HAARP and its critics are not entirely news to me. I read the occasional articles as they appear in my internet travels but my curiosity has never been piqued enough to go where the alarmists’ finger-pointing have suggested.
I’ve spent the better part of the past few days attempting to understand the controversy in order to form an opinion. I’ve been under and overwhelmed by the volume of material out there, unconvinced by some ‘facts’, lacking a physics and other degrees necessary to understand the rest. So my thumb and forefinger remain pensively poised on the brim of my hat unwilling to toss it into the conspiracists’ ring and this is what I’ve gathered while peering from beneath its cynical ‘show me the money’ tilt.
Ignoring the Obvious
The article “Earthquakes: Natural or Man-Made?“, written by Jason Jeffrey and appearing in New Dawn No. 57, November-December 1999, is linked often by those who believe HAARP has “applications ranging from “Star Wars” missile defense schemes to weather modification plots and perhaps even mind control experiments.”
Jeffrey cites the 1976 earthquake that devastated China as a probable man-made one, yet he doesn’t address ‘China’s Campaign to Predict Quakes‘ published September 13, 1996. The “vast, 30-year effort to monitor the earthquakes that regularly shake China” was credited with predicting the quake. Thanks to those who utilised the study and implemented preparedness efforts, all lives except one heart attack victim were spared in Qinglong County, while the disaster claimed 240,000 [ official toll?] in Tangshan, a region 115 km away that failed to take the same precautions.
When the earthquake hit, Qinglong County was ready. Days before a magnitude 7.8 leveled the neighboring big city of Tangshan in northeastern China, county officials had decided to act on anomalous data collected by the State Seismological Bureau (SSB) that pointed to a major earthquake in the region during the latter half of July 1976. They set up a 24-hour command post, beefed up monitoring, strengthened safety measures at schools and other public places, and flooded the community with information about what to do before, during and after an earthquake. Many villages ordered residents out of their home and into makeshift sheds or fields.
Tom Bearden’s name appears often when researching HAARP. When Jeffrey refers to the ‘Tesla Effect’ he cites its mention in an unnamed article in the January 1978 edition of Bearden’s magazine ‘Specula’. That article apparently supported the conclusions issued during that same month and year by Andrija Puharich, MD, LL.D., in a detailed research paper titled, “Global Magnetic Warfare -A Layman’s View of Certain Artificially Induced Unusual Effects on the Planet Earth During 1976 and 1977”.
I have no link for that very popular paper. One reason is the twenty or so sites that point to it don’t seem to have one either. And I have no idea why Jeffrey seems convinced that “earthquake lights” caused by ‘piezoelectric’ phenomena“, an occurrence he himself writes has been recorded since ancient times, should now be considered the ‘Tesla Effect’.
Wikipedia is rather snarky and entirely dismissive of HAARP detractors: [HAARP’s] “towers are similar in appearance to the abortive Wardenclyffe Tower of Nikola Tesla, another favourite topic of the conspiracy theories, one that is particularily interesting considering they don’t look even remotely like the Wardenclyffe Tower.”
I don’t have the education to determine if men like Beardon interpret Nikola Tesla‘s work and possible applications of it in a worthwhile manner. Nor do I have the kind of security clearance necessary to research the extent the U.S. and other govt.’s have advanced his discoveries.
I doubt Wikipedia or its contributors do either. But while I’m of the opinion Wikipedians exert an underserved resoluteness in their support of HAARP’s altruistic trustworthiness, that same insincerity befalls those who throw out theories like this in their efforts to alarm others of it: HAARP was ‘turned on‘ December 21 and may have intentionally caused the Iran earthquake?
Sifting Through Some Facts
The Iran earthquake and wondering what role bombing campaigns and nuclear testing may have played in its occurrence is the thought that led me to begin this post so many days ago.
I’m going to send this much up now and finish up another time.