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In a message dated 01-02-15 20:35:42 EST, you write:
<< Recent investigations as RECENT
AS LAST YEAR show nothing. THE SITE HAS BEEN SHUT
DOWN. And you know why? Because of all this
crap.....
Vanessa >>
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Vanessa - I have no idea what your values or enmeshment with the persona of
Nick Begich are. But I do have a sense of when a person is being
misrepresented. And most importantly, you are misrepresenting evidence of
HAARP's environmental and personal negative impacts. As a journalist, I
first became concerned about the HAARP Project after reading and publishing
Earth Island's analysis of the environmental impact of HAARP made to the US
Congress.
The environmental impact analysis showed that HAARP had the potential of
over heating and destroying the ionosphere. A runaway effect would be
cataclysmic for the earth's system.
While I have not spoken to Nick Begich directly, I have followed his work,
and know from others who have worked with him and investigated his work -
including Earth Island - the pressures he has had to face. I believe your
misrepresentations to be distorted themselves, and I consider Nick to be a
public champion.
What follows are the Earth Island articles that led to the US Congress
requiring an environmental impact statement on HAARP.
Alfred Webre, VAncouver, BC
http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/Insights/HAARP_project.htm
Project HAARP:
The Military's Plan to Alter the Ionosphere
by Clare Zickuhr and Gar Smith, Earth Island
Copyright 1998 !EcoNews! Service !
Clare Zickuhr, a former ARCO employee and ham radio operator based in
Anchorage, is a founder of the NO HAARP campaign. Gar Smith is editor of the
editor of Earth Island Journal.
The Pentagon's mysterious HAARP project, now under construction at an
isolated Air Force facility near Gakona, Alaska, marks the first step toward
creating the world's most powerful "ionospheric heater." Scientists,
environmentalists and native peoples are concerned that HAARP's electronic
transmitters -- capable of beaming "in excess of 1 gigawatts" (one billion
watts) of radiated power into the Earth's ionosphere -- could harm people,
endanger wildlife and trigger unforeseen environmental impacts.
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP), a joint effort
of
the Air Force and the Navy, is the latest in a series of a little-known
Department of Defense (DoD) "active ionospheric experiments" with code-names
like EXCEDE, RED AIR and CHARGE IV.
"From a DoD point of view," internal HAARP documents state, "the most
exciting and challenging" part of the experiment is "its potential to
control
ionospheric processes" for military objectives [emphasis in the original].
According to these documents, the scientists pulling HAARP's strings
envision
using the system's powerful 2.8-10 megahertz (MHz) beam to burn "holes" in
the ionosphere and "create an artificial lens" in the sky that could focus
large bursts of electromagnetic energy "to higher altitudes... than is
presently possible." The minimum area to be heated would be 50 km (31 miles)
in diameter.
The initial $26 million, 320 kW HAARP project will employ 360 72-foot-tall
antennas spread over four acres to direct an intense beam of focused
electromagnetic energy upwards to strike the ionosphere. The Earth's
ionosphere is composed of a layer of negatively and positively charged
particles (electrons and ions) lying between 35 and 500 miles above the
planet's surface. The next stage of the project would expand HAARP's power
to
1.7 gigawatts (1.7 billion watts), making it the most powerful such
transmitter on Earth. While the project's acronym implies experimentation
with the Earth's aurora, HAARP's public documents make no mention of this
aspect. For a project whose backers hail it as a major scientific feat,
HAARP
has remained extremely low-profile -- almost unknown to most Alaskans, and
the rest of the country.
A November 1993 "HAARP Fact Sheet" released to the public by the Office of
Naval Research (ONR) stated that the Department of Defense (DoD)-backed
project would "enhance present civilian capabilities" in communications and
"provide significant scientific advancements." However, while previous DoD
experiments with smaller high frequency (HF) heaters in Puerto Rico, Norway
and Alaska were conducted to "gain [a] better understanding" of the
ionosphere, internal HAARP documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the project's goal is to "perturb" the
ionosphere with extremely powerful beams of energy and study "how it
responds
to the disturbance and how it ultimately recovers...."
The public fact sheet describes HAARP as "purely a scientific research
facility which represents no threat to potential adversaries and would
therefore have no value as a military target." However, while ionospheric
experiments at the government's Puerto Rico transmitter site are managed by
the civilian National Science Foundation, the Journal has learned that
proposals for experiments on HAARP are to be routed through the Pentagon's
Office of Naval Research.
A February 1990 Air Force-Navy document acquired by the Journal lists only
military experiments for the HAARP project, including: "Generation of
ionospheric lenses to focus large amounts of HF energy at high altitudes...
providing a means for triggering ionospheric processes that potentially
could
be exploited for DoD purposes...; Generation of ionization layers below 90
km
[56 miles] to provide radio wave reflectors ("mirrors") which can be
exploited for long range, over-the-horizon, HF/VHF/UHF surveillance
purposes,
including the detection of cruise missiles and other low observables." The
document concluded that "the potential for significantly altering regions of
the ionosphere at relatively great distances (1000 km or more ) [621 miles]
from a heater is very desirable" from a military perspective.
One of HAARP's less-publicized goals is to find ways to disrupt the global
communications capabilities of adversaries while preserving US defense
communications. The Pentagon also wants to know if HAARP could bounce
signals
to deeply submerged nuclear subs by heating the ionosphere to trigger bursts
of Extremely Long Frequency (ELF) radio waves.
Patents held by ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (APTI), the ARCO subsidiary
that was contracted to build HAARP, describe a similar ionospheric heater
invented by Bernard Eastlund that claimed the ability to disrupt global
communications, destroy enemy missiles and change weather (see sidebar). One
of ARCO's patents identifies Alaska as a perfect site for a transmitter
because "magnetic field lines... which extend to desirable altitudes for
this
invention, intersect the Earth in Alaska."
While HAARP officials deny any link to Eastlund's inventions, Eastlund has
told National Public Radio that a secret military project was begun in the
late-1980s to study and implement his work and, in the May/June 1994 issue
of
Microwave News, Eastlund claimed that "The HAARP project obviously looks a
lot like the first step" toward his vision of surrounding the entire planet
with a "full, global shield" of charged particles that could explode
incoming
enemy missiles.
The military implications of HAARP were further underscored in June, when
ARCO sold APTI to E-Systems, a defense contractor noted for its work in
counter-surveillance.
Electromagnetic Guinea Pigs
HAARP surfaced publicly in Alaska in the spring of 1993, when the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) began advising commercial pilots on how to
avoid the large amounts of intentional (and some unintentional)
electromagnetic radition that HAARP would generate. Despite the protests of
FAA engineers and Alaska bush pilots (for whom reliable communications can
be
a matter of life or death) the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)
gave HAARP the green light. Ironically, the FEIS also concluded that the
project's radio interference would be too intense to allow HAARP to be
located near any military facilities.
On November 11, 1993, Inupiat tribal advisor Charles Etok Edwarden, Jr.,
wrote to the White House on behalf of the Inupiat Community of the Arctic
Slope and the Kasigluk Elders Conference. "Many of us are not happy with the
prospect of ARCO altering the Earth's neutral atmospheric properties,"
Edwardsen wrote. "We do not wish to be anyone's testing grounds, as the
Bikini Islanders have been...." referring to Pacific Islanders subjected to
radiation exposure from US atomic bomb testing. Edwardsen has appealed to
President Clinton to deny further funding to HAARP.
In the past, the EPA has accused the USAF of "sidestepping" the nonthermal
hazards of electromagnetic pollution from powerful radar transmitters. Over
the past three decades, numerous US and European studies have linked
electromagnetic exposure to a range of health problems including fatigue,
irritability, sleepiness, memory loss, cataracts, leukemia, birth defects
and
cancer. Electromagnetic radiation can also alter blood sugar and cholesterol
levels, heart-rate and blood pressure, brain waves and brain chemistry.
In Part II – HAARP’S Environmental Dangers
See Part II
>>
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