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HAARP BIZARRE

Secret Military Death Ray Or Weather Research Outpost?

Illustration of the world being destroyed by a giant tsunami of turds by Mimi Leung

Up in the wastelands of Gokona, Alaska, there is a forest of high frequency radio antennae. The US government claims it is conducting research into the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere, but Dr Nick Begich, a well-respected local education official, suspects there are darker motives afoot. He, like others, suspects this station will become a huge weapons platform that can control the weather, cause earthquakes, and fuck with people’s minds anywhere in the world via low frequency airwaves bounced off the sky. It sounds pretty far-fetched but also exciting, so we got in touch with him.

Vice: So, what is HAARP?

Dr Nick Begich:
It’s the “High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program”. It’s the most powerful ionospheric heater ever built. The Alaskan Geophysical Institute and its sponsors, the US Navy and Air Force claim it’s just “auroral and radio-communications research”, but it’s much more than that. Any weapons system in its early stages can be disguised as “pure” research. The fact is, however, that HAARP is a military experiment aimed at invasively manipulating the ionosphere by beaming high energy upward from the ground.

What does it do?

HAARP is intended to heat and lift a portion of the ionosphere above a selected location on the planet to make a huge invisible “mirror” for bouncing electromagnetic radiation back to the surface of Earth. The US military wants to communicate with its submerged submarines by penetrating the oceans with Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) radiations. It could also penetrate the land with ELF in order to search for hidden tunnels or bunkers.

Wow, like X-ray vision via radio waves from space? Pretty cool. What else could a HAARP-style project do in the near future?

It could fry enemy satellites. The US military could use HAARP to disrupt communications over a large area of the globe, possibly alter the weather, affect human mental functioning and impact the health of humans and other biological systems.

That’s a bit scarier.

Well, some scientists have expressed concern that it could be used to trigger geophysical events like earthquakes, impact weather and affect the emotional states of people. Ionospheric heaters as a class of research instruments are nothing new; they have operated in Puerto Rico, the former Soviet Union and Tromso, Norway as well as at another site in Alaska for some time. But what is being tested in the Alaskan wilderness is new—a tool that can focus and steer the radio frequency energy upward. This makes it capable of hitting the ionosphere with a far greater impact than possible from the previous design of heaters.

That’s more like it! But why do you think the government is lying? Why, for instance, do they offer free tours of the HAARP site if it’s a top secret death ray?

As a research instrument it offers great possibilities. But it was primarily constructed for military applications. We accept their stated intentions, but we question the risks. Moreover, there are side effects that may or may not be part of their open programme in terms of environmental and public health. The US military does not spend money that does not result in military technologies. This is a weapon. It’s very scary stuff.

BRUNO BAYLEY
haarp.alaska.edu

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Anonymous, on Aug 27, 2008 wrote:
if you go to youtube and type in haarp, he will see a video by Ben Fulford, he is a stupid prick because he got married to a japanese person.
Anonymous, on Aug 26, 2008 wrote:
this sounds crazy but it’s not so much, really. china is so polluted that apparently there’s big business in synthetic clouds to wash the air before events where you pay up to $3500 for a cloud. the military releases silver iodide into the air, which freezes the water molecules so when they melt it makes rain? something like that. so this guy says he was offered his own cloud for $700 before some show in shanghai and i don’t even know what to say about that except rock on, china. it’s actually kinda cool... except not so much, i suppose maybe it might be bad if this means ’they’re’ going after manipulating our brains next? haha... i’d rather have somebody else to blame for my bad choices than wear a tinfoil cap, hey?
Anonymous, on Aug 21, 2008 wrote:
Anybody else notice the rainbow colored clouds right above China 10 mins before their eartquake that killed some 100,000 people

youtube : HAARP Ben Fulford

Anonymous, on Aug 19, 2008 wrote:
haaarp! haaarp!

Anonymous, on Aug 19, 2008 wrote:
More illustrations from this person please.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
For some reason, the US military DOES sponsor research that doesn’t result in Miltary technology. I know for a fact that they sponsor breast cancer research. Unless of course, they are constructing some sort of atomic-boob or something.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
they do call him out, it just as blatant as you would like it to be. more or less the sarcasm is the choice way of letting us know they think he is a kook. funny shit

Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
yeah - also they supplied the official website link - so its not like they are only pushing one line on it.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
i don’t know what you’ve been eating, but my turds aren’t quite so colorful.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
god i really hope the end of the world comes in the form of a turd tsunami. at least it would be funny.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
there’s a guy in chicago (although I haven’t seen him in awhile) that stands out in the middle of the streets with signs that say stuff like "CIA agents r@ped my wife with lasers" and "The government has stolen my identity via mind control technology.’ It’s a widespread kook epidemic along the lines of people obsessed with the manhattan project, etc.
gabugabu, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
weird.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
Haha bitches, that lady you made fun of with the "Scary rainbows coming from the water in her sprinkler" is a huge HAARP conspiracy theorist. She’s like one of the most respected HAARP theorists on youtube.
PONZ, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
Do you think this dude is making it all up? Begich knows his shit. They can’t "call him out" because you can’t argue with the facts he’s made available.
I know it’s freaky, but stuff like this goes on. Even if you just look at the facts on the ground and don’t believe they’ll use it for things people think they might, it’s something we all have a right to know about; we’re funding it with our tax dollars and each one of us could be effected by it directly.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
oh shut the fuck up. it’s a valid topic because so many people wholeheartedly believe in it. if you aren’t smart enough to realize it’s a sociopathic conspiracy theory you deserve to be fried by one.
Anonymous, on Aug 18, 2008 wrote:
Why is vice publishing this kind of paranoid secret government sci-fi bullshit? After reading this how am I supposed to take anything about their magazine seriously. They don’t even call this guy out for being full of shit.

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