States President is ‘fully preparing’
for Armageddon.

General Baluyevski, these reports state, issued his warning after
returning from the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, and where he
had further stated:

"The only decision today which may stop ... a military conflict in
Georgia is to stop the militarization of Georgia. Unfortunately, in the
past several months and years this has been growing..."

In an eerie coincidence of timing on General Baluyevski’s warning, the
United States President was this week, indeed, overlooking the Mount of
Megiddo Armageddon battlefield with Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
[both pictured top left], and where historians believe more battles have
been fought than any other place on Earth, and which many believe the
final battle of World will be fought in the very near future.

The United States President further flamed the fans of Total War by his
shocking remarks made to the Israeli Knesset, and as we can read as
reported by the Christian Science Monitor News Service:

"This struggle is waged with the technology of the 21st century, but at
its core it is the ancient battle between good and evil, the killers
claim the mantle of Islam, but they are not religious men."

His prepared speech was also laden with religious imagery, mapping a
spiritual and ideological picture of a close US-Israel relationship that
seemed unprecedented in a speech by any US president, analysts say."

Russian Economists, however, continue to report that the United States
and its Western Allies have ‘virtually no choice’ but to engage the
World in Total War as their economies near collapse, a point made even
starker with the US Federal Reserve reporting today that its loans to
American banks to keep them from crashing has now reached record levels.

Further destabilizing the Western powers is the growing Global fuel
crisis, and which Mexico, one of their top oil exporters, has now issued
a ‘warning’ that they are facing a "severe energy crisis".

The West’s financial crisis, combined with the Global fuel crisis, joins
our World’s food crisis, and which we had previously reported on in our
May 7th report, "Massive Starvation For World Feared Over Myanmar And
Chile Catastrophes", is fast leading to a catastrophic displacement of
over a hundred million human beings searching the Globe for food and
water.

And today, as over 200,000 are reported dead in one of Asia’s largest
rice producing regions, and over 50,000 are being reported dead in the
heart of China’s most productive agriculture region where over 4.3
million homes have also been destroyed, Britain’s Prince Charles has
issued the most direst of warnings stating that our World has only 18
months left to avert a climate change disaster.

Not to be forgotten of our World’s present woes is the deadly virus
killing the children in China (where 42 have died and over 25,000 remain
ill) and the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus which has claimed another two
children’s lives in Indonesia, and just to mention two of the growing
numbers of diseases and viruses rampaging across the World.

Human beings are, also, not alone in being devastated on the Earth as
the World Wildlife Fund is now reporting that wildlife is disappearing
from our Planet at a ‘catastrophic rate’, with fully a third of all our
animal species now gone forever.

But, to the greatest understanding of all of these things, and a vile
portent for the future of our human race, one only has to climb upon a
hillside in the United States region of Georgia to gaze upon a
mysterious monument known as The Georgia Guidestones; which carries a
warning issued to all of us by our present Earth rulers, written in 8
different languages, and which for those who wish the truest knowledge
of these times will understand these words of the elite etched in stone:

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.

Unite humanity with a living new language.

Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.

Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a one
world court

Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Balance personal rights with social duties.

Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.

Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for
nature.

In these times, and sadly to say, one must ask themselves if they are to
be one of the 500 million left to live, or one of the 6.1 billion slated
to die.

[Mark Gobell]

Extract from the Sunday Times

[rodin]

Sorcha Faal is a well dodgy source but some of that report resonates. Specially when you realise the Guelfs aka Windsors are secret Rothschilds. Charles has been cultivating this green/peace/environmentalist image for years. Now he strikes to add force to the meme originally cooked up by the Club of Rome under guidance of arch-Askenazi Kissinger.

http://roadsassy.com/index.php/tag/club-of-rome/

[conspiracy analyst]

Don't like the weather? Change it
The weird science of weather modification makes a comeback
Strange weather
Pop-up Strange weather

GLOBAL COOLING: To counteract global warming, John Latham of the National Center for Atmospheric Research has proposed a system of enormous eggbeater-like turbines that would stir up seawater, thickening the cloud cover to reflect more of the sun's energy back into space. (Photo / Stephen Salter)

By Drake Bennett | July 3, 2005

In the summer of 1930, George Ambrosius Immanuel Morrison Sykes, a self-professed ''minister of Zoroastrianism" and flat-earther (his calculations put the sun's distance from Earth at 3,300 miles), was hired by the Westchester Racing Association to ensure good weather for the horse races at Belmont Park. As described by historian Clark C. Spence in ''The Rainmakers" (1980), the contract promised Sykes $1,000 for every dry day during a week in early September, but required him to pay back twice that for every wet one.


For seven days Sykes's device--a jalopic pile of wire, antennae, jars of colored water, old radio sets, a vase, an electric heater and a toy propeller--was blessed by sun. But the following Saturday, after his contract was extended, the rains came. And when Sykes, looking to outwit fate, promised more rain two days later, the appointed day instead passed dry.

At press time, the National Weather Service was predicting a sunny July 4th in Boston, with temperatures in the low 80s. Still, it would be nice to be sure, wouldn't it? Seventy-five years after Doc Sykes's Belmost lucky streak ended in disgrace, the weather still resists our best efforts at prediction, much less control.

Not that this has stopped us from trying. Recent years have seen a growing interest not merely in forecasting, but in the seemingly fanciful prospect of customizing the weather. In 2003 the National Academy of Sciences recommended ''a coordinated national program" to ''conduct a sustained research effort" into weather modification. Politicians in Western and Southwestern states are funding attempts to tickle more moisture out of the clouds, and this March, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas introduced a bill to create a national Weather Modification Operations and Research Board.

Last fall, a meteorologist named Ross Hoffman suggested in Scientific American that a network of microwave-beaming satellites could literally take the wind out of hurricanes. In some of the driest parts of Mexico, a Bedford-based company called Ionogenics is testing a rainmaking apparatus that uses an array of steel poles to ionize the air. China, a country with widespread cloud seeding, has announced plans to engineer clear weather in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.

Meanwhile, deepening concern over the possibly cataclysmic effects of climate change has spurred a number of recent proposals, some sketched out in considerable detail, to engineer a measure of counteractive cooling. John Latham, an atmospheric physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., has proposed increasing the reflectivity of the cloud cover by stirring up water vapor from the ocean with a fleet of giant egg-beater-like turbines. A few years ago, a team led by the late Edward Teller suggested creating a similar effect by launching a million tons of tiny aluminum balloons into the atmosphere. The Teller team also revived a proposal, last explored in the early 1990s, to build an adjustable 2,000-kilometer-wide mirror in space to deflect some of the sun's energy before it reaches us.Continued...


July 3, 2005

In the summer of 1930, George Ambrosius Immanuel Morrison Sykes, a self-professed ''minister of Zoroastrianism" and flat-earther (his calculations put the sun's distance from Earth at 3,300 miles), was hired by the Westchester Racing Association to ensure good weather for the horse races at Belmont Park. As described by historian Clark C. Spence in ''The Rainmakers" (1980), the contract promised Sykes $1,000 for every dry day during a week in early September, but required him to pay back twice that for every wet one.

For seven days Sykes's device--a jalopic pile of wire, antennae, jars of colored water, old radio sets, a vase, an electric heater and a toy propeller--was blessed by sun. But the following Saturday, after his contract was extended, the rains came. And when Sykes, looking to outwit fate, promised more rain two days later, the appointed day instead passed dry.

At press time, the National Weather Service was predicting a sunny July 4th in Boston, with temperatures in the low 80s. Still, it would be nice to be sure, wouldn't it? Seventy-five years after Doc Sykes's Belmost lucky streak ended in disgrace, the weather still resists our best efforts at prediction, much less control.

Not that this has stopped us from trying. Recent years have seen a growing interest not merely in forecasting, but in the seemingly fanciful prospect of customizing the weather. In 2003 the National Academy of Sciences recommended ''a coordinated national program" to ''conduct a sustained research effort" into weather modification. Politicians in Western and Southwestern states are funding attempts to tickle more moisture out of the clouds, and this March, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas introduced a bill to create a national Weather Modification Operations and Research Board.

Last fall, a meteorologist named Ross Hoffman suggested in Scientific American that a network of microwave-beaming satellites could literally take the wind out of hurricanes. In some of the driest parts of Mexico, a Bedford-based company called Ionogenics is testing a rainmaking apparatus that uses an array of steel poles to ionize the air. China, a country with widespread cloud seeding, has announced plans to engineer clear weather in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.

Meanwhile, deepening concern over the possibly cataclysmic effects of climate change has spurred a number of recent proposals, some sketched out in considerable detail, to engineer a measure of counteractive cooling. John Latham, an atmospheric physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., has proposed increasing the reflectivity of the cloud cover by stirring up water vapor from the ocean with a fleet of giant egg-beater-like turbines. A few years ago, a team led by the late Edward Teller suggested creating a similar effect by launching a million tons of tiny aluminum balloons into the atmosphere. The Teller team also revived a proposal, last explored in the early 1990s, to build an adjustable 2,000-kilometer-wide mirror in space to deflect some of the sun's energy before it reaches us.
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To be sure, within the meteorological establishment the enthusiasm for weather modification is far from universal. And climate engineering--the alteration of global, rather than local, weather systems--remains purely theoretical. Still, after decades of disfavor, such ideas are getting a second look. As our ability to comprehend the weather improves and as the threat of climate change looms larger, some scientists are ready to brave the uncertainty and tangled ethics of tinkering with the skies.


In 1946, over Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts, a General Electric research chemist named Vincent Schaefer scattered three pounds of crushed dry ice out of an airplane into a cloud and set off a snow flurry. It was the world's first successful cloud seeding--later that year, the meteorologist Bernard Vonnegut (brother to the novelist) discovered that silver iodide smoke had a similar effect--and weather modification emerged from the realm of con men and eccentrics. Most meteorologists remained skeptical, but by 1951, 10 percent of the United States was under commercial cloud seeding. ''Intervention in atmospheric and climatic matters on any desired scale" was only decades away, predicted John von Neumann, the mathematician who helped invent and began programming the first electronic computers to model the weather.

Over the next 30 years, the federal government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects all over the country to increase precipitation, to mitigate hailstorms (an age-old enemy of farmers), and, most successfully, to clear the fog from around airports. Perhaps the era's most ambitious endeavor was Project Stormfury, which sent up airplanes to seed the eye walls of hurricanes with silver iodide to weaken the winds before landfall.

The US military, unsurprisingly, was intrigued by the possibility of a godlike meteorological arsenal. According to Spencer Weart, a physicist and historian of science at the American Institute of Physics, the thinking in the Defense Department was ''maybe we'll give the Russians a real Cold War, or maybe they'll give us one, so we should be ready." Pentagon money funded much of the era's climate research, helping to create the weather models we now use in forecasting. War gamers dreamed up climatological warfare scenarios like laying down a blanket of fog over an airfield or visiting drought upon an enemy's breadbasket.

One plan even made it off the drawing board. From 1966 to 1972, under the code name Project Popeye, the US Air Force flew thousands of cloud-seeding sorties over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, hoping to muddy it into impassability. (While there's some evidence that rain did increase, it's unclear what difference this made on the ground.) When the details of the plan surfaced in the press, the public outcry led to an international treaty banning ''Military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques

July 3, 2005

In the summer of 1930, George Ambrosius Immanuel Morrison Sykes, a self-professed ''minister of Zoroastrianism" and flat-earther (his calculations put the sun's distance from Earth at 3,300 miles), was hired by the Westchester Racing Association to ensure good weather for the horse races at Belmont Park. As described by historian Clark C. Spence in ''The Rainmakers" (1980), the contract promised Sykes $1,000 for every dry day during a week in early September, but required him to pay back twice that for every wet one.

For seven days Sykes's device--a jalopic pile of wire, antennae, jars of colored water, old radio sets, a vase, an electric heater and a toy propeller--was blessed by sun. But the following Saturday, after his contract was extended, the rains came. And when Sykes, looking to outwit fate, promised more rain two days later, the appointed day instead passed dry.

At press time, the National Weather Service was predicting a sunny July 4th in Boston, with temperatures in the low 80s. Still, it would be nice to be sure, wouldn't it? Seventy-five years after Doc Sykes's Belmost lucky streak ended in disgrace, the weather still resists our best efforts at prediction, much less control.

Not that this has stopped us from trying. Recent years have seen a growing interest not merely in forecasting, but in the seemingly fanciful prospect of customizing the weather. In 2003 the National Academy of Sciences recommended ''a coordinated national program" to ''conduct a sustained research effort" into weather modification. Politicians in Western and Southwestern states are funding attempts to tickle more moisture out of the clouds, and this March, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas introduced a bill to create a national Weather Modification Operations and Research Board.

Last fall, a meteorologist named Ross Hoffman suggested in Scientific American that a network of microwave-beaming satellites could literally take the wind out of hurricanes. In some of the driest parts of Mexico, a Bedford-based company called Ionogenics is testing a rainmaking apparatus that uses an array of steel poles to ionize the air. China, a country with widespread cloud seeding, has announced plans to engineer clear weather in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.

Meanwhile, deepening concern over the possibly cataclysmic effects of climate change has spurred a number of recent proposals, some sketched out in considerable detail, to engineer a measure of counteractive cooling. John Latham, an atmospheric physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., has proposed increasing the reflectivity of the cloud cover by stirring up water vapor from the ocean with a fleet of giant egg-beater-like turbines. A few years ago, a team led by the late Edward Teller suggested creating a similar effect by launching a million tons of tiny aluminum balloons into the atmosphere. The Teller team also revived a proposal, last explored in the early 1990s, to build an adjustable 2,000-kilometer-wide mirror in space to deflect some of the sun's energy before it reaches us.

To be sure, within the meteorological establishment the enthusiasm for weather modification is far from universal. And climate engineering--the alteration of global, rather than local, weather systems--remains purely theoretical. Still, after decades of disfavor, such ideas are getting a second look. As our ability to comprehend the weather improves and as the threat of climate change looms larger, some scientists are ready to brave the uncertainty and tangled ethics of tinkering with the skies.

. . .

In 1946, over Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts, a General Electric research chemist named Vincent Schaefer scattered three pounds of crushed dry ice out of an airplane into a cloud and set off a snow flurry. It was the world's first successful cloud seeding--later that year, the meteorologist Bernard Vonnegut (brother to the novelist) discovered that silver iodide smoke had a similar effect--and weather modification emerged from the realm of con men and eccentrics. Most meteorologists remained skeptical, but by 1951, 10 percent of the United States was under commercial cloud seeding. ''Intervention in atmospheric and climatic matters on any desired scale" was only decades away, predicted John von Neumann, the mathematician who helped invent and began programming the first electronic computers to model the weather.

Over the next 30 years, the federal government spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects all over the country to increase precipitation, to mitigate hailstorms (an age-old enemy of farmers), and, most successfully, to clear the fog from around airports. Perhaps the era's most ambitious endeavor was Project Stormfury, which sent up airplanes to seed the eye walls of hurricanes with silver iodide to weaken the winds before landfall.

The US military, unsurprisingly, was intrigued by the possibility of a godlike meteorological arsenal. According to Spencer Weart, a physicist and historian of science at the American Institute of Physics, the thinking in the Defense Department was ''maybe we'll give the Russians a real Cold War, or maybe they'll give us one, so we should be ready." Pentagon money funded much of the era's climate research, helping to create the weather models we now use in forecasting. War gamers dreamed up climatological warfare scenarios like laying down a blanket of fog over an airfield or visiting drought upon an enemy's breadbasket.

One plan even made it off the drawing board. From 1966 to 1972, under the code name Project Popeye, the US Air Force flew thousands of cloud-seeding sorties over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, hoping to muddy it into impassability. (While there's some evidence that rain did increase, it's unclear what difference this made on the ground.) When the details of the plan surfaced in the press, the public outcry led to an international treaty banning ''Military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques."
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But the grandest climate engineering schemes came from the Soviet Union. The most Promethean among them was a late 1950s proposal to dam the Bering Strait and, by pumping water from the Arctic Ocean into the Pacific, draw warm water northward from the Atlantic to melt the polar ice pack, making the Arctic Ocean navigable and warming Siberia. The leading Soviet climatologist, Mikhail I. Budyko, cautioned against it, arguing that the ultimate effects were too difficult to predict (though he himself had played with the idea of warming the Arctic by covering it in soot to decrease its reflectivity). John F. Kennedy, as a presidential candidate, suggested the United States look into collaborating on the project.


While the two countries continued desultory discussions of the Bering Strait plan into the 1970s, the American government was by then losing interest in the whole field of weather modification. After years of increases, federal research money was cut sharply in 1973. Commercial cloud seeding continued, and a few states maintained their own cloud seeding programs, but over the next decade federal research funding effectively dropped to zero.

The problem, in part, was that there was no consensus on the efficacy of cloud seeding, the focus of almost all research up to that point. Study after study had been inconclusive. ''The government had put a lot of money into it and they hadn't been able to prove a damn thing," says Weart.

The change in the political climate, however, wasn't simply the result of scientific failures. Chunglin Kwa, a historian of science at the University of Amsterdam and one of the few scholars to study the history of weather modification in depth, writes that, when it fell out of public favor, the field had ''existed for most of its history with little clear evidence that rainmaking and hurricane abatement worked, but there was equally little clear evidence that it did not." Many meteorologists, he notes, argued that research deserved further funding.

What had changed, Kwa argues, were attitudes, especially American ones, about technology, risk, and nature. ''There was the development of an attitude to not mess with Mother Nature," he said in an interview. With the growth of the environmental movement in the 1970s and 1980s came a conviction that human beings were foolishly tempting fate by trying to impose their will on nature, whether by damming up rivers or tapping the clouds. Environmentalists enlisted mounting signs of our unintentional weather modification--clear-cutting forests, for example, decreases rainfall, while smokestacks increase it--to argue that humanity was already disrupting the balance of nature.

The threat, in other words, wasn't that weather modification would fail but that it would work--a concern that still shapes the debate. ''There's a real sense that the climate system is complicated enough that if you start messing around with it you're likely to get an outcome you didn't expect," says Edward Boyle, a professor of ocean geochemistry at MIT.

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Critics point to our inability to understand even local cloud systems. In 1972, a government cloud-seeding run in South Dakota was followed by a violent deluge, and more than 200 people were killed in the ensuing flood. Meteorologists disagreed over whether seeding was to blame, but the incident became an ominous symbol for those who saw weather modifiers as latter-day Pandoras.


. . .

Boyle's caution may be merited, but scientists are better equipped today to understand and manipulate the weather than they were 30 years ago. Roelof Bruintjes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a leading cloud seeding researcher, says that new radar and sensor technologies, better satellite imaging, and ever-increasing computer power have greatly aided his work. Today, he says, ''We have new tools to get the basic answers that we couldn't get in the '70s, '80s and '90s."

Some scientists and engineers, such as Daniel Schrag, director of Harvard's Laboratory for Geochemical Oceanography, point out that, in light of the planet's growing thirst and rising temperature, even Soviet-scale climate modification is attracting real consideration. Boyle, who spoke at a joint MIT-Cambridge University conference on the topic last year, readily concedes, ''There are very prominent, serious scientists who are considering these things."

Such projects are inevitably presented as last-ditch protections against an existential threat, but they nevertheless raise the issue of what it would mean to take a more active role in shaping the weather--not merely in the face of catastrophe but as a means of lengthening the growing season, making rainfall more regular, or blunting heat waves.


Pop-up GLOBE GRAPHIC: Strange weather
Message Board YOUR VIEW: Is it foolish and dangerous for humans to tinker with the skies?

But controlling the weather, like controlling our genes, creates a thicket of ethical thorns. For one thing, despite the international ban, reliable weather modification could end up being weaponized. A 1996 Air Force report entitled ''Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025," argued that ''the tremendous military capabilities that could result from this field are ignored at our own peril."

Even purely peaceful aims would lead to a cascade of seemingly zero-sum conflicts. In the US, cloud seeding has set off several lawsuits in which, for example, downwind farmers have accused a cloud-seeding neighbor of ''stealing" their rain. Such issues only grow in complexity along with the scale. Ideal weather for a farm isn't necessarily ideal for a resort. (In 1950, the owner of an upstate country club unsuccessfully sued New York City over its attempt to alleviate a drought through cloud-seeding.) What once was, in insurance parlance, an ''act of God" becomes something for which one can assign blame.

For climate modification's more eager supporters, such worries are premature. According to Joe Kaplinsky, a technology analyst in London, ''To raise these things before the technology has really gotten off the ground is to deprive us of the potential benefits of any technology, because any technology can be misused."

''Of course some people will benefit and some people will lose," Kaplinsky says, ''but there are social mechanisms for solving disagreements, either through compensation or through democratic debate." If a new technology provides a ''net gain," he says, ''the losers can be compensated. And it's very clear that there's a tremendous potential here for managing weather systems in a way that would create tremendous net gain."

Some of the calculations, though, would verge on the Solomonic. Suppose we could control hurricanes, posits Harvard's Schrag, ''but stopping one requires an incredibly hot day in Africa that would burn up all the crops. You've got one hell of a moral dilemma there."

''Let's say you have a mirror in space," he goes on. ''Think of two summers ago when we were having this awful cold summer and Europe was having this awful heat wave. Who gets to adjust the mirror?"

Drake Bennett is the staff writer for Ideas. E-mail

[conspiracy analyst]

Who Controls the Weather?
Theories about Russian agents steering Hurricane Katrina may be off base, but research into weather manipulation has been going on for decades


Pssst. Have you heard? Hurricane Katrina was intentionally steered to hit New Orleans. The Russians -- a clique of KGB secret-police hardliners who took over a secret weather-control weapon developed for the old Soviet military -- did it. In fact, according to retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Bearden, they've been dickering with U.S. weather patterns since 1976.


Or maybe it was Japan's yakuza mobsters. In 1989, they supposedly leased Russia's weather-control system. Did they make a financial killing by shorting U.S. oil stocks, then shepherding Katrina to swamp offshore oil rigs and onshore refineries?

There's no shortage of such conspiracy theories on the Internet. Search for "weather warfare" on Google, and you'll get 68,000 hits. Or take a gander at www.freedomdomain.com/weather.html and www.gaiaguys.net/bearden.weathwars.htm.

POPEYE'S PROGRESS. To almost all scientists and weather professionals, this sort of rationalization is ludicrous. But there's no denying that technology capable of controlling the weather would be a potent military and political weapon. One of the pillars of U.S. science, mathematician and computer wizard John von Neumann, started working on weather modification right after World War II. In the late 1940s, he convinced the Defense Dept. to invest in research that he hoped could be used to vanquish Communism by causing droughts and devastating crops in the Soviet Union.

Apparent early successes with cloud-seeding tactics that induced rain spurred the Pentagon to fund modest efforts for some 20 years, and it unleashed a concerted five-year assault during the Vietnam War, starting in 1967. Dubbed Project Popeye, its goal was to prolong the monsoon season and thus impede the movement of enemy troops and supplies on muddy jungle trails.

By 1977, the military was spending $2.8 million a year on weather-modification research. That year, partly in reaction to Popeye, the United Nations passed a resolution banning the hostile use of all environmental modification techniques. This led to a treaty that the U.S. ratified in 1978. Although the treaty doesn't ban peaceful applications, or so-called benign weather modification, the Pentagon elected to eliminate all such research in 1979. The Kremlin continued its weather-modification work, however.

BOMBARDED BY SUN SPOTS. In 1996, amid signs of significant progress in Russian research, a group of seven Air Force and Army officers suggested that, in their personal opinions, the Defense Dept. should revive its efforts. In 30 years, they explained, weather-related and computer technologies might advance to the point where "weather modification can provide battle-space dominance to a degree never before imagined." The group's treatise was titled, "Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025."

What alarmed the brass-hat seven were Russia's experiments at creating layers of artificial ionization in the upper atmosphere. Such natural layers act as mirrors for radio signals and enable long-range, over-the-horizon radar and radio transmissions.

But as ham radio operators know well, nature's ionospheric mirrors are fickle. They fluctuate, due mainly to solar flares and sun spots that bombard Earth's atmosphere with high-energy x-rays (photons), electrons, and other ionizing particles. Severe solar storms can disrupt all radio signals, even satellite communications. They also affect the weather.

If Russian researchers had found a way to match the power of the sun's ionizing radiation, they could knock out satellite communications at will -- blinding the spy satellites on which the U.S. military relies so heavily. With microwave-energy beams of sufficient power, it might even be possible to fry the electronic circuits in orbiting "birds" and permanently knock out the entire U.S. satellite fleet.

HAARP: WEATHER TUNING? That's not all. Theoretically, such a weapon could also create a layer in the ionosphere, which stretches upward from 50 miles (80 kilometers), that would serve as a missile shield over Russia. Ballistic missiles plunging down through this manmade layer of ionizing energy could be zapped and rendered harmless.

In fact, a decade before the "Owning the Weather" report was written, that sort of missile shield had been outlined by U.S. researcher Bernard "Ben" Eastlund, president of Eastlund Scientific Enterprises in San Diego. What spooked civilian conspiracy campers was that the Pentagon in 1995 began operating what appeared to be a prototype of Eastlund's missile-shield system.

Innocuously called the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, or HAARP, it had nowhere near the power that a missile shield would need. But the weather-conspiracy worriers fretted that HAARP was being used, or would be, to test potentially hostile weather-modification schemes.

RADICAL CONCEPT. HAARP harkens back to the early 1980s, when Eastlund was retained as a consultant by Atlantic Richfield Corp. (Arco). His task, he recalls, was "to find some way of using the huge deposit of natural gas they had discovered on the North Slope of Alaska." Arco had initially considered a pipeline, like the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, but rejected that as too costly.

What Eastlund concocted was a radical concept: An enormous field of special antennas, covering 1,600 square miles, that could beam energy produced from the natural gas into the sky. The beams would create mirrors that would then bounce microwave energy back down to receiving antennas in the lower 48 states or someplace else, where the energy would be converted into electricity.

Eastlund reckoned that the energy could also be reflected down on top of a thundercloud that was spawning a tornado. Twisters are formed by warm air rising through a layer of cool air, creating a downdraft. Computer simulations showed that injecting heat would stop the downdraft, halting the formation of a tornado -- even swatting one that was already whirling.

STAR WARS' HEYDAY. Both of those notions came to naught, however. "Everybody lost interest because the power requirements were too much," says Eastlund -- up to a million megawatts. But he continues to refine his idea. He claims to have worked out a way to drop the power required by a factor of 1,600, and still be able to untwist tornadoes. He's also doing research on new technology for manipulating winds to steer hurricanes.

Eastlund's approach is similar to the one envisioned by Ross Hoffman, vice-president for research at weather-consulting firm Atmospheric & Environmental Research in Lexington, Mass. (see BW, 10/24/05, "Herding Hurricanes"). But instead of beaming down heat from solar-power satellites, Eastlund thinks maybe an ionospheric mirror or rejiggering the jet stream could turn the trick.

While Arco was twiddling its thumbs, physicist Eastlund briefed the Pentagon on how his energy reflector could function as a missile disrupter -- just the sort of missile shield depicted in "Owning the Weather." His proposal was welcomed warmly. After all, it was the mid-1980s, the heyday of President Ronald Reagan's Star Wars initiative.

PERSISTENT ELF. In addition, Eastlund told the Defense brass that his field of antennas could solve a long-standing problem for the U.S. Navy: How to communicate with submarines while they're submerged for months on end. The antennas would bounce energy off the ionosphere as extremely low-frequency (ELF) radio waves. Unlike the radio frequencies normally used for communications, which are quickly absorbed or distorted in water, ELF signals can pierce the oceans for great distances.

Generating ELF signals is HAARP's main mission. Located about 320 miles east of Anchorage, near Gakona, Alaska, HAARP had 18 antennas and 360 kilowatts of transmitter power in 1995. Today, HAARP can strum 48 antennas and 960 kW of power -- and it may ultimately expand to 180 antennas and 3.6 megawatts of power. Even that is way short of the thousands of antennas and hundreds of megawatts of power that Eastlund figures would be needed for a missile shield or tornado buster.

But don't bother telling that to conspiracy addicts. They remain convinced that HAARP is really bent on mucking with the weather. And around 2020, maybe the Pentagon will start building a really, really big antenna field.

[TmcMistress]

There's another thread for this already. And unless you can come up with better than dodgy speculation on this nonsense, it should be confined to Other Controversies.

[Linda]

http://pinewooddesign.co.uk/2008/05/12/earthquake-cloud-prediction/


Earthquake cloud, Chinese photographer catch prediction 2 days before earthquake occurred
News, Photo & Pics Add comments


http://pinewooddesign.co.uk/2008/05/12/china-up-to-8500-die-in-killer- earthquake/

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[eogz]

I've never heard of that before an Earthquake cloud. Is that a natural phenomena?

Or is it more steeped in mysticism?

[conspiracy analyst]

Funny what they were doing in the region?



" The USS Essex ESG is in the Gulf of Thailand for Operation Gold Cobra exercises scheduled to commence May 8. Due to its proximity to the region devastated by Cyclone Nargis, USS Essex ESG and the USS Blue Ridge reportedly will receive orders to administer aid to the affected region. "

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/u_s...map_may_7_2008





VMGR-152 supports real world mission during Exercise Cobra Gold 08


KORAT, Thailand (May 13, 2008) – Marines with Marine Aerial Refueler and Transport Squadron 152, Marine Aircraft Group 36, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, arrived in Korat, Thailand to participate in Exercise Cobra Gold 08 May 6, but when disaster struck in Burma, they were called to lend a helping hand in relief efforts there.

The Marines loaded up in the squadron’s KC-130J aircrafts and departed from Korat May 14 en route to Utaphao Air Field to prepare for flights into Burma as part of the continuing U.S. relief effort, which has been titled Joint Task Force Caring Response.

The reclusive Asian country northeast of Thailand was devastated May 3 when a tropical cyclone claimed the lives of more than 32,000 people there.

“As things develop [in Burma], our role is shifting,” explained Maj. Derek E. Gillette, the executive officer of VMGR-152.


http://www1.apan-info.net/tabid/2812...5/Default.aspx

[conspiracy analyst]

Following on from the US Navy being present off the coast of Burma.

Here is Project 2025 (USA Weather Modification Programme) taken from an environmentalist groups website as the US government doesn't talk about it much anymore.

It is a must read as I think it is as important as the PNAC document.

http://earthchangescentral.com/research/Project2025/vol3ch15.pdf

[conspiracy analyst]

Fulford vs HAARP

Interesting view regarding the attack on China

http://youtube.com/watch?v=InV0cVH6KZc

[conspiracy analyst]

China plans 'quake lake' evacuation

Access to basic neccessities continues to be of prime concern for the quake survivors [AFP]
More than one million people are preparing to evacuate a Chinese valley that is under the threat of flooding from an earthquake-spawned lake.

Emergency officials said they plan to run a drill on Saturday to ensure 1.3 million people in dozens of villages in the Mianyang region can be evacuated quickly.

Hundreds of Chinese troops are working around the clock in the northern part of Sichuan province to drain the Tangjiashan lake, which formed above Beichuan town when a hillside plunged into the river valley.

The removal of radioactive and chemical materials lying downstream by Friday evening was also ordered.

Nearly 100 unidentified radioactive sources and 5,000 tonnes of dangerous chemicals sit downstream from Tangjiashan lake.

In southern China, meanwhile, heavy rain has affected more than half a million people and left 57 people dead, according to the state news agency, which showed swollen rivers and flooded streets.

Thousands of homes have been damaged and more downpours forecast for parts of Guandong and Guizhou provinces.
Radioactive materials

Initial reports by the official Xinhua news agency on Friday suggested that 1.3 million people had already been ordered to leave the Mianyang valley.

But an official with the press office of Mianyang City Quake Control and Relief Headquarters, said the report was incorrect.

In depth: China quake


Map: Quake disaster zone

Pictures: Quake devastation

China's fast response

Video: Push for normality after China quake

Video: Grief turns to anger

Video: Soldier tells of devastation
"Not all 1.3 million people will be actually evacuated," Chen said.

"People will only be evacuated in case of the actual collapse of the whole bank."

Chen said 197,500 people in the valley are being moved to higher ground - about 30,000 more than previously announced - while the rest would be removed only if the dam breaks.

Currently a wall of debris is preventing the flooding of the valley.

"Officials plan to evacuate more [people] so that on Tuesday they can take the pressure off the dam by allowing water through the channel they have been furiously digging ... in order to allow a controlled release of water through this area to try and prevent massive flooding," David Hawkins, reporting for Al Jazeera from Sichuan, said.

"There is no imminent sense of emergency nonetheless there are a lot of soldiers here who are preparing for this evacuation … a possible evacuation of 1.3 million people."

Evacuation drill

The three-day drill planned for Saturday will test government communication systems to ensure that any evacuation order quickly filters down to residents in the valley.

Officials said there was no sign that the dam formed by a landslide caused by the May 12 quake was about to burst on Friday, though officials say it could do so in coming days.

Chinese soldiers were using 40 heavy earth-moving machines to dig drainage channels.

Officials quoted in state media have not said how long the work would take.

About 158,000 people living downstream from Tangjiashan lake have already been evacuated. Troops have sealed off Beichuan to the public.

Largest 'quake-lake'

Tangjiashan is the largest of more than 30 lakes that have formed behind landslides caused by the quake, which also weakened man-made dams in the mountainous parts of the disaster zone.

The government announced on Friday that the confirmed death toll from China's worst disaster in three decades was 68,858, an increase of about 350 from a day earlier.

Another 18,618 people are still considered missing.

Social workers have helped reunite more than 7,000 children separated from their parents by the earthquake in Sichuan, but about 1,000 remain without their families.

School safety

China has said it will conduct safety inspections of all schools in quake-hit areas of Sichuan, state media reported, after thousands of children were killed.

Over a 10-day period after the
quake, a Beichuan river swelled
by more than 60 hectares [AFP]
Countless school buildings collapsed when the 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Sichuan province on May 12, killing thousands of pupils who were studying or taking naps.

In one school alone in Mianyang city, more than 1,300 children and teachers are dead or missing.

About 8,000 children were reported to be separated from their families in the first few days after the quake, though that figure has now been drastically reduced to 1,000, Ye Lu, a civil affairs department official, said.

"We are still getting thousands of calls per week asking about how to adopt, but we are still hoping to find the parents of these 1,000 kids," Ye said.

China's Red Cross has promised to release monthly audits of its relief operations to allay fears that aid money could be siphoned off by corrupt officials.

Jiang Yiman, China's Red Cross deputy director, said: "We will release the audit report every month.

"All money will be used for disaster relief, rescue and rebuilding efforts. No one should embezzle a penny."

[conspiracy analyst]

Quake Wars?

Is it a case of art copying reality or reality copying art?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_Territory:_Quake_Wars

http://www.quakewarscenter.com/